The chart generated the login RSA keypair on every render, so
checksum/secret-login-service-key changed each time and both Zitadel
Deployments stayed permanently OutOfSync.
Adopt the live keypair into k8s/argocd/secrets/zitadel-login-service-key.enc.yaml
(SOPS, age recipient from .sops.yaml), list it in the ksops generator, and point
login.loginServiceKeySecretName at it. The chart then stops generating the
keypair and the Deployment checksums become deterministic.
A PreSync setup run is not harmless once the instance exists: it replays every
repeatable migration on every sync, and interrupting one leaves a
system.migration.started event with no matching done. ZITADEL then waits
forever on 'migration already started'. That deadlocked this instance twice
(projections.projects4, then repeatable_delete_stale_org_fields).
Move the setup job's hook from pre-install,pre-upgrade to post-delete so ArgoCD
sync never runs it. Re-enable deliberately for a schema upgrade.
Zitadel first boot completed on 2026-10-26, so set FirstInstance.Skip: true and
initJob.enabled: false. Without Skip, every sync re-runs machinekeyWriter and
silently rotates the iam-admin key that terraform/zitadel authenticates with.
Also wire wireguard_allowed_cidr into the WireGuard security-group rule; the
variable was declared but the rule still used relay_admin_cidr, which blocks
the homelab peer unless its egress address happens to match the operator CIDR.
The chart default killed zitadel-setup at ~5.5 minutes while it was still
replaying projections.projects4, which failed the whole PreSync and left the
Application OutOfSync/Missing. 1200s leaves room for a cold database without
masking a genuine hang.
Coexistence wiring for the Authentik replacement: ZITADEL gets its own CNPG
cluster, SOPS masterkey, Helm values and ArgoCD Application in namespace iam.
Authentik keeps serving; no consumer is moved and no Authentik object changes.
- k8s/infra/databases/zitadel-db.yaml: CNPG Postgres 16.2, 3 instances
- k8s/infra/iam/zitadel-values.yaml: chart 10.4.0 pinned, DSN from the CNPG
secret, masterkey from a Secret, metrics ServiceMonitor, second-sync caveat
- k8s/argocd/apps/30-security.yaml: Application named zitadel, wave 3,
automated sync deliberately absent for the first sync (chart PreSync hook
re-run risk)
- k8s/argocd/secrets/zitadel-masterkey.enc.yaml: 32-byte masterkey, SOPS
- k8s/infra/monitoring/alerts/svc-zitadel-rules.yaml: target-down, login-UI,
crash-loop and PreSync-job-failed rules
- terraform/files/coredns/Corefile: in-cluster rewrite for the zitadel host
Not applied. The cluster is mid-incident: vault-0 and authentik-server are 0/1,
authentik-db-2 has 14 restarts, prometheus-0 is 1/2 CrashLoopBackOff and
kube-state-metrics has 1925 restarts. Two manual steps still gate the first
sync: the Cloudflare Tunnel public hostname plus a proxied CNAME, and
terraform apply + make apply-cp for the CoreDNS rewrite (Talos-owned).
The offline masterkey copy is at ~/zitadel-masterkey.offline (mode 600). Move it
to sealed storage and delete it before the first sync. Losing it makes every
encrypted ZITADEL value unreadable.
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