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Scooby HuskyandClaude Sonnet 5 018eb3570f Build real pod-egress routing to the VPS, fix everything blocked by its absence
Root cause of tonight's earlier CrowdSec/CNPG-backup workarounds: no node
in the cluster had any route into the Netbird mesh CIDR (100.108.0.0/16)
for pod-originated traffic. The per-namespace netbird 'router' pods are
inbound-only infrastructure (external peers reaching K8s services); their
own architecture has no reverse path.

Fix, in two parts:

1. infrastructure/netbird/manifests/egress-daemonset.yaml - one netbird
   client per node, hostNetwork so its wt0 interface lives in the node's
   real network namespace, plus a sidecar that adds a host route sending
   100.108.0.0/16 out via it. hostNetwork requires a scoped Kyverno
   PolicyException (infrastructure/kyverno/policies/netbird-egress-exception.yaml)
   to the disallow-host-namespaces STIG policy - narrowly for this one
   DaemonSet by name, not a namespace-wide exclusion.

2. Discovered the route alone wasn't enough for k3s NodePort traffic
   (vps-minio:30900): Netbird manages its own nftables ACLs independent of
   iptables/Kyverno, and its forward chain (netbird-rt-fwd) only permits
   *established* connections through a peer acting as a router - never new
   ones, by design, unless a Netbird 'Network Route' policy is explicitly
   configured (it isn't, for this VPS). Locally-terminated connections
   (tinyproxy) go through a separate, already-permissive ACL chain, which
   is why the CrowdSec proxy fix from earlier tonight worked. Replicated
   that working pattern for MinIO: minio-forward.service on the VPS host
   (systemd, socat) forwards 100.108.113.41:9000 -> MinIO's ClusterIP,
   avoiding the NodePort path entirely.

Re-enabled everything that was disabled/suspended earlier tonight because
of this gap, pointed at the new endpoint:
- CrowdSec CAPI/console-enroll (removed DISABLE_ONLINE_API, restored the
  VPS proxy env vars)
- n8n/nextcloud/authentik CNPG backup.barmanObjectStore
- vault-raft-snapshot CronJob (unsuspended)
- nextcloud PVC content sync CronJob endpoint

vps-minio.netbird.internal is retired everywhere - it was never actually
resolvable (Netbird has no DNS configured) even before today's routing
fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:36:13 -05:00

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# Pod-egress routing into the Netbird mesh.
#
# The existing per-namespace `router` Deployments (NBRoutingPeer CRs -
# gitlab, vault, argocd, nextcloud, etc.) are INBOUND-only infrastructure:
# they let external Netbird peers reach into those namespaces' services.
# Nothing programs the reverse - no node ever gets a route sending pod
# traffic OUT through any of those router pods' wt0 interfaces. Confirmed
# 2026-08-17 while debugging CrowdSec's CAPI enrollment: `ip route get
# 100.108.113.41` on a node running a pod that needed to reach the VPS's
# Netbird IP just showed the plain LAN default gateway - none of the
# "connected" router pods were ever actually in the path, and a tcpdump on
# their wt0 during live attempts showed zero packets.
#
# This DaemonSet is the missing outbound half: one netbird client per node,
# running with hostNetwork so its wt0 interface lives directly in the node's
# real network namespace (avoiding all the SNAT/forwarding complexity a
# pod-netns subnet router would need), plus a sidecar that adds a host route
# sending 100.108.0.0/16 out via that interface. Once packets leave a node
# via wt0 with a real Netbird-mesh source identity, return routing already
# works via the same route-advertisement mechanism the inbound routers use.
#
# hostNetwork requires infrastructure/kyverno/policies/netbird-egress-exception.yaml
# - a scoped PolicyException to the disallow-host-namespaces STIG policy,
# not a broad exclusion. See that file for the full justification.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: netbird-egress
namespace: netbird
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: netbird-egress
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: netbird-egress
template:
metadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: netbird-egress
annotations:
# Same reasoning as netbird-cluster-router: ztunnel iptables rules
# interfere with WireGuard packet forwarding.
ambient.istio.io/redirection: disabled
spec:
hostNetwork: true
dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
containers:
- name: netbird
image: netbirdio/netbird:0.66.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
env:
- name: NB_SETUP_KEY
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: netbird-router-setup-key
key: setup-key
- name: NB_MANAGEMENT_URL
value: "https://netbird.kube.huskypup.net"
securityContext:
capabilities:
add:
- NET_ADMIN
resources:
requests:
cpu: 25m
memory: 64Mi
limits:
memory: 128Mi
# Adds the host route sending mesh-bound traffic out via wt0 once
# the netbird container brings the interface up. Re-asserts on a
# loop since wt0 can be recreated on reconnect (route otherwise
# silently disappears with it).
- name: route-manager
image: alpine:3.20
command:
- sh
- -c
- |
apk add --no-cache iproute2 >/dev/null 2>&1
while true; do
if ip link show wt0 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ip route replace 100.108.0.0/16 dev wt0 2>/dev/null
fi
sleep 10
done
securityContext:
capabilities:
add:
- NET_ADMIN
resources:
requests:
cpu: 10m
memory: 32Mi
limits:
memory: 64Mi
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30