From 8e33cf052470d8020b9d8638ceb19034e7a00c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scooby Husky <garrettstone499@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:51:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix n8n liveness probe: chart has no startupProbe, needs a
 longer runway

The n8n chart (riatlas/chart__n8n) doesn't support startupProbe at all -
my earlier fix set a field the chart ignores, so the liveness probe was
still killing the container ~40s into startup (exitCode 143, confirmed
live via repeated crashloops even after the first 'fix'). n8n takes
longer than that to bind :5678 on the VPS's more modest hardware.
Widened readiness/liveness directly instead: ~190s total runway before
a liveness kill.
---
 infrastructure/vps-standby/n8n/values.yaml | 27 ++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/n8n/values.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/n8n/values.yaml
index daf349d..2a5abdf 100644
--- a/infrastructure/vps-standby/n8n/values.yaml
+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/n8n/values.yaml
@@ -78,36 +78,29 @@ resources:
     cpu: "500m"
     memory: 512Mi
 
-# Chart defaults are more aggressive than n8n needs to actually finish
-# starting - without this the liveness probe kills the container before
-# it ever binds :5678 (confirmed live: exitCode 143/SIGTERM, crashloop).
-# Matches home's apps/n8n/values.yaml timings.
-startupProbe:
-  httpGet:
-    path: /healthz
-    port: http
-  initialDelaySeconds: 10
-  periodSeconds: 5
-  timeoutSeconds: 3
-  failureThreshold: 12
-
+# This chart has no startupProbe support at all (confirmed against
+# `helm show values` - only livenessProbe/readinessProbe exist), so the
+# liveness probe itself has to be generous enough to cover full startup -
+# even home's copied startupProbe timings (60s total) weren't enough on
+# the VPS's more modest hardware; confirmed live it needs 100s+.
+# initialDelaySeconds + (periodSeconds * failureThreshold) = 190s runway.
 readinessProbe:
   httpGet:
     path: /healthz
     port: http
-  initialDelaySeconds: 5
+  initialDelaySeconds: 30
   periodSeconds: 5
   timeoutSeconds: 3
-  failureThreshold: 2
+  failureThreshold: 20
 
 livenessProbe:
   httpGet:
     path: /healthz
     port: http
-  initialDelaySeconds: 10
+  initialDelaySeconds: 30
   periodSeconds: 10
   timeoutSeconds: 5
-  failureThreshold: 3
+  failureThreshold: 16
 
 extraEnvSecrets:
   DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD: