GitLab cross-site replication Phase 1c (stage 1): VPS clusters as real replicas

Replaces VPS's independent standalone pg-gitlab (own initdb, own
root/Scooby test data - never meant to survive this, per the approved
plan) with a bootstrap.recovery replica of home's, matching the
pg-authentik precedent. New pg-praefect cluster on the VPS too (never
existed before - VPS ran Gitaly without Praefect).

Stage 1 of 2: recovery-only, no streaming replication config yet - that
needs this cluster's own CNPG-generated certs to exist first, which
only happens once CNPG actually creates the cluster. Stage 2 (next
commit) copies certs cross-cluster and adds externalClusters
connectionParameters + replica.self/primary/source to all four Cluster
CRs (home pg-gitlab/pg-praefect, VPS pg-gitlab/pg-praefect).

postgresql.parameters copied verbatim from home's manifests (must
match-or-exceed, confirmed live for pg-authentik). vps-minio-secret
created manually on the VPS (kubectl, not git - same as every other
cross-cluster secret in this plan) pointing at the VPS's own local
MinIO, which now holds home's pg-gitlab/pg-praefect base backups
(triggered manually via Backup CRs since neither had run yet).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Scooby Husky
2026-08-22 13:19:43 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent ca94282552
commit 83c06a888d
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# Real GitLab on the VPS - simplified single-node equivalent of
# apps/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml (home's is 3-instance HA with
# Rook-Ceph; this is 1 instance on local-path, matching the "keep it
# lighter" pattern already used for the rest of vps-standby).
# GitLab cross-site replication Phase 1c (see
# /home/scooby/.claude/plans/jiggly-snacking-iverson.md) - was a fully
# independent standalone cluster (own initdb, own root/Scooby test data,
# never meant to survive this). Now a real replica of home's pg-gitlab
# (apps/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml), matching the pattern already
# proven for pg-authentik.
#
# Deployed in two stages, same as the original authentik/n8n/nextcloud
# VPS replicas were: first as a plain bootstrap.recovery replica (this
# commit - no externalClusters/replica streaming config yet, since that
# needs THIS cluster's own CNPG-generated certs to exist first, which
# only happens once the cluster itself exists), then a second commit adds
# the streaming replication config once those certs have been copied
# cross-cluster.
#
# postgresql.parameters MUST match-or-exceed home's - copied verbatim
# from apps/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml. A replica can't replay
# WAL past a checkpoint recorded with higher settings than its own
# ("recovery aborted because of insufficient parameter settings",
# confirmed live for pg-authentik).
apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
@@ -12,43 +28,62 @@ spec:
imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
instances: 1
# shared_buffers 1GB below needs headroom - matches home's requests/limits.
resources:
requests:
memory: "512Mi"
memory: "1Gi"
cpu: "50m"
limits:
memory: "2Gi"
memory: "4Gi"
cpu: "500m"
storage:
size: 20Gi
size: 50Gi # matches home's size
storageClass: local-path
primaryUpdateStrategy: unsupervised
bootstrap:
initdb:
database: gitlabhq_production
owner: app
postInitSQL:
- CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm;
- CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS btree_gist;
# Same tuning as home's, GitLab needs these regardless of scale
postgresql:
parameters:
max_connections: "200"
shared_buffers: "512MB"
effective_cache_size: "1536MB"
maintenance_work_mem: "128MB"
max_connections: "400"
shared_buffers: "1GB"
effective_cache_size: "3GB"
maintenance_work_mem: "256MB"
checkpoint_completion_target: "0.9"
wal_buffers: "16MB"
default_statistics_target: "100"
random_page_cost: "1.1"
effective_io_concurrency: "200"
work_mem: "8MB"
work_mem: "16MB"
min_wal_size: "1GB"
max_wal_size: "4GB"
max_worker_processes: "4"
max_parallel_workers_per_gather: "2"
max_parallel_workers: "4"
bootstrap:
recovery:
source: home
externalClusters:
- name: home
barmanObjectStore:
# serverName defaults to the externalClusters[].name, NOT the
# source Postgres cluster's actual metadata.name - home's own
# backup: block defaults serverName to "pg-gitlab" (its own
# name). Without this override, recovery looks under the wrong
# server-name prefix and finds nothing (confirmed live for the
# pg-authentik precedent).
serverName: pg-gitlab
destinationPath: s3://cnpg-backups/pg-gitlab
endpointURL: http://vps-minio.minio.svc.cluster.local:9000
s3Credentials:
accessKeyId:
name: vps-minio-secret
key: accesskey
secretAccessKey:
name: vps-minio-secret
key: secretkey
monitoring:
enablePodMonitor: false # no Prometheus on the VPS cluster