A submitted modpack was durable but unreadable: the uploads PVC cannot cross
namespaces (felis-api mounts it; Kaniko runs in felis-build) and the s3 lane
handed the sandboxed build Pod no credentials, so NO user build could ever
consume its context. The transport is now the API itself:
- submit: derived context refs become the internal-face URL
/api/v1/internal/submissions/{id}/context (service-token gated), and Blobs
gains Open (local + s3) with an ErrBlobNotFound sentinel for the route's 404.
- api: serves that route on the internal face only (openapi.yaml updated; the
route-coverage test enforces it).
- build: an http(s) context renders a context-fetch initContainer (the felis
image's new fetch-context entrypoint) that streams the blob with the
namespace-local service-token Secret — never mounted into Kaniko — and
extracts it under a zip-slip guard into a size-limited emptyDir that Kaniko
reads read-only as --context=/context.
- platform/install: the api Deployment carries its own internal base URL; the
build namespace gets the token Secret through the existing replica mechanism
(bootstrap.sh + felis setup); the build egress lock opens exactly the control
namespace on the internal port.
- cmd/felis: fetch-context entrypoint (registered, documented, unit-tested for
escapes/symlinks/non-gzip).
Tests cover rendering, hardening, the s3/local Open paths, and the route's
404/503 mapping. Verified next on the real single-node cluster with Kaniko.
Following the first shield attempt (custom class, value 1e6) a live drill
showed the limit: kubelet evicted the game pods and then the api,
operator and registry anyway — evicting them was never what reclaimed
the disk — and with the images containerd-only, the GC stage left
everything in ImagePullBackOff. A custom class cannot be raised past 1e9
(the API caps user-defined values), while kubelet's eviction refusal
needs >= 2e9, so the control plane now uses the built-in
system-cluster-critical.
Re-drilled: disk filled to 1.7G free -> login/lobby evicted, and kubelet
logged "cannot evict a critical pod" for felis-api/operator/registry,
which stayed Running throughout. Recovery facts now in troubleshooting
13b: the DiskPressure condition lingers ~5m after space is freed
(--eviction-pressure-transition-period), and game images GC'd while
their pods were evicted need the documented re-import (verified: 25s to
Running).
A full disk made kubelet's node-pressure eviction pick control-plane pods
alongside game pods (both priority 0), and with the images existing only
in the node's containerd (air-gapped), losing the api meant a manual
image re-import. Every control-plane pod template (api/operator/reaper/
registry) now names the bundle's cluster-scoped felis-control-plane
PriorityClass: value 1,000,000, preemptionPolicy Never — eviction order
only, never preempting a running game server. The image-GC half is not
code-fixable on an air-gapped box; troubleshooting gains 13b with the
recovery path (re-run the installer to rebuild imports, or docker save |
k3s ctr images import - for one image).
Three faces of one gap, all on the supported install path:
- Backup/restore answered 503 out of the box: nothing ever rendered the
archive PVC, so FELIS_BACKUP_PVC was unset. The bundle now renders the
PVC (Minecraft namespace, RWO 10Gi, cluster default class) and
'felis manifests' names it by default (--backup-pvc= is the explicit
no-store shape); bootstrap passes it through so the generated felis.toml
[archive] local_path and the jobs' mount path come from one variable.
- Retention was unreachable: bootstrap never passed the reaper flags. It
now forwards FELIS_WORLDS_HOST_PATH/FELIS_ARCHIVE_LOCAL_PATH, so one
env enables the daily CronJob; unset keeps today's fail-safe (no reaper,
nothing deleted).
- Even when enabled it could not find a world on a stock install:
resolveWorldDir now also resolves the exact local-path directory
<pv-name>_<ns>_<pvc-name> read from the live PVC's volumeName (never a
glob, so a stale deleted PV's bytes can't be archived in place of the
current world). Reaper Role gains persistentvolumeclaims:get (weaker
than the delete it already held).
README (zh/en) stops promising automatic/scheduled backups and states
retention is opt-in. bootstrap_test covers the env->flag contract.
The platform package that places servers across nodes and wires the operator, build, restore, and reaper subsystems, plus cmd/felis, the single binary that runs them.
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