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# Proposal: enrol the mosquitto broker credentials in Class-A rotation
**Status:** proposal, nothing implemented.
**Scope:** the 8 MQTT broker users and the credentials behind them.
## Problem
Every self-generated secret in this cluster rotates automatically except these.
`kubernetes/infrastructure/openbao/rotation/` holds 13 manifests defining 15
rotator CronJobs (`home-assistant.yaml` alone defines three). Five are **Class-A**
— authentik, crowdsec, paperless, shelly-manager and woodpecker — meaning
"self-generated random secret", which is exactly what a broker password is.
The mosquitto credentials are the only Class-A-shaped secrets not enrolled.
They are currently minted once by seven near-identical bootstrap Jobs
(`mosquitto-bootstrap.yaml`, 508 lines — the ServiceAccount, Role and RoleBinding
are inside that same file) which generate a password, hand-build Secret JSON with
`jq` and POST it to the Kubernetes API with `curl`. Once created they never
change again.
Three consequences:
1. **They never rotate.** Not on a schedule, not on compromise, not ever.
2. **They exist only in the Secret object** — not in OpenBao, so not covered by
the OpenBao snapshot CronJob, and unrecoverable if lost.
3. **The Jobs cannot be modified.** A Job's `spec.template` is immutable, so
changing even the container image makes the whole `home-assistant`
Kustomization fail to reconcile with `field is immutable`. Any edit requires
deleting or renaming the Jobs.
## Why the obvious fixes do not work
Recorded because each was tried and rejected on evidence, and the reasons are
not obvious from the code.
| Approach | Why it fails |
| --- | --- |
| ExternalSecrets reading hand-seeded OpenBao paths | Depends on content copied in by hand. Git cannot recreate it; a fresh OpenBao leaves the paths empty and ESO then overwrites live broker credentials with nothing. |
| ESO `Password` generator | **Overwrites pre-existing Secrets.** Verified: a Secret holding `KNOWN-PREEXISTING-VALUE` was replaced with a freshly generated password on first sync. Adopting it rotates the 7 Job-minted credentials at once, uncoordinated (`evcc` is already ESO-extract-backed and so unaffected). |
| Keep the Jobs, fix only the image | Blocked by `spec.template` immutability. Renaming the Jobs works but is a hack that recurs on every future edit. |
The common thread: each treats the credential as something to *place*, when the
real requirement is a credential that can be *replaced*.
## How rotation actually has to work here
The broker rebuilds its password file from scratch on **every pod start**
(`mosquitto-deployment.yaml`): `rm -f /mosquitto/auth/passwd` followed by
`mosquitto_passwd -c -b …` for each of the 8 users, sourced from env vars backed
by the 8 Secrets.
Two things follow, and they shape the whole design:
- **A Secret change has no effect until the broker restarts.** There is no
Reloader annotation on the mosquitto Deployment today, unlike the consumers of
the existing Class-A rotators.
- **There is no make-before-break.** A mosquitto user has exactly one password.
The LLAT rotators can mint a second token and revoke the first afterwards; a
broker user cannot hold old and new simultaneously. Unless a transitional
second user is created, broker and client must cut over together.
### Who holds each credential
This is the part that determines cutover cost, and it is not visible from the
manifests alone.
| Broker user | Held by | Cutover |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `health` | the broker's own liveness/readiness probes | in-cluster, same pod restart |
| `zigbee2mqtt` | zigbee2mqtt Deployment (`secretKeyRef`) | in-cluster, pod restart |
| `evcc` | evcc app; already OpenBao-backed via ESO | in-cluster, pod restart |
| `sml2mqtt` | edge host, from `vault_edge_sml2mqtt_mqtt_password` | re-run the edge-host play |
| `open3e` | edge host, from `vault_edge_open3e_mqtt_password` | re-run the edge-host play |
| `homeassistant` | HA MQTT integration — a config entry created in the UI | needs an API/WebSocket update, or a manual re-entry |
| `shellies` | Shelly device firmware | pushed per-device; `shelly-manager` is deployed and is the natural mechanism |
| `admin` | a workstation client, held by a human | read the new value from OpenBao |
Note `sml2mqtt` and `open3e` currently keep **the same password in two unlinked
places** — the Kubernetes Secret for the broker, and `ansible-vault` for the
client — synchronised by hand. That duplication, not any client limitation, is
what makes rotation feel impossible today.
## Proposed design
Follow the existing Class-A pattern exactly (`rotation/paperless.yaml` is the
closest model): *generate random bytes → merge-patch into OpenBao → ESO syncs the
Secret → restart the consumer*.
1. **One rotator CronJob per broker user**, running the existing `secret-rotator`
binary in random mode, writing `apps/home-assistant/mosquitto-<user>-credentials`
in OpenBao. Reuses the established policy/role/SA pattern; no new machinery.
2. **ExternalSecrets** project each OpenBao entry to the existing Secret name and
key, so `mosquitto-deployment.yaml` and the in-cluster consumers are unchanged.
Key names stay as they are (`homeassistant-password` on one, `password` on the
rest) — consumers reference them, so normalising is a separate change.
3. **Add a Reloader annotation to the mosquitto Deployment** so a Secret change
restarts the broker, instead of silently taking effect at some unrelated future
restart.
4. **Move the edge host off `ansible-vault` for these two values**, reading the
same OpenBao entry instead, so there is one source of truth per credential.
5. **Rotate one user at a time.** Each rotation then affects exactly one client,
not all eight.
### The cutover window
With no make-before-break, each rotation has a window where broker and client
disagree. Two options:
- **Accept a brief window** (recommended for most users). Order: rotator writes
OpenBao → client picks up the new value → broker restarts. MQTT clients
reconnect automatically; the window is seconds. Because rotation is per-user,
only that one client is affected.
One failure mode to expect rather than be alarmed by: the broker rolls with
`maxUnavailable: 0` / `maxSurge: 1`, so mid-rollout **two broker pods with
different passwd files sit behind the LB**. A client reconnecting during that
window can land on the old pod and fail auth until the rollout completes. It is
self-healing and lasts seconds to a minute, but it will look alarming in logs
during the first `health` / `zigbee2mqtt` rotation, so it is worth knowing in
advance.
- **Transitional dual user** (`<user>` and `<user>-next` in the passwd file and
ACL) for any credential where even a brief outage is unacceptable. More moving
parts; probably only worth it for `homeassistant`, which carries everything.
## Suggested phasing
Ordered so the risky work happens after the pattern is proven, and so each phase
is independently valuable.
1. **`health` and `zigbee2mqtt` first.** Both are entirely in-cluster and pick up
a new password on pod restart with no external coordination. Proves rotator →
OpenBao → ESO → Reloader end to end with the smallest blast radius. `health`
is the safest possible start: only the broker's own probes consume it.
2. **`evcc`.** Already OpenBao-backed via ESO; only the rotator is missing.
3. **`sml2mqtt` and `open3e`**, together with switching the edge host to read from
OpenBao. This is where the duplicate-source-of-truth problem gets fixed.
4. **`shellies`**, via shelly-manager pushing to devices. Needs investigation:
shelly-manager has its own Class-A rotator today, but that rotates
shelly-manager's own secret and does not touch device MQTT credentials.
5. **`homeassistant`** last. Highest blast radius, and the config entry is UI-created,
so it needs an API/WebSocket update path — the HA LLAT rotators
(`rotation/home-assistant.yaml`) already talk to HA over WebSocket and are the
obvious precedent.
6. **`admin`** whenever convenient; a human reads the new value from OpenBao.
Only once a user is enrolled does its bootstrap Job become dead code. Delete the
Jobs incrementally as their users migrate, rather than in one step — that also
avoids the immutability problem entirely, since the Jobs are deleted, never
patched.
## Open questions
- **Does `secret-rotator` random mode fit unchanged?** The existing rotators write
a field into an OpenBao entry; here the entry holds a single password field, so
it should, but this needs confirming against the binary rather than assumed.
- **Can shelly-manager push MQTT credentials to devices**, and does it cover both
Gen1 (`/settings/mqtt`) and Gen2+ (`Mqtt.SetConfig`) firmwares? If not, the
`shellies` user may need a different mechanism or stay manual longest.
- **How is the HA MQTT config entry updated programmatically?** Reusing the
WebSocket approach from the LLAT rotator is plausible but unverified.
- **Rotation cadence.** The existing rotators' schedules should be the reference
rather than inventing a new one.
- **ESO refresh latency.** Rotator-writes-OpenBao → Secret-updates →
Reloader-restarts is delayed by up to one `refreshInterval`; the `evcc`
ExternalSecret uses `1h`. That does not widen the outage window — broker and
client still move together — but it does stretch how long a rotation takes to
land, which matters for verifying one completed and for the cold-rebuild
ordering question above. Worth deciding whether these ExternalSecrets want a
shorter interval than 1h, or whether the rotator should trigger the sync
directly.
- **Bootstrap on a cold rebuild.** On a fresh cluster the rotator must create the
OpenBao entry before ESO can sync it; check this against
`kubernetes/RUNBOOK-cold-rebuild.md` so broker bring-up is not blocked.
## What this does not change
- Secret names, key names and every `secretKeyRef` in `mosquitto-deployment.yaml`.
- The ACL model and the per-user topic scoping.
- The `evcc` ExternalSecret, which already follows the target pattern.
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ resources:
- prometheus-token-externalsecret.yaml
- config-sync-token-externalsecret.yaml
- mosquitto-bootstrap.yaml
# health broker credential: OpenBao-backed + Class-A rotated (first of the
# eight users to migrate off mosquitto-bootstrap.yaml).
- mosquitto-health-credentials-externalsecret.yaml
- mosquitto-config.yaml
- mosquitto-certificate.yaml
- mosquitto-service.yaml
@@ -370,6 +370,74 @@ spec:
limits:
memory: 64Mi
---
# Broker user `health`: a dedicated, least-privilege credential used ONLY by
# mosquitto's own liveness/readiness probes (mosquitto-deployment.yaml). Its
# ACL is `write health/#` and nothing else — it cannot read any topic or
# write outside the throwaway probe subtree, so a leak is worthless (nothing
# subscribes to health/#). Kept on its own Secret, like every other user, so
# the probe never has to borrow the admin credential.
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
name: mosquitto-health-credentials-bootstrap
namespace: home-assistant
spec:
backoffLimit: 4
template:
metadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: mosquitto-bootstrap
spec:
serviceAccountName: mosquitto-bootstrap
restartPolicy: OnFailure
containers:
- name: bootstrap
image: alpine:3.21
command:
- sh
- -c
- |
set -eu
apk add --no-cache curl jq >/dev/null
NS=home-assistant
NAME=mosquitto-health-credentials
TOKEN=$(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)
CA=/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
API=https://kubernetes.default.svc
if curl -fsSL --cacert "$CA" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
"$API/api/v1/namespaces/$NS/secrets/$NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "$NAME already exists; nothing to do."
exit 0
fi
PW=$(tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' </dev/urandom | head -c 32)
PW_B64=$(printf '%s' "$PW" | base64 | tr -d '\n')
body=$(jq -nc \
--arg name "$NAME" \
--arg ns "$NS" \
--arg pw "$PW_B64" \
'{apiVersion: "v1",
kind: "Secret",
metadata: {name: $name, namespace: $ns},
type: "Opaque",
data: {password: $pw}}')
curl -fsSL --cacert "$CA" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
--data "$body" \
"$API/api/v1/namespaces/$NS/secrets" >/dev/null
echo "generated $NAME"
resources:
requests:
cpu: 10m
memory: 32Mi
limits:
memory: 64Mi
---
# Broker user `zigbee2mqtt` — the Zigbee2MQTT bridge (ZHA replacement). Scoped
# to its own `zigbee2mqtt/#` subtree plus `write homeassistant/#` (so it can
# publish HA MQTT-discovery configs, exactly like the `shellies` user) and
@@ -5,18 +5,6 @@ metadata:
namespace: home-assistant
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: mosquitto
annotations:
# REQUIRED for credential rotation to take effect at all. The startup shim
# rebuilds /mosquitto/auth/passwd from these Secrets on every pod start, so
# a rotated Secret is inert until the pod restarts — without this the new
# password would sit unused until some unrelated restart, while the old one
# stayed valid indefinitely.
#
# Listed per-Secret rather than using the blanket `reloader.stakater.com/
# auto: "true"`, so that enrolling each remaining broker user in rotation is
# a visible, reviewable edit to this line rather than something that starts
# happening implicitly.
secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: mosquitto-health-credentials
spec:
replicas: 1
strategy:
@@ -189,9 +177,7 @@ spec:
secretKeyRef:
name: mosquitto-evcc-credentials
key: password
# Probe-only credential. Now OpenBao-backed and Class-A rotated (see
# mosquitto-health-credentials-externalsecret.yaml); its bootstrap Job
# is gone.
# Probe-only credential (mosquitto-health-credentials-bootstrap).
# Present here for the same reason as the others — the startup
# shim hashes it into the passwd file — and reused by the exec
# probes below, which run inside this container.
@@ -244,7 +230,7 @@ spec:
#
# Uses the dedicated least-privilege `health` user (ACL: readwrite
# health/# only — see the passwd/acl build above and the
# mosquitto-health-credentials ExternalSecret). Its password is in
# mosquitto-health-credentials-bootstrap Job). Its password is in
# this container's env (HEALTH_PASSWORD) because the startup shim
# hashes every user into the passwd file; the exec probes run
# inside this container and read it directly. A leak of this
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
# Projects the mosquitto `health` broker credential from OpenBao into the Secret
# the broker already consumes. FIRST of the eight broker users to move off the
# bootstrap Jobs and onto Class-A rotation (see
# PROPOSAL-mosquitto-credential-rotation.md (PR #453 — not yet merged; this
# file lands with it)); the rotator lives at
# kubernetes/infrastructure/openbao/rotation/mosquitto-health.yaml.
#
# Secret name and key are UNCHANGED (`password`), so mosquitto-deployment.yaml's
# secretKeyRef and the exec probes that read $HEALTH_PASSWORD need no edit.
#
# refreshInterval is 10m rather than the 1h used by mosquitto-evcc-credentials:
# a rotation only lands once ESO re-reads, so 1h would mean up to an hour between
# the rotator running and the broker actually using the new password, with the
# old one still valid in the meantime. 10m keeps that window short without
# polling OpenBao pointlessly hard.
#
# ⚠️ OWNERSHIP: creationPolicy is implicitly Owner, so ESO sets an ownerReference
# on the Secret. Deleting this ExternalSecret therefore DELETES the live Secret
# and with it the broker's probe credential — the bootstrap Job it replaces had
# no such coupling. To detach without destroying, set creationPolicy: Orphan
# before removing it.
apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
kind: ExternalSecret
metadata:
name: mosquitto-health-credentials
namespace: home-assistant
spec:
refreshInterval: 10m
secretStoreRef:
kind: ClusterSecretStore
name: openbao
target:
name: mosquitto-health-credentials
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: apps/home-assistant/mosquitto-health-credentials
@@ -17,7 +17,12 @@ spec:
chart:
spec:
chart: cilium
version: ">=1.19.0"
# Bounded to the current minor line. An unbounded range let Flux take
# 1.19.6 -> 1.20.0 unattended on a 30m reconcile; the DaemonSet rolls
# with maxUnavailable 2 of 3, so a CNI minor bump takes two thirds of
# the cluster's networking down without review. Patches still flow;
# bumping the minor is now a deliberate, reviewable diff.
version: ">=1.20.0 <1.21.0"
sourceRef:
kind: HelmRepository
name: cilium
@@ -36,15 +41,6 @@ spec:
kubeProxyReplacement: true
socketLB:
enabled: true
prometheus:
# The agent exported no metrics at all, so BPF map utilisation was
# invisible: when per-endpoint policy maps (cilium_policy_v3_*) run out
# of space the agent only says "no space left on device" in its log and
# pod sandbox creation fails (issue #452). cilium_bpf_map_pressure makes
# that observable — and alertable — before it stalls a rollout.
enabled: true
serviceMonitor:
enabled: true
bpf:
# Let pods reach the cluster's own LoadBalancer external IPs; Cilium
# redirects the socket directly to the backend pod instead of sending
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
# OpenBao policy: rotator-mosquitto-health
#
# Least-privilege policy for the mosquitto `health` broker-credential rotation
# CronJob (kubernetes auth role `rotator-mosquitto-health`). PER-SECRET
# isolation, same template as rotator-paperless: one policy + one role per
# rotated secret, so a compromised rotation Job cannot touch any other secret.
#
# Scoped to the `health` credential ALONE, deliberately not to a wildcard over
# apps/home-assistant/mosquitto-*. The broker has eight users and they are being
# enrolled one at a time; a wildcard would silently grant the first rotator write
# access to the other seven before they are ready, which is exactly the blast
# radius this per-secret pattern exists to avoid.
#
# Plan and phasing: kubernetes/apps/home-assistant/
# PROPOSAL-mosquitto-credential-rotation.md — added by PR #453, which is not yet
# merged, so that path does not resolve until it lands.
#
# NOT applied by Flux — OpenBao policies/roles are not Kubernetes resources
# (same convention as eso-read.hcl and every other rotator policy). Apply ONCE
# with an admin token:
#
# bao policy write rotator-mosquitto-health \
# kubernetes/infrastructure/openbao/policies/rotator-mosquitto-health.hcl
#
# bao write auth/kubernetes/role/rotator-mosquitto-health \
# bound_service_account_names=mosquitto-health-secret-rotator \
# bound_service_account_namespaces=openbao \
# policies=rotator-mosquitto-health ttl=15m
#
# Do NOT set token_no_default_policy=true — the `bao kv patch` kv-v2 preflight
# needs the default policy (see rotator.hcl). The rotator writes via patch, so
# hardening the role that way would break rotation rather than tighten it.
#
# BOOTSTRAP: `random` mode calls assert_fields_exist BEFORE patching, so it
# ROTATES an existing field and never creates one. The path must already hold a
# `password` field or the Job fails safe without writing. Seed it once:
#
# bao kv put homelab/apps/home-assistant/mosquitto-health-credentials \
# password="$(kubectl -n home-assistant get secret mosquitto-health-credentials \
# -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d)"
#
# (Reads are already covered by eso-read.hcl's `homelab/data/*`, so the
# ExternalSecret needs no policy change.)
path "homelab/data/apps/home-assistant/mosquitto-health-credentials" {
capabilities = ["read", "patch"]
}
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["random"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: sync-woodpecker
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:828bf4863286411bfd7ef9fdff617586588050c814743bec601a9222692162e4
args: ["woodpecker-secret"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:978fe53cad83a8d55319f6201ecd171775a101b21aaa21b7ec3c7b14304c6a42
args: ["cloudflare-roll"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["random"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:978fe53cad83a8d55319f6201ecd171775a101b21aaa21b7ec3c7b14304c6a42
args: ["cloudflare-roll"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:b41cc3645f144179dddaa5ab1d32282c57c257432a613c15a6e15634fd0c4b81
args: ["gitea-token"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["ha-token"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["ha-token"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["ha-token"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -4,46 +4,6 @@ kind: Kustomization
# (intra-namespace OpenBao access → no NetworkPolicy needed). One file per rotated
# secret. The matching OpenBao policy/role for each lives in ../policies/ and is
# bootstrapped manually (not GitOps-managed).
#
# IMAGE PINNING: every rotator here uses a DATED TAG of secret-rotator
# (`:YYYY-MM-DD`), never a digest and never `:latest`. This is a registry-local
# image, so it does not need digest pinning, and a dated tag makes "what actually
# runs" a reviewable diff.
#
# Digests were tried and actively broke: untagged manifests are garbage-collected
# once :latest and the dated tags move past them, so a digest pinned today stops
# resolving after a few rebuilds. That decay is driven by edits to
# .woodpecker/build-ci-images.yml — a shared file — so adding an UNRELATED image
# republishes secret-rotator and orphans the manifest every rotator here was
# pinned to. 11 of these were pinned to digests that no longer existed and would
# have ImagePullBackOff'd on their first scheduled run (issue #458); because they
# are quarterly, that would have looked like nothing happening rather than like a
# failure.
#
# Keep them all on one tag: it is a single binary containing every mode
# (random | ha-token | cloudflare-roll | netbird-key | proxmox-token |
# gitea-token | woodpecker-secret), so a split serves no purpose and just makes
# the next bump partial.
#
# ADDING A ROTATOR: copy an existing file, and check you did not inherit a
# digest pin from an older example — nothing enforces this automatically, so it
# is easy to reintroduce silently and the failure only shows up months later on
# the first scheduled run:
#
# grep -l 'image:.*@sha256' \
# kubernetes/infrastructure/openbao/rotation/*.yaml | grep -v kustomization.yaml
#
# (want: no output. The trailing filter is not padding — this file documents the
# pattern, so it necessarily matches its own grep. Verified both directions:
# silent across this directory as it stands, and it still reports a file that
# actually carries an `image: …@sha256:` pin.)
#
# BUMPING the tag: verify the new one exists BEFORE committing — a tag that was
# never built fails exactly like the digests did, and just as quietly:
#
# kubectl run tagcheck --rm -i --restart=Never \
# --image=gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:<DATE> \
# --command -- /secret-rotator # prints the usage/mode list if the tag resolves
resources:
- paperless.yaml
- woodpecker.yaml
@@ -58,4 +18,3 @@ resources:
- home-assistant.yaml
- review-bot.yaml
- claude-oauth.yaml
- mosquitto-health.yaml
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
---
# Class-A automated rotation of the mosquitto `health` broker credential — a
# self-generated random secret.
#
# FIRST of the eight mosquitto broker users to be enrolled. The credentials were
# previously minted once by bootstrap Jobs and then never changed at all: no
# schedule, no compromise response, and they existed only in the Secret object,
# outside the OpenBao snapshot. See kubernetes/apps/home-assistant/
# PROPOSAL-mosquitto-credential-rotation.md (PR #453 — not yet merged; this
# file lands with it) for the full plan and phasing.
#
# `health` deliberately goes first: it is the broker's OWN liveness/readiness
# probe credential, consumed by exec probes inside the mosquitto container via
# the same Secret that seeds the passwd file. Nothing outside the pod holds it,
# so a rotation needs no coordination with any client — the smallest possible
# blast radius for proving rotator -> OpenBao -> ESO -> Reloader end to end.
#
# Runs the secret-rotator binary (random mode): generate 32 random bytes,
# standard-base64 encode, and merge-patch into OpenBao. assert_fields_exist runs
# FIRST, so a misconfigured path fails safe (no rotation) rather than adding a
# stray field — which also means this ROTATES an existing value and never
# bootstraps one. Seeding is a one-time out-of-band step, documented in
# policies/rotator-mosquitto-health.hcl.
#
# Base64 output is safe for this credential specifically: the probes pass it as
# `-P "$HEALTH_PASSWORD"` to mosquitto_pub/sub inside the container, so the `+`,
# `/` and `=` characters are never parsed by a URL or a config file. That is NOT
# automatically true of the other seven users (sml2mqtt and open3e templates on
# the edge host, Shelly device firmware, the HA config entry), so the charset
# must be re-checked per user before enrolling each one — the old bootstrap Jobs
# generated alphanumeric-only passwords with `tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9'`.
#
# openbao-ns pattern: the Job runs in the openbao namespace, reaching the
# OpenBao API intra-namespace — no NetworkPolicy needed. It writes OpenBao only;
# ESO syncs mosquitto-health-credentials (ns home-assistant) and Reloader
# restarts the broker so the passwd file is rebuilt from the new value.
#
# Rotation is not instant: it completes only after the ExternalSecret's
# refreshInterval elapses and the broker rolls. During that roll two broker pods
# with different passwd files sit behind the LB (maxUnavailable: 0/maxSurge: 1),
# so a probe against the outgoing pod can fail auth briefly. Self-healing.
#
# ON-DEMAND: kubectl -n openbao create job --from=cronjob/mosquitto-health-secret-rotate mosquitto-health-secret-rotate-now
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: mosquitto-health-secret-rotator
namespace: openbao
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: mosquitto
app.kubernetes.io/component: secret-rotator
---
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
name: mosquitto-health-secret-rotate
namespace: openbao
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: mosquitto
app.kubernetes.io/component: secret-rotator
spec:
# Quarterly, offset one month from paperless (which runs Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct) so
# unrelated rotations do not land in the same window and complicate diagnosis.
schedule: "0 4 1 2,5,8,11 *"
timeZone: Europe/Berlin
concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 2
failedJobsHistoryLimit: 5
startingDeadlineSeconds: 3600
jobTemplate:
spec:
backoffLimit: 2
activeDeadlineSeconds: 300
ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 259200 # 3 d
template:
metadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: mosquitto
app.kubernetes.io/component: secret-rotator
spec:
serviceAccountName: mosquitto-health-secret-rotator
restartPolicy: Never
securityContext:
runAsNonRoot: true
runAsUser: 65534
runAsGroup: 65534
seccompProfile:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
# Dated tag, per the convention documented in kustomization.yaml —
# every rotator here now uses the same one. Verified for this tag:
# it pulls, `random` is among its modes, and it carries the
# RANDOM_BYTES>=16 floor documented below (RANDOM_BYTES=8 exits
# "refusing to generate a weak secret").
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
args: ["random"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
capabilities:
drop: ["ALL"]
env:
- name: BAO_ADDR
value: http://openbao.openbao.svc.cluster.local:8200
- name: BAO_ROLE
value: rotator-mosquitto-health
- name: BAO_PATH
value: homelab/apps/home-assistant/mosquitto-health-credentials
# Matches the key the ExternalSecret projects and the key the
# Secret already carries, so mosquitto-deployment.yaml's
# secretKeyRef is unchanged.
- name: BAO_FIELDS
value: "password"
# 32 bytes -> 44 base64 chars. The binary refuses anything below
# 16 bytes outright.
- name: RANDOM_BYTES
value: "32"
resources:
requests:
cpu: 25m
memory: 16Mi
limits:
memory: 48Mi
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:49bfddd8eeb5fd871cbeb05bc3b4e2fcaaab7d9e24cc3007caae6084b4634c18
args: ["netbird-key"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["random"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:97c22bcff324a93d2bb7bf3adb2894b405ed1a8035d02ad1ff6baced3813cefe
args: ["proxmox-token"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
initContainers:
- name: rotate-mint
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:828bf4863286411bfd7ef9fdff617586588050c814743bec601a9222692162e4
args: ["gitea-token"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ spec:
memory: 48Mi
containers:
- name: sync-woodpecker
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:828bf4863286411bfd7ef9fdff617586588050c814743bec601a9222692162e4
args: ["woodpecker-secret"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["random"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spec:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: rotate
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator:2026-07-30
image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/secret-rotator@sha256:159e5888ff4e23f5fe7fb1284711d81591635f840888e61402af311b0a76ba92
args: ["random"]
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false