The image is FROM scratch, so there is no interpreter to run a k8up
backupcommand in, and the database runs in WAL mode, where a file-level
copy of the volume is not crash-consistent.
Also switches to strategy: Recreate. The data PVC is ReadWriteOnce, so a
RollingUpdate deadlocks the new pod against the old one holding it.
An incident opened, got assigned to whoever held today's schedule entry,
and then sat there silently until somebody thought to look. The schedule
and the incident model were both built; nothing reached the person
holding the pager.
Notifications go out through ntfy, over plain HTTP with no new
dependencies. Delivery is an outbox rather than an inline call: the pool
is limited to a single connection, so a POST made while holding the
webhook's transaction would stall every other request behind it. The
webhook inserts a row and a notifier goroutine sends it within a tick,
retrying with exponential backoff.
Only opening an incident has to resolve a topic from scratch. Reminders
and all-clears reuse whatever that first notification chose, which keeps
configuration out of resolveIfSettled and gives the right rule for free:
you only hear that something resolved if you were told it started.
Each push carries an Acknowledge button, because the useful thing to do
at 3am is stop the pager without unlocking anything. It POSTs to an
unauthenticated /api/notify/ack/{token} — a notification body lives on
the ntfy server and in the device cache, so a real API key must never
appear in one. The token is minted per delivery, scoped to one incident
and one action, and expires in a day.
Reminders repeat until the incident stops being untouched. The stop
conditions are the states that already mean somebody has it: acknowledged,
snoozed, resolved, archived. Snooze is the mute button, so there is no
separate reminder cap.
Notifications sent to the fallback topic carry no Acknowledge button. The
topic is shared, and a button on it would let any subscriber acknowledge
as somebody else.
The route carried no sectionName, so it attached to every listener whose
hostname matched — including the hostname-less plaintext HTTP listener.
On a publicly reachable hostname that means the API accepts bearer tokens
over cleartext.
networking.listener names the listener to bind to. It defaults to empty,
which keeps the previous attach-to-all behaviour.
Also document the Kubernetes install path, which the README omitted.
A resolved webhook was the only path out of the firing state, so a
notification that was dropped, silenced, or lost to a restart pinned an
alert as firing forever — Prometheus showed it resolved while
terdut-server kept listing it. The archiver only ever touched resolved
alerts, and both the list and stats queries compared status with plain
equality, so a stale row was indistinguishable from a live one.
A sweeper pass now resolves firing alerts on either of two signals: the
ends_at watermark Alertmanager sets on outgoing firing notifications has
passed (plus a grace period for clock skew), or no webhook has refreshed
the alert within TERDUT_STALE_AFTER (default 6h, above Alertmanager's 4h
repeat_interval). Such alerts get resolution_source = 'expiry',
distinguishing them from a real 'alertmanager' resolve.
Two related webhook bugs fixed alongside:
- The upsert had no ordering guard, so a retried firing notification
arriving after the resolved one resurrected the alert. Payloads for
an older alert instance are now discarded: a stale retry carries the
same startsAt, a genuine re-fire a newer one.
- archived_at was never cleared on re-fire, leaving a re-fired alert
archived and invisible in the default list.
Stats now exclude archived alerts to match the default list view; this
lowers historical firing/resolved totals.
The chart exposes both sweeper durations via sweeper.staleAfter and
sweeper.archiveAfter.
Post-install/post-upgrade Job that calls /api/bootstrap on first deploy
and stores the admin API key in a Secret (<release>-admin-key by default).
Exits cleanly on subsequent upgrades when bootstrap is already complete.
Adds ServiceAccount, Role (secrets:create), and RoleBinding as hook resources.
charts/terdut-server/ — Helm chart for Kubernetes deployment:
- Deployment (replicas=1, /healthz probes, TERDUT_DB_PATH=/data/terdut.db)
- Service (ClusterIP :8080)
- PVC (1Gi, synology-iscsi) mounted at /data
- HTTPRoute via envoy-main gateway
.github/workflows/chart-release.yml — packages and publishes the chart to
gh-pages branch on any push to main that touches charts/; repo URL will be
https://yeniklas.github.io/terdut-server once the repo is made public
Niklas Ye