diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/deployment.yaml
index 35e380e7..189f7418 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/deployment.yaml
@@ -34,98 +34,12 @@ spec:
         app.kubernetes.io/name: audiobookshelf
     spec:
       enableServiceLinks: false
-      serviceAccountName: audiobookshelf-seed
       securityContext:
         fsGroup: 1000
         fsGroupChangePolicy: OnRootMismatch
         seccompProfile:
           type: RuntimeDefault
       initContainers:
-        # Atomic seed: idempotency-gated rsync of config + metadata +
-        # books PVCs from the legacy VM. Two-phase so the legacy
-        # systemd unit stays up during the long books rsync.
-        - name: seed
-          image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/ci-k8s:2026-04-29
-          env:
-            - name: NAMESPACE
-              valueFrom:
-                fieldRef:
-                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
-            - name: SCHED
-              value: audiobookshelf-daily
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: audiobookshelf.srv.renner.uno
-          command:
-            - bash
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -euo pipefail
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-              log "Installing rsync ..."
-              apk add --no-cache rsync >/dev/null
-
-              EXISTING=$(kubectl -n velero get backups.velero.io \
-                -l "velero.io/schedule-name=$SCHED" \
-                -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.status.phase=="Completed")]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' \
-                2>/dev/null | grep -c . || true)
-              if [ "$EXISTING" -gt 0 ]; then
-                log "$EXISTING completed Velero Backup(s) for $SCHED — skipping seed"
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No completed Velero Backup for $SCHED — proceeding with seed"
-
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-
-              # Phase 1: books while legacy stays up (long, no --delete).
-              log "Phase 1: rsync /audiobooks → /audiobooks (legacy stays up) ..."
-              rsync -aH --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/audiobooks/" /audiobooks/
-
-              # Phase 2: stop legacy briefly for SQLite-bearing dirs + delta.
-              log "Phase 2: stopping audiobookshelf on legacy VM ..."
-              ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl stop audiobookshelf"
-              trap 'log "Restarting audiobookshelf on legacy VM ..."; ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl start audiobookshelf" || true' EXIT
-
-              log "  rsync /usr/share/audiobookshelf/config → /config ..."
-              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/usr/share/audiobookshelf/config/" /config/
-              log "  rsync /usr/share/audiobookshelf/metadata → /metadata ..."
-              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/usr/share/audiobookshelf/metadata/" /metadata/
-              log "  rsync /audiobooks delta with --delete ..."
-              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/audiobooks/" /audiobooks/
-              chown -R 1000:1000 /config /metadata /audiobooks
-              du -sh /config /metadata /audiobooks
-
-              BACKUP_NAME="$SCHED-seed-$(date -u +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)"
-              log "Creating Velero Backup $BACKUP_NAME ..."
-              cat <<YAML | kubectl apply -f -
-              apiVersion: velero.io/v1
-              kind: Backup
-              metadata:
-                name: $BACKUP_NAME
-                namespace: velero
-                labels:
-                  velero.io/schedule-name: $SCHED
-              spec:
-                includedNamespaces:
-                  - $NAMESPACE
-                includedResources:
-                  - persistentvolumeclaims
-                snapshotMoveData: true
-                itemOperationTimeout: 4h0m0s
-              YAML
-              log "Seed complete: PVCs populated; Velero Backup submitted."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - { name: config,   mountPath: /config }
-            - { name: metadata, mountPath: /metadata }
-            - { name: books,    mountPath: /audiobooks }
-            - { name: ssh,      mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
         # Fetch the Let's Encrypt staging root CAs at pod start so
         # Node (openid-client) trusts the staging-issued auth.renner.uno
         # cert when doing server-side OIDC token exchange. Bundle both
@@ -208,10 +122,6 @@ spec:
             claimName: audiobookshelf-books
         - name: le-ca
           emptyDir: {}
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: audiobookshelf-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Service
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml
index c1e0fbb7..ab78bd62 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
-  - pvcs.yaml
-  - migration-bucket.yaml
-  - seed-rbac.yaml
-  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
   - deployment.yaml
   - ingress.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/seed-rbac.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/seed-rbac.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0530f428..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/seed-rbac.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# RBAC for the seed initContainer in the audiobookshelf Pod. Cross-namespace
-# because Velero Backup CRs live in the velero namespace.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ServiceAccount
-metadata:
-  name: audiobookshelf-seed
-  namespace: audiobookshelf
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Role
-metadata:
-  name: audiobookshelf-seed-velero
-  namespace: velero
-rules:
-  - apiGroups: [velero.io]
-    resources: [backups]
-    verbs: [get, list, watch, create]
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: RoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: audiobookshelf-seed-velero
-  namespace: velero
-subjects:
-  - kind: ServiceAccount
-    name: audiobookshelf-seed
-    namespace: audiobookshelf
-roleRef:
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
-  kind: Role
-  name: audiobookshelf-seed-velero
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/authentik/kustomization.yaml
index 052407f1..ef963800 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/authentik/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
-  - migration-bucket.yaml
-  - barman-creds.sops.yaml
-  - objectstore.yaml
-  - postgres.yaml
-  - scheduled-backup.yaml
   - secret.sops.yaml
-  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
-  - seed-job.yaml
   - helmrelease.yaml
   - ingress-test.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/postgres.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/authentik/postgres.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index d3247d69..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/postgres.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
-kind: Cluster
-metadata:
-  name: ak-pg
-  namespace: authentik
-  annotations:
-    # Archive is pre-populated by the migration seed (base + WAL) and,
-    # on later reboots, by this cluster's own continuous archiving. The
-    # plugin's pre-recovery "Expected empty archive" check conflicts
-    # with the producer==consumer invariant of the symmetric-restore
-    # design, so skip it. bootstrap.recovery still reads latest backup
-    # from the archive; if none, it recovers the migration seed.
-    cnpg.io/skipEmptyWalArchiveCheck: "enabled"
-spec:
-  instances: 2
-  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
-  storage:
-    storageClass: ceph-block
-    size: 10Gi
-  # The Barman Cloud plugin drives both WAL archiving and
-  # scheduled base backups to Garage on nas-1 (bucket k8s-cnpg).
-  # See objectstore.yaml for the destination config.
-  plugins:
-    - name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
-      isWALArchiver: true
-      parameters:
-        barmanObjectName: ak-pg-store
-  # Bootstrap always recovers from the latest Barman base backup + WAL in
-  # s3://k8s-cnpg/ak-pg. Producer path == consumer path: the live cluster
-  # writes to the same location via the plugin above (serverName defaults to
-  # the Cluster name, i.e. `ak-pg`), and the migration pipeline seeds the
-  # same path using an ephemeral Postgres + barman-cloud-backup. Unpinned
-  # recovery target = latest WAL.
-  bootstrap:
-    recovery:
-      # Explicit owner/database — CNPG will create/adopt the
-      # authentik user + DB from the recovered archive and reset its
-      # password to match the managed ak-pg-app Secret referenced by
-      # the authentik HelmRelease.
-      owner: authentik
-      database: authentik
-      source: ak-pg-backup
-  externalClusters:
-    - name: ak-pg-backup
-      plugin:
-        name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
-        parameters:
-          barmanObjectName: ak-pg-store
-          serverName: ak-pg
-  postgresql:
-    parameters:
-      shared_buffers: "256MB"
-      max_connections: "200"
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      cpu: 200m
-      memory: 512Mi
-    limits:
-      memory: 1Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/authentik/seed-job.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c80c206..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/seed-job.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,207 +0,0 @@
----
-# Cold-start seed for ak-pg. Runs an ephemeral Postgres in this Job,
-# pg_restores the legacy authentik DB into it, and writes a Barman
-# base backup (+ end-WAL) to s3://k8s-cnpg/ak-pg/. CNPG's
-# bootstrap.recovery on the ak-pg Cluster reads from that path; the
-# Cluster's recovery Job retries until this seed populates Garage,
-# then succeeds.
-#
-# Idempotency: gates on Garage having any object under the cluster
-# path. Once a backup exists (whether from this seed, a prior seed, or
-# the live cluster's continuous archiving), the Job exits 0.
-apiVersion: batch/v1
-kind: Job
-metadata:
-  name: ak-pg-seed
-  namespace: authentik
-spec:
-  backoffLimit: 2
-  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
-  template:
-    spec:
-      restartPolicy: Never
-      initContainers:
-        - name: legacy-dump
-          image: alpine:3.21
-          env:
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: authentik-db-1.srv.renner.uno
-            - name: PGDATABASE
-              value: authentik
-          command:
-            - sh
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -eu
-              apk add --no-cache openssh-client >/dev/null
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] pg_dump on $LEGACY_HOST → /seed/legacy.dump"
-              ssh "root@$LEGACY_HOST" "su - postgres -c 'pg_dump --clean --if-exists --no-owner --no-privileges --format=custom $PGDATABASE'" > /seed/legacy.dump
-              ls -lh /seed/legacy.dump
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: ssh
-              mountPath: /ssh
-              readOnly: true
-            - name: seed
-              mountPath: /seed
-      containers:
-        - name: seed
-          image: postgres:16
-          env:
-            - name: PGDATA
-              value: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-            - name: TARGET_DB
-              value: authentik
-            - name: TARGET_OWNER
-              value: authentik
-            - name: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: ACCESS_KEY_ID
-            - name: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
-            - name: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: REGION
-            - name: GARAGE_ENDPOINT
-              value: https://s3.nas-1.renner.uno
-            - name: BARMAN_SERVER
-              value: ak-pg
-            - name: BARMAN_DEST
-              value: s3://k8s-cnpg/ak-pg
-          command:
-            - bash
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -euo pipefail
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-              log "Installing awscli + barman ..."
-              export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-              apt-get update -qq
-              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-                python3 python3-pip python3-venv python3-psycopg2 \
-                awscli ca-certificates >/dev/null
-
-              # Idempotency gate: only skip if a real base backup exists at
-              # <BARMAN_DEST>/<BARMAN_SERVER>/base/. A failed previous attempt
-              # may leave dangling marker objects under <BARMAN_DEST>/, but
-              # not under base/, so this distinguishes "complete backup" from
-              # "partial-write garbage".
-              EXISTING=$(aws s3 ls --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" "$BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/" 2>/dev/null | wc -l || true)
-              if [ "$EXISTING" -gt 0 ]; then
-                log "Garage already has $EXISTING base backup entr(ies) at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/ — seed skipped."
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No base backup at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/ — running full seed process."
-
-              python3 -m venv --system-site-packages /opt/barman
-              /opt/barman/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir --quiet 'barman[cloud,aws-snapshots]'
-              export PATH="/opt/barman/bin:$PATH"
-
-              # Ephemeral Postgres in PGDATA. trust auth, local-only.
-              mkdir -p "$PGDATA" && chown postgres:postgres "$PGDATA"
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/initdb -D $PGDATA --auth=trust --encoding=UTF8 --no-locale --username=postgres"
-
-              # WAL archiving so end_wal of the base backup actually lands in
-              # the archive — without this, CNPG recovery fails on missing WAL.
-              # postgres daemon sanitizes env on startup, so bake creds into
-              # the wrapper script.
-              cat > /usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh <<SH
-              #!/bin/sh
-              exec >> /tmp/archive_wal.log 2>&1
-              export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'
-              export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
-              export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION='$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'
-              echo "\$(date -Iseconds) archiving \$1"
-              exec barman-cloud-wal-archive \\
-                --cloud-provider aws-s3 \\
-                --endpoint-url '$GARAGE_ENDPOINT' \\
-                --gzip -e AES256 \\
-                '$BARMAN_DEST' '$BARMAN_SERVER' "\$1"
-              SH
-              chmod +x /usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh
-              : > /tmp/archive_wal.log
-              chmod 666 /tmp/archive_wal.log
-
-              cat >> "$PGDATA/postgresql.conf" <<CONF
-              listen_addresses = 'localhost'
-              wal_level = replica
-              archive_mode = on
-              archive_command = '/usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh %p'
-              archive_timeout = '60s'
-              CONF
-
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -l /tmp/pg.log -w start"
-
-              psql -U postgres -c "CREATE ROLE $TARGET_OWNER LOGIN;" || true
-              psql -U postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE $TARGET_DB OWNER $TARGET_OWNER;" || true
-
-              # Run pg_restore as postgres (superuser) AND let the dump's own
-              # ALTER OWNER + GRANT statements run — the dump already says
-              # "OWNER TO authentik" / "GRANT ... TO authentik" for every
-              # user object, and as postgres those run cleanly regardless of
-              # extension schemas or anything else. No ownership fumbling
-              # needed afterwards: PGDATA ends up exactly matching the
-              # legacy DB's ownership/ACL state.
-              log "pg_restore /seed/legacy.dump → $TARGET_DB ..."
-              pg_restore -U postgres -d "$TARGET_DB" \
-                /seed/legacy.dump \
-                || log "pg_restore completed with warnings (expected)"
-
-              # barman-cloud-backup connects to PG to start/stop the backup
-              # via SQL. Without --host/--port/--user it falls back to the
-              # OS user (root), which has no PG role. Use 127.0.0.1 (matches
-              # listen_addresses=localhost) and the postgres superuser.
-              log "barman-cloud-backup → $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER ..."
-              barman-cloud-backup \
-                --cloud-provider aws-s3 \
-                --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" \
-                --gzip -e AES256 \
-                --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5432 --user postgres \
-                "$BARMAN_DEST" "$BARMAN_SERVER"
-
-              # Force end_wal to flush; archive_command fires asynchronously,
-              # so wait for archive_status/*.ready files to drain before we
-              # stop PG (otherwise the segment that holds end_wal never
-              # uploads and CNPG recovery fails on "WAL not found").
-              psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -d postgres -c "CHECKPOINT; SELECT pg_switch_wal();"
-              for i in $(seq 1 60); do
-                ready=$(find "$PGDATA/pg_wal/archive_status" -name '*.ready' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-                done_count=$(find "$PGDATA/pg_wal/archive_status" -name '*.done' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-                log "archive_status: ready=$ready done=$done_count"
-                [ "$ready" -eq 0 ] && [ "$done_count" -gt 0 ] && break
-                sleep 2
-              done
-              log "=== last 20 lines of archive_wal.log ==="
-              tail -20 /tmp/archive_wal.log || true
-
-              # Confirm the base backup actually landed before we declare success.
-              barman-cloud-backup-list --cloud-provider aws-s3 \
-                --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" \
-                "$BARMAN_DEST" "$BARMAN_SERVER"
-
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -m fast stop"
-              log "Seed complete: Garage now has a base backup at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: seed
-              mountPath: /seed
-            - name: pgdata
-              mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-      volumes:
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: authentik-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
-        - name: seed
-          emptyDir: {}
-        - name: pgdata
-          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/immich/kustomization.yaml
index cb6fe62c..869d8a1c 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/immich/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/immich/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
-  - migration-bucket.yaml
-  - barman-creds.sops.yaml
-  - objectstore.yaml
-  - postgres.yaml
-  - scheduled-backup.yaml
-  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
-  - seed-job.yaml
-  - pvcs.yaml
   - secrets.sops.yaml
   - redis.yaml
   - machine-learning.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/postgres.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/immich/postgres.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cc4cc36..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/immich/postgres.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
-kind: Cluster
-metadata:
-  name: im-pg
-  namespace: immich
-  annotations:
-    # Same rationale as paperless-db: skip the plugin's pre-recovery
-    # "Expected empty archive" check so bootstrap.recovery works against a
-    # pre-populated archive (migration seed or later live backups).
-    cnpg.io/skipEmptyWalArchiveCheck: "enabled"
-spec:
-  # Single instance during the pgvecto.rs→VectorChord migration window.
-  # pg_basebackup (used by CNPG for replica join) uses tar format, which
-  # has a 100-byte filename limit. pgvecto.rs stores indexes under paths
-  # like `pg_vectors/indexes/<uuid>/segments/<uuid>` that exceed the
-  # limit, so any replica join fails with
-  #   "file name too long for tar format: pg_vectors/indexes/..."
-  # After Immich's in-app migration drops the `vectors` extension and the
-  # `pg_vectors/` directory goes away, bump back to 2.
-  instances: 1
-  # Dual-extension image: ships pgvector + pgvecto.rs + VectorChord so
-  # Immich's upstream in-app migration from `vectors` → `vchord` can run on
-  # first boot against the recovered legacy (pgvecto.rs) dump. Swap to
-  # `ghcr.io/tensorchord/cloudnative-vectorchord:16-0.3.0` once the
-  # migration has completed and the `vectors` extension has been dropped.
-  imageName: ghcr.io/corentingiraud/cnpg-pgvector-vectorchord:16-migration
-  storage:
-    storageClass: ceph-block
-    size: 20Gi
-  # Barman Cloud plugin drives both WAL archiving and scheduled base backups
-  # to Garage (bucket k8s-cnpg). See objectstore.yaml.
-  plugins:
-    - name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
-      isWALArchiver: true
-      parameters:
-        barmanObjectName: im-pg-store
-  # Recover from the latest Barman base backup + WAL in s3://k8s-cnpg/im-pg.
-  # Migration seed is produced by `.woodpecker/migrate-immich.yml` against
-  # the same path. Producer == consumer path.
-  bootstrap:
-    recovery:
-      owner: immich
-      database: immich
-      source: im-pg-backup
-  externalClusters:
-    - name: im-pg-backup
-      plugin:
-        name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
-        parameters:
-          barmanObjectName: im-pg-store
-          serverName: im-pg
-  postgresql:
-    # Both extensions preloaded during the migration window. `vectors.so`
-    # is required for pgvecto.rs catalog objects in the restored dump to
-    # load at startup; `vchord.so` is required for Immich's in-app
-    # migration to `CREATE EXTENSION vchord` and rewrite the data.
-    # CNPG rejects shared_preload_libraries under .parameters because it
-    # manages that GUC itself — the dedicated list field is the only path.
-    shared_preload_libraries:
-      - vectors.so
-      - vchord.so
-    parameters:
-      # Match LXC 225 Postgres tuning: 8 GB RAM / pgvecto.rs workload.
-      shared_buffers: "512MB"
-      max_wal_size: "2GB"
-      wal_compression: "on"
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      cpu: 500m
-      memory: 1Gi
-    limits:
-      memory: 2Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/immich/seed-job.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5378be44..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/immich/seed-job.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,227 +0,0 @@
----
-# Cold-start seed for im-pg. Same shape as ak-pg-seed: ephemeral
-# Postgres + pg_restore from legacy dump + barman-cloud-backup to
-# s3://k8s-cnpg/im-pg/. Idempotency-gated on Garage having any
-# object under that path.
-#
-# Legacy immich DB lives in a docker container (label
-# com.docker.compose.service=database) on immich.srv.renner.uno.
-apiVersion: batch/v1
-kind: Job
-metadata:
-  name: im-pg-seed
-  namespace: immich
-spec:
-  backoffLimit: 2
-  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
-  template:
-    spec:
-      restartPolicy: Never
-      initContainers:
-        - name: legacy-dump
-          image: alpine:3.21
-          env:
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: immich.srv.renner.uno
-            - name: PGDATABASE
-              value: immich
-            - name: PGUSER
-              value: postgres
-          command:
-            - sh
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -eu
-              apk add --no-cache openssh-client >/dev/null
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] Locating immich DB container on $LEGACY_HOST ..."
-              DB_CT=$(ssh "$LEGACY" "docker ps --filter label=com.docker.compose.service=database --format '{{.Names}}' | head -1")
-              [ -n "$DB_CT" ] || { echo "no DB container found on $LEGACY_HOST"; exit 1; }
-              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] pg_dump via docker exec $DB_CT → /seed/legacy.dump"
-              ssh "$LEGACY" "docker exec -i $DB_CT pg_dump --clean --if-exists --no-owner --no-privileges --format=custom -U $PGUSER $PGDATABASE" > /seed/legacy.dump
-              ls -lh /seed/legacy.dump
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: ssh
-              mountPath: /ssh
-              readOnly: true
-            - name: seed
-              mountPath: /seed
-      containers:
-        - name: seed
-          # Match the live im-pg Cluster's image: dual-extension build that
-          # ships pgvector + pgvecto.rs + VectorChord. The ephemeral Postgres
-          # in this Job needs the same extension files so the legacy dump's
-          # CREATE EXTENSION statements + the face_search/smart_search vector
-          # tables actually restore. Without this, the backup written to
-          # Garage is missing the vector catalog and immich crash-loops with
-          # "permission denied to create extension vector" once it tries to
-          # CREATE EXTENSION as the (non-superuser) immich role.
-          image: ghcr.io/corentingiraud/cnpg-pgvector-vectorchord:16-migration
-          # CNPG's base image runs as the postgres user by default; the seed
-          # script needs root for `apt-get install`, `chown`, and `su postgres`.
-          securityContext:
-            runAsUser: 0
-            runAsNonRoot: false
-          env:
-            - name: PGDATA
-              value: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-            - name: TARGET_DB
-              value: immich
-            - name: TARGET_OWNER
-              value: immich
-            - name: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: ACCESS_KEY_ID
-            - name: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
-            - name: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: REGION
-            - name: GARAGE_ENDPOINT
-              value: https://s3.nas-1.renner.uno
-            - name: BARMAN_SERVER
-              value: im-pg
-            - name: BARMAN_DEST
-              value: s3://k8s-cnpg/im-pg
-          command:
-            - bash
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -euo pipefail
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-              log "Installing awscli + barman ..."
-              export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-              apt-get update -qq
-              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-                python3 python3-pip python3-venv python3-psycopg2 \
-                awscli ca-certificates >/dev/null
-
-              # Idempotency gate: only skip if a real base backup exists at
-              # <BARMAN_DEST>/<BARMAN_SERVER>/base/. Failed previous attempts
-              # may leave dangling marker objects under <BARMAN_DEST>/.
-              EXISTING=$(aws s3 ls --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" "$BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/" 2>/dev/null | wc -l || true)
-              if [ "$EXISTING" -gt 0 ]; then
-                log "Garage already has $EXISTING base backup entr(ies) at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/ — seed skipped."
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No base backup at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/ — running full seed process."
-
-              python3 -m venv --system-site-packages /opt/barman
-              /opt/barman/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir --quiet 'barman[cloud,aws-snapshots]'
-              export PATH="/opt/barman/bin:$PATH"
-
-              mkdir -p "$PGDATA" && chown postgres:postgres "$PGDATA"
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/initdb -D $PGDATA --auth=trust --encoding=UTF8 --no-locale --username=postgres"
-
-              cat > /usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh <<SH
-              #!/bin/sh
-              exec >> /tmp/archive_wal.log 2>&1
-              export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'
-              export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
-              export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION='$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'
-              echo "\$(date -Iseconds) archiving \$1"
-              exec barman-cloud-wal-archive \\
-                --cloud-provider aws-s3 \\
-                --endpoint-url '$GARAGE_ENDPOINT' \\
-                --gzip -e AES256 \\
-                '$BARMAN_DEST' '$BARMAN_SERVER' "\$1"
-              SH
-              chmod +x /usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh
-              : > /tmp/archive_wal.log
-              chmod 666 /tmp/archive_wal.log
-
-              cat >> "$PGDATA/postgresql.conf" <<CONF
-              listen_addresses = 'localhost'
-              wal_level = replica
-              archive_mode = on
-              archive_command = '/usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh %p'
-              archive_timeout = '60s'
-              # Match the live im-pg Cluster's preload list so pgvecto.rs
-              # catalog objects from the legacy dump load at startup AND
-              # the dump's CREATE EXTENSION vectors / vchord succeed.
-              shared_preload_libraries = 'vectors.so,vchord.so'
-              CONF
-
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -l /tmp/pg.log -w start"
-
-              psql -U postgres -c "CREATE ROLE $TARGET_OWNER LOGIN;" || true
-              psql -U postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE $TARGET_DB OWNER $TARGET_OWNER;" || true
-
-              # Pre-create non-trusted extensions immich needs at runtime.
-              # The legacy dump only ships pgvecto.rs (`vectors`) — newer
-              # immich versions also CREATE EXTENSION `vector` (pgvector)
-              # at startup for the vchord migration path. pgvector is not a
-              # trusted extension, so the immich role can't CREATE it. Pre-
-              # creating as postgres with IF NOT EXISTS lets the runtime
-              # `CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector` short-circuit (the
-              # privilege check is skipped when the extension already
-              # exists). cube/earthdistance/vectors/vchord get the same
-              # treatment so the dump's own CREATE EXTENSION calls
-              # (with IF NOT EXISTS, emitted by pg_dump) are no-ops too.
-              for ext in cube earthdistance vector vectors vchord; do
-                psql -U postgres -d "$TARGET_DB" -c "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"$ext\" CASCADE;" || log "extension $ext: failed (continuing)"
-              done
-
-              # Run pg_restore as postgres + let the dump's own ALTER OWNER
-              # + GRANT statements run. See authentik seed-job.yaml for the
-              # rationale.
-              log "pg_restore /seed/legacy.dump → $TARGET_DB ..."
-              pg_restore -U postgres -d "$TARGET_DB" \
-                /seed/legacy.dump \
-                || log "pg_restore completed with warnings (expected)"
-
-              # barman-cloud-backup connects to PG via SQL; without
-              # --host/--port/--user it falls back to the OS user (root)
-              # which has no PG role.
-              log "barman-cloud-backup → $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER ..."
-              barman-cloud-backup \
-                --cloud-provider aws-s3 \
-                --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" \
-                --gzip -e AES256 \
-                --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5432 --user postgres \
-                "$BARMAN_DEST" "$BARMAN_SERVER"
-
-              # archive_command fires async; wait for ready files to drain
-              # so end_wal of the base backup actually uploads.
-              psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -d postgres -c "CHECKPOINT; SELECT pg_switch_wal();"
-              for i in $(seq 1 60); do
-                ready=$(find "$PGDATA/pg_wal/archive_status" -name '*.ready' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-                done_count=$(find "$PGDATA/pg_wal/archive_status" -name '*.done' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-                log "archive_status: ready=$ready done=$done_count"
-                [ "$ready" -eq 0 ] && [ "$done_count" -gt 0 ] && break
-                sleep 2
-              done
-              log "=== last 20 lines of archive_wal.log ==="
-              tail -20 /tmp/archive_wal.log || true
-
-              barman-cloud-backup-list --cloud-provider aws-s3 \
-                --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" \
-                "$BARMAN_DEST" "$BARMAN_SERVER"
-
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -m fast stop"
-              log "Seed complete: Garage now has a base backup at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: seed
-              mountPath: /seed
-            - name: pgdata
-              mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-      volumes:
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: immich-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
-        - name: seed
-          emptyDir: {}
-        - name: pgdata
-          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/server.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/immich/server.yaml
index 994ad9af..7cb60ecd 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/immich/server.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/immich/server.yaml
@@ -54,58 +54,11 @@ spec:
         seccompProfile:
           type: RuntimeDefault
       initContainers:
-        # PVC (library) seed only — the DB seed lives in the standalone
-        # im-pg-seed Job (seed-job.yaml) which populates Garage so CNPG
-        # bootstrap.recovery has data to pull from. This initContainer
-        # rsyncs the legacy Immich LXC's library directory into the
-        # immich-library PVC and drops a sentinel.
-        - name: seed
-          image: alpine:3.21
-          env:
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: immich.srv.renner.uno
-          command:
-            - sh
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -eu
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-              if [ -f /data/.seed-done ]; then
-                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping rsync."
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No sentinel — rsync from $LEGACY_HOST"
-
-              apk add --no-cache rsync openssh-client >/dev/null
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-
-              log "rsync /mnt/media/immich → /data ..."
-              set +e
-              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/mnt/media/immich/" /data/
-              rsync_rc=$?
-              set -e
-              case "$rsync_rc" in
-                0)  log "rsync OK" ;;
-                23) log "rsync exit 23 (partial transfer warnings) — continuing" ;;
-                *)  log "rsync FAILED with code $rsync_rc"; exit "$rsync_rc" ;;
-              esac
-              chown -R 1000:1000 /data
-              du -sh /data
-              touch /data/.seed-done
-              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: library
-              mountPath: /data
-            - name: ssh
-              mountPath: /ssh
-              readOnly: true
         # Pre-fetch LE staging root CAs so Node trusts auth.renner.uno's
         # staging-issued cert during OIDC token exchange. Same pattern as
         # audiobookshelf (see its deployment.yaml for the full rationale).
+        # The library PVC is populated by the seed phase before this
+        # Deployment reconciles, so no rsync init is needed here.
         - name: fetch-le-staging-roots
           image: curlimages/curl:8.10.1
           command:
@@ -195,10 +148,6 @@ spec:
                 path: immich-config.json
         - name: le-ca
           emptyDir: {}
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: immich-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Service
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/helmrelease.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/helmrelease.yaml
index 14a8375a..a142603b 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/helmrelease.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/helmrelease.yaml
@@ -28,113 +28,11 @@ spec:
   upgrade:
     remediation:
       retries: 3
-  # The influxdb2 chart's StatefulSet template has no .Values.initContainers
-  # hook, so the seed initContainer is added via a post-render Kustomize
-  # patch against the rendered StatefulSet (name: influxdb-influxdb2,
-  # i.e. {{ template "influxdb.fullname" . }} for release "influxdb"
-  # with chart "influxdb2"). The SSH volume is added via the chart's
-  # supported top-level `volumes:` value below.
-  postRenderers:
-    - kustomize:
-        patches:
-          - target:
-              version: v1
-              kind: StatefulSet
-              name: influxdb-influxdb2
-            patch: |
-              apiVersion: apps/v1
-              kind: StatefulSet
-              metadata:
-                name: influxdb-influxdb2
-              spec:
-                template:
-                  spec:
-                    initContainers:
-                      - name: seed
-                        image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/ci-k8s:2026-04-29
-                        env:
-                          - name: NAMESPACE
-                            valueFrom:
-                              fieldRef:
-                                fieldPath: metadata.namespace
-                          - name: SCHED
-                            value: influxdb-daily
-                          - name: LEGACY_HOST
-                            value: influxdb.srv.renner.uno
-                        command:
-                          - bash
-                          - -c
-                          - |
-                            set -euo pipefail
-                            log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-                            log "Installing rsync ..."
-                            apk add --no-cache rsync >/dev/null
-
-                            EXISTING=$(kubectl -n velero get backups.velero.io \
-                              -l "velero.io/schedule-name=$SCHED" \
-                              -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.status.phase=="Completed")]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' \
-                              2>/dev/null | grep -c . || true)
-                            if [ "$EXISTING" -gt 0 ]; then
-                              log "$EXISTING completed Velero Backup(s) for $SCHED — skipping seed"
-                              exit 0
-                            fi
-                            log "No completed Velero Backup for $SCHED — proceeding with seed"
-
-                            mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-                            install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-                            printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-                            LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-
-                            log "Stopping legacy influxdb.service ..."
-                            ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl stop influxdb"
-                            trap 'log "Restarting legacy influxdb.service ..."; ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl start influxdb" || true' EXIT
-
-                            log "rsync /var/lib/influxdb → /var/lib/influxdb2 ..."
-                            rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                              "$LEGACY:/var/lib/influxdb/" /var/lib/influxdb2/
-                            chown -R 1500:1500 /var/lib/influxdb2 || true
-                            du -sh /var/lib/influxdb2
-
-                            BACKUP_NAME="$SCHED-seed-$(date -u +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)"
-                            log "Creating Velero Backup $BACKUP_NAME ..."
-                            cat <<YAML | kubectl apply -f -
-                            apiVersion: velero.io/v1
-                            kind: Backup
-                            metadata:
-                              name: $BACKUP_NAME
-                              namespace: velero
-                              labels:
-                                velero.io/schedule-name: $SCHED
-                            spec:
-                              includedNamespaces:
-                                - $NAMESPACE
-                              includedResources:
-                                - persistentvolumeclaims
-                              snapshotMoveData: true
-                              itemOperationTimeout: 4h0m0s
-                            YAML
-                            log "Seed complete: PVC populated; Velero Backup submitted."
-                        volumeMounts:
-                          - name: data
-                            mountPath: /var/lib/influxdb2
-                          - name: ssh
-                            mountPath: /ssh
-                            readOnly: true
+  # The PVC (data-influxdb-influxdb2-0) is pre-populated by the seed
+  # phase before this HelmRelease reconciles, so the chart's StatefulSet
+  # template adopts the existing PVC + populated data on first start —
+  # no init container needed.
   values:
-    serviceAccount:
-      create: false
-      name: influxdb-seed
-
-    # The chart's StatefulSet template merges this into the pod's
-    # .spec.volumes via the chart-supported top-level `volumes:` key.
-    # The seed initContainer (added by postRenderer above) references it.
-    volumes:
-      - name: ssh
-        secret:
-          secretName: influxdb-seed-ssh
-          defaultMode: 0400
-
     image:
       repository: influxdb
       # Match VM 108 for format compatibility with `influx restore`.
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/kustomization.yaml
index e73be9d6..f72bab30 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@ kind: Kustomization
 resources:
   - namespace.yaml
   - bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
-  - seed-rbac.yaml
-  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
   - helmrelease.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/seed-rbac.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/seed-rbac.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index cbdaae1b..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/seed-rbac.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# RBAC for the seed initContainer in the influxdb StatefulSet Pod.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ServiceAccount
-metadata:
-  name: influxdb-seed
-  namespace: influxdb
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Role
-metadata:
-  name: influxdb-seed-velero
-  namespace: velero
-rules:
-  - apiGroups: [velero.io]
-    resources: [backups]
-    verbs: [get, list, watch, create]
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: RoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: influxdb-seed-velero
-  namespace: velero
-subjects:
-  - kind: ServiceAccount
-    name: influxdb-seed
-    namespace: influxdb
-roleRef:
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
-  kind: Role
-  name: influxdb-seed-velero
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/deployment.yaml
index a9fd7f9a..0c2a0f3d 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/deployment.yaml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ spec:
       hostNetwork: true
       dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
       enableServiceLinks: false
-      serviceAccountName: music-assistant-seed
       nodeSelector:
         topology.kubernetes.io/zone: edge
       tolerations:
@@ -31,78 +30,6 @@ spec:
           operator: Equal
           value: pinned
           effect: NoSchedule
-      initContainers:
-        # Atomic seed: idempotency-gated ssh+tar of /opt/music-assistant/
-        # data from the legacy LXC (which ships without rsync). Same Pod
-        # mounts the data PVC; main container starts only after seed.
-        - name: seed
-          image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/ci-k8s:2026-04-29
-          env:
-            - name: NAMESPACE
-              valueFrom:
-                fieldRef:
-                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
-            - name: SCHED
-              value: music-assistant-daily
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: music-assistant.iot.renner.uno
-          command:
-            - sh
-            - -eu
-            - -c
-            - |
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-              # ci-k8s has openssh + kubectl + tar baked in.
-
-              EXISTING=$(kubectl -n velero get backups.velero.io \
-                -l "velero.io/schedule-name=$SCHED" \
-                -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.status.phase=="Completed")]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' \
-                2>/dev/null | grep -c . || true)
-              if [ "$EXISTING" -gt 0 ]; then
-                log "$EXISTING completed Velero Backup(s) for $SCHED — skipping seed"
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No completed Velero Backup for $SCHED — proceeding with seed"
-
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-
-              log "Stopping music-assistant docker-compose stack on legacy LXC ..."
-              ssh "$LEGACY" "cd /opt/music-assistant && docker compose stop"
-              trap 'log "Restarting music-assistant on legacy LXC ..."; ssh "$LEGACY" "cd /opt/music-assistant && docker compose up -d" || true' EXIT
-
-              # Legacy MA LXC ships without rsync, so use ssh+tar streaming.
-              log "Clearing /data ..."
-              find /data -mindepth 1 -delete
-              log "Streaming /opt/music-assistant/data via ssh+tar ..."
-              ssh "$LEGACY" "cd /opt/music-assistant/data && tar -cf - ." | tar -xf - -C /data/
-              du -sh /data
-
-              BACKUP_NAME="$SCHED-seed-$(date -u +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)"
-              log "Creating Velero Backup $BACKUP_NAME ..."
-              cat <<YAML | kubectl apply -f -
-              apiVersion: velero.io/v1
-              kind: Backup
-              metadata:
-                name: $BACKUP_NAME
-                namespace: velero
-                labels:
-                  velero.io/schedule-name: $SCHED
-              spec:
-                includedNamespaces:
-                  - $NAMESPACE
-                includedResources:
-                  - persistentvolumeclaims
-                snapshotMoveData: true
-                itemOperationTimeout: 4h0m0s
-              YAML
-              log "Seed complete: PVC populated; Velero Backup submitted."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - { name: data, mountPath: /data }
-            - { name: ssh,  mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
       containers:
         - name: music-assistant
           image: ghcr.io/music-assistant/server:2.8.5
@@ -158,10 +85,6 @@ spec:
         - name: data
           persistentVolumeClaim:
             claimName: music-assistant-data
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: music-assistant-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Service
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml
index 8bb36fef..ab78bd62 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
-  - pvcs.yaml
-  - seed-rbac.yaml
-  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
   - deployment.yaml
   - ingress.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/seed-rbac.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/seed-rbac.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e2c9bff..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/seed-rbac.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# RBAC for the seed initContainer in the music-assistant Pod.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ServiceAccount
-metadata:
-  name: music-assistant-seed
-  namespace: music-assistant
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Role
-metadata:
-  name: music-assistant-seed-velero
-  namespace: velero
-rules:
-  - apiGroups: [velero.io]
-    resources: [backups]
-    verbs: [get, list, watch, create]
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: RoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: music-assistant-seed-velero
-  namespace: velero
-subjects:
-  - kind: ServiceAccount
-    name: music-assistant-seed
-    namespace: music-assistant
-roleRef:
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
-  kind: Role
-  name: music-assistant-seed-velero
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/paperless/kustomization.yaml
index 8fff9d50..7dcbf564 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/paperless/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
-  - migration-bucket.yaml
-  - barman-creds.sops.yaml
-  - objectstore.yaml
-  - postgres.yaml
-  - scheduled-backup.yaml
-  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
-  - seed-job.yaml
-  - pvcs.yaml
   - secrets.sops.yaml
   - ftp-scanner-secret.sops.yaml
   - redis.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/paperless.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/paperless/paperless.yaml
index 7e0b9215..2daa8c90 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/paperless.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/paperless/paperless.yaml
@@ -50,53 +50,6 @@ spec:
         fsGroupChangePolicy: OnRootMismatch
         seccompProfile:
           type: RuntimeDefault
-      initContainers:
-        # PVC seed only — the DB seed lives in the standalone pprl-pg-seed
-        # Job (seed-job.yaml) which populates Garage so CNPG bootstrap.recovery
-        # has data to pull from. This initContainer rsyncs the legacy
-        # paperless VM's docker-volume directories into the RWO PVCs and
-        # drops a sentinel so subsequent Pod restarts skip the rsync.
-        - name: seed
-          image: alpine:3.21
-          env:
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: paperless.srv.renner.uno
-          command:
-            - sh
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -eu
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-              if [ -f /usr/src/paperless/data/.seed-done ]; then
-                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping rsync."
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No sentinel — rsync from $LEGACY_HOST"
-
-              apk add --no-cache rsync openssh-client >/dev/null
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-
-              log "rsync paperless_data → /usr/src/paperless/data ..."
-              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/var/lib/docker/volumes/paperless_data/_data/" /usr/src/paperless/data/
-              log "rsync paperless_media → /usr/src/paperless/media ..."
-              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
-                "$LEGACY:/var/lib/docker/volumes/paperless_media/_data/" /usr/src/paperless/media/
-              chown -R 1000:1000 /usr/src/paperless/data /usr/src/paperless/media
-              du -sh /usr/src/paperless/data /usr/src/paperless/media
-              touch /usr/src/paperless/data/.seed-done
-              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: data
-              mountPath: /usr/src/paperless/data
-            - name: media
-              mountPath: /usr/src/paperless/media
-            - name: ssh
-              mountPath: /ssh
-              readOnly: true
       containers:
         - name: paperless
           image: ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:2.20.14
@@ -170,10 +123,6 @@ spec:
         - name: consume
           persistentVolumeClaim:
             claimName: paperless-consume
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: paperless-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Service
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/postgres.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/paperless/postgres.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f5246b1..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/postgres.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
-kind: Cluster
-metadata:
-  name: pprl-pg
-  namespace: paperless
-  annotations:
-    # See authentik-db/postgres.yaml — same rationale: skip the
-    # plugin's pre-recovery "Expected empty archive" check so
-    # bootstrap.recovery works against a pre-populated archive
-    # (migration seed or later live backups).
-    cnpg.io/skipEmptyWalArchiveCheck: "enabled"
-spec:
-  instances: 2
-  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
-  storage:
-    storageClass: ceph-block
-    size: 20Gi
-  # The Barman Cloud plugin drives both WAL archiving and
-  # scheduled base backups to Garage on nas-1 (bucket k8s-cnpg).
-  # See objectstore.yaml for the destination config.
-  plugins:
-    - name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
-      isWALArchiver: true
-      parameters:
-        barmanObjectName: pprl-pg-store
-  # Bootstrap always recovers from the latest Barman base backup + WAL in
-  # s3://k8s-cnpg/pprl-pg. Producer path == consumer path: the live cluster
-  # writes to the same location via the plugin above (serverName defaults to
-  # the Cluster name, i.e. `pprl-pg`), and the migration pipeline seeds the
-  # same path using an ephemeral Postgres + barman-cloud-backup. Unpinned
-  # recovery target = latest WAL.
-  bootstrap:
-    recovery:
-      owner: paperless
-      database: paperless
-      source: pprl-pg-backup
-  externalClusters:
-    - name: pprl-pg-backup
-      plugin:
-        name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
-        parameters:
-          barmanObjectName: pprl-pg-store
-          serverName: pprl-pg
-  postgresql:
-    parameters:
-      shared_buffers: "256MB"
-      max_connections: "200"
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      cpu: 200m
-      memory: 512Mi
-    limits:
-      memory: 1Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/paperless/seed-job.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index c5c1d8a9..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/seed-job.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,196 +0,0 @@
----
-# Cold-start seed for pprl-pg. Same shape as ak-pg-seed: ephemeral
-# Postgres + pg_restore from legacy dump + barman-cloud-backup to
-# s3://k8s-cnpg/pprl-pg/. Idempotency-gated on Garage having any
-# object under that path.
-#
-# Legacy paperless DB lives in a docker container on
-# paperless.srv.renner.uno; the init container locates it via
-# `docker ps` label filter and pg_dumps from inside.
-apiVersion: batch/v1
-kind: Job
-metadata:
-  name: pprl-pg-seed
-  namespace: paperless
-spec:
-  backoffLimit: 2
-  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
-  template:
-    spec:
-      restartPolicy: Never
-      initContainers:
-        - name: legacy-dump
-          image: alpine:3.21
-          env:
-            - name: LEGACY_HOST
-              value: paperless.srv.renner.uno
-            - name: PGDATABASE
-              value: paperless
-            - name: PGUSER
-              value: paperless
-          command:
-            - sh
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -eu
-              apk add --no-cache openssh-client >/dev/null
-              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
-              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
-              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
-              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
-              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] Locating paperless DB container on $LEGACY_HOST ..."
-              DB_CT=$(ssh "$LEGACY" "docker ps --filter label=com.docker.compose.service=db --format '{{.Names}}' | head -1")
-              [ -n "$DB_CT" ] || { echo "no DB container found on $LEGACY_HOST"; exit 1; }
-              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] pg_dump via docker exec $DB_CT → /seed/legacy.dump"
-              ssh "$LEGACY" "docker exec -i $DB_CT pg_dump --clean --if-exists --no-owner --no-privileges --format=custom -U $PGUSER $PGDATABASE" > /seed/legacy.dump
-              ls -lh /seed/legacy.dump
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: ssh
-              mountPath: /ssh
-              readOnly: true
-            - name: seed
-              mountPath: /seed
-      containers:
-        - name: seed
-          image: postgres:16
-          env:
-            - name: PGDATA
-              value: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-            - name: TARGET_DB
-              value: paperless
-            - name: TARGET_OWNER
-              value: paperless
-            - name: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: ACCESS_KEY_ID
-            - name: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
-            - name: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: barman-cloud-creds
-                  key: REGION
-            - name: GARAGE_ENDPOINT
-              value: https://s3.nas-1.renner.uno
-            - name: BARMAN_SERVER
-              value: pprl-pg
-            - name: BARMAN_DEST
-              value: s3://k8s-cnpg/pprl-pg
-          command:
-            - bash
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -euo pipefail
-              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-              log "Installing awscli + barman ..."
-              export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-              apt-get update -qq
-              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-                python3 python3-pip python3-venv python3-psycopg2 \
-                awscli ca-certificates >/dev/null
-
-              # Idempotency gate: only skip if a real base backup exists at
-              # <BARMAN_DEST>/<BARMAN_SERVER>/base/. Failed previous attempts
-              # may leave dangling marker objects under <BARMAN_DEST>/.
-              EXISTING=$(aws s3 ls --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" "$BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/" 2>/dev/null | wc -l || true)
-              if [ "$EXISTING" -gt 0 ]; then
-                log "Garage already has $EXISTING base backup entr(ies) at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/ — seed skipped."
-                exit 0
-              fi
-              log "No base backup at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER/base/ — running full seed process."
-
-              python3 -m venv --system-site-packages /opt/barman
-              /opt/barman/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir --quiet 'barman[cloud,aws-snapshots]'
-              export PATH="/opt/barman/bin:$PATH"
-
-              mkdir -p "$PGDATA" && chown postgres:postgres "$PGDATA"
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/initdb -D $PGDATA --auth=trust --encoding=UTF8 --no-locale --username=postgres"
-
-              cat > /usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh <<SH
-              #!/bin/sh
-              exec >> /tmp/archive_wal.log 2>&1
-              export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'
-              export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
-              export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION='$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'
-              echo "\$(date -Iseconds) archiving \$1"
-              exec barman-cloud-wal-archive \\
-                --cloud-provider aws-s3 \\
-                --endpoint-url '$GARAGE_ENDPOINT' \\
-                --gzip -e AES256 \\
-                '$BARMAN_DEST' '$BARMAN_SERVER' "\$1"
-              SH
-              chmod +x /usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh
-              : > /tmp/archive_wal.log
-              chmod 666 /tmp/archive_wal.log
-
-              cat >> "$PGDATA/postgresql.conf" <<CONF
-              listen_addresses = 'localhost'
-              wal_level = replica
-              archive_mode = on
-              archive_command = '/usr/local/bin/archive_wal.sh %p'
-              archive_timeout = '60s'
-              CONF
-
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -l /tmp/pg.log -w start"
-
-              psql -U postgres -c "CREATE ROLE $TARGET_OWNER LOGIN;" || true
-              psql -U postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE $TARGET_DB OWNER $TARGET_OWNER;" || true
-
-              # Run pg_restore as postgres + let the dump's own ALTER OWNER
-              # + GRANT statements run. See authentik seed-job.yaml for the
-              # rationale.
-              log "pg_restore /seed/legacy.dump → $TARGET_DB ..."
-              pg_restore -U postgres -d "$TARGET_DB" \
-                /seed/legacy.dump \
-                || log "pg_restore completed with warnings (expected)"
-
-              # barman-cloud-backup connects to PG via SQL; without
-              # --host/--port/--user it falls back to the OS user (root)
-              # which has no PG role.
-              log "barman-cloud-backup → $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER ..."
-              barman-cloud-backup \
-                --cloud-provider aws-s3 \
-                --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" \
-                --gzip -e AES256 \
-                --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5432 --user postgres \
-                "$BARMAN_DEST" "$BARMAN_SERVER"
-
-              # archive_command fires async; wait for ready files to drain
-              # so end_wal of the base backup actually uploads.
-              psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -d postgres -c "CHECKPOINT; SELECT pg_switch_wal();"
-              for i in $(seq 1 60); do
-                ready=$(find "$PGDATA/pg_wal/archive_status" -name '*.ready' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-                done_count=$(find "$PGDATA/pg_wal/archive_status" -name '*.done' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-                log "archive_status: ready=$ready done=$done_count"
-                [ "$ready" -eq 0 ] && [ "$done_count" -gt 0 ] && break
-                sleep 2
-              done
-              log "=== last 20 lines of archive_wal.log ==="
-              tail -20 /tmp/archive_wal.log || true
-
-              barman-cloud-backup-list --cloud-provider aws-s3 \
-                --endpoint-url "$GARAGE_ENDPOINT" \
-                "$BARMAN_DEST" "$BARMAN_SERVER"
-
-              su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -m fast stop"
-              log "Seed complete: Garage now has a base backup at $BARMAN_DEST/$BARMAN_SERVER."
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: seed
-              mountPath: /seed
-            - name: pgdata
-              mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-      volumes:
-        - name: ssh
-          secret:
-            secretName: paperless-seed-ssh
-            defaultMode: 0400
-        - name: seed
-          emptyDir: {}
-        - name: pgdata
-          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/kubernetes/bootstrap.sh b/kubernetes/bootstrap.sh
index 44a2b93b..2e269dda 100755
--- a/kubernetes/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/kubernetes/bootstrap.sh
@@ -285,32 +285,22 @@ if phase_runs wait-apps; then
         return 1
     }
 
-    # Order is largely cosmetic — Flux reconciles all Kustomizations in parallel,
-    # so wall-clock time is dominated by the slowest one regardless of wait
-    # order. Listed roughly fast → slow so progress lands earlier in CI logs.
-    # Timeouts are sized for the *worst-case under contention* (concurrent
-    # Velero restores + immich's 250GB extract starving network/IO), not the
-    # happy-path. Bumping individual timeouts costs nothing on a healthy
-    # cluster since reconciliations run in parallel and the wait just
-    # observes.
+    # The seed phase populates every CNPG database and every migrating
+    # PVC from legacy hosts before any app Kustomization reconciles.
+    # Wall-clock dominated by immich-library-seed (~250 GiB rsync over
+    # LAN, ~30-45 min). Every app KS dependsOn `seed`, so the per-app
+    # waits below should be near-instant once seed lands Ready.
+    wait_kustomization seed             "Seed phase (DB + PVC populate from legacy)"          1440
     # apps waits on infrastructure-ceph-cluster (Ceph mon/mgr/OSD bring-up
     # is genuinely 5–10 min on a fresh OSD-wiped cluster).
     wait_kustomization apps             "apps"                                                90
-    # authentik waits on the ak-pg-seed Job populating Garage AND the CNPG
-    # cluster's bootstrap.recovery succeeding from that seed. Allow 20 min.
-    wait_kustomization authentik        "Authentik"                                           120
+    wait_kustomization authentik        "Authentik"                                           60
     wait_kustomization monitoring       "kube-prometheus-stack (Loki + Prom + AM + Grafana)"  180
-    # On cold-start, velero-bootstrap-restore takes ~15min before this KS
-    # can even start reconciling, so the wait timer can burn most of its
-    # budget on the dependency. 30min covers that + the actual reconcile.
-    wait_kustomization music-assistant  "Music Assistant (small Garage tarball)"              180
-    wait_kustomization paperless        "Paperless (DB + ~3.5GB media Velero restore)"        180
+    wait_kustomization music-assistant  "Music Assistant"                                     60
+    wait_kustomization paperless        "Paperless"                                           60
     wait_kustomization home-assistant   "Home Assistant (HAOS backup → native restore)"       180
-    # Measured ~70 min on a 70 GB library (17 min upload + 52 min extract).
-    wait_kustomization audiobookshelf   "Audiobookshelf (~70GB library tar)"                  480
-    # ~250 GiB library — the longest wait. Mirrors the prior immich-seed
-    # Kustomization's 4 h ceiling (1440 × 10s = 240 min).
-    wait_kustomization immich           "Immich (~250GB library tar)"                         1440
+    wait_kustomization audiobookshelf   "Audiobookshelf"                                      60
+    wait_kustomization immich           "Immich"                                              60
 
     # Wait for cert-manager to finish issuing every Certificate. Kustomization
     # Ready only means the Ingress + Certificate manifests are applied; cert-
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/audiobookshelf.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/audiobookshelf.yaml
index a963e74a..69dfb331 100644
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/audiobookshelf.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/audiobookshelf.yaml
@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@ metadata:
   name: audiobookshelf
   namespace: flux-system
 spec:
-  # PVC contents come from velero-bootstrap-restore reading from the
-  # audiobookshelf-daily Schedule's latest Backup (or the seed Backup
-  # written by migrate-audiobookshelf when no daily exists yet).
-  # dependsOn enforces the order; this Kustomization just reconciles
-  # manifests, no in-pod 70 GB extract anymore.
+  # PVC contents are populated by the seed phase (rsync from legacy
+  # audiobookshelf VM); this Kustomization reconciles app manifests only.
   interval: 10m
   retryInterval: 1m
   timeout: 30m
@@ -26,4 +23,4 @@ spec:
     - name: infrastructure
     - name: infrastructure-crds
     - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
-    - name: velero-bootstrap-restore
+    - name: seed
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/authentik.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/authentik.yaml
index ba410be6..695d61e4 100644
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/authentik.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/authentik.yaml
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ spec:
     - name: infrastructure
     - name: infrastructure-crds
     - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
+    - name: seed
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/immich.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/immich.yaml
index d271e142..8b343db7 100644
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/immich.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/immich.yaml
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ metadata:
   name: immich
   namespace: flux-system
 spec:
-  # PVC contents come from velero-bootstrap-restore; this Kustomization
-  # reconciles manifests only. Library tar (~250 GiB) is restored by
-  # Velero CSI Snapshot Data Movement, not in-pod.
+  # DB cluster + library PVC are populated by the seed phase; this
+  # Kustomization reconciles app manifests only.
   interval: 10m
   retryInterval: 1m
   timeout: 30m
@@ -24,4 +23,4 @@ spec:
     - name: infrastructure
     - name: infrastructure-crds
     - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
-    - name: velero-bootstrap-restore
+    - name: seed
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/influxdb.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/influxdb.yaml
index 7f141abc..cebe0369 100644
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/influxdb.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/influxdb.yaml
@@ -4,12 +4,8 @@ metadata:
   name: influxdb
   namespace: flux-system
 spec:
-  # PVC contents come from velero-bootstrap-restore reading the latest
-  # influxdb-daily Backup (or the seed Backup written by migrate-
-  # influxdb when no daily exists yet). Replaces the prior API-restore
-  # seed-Job model — Velero captures the data files directly so the
-  # pod starts against a populated PVC and the helm chart's empty-
-  # bucket bootstrap is skipped.
+  # PVC contents are populated by the seed phase (rsync from legacy
+  # influxdb VM); this Kustomization reconciles app manifests only.
   interval: 10m
   retryInterval: 1m
   timeout: 30m
@@ -27,4 +23,4 @@ spec:
     - name: infrastructure
     - name: infrastructure-crds
     - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
-    - name: velero-bootstrap-restore
+    - name: seed
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/music-assistant.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/music-assistant.yaml
index 6e954015..917b70e5 100644
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/music-assistant.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/music-assistant.yaml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ metadata:
   name: music-assistant
   namespace: flux-system
 spec:
-  # PVC contents come from velero-bootstrap-restore; this Kustomization
-  # reconciles manifests only.
+  # PVC contents are populated by the seed phase (ssh+tar from legacy
+  # music-assistant LXC); this Kustomization reconciles app manifests only.
   interval: 10m
   retryInterval: 1m
   timeout: 30m
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ spec:
     - name: infrastructure
     - name: infrastructure-crds
     - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
-    - name: velero-bootstrap-restore
+    - name: seed
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/paperless.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/paperless.yaml
index 1f41d395..1f85c3f4 100644
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/paperless.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/paperless.yaml
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ metadata:
   name: paperless
   namespace: flux-system
 spec:
-  # PVC contents are restored by velero-bootstrap-restore from the seed
-  # Backup written by the migrate-paperless pipeline (and from later
-  # paperless-daily Schedule runs). dependsOn enforces the order.
+  # DB cluster + data/media PVCs are populated by the seed phase; this
+  # Kustomization reconciles app manifests only.
   interval: 10m
   retryInterval: 1m
   timeout: 30m
@@ -24,4 +23,4 @@ spec:
     - name: infrastructure
     - name: infrastructure-crds
     - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
-    - name: velero-bootstrap-restore
+    - name: seed
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/seed.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/seed.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8a56448b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/seed.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
+kind: Kustomization
+metadata:
+  name: seed
+  namespace: flux-system
+spec:
+  # Migration phase: pulls data from legacy hosts into in-cluster CNPG
+  # databases and PVCs so app Kustomizations can reconcile against
+  # populated state. Lives between infrastructure and apps. Removed
+  # entirely once all services have cut over from legacy.
+  interval: 10m
+  retryInterval: 2m
+  # Long enough to cover the slowest seed (immich library: ~250 GiB
+  # rsync over LAN ~ 30-45 min) plus all the smaller seeds in parallel.
+  timeout: 4h
+  sourceRef:
+    kind: GitRepository
+    name: flux-system
+  path: ./kubernetes/seed
+  prune: true
+  wait: true
+  decryption:
+    provider: sops
+    secretRef:
+      name: sops-age
+  dependsOn:
+    - name: infrastructure
+    - name: infrastructure-crds
+    - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
+    - name: infrastructure-cnpg-barman
+  # kstatus already handles Job (succeeded == 1) by default. CNPG Cluster
+  # readiness needs an explicit expression because kstatus doesn't know
+  # the Cluster CRD's status semantics.
+  healthCheckExprs:
+    - apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
+      kind: Cluster
+      failed: "has(status.phase) && status.phase.startsWith('Failed')"
+      current: "has(status.phase) && (status.phase == 'Cluster in healthy state' || status.readyInstances > 0)"
diff --git a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/velero-bootstrap-restore.yaml b/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/velero-bootstrap-restore.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index b22b4f86..00000000
--- a/kubernetes/clusters/homelab/velero-bootstrap-restore.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-kind: Kustomization
-metadata:
-  name: velero-bootstrap-restore
-  namespace: flux-system
-spec:
-  interval: 10m
-  retryInterval: 2m
-  # Audiobookshelf library is ~70 GB; data-movement restore is the slow
-  # path. The Job polls with `--wait` so this timeout must cover the
-  # longest expected restore, not just the Job submission.
-  timeout: 4h
-  sourceRef:
-    kind: GitRepository
-    name: flux-system
-  path: ./kubernetes/infrastructure/velero-bootstrap-restore
-  prune: true
-  wait: true
-  healthCheckExprs:
-    - apiVersion: batch/v1
-      kind: Job
-      current: "status.succeeded == 1"
-      inProgress: "!has(status.succeeded) || status.succeeded == 0"
-      failed: "has(status.failed) && status.failed >= 3"
-  dependsOn:
-    - name: infrastructure
-    - name: infrastructure-ceph-cluster
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..43395653
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - migration-bucket.yaml
+  - pvcs.yaml
+  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
+  - library-seed-job.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/library-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/library-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d4e86ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/library-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: audiobookshelf-library-seed
+  namespace: audiobookshelf
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      containers:
+        - name: rsync
+          image: alpine:3.21
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: audiobookshelf.srv.renner.uno }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+              if [ -f /audiobooks/.seed-done ]; then
+                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping rsync."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apk add --no-cache rsync openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
+
+              # Phase 1: bulk books while legacy stays up (no --delete).
+              log "Phase 1: rsync /audiobooks (legacy stays up) ..."
+              rsync -aH --info=progress2 \
+                "$LEGACY:/audiobooks/" /audiobooks/
+
+              # Phase 2: stop legacy briefly for SQLite-bearing dirs + delta.
+              log "Phase 2: stopping audiobookshelf on legacy ..."
+              ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl stop audiobookshelf"
+              trap 'log "Restarting audiobookshelf on legacy ..."; ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl start audiobookshelf" || true' EXIT
+
+              log "  rsync /usr/share/audiobookshelf/config → /config ..."
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "$LEGACY:/usr/share/audiobookshelf/config/" /config/
+              log "  rsync /usr/share/audiobookshelf/metadata → /metadata ..."
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "$LEGACY:/usr/share/audiobookshelf/metadata/" /metadata/
+              log "  rsync /audiobooks delta with --delete ..."
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "$LEGACY:/audiobooks/" /audiobooks/
+              chown -R 1000:1000 /config /metadata /audiobooks
+              du -sh /config /metadata /audiobooks
+              touch /audiobooks/.seed-done
+              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: config,   mountPath: /config }
+            - { name: metadata, mountPath: /metadata }
+            - { name: books,    mountPath: /audiobooks }
+            - { name: ssh,      mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: config
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: audiobookshelf-config
+        - name: metadata
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: audiobookshelf-metadata
+        - name: books
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: audiobookshelf-books
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: audiobookshelf-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/migration-bucket.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/migration-bucket.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/migration-bucket.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/migration-bucket.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/pvcs.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/pvcs.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/pvcs.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/pvcs.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/seed-ssh.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/audiobookshelf/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/audiobookshelf/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/barman-creds.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/barman-creds.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/authentik/barman-creds.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/authentik/barman-creds.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/authentik/cluster.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/cluster.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c04a94d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/cluster.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
+kind: Cluster
+metadata:
+  name: ak-pg
+  namespace: authentik
+spec:
+  instances: 2
+  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
+  enableSuperuserAccess: true
+  storage:
+    storageClass: ceph-block
+    size: 10Gi
+  plugins:
+    - name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
+      isWALArchiver: true
+      parameters:
+        barmanObjectName: ak-pg-store
+  bootstrap:
+    initdb:
+      database: authentik
+      owner: authentik
+  postgresql:
+    parameters:
+      shared_buffers: "256MB"
+      max_connections: "200"
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      cpu: 200m
+      memory: 512Mi
+    limits:
+      memory: 1Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/authentik/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d1058bb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - migration-bucket.yaml
+  - barman-creds.sops.yaml
+  - objectstore.yaml
+  - cluster.yaml
+  - scheduled-backup.yaml
+  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
+  - seed-job.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/migration-bucket.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/migration-bucket.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/authentik/migration-bucket.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/authentik/migration-bucket.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/objectstore.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/objectstore.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/authentik/objectstore.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/authentik/objectstore.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/scheduled-backup.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/scheduled-backup.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/authentik/scheduled-backup.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/authentik/scheduled-backup.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/authentik/seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..529a48be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: ak-pg-seed
+  namespace: authentik
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      initContainers:
+        - name: wait-for-cluster
+          image: postgres:16
+          env:
+            - { name: PGHOST, value: ak-pg-rw }
+            - { name: PGDATABASE, value: authentik }
+            - name: PGUSER
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: ak-pg-superuser, key: username }
+            - name: PGPASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: ak-pg-superuser, key: password }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              until psql -tAc 'SELECT 1' >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+                echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] waiting for $PGHOST..."
+                sleep 5
+              done
+              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] $PGHOST ready"
+      containers:
+        - name: seed
+          image: postgres:16
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: authentik-db-1.srv.renner.uno }
+            - { name: LEGACY_DB, value: authentik }
+            - { name: PGHOST, value: ak-pg-rw }
+            - { name: PGDATABASE, value: authentik }
+            - name: PGUSER
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: ak-pg-superuser, key: username }
+            - name: PGPASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: ak-pg-superuser, key: password }
+          command:
+            - bash
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -euo pipefail
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+
+              # Idempotent: skip if target DB already has user tables.
+              count=$(psql -tAc "SELECT count(*) FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema='public'")
+              if [ "$count" -gt 0 ]; then
+                log "$PGDATABASE already has $count tables in public — seed skipped."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apt-get update -qq
+              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+
+              log "pg_dump $LEGACY_HOST/$LEGACY_DB → pg_restore $PGHOST/$PGDATABASE ..."
+              ssh "root@$LEGACY_HOST" "su - postgres -c 'pg_dump -Fc --clean --if-exists $LEGACY_DB'" \
+                | pg_restore -d "$PGDATABASE" \
+                || log "pg_restore completed with warnings"
+
+              log "Seed complete."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: ssh, mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: authentik-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/authentik/seed-ssh.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/authentik/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/authentik/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/authentik/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/barman-creds.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/barman-creds.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/immich/barman-creds.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/immich/barman-creds.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/immich/cluster.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/cluster.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..143efa84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/immich/cluster.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
+kind: Cluster
+metadata:
+  name: im-pg
+  namespace: immich
+spec:
+  # Single instance during pgvecto.rs → VectorChord migration window;
+  # pg_basebackup tar format chokes on the long pg_vectors/indexes/<uuid>
+  # paths, blocking replica join. Bump back to 2 once Immich's in-app
+  # vchord migration drops the vectors extension.
+  instances: 1
+  imageName: ghcr.io/corentingiraud/cnpg-pgvector-vectorchord:16-migration
+  enableSuperuserAccess: true
+  storage:
+    storageClass: ceph-block
+    size: 20Gi
+  plugins:
+    - name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
+      isWALArchiver: true
+      parameters:
+        barmanObjectName: im-pg-store
+  bootstrap:
+    initdb:
+      database: immich
+      owner: immich
+  postgresql:
+    shared_preload_libraries:
+      - vectors.so
+      - vchord.so
+    parameters:
+      shared_buffers: "512MB"
+      max_wal_size: "2GB"
+      wal_compression: "on"
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      cpu: 500m
+      memory: 1Gi
+    limits:
+      memory: 2Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/immich/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e03a425a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/immich/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - migration-bucket.yaml
+  - barman-creds.sops.yaml
+  - objectstore.yaml
+  - cluster.yaml
+  - scheduled-backup.yaml
+  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
+  - pvcs.yaml
+  - pg-seed-job.yaml
+  - library-seed-job.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/immich/library-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/library-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8dd53392
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/immich/library-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: immich-library-seed
+  namespace: immich
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      containers:
+        - name: rsync
+          image: alpine:3.21
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: immich.srv.renner.uno }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+              if [ -f /data/.seed-done ]; then
+                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping rsync."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apk add --no-cache rsync openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+
+              log "rsync /mnt/media/immich → /data ..."
+              set +e
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "root@$LEGACY_HOST:/mnt/media/immich/" /data/
+              rc=$?
+              set -e
+              case "$rc" in
+                0)  log "rsync OK" ;;
+                23) log "rsync exit 23 (partial transfer warnings) — continuing" ;;
+                *)  log "rsync FAILED with code $rc"; exit "$rc" ;;
+              esac
+              chown -R 1000:1000 /data
+              du -sh /data
+              touch /data/.seed-done
+              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: library, mountPath: /data }
+            - { name: ssh, mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: library
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: immich-library
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: immich-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/migration-bucket.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/migration-bucket.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/immich/migration-bucket.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/immich/migration-bucket.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/objectstore.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/objectstore.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/immich/objectstore.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/immich/objectstore.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/immich/pg-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/pg-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..776374b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/immich/pg-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: im-pg-seed
+  namespace: immich
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      initContainers:
+        - name: wait-for-cluster
+          image: postgres:16
+          env:
+            - { name: PGHOST, value: im-pg-rw }
+            - { name: PGDATABASE, value: immich }
+            - name: PGUSER
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: im-pg-superuser, key: username }
+            - name: PGPASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: im-pg-superuser, key: password }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              until psql -tAc 'SELECT 1' >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+                echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] waiting for $PGHOST..."
+                sleep 5
+              done
+              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] $PGHOST ready"
+      containers:
+        - name: seed
+          image: postgres:16
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: immich.srv.renner.uno }
+            - { name: LEGACY_DB, value: immich }
+            - { name: PGHOST, value: im-pg-rw }
+            - { name: PGDATABASE, value: immich }
+            - name: PGUSER
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: im-pg-superuser, key: username }
+            - name: PGPASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: im-pg-superuser, key: password }
+          command:
+            - bash
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -euo pipefail
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+
+              count=$(psql -tAc "SELECT count(*) FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema='public'")
+              if [ "$count" -gt 0 ]; then
+                log "$PGDATABASE has $count tables in public — seed skipped."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apt-get update -qq
+              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+
+              # Pre-create non-trusted extensions immich needs at runtime.
+              # The legacy dump only ships pgvecto.rs (`vectors`); newer
+              # immich also CREATEs `vector` (pgvector) and `vchord` at
+              # startup. Both are non-trusted, so the immich role can't
+              # CREATE them — pre-create as superuser with IF NOT EXISTS so
+              # the dump's own CREATE EXTENSION calls and immich's runtime
+              # CREATE all short-circuit.
+              log "Pre-creating extensions ..."
+              for ext in cube earthdistance vector vectors vchord; do
+                psql -d "$PGDATABASE" -c "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"$ext\" CASCADE;" \
+                  || log "extension $ext: failed (continuing)"
+              done
+
+              log "pg_dump $LEGACY_HOST/$LEGACY_DB → pg_restore $PGHOST/$PGDATABASE ..."
+              # Legacy immich DB lives in a docker container on the LXC;
+              # locate via compose service label.
+              DB_CT=$(ssh "root@$LEGACY_HOST" "docker ps --filter label=com.docker.compose.service=database --format '{{.Names}}' | head -1")
+              [ -n "$DB_CT" ] || { log "no DB container on $LEGACY_HOST"; exit 1; }
+              ssh "root@$LEGACY_HOST" "docker exec -i $DB_CT pg_dump -Fc --clean --if-exists -U postgres $LEGACY_DB" \
+                | pg_restore -d "$PGDATABASE" \
+                || log "pg_restore completed with warnings"
+
+              log "Seed complete."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: ssh, mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: immich-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/pvcs.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/pvcs.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/immich/pvcs.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/immich/pvcs.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/scheduled-backup.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/scheduled-backup.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/immich/scheduled-backup.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/immich/scheduled-backup.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/immich/seed-ssh.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/immich/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/immich/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/immich/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/data-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/data-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e65fe86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/data-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: influxdb-data-seed
+  namespace: influxdb
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      containers:
+        - name: rsync
+          image: alpine:3.21
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: influxdb.srv.renner.uno }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+              if [ -f /var/lib/influxdb2/.seed-done ]; then
+                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apk add --no-cache rsync openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
+
+              log "Stopping legacy influxdb.service ..."
+              ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl stop influxdb"
+              trap 'log "Restarting legacy influxdb.service ..."; ssh "$LEGACY" "systemctl start influxdb" || true' EXIT
+
+              log "rsync /var/lib/influxdb → /var/lib/influxdb2 ..."
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "$LEGACY:/var/lib/influxdb/" /var/lib/influxdb2/
+              chown -R 1500:1500 /var/lib/influxdb2 || true
+              du -sh /var/lib/influxdb2
+              touch /var/lib/influxdb2/.seed-done
+              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: data, mountPath: /var/lib/influxdb2 }
+            - { name: ssh,  mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: data
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: data-influxdb-influxdb2-0
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: influxdb-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e490cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
+  - pvc.yaml
+  - data-seed-job.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/pvc.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/pvc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54d8fd10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/pvc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+# Pre-create the PVC the influxdb-influxdb2 StatefulSet would otherwise
+# auto-provision via volumeClaimTemplates, so the seed Job can populate
+# it before the StatefulSet pod ever starts. Name + storageClass + size
+# match the chart values.
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
+metadata:
+  name: data-influxdb-influxdb2-0
+  namespace: influxdb
+  annotations:
+    kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/prune: disabled
+spec:
+  accessModes:
+    - ReadWriteOnce
+  storageClassName: ceph-block
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      storage: 50Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/influxdb/seed-ssh.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/influxdb/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/influxdb/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/influxdb/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f0725e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - authentik/
+  - immich/
+  - paperless/
+  - audiobookshelf/
+  - music-assistant/
+  - influxdb/
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/data-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/data-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..53134b22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/data-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: music-assistant-data-seed
+  namespace: music-assistant
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      # Music Assistant's data PVC lives on edge (RWO ceph-block scoped to
+      # the edge node where the app runs); seed Job must schedule on the
+      # same node so it can mount the volume.
+      nodeSelector:
+        topology.kubernetes.io/zone: edge
+      tolerations:
+        - key: workload-class
+          operator: Equal
+          value: pinned
+          effect: NoSchedule
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      containers:
+        - name: seed
+          image: alpine:3.21
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: music-assistant.iot.renner.uno }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+              if [ -f /data/.seed-done ]; then
+                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apk add --no-cache openssh-client tar >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+              LEGACY="root@$LEGACY_HOST"
+
+              log "Stopping music-assistant docker-compose stack on legacy ..."
+              ssh "$LEGACY" "cd /opt/music-assistant && docker compose stop"
+              trap 'log "Restarting music-assistant on legacy ..."; ssh "$LEGACY" "cd /opt/music-assistant && docker compose up -d" || true' EXIT
+
+              # Legacy MA LXC ships without rsync; ssh+tar streaming.
+              log "Clearing /data ..."
+              find /data -mindepth 1 -delete
+              log "Streaming /opt/music-assistant/data via ssh+tar ..."
+              ssh "$LEGACY" "cd /opt/music-assistant/data && tar -cf - ." | tar -xf - -C /data/
+              du -sh /data
+              touch /data/.seed-done
+              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: data, mountPath: /data }
+            - { name: ssh,  mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: data
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: music-assistant-data
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: music-assistant-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ee94c0fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - pvcs.yaml
+  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
+  - data-seed-job.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/pvcs.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/pvcs.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/pvcs.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/pvcs.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/seed-ssh.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/music-assistant/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/music-assistant/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/barman-creds.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/barman-creds.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/paperless/barman-creds.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/paperless/barman-creds.sops.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/paperless/cluster.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/cluster.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0248f2ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/cluster.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
+kind: Cluster
+metadata:
+  name: pprl-pg
+  namespace: paperless
+spec:
+  instances: 2
+  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
+  enableSuperuserAccess: true
+  storage:
+    storageClass: ceph-block
+    size: 20Gi
+  plugins:
+    - name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
+      isWALArchiver: true
+      parameters:
+        barmanObjectName: pprl-pg-store
+  bootstrap:
+    initdb:
+      database: paperless
+      owner: paperless
+  postgresql:
+    parameters:
+      shared_buffers: "256MB"
+      max_connections: "200"
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      cpu: 200m
+      memory: 512Mi
+    limits:
+      memory: 1Gi
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/paperless/data-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/data-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5be7786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/data-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: paperless-data-seed
+  namespace: paperless
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      containers:
+        - name: rsync
+          image: alpine:3.21
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: paperless.srv.renner.uno }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+              if [ -f /data/.seed-done ]; then
+                log "PVC seed sentinel present — skipping rsync."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apk add --no-cache rsync openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+
+              log "rsync paperless_data → /data ..."
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "root@$LEGACY_HOST:/var/lib/docker/volumes/paperless_data/_data/" /data/
+              log "rsync paperless_media → /media ..."
+              rsync -aH --delete --info=progress2 \
+                "root@$LEGACY_HOST:/var/lib/docker/volumes/paperless_media/_data/" /media/
+              chown -R 1000:1000 /data /media
+              du -sh /data /media
+              touch /data/.seed-done
+              log "PVC seed complete; sentinel set."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: data,  mountPath: /data }
+            - { name: media, mountPath: /media }
+            - { name: ssh,   mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: data
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: paperless-data
+        - name: media
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: paperless-media
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: paperless-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/paperless/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..451ba6e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - migration-bucket.yaml
+  - barman-creds.sops.yaml
+  - objectstore.yaml
+  - cluster.yaml
+  - scheduled-backup.yaml
+  - seed-ssh.sops.yaml
+  - pvcs.yaml
+  - pg-seed-job.yaml
+  - data-seed-job.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/migration-bucket.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/migration-bucket.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/paperless/migration-bucket.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/paperless/migration-bucket.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/objectstore.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/objectstore.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/paperless/objectstore.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/paperless/objectstore.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/seed/paperless/pg-seed-job.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/pg-seed-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..71a38ce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/pg-seed-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: pprl-pg-seed
+  namespace: paperless
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 6
+  ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 86400
+  template:
+    spec:
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+      initContainers:
+        - name: wait-for-cluster
+          image: postgres:16
+          env:
+            - { name: PGHOST, value: pprl-pg-rw }
+            - { name: PGDATABASE, value: paperless }
+            - name: PGUSER
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: pprl-pg-superuser, key: username }
+            - name: PGPASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: pprl-pg-superuser, key: password }
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -eu
+              until psql -tAc 'SELECT 1' >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+                echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] waiting for $PGHOST..."
+                sleep 5
+              done
+              echo "[$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)] $PGHOST ready"
+      containers:
+        - name: seed
+          image: postgres:16
+          env:
+            - { name: LEGACY_HOST, value: paperless.srv.renner.uno }
+            - { name: LEGACY_DB, value: paperless }
+            - { name: LEGACY_DB_USER, value: paperless }
+            - { name: PGHOST, value: pprl-pg-rw }
+            - { name: PGDATABASE, value: paperless }
+            - name: PGUSER
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: pprl-pg-superuser, key: username }
+            - name: PGPASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef: { name: pprl-pg-superuser, key: password }
+          command:
+            - bash
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -euo pipefail
+              log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
+
+              count=$(psql -tAc "SELECT count(*) FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema='public'")
+              if [ "$count" -gt 0 ]; then
+                log "$PGDATABASE has $count tables in public — seed skipped."
+                exit 0
+              fi
+
+              apt-get update -qq
+              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openssh-client >/dev/null
+              mkdir -p /root/.ssh
+              install -m 600 /ssh/id_ed25519 /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
+              printf 'Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\tUserKnownHostsFile /dev/null\n' > /root/.ssh/config
+
+              log "pg_dump $LEGACY_HOST/$LEGACY_DB → pg_restore $PGHOST/$PGDATABASE ..."
+              # Legacy paperless DB lives in a docker container; locate via
+              # compose service label.
+              DB_CT=$(ssh "root@$LEGACY_HOST" "docker ps --filter label=com.docker.compose.service=db --format '{{.Names}}' | head -1")
+              [ -n "$DB_CT" ] || { log "no DB container on $LEGACY_HOST"; exit 1; }
+              ssh "root@$LEGACY_HOST" "docker exec -i $DB_CT pg_dump -Fc --clean --if-exists -U $LEGACY_DB_USER $LEGACY_DB" \
+                | pg_restore -d "$PGDATABASE" \
+                || log "pg_restore completed with warnings"
+
+              log "Seed complete."
+          volumeMounts:
+            - { name: ssh, mountPath: /ssh, readOnly: true }
+      volumes:
+        - name: ssh
+          secret:
+            secretName: paperless-seed-ssh
+            defaultMode: 0400
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/pvcs.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/pvcs.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/paperless/pvcs.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/paperless/pvcs.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/scheduled-backup.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/scheduled-backup.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/paperless/scheduled-backup.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/paperless/scheduled-backup.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/paperless/seed-ssh.sops.yaml b/kubernetes/seed/paperless/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from kubernetes/apps/paperless/seed-ssh.sops.yaml
rename to kubernetes/seed/paperless/seed-ssh.sops.yaml