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>

infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml

@@ -1,8 +1,24 @@
 ---
-# 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

infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/praefect-cnpg-cluster.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+---
+# GitLab cross-site replication Phase 1c (see
+# /home/scooby/.claude/plans/jiggly-snacking-iverson.md) - the VPS never
+# had a pg-praefect cluster before (VPS ran Gitaly without Praefect,
+# global.praefect.enabled: false). This is new, matching home's
+# apps/gitlab/manifests/praefect-cnpg-cluster.yaml as a real replica.
+#
+# Same two-stage deployment as cnpg-cluster.yaml in this directory: this
+# commit is bootstrap.recovery only, streaming config added once this
+# cluster's own certs exist to copy cross-cluster.
+apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
+kind: Cluster
+metadata:
+  name: pg-praefect
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
+  instances: 1
+
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      memory: "512Mi"
+      cpu: "50m"
+    limits:
+      memory: "2Gi"
+
+  storage:
+    size: 10Gi  # matches home's size
+    storageClass: local-path
+
+  primaryUpdateStrategy: unsupervised
+
+  # Must match-or-exceed home's - copied verbatim from
+  # apps/gitlab/manifests/praefect-cnpg-cluster.yaml.
+  postgresql:
+    parameters:
+      max_connections: "200"
+      shared_buffers: "512MB"
+      effective_cache_size: "1536MB"
+      maintenance_work_mem: "128MB"
+      checkpoint_completion_target: "0.9"
+      wal_buffers: "16MB"
+      default_statistics_target: "100"
+      random_page_cost: "1.1"
+      effective_io_concurrency: "200"
+      work_mem: "4MB"
+      min_wal_size: "1GB"
+      max_wal_size: "4GB"
+      max_worker_processes: "4"
+
+  bootstrap:
+    recovery:
+      source: home
+
+  externalClusters:
+    - name: home
+      barmanObjectStore:
+        serverName: pg-praefect
+        destinationPath: s3://cnpg-backups/pg-praefect
+        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