The DNS-flip watcher (scripts/vps-dns-failover/) was designed but never
actually installed on the VPS despite being tracked as done - real gap,
found when asked whether the standby services are actually reachable.
New design: instead of dynamically flipping *.kube.huskypup.net between
home and VPS IPs, give the VPS site its own permanent, always-resolving
subdomain - vault/gitea/auth/n8n/nextcloud.vps.huskypup.net, each with
real Ingress+TLS on the VPS's own Traefik+cert-manager (both already
installed by Phase 0 bootstrap, just never wired up). No token-scoping
decision needed since there's no dynamic flipping - reuses the same
cert-manager token pattern as home.
Also scales Authentik/n8n/Nextcloud from 0 to 1 replica on the VPS so
the replicated data is actually browsable at all times, not just
present-but-unreachable. Their CNPG clusters are still read-only
replicas (spec.replica.enabled: true) - writes will error until a
deliberate manual promotion, but reads/browsing work now. Vault and
Gitea were already running continuously.
- ZONE_NAME was "kube.huskypup.net" in both the home-ip-ddns CronJob and
the VPS failover watcher - that's a record, not a Cloudflare zone (the
actual zone is the parent "huskypup.net"). Caused home-ip-ddns to fail
every run (zone lookup returned zero results, curl -f exit 22) -
confirmed live and fixed.
- Added seccompProfile/non-root/dropped-capabilities securityContext to
the three CronJobs added this session that were missing it (flagged by
the cluster's "restricted" PodSecurity admission). Repointed the raft
snapshot job's mc binary install from /usr/local/bin to /tmp so it
still works running as non-root.
Foundation for a DR/backup path using an always-on VPS as a second
ArgoCD-managed cluster, plus DB/backup standardization work that fell
out of it:
- vps-standby ArgoCD cluster destination + AppProject, MinIO backup
receiver, VPS bootstrap script (k3s, Netbird, cert-manager)
- Dual-site DNS failover watcher + home-IP DDNS CronJob, Cloudflare
token moved out of git into Vault+ExternalSecret
- Nextcloud migrated from ad-hoc MariaDB to CNPG + redis-operator
(matches n8n/Authentik/GitLab's backup-native pattern)
- Authentik's CNPG manifests moved into the actual ArgoCD-synced
manifests/ path (were present but never wired into the sync path)
- Vault raft-snapshot CronJob, CNPG barmanObjectStore backups
(Authentik/n8n/Nextcloud), Nextcloud file-PVC restic sync - all
targeting the new VPS MinIO receiver
See VPS Warm-Standby plan doc for full design rationale.
Scooby Husky