Rancher needs longer than the chart default 2-minute startup probe budget on
this cluster while it restores local catalogs and finishes API startup. Extend
the startup probe failure threshold so Helm upgrades can complete instead of
restarting the new pod before it becomes ready.
Docker Hub TLS handshakes are too flaky to make pre-pulling a hard bootstrap
requirement. Treat image pre-pull as opportunistic and disable Rancher's
managed system-upgrade-controller feature so that image is removed from the
critical install path while Rancher and its webhook converge.
Rancher installs were stalling on transient Docker Hub TLS handshake timeouts
for rancher shell, webhook, and system-upgrade-controller images. Pre-pull the
required images onto all nodes after k3s comes up, extend the Rancher HelmRelease
timeout, and reset/force the Rancher HelmRelease before waiting on addon-rancher
so bootstrap can recover from stale failed remediation state.
With Tailscale LoadBalancer, TLS is not actually terminated at the edge.
The Tailscale proxy does TCP passthrough, so Rancher must serve its own
TLS certs. Setting tls: external caused Rancher to listen HTTP-only,
which broke HTTPS access through Tailscale.
Rancher 2.x uses embedded etcd, not an external PostgreSQL database.
The CATTLE_DB_CATTLE_* env vars are Rancher v1 only and were ignored.
- Remove all CNPG (CloudNativePG) cluster, operator, and related configs
- Remove external DB env vars from Rancher HelmRelease
- Remove rancher-db-password ExternalSecret
- Add rancher-backup operator HelmRelease (v106.0.2+up8.1.0)
- Add B2 credentials ExternalSecret for backup storage
- Add recurring Backup CR (daily at 03:00, 7 day retention)
- Add commented-out Restore CR for rebuild recovery
- Update Flux dependency graph accordingly
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