GKE: register the remaining tools, add the registry CA issuer

Adds nine Applications — external-secrets, harbor, jenkins, postgresql,
redis, victoria-metrics-single, vmagent, node-exporter, grafana — bringing
the cluster to the homelab's full set. Every nameOverride is pinned, which
is load-bearing rather than cosmetic in at least three cases:
external-secrets (its service account name is what vault-backend's
serviceAccountRef and Vault's auth role bind to), victoria-metrics-single
(its Service renders as <release>-server, the address vmagent and Grafana
both hardcode) and harbor (the pipeline refers to its object names).

extra-manifests gains the ClusterIssuer that makes cert-manager useful
here: a CA issuer over the registry-ca Secret, which is created by hand
from terraform output because the CA's private key exists only in
Terraform state and nothing can reconcile it from git.

Two homelab-only things removed rather than left to confuse: the Tailscale
Harbor Ingress, and the homelab cluster's own entry point and values file,
which have no meaning in a GCP-only repo. app-of-secretstores and
app-of-extra-manifests now point at this cluster's Gitea over cluster DNS,
and harbor-robot-dockerconfig is keyed to this cluster's registry hostname
— docker matches stored credentials by exact host, so the homelab's would
have silently pushed unauthenticated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LEsTefWWifp4ikvhHF5s6N
This commit is contained in:
Mukul Sharma
2026-09-12 15:01:59 +05:30
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent a3429adf2c
commit 9c67afd5e0
8 changed files with 110 additions and 300 deletions
@@ -70,3 +70,73 @@ appSpec:
# cert-manager's CRDs embed large OpenAPI schemas; SSA avoids the
# 256KiB last-applied-configuration limit, same as external-secrets.
serverSideApply: true
- name: external-secrets
# Every credential in the cluster arrives through this. nameOverride is
# not cosmetic here: without it the release becomes
# "external-secrets-<cluster>-<env>", which renames the controller's
# service account — and both secretstores/vault-backend.yaml's
# serviceAccountRef and Vault's own Kubernetes auth role are bound to
# the plain name.
nameOverride: external-secrets
namespace: external-secrets
chartDir: external-secrets
valuesDir: external-secrets
# ClusterSecretStore's CRD embeds a large provider schema and exceeds
# the 256KiB annotation limit on a client-side apply.
serverSideApply: true
- name: harbor
# Object names are all prefixed with the release name, and the pipeline
# refers to them, so it is pinned.
nameOverride: harbor
namespace: harbor
chartDir: harbor
valuesDir: harbor
- name: jenkins
nameOverride: jenkins
namespace: jenkins
chartDir: jenkins
valuesDir: jenkins
- name: postgresql
# Backs toolshed's control plane. Own namespace so it is addressed over
# cluster DNS like any other platform component and outlives whatever
# consumes it: postgresql.postgres.svc.cluster.local:5432
nameOverride: postgresql
namespace: postgres
chartDir: postgresql
valuesDir: postgresql
- name: redis
# Backs toolshed's managed cache add-on, same namespace reasoning as
# postgresql: redis.redis.svc.cluster.local:6379
nameOverride: redis
namespace: redis
chartDir: redis
valuesDir: redis
- name: victoria-metrics-single
# Pinned name, because the chart renders its Service as
# <release>-server and both vmagent's remote write and Grafana's
# datasource address it at
# victoria-metrics-single-server.monitoring.svc.cluster.local:8428
nameOverride: victoria-metrics-single
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: victoria-metrics-single
valuesDir: victoria-metrics-single
- name: vmagent
# The scraper. Needs the Service above to exist, so bring it up after.
nameOverride: vmagent
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: vmagent
valuesDir: vmagent
- name: node-exporter
nameOverride: node-exporter
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: node-exporter
valuesDir: node-exporter
- name: grafana
# Requires secretstores/grafana-admin-credentials.yaml to have synced
# first: without that Secret the pod generates a random admin password
# nobody has. It does not crash, it just cannot be logged into until
# the Secret exists and the pod restarts.
nameOverride: grafana
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: grafana
valuesDir: grafana
@@ -1,217 +0,0 @@
clusterSpec:
# "k8s-admin-prd-ase1" only resolved in the fleet because that name was
# registered as an external cluster in the hub ArgoCD's cluster list.
# There's no hub here — one ArgoCD, running on the cluster it manages —
# so this has to be the built-in local-cluster alias instead.
destination:
server: ""
name: "in-cluster"
argocdSpec:
# Was argocd-admin (a separate hub namespace in the fleet's two-tier
# setup). Single ArgoCD instance here, so Application objects live in
# the same namespace as ArgoCD itself — see claude.md.
namespace: argocd
teamSpec:
devops:
source:
repoURL: http://gitea.192.168.1.7.nip.io/mukul/devops-infra-helm-charts.git
targetRevision: main
path: helm-templates
valueFiles: ../../helm-overrides/k8s-admin-prd-ase1
labels:
bu: infra
team: devops
env: prd
cluster: k8s-admin-prd-ase1
appSpec:
- name: argocd
nameOverride: argocd-admin-prd
namespace: argocd
chartDir: argo-cd
valuesDir: argocd-admin-prd
- name: gitea
# Adopting the already-running standalone install (helm release
# "gitea" in namespace "gitea", from deploy_gitea.sh) rather than
# deploying a second one — nameOverride pins the rendered
# Application's name (and therefore the Helm release name Argo
# renders with) to match those existing object names exactly.
nameOverride: gitea
namespace: gitea
chartDir: gitea
valuesDir: gitea
# NOT using the Application-wide `replace: true` here anymore — it
# forces a full PUT of every resource this Application renders, and a
# bound PVC's spec is immutable (volumeName/storageClassName get
# filled in by the provisioner after binding; a PUT that omits them
# looks like clearing them, which the API correctly refuses). The
# Deployment-only fix now lives as a per-resource sync-option
# annotation in helm-overrides/k8s-admin-prd-ase1/gitea/custom-values.yaml
# (deployment.annotations), which only Replaces the Deployment.
- name: vault
# Adopting the running production-mode Vault (helm release "vault" in
# namespace "vault", chart 0.34.1 — see helm-templates/vault/Chart.yaml).
# It's already initialized and unsealed; this Application only manages
# Vault's Deployment/config, never its data or seal state. Review the
# first diff carefully before syncing — this is the highest-consequence
# adoption in this repo so far.
nameOverride: vault
namespace: vault
chartDir: vault
valuesDir: vault
- name: contour
# Adopting the running ingress (helm release "contour" in namespace
# "projectcontour", chart 0.7.0 — the OFFICIAL projectcontour chart,
# not the Bitnami one that used to be wired up as helm-templates/contour
# — see the note in that Chart.yaml and claude.md issue #4). This is
# the ingress path for every other Application in this repo — review
# the diff before syncing, same caution as vault.
nameOverride: contour
namespace: projectcontour
chartDir: contour
valuesDir: contour
- name: external-secrets
# Correction from an earlier version of this file: "no nameOverride
# needed" was wrong. Without one, the Application (and therefore the
# Helm release name the chart templates with) becomes
# "external-secrets-admin-prd" — so the controller's ServiceAccount
# actually ends up named external-secrets-admin-prd, not
# external-secrets. secretstores/vault-backend.yaml's
# serviceAccountRef assumes the plain name, and Vault's role was bound
# to bound_service_account_names=external-secrets — both need this
# pinned name to match.
nameOverride: external-secrets
namespace: external-secrets
chartDir: external-secrets
valuesDir: external-secrets
# ClusterSecretStore's CRD (large embedded OpenAPI schema) exceeds the
# 256KiB last-applied-configuration annotation limit on a normal
# client-side apply. SSA sidesteps it entirely — see the note in
# generic-argo-apps-chart's template.
serverSideApply: true
- name: jenkins
# Fresh install, but pinning nameOverride anyway — learned from
# external-secrets that skipping it produces
# "jenkins-admin-prd"-suffixed resource names, which
# jenkins-admin-credentials (the ExternalSecret, namespace "jenkins")
# doesn't need to care about, but keeps naming predictable and
# consistent with every other app here regardless.
nameOverride: jenkins
namespace: jenkins
chartDir: jenkins
valuesDir: jenkins
- name: harbor
# Fresh install (helm list -n harbor came back empty despite claude.md
# saying otherwise). nameOverride pinned for the same predictability
# reason as jenkins — rendered object names all end up prefixed with
# this (harbor-core, harbor-registry, etc.), which is also what
# Jenkins needs to reference for internal image pushes
# (harbor-core.harbor.svc.cluster.local).
nameOverride: harbor
namespace: harbor
chartDir: harbor
valuesDir: harbor
- name: postgresql
# Backs toolshed's control plane. Own namespace rather than living
# inside toolshed, so it is addressed over cluster DNS like any other
# platform component and outlives whatever consumes it:
# postgresql.postgres.svc.cluster.local:5432
#
# nameOverride pinned for the same reason as everything else here —
# without it the rendered Application (and therefore the Helm release
# name, and therefore every object name) becomes
# "postgresql-admin-prd-prd".
#
# Hand-written chart, not Bitnami's: that registry has been actively
# unstable (infra issue #4) and PostgreSQL ships no official chart.
# Requires secretstores/toolshed-postgres-credentials.yaml to have
# synced first — the pod cannot start without the Secret.
nameOverride: postgresql
namespace: postgres
chartDir: postgresql
valuesDir: postgresql
- name: redis
# Backs toolshed's managed cache add-on — toolshed provisions a per-app
# ACL user, scoped to its own key prefix, on request. Own namespace for
# the same reason postgresql has one: addressed over cluster DNS like
# any other platform component, outliving whatever consumes it:
# redis.redis.svc.cluster.local:6379
#
# Hand-written chart, not Bitnami's, for the same reason as postgresql
# (infra issue #4) — Redis ships no official chart either.
#
# Authentication is defined by an ACL file with no requirepass, which
# is a security property rather than a preference: see the chart's own
# values.yaml, where getting it wrong leaves the server open to
# unauthenticated access after its first restart.
#
# Requires secretstores/toolshed-redis-credentials.yaml to have synced
# first — the init container cannot seed the ACL file without it.
nameOverride: redis
namespace: redis
chartDir: redis
valuesDir: redis
- name: victoria-metrics-single
# Replaces the Prometheus server this entry briefly was (see git
# history on this file) — same job, lower RAM/disk footprint for the
# same metric volume, and it speaks Prometheus's own query API
# (/api/v1/query) so nothing downstream (toolshed's metrics
# connection, docs/PRODUCT-ARCHITECTURE.md step 5) needed to change,
# only the URL it points at.
#
# Vendored official chart (victoriametrics/helm-charts), same
# vendor-the-official-chart pattern as Contour/ArgoCD/Vault/Gitea/
# Harbor/Jenkins. This exact directory name already existed in this
# repo before — a leftover GKE-targeted vendored copy from the
# original Meesho monorepo import — and was removed rather than
# adapted; see that chart's own Chart.yaml comment.
#
# nameOverride pinned to exactly "victoria-metrics-single" for the
# same reason as postgresql/gitea/prometheus above: the chart's
# server Service renders as "<release-name>-server", so this is what
# makes it resolvable at a predictable hostname
# (victoria-metrics-single-server.monitoring.svc.cluster.local:8428)
# rather than "victoria-metrics-single-admin-prd-prd-server".
nameOverride: victoria-metrics-single
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: victoria-metrics-single
valuesDir: victoria-metrics-single
- name: vmagent
# The scraper — pulls from the same targets the Prometheus server
# used to scrape directly (kubelet's cAdvisor endpoint, and anything
# carrying a prometheus.io/scrape annotation, e.g. node-exporter
# below) and remote_writes into victoria-metrics-single. Needs that
# component's Service name, so bring it up after, not before.
nameOverride: vmagent
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: vmagent
valuesDir: vmagent
- name: node-exporter
# Host-level metrics (disk/memory/load) — independent of which TSDB
# stores them, so vendored standalone rather than as a subchart of
# anything. Was a subchart of the (now removed) Prometheus server
# entry; moved out to its own release when that server was replaced,
# since victoria-metrics-single has no equivalent bundled subchart.
nameOverride: node-exporter
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: node-exporter
valuesDir: node-exporter
- name: grafana
# Dashboards over VictoriaMetrics — see that chart for why "type:
# prometheus" is correct for a VictoriaMetrics URL. This directory
# already held a fully-vendored old Grafana chart (v6.58.7) from the
# original Meesho monorepo import with generic production config
# (fullnameOverride: grafana-infra-prd) — removed and re-vendored
# fresh as a thin wrapper, same treatment as victoria-metrics-single.
#
# Requires secretstores/grafana-admin-credentials.yaml to have synced
# first — the pod falls back to a randomly-generated admin password
# nobody has if that Secret does not exist yet when it boots (not a
# crash, just an inaccessible login until the Secret exists and the
# pod restarts).
nameOverride: grafana
namespace: monitoring
chartDir: grafana
valuesDir: grafana