Discovered while debugging pg-n8n's recurring 'Instance Status Extraction
Error': the root cause is the same missing pod-egress route to the Netbird
mesh found tonight while fixing CrowdSec - continuousArchiving kept failing
to connect to vps-minio.netbird.internal, and CNPG correctly holds
Ready=False while archiving is broken (a real condition, not cosmetic).
That's what was driving these three apps' ArgoCD health flapping.
No node in the cluster has any route into 100.108.0.0/16 for
pod-originated traffic - the per-namespace netbird 'router' pods
(gitlab, vault, argocd, etc.) are inbound-only infrastructure, not egress
gateways. gitlab's own CNPG backup is unaffected (points at a local
in-cluster MinIO, not the VPS).
Commented out rather than deleted - re-enable once real pod-egress
routing exists, tracked as a separate task. No data loss: this is WAL
archiving/backup, not the live database.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
bitnami/kubectl has removed all version tags from Docker Hub,
leaving only :latest which is blocked by Kyverno disallow-latest-tag
policy. Switch to alpine/k8s:1.32.13 which has kubectl, bash, jq,
and uses proper version tags.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The :1.31 tag is gone from Docker Hub and :latest is blocked by Kyverno
disallow-latest-tag policy. The 1.29 image is cached on cluster nodes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bitnami/kubectl:1.31 tag doesn't exist on Docker Hub. Updated all
hook jobs to use bitnami/kubectl:latest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PreSync/PostSync hook Jobs reference argocd-hook-sa but it only existed
in the argocd namespace. Jobs running in app namespaces (crowdsec,
authentik, netbird, vault, istio-system) need the SA in their own
namespace.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
