feat: Add cli binary

.drone.yml

@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-kind: pipeline
-type: kubernetes
-name: 'Packer Build'
-
-volumes:
-- name: output
-  claim:
-    name: flexvolsmb-drone-output
-- name: scratch
-  claim:
-    name: flexvolsmb-drone-scratch
-
-steps:
-- name: Debugging information
-  image: bv11-cr01.bessems.eu/library/packer-extended
-  commands:
-  - ansible --version
-  - ovftool --version
-  - packer --version
-  - yamllint --version
-- name: Kubernetes Bootstrap Appliance
-  image: bv11-cr01.bessems.eu/library/packer-extended
-  pull: always
-  commands:
-  - |
-    sed -i -e "s/<<img-password>>/$${SSH_PASSWORD}/g" \
-      packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/user-data
-  - |
-    yamllint -d "{extends: relaxed, rules: {line-length: disable}}" \
-      ansible \
-      packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/user-data \
-      scripts
-  - |
-    ansible-galaxy install \
-      -r ansible/requirements.yml
-  - |
-    packer init -upgrade \
-      ./packer
-  - |
-    packer validate \
-      -var vm_name=$DRONE_BUILD_NUMBER-${DRONE_COMMIT_SHA:0:10} \
-      -var repo_username=$${REPO_USERNAME} \
-      -var repo_password=$${REPO_PASSWORD} \
-      -var vsphere_password=$${VSPHERE_PASSWORD} \
-      -var ssh_password=$${SSH_PASSWORD} \
-      ./packer
-  - |
-    packer build \
-      -on-error=cleanup -timestamp-ui \
-      -var vm_name=$DRONE_BUILD_NUMBER-${DRONE_COMMIT_SHA:0:10} \
-      -var repo_username=$${REPO_USERNAME} \
-      -var repo_password=$${REPO_PASSWORD} \
-      -var vsphere_password=$${VSPHERE_PASSWORD} \
-      -var ssh_password=$${SSH_PASSWORD} \
-      ./packer
-  environment:
-    VSPHERE_PASSWORD:
-      from_secret: vsphere_password
-    SSH_PASSWORD:
-      from_secret: ssh_password
-    REPO_USERNAME:
-      from_secret: repo_username
-    REPO_PASSWORD:
-      from_secret: repo_password
-    # PACKER_LOG: 1
-  volumes:
-  - name: output
-    path: /output
-- name: Remove temporary resources
-  image: bv11-cr01.bessems.eu/library/packer-extended
-  commands:
-  - |
-    pwsh -file scripts/Remove-Resources.ps1 \
-      -VMName $DRONE_BUILD_NUMBER-${DRONE_COMMIT_SHA:0:10} \
-      -VSphereFQDN 'bv11-vc.bessems.lan' \
-      -VSphereUsername 'administrator@vsphere.local' \
-      -VSpherePassword $${VSPHERE_PASSWORD}
-  environment:
-    VSPHERE_PASSWORD:
-      from_secret: vsphere_password
-  volumes:
-  - name: scratch
-    path: /scratch
-  when:
-    status:
-    - success
-    - failure

.gitea/workflows/actions.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+name: Container & Helm chart
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  linting:
+    name: Linting
+    runs-on: dind-rootless
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: yamllint
+        uses: bewuethr/yamllint-action@v1
+        with:
+          config-file: .yamllint.yaml
+
+  semrel_dryrun:
+    name: Semantic Release (Dry-run)
+    runs-on: dind-rootless
+    outputs:
+      version: ${{ steps.sem_rel.outputs.version }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          npm install \
+            semantic-release \
+            @semantic-release/commit-analyzer \
+            @semantic-release/exec
+      - name: Semantic Release (dry-run)
+        id: sem_rel
+        run: |
+          npx semantic-release \
+            --package @semantic-release/exec \
+            --package semantic-release \
+            --branches ${{ gitea.refname }} \
+            --tag-format 'v${version}' \
+            --dry-run \
+            --plugins @semantic-release/commit-analyzer,@semantic-release/exec \
+            --analyzeCommits @semantic-release/commit-analyzer \
+            --verifyRelease @semantic-release/exec \
+            --verifyReleaseCmd 'echo "version=${nextRelease.version}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT'
+        env:
+          GIT_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GIT_USERNAME }}:${{ secrets.GIT_APIKEY }}
+      - name: Assert semantic release output
+        run: |
+          [[ -z "${{ steps.sem_rel.outputs.version }}" ]] && {
+            echo 'No release tag - exiting'; exit 1
+          } || {
+            echo 'Release tag set correctly: ${{ steps.sem_rel.outputs.version }}'; exit 0
+          }
+
+  build_image:
+    name: Kubernetes Bootstrap Appliance
+    container: code.spamasaurus.com/djpbessems/packer-extended:1.3.0
+    runs-on: dind-rootless
+    needs: [semrel_dryrun, linting]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Parse Kubernetes version
+        uses: mikefarah/yq@master
+        id: get_k8sversion
+        with:
+          cmd: yq '.components.clusterapi.workload.version.k8s' ansible/vars/metacluster.yml
+      - name: Set up packer
+        uses: hashicorp/setup-packer@main
+        id: setup
+        with:
+          version: "latest"
+      - name: Prepare build environment
+        id: init
+        run: |
+          packer init -upgrade ./packer
+
+          ansible-galaxy collection install \
+            -r ansible/requirements.yml \
+            -p ./ansible/collections
+
+          echo "BUILD_COMMIT=$(echo ${{ gitea.sha }} | cut -c 1-10)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "BUILD_SUFFIX=$(openssl rand -hex 3)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Validate packer template files
+        id: validate
+        run: |
+          packer validate \
+            -only=vsphere-iso.bootstrap \
+            -var vm_name=${{ gitea.run_number }}-${BUILD_COMMIT}-${BUILD_SUFFIX} \
+            -var docker_username=${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} \
+            -var docker_password=${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var repo_username=${{ secrets.REPO_USERNAME }} \
+            -var repo_password=${{ secrets.REPO_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var ssh_password=${{ secrets.SSH_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var hv_password=${{ secrets.HV_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var k8s_version=${{ steps.get_k8sversion.outputs.result }} \
+            -var appliance_version=${{ needs.semrel_dryrun.outputs.version }} \
+            ./packer
+      - name: Build packer template
+        run: |
+          packer build \
+            -on-error=cleanup -timestamp-ui \
+            -only=vsphere-iso.bootstrap \
+            -var vm_name=${{ gitea.run_number }}-${BUILD_COMMIT}-${BUILD_SUFFIX} \
+            -var docker_username=${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} \
+            -var docker_password=${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var repo_username=${{ secrets.REPO_USERNAME }} \
+            -var repo_password=${{ secrets.REPO_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var ssh_password=${{ secrets.SSH_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var hv_password=${{ secrets.HV_PASSWORD }} \
+            -var k8s_version=${{ steps.get_k8sversion.outputs.result }} \
+            -var appliance_version=${{ needs.semrel_dryrun.outputs.version }} \
+            ./packer
+        # env:
+        #   PACKER_LOG: 1
+
+  # semrel:
+  #   name: Semantic Release
+  #   runs-on: dind-rootless
+  #   needs: [build_container, build_chart]
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Check out repository code
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v3
+  #     - name: Setup Node
+  #       uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+  #       with:
+  #         node-version: 20
+  #     - name: Install dependencies
+  #       run: |
+  #         npm install \
+  #           semantic-release \
+  #           @semantic-release/changelog \
+  #           @semantic-release/commit-analyzer \
+  #           @semantic-release/git \
+  #           @semantic-release/release-notes-generator
+  #     - name: Semantic Release
+  #       run: |
+  #         npx semantic-release \
+  #           --branches ${{ gitea.refname }} \
+  #           --tag-format 'v${version}' \
+  #           --plugins @semantic-release/commit-analyzer,@semantic-release/release-notes-generator,@semantic-release/changelog,@semantic-release/git
+  #       env:
+  #         GIT_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GIT_USERNAME }}:${{ secrets.GIT_APIKEY }}

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+**/hv.vcenter.yaml
+**/ova.bootstrap.yaml
+**/pb.secrets.yaml
+**/pwdfile

.yamllint.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+extends: relaxed
+
+rules:
+  line-length: disable

ansible/playbook.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   gather_facts: false
   vars_files:
     - metacluster.yml
+    - workloadcluster.yml
   become: true
   roles:
     - os

ansible/requirements.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 collections:
+  - name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix
+    type: git
   - name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils
     type: git
   - name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/containerimages.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-- name: Parse manifests for container images
+- name: Parse Cluster-API manifests for container images
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     # This set of commands is necessary to deal with multi-line scalar values
     # eg.:
@@ -9,18 +9,33 @@
       cat {{ item.dest }} | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | awk '!/ /';
       cat {{ item.dest }} | yq eval '.data.data' | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)';
       cat {{ item.dest }} | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .files? | with_entries(select(.value.path == "*.yaml")).[0].content' | awk '!/null/' | yq eval '.. | .image? | select(.)'
-  register: parsedmanifests
+  register: clusterapi_parsedmanifests
   loop: "{{ clusterapi_manifests.results }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.dest | basename }}"
 
-- name: Parse helm charts for container images
+- name: Parse pinniped manifest for container images
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      cat {{ pinniped_manifest.dest }} | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | awk '!/ /';
+  register: pinniped_parsedmanifest
+
+- name: Parse metacluster helm charts for container images
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     cmd: "{{ item.value.helm.parse_logic }}"
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/{{ item.key }}
-  register: chartimages
+  register: chartimages_metacluster
   when: item.value.helm is defined
-  loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.key }}"
+
+- name: Parse workloadcluster helm charts for container images
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: "{{ item.value.parse_logic }}"
+    chdir: /opt/workloadcluster/helm-charts/{{ item.value.namespace }}/{{ item.key }}
+  register: chartimages_workloadcluster
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', downstream.helm_charts) }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.key }}"
 
@@ -29,14 +44,25 @@
     containerimages_{{ item.source }}: "{{ item.results }}"
   loop:
     - source: charts
-      results: "{{ chartimages | json_query('results[*].stdout_lines') | select() | flatten | list }}"
+      results: "{{ (chartimages_metacluster | json_query('results[*].stdout_lines')) + (chartimages_workloadcluster | json_query('results[*].stdout_lines')) | select() | flatten | list }}"
     - source: kubeadm
       results: "{{ kubeadmimages.stdout_lines }}"
-    - source: manifests
-      results: "{{ parsedmanifests | json_query('results[*].stdout_lines') | select() | flatten | list }}"
+    - source: clusterapi
+      results: "{{ clusterapi_parsedmanifests | json_query('results[*].stdout_lines') | select() | flatten | list }}"
+    - source: pinniped
+      results: "{{ pinniped_parsedmanifest.stdout_lines }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.source }}"
 
+- name: Log in to container registry
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      skopeo login \
+        docker.io \
+        --username={{ docker_username }} \
+        --password={{ docker_password }}
+  no_log: true
+
 - name: Pull and store containerimages
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     cmd: >-
@@ -46,4 +72,4 @@
         docker://{{ item }} \
         docker-archive:./{{ ( item | regex_findall('[^/:]+'))[-2] }}_{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null length=5 chars=ascii_lowercase,digits seed={{ item }}') }}.tar:{{ item }}
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/container-images
-  loop: "{{ (containerimages_charts + containerimages_kubeadm + containerimages_manifests + dependencies.container_images) | flatten | unique | sort }}"
+  loop: "{{ (containerimages_charts + containerimages_kubeadm + containerimages_clusterapi + containerimages_pinniped + dependencies.container_images) | flatten | unique | sort }}"

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/git.yml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-- name: Clone git repository
-  ansible.builtin.git:
-    repo: "{{ platform.gitops.repository.uri }}"
-    version: "{{ platform.gitops.repository.revision }}"
-    dest: /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/helm.yml

@@ -3,17 +3,29 @@
     name: "{{ item.name }}"
     repo_url: "{{ item.url }}"
     state: present
-  loop: "{{ platform.helm_repositories }}"
+  loop: "{{ platform.helm_repositories + downstream.helm_repositories }}"
 
-- name: Fetch helm charts
+- name: Fetch helm charts for metacluster
   ansible.builtin.command:
     cmd: helm fetch {{ item.value.helm.chart }} --untar --version {{ item.value.helm.version }}
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
   when: item.value.helm is defined
-  register: helmcharts
-  loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
+  register: helmcharts_metacluster
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.key }}"
   retries: 5
   delay: 5
-  until: helmcharts is not failed
+  until: helmcharts_metacluster is not failed
+
+- name: Fetch helm charts for workloadcluster
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: helm fetch {{ item.value.chart }} --untardir ./{{ item.value.namespace }} --untar --version {{ item.value.version }}
+    chdir: /opt/workloadcluster/helm-charts
+  register: helmcharts_workloadcluster
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', downstream.helm_charts) }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.key }}"
+  retries: 5
+  delay: 5
+  until: helmcharts_workloadcluster is not failed

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/k3s.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 - name: Download K3s install script
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
-    url: https://get.k3s.io
+    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k3s-io/k3s/{{ platform.k3s.version | urlencode }}/install.sh
     dest: /opt/metacluster/k3s/install.sh
     owner: root
     group: root

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/main.yml

@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@
     - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/infrastructure-vsphere/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}
     - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/ipam-in-cluster/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.ipam_incluster }}
     - /opt/metacluster/container-images
-    - /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
+    - /opt/metacluster/git-repositories
     - /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
     - /opt/metacluster/k3s
     - /opt/metacluster/kube-vip
+    - /opt/metacluster/pinniped
+    - /opt/workloadcluster/helm-charts
     - /opt/workloadcluster/node-templates
     - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/images
     - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests
@@ -23,8 +25,7 @@
 - import_tasks: dependencies.yml
 - import_tasks: k3s.yml
 - import_tasks: helm.yml
-- import_tasks: git.yml
+# - import_tasks: git.yml
 - import_tasks: manifests.yml
 - import_tasks: kubeadm.yml
 - import_tasks: containerimages.yml
-- import_tasks: nodetemplates.yml

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/manifests.yml

@@ -1,26 +1,55 @@
 - block:
 
-    - name: Aggregate chart_values into dict
+    - name: Aggregate meta-cluster chart_values into dict
       ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-        chart_values: "{{ chart_values | default({}) | combine({ (item.key | regex_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9]', '')): { 'chart_values': (item.value.helm.chart_values | from_yaml) } }) }}"
+        metacluster_chartvalues: "{{ metacluster_chartvalues | default({}) | combine({ item.key: { 'chart_values': (item.value.helm.chart_values | from_yaml) } }) }}"
       when: item.value.helm.chart_values is defined
-      loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
+      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
       loop_control:
         label: "{{ item.key }}"
 
-    - name: Write dict to vars_file
+    - name: Combine and write dict to vars_file
       ansible.builtin.copy:
         dest: /opt/firstboot/ansible/vars/metacluster.yml
         content: >-
           {{
             { 'components': (
-              chart_values |
-              combine({ 'clusterapi': components.clusterapi }) |
-              combine({ 'kubevip'   : components.kubevip }) )
+              metacluster_chartvalues |
+              combine({ 'clusterapi'            : components['clusterapi'] }) |
+              combine({ 'kubevip'               : components['kubevip'] }) |
+              combine({ 'localuserauthenticator': components['pinniped']['local-user-authenticator'] })),
+              'appliance': {
+                'version': (applianceversion)
+              }
             } | to_nice_yaml(indent=2, width=4096)
           }}
 
-- name: Download ClusterAPI manifests
+    - name: Aggregate workload-cluster chart_values into dict
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        workloadcluster_chartvalues: |
+          {{
+            workloadcluster_chartvalues | default({}) | combine({
+              item.key: {
+                'chart_values': (item.value.chart_values | default('') | from_yaml),
+                'extra_manifests': (item.value.extra_manifests | default([])),
+                'namespace': (item.value.namespace)
+              }
+            })
+          }}
+      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', downstream.helm_charts) }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.key }}"
+
+    - name: Write dict to vars_file
+      ansible.builtin.copy:
+        dest: /opt/firstboot/ansible/vars/workloadcluster.yml
+        content: >-
+          {{
+            { 'downstream_components': ( workloadcluster_chartvalues )
+            } | to_nice_yaml(indent=2, width=4096)
+          }}
+
+- name: Download Cluster-API manifests
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
     url: "{{ item.url }}"
     dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/{{ item.dest }}
@@ -65,6 +94,12 @@
   delay: 5
   until: clusterapi_manifests is not failed
 
+- name: Update cluster-template with image tags
+  ansible.builtin.replace:
+    dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/infrastructure-vsphere/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}/cluster-template.yaml
+    regexp: ':\${CPI_IMAGE_K8S_VERSION}'
+    replace: ":{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.cpi_vsphere }}"
+
 - name: Download kube-vip RBAC manifest
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
     url: https://kube-vip.io/manifests/rbac.yaml
@@ -74,6 +109,22 @@
   delay: 5
   until: kubevip_manifest is not failed
 
+- name: Download pinniped local-user-authenticator manifest
+  ansible.builtin.get_url:
+    url: https://get.pinniped.dev/{{ components.pinniped['local-user-authenticator'].version }}/install-local-user-authenticator.yaml
+    dest: /opt/metacluster/pinniped/local-user-authenticator.yaml
+  register: pinniped_manifest
+  retries: 5
+  delay: 5
+  until: pinniped_manifest is not failed
+
+- name: Trim image hash from manifest
+  ansible.builtin.replace:
+    path: /opt/metacluster/pinniped/local-user-authenticator.yaml
+    regexp: '([ ]*image: .*)@.*'
+    replace: '\1'
+  no_log: true
+
 # - name: Inject manifests
 #   ansible.builtin.template:
 #     src: "{{ item.type }}.j2"
@@ -81,6 +132,6 @@
 #     owner: root
 #     group: root
 #     mode: 0600
-#   loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.dict', components) | map(attribute='value.manifests') | list | select('defined') | flatten }}"
+#   loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', components) | map(attribute='value.manifests') | list | select('defined') | flatten }}"
 #   loop_control:
-#     label: "{{ item.type + '/' + item.name }}"
+#     label: "{{ item.type ~ '/' ~ item.name }}"

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/nodetemplates.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-- name: Download node-template image
-  ansible.builtin.uri:
-    url: "{{ components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.url }}"
-    dest: /opt/workloadcluster/node-templates/{{ components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.url | basename}}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/playbook.yml

@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@
 - hosts: 127.0.0.1
   connection: local
   gather_facts: true
+  vars:
+    # Needed by some templating in various tasks
+    _newline: "\n"
   vars_files:
     - defaults.yml
     - metacluster.yml
+    - workloadcluster.yml
   # become: true
   roles:
     - vapp

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/filter_plugins/netaddr.py

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-import netaddr
-
-def netaddr_iter_iprange(ip_start, ip_end):
-    return [str(ip) for ip in netaddr.iter_iprange(ip_start, ip_end)]
-
-class FilterModule(object):
-        ''' Ansible filter. Interface to netaddr methods.
-            https://pypi.org/project/netaddr/
-        '''
-
-        def filters(self):
-            return {
-                'netaddr_iter_iprange': netaddr_iter_iprange
-            }

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/authentication.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Install dex
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: dex
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/dex
+        release_namespace: dex
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['dex'].chart_values }}"
+
+- block:
+
+    - name: Install pinniped local-user-authenticator
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        src: /opt/metacluster/pinniped/local-user-authenticator.yaml
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+
+    - name: Create local-user-authenticator accounts
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        template: secret.j2
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      vars:
+        _template:
+          name: "{{ item.username }}"
+          namespace: local-user-authenticator
+          type: ''
+          data:
+            - key: groups
+              value: "{{ 'group1,group2' | b64encode }}"
+            - key: passwordHash
+              value: "{{ item.password | b64encode }}"
+      loop: "{{ components['localuserauthenticator'].users }}"
+
+- block:
+
+    - name: Install pinniped chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: pinniped
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/pinniped
+        release_namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['pinniped'].chart_values }}"
+
+    - name: Add ingress for supervisor
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        template: "{{ item.kind }}.j2"
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      vars:
+        _template:
+          name: "{{ item.name }}"
+          namespace: "{{ item.namespace }}"
+          spec: "{{ item.spec }}"
+      loop:
+        - kind: ingressroute
+          name: pinniped-supervisor
+          namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+          spec: |2
+              entryPoints:
+              - web
+              - websecure
+              routes:
+              - kind: Rule
+                match: Host(`auth.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}`)
+                services:
+                - kind: Service
+                  name: pinniped-supervisor
+                  namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+                  port: 443
+                  scheme: https
+                  serversTransport: pinniped-supervisor
+        - kind: serverstransport
+          name: pinniped-supervisor
+          namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+          spec: |2
+              insecureSkipVerify: true
+              serverName: auth.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.kind ~ '/' ~ item.name ~ ' (' ~ item.namespace ~ ')' }}"
+
+    - name: Ensure pinniped API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://auth.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/healthz
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.status == 200
+        - api_readycheck.msg is search("OK")
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
+
+    # TODO: Migrate to step-ca
+    - name: Initialize tempfile
+      ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+        state: directory
+      register: certificate
+
+    - name: Create private key (RSA, 4096 bits)
+      community.crypto.openssl_privatekey:
+        path: "{{ certificate.path }}/certificate.key"
+
+    - name: Create self-signed certificate
+      community.crypto.x509_certificate:
+        path: "{{ certificate.path }}/certificate.crt"
+        privatekey_path: "{{ certificate.path }}/certificate.key"
+        provider: selfsigned
+
+    - name: Store self-signed certificate for use by pinniped supervisor
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        template: secret.j2
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      vars:
+        _template:
+          name: pinniped-supervisor-tls
+          namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+          type: kubernetes.io/tls
+          data:
+            - key: tls.crt
+              value: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', certificate.path ~ '/certificate.crt') | b64encode }}"
+            - key: tls.key
+              value: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', certificate.path ~ '/certificate.key') | b64encode }}"
+    # TODO: Migrate to step-ca
+
+    - name: Create pinniped resources
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        template: "{{ item.kind }}.j2"
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      vars:
+        _template:
+          name: "{{ item.name }}"
+          namespace: "{{ item.namespace }}"
+          type: "{{ item.type | default('') }}"
+          data: "{{ item.data | default(omit) }}"
+          spec: "{{ item.spec | default(omit) }}"
+      loop:
+        - kind: oidcidentityprovider
+          name: dex-staticpasswords
+          namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+          spec: |2
+              issuer: https://idps.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+              tls:
+                certificateAuthorityData: "{{ (stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['intermediate_ca.crt'] ~ _newline ~ stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['root_ca.crt']) | b64encode }}"
+              authorizationConfig:
+                additionalScopes: [offline_access, groups, email]
+                allowPasswordGrant: false
+              claims:
+                username: email
+                groups: groups
+              client:
+                secretName: dex-clientcredentials
+        - kind: secret
+          name: dex-clientcredentials
+          namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+          type: secrets.pinniped.dev/oidc-client
+          data:
+            - key: clientID
+              value: "{{ 'pinniped-supervisor' | b64encode }}"
+            - key: clientSecret
+              value: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null length=64 chars=ascii_lowercase,digits seed=' ~ vapp['metacluster.fqdn']) | b64encode }}"
+        - kind: federationdomain
+          name: metacluster-sso
+          namespace: pinniped-supervisor
+          spec: |2
+              issuer: https://auth.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/sso
+              tls:
+                secretName: pinniped-supervisor-tls
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.kind ~ '/' ~ item.name }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/certauthority.yml

@@ -1,15 +1,52 @@
 - block:
 
+    - name: Import generated values file into dictionary and combine with custom values
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        values_initial: |
+          {{
+            lookup('ansible.builtin.file', stepconfig.path) | from_yaml |
+            combine( components['step-certificates'].chart_values | from_yaml, recursive=True, list_merge='append')
+          }}
+
+    - name: Duplicate default provisioner with modified claims
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        values_new: |
+          {{
+            values_initial |
+              combine({'inject':{'config':{'files':{'ca.json':{'authority': {'provisioners': [
+                values_initial.inject.config.files['ca.json'].authority.provisioners[0] | combine({'name':'long-lived', 'claims':{'maxTLSCertDuration':'87660h'}})
+              ]}}}}}}, list_merge='append_rp', recursive=true)
+          }}
+
+    # We're facing several bugs or niche cases that result in incorrect output, despite being behaviour by design:
+    # - Ansible's `to_yaml` filter, sees `\n` escape sequences in PEM certificate strings and correctly converts them to actual newlines - without any way to prevent this
+    #   So we cannot rely on Ansible to (re)create the helm chart values file
+    # - Python's yaml interpreter sees strings with a value of `y` as short for `yes` or `true`, even when that string is a key name.
+    #   So we cannot use a straightforward yaml document as input for the Ansible helm module (which is written in Python)
+    #
+    # Lets explain the following workaround steps:
+    # - First we convert the dictionary to a json-object (through Ansible), so that yq can read it
+    # - Second we convert the json-object in its entirety to yaml (through yq), so that yq can actually manipulate it.
+    # - Finally, we take one specific subkey's contents (list of dictionaries) and iterate over each with the following steps (with `map`):
+    #   - Convert the dictionary to json with `tojson`
+    #   - Remove newlines (and spaces) with `sub`
+    #   - Remove outer quotes (') with `sed`
+    - name: Save updated values file
+      ansible.builtin.shell:
+        cmd: |
+          echo '{{ values_new | to_nice_json }}' | yq -p json -o yaml | yq e '.inject.config.files["ca.json"].authority.provisioners |= map(tojson | sub("[\n ]";""))' | sed -e "s/- '/- /;s/'$//" > {{ stepconfig.path }}
+
     - name: Install step-ca chart
       kubernetes.core.helm:
         name: step-certificates
         chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/step-certificates
         release_namespace: step-ca
-        create_namespace: yes
-        # Unable to use REST api based readycheck due to missing ingress
-        wait: yes
+        create_namespace: true
+        # Unable to use REST api based readycheck due to lack of ingress
+        wait: true
         kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-        values: "{{ components.stepcertificates.chart_values }}"
+        values_files:
+          - "{{ stepconfig.path }}"
 
     - name: Retrieve configmap w/ root certificate
       kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
@@ -27,6 +64,7 @@
         kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
       loop:
         - argo-cd
+        - gitea
         # - kube-system
 
     - name: Store root certificate in namespaced configmaps/secrets
@@ -40,6 +78,7 @@
           namespace: "{{ item.namespace }}"
           annotations: "{{ item.annotations | default('{}') | indent(width=4, first=True) }}"
           labels: "{{ item.labels | default('{}') | indent(width=4, first=True) }}"
+          type: "{{ item.type | default('') }}"
           data: "{{ item.data }}"
       loop:
         - name: argocd-tls-certs-cm
@@ -55,6 +94,12 @@
           data:
             - key: git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
               value: "{{ stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['root_ca.crt'] }}"
+        - name: step-certificates-certs
+          namespace: gitea
+          kind: secret
+          data:
+            - key: ca_chain.crt
+              value: "{{ (stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['intermediate_ca.crt'] ~ _newline ~ stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['root_ca.crt']) | b64encode }}"
         - name: step-certificates-certs
           namespace: kube-system
           kind: secret
@@ -62,7 +107,7 @@
             - key: root_ca.crt
               value: "{{ stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['root_ca.crt'] | b64encode }}"
       loop_control:
-        label: "{{ item.kind + '/' + item.name + ' (' + item.namespace + ')' }}"
+        label: "{{ item.kind ~ '/' ~ item.name ~ ' (' ~ item.namespace ~ ')' }}"
 
     - name: Configure step-ca passthrough ingress
       ansible.builtin.template:
@@ -75,7 +120,7 @@
         _template:
           name: step-ca
           namespace: step-ca
-          config: |2
+          spec: |2
               entryPoints:
                 - websecure
               routes:
@@ -99,30 +144,23 @@
               env:
                 - name: LEGO_CA_CERTIFICATES
                   value: /step-ca/root_ca.crt
-        marker: '    # {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK'
+        marker: '    # {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK [rootca]'
       notify:
         - Apply manifests
 
     - name: Trigger handlers
       ansible.builtin.meta: flush_handlers
 
-    - name: Retrieve step-ca configuration
-      kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
-        kind: ConfigMap
-        name: step-certificates-config
-        namespace: step-ca
-        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-      register: stepca_cm_config
-
-    - name: Install root CA in system truststore
-      ansible.builtin.shell:
-        cmd: >-
-          step ca bootstrap \
-            --ca-url=https://ca.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }} \
-            --fingerprint={{ stepca_cm_config.resources[0].data['defaults.json'] | from_json | json_query('fingerprint') }} \
-            --install \
-            --force
-          update-ca-certificates
+    - name: Ensure step-ca API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://ca.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/health
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
+        - api_readycheck.json.status == 'ok'
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
   module_defaults:
     ansible.builtin.uri:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/git.yml

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
         name: gitea
         chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/gitea
         release_namespace: gitea
-        create_namespace: yes
-        wait: no
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
         kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-        values: "{{ components.gitea.chart_values }}"
+        values: "{{ components['gitea'].chart_values }}"
 
     - name: Ensure gitea API availability
       ansible.builtin.uri:
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
         - api_readycheck.json.status == 'pass'
       retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.long }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
     - name: Configure additional SSH ingress
       ansible.builtin.template:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         _template:
           name: gitea-ssh
           namespace: gitea
-          config: |2
+          spec: |2
               entryPoints:
                 - ssh
               routes:
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
         force_basic_auth: yes
         body:
           name: token_init_{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null length=5 chars=ascii_letters,digits') }}
+          scopes: ["write:user","write:organization"]
       register: gitea_api_token
 
     - name: Retrieve existing gitea configuration
@@ -107,6 +108,12 @@
               Authorization: token {{ gitea_api_token.json.sha1 }}
             body: "{{ item.body }}"
           loop:
+            - organization: mc
+              body:
+                name: GitOps.ClusterAPI
+                auto_init: true
+                default_branch: main
+                description: ClusterAPI manifests
             - organization: mc
               body:
                 name: GitOps.Config
@@ -115,20 +122,26 @@
                 description: GitOps manifests
             - organization: wl
               body:
-                name: Template.GitOps.Config
-                # auto_init: true
-                # default_branch: main
+                name: GitOps.Config
+                auto_init: true
+                default_branch: main
                 description: GitOps manifests
+            - organization: wl
+              body:
+                name: ClusterAccess.Store
+                auto_init: true
+                default_branch: main
+                description: Kubeconfig files
           loop_control:
-            label: "{{ item.organization + '/' + item.body.name }}"
+            label: "{{ item.organization ~ '/' ~ item.body.name }}"
 
-        - name: Rebase/Push source gitops repository
-          ansible.builtin.shell:
-            cmd: |
-              git config --local http.sslVerify false
-              git remote set-url origin https://administrator:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | urlencode }}@git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.Config.git
-              git push
-            chdir: /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
+        # - name: Rebase/Push source gitops repository
+        #   ansible.builtin.shell:
+        #     cmd: |
+        #       git config --local http.sslVerify false
+        #       git remote set-url origin https://administrator:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | urlencode }}@git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.Config.git
+        #       git push
+        #     chdir: /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
 
       when: (gitea_existing_config.json is undefined) or (gitea_existing_config.json.data | length == 0)
 

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/gitops.yml

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
         name: argo-cd
         chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/argo-cd
         release_namespace: argo-cd
-        create_namespace: yes
-        wait: no
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
         kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-        values: "{{ components.argocd.chart_values }}"
+        values: "{{ components['argo-cd'].chart_values }}"
 
     - name: Ensure argo-cd API availability
       ansible.builtin.uri:
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
       until:
         - api_readycheck.json.Version is defined
       retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.long }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
     - name: Generate argo-cd API token
       ansible.builtin.uri:
@@ -39,24 +39,29 @@
         mode: 0600
       vars:
         _template:
-          name: argocd-gitrepo-metacluster
+          name: gitrepo-mc-gitopsconfig
           namespace: argo-cd
-          uid: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null length=5 chars=ascii_lowercase,digits seed=inventory_hostname') }}"
-          privatekey: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '~/.ssh/git_rsa_id') | indent(4, true) }}"
+          url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.Config.git
       notify:
         - Apply manifests
 
     - name: Create applicationset
       ansible.builtin.template:
         src: applicationset.j2
-        dest: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/{{ _template.name }}-manifest.yaml
+        dest: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/{{ _template.application.name }}-manifest.yaml
         owner: root
         group: root
         mode: 0600
       vars:
         _template:
-          name: argocd-applicationset-metacluster
-          namespace: argo-cd
+          application:
+            name: applicationset-metacluster
+            namespace: argo-cd
+          cluster:
+            url: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+          repository:
+            url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.Config.git
+            revision: main
       notify:
         - Apply manifests
 

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/ingress.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+- name: Reconfigure traefik container for persistence
+  ansible.builtin.blockinfile:
+    path: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/traefik-config.yaml
+    block: |2
+          deployment:
+            initContainers:
+              - name: volume-permissions
+                image: busybox:1
+                command: ["sh", "-c", "touch /data/acme.json; chown 65532 /data/acme.json; chmod -v 600 /data/acme.json"]
+                securityContext:
+                  runAsNonRoot: false
+                  runAsGroup: 0
+                  runAsUser: 0
+                volumeMounts:
+                  - name: data
+                    mountPath: /data
+          persistence:
+            enabled: true
+    marker: '    # {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK [persistence]'
+  notify:
+    - Apply manifests
+
 - name: Configure traefik dashboard ingress
   ansible.builtin.template:
     src: ingressroute.j2
@@ -9,7 +31,7 @@
     _template:
       name: traefik-dashboard
       namespace: kube-system
-      config: |2
+      spec: |2
           entryPoints:
           - web
           - websecure

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/init.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 - name: Configure fallback name resolution
   ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
     path: /etc/hosts
-    line: "{{ vapp['guestinfo.ipaddress'] }}  {{ item + '.' + vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
+    line: "{{ vapp['guestinfo.ipaddress'] }}  {{ item ~ '.' ~ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
     state: present
   loop:
     # TODO: Make this list dynamic
@@ -11,3 +11,90 @@
     - ingress
     - registry
     - storage
+
+- name: Create step-ca config dictionary
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    stepconfig: "{{ { 'path': ansible_env.HOME ~ '/.step/config/values.yaml' } }}"
+
+- name: Create step-ca target folder
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ stepconfig.path | dirname }}"
+    state: directory
+
+- name: Initialize tempfile
+  ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+    state: file
+  register: stepca_password
+
+- name: Store password in tempfile
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    dest: "{{ stepca_password.path }}"
+    content: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }}"
+  no_log: true
+
+- name: Generate step-ca helm chart values (including root CA certificate)
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      step ca init \
+        --helm \
+        --deployment-type=standalone \
+        --name=ca.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }} \
+        --dns=ca.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }} \
+        --dns=step-certificates.step-ca.svc.cluster.local \
+        --dns=127.0.0.1 \
+        --address=:9000 \
+        --provisioner=admin \
+        --acme \
+        --password-file={{ stepca_password.path }} | tee {{ stepconfig.path }}
+    creates: "{{ stepconfig.path }}"
+
+- name: Cleanup tempfile
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ stepca_password.path }}"
+    state: absent
+  when: stepca_password.path is defined
+
+- name: Store root CA certificate
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    dest: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/root_ca.crt
+    content: "{{ (lookup('ansible.builtin.file', stepconfig.path) | from_yaml).inject.certificates.root_ca }}"
+
+- name: Update certificate truststore
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: update-ca-certificates
+
+- name: Extract container images (for idempotency purposes)
+  ansible.builtin.unarchive:
+    src: /opt/metacluster/container-images/image-tarballs.tgz
+    dest: /opt/metacluster/container-images
+    remote_src: no
+  when:
+    - lookup('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/metacluster/container-images/*.tgz') is match('.*image-tarballs.tgz')
+
+- name: Get all stored fully qualified container image names
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      skopeo list-tags \
+        --insecure-policy \
+        docker-archive:./{{ item | basename }} | \
+      jq -r '.Tags[0]'
+    chdir: /opt/metacluster/container-images
+  register: registry_artifacts
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/metacluster/container-images/*.tar') | sort }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item | basename }}"
+
+- name: Get source registries of all artifacts
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    source_registries: "{{ (source_registries | default([]) + [(item | split('/'))[0]]) | unique | sort }}"
+  loop: "{{ registry_artifacts | json_query('results[*].stdout') | select | sort }}"
+
+- name: Configure K3s node for private registry
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    dest: /etc/rancher/k3s/registries.yaml
+    src: registries.j2
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      registries: "{{ source_registries }}"
+      hv:
+        fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/k3s.yml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
       content: |
         kubelet-arg:
           - "config=/etc/rancher/k3s/kubelet.config"
+          - "image-gc-high-threshold=95"
     - filename: /etc/rancher/k3s/kubelet.config
       content: |
         apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
@@ -30,17 +31,6 @@
     INSTALL_K3S_EXEC: "server --cluster-init --token {{ vapp['metacluster.token'] | trim }} --tls-san {{ vapp['metacluster.vip'] }} --disable local-storage --config /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml"
   when: ansible_facts.services['k3s.service'] is undefined
 
-- name: Debug possible taints on k3s node
-  ansible.builtin.shell:
-    cmd: >-
-      while true;
-      do
-        kubectl get nodes -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,TAINTS:.spec.taints --no-headers | awk '{print strftime("%H:%M:%S"),$0;fflush();}' >> /var/log/taintlog
-        sleep 1
-      done
-  async: 1800
-  poll: 0
-
 - name: Ensure API availability
   ansible.builtin.uri:
     url: https://{{ vapp['guestinfo.ipaddress'] }}:6443/livez?verbose
@@ -50,21 +40,32 @@
   register: api_readycheck
   until: api_readycheck.json.apiVersion is defined
   retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-  delay: "{{ playbook.delays.medium }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.medium | int) }}"
 
-- name: Install kubectl tab-completion
+- name: Install tab-completion
   ansible.builtin.shell:
-    cmd: kubectl completion bash | tee /etc/bash_completion.d/kubectl
+    cmd: |-
+      {{ item }} completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/{{ item }}
+    creates: /etc/bash_completion.d/{{ item }}
+  loop:
+    - kubectl
+    - helm
+    - step
 
-- name: Initialize tempfile
-  ansible.builtin.tempfile:
-    state: file
-  register: kubeconfig
+- name: Create kubeconfig dictionary
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    kubeconfig: "{{ { 'path': ansible_env.HOME ~ '/.kube/config' } }}"
+
+- name: Create kubeconfig target folder
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ kubeconfig.path | dirname }}"
+    state: directory
 
 - name: Retrieve kubeconfig
   ansible.builtin.command:
     cmd: kubectl config view --raw
   register: kubectl_config
+  no_log: true
 
 - name: Store kubeconfig in tempfile
   ansible.builtin.copy:
@@ -72,3 +73,19 @@
     content: "{{ kubectl_config.stdout }}"
     mode: 0600
   no_log: true
+
+- name: Add label to node object
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    name: "{{ ansible_facts.nodename | lower }}"
+    kind: Node
+    state: patched
+    definition:
+      metadata:
+        labels:
+          ova.airgappedk8s/moref_id: "{{ moref_id }}"
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+  register: k8snode_patch
+  until:
+    - k8snode_patch.result.metadata.labels['ova.airgappedk8s/moref_id'] is defined
+  retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.medium | int) }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 - import_tasks: init.yml
 - import_tasks: k3s.yml
 - import_tasks: assets.yml
-- import_tasks: kube-vip.yml
+- import_tasks: workflow.yml
+- import_tasks: virtualip.yml
+- import_tasks: metadata.yml
 - import_tasks: storage.yml
 - import_tasks: ingress.yml
 - import_tasks: certauthority.yml
 - import_tasks: registry.yml
 - import_tasks: git.yml
 - import_tasks: gitops.yml
+- import_tasks: authentication.yml

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/metadata.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+- block:
+    - name: Aggregate manifest-component versions into dictionary
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        manifest_versions: "{{ manifest_versions | default([]) + [ item | combine( {'type': 'manifest', 'id': index } ) ] }}"
+      loop:
+        - name: cluster-api
+          versions:
+            management:
+              base: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}"
+              cert_manager: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.cert_manager }}"
+              infrastructure_vsphere: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}"
+              ipam_incluster: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.ipam_incluster }}"
+              cpi_vsphere: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.cpi_vsphere }}"
+            workload:
+              calico: "{{ components.clusterapi.workload.version.calico }}"
+              k8s: "{{ components.clusterapi.workload.version.k8s }}"
+        - name: kube-vip
+          version: "{{ components.kubevip.version }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.name }}"
+        index_var: index
+
+    - name: Install json-server chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: json-server
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/json-server
+        release_namespace: json-server
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: |
+          {{
+            components['json-server'].chart_values |
+            combine(
+              { 'jsonServer': { 'seedData': { 'configInline': (
+                { 'appliance': { "version": appliance.version }, 'components': manifest_versions, 'healthz': { 'status': 'running' } }
+              ) | to_json } } }
+            )
+          }}
+
+    - name: Ensure json-server API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://version.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/healthz
+        method: GET
+        # This mock REST API -ironically- does not support json encoded body argument
+        body_format: raw
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
+        - api_readycheck.json.status == 'running'
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/registry.yml

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
         name: harbor
         chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/harbor
         release_namespace: harbor
-        create_namespace: yes
-        wait: no
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
         kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-        values: "{{ components.harbor.chart_values }}"
+        values: "{{ components['harbor'].chart_values }}"
 
     - name: Ensure harbor API availability
       ansible.builtin.uri:
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
         - api_readycheck.json.status == 'healthy'
       retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.long }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
     - name: Push images to registry
       ansible.builtin.shell:
@@ -40,30 +40,9 @@
       loop_control:
         label: "{{ item | basename }}"
       retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.short }}"
+      delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
       until: push_result is not failed
 
-    - name: Get all stored container images (=artifacts)
-      ansible.builtin.uri:
-        url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/search?q=library
-        method: GET
-      register: registry_artifacts
-
-    - name: Get source registries of all artifacts
-      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-        source_registries: "{{ (source_registries | default([]) + [(item | split('/'))[1]]) | unique | sort }}"
-      loop: "{{ registry_artifacts.json.repository | json_query('[*].repository_name') }}"
-
-    - name: Configure K3s node for private registry
-      ansible.builtin.template:
-        dest: /etc/rancher/k3s/registries.yaml
-        src: registries.j2
-      vars:
-        _template:
-          data: "{{ source_registries }}"
-          hv:
-            fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
-
   module_defaults:
     ansible.builtin.uri:
       validate_certs: no

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/storage.yml

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
         name: longhorn
         chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/longhorn
         release_namespace: longhorn-system
-        create_namespace: yes
-        wait: no
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
         kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-        values: "{{ components.longhorn.chart_values }}"
+        values: "{{ components['longhorn'].chart_values }}"
 
     - name: Ensure longhorn API availability
       ansible.builtin.uri:
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
       until:
         - api_readycheck is not failed
       retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.long }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
   module_defaults:
     ansible.builtin.uri:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/workflow.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Create target namespace(s)
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        name: "{{ item }}"
+        kind: Namespace
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      loop:
+        # - argo-workflows
+        - firstboot
+
+    - name: Create ClusterRoleBinding for default serviceaccount
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        state: present
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        definition: |
+          kind: ClusterRoleBinding
+          metadata:
+            name: argo-workflows-firstboot-clusteradmin
+          roleRef:
+            apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
+            kind: ClusterRole
+            name: cluster-admin
+          subjects:
+          - kind: ServiceAccount
+            name: default
+            namespace: firstboot
+
+    - name: Install argo-workflows chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: argo-workflows
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/argo-workflows
+        release_namespace: argo-workflows
+        create_namespace: true
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['argo-workflows'].chart_values }}"
+
+    - name: Ensure argo workflows API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://workflow.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v1/version
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.version is defined
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/preflight/tasks/vapp.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+- name: Check for expected vApp properties
+  ansible.builtin.assert:
+    that:
+      - vapp[item] is defined
+      - (vapp[item] | length) > 0
+    quiet: true
+  loop:
+    - deployment.type
+    - guestinfo.dnsserver
+    - guestinfo.gateway
+    - guestinfo.hostname
+    - guestinfo.ipaddress
+    - guestinfo.prefixlength
+    - guestinfo.rootsshkey
+    - hv.fqdn
+    - hv.password
+    - hv.username
+    - ippool.endip
+    - ippool.startip
+    - metacluster.fqdn
+    - metacluster.password
+    - metacluster.token
+    - metacluster.vip
+    - workloadcluster.name
+    - workloadcluster.vip

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/authentication.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+- name: Initialize tempfolder
+  ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+    state: directory
+  register: pinniped_kubeconfig
+
+- name: Pull existing repository
+  ansible.builtin.git:
+    repo: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/wl/ClusterAccess.Store.git
+    dest: "{{ pinniped_kubeconfig.path }}"
+    version: main
+
+- name: Generate kubeconfig
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: pinniped get kubeconfig --kubeconfig {{ capi_kubeconfig.path }}
+  register: pinniped_config
+  until:
+    - pinniped_config is not failed
+  retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
+
+- name: Store kubeconfig in tempfile
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    dest: "{{ pinniped_kubeconfig.path }}/kubeconfig"
+    content: "{{ pinniped_config.stdout }}"
+    mode: 0600
+  no_log: true
+
+- name: Push git repository
+  lvrfrc87.git_acp.git_acp:
+    path: "{{ pinniped_kubeconfig.path }}"
+    branch: main
+    comment: "Upload kubeconfig files"
+    add:
+      - .
+    url: https://administrator:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | urlencode }}@git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/wl/ClusterAccess.Store.git
+  environment:
+    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: administrator
+    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME: administrator
+    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 - block:
+  # Below tasks circumvent usernames with `<domain>\<username>` format, which causes CAPV to
+  # incorrectly interpret the backslash (despite automatic escaping) as an escape sequence.
+  # `vcenter_session.user` will instead contain the username in `<username>@<domain>` format.
 
     - name: Generate vCenter API token
       ansible.builtin.uri:
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@
         url: https://{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}/api/session
         method: GET
         headers:
-          vmware-api-session-id: "{{ vcenter_api_token.json }}"
+          vmware-api-session-id: "{{ vcenterapi_token.json }}"
       register: vcenter_session
 
   module_defaults:
@@ -44,45 +47,32 @@
         resourcepool: "{{ vcenter_info.resourcepool }}"
         folder: "{{ vcenter_info.folder }}"
       cluster:
-        nodetemplate: "{{ (components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.url | basename | split('.'))[:-1] | join('.') }}"
+        nodetemplate: "{{ nodetemplate_inventorypath }}"
         publickey: "{{ vapp['guestinfo.rootsshkey'] }}"
         version: "{{ components.clusterapi.workload.version.k8s }}"
         vip: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.vip'] }}"
 
-- name: Update image references to use local registry
-  ansible.builtin.replace:
-    dest: "{{ item.root + '/' + item.path }}"
-    regexp: '([ ]+image:[ "]+)(?!({{ _template.pattern }}|"{{ _template.pattern }}))'
-    replace: '\1{{ _template.pattern }}'
-  vars:
-    _template:
-      pattern: registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/library/
-  loop: "{{ lookup('community.general.filetree', '/opt/metacluster/cluster-api') }}"
-  loop_control:
-    label: "{{ item.path }}"
-  when:
-    - item.path is search('.yaml')
-    - item.path is not search("clusterctl.yaml|metadata.yaml")
-
-- name: Generate kustomization template
+- name: Generate cluster-template kustomization manifest
   ansible.builtin.template:
     src: kustomization.cluster-template.j2
     dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/infrastructure-vsphere/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}/kustomization.yaml
   vars:
     _template:
-      fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
+      network:
+        fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
+        dnsserver: "{{ vapp['guestinfo.dnsserver'] }}"
+      nodesize:
+        cpu: "{{ config.clusterapi.size_matrix[ vapp['workloadcluster.nodesize'] ].cpu }}"
+        memory: "{{ config.clusterapi.size_matrix[ vapp['workloadcluster.nodesize'] ].memory }}"
       rootca: "{{ stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['root_ca.crt'] }}"
-      script:
-        # Base64 encoded; to avoid variable substitution when clusterctl parses the cluster-template.yml
-        encoded: 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
       runcmds:
         - update-ca-certificates
-        - bash /root/network.sh
+      registries: "{{ source_registries }}"
 
 - name: Store custom cluster-template
   ansible.builtin.copy:
     dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/custom-cluster-template.yaml
-    content: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='/opt/metacluster/cluster-api/infrastructure-vsphere/' + components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere ) }}"
+    content: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='/opt/metacluster/cluster-api/infrastructure-vsphere/' ~ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere ) }}"
 
 - name: Initialize Cluster API management cluster
   ansible.builtin.shell:
@@ -95,7 +85,41 @@
         --kubeconfig {{ kubeconfig.path }}
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api
 
-- name: Ensure CAPI/CAPV controller availability
+- name: Initialize tempfolder
+  ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+    state: directory
+  register: capi_clustermanifest
+
+- name: Pull existing repository
+  ansible.builtin.git:
+    repo: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.ClusterAPI.git
+    dest: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}"
+    version: main
+
+- name: Generate Cluster API provider manifests
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      clusterctl generate provider \
+        -v5 \
+        --{{ item.type }} {{ item.name }}:{{ item.version }} \
+        --config ./clusterctl.yaml > {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/provider-{{ item.name }}.yaml
+    chdir: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api
+  loop:
+    - type: infrastructure
+      name: vsphere
+      version: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}"
+    - type: ipam
+      name: in-cluster
+      version: "{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.ipam_incluster }}"
+
+- name: Split cluster API provider manifests into separate files
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      awk 'BEGINFILE {print "---"}{print}' {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/provider-*.yaml |
+      kubectl slice \
+        -o {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/providers
+
+- name: Ensure controller availability
   kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
     kind: Deployment
     name: "{{ item.name }}"
@@ -103,6 +127,8 @@
     wait: true
     kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
   loop:
+    - name: capi-ipam-in-cluster-controller-manager
+      namespace: capi-ipam-in-cluster-system
     - name: capi-controller-manager
       namespace: capi-system
     - name: capv-controller-manager
@@ -115,7 +141,8 @@
     clustersize: >-
       {{ {
         'controlplane': vapp['deployment.type'] | regex_findall('^cp(\d)+') | first,
-        'workers': vapp['deployment.type'] | regex_findall('w(\d)+$') | first
+        'worker': vapp['deployment.type'] | regex_findall('w(\d)+') | first,
+        'workerstorage': vapp['deployment.type'] | regex_findall('ws(\d)+$') | first
       } }}
 
 - name: Generate workload cluster manifest
@@ -124,25 +151,136 @@
       clusterctl generate cluster \
         {{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }} \
         --control-plane-machine-count {{ clustersize.controlplane }} \
-        --worker-machine-count {{ clustersize.workers }} \
+        --worker-machine-count {{ clustersize.worker }} \
         --from ./custom-cluster-template.yaml \
         --config ./clusterctl.yaml \
         --kubeconfig {{ kubeconfig.path }}
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api
   register: clusterctl_newcluster
 
-# TODO: move to git repo
 - name: Save workload cluster manifest
   ansible.builtin.copy:
-    dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/new-cluster.yaml
+    dest: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/new-cluster.yaml"
     content: "{{ clusterctl_newcluster.stdout }}"
-- name: Apply workload cluster manifest
-  kubernetes.core.k8s:
-    definition: >-
-      {{ clusterctl_newcluster.stdout }}
-    wait: yes
-    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-# TODO: move to git repo
+
+- name: Split workload cluster manifest into separate files
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      kubectl slice \
+        -f {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/new-cluster.yaml \
+        -o {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/downstream-cluster
+
+- name: Generate nodepool kustomization manifest
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: kustomization.longhorn-storage.j2
+    dest: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/kustomization.yaml"
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      cluster:
+        name: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] }}"
+      nodepool:
+        size: "{{ clustersize.workerstorage }}"
+        additionaldisk: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.additionaldisk'] }}"
+
+- name: Store nodepool manifest
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    dest: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/nodepool-worker-storage.yaml"
+    content: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir=capi_clustermanifest.path) }}"
+
+- name: Split nodepool manifest into separate files
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      kubectl slice \
+        -f {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/nodepool-worker-storage.yaml \
+        -o {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/downstream-cluster
+
+- name: Create in-cluster IpPool
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: ippool.j2
+    dest: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/downstream-cluster/inclusterippool-{{ _template.cluster.name }}.yml"
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      cluster:
+        name: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }}"
+        namespace: default
+        network:
+          startip: "{{ vapp['ippool.startip'] }}"
+          endip: "{{ vapp['ippool.endip'] }}"
+          prefix: "{{ vapp['guestinfo.prefixlength'] }}"
+          gateway: "{{ vapp['guestinfo.gateway'] }}"
+
+- name: Push git repository
+  lvrfrc87.git_acp.git_acp:
+    path: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}"
+    branch: main
+    comment: "Upload manifests"
+    add:
+      - ./downstream-cluster
+      - ./providers
+    clean: untracked
+    url: https://administrator:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | urlencode }}@git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.ClusterAPI.git
+  environment:
+    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: administrator
+    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME: administrator
+    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+
+# - name: Cleanup tempfolder
+#   ansible.builtin.file:
+#     path: "{{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}"
+#     state: absent
+#   when: capi_clustermanifest.path is defined
+
+- name: Configure Cluster API repository
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: gitrepo.j2
+    dest: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/{{ _template.name }}-manifest.yaml
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: 0600
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      name: gitrepo-mc-gitopsclusterapi
+      namespace: argo-cd
+      url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.ClusterAPI.git
+  notify:
+    - Apply manifests
+
+- name: WORKAROUND - Wait for ingress ACME requests to complete
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      openssl s_client -connect registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}:443 -servername registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }} 2>/dev/null </dev/null | \
+        openssl x509 -noout -subject | \
+      grep 'subject=CN = registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}'
+  register: certificate_subject
+  until: certificate_subject is not failed
+  retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.medium | int) }}"
+
+- name: Create application
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: application.j2
+    dest: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/{{ _template.application.name }}-manifest.yaml
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: 0600
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      application:
+        name: application-clusterapi-workloadcluster
+        namespace: argo-cd
+      cluster:
+        name: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+        namespace: default
+      repository:
+        url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/mc/GitOps.ClusterAPI.git
+        path: downstream-cluster
+        revision: main
+  notify:
+    - Apply manifests
+
+- name: Trigger handlers
+  ansible.builtin.meta: flush_handlers
 
 - name: Wait for cluster to be available
   ansible.builtin.shell:
@@ -153,7 +291,7 @@
   register: cluster_readycheck
   until: cluster_readycheck is succeeded
   retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-  delay: "{{ playbook.delays.long }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
 - name: Initialize tempfile
   ansible.builtin.tempfile:
@@ -178,8 +316,13 @@
 # TODO: move to git repo
 - name: Apply cni plugin manifest
   kubernetes.core.k8s:
-    src: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/cni-calico/{{ components.clusterapi.workload.version.calico }}/calico.yaml
+    definition: |
+      {{
+        lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '/opt/metacluster/cluster-api/cni-calico/' ~ components.clusterapi.workload.version.calico ~ '/calico.yaml') |
+          regex_replace('# - name: CALICO_IPV4POOL_CIDR', '- name: CALICO_IPV4POOL_CIDR') |
+          regex_replace('#   value: "192.168.0.0/16"',    '  value: "172.30.0.0/16"')
+      }}
     state: present
-    wait: yes
+    wait: true
     kubeconfig: "{{ capi_kubeconfig.path }}"
 # TODO: move to git repo

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/gitops.yml

@@ -1,44 +1,132 @@
-- block:
+- name: Aggregate helm charts from filesystem
+  ansible.builtin.find:
+    path: /opt/workloadcluster/helm-charts
+    file_type: directory
+    recurse: false
+  register: helm_charts
 
-    - name: Generate service account in workload cluster
-      kubernetes.core.k8s:
-        template: serviceaccount.j2
-        state: present
+- name: Pull existing repository
+  ansible.builtin.git:
+    repo: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/wl/GitOps.Config.git
+    dest: /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops
+    version: main
 
-    - name: Retrieve service account bearer token
-      kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
-        kind: ServiceAccount
-        name: "{{ _template.account.name }}"
-        namespace: "{{ _template.account.namespace }}"
-      register: workloadcluster_serviceaccount
+- name: Create folder structure within new git-repository
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ item }}"
+    state: directory
+  loop:
+    - /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops/charts
+    - /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops/values
 
-    - name: Retrieve service account bearer token
-      kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
-        kind: Secret
-        name: "{{ workloadcluster_serviceaccount.resources | json_query('[].secrets[].name') | first }}"
-        namespace: "{{ _template.account.namespace }}"
-      register: workloadcluster_bearertoken
+- name: Create hard-links to populate new git-repository
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      cp -lr {{ item.path }}/ /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops/charts
+  loop: "{{ helm_charts.files }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.path | basename }}"
 
-    - name: Register workload cluster in argo-cd
-      kubernetes.core.k8s:
-        template: cluster.j2
-        state: present
-        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-      vars:
-        _template:
-          cluster:
-            name: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }}"
-            secret: argocd-cluster-{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }}
-            url: https://{{ vapp['workloadcluster.vip'] }}:6443
-            token: "{{ workloadcluster_bearertoken.resources | json_query('[].data.token') }}"
+- name: Write custom manifests to respective chart templates store
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: "{{ src }}"
+    dest: /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops/charts/{{ manifest.value.namespace }}/{{ manifest.key }}/templates/{{ (src | split('.'))[0] ~ '-' ~ _template.name ~ '.yaml' }}
+  vars:
+    manifest: "{{ item.0 }}"
+    src: "{{ item.1.src }}"
+    _template: "{{ item.1._template }}"
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.subelements', query('ansible.builtin.dict', downstream_components), 'value.extra_manifests') }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ (src | split('.'))[0] ~ '-' ~ _template.name }}"
 
+- name: Create subfolders
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops/values/{{ item.key }}
+    state: directory
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', downstream_components) }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.key }}"
+
+- name: Write chart values to file
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    dest: /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops/values/{{ item.key }}/values.yaml
+    content: "{{ item.value.chart_values | default('# Empty') | to_nice_yaml(indent=2, width=4096) }}"
+  loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.dict', downstream_components) }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.key }}"
+
+- name: Push git repository
+  lvrfrc87.git_acp.git_acp:
+    path: /opt/workloadcluster/git-repositories/gitops
+    branch: main
+    comment: "Upload charts"
+    add:
+      - .
+    url: https://administrator:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | urlencode }}@git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/wl/GitOps.Config.git
+  environment:
+    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: administrator
+    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME: administrator
+    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+
+- name: Retrieve workload-cluster kubeconfig
+  kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
+    kind: Secret
+    name: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] }}-kubeconfig"
+    namespace: default
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+  register: secret_workloadcluster_kubeconfig
+
+- name: Register workload-cluster in argo-cd
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    template: cluster.j2
+    state: present
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
   vars:
     _template:
-      account:
-        name: argocd-sa
-        namespace: default
-      clusterrolebinding:
-        name: argocd-crb
-  module_defaults:
-    group/k8s:
-      kubeconfig: "{{ capi_kubeconfig.path }}"
+      cluster:
+        name: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }}"
+        secret: argocd-cluster-{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }}
+        url: https://{{ vapp['workloadcluster.vip'] }}:6443
+      kubeconfig:
+        ca: "{{ (secret_workloadcluster_kubeconfig.resources[0].data.value | b64decode | from_yaml).clusters[0].cluster['certificate-authority-data'] }}"
+        certificate: "{{ (secret_workloadcluster_kubeconfig.resources[0].data.value | b64decode | from_yaml).users[0].user['client-certificate-data'] }}"
+        key: "{{ (secret_workloadcluster_kubeconfig.resources[0].data.value | b64decode | from_yaml).users[0].user['client-key-data'] }}"
+
+- name: Configure workload-cluster GitOps repository
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: gitrepo.j2
+    dest: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/{{ _template.name }}-manifest.yaml
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: 0600
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      name: gitrepo-wl-gitopsconfig
+      namespace: argo-cd
+      url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/wl/GitOps.Config.git
+  notify:
+    - Apply manifests
+
+- name: Create applicationset
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: applicationset.j2
+    dest: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/{{ _template.application.name }}-manifest.yaml
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: 0600
+  vars:
+    _template:
+      application:
+        name: applicationset-workloadcluster
+        namespace: argo-cd
+      cluster:
+        url: https://{{ vapp['workloadcluster.vip'] }}:6443
+      repository:
+        url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/wl/GitOps.Config.git
+        revision: main
+  notify:
+    - Apply manifests
+
+- name: Trigger handlers
+  ansible.builtin.meta: flush_handlers

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 - import_tasks: hypervisor.yml
 - import_tasks: registry.yml
 - import_tasks: nodetemplates.yml
-- import_tasks: clusterapi.yml
-- import_tasks: gitops.yml
+
+- block:
+
+    - import_tasks: clusterapi.yml
+    - import_tasks: gitops.yml
+    - import_tasks: authentication.yml
+
+  when:
+    - vapp['deployment.type'] != 'core'

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/nodetemplates.yml

@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-- block:
-
-    - name: Check for existing templates on hypervisor
-      community.vmware.vmware_guest_info:
-        name: "{{ (item | basename | split('.'))[:-1] | join('.') }}"
-      register: existing_ova
-      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/workloadcluster/node-templates/*.ova') | sort }}"
-      ignore_errors: yes
-
-    - name: Parse OVA files for network mappings
-      ansible.builtin.shell:
-        cmd: govc import.spec -json {{ item }}
-      environment:
-        GOVC_INSECURE: '1'
-        GOVC_URL: "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}"
-        GOVC_USERNAME: "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}"
-        GOVC_PASSWORD: "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}"
-      register: ova_spec
-      when: existing_ova.results[index] is failed
-      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/workloadcluster/node-templates/*.ova') | sort }}"
-      loop_control:
-        index_var: index
-
-    - name: Deploy OVA templates on hypervisor
-      community.vmware.vmware_deploy_ovf:
-        cluster: "{{ vcenter_info.cluster }}"
-        datastore: "{{ vcenter_info.datastore }}"
-        folder: "{{ vcenter_info.folder }}"
-        name: "{{ (item | basename | split('.'))[:-1] | join('.') }}"
-        networks: "{u'{{ ova_spec.results[index].stdout | from_json | json_query('NetworkMapping[0].Name') }}':u'{{ vcenter_info.network }}'}"
-        allow_duplicates: no
-        power_on: false
-        ovf: "{{ item }}"
-      register: ova_deploy
-      when: existing_ova.results[index] is failed
-      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/workloadcluster/node-templates/*.ova') | sort }}"
-      loop_control:
-        index_var: index
-
-    - name: Add vApp properties on deployed VM's
-      ansible.builtin.shell:
-        cmd: >-
-          npp-prepper \
-            --server "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}" \
-            --username "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}" \
-            --password "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}" \
-            vm \
-            --datacenter "{{ vcenter_info.datacenter }}" \
-            --portgroup "{{ vcenter_info.network }}" \
-            --name "{{ item.instance.hw_name }}"
-      when: existing_ova.results[index] is failed
-      loop: "{{ ova_deploy.results }}"
-      loop_control:
-        index_var: index
-        label: "{{ item.item }}"
-
-    - name: Create snapshot on deployed VM's
-      community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot:
-        folder: "{{ vcenter_info.folder }}"
-        name: "{{ item.instance.hw_name }}"
-        state: present
-        snapshot_name: "{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601_basic_short }}-base"
-      when: ova_deploy.results[index] is not skipped
-      loop: "{{ ova_deploy.results }}"
-      loop_control:
-        index_var: index
-        label: "{{ item.item }}"
-
-    - name: Mark deployed VM's as templates
-      community.vmware.vmware_guest:
-        name: "{{ item.instance.hw_name }}"
-        is_template: yes
-      when: ova_deploy.results[index] is not skipped
-      loop: "{{ ova_deploy.results }}"
-      loop_control:
-        index_var: index
-        label: "{{ item.item }}"
-
-  module_defaults:
-    group/vmware:
-      hostname: "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}"
-      validate_certs: no
-      username: "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}"
-      password: "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}"
-      datacenter: "{{ vcenter_info.datacenter }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/registry.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
       url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/projects
       method: POST
       headers:
-        Authorization: "Basic {{ ('admin:' + vapp['metacluster.password']) | b64encode }}"
+        Authorization: "Basic {{ ('admin:' ~ vapp['metacluster.password']) | b64encode }}"
       body:
         project_name: kubeadm
         public: true
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
       url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/projects/kubeadm/repositories/{{ ( item | regex_findall('([^:/]+)') )[-2] }}/artifacts?from=library/{{ item | replace('/', '%2F') | replace(':', '%3A') }}
       method: POST
       headers:
-        Authorization: "Basic {{ ('admin:' + vapp['metacluster.password']) | b64encode }}"
+        Authorization: "Basic {{ ('admin:' ~ vapp['metacluster.password']) | b64encode }}"
       body:
         from: "{{ item }}"
     loop: "{{ kubeadm_images }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/application.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: {{ _template.application.name }}
+  namespace: {{ _template.application.namespace }}
+spec:
+  destination:
+    namespace: {{ _template.cluster.namespace }}
+    server: {{ _template.cluster.name }}
+  project: default
+  source:
+    repoURL: {{ _template.repository.url }}
+    path: {{ _template.repository.path }}
+    targetRevision: {{ _template.repository.revision }}
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated: {}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/applicationset.j2

@@ -1,28 +1,33 @@
 apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
 kind: ApplicationSet
 metadata:
-  name: {{ _template.name }}
-  namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
+  name: {{ _template.application.name }}
+  namespace: {{ _template.application.namespace }}
 spec:
   generators:
   - git:
-      repoURL: ssh://git@gitea-ssh.gitea.svc.cluster.local/mc/GitOps.Config.git
-      revision: HEAD
+      repoURL: {{ _template.repository.url }}
+      revision: {{ _template.repository.revision }}
       directories:
-      - path: metacluster-applicationset/*
+      - path: charts/*/*
   template:
     metadata:
-      name: {% raw %}'{{ path.basename }}'{% endraw +%}
+      name: application-{% raw %}{{ path.basename }}{% endraw +%}
     spec:
       project: default
       syncPolicy:
         automated:
           prune: true
           selfHeal: true
-      source:
-        repoURL: ssh://git@gitea-ssh.gitea.svc.cluster.local/mc/GitOps.Config.git
-        targetRevision: HEAD
+        syncOptions:
+        - CreateNamespace=true
+      sources:
+      - repoURL: {{ _template.repository.url }}
+        targetRevision: {{ _template.repository.revision }}
         path: {% raw %}'{{ path }}'{% endraw +%}
+        helm:
+          valueFiles:
+          - /values/{% raw %}{{ path.basename }}{% endraw %}/values.yaml
       destination:
-        server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
-        namespace: default
+        server: {{ _template.cluster.url }}
+        namespace: {% raw %}'{{ path[1] }}'{% endraw +%}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/cluster.j2

@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ stringData:
   server: {{ _template.cluster.url }}
   config: |
     {
-      "bearerToken": "{{ _template.cluster.token }}",
       "tlsClientConfig": {
-        "insecure": true
+        "insecure": false,
+        "caData": "{{ _template.kubeconfig.ca }}",
+        "certData": "{{ _template.kubeconfig.certificate }}",
+        "keyData": "{{ _template.kubeconfig.key }}"
       }
     }

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/federationdomain.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: config.supervisor.pinniped.dev/v1alpha1
+kind: FederationDomain
+metadata:
+  name: {{ _template.name }}
+  namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
+spec:
+{{ _template.spec }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/gitrepo.j2

@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
 metadata:
-  name: {{ _template.name }}-{{ _template.uid }}
+  name: {{ _template.name }}
   namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
   labels:
     argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type: repository
 stringData:
-  url: ssh://git@gitea-ssh.gitea.svc.cluster.local/mc/GitOps.Config.git
-  name: {{ _template.name }}
-  insecure: 'true'
-  sshPrivateKey: |
-{{ _template.privatekey }}
+  url: {{ _template.url }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/ingressroute.j2

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ metadata:
   name: {{ _template.name }}
   namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
 spec:
-{{ _template.config }}
+{{ _template.spec }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/ingressroutetcp.j2

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ metadata:
   name: {{ _template.name }}
   namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
 spec:
-{{ _template.config }}
+{{ _template.spec }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/ippool.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: ipam.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha2
+kind: InClusterIPPool
+metadata:
+  name: inclusterippool-{{ _template.cluster.name }}
+  namespace: {{ _template.cluster.namespace }}
+spec:
+  addresses:
+  - {{ _template.cluster.network.startip }}-{{ _template.cluster.network.endip }}
+  prefix: {{ _template.cluster.network.prefix }}
+  gateway: {{ _template.cluster.network.gateway }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/jwtauthenticator.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+apiVersion: authentication.concierge.pinniped.dev/v1alpha1
+kind: JWTAuthenticator
+metadata:
+  name: {{ _template.name }}
+spec:
+{{ _template.spec }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/kustomization.cluster-template.j2

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ kind: Kustomization
 resources:
 - cluster-template.yaml
 
-patchesStrategicMerge:
-  - |-
+patches:
+- patch: |-
     apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
     kind: KubeadmControlPlane
     metadata:
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ patchesStrategicMerge:
     spec:
       kubeadmConfigSpec:
         clusterConfiguration:
-          imageRepository: registry.{{ _template.fqdn }}/kubeadm
-  - |-
+          imageRepository: registry.{{ _template.network.fqdn }}/kubeadm
+- patch: |-
     apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
     kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
     metadata:
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ patchesStrategicMerge:
       template:
         spec:
           clusterConfiguration:
-            imageRepository: registry.{{ _template.fqdn }}/kubeadm
-  - |-
+            imageRepository: registry.{{ _template.network.fqdn }}/kubeadm
+- patch: |-
     apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
     kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
     metadata:
@@ -35,12 +35,21 @@ patchesStrategicMerge:
       template:
         spec:
           files:
-          - encoding: base64
-            content: |
-              {{ _template.script.encoded }}
-            permissions: '0744'
+          - content: |
+                [plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".registry]
+                  config_path = "/etc/containerd/certs.d"
+            append: true
+            path: /etc/containerd/config.toml
+{% for registry in _template.registries %}
+          - content: |
+              server = "https://{{ registry }}"
+
+              [host."https://registry.{{ _template.network.fqdn }}/v2/library/{{ registry }}"]
+                capabilities = ["pull", "resolve"]
+                override_path = true
             owner: root:root
-            path: /root/network.sh
+            path: /etc/containerd/certs.d/{{ registry }}/hosts.toml
+{% endfor %}
           - content: |
               network: {config: disabled}
             owner: root:root
@@ -49,56 +58,209 @@ patchesStrategicMerge:
               {{ _template.rootca | indent(width=14, first=False) | trim }}
             owner: root:root
             path: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/root_ca.crt
+- patch: |-
+    apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereMachineTemplate
+    metadata:
+      name: ${CLUSTER_NAME}
+      namespace: '${NAMESPACE}'
+    spec:
+      template:
+        spec:
+          diskGiB: 60
+          network:
+            devices:
+            - dhcp4: false
+              addressesFromPools:
+              - apiGroup: ipam.cluster.x-k8s.io
+                kind: InClusterIPPool
+                name: inclusterippool-${CLUSTER_NAME}
+              nameservers:
+              - {{ _template.network.dnsserver }}
+              networkName: '${VSPHERE_NETWORK}'
+- patch: |-
+    apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereMachineTemplate
+    metadata:
+      name: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-worker
+      namespace: '${NAMESPACE}'
+    spec:
+      template:
+        spec:
+          diskGiB: 60
+          network:
+            devices:
+            - dhcp4: false
+              addressesFromPools:
+              - apiGroup: ipam.cluster.x-k8s.io
+                kind: InClusterIPPool
+                name: inclusterippool-${CLUSTER_NAME}
+              nameservers:
+              - {{ _template.network.dnsserver }}
+              networkName: '${VSPHERE_NETWORK}'
 
-patchesJson6902:
-  - target:
-      group: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io
-      version: v1beta1
-      kind: KubeadmControlPlane
-      name: .*
-    patch: |-
-      - op: add
-        path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
-        value:
-          encoding: base64
-          content: |
-            {{ _template.script.encoded }}
-          owner: root:root
-          path: /root/network.sh
-          permissions: '0744'
-      - op: add
-        path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
-        value:
-          content: |
-            network: {config: disabled}
-          owner: root:root
-          path: /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg
-      - op: add
-        path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
-        value:
-          content: |
-            {{ _template.rootca | indent(width=12, first=False) | trim }}
-          owner: root:root
-          path: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/root_ca.crt
-  - target:
-      group: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io
-      version: v1beta1
-      kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
-      name: .*
-    patch: |-
-{% for cmd in _template.runcmds %}
-      - op: add
-        path: /spec/template/spec/preKubeadmCommands/-
-        value: {{ cmd }}
+- target:
+    group: addons.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: ClusterResourceSet
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}-crs-0
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/resources
+      value:
+        - kind: Secret
+          name: cloud-controller-manager
+        - kind: Secret
+          name: cloud-provider-vsphere-credentials
+        - kind: ConfigMap
+          name: cpi-manifests
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/strategy
+      value: Reconcile
+
+- target:
+    group: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmControlPlane
+    name: .*
+  patch: |-
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
+      value:
+        content: |
+            [plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".registry]
+              config_path = "/etc/containerd/certs.d"
+        append: true
+        path: /etc/containerd/config.toml
+{% for registry in _template.registries %}
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
+      value:
+        content: |
+          server = "https://{{ registry }}"
+
+          [host."https://registry.{{ _template.network.fqdn }}/v2/library/{{ registry }}"]
+            capabilities = ["pull", "resolve"]
+            override_path = true
+        owner: root:root
+        path: /etc/containerd/certs.d/{{ registry }}/hosts.toml
 {% endfor %}
-  - target:
-      group: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io
-      version: v1beta1
-      kind: KubeadmControlPlane
-      name: .*
-    patch: |-
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
+      value:
+        content: |
+          network: {config: disabled}
+        owner: root:root
+        path: /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/files/-
+      value:
+        content: |
+          {{ _template.rootca | indent(width=10, first=False) | trim }}
+        owner: root:root
+        path: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/root_ca.crt
+- target:
+    group: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
+    name: .*
+  patch: |-
 {% for cmd in _template.runcmds %}
-      - op: add
-        path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/preKubeadmCommands/-
-        value: {{ cmd }}
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/template/spec/preKubeadmCommands/-
+      value: {{ cmd }}
 {% endfor %}
+- target:
+    group: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmControlPlane
+    name: .*
+  patch: |-
+{% for cmd in _template.runcmds %}
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/kubeadmConfigSpec/preKubeadmCommands/-
+      value: {{ cmd }}
+{% endfor %}
+
+- target:
+    group: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereMachineTemplate
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-master
+    - op: remove
+      path: /spec/template/spec/thumbprint
+- target:
+    group: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmControlPlane
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-master
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/machineTemplate/infrastructureRef/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-master
+- target:
+    group: cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: Cluster
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/clusterNetwork/pods
+      value:
+        cidrBlocks:
+          - 172.30.0.0/16
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/controlPlaneRef/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-master
+
+- target:
+    group: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereMachineTemplate
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}-worker
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/template/spec/numCPUs
+      value: {{ _template.nodesize.cpu }}
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/template/spec/memoryMiB
+      value: {{ _template.nodesize.memory }}
+    - op: remove
+      path: /spec/template/spec/thumbprint
+- target:
+    group: cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: MachineDeployment
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}-md-0
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-worker
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/template/spec/bootstrap/configRef/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-worker
+- target:
+    group: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
+    name: \${CLUSTER_NAME}-md-0
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-worker
+
+- target:
+    group: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereCluster
+    name: .*
+  patch: |-
+    - op: remove
+      path: /spec/thumbprint

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/kustomization.longhorn-storage.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+- downstream-cluster/kubeadmconfigtemplate-{{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker.yaml
+- downstream-cluster/machinedeployment-{{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker.yaml
+- downstream-cluster/vspheremachinetemplate-{{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker.yaml
+
+patches:
+- patch: |-
+    apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
+    metadata:
+      name: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker
+      namespace: default
+    spec:
+      template:
+        spec:
+          diskSetup:
+            filesystems:
+            - device: /dev/sdb1
+              filesystem: ext4
+              label: blockstorage
+            partitions:
+            - device: /dev/sdb
+              layout: true
+              tableType: gpt
+          joinConfiguration:
+            nodeRegistration:
+              kubeletExtraArgs:
+                node-labels: "node.longhorn.io/create-default-disk=true"
+          mounts:
+          - - LABEL=blockstorage
+            - /mnt/blockstorage
+- patch: |-
+    apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereMachineTemplate
+    metadata:
+      name: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker
+      namespace: default
+    spec:
+      template:
+        spec:
+          additionalDisksGiB:
+          - {{ _template.nodepool.additionaldisk }}
+
+- target:
+    group: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
+    name: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker-storage
+
+- target:
+    group: cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: MachineDeployment
+    name: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker-storage
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/template/spec/bootstrap/configRef/name
+      value: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker-storage
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/template/spec/infrastructureRef/name
+      value: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker-storage
+    - op: replace
+      path: /spec/replicas
+      value: {{ _template.nodepool.size }}
+
+- target:
+    group: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io
+    version: v1beta1
+    kind: VSphereMachineTemplate
+    name: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker
+  patch: |-
+    - op: replace
+      path: /metadata/name
+      value: {{ _template.cluster.name }}-worker-storage

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/oidcidentityprovider.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: idp.supervisor.pinniped.dev/v1alpha1
+kind: OIDCIdentityProvider
+metadata:
+  name: {{ _template.name }}
+  namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
+spec:
+{{ _template.spec }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/secret.j2

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ kind: Secret
 metadata:
   name: {{ _template.name }}
   namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
+type: {{ _template.type }}
 data:
 {% for kv_pair in _template.data %}
   "{{ kv_pair.key }}": {{ kv_pair.value }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/serverstransport.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
+kind: ServersTransport
+metadata:
+  name: {{ _template.name }}
+  namespace: {{ _template.namespace }}
+spec:
+{{ _template.spec }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/templates/serviceaccount.j2

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ServiceAccount
-metadata:
-  name: {{ _template.account.name }}
-  namespace: {{ _template.account.namespace }}
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: {{ _template.clusterrolebinding.name }}
-subjects:
-- kind: ServiceAccount
-  name: {{ _template.account.name }}
-  namespace: {{ _template.account.namespace }}
-roleRef:
-  kind: ClusterRole
-  name: cluster-admin
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/cleanup/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 - import_tasks: service.yml
 - import_tasks: cron.yml
 
-- name: Cleanup tempfile
-  ansible.builtin.file:
-    path: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-    state: absent
-  when: kubeconfig.path is defined
-
 # - name: Reboot host
 #   ansible.builtin.shell:
 #     cmd: systemctl reboot

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/disks/tasks/main.yml

@@ -11,11 +11,27 @@
     lv: longhorn_lv
     size: 100%VG
 
+- name: Store begin timestamp
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    start_time: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'date +%s') }}"
+
 - name: Create filesystem
   community.general.filesystem:
     dev: /dev/mapper/longhorn_vg-longhorn_lv
     fstype: ext4
 
+- name: Store end timestamp
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    end_time: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'date +%s') }}"
+
+- name: Calculate crude storage benchmark
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    storage_benchmark: "{{ [storage_benchmark, (end_time | int - start_time | int)] | max }}"
+
+- name: Log benchmark actual duration
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "Benchmark actual duration: {{ (end_time | int - start_time | int) }} second(s)"
+
 - name: Mount dynamic disk
   ansible.posix.mount:
     path: /mnt/blockstorage

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/metacluster/tasks/assets.yml

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
     label: "{{ item | basename }}"
   # Probably should add a task before that ensures K3s node is fully initialized before starting imports; currently K3s goes away briefly during this loop
   retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-  delay: "{{ playbook.delays.short }}"
+  delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
   until: import_result is not failed

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/preflight/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+- import_tasks: vapp.yml
 - import_tasks: vcenter.yml

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/preflight/tasks/vcenter.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
         schema: vsphere
       register: vcenter_info
       retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.short }}"
+      delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
       until: vcenter_info is not failed
 
   module_defaults:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/tty/tasks/main.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,25 @@
         executable: /opt/firstboot/tty.sh
         workingdir: /tmp/
       metacluster:
+        components:
+          - name: ArgoCD
+            url: https://gitops.${FQDN}
+            healthcheck: https://gitops.${FQDN}
+          - name: Gitea
+            url: https://git.${FQDN}
+            healthcheck: https://git.${FQDN}
+          - name: Harbor
+            url: https://registry.${FQDN}
+            healthcheck: https://registry.${FQDN}
+          - name: Longhorn
+            url: https://storage.${FQDN}
+            healthcheck: https://storage.${FQDN}
+          - name: StepCA
+            url: ''
+            healthcheck: https://ca.${FQDN}/health
+          - name: Traefik
+            url: https://ingress.${FQDN}
+            healthcheck: https://ingress.${FQDN}
         fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
         vip: "{{ vapp['metacluster.vip'] }}"
   loop:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/users/tasks/main.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     line: 'PasswordAuthentication yes'
     state: absent
   loop_control:
-    label: "{{ '[' + item.regex + '] ' + item.state }}"
+    label: "{{ '[' ~ item.regex ~ '] ' ~ item.state }}"
 
 - name: Create dedicated SSH keypair
   community.crypto.openssh_keypair:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/hypervisor.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     - attribute: cluster
       moref: >-
         $(govc object.collect -json VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }} | \
-          jq -r '.[] | select(.Name == "runtime").Val.Host | .Type + ":" + .Value')
+          jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "runtime").val.host | .type + ":" + .value')
       part: (NF-1)
     - attribute: datacenter
       moref: VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }}
@@ -19,27 +19,27 @@
     - attribute: datastore
       moref: >-
         $(govc object.collect -json VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }} | \
-          jq -r '.[] | select(.Name == "datastore").Val.ManagedObjectReference | .[].Type + ":" + .[].Value')
+          jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "datastore").val._value | .[].type + ":" + .[].value')
       part: NF
     - attribute: folder
       moref: >-
         $(govc object.collect -json VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }} | \
-          jq -r '.[] | select(.Name == "parent").Val | .Type + ":" + .Value')
+          jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "parent").val | .type + ":" + .value')
       part: 0
     # - attribute: host
     #   moref: >-
     #     $(govc object.collect -json VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }} | \
-    #       jq -r '.[] | select(.Name == "runtime").Val.Host | .Type + ":" + .Value')
+    #       jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "runtime").val.host | .type + ":" + .value')
     #   part: NF
     - attribute: network
       moref: >-
         $(govc object.collect -json VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }} | \
-          jq -r '.[] | select(.Name == "network").Val.ManagedObjectReference | .[].Type + ":" + .[].Value')
+          jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "network").val._value | .[].type + ":" + .[].value')
       part: NF
     - attribute: resourcepool
       moref: >-
         $(govc object.collect -json VirtualMachine:{{ moref_id }} | \
-          jq -r '.[] | select(.Name == "resourcePool").Val | .Type + ":" + .Value')
+          jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "resourcePool").val | .type + ":" + .value')
       part: 0
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.attribute }}"
@@ -55,21 +55,3 @@
   loop: "{{ govc_inventory.results }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.item.attribute }}"
-
-- name: Configure network protocol profile on hypervisor
-  ansible.builtin.shell:
-    cmd: >-
-      npp-prepper \
-        --server "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}" \
-        --username "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}" \
-        --password "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}" \
-        dc \
-        --name "{{ vcenter_info.datacenter }}" \
-        --portgroup "{{ vcenter_info.network }}" \
-        --startaddress {{ vapp['ippool.startip'] }} \
-        --endaddress {{ vapp['ippool.endip'] }} \
-        --netmask {{ (vapp['guestinfo.ipaddress'] + '/' + vapp['guestinfo.prefixlength']) | ansible.utils.ipaddr('netmask') }} \
-        {{ vapp['guestinfo.dnsserver'] | split(',') | map('trim') | map('regex_replace', '^', '--dnsserver ') | join(' ') }} \
-        --dnsdomain {{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }} \
-        --gateway {{ vapp['guestinfo.gateway'] }} \
-        --force

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/nodetemplates.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+- block:
+
+  - name: Check for existing template
+    community.vmware.vmware_guest_info:
+      name: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.nodetemplate'] }}"
+      hostname: "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}"
+      validate_certs: false
+      username: "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}"
+      password: "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}"
+      datacenter: "{{ vcenter_info.datacenter }}"
+      folder: "{{ vcenter_info.folder }}"
+    register: nodetemplate
+    until:
+      - nodetemplate is not failed
+    retries: 600
+    delay: 30
+    #wait for 5 hr.
+    vars:
+      color_reset: "\e[0m"
+      ansible_callback_diy_runner_retry_msg: >-
+        {%- set result = ansible_callback_diy.result.output -%}
+        {%- set retries_left = result.retries - result.attempts -%}
+        TEMPLATE '{{ vapp['workloadcluster.nodetemplate'] }}' NOT FOUND; PLEASE UPLOAD MANUALLY -- ({{ retries_left }} retries left)
+      ansible_callback_diy_runner_retry_msg_color: bright yellow
+
+  - name: Store inventory path of existing template
+    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+      nodetemplate_inventorypath: "{{ nodetemplate.instance.hw_folder ~ '/' ~ nodetemplate.instance.hw_name }}"
+
+  rescue:
+  - name: CRITICAL ERROR
+    ansible.builtin.fail:
+      msg: Required node-template is not available; cannot continue

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/templates/registries.j2

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 mirrors:
-{% for entry in _template.data %}
-  {{ entry }}:
+{% for registry in _template.registries %}
+  {{ registry }}:
     endpoint:
       - https://registry.{{ _template.hv.fqdn }}
     rewrite:
-      "(.*)": "library/{{ entry }}/$1"
+      "(.*)": "library/{{ registry }}/$1"
 {% endfor %}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/templates/tty.j2

@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ DFLT='\033[0m'        # Reset colour
 LCLR='\033[K'         # Clear to end of line
 PRST='\033[0;0H'      # Reset cursor position
 
-# COMPONENTS=('ca' 'ingress' 'storage' 'registry' 'git' 'gitops')
-COMPONENTS=('storage' 'registry' 'git' 'gitops')
 FQDN='{{ _template.metacluster.fqdn }}'
 IPADDRESS='{{ _template.metacluster.vip }}'
 
-I=60
+declare -A COMPONENTS
+{% for component in _template.metacluster.components %}
+COMPONENTS["{{ component.name }}\t({{ component.url }})"]="{{ component.healthcheck }}"
+{% endfor %}
+
+I=0
 
 while /bin/true; do
   if [[ $I -gt 59 ]]; then
@@ -30,13 +33,13 @@ while /bin/true; do
   echo -e "${PRST}" > /dev/tty1
   echo -e "\n\n\t${DFLT}To manage this appliance, please connect to one of the following:${LCLR}\n" > /dev/tty1
 
-  for c in "${COMPONENTS[@]}"; do
-    STATUS=$(curl -ks "https://${c}.${FQDN}" -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}')
+  for c in $( echo "${!COMPONENTS[@]}" | tr ' ' $'\n' | sort); do
+    STATUS=$(curl -kLs "${COMPONENTS[${c}]}" -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}')
 
     if [[ "${STATUS}" -eq "200" ]]; then
-      echo -e "\t [${BGRN}+${DFLT}] ${BBLU}https://${c}.${FQDN}${DFLT}${LCLR}" > /dev/tty1
+      echo -e "\t [${BGRN}+${DFLT}] ${BBLU}${c}${DFLT}${LCLR}" > /dev/tty1
     else
-      echo -e "\t [${BRED}-${DFLT}] ${BBLU}https://${c}.${FQDN}${DFLT}${LCLR}" > /dev/tty1
+      echo -e "\t [${BRED}-${DFLT}] ${BBLU}${c}${DFLT}${LCLR}" > /dev/tty1
     fi
   done
 

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/common/vars/defaults.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
 playbook:
-  retries: 5
-  delays:
-    long: 60
-    medium: 30
-    short: 10
+  retries: 10
+  delay:
+    # These values are multiplied with the value of `storage_benchmark`
+    long: 2
+    medium: 1
+    short: 0.5
+
+# This default value is updated during the playbook, based on an I/O intensive operation
+storage_benchmark: 30
+
+config:
+  clusterapi:
+    size_matrix:
+      small:
+        cpu: 2
+        memory: 6144
+      medium:
+        cpu: 4
+        memory: 8192
+      large:
+        cpu: 8
+        memory: 16384

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/playbook.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
     - users
     - disks
     - metacluster
-    # - workloadcluster
+    - workloadcluster
+    - decommission
     - tty
     - cleanup
   handlers:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/decommission/tasks/k3s.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+- name: Cordon node
+  kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
+    name: "{{ decom_nodename }}"
+    state: cordon
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+
+- name: Drain node
+# Currently does not work; returns with error "Failed to delete pod [...] due to: Too Many Requests"
+# See also: https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/474
+#   kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
+#     name: "{{ decom_nodename }}"
+#     state: drain
+#     delete_options:
+#       ignore_daemonsets: true
+#       delete_emptydir_data: true
+#     kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: >-
+      kubectl drain {{ decom_nodename }} \
+        --delete-emptydir-data \
+        --ignore-daemonsets
+  register: nodedrain_results
+  until:
+    - nodedrain_results is not failed
+    - (nodedrain_results.stdout_lines | last) is match('node/.* drained')
+  retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
+
+- name: Delete node
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    name: "{{ decom_nodename }}"
+    kind: node
+    state: absent
+    wait: true
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/decommission/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+- name: Lookup node name and moref-id for decommissioning
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    decom_nodename: >-
+      {{
+        lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='Node', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) |
+          json_query('[? metadata.name != `' ~ ansible_facts.nodename ~ '`].metadata.name') |
+          first
+      }}
+    decom_morefid: >-
+      {{
+        lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='Node', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) |
+          json_query('[? metadata.name != `' ~ ansible_facts.nodename ~ '`].metadata.labels."ova.airgappedk8s/moref_id"') |
+          first
+      }}
+
+- import_tasks: storage.yml
+- import_tasks: k3s.yml
+- import_tasks: virtualmachine.yml

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/decommission/tasks/storage.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+- name: Disable disk scheduling and evict replicas
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    api_version: longhorn.io/v1beta2
+    kind: lhn
+    name: "{{ decom_nodename }}"
+    namespace: longhorn-system
+    state: patched
+    definition: |
+      spec:
+        allowScheduling: false
+        evictionRequested: true
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+
+- name: Reduce replica amount for each volume
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    api_version: longhorn.io/v1beta2
+    kind: volume
+    name: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"
+    namespace: longhorn-system
+    state: patched
+    definition: |
+      spec:
+        numberOfReplicas: {{ (lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='node', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) | length | int) - 1 }}
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+  loop: "{{ query('kubernetes.core.k8s', api_version='longhorn.io/v1beta2', kind='volume', namespace='longhorn-system', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/decommission/tasks/virtualmachine.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Lookup VM name
+      community.vmware.vmware_guest_info:
+        moid: "{{ decom_morefid }}"
+      register: virtualmachine_details
+
+    - name: Power off VM
+      community.vmware.vmware_guest:
+        name: "{{ virtualmachine_details.instance.hw_name }}"
+        folder: "{{ virtualmachine_details.instance.hw_folder }}"
+        state: poweredoff
+
+    # - name: Delete VM
+    #   community.vmware.vmware_guest:
+    #     name: "{{ virtualmachine_details.hw_name }}"
+    #     folder: "{{ virtualmachine_details.hw_folder }}"
+    #     state: absent
+
+  module_defaults:
+    group/vmware:
+      hostname: "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}"
+      validate_certs: no
+      username: "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}"
+      password: "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}"
+      datacenter: "{{ vcenter_info.datacenter }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/certauthority.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Initialize tempfile
+      ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+        state: file
+      register: values_file
+
+    - name: Lookup current chart values
+      kubernetes.core.helm_info:
+        name: step-certificates
+        namespace: step-ca
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      register: stepca_values
+
+    - name: Write chart values w/ password to tempfile
+      ansible.builtin.copy:
+        dest: "{{ values_file.path }}"
+        content: "{{ stepca_values.status | json_query('values') | to_yaml }}"
+      no_log: true
+
+    - name: Upgrade step-ca chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: step-certificates
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/step-certificates
+        release_namespace: step-ca
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values_files:
+          - "{{ values_file.path }}"
+
+    - name: Cleanup tempfile
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ values_file.path }}"
+        state: absent
+      when: values_file.path is defined
+
+    - name: Ensure step-ca API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://ca.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/health
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
+        - api_readycheck.json.status == 'ok'
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/containerimages.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Push images to registry
+      ansible.builtin.shell:
+        cmd: >-
+          skopeo copy \
+            --insecure-policy \
+            --dest-tls-verify=false \
+            --dest-creds admin:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }} \
+            docker-archive:./{{ item | basename }} \
+            docker://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/library/$( \
+              skopeo list-tags \
+                --insecure-policy \
+                docker-archive:./{{ item | basename }} | \
+              jq -r '.Tags[0]')
+        chdir: /opt/metacluster/container-images/
+      register: push_result
+      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/metacluster/container-images/*.tar') | sort }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item | basename }}"
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ ((storage_benchmark | float) * playbook.delay.short) | int }}"
+      until: push_result is not failed
+
+    - name: Get all stored container images (=artifacts)
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/search?q=library
+        method: GET
+      register: registry_artifacts
+
+    - name: Get source registries of all artifacts
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        source_registries: "{{ (source_registries | default([]) + [(item | split('/'))[1]]) | unique | sort }}"
+      loop: "{{ registry_artifacts.json.repository | json_query('[*].repository_name') }}"
+
+    - name: Configure K3s node for private registry
+      ansible.builtin.template:
+        dest: /etc/rancher/k3s/registries.yaml
+        src: registries.j2
+      vars:
+        _template:
+          data: "{{ source_registries }}"
+          hv:
+            fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201, 401]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/git.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Upgrade gitea chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: gitea
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/gitea
+        release_namespace: gitea
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['gitea'].chart_values }}"
+
+    - name: Ensure gitea API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/healthz
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
+        - api_readycheck.json.status == 'pass'
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/gitops.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Upgrade argo-cd chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: argo-cd
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/argo-cd
+        release_namespace: argo-cd
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['argo-cd'].chart_values }}"
+
+    - name: Ensure argo-cd API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://gitops.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/version
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.Version is defined
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/init.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 - name: Configure fallback name resolution
   ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
     path: /etc/hosts
-    line: "{{ vapp['metacluster.vip'] }}  {{ item + '.' + vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
+    line: "{{ vapp['metacluster.vip'] }}  {{ item ~ '.' ~ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
     state: present
   loop:
     # TODO: Make this list dynamic
@@ -28,3 +28,8 @@
 - name: Update certificate truststore
   ansible.builtin.command:
     cmd: update-ca-certificates
+
+- name: Remove redundant files
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/traefik-config.yaml
+    state: absent

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/k3s.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/k3s
   environment:
     INSTALL_K3S_SKIP_DOWNLOAD: 'true'
-    INSTALL_K3S_EXEC: "server --token {{ vapp['metacluster.token'] | trim }} --server https://{{ vapp['metacluster.vip'] }}:6443 --disable local-storage --config /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml"
+    # To prevent from overwriting traefik's existing configuration, "disable" it on this new node
+    INSTALL_K3S_EXEC: "server --token {{ vapp['metacluster.token'] | trim }} --server https://{{ vapp['metacluster.vip'] }}:6443 --disable local-storage,traefik --config /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml"
   when: ansible_facts.services['k3s.service'] is undefined
 
 - name: Ensure API availability
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@
   register: api_readycheck
   until: api_readycheck.json.apiVersion is defined
   retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-  delay: "{{ playbook.delays.medium }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.medium | int) }}"
 
 - name: Install kubectl tab-completion
   ansible.builtin.shell:
@@ -61,3 +62,19 @@
     content: "{{ kubectl_config.stdout }}"
     mode: 0600
   no_log: true
+
+- name: Add label to node object
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    name: "{{ ansible_facts.nodename | lower }}"
+    kind: Node
+    state: patched
+    definition:
+      metadata:
+        labels:
+          ova.airgappedk8s/moref_id: "{{ moref_id }}"
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+  register: k8snode_patch
+  until:
+    - k8snode_patch.result.metadata.labels['ova.airgappedk8s/moref_id'] is defined
+  retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.medium | int) }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 - import_tasks: init.yml
-- import_tasks: registry.yml
+- import_tasks: containerimages.yml
 - import_tasks: k3s.yml
 - import_tasks: assets.yml
-# - import_tasks: ingress.yml
 - import_tasks: storage.yml
-# - import_tasks: certauthority.yml
-# - import_tasks: git.yml
-# - import_tasks: gitops.yml
+- import_tasks: registry.yml
+- import_tasks: certauthority.yml
+- import_tasks: git.yml
+- import_tasks: gitops.yml

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/registry.yml

@@ -1,47 +1,24 @@
 - block:
 
-    - name: Push images to registry
-      ansible.builtin.shell:
-        cmd: >-
-          skopeo copy \
-            --insecure-policy \
-            --dest-tls-verify=false \
-            --dest-creds admin:{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }} \
-            docker-archive:./{{ item | basename }} \
-            docker://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/library/$( \
-              skopeo list-tags \
-                --insecure-policy \
-                docker-archive:./{{ item | basename }} | \
-              jq -r '.Tags[0]')
-        chdir: /opt/metacluster/container-images/
-      register: push_result
-      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/metacluster/container-images/*.tar') | sort }}"
-      loop_control:
-        label: "{{ item | basename }}"
-      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
-      delay: "{{ playbook.delays.short }}"
-      until: push_result is not failed
+    - name: Upgrade harbor chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: harbor
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/harbor
+        release_namespace: harbor
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['harbor'].chart_values }}"
 
-    - name: Get all stored container images (=artifacts)
+    - name: Ensure harbor API availability
       ansible.builtin.uri:
-        url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/search?q=library
+        url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/health
         method: GET
-      register: registry_artifacts
-
-    - name: Get source registries of all artifacts
-      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-        source_registries: "{{ (source_registries | default([]) + [(item | split('/'))[1]]) | unique | sort }}"
-      loop: "{{ registry_artifacts.json.repository | json_query('[*].repository_name') }}"
-
-    - name: Configure K3s node for private registry
-      ansible.builtin.template:
-        dest: /etc/rancher/k3s/registries.yaml
-        src: registries.j2
-      vars:
-        _template:
-          data: "{{ source_registries }}"
-          hv:
-            fqdn: "{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}"
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck.json.status is defined
+        - api_readycheck.json.status == 'healthy'
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
 
   module_defaults:
     ansible.builtin.uri:

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/storage.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,53 @@
-- name: Increase replicas for each volume
-  kubernetes.core.k8s:
-    api_version: longhorn.io/v1beta2
-    kind: volume
-    name: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"
-    namespace: longhorn-system
-    state: patched
-    definition: |
-      spec:
-        numberOfReplicas: {{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='node', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) | length | int }}
-    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
-  loop: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', api_version='longhorn.io/v1beta2', kind='volume', namespace='longhorn-system', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) }}"
-  loop_control:
-    label: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"
+- block:
+
+    - name: Increase replicas for each volume
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        api_version: longhorn.io/v1beta2
+        kind: volume
+        name: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"
+        namespace: longhorn-system
+        state: patched
+        definition: |
+          spec:
+            numberOfReplicas: {{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='node', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) | length | int }}
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+      loop: "{{ query('kubernetes.core.k8s', api_version='longhorn.io/v1beta2', kind='volume', namespace='longhorn-system', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"
+
+    - name: Wait for replica rebuilds to complete
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://storage.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/v1/volumes
+        method: GET
+      register: volume_details
+      until:
+        - volume_details.json is defined
+        - (volume_details.json | json_query('data[? state==`attached`].robustness') | unique | length) == 1
+        - (volume_details.json | json_query('data[? state==`attached`].robustness') | first) == "healthy"
+      retries: "{{ ( playbook.retries * 2) | int }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+    - name: Upgrade longhorn chart
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: longhorn
+        chart_ref: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts/longhorn
+        release_namespace: longhorn-system
+        wait: false
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+        values: "{{ components['longhorn'].chart_values }}"
+
+    - name: Ensure longhorn API availability
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://storage.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/v1
+        method: GET
+      register: api_readycheck
+      until:
+        - api_readycheck is not failed
+      retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+      delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.long | int) }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/preflight/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+- import_tasks: vapp.yml
 - import_tasks: vcenter.yml
 - import_tasks: metacluster.yml

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/preflight/tasks/metacluster.yml

@@ -4,3 +4,8 @@
     method: GET
     validate_certs: no
     status_code: [200, 401]
+  register: api_readycheck
+  until:
+    - api_readycheck.json.apiVersion is defined
+  retries: "{{ playbook.retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ (storage_benchmark | int) * (playbook.delay.medium | int) }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/preflight/tasks/vapp.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+- name: Check for expected vApp properties
+  ansible.builtin.assert:
+    that:
+      - vapp[item] is defined
+      - (vapp[item] | length) > 0
+    quiet: true
+  loop:
+    - guestinfo.dnsserver
+    - guestinfo.gateway
+    - guestinfo.hostname
+    - guestinfo.ipaddress
+    - guestinfo.prefixlength
+    - guestinfo.rootsshkey
+    - hv.fqdn
+    - hv.password
+    - hv.username
+    - metacluster.fqdn
+    - metacluster.password
+    - metacluster.token
+    - metacluster.vip

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# ...

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+- import_tasks: hypervisor.yml
+- import_tasks: registry.yml
+- import_tasks: nodetemplates.yml
+# - import_tasks: clusterapi.yml

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/registry.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+- block:
+
+  - name: Copy kubeadm container images to dedicated project
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      url: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/api/v2.0/projects/kubeadm/repositories/{{ ( item | regex_findall('([^:/]+)') )[-2] }}/artifacts?from=library/{{ item | replace('/', '%2F') | replace(':', '%3A') }}
+      method: POST
+      headers:
+        Authorization: "Basic {{ ('admin:' ~ vapp['metacluster.password']) | b64encode }}"
+      body:
+        from: "{{ item }}"
+    loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '/opt/metacluster/cluster-api/imagelist').splitlines() }}"
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201, 409]
+      body_format: json

ansible/roles/firstboot/templates/firstboot.j2

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# Workaround for ansible output regression
+export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+
 # Apply firstboot configuration w/ ansible
-/usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook -e "PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1" /opt/firstboot/ansible/playbook.yml | tee -a /var/log/firstboot.log > /dev/tty1 2>&1
+/usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook /opt/firstboot/ansible/playbook.yml | tee -a /var/log/firstboot.log > /dev/tty1 2>&1
+
+# Cleanup console
+clear > /dev/tty1

ansible/roles/os/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,17 +1,7 @@
-- name: Disable tty logins
-  import_tasks: tty.yml
-
-- name: Remove snapd
-  import_tasks: snapd.yml
-
-- name: Remove cloud-init
-  import_tasks: cloud-init.yml
-
-- name: Configure default logging
-  import_tasks: logging.yml
-
-- name: Configure services
-  import_tasks: services.yml
-
-- name: Install packages
-  import_tasks: packages.yml
+- import_tasks: tty.yml
+- import_tasks: snapd.yml
+- import_tasks: cloud-init.yml
+- import_tasks: logging.yml
+- import_tasks: services.yml
+- import_tasks: packages.yml
+- import_tasks: sysctl.yml

ansible/roles/os/tasks/packages.yml

@@ -37,9 +37,30 @@
     state: directory
 
 - name: Configure Ansible defaults
-  ansible.builtin.template:
-    src: ansible.j2
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
     dest: /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
+    content: |
+      [defaults]
+      callbacks_enabled = ansible.posix.profile_tasks
+      force_color = true
+      stdout_callback = community.general.diy
+
+      [callback_diy]
+
+      [callback_profile_tasks]
+      task_output_limit = 0
+
+- name: Create default shell aliases
+  ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
+    path: ~/.bashrc
+    state: present
+    line: "{{ item }}"
+    insertafter: EOF
+  loop:
+    - alias k="kubectl"
+    - alias less="less -rf"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ (item | regex_findall('([^ =\"]+)'))[2] }}"
 
 - name: Cleanup
   ansible.builtin.apt:

ansible/roles/os/tasks/sysctl.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+- name: Configure inotify limits
+  ansible.posix.sysctl:
+    name: "{{ item.name }}"
+    value: "{{ item.value }}"
+  loop:
+    - name: fs.inotify.max_user_instances
+      value: '512'
+    - name: fs.inotify.max_user_watches
+      value: '524288'
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.name ~ '=' ~ item.value }}"

ansible/roles/os/templates/ansible.j2

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[defaults]
-callbacks_enabled = ansible.posix.profile_tasks

ansible/vars/metacluster.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 platform:
 
   k3s:
-    version: v1.26.0+k3s1
-
-  gitops:
-    repository:
-      uri: https://code.spamasaurus.com/djpbessems/GitOps.MetaCluster.git
-      # revision: v0.1.0
-      revision: HEAD
+    version: v1.30.0+k3s1
+    # version: v1.27.1+k3s1
 
   packaged_components:
     - name: traefik
@@ -19,33 +14,31 @@ platform:
               - "--certificatesResolvers.stepca.acme.storage=/data/acme.json"
               - "--certificatesResolvers.stepca.acme.tlsChallenge=true"
               - "--certificatesresolvers.stepca.acme.certificatesduration=24"
-            deployment:
-              initContainers:
-                - name: volume-permissions
-                  image: busybox:1
-                  command: ["sh", "-c", "touch /data/acme.json && chmod -Rv 600 /data/* && chown 65532:65532 /data/acme.json"]
-                  volumeMounts:
-                    - name: data
-                      mountPath: /data
             globalArguments: []
             ingressRoute:
               dashboard:
                 enabled: false
-            persistence:
-              enabled: true
             ports:
               ssh:
                 port: 8022
                 protocol: TCP
               web:
-                redirectTo: websecure
+                redirectTo:
+                  port: websecure
               websecure:
                 tls:
                   certResolver: stepca
+            updateStrategy:
+              type: Recreate
+              rollingUpdate: null
 
   helm_repositories:
     - name: argo
       url: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
+    - name: bitnami
+      url: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
+    - name: dexidp
+      url: https://charts.dexidp.io
     - name: gitea-charts
       url: https://dl.gitea.io/charts/
     - name: harbor
@@ -54,81 +47,172 @@ platform:
       url: https://charts.jetstack.io
     - name: longhorn
       url: https://charts.longhorn.io
+    - name: prometheus-community
+      url: https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
     - name: smallstep
       url: https://smallstep.github.io/helm-charts/
+    - name: spamasaurus
+      url: https://code.spamasaurus.com/api/packages/djpbessems/helm
 
 components:
 
   argo-cd:
     helm:
-      # version: 4.9.7  # (= ArgoCD v2.4.2)
-      version: 5.14.1  # (= ArgoCD v2.5.2)
+      # Must match the version referenced at `dependencies.static_binaries[.filename==argo].url`
+      version: 6.7.7  # (=Argo CD v2.10.5)
       chart: argo/argo-cd
       parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
       chart_values: !unsafe |
         configs:
+          cm:
+            resource.compareoptions: |
+              ignoreAggregatedRoles: true
+            resource.customizations.ignoreDifferences.all: |
+              jsonPointers:
+              - /spec/conversion/webhook/clientConfig/caBundle
+          params:
+            server.insecure: true
           secret:
             argocdServerAdminPassword: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | password_hash('bcrypt') }}"
+        global:
+          domain: gitops.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}
         server:
-          extraArgs:
-            - --insecure
+          ingress:
+            enabled: true
+
+  argo-workflows:
+    helm:
+      version: 0.41.8  # (=Argo Workflows v3.5.7)
+      chart: argo/argo-workflows
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        # workflow:
+        #   serviceAccount:
+        #     create: true
+        #     name: "argo-workflows"
+        #   rbac:
+        #     create: true
+        controller:
+          workflowNamespaces:
+            - default
+            - firstboot
+        server:
+          authModes:
+            - server
           ingress:
             enabled: true
             hosts:
-              - gitops.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+              - workflow.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn']}}
+            paths:
+              - /
+            pathType: Prefix
 
   cert-manager:
     helm:
-      version: 1.10.1
+      version: 1.14.4
       chart: jetstack/cert-manager
       parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
-      # chart_values: !unsafe |
-      #   installCRDs: true
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        installCRDs: true
 
   clusterapi:
     management:
       version:
         # Must match the version referenced at `dependencies.static_binaries[.filename==clusterctl].url`
-        base: v1.3.2
+        base: v1.6.3
         # Must match the version referenced at `components.cert-manager.helm.version`
-        cert_manager: v1.10.1
-        infrastructure_vsphere: v1.5.1
-        ipam_incluster: v0.1.0-alpha.1
+        cert_manager: v1.14.4
+        infrastructure_vsphere: v1.9.2
+        ipam_incluster: v0.1.0
+        # Refer to `https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/cloud-provider-vsphere/GLOBAL/cpi/release/manager` for available tags
+        cpi_vsphere: v1.30.1
     workload:
       version:
-        calico: v3.24.5
-        # k8s: v1.25.5
-        k8s: v1.23.5
+        calico: v3.27.3
+        k8s: v1.30.1
       node_template:
-        # Refer to `https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere/blob/v1.3.5/README.md#kubernetes-versions-with-published-ovas` for a list of supported node templates
-        # url: https://storage.googleapis.com/capv-templates/v1.25.5/ubuntu-2004-kube-v1.25.5.ova
-        url: https://storage.googleapis.com/capv-images/release/v1.23.5/ubuntu-2004-kube-v1.23.5.ova
+      # Not used anymore; should be uploaded to hypervisor manually!
+      # https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere/releases/download/templates%2Fv1.30.0/
+
+  dex:
+    helm:
+      version: 0.15.3  # (= Dex 2.37.0)
+      chart: dexidp/dex
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        config:
+          issuer: https://idps.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+          storage:
+            type: kubernetes
+            config:
+              inCluster: true
+          staticClients:
+          - id: pinniped-supervisor
+            secret: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null length=64 chars=ascii_lowercase,digits seed=' ~ vapp['metacluster.fqdn']) }}"
+            name: Pinniped Supervisor client
+            redirectURIs:
+            - https://auth.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/sso/callback
+          enablePasswordDB: true
+          staticPasswords:
+          - email: user@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+            hash: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | password_hash('bcrypt') }}"
+            username: user
+            userID: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null length=64 chars=ascii_lowercase,digits seed=' ~ vapp['metacluster.fqdn']) | to_uuid }}"
+        ingress:
+          enabled: true
+          hosts:
+            - host: idps.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+              paths:
+                - path: /
+                  pathType: Prefix
 
   gitea:
     helm:
-      version: v6.0.3 # (= Gitea v1.17.3)
+      version: v10.1.3  # (= Gitea v1.21.7)
       chart: gitea-charts/gitea
       parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | sed '/:/!s/$/:latest/'
       chart_values: !unsafe |
+        extraVolumes:
+          - secret:
+              defaultMode: 420
+              secretName: step-certificates-certs
+            name: step-certificates-certs
+        extraVolumeMounts:
+          - mountPath: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-chain.crt
+            name: step-certificates-certs
+            readOnly: true
+            subPath: ca_chain.crt
         gitea:
           admin:
             username: administrator
             password: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }}"
-            email: admin@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+            email: administrator@{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}
           config:
+            cache:
+              ADAPTER: memory
             server:
               OFFLINE_MODE: true
               PROTOCOL: http
-              ROOT_URL: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/
+              ROOT_URL: https://git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}/
+            session:
+              PROVIDER: db
         image:
           pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
         ingress:
           enabled: true
           hosts:
-            - host: git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+            - host: git.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}
               paths:
                 - path: /
                   pathType: Prefix
+        postgresql:
+          enabled: true
+          image:
+            tag: 16.1.0-debian-11-r25
+        postgresql-ha:
+          enabled: false
+        redis-cluster:
+          enabled: false
         service:
           ssh:
             type: ClusterIP
@@ -137,7 +221,7 @@ components:
 
   harbor:
     helm:
-      version: 1.10.2  # (= Harbor v2.6.2)
+      version: 1.14.1  # (= Harbor v2.10.1)
       chart: harbor/harbor
       parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
       chart_values: !unsafe |
@@ -145,11 +229,11 @@ components:
           ingress:
             annotations: {}
             hosts:
-              core: registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+              core: registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}
           tls:
             certSource: none
             enabled: false
-        externalURL: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+        externalURL: https://registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}
         harborAdminPassword: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }}"
         notary:
           enabled: false
@@ -158,53 +242,98 @@ components:
             registry:
               size: 25Gi
 
+  json-server:
+    helm:
+      version: v0.8.4
+      chart: spamasaurus/json-server
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        ingress:
+          enabled: true
+          hosts:
+            - host: version.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+              paths:
+                - path: /
+                  pathType: Prefix
+        jsonServer:
+          image:
+            repository: code.spamasaurus.com/djpbessems/json-server
+          seedData:
+            configInline: {}
+        sidecar:
+          targetUrl: version.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+          image:
+            repository: code.spamasaurus.com/djpbessems/json-server
+
+  kube-prometheus-stack:
+    helm:
+      version: 45.2.0
+      chart: prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        alertmanager:
+          enabled: false
+        global:
+          imageRegistry: registry.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
+
   kubevip:
     # Must match the version referenced at `dependencies.container_images`
-    version: v0.5.8
+    version: v0.6.3
 
   longhorn:
     helm:
-      version: 1.4.0
+      version: 1.5.4
       chart: longhorn/longhorn
       parse_logic: cat values.yaml | yq eval '.. | select(has("repository")) | .repository + ":" + .tag'
       chart_values: !unsafe |
         defaultSettings:
-          allowNodeDrainWithLastHealthyReplica: true
+          concurrentReplicaRebuildPerNodeLimit: 10
           defaultDataPath: /mnt/blockstorage
-          defaultReplicaCount: 1
+          logLevel: Info
+          nodeDrainPolicy: block-for-eviction-if-contains-last-replica
+          replicaSoftAntiAffinity: true
+          priorityClass: system-node-critical
+          storageOverProvisioningPercentage: 200
+          storageReservedPercentageForDefaultDisk: 0
         ingress:
           enabled: true
-          host: storage.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}
-        persistence:
-          defaultClassReplicaCount: 1
+          host: storage.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] | lower }}
+        longhornManager:
+          priorityClass: system-node-critical
+        longhornDriver:
+          priorityClass: system-node-critical
+
+  pinniped:
+    helm:
+      version: 1.3.10  # (= Pinniped v0.27.0)
+      chart: bitnami/pinniped
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        concierge:
+          enabled: false
+        supervisor:
+          service:
+            public:
+              type: ClusterIP
+    local-user-authenticator:
+      # Must match the appVersion (!=chart version) referenced at `components.pinniped.helm.version`
+      version: v0.27.0
+      users:
+        - username: metauser
+          password: !unsafe "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | password_hash('bcrypt') }}"
+        - username: metaguest
+          password: !unsafe "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | password_hash('bcrypt') }}"
 
   step-certificates:
     helm:
-      # version: 1.18.2+20220324
-      version: 1.23.0
+      version: 1.25.2  # (= step-ca v0.25.2)
       chart: smallstep/step-certificates
       parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sed '/:/!s/$/:latest/' | sort -u
       chart_values: !unsafe |
-        ca:
-          bootstrap:
-            postInitHook: |
-              echo '{{ vapp["metacluster.password"] }}' > ~/pwfile
-              step ca provisioner add acme \
-                --type ACME \
-                --password-file=~/pwfile \
-                --force-cn
-              rm ~/pwfile
-          dns: ca.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }},step-certificates.step-ca.svc.cluster.local,127.0.0.1
-          password: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }}"
-          provisioner:
-            name: admin
-            password: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] }}"
         inject:
           secrets:
             ca_password: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | b64encode }}"
             provisioner_password: "{{ vapp['metacluster.password'] | b64encode }}"
-        service:
-          targetPort: 9000
 
 dependencies:
 
@@ -215,42 +344,50 @@ dependencies:
     - community.general
     - community.vmware
     - kubernetes.core
+    - lvrfrc87.git_acp
 
   container_images:
     # This should match the image tag referenced at `platform.packaged_components[.name==traefik].config`
     - busybox:1
-    - ghcr.io/kube-vip/kube-vip:v0.5.8
+    - ghcr.io/kube-vip/kube-vip:v0.6.3
     # The following list is generated by running the following commands:
     #   $ clusterctl init -i vsphere:<version> [...]
     #   $ clusterctl generate cluster <name> [...] | yq eval '.data.data' | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u
-    - gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/cpi/release/manager:v1.18.1
-    - gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/csi/release/driver:v2.1.0
-    - gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/csi/release/syncer:v2.1.0
-    - quay.io/k8scsi/csi-attacher:v3.0.0
-    - quay.io/k8scsi/csi-node-driver-registrar:v2.0.1
-    - quay.io/k8scsi/csi-provisioner:v2.0.0
-    - quay.io/k8scsi/livenessprobe:v2.1.0
+    - gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/cpi/release/manager:v1.27.0
+    - gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/csi/release/driver:v3.1.0
+    - gcr.io/cloud-provider-vsphere/csi/release/syncer:v3.1.0
+    - registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/csi-attacher:v4.3.0
+    - registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/csi-node-driver-registrar:v2.8.0
+    - registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/csi-provisioner:v3.5.0
+    - registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/csi-resizer:v1.8.0
+    - registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/csi-snapshotter:v6.2.2
+    - registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/livenessprobe:v2.10.0
 
   static_binaries:
+    - filename: argo
+      url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/releases/download/v3.5.7/argo-linux-amd64.gz
     - filename: clusterctl
-      url: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v1.3.2/clusterctl-linux-amd64
+      url: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v1.6.3/clusterctl-linux-amd64
     - filename: govc
-      url: https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases/download/v0.29.0/govc_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
+      url: https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases/download/v0.36.3/govc_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
       archive: compressed
     - filename: helm
-      url: https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.10.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz
+      url: https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.14.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz
       archive: compressed
       extra_opts: --strip-components=1
-    - filename: npp-prepper
-      url: https://code.spamasaurus.com/api/packages/djpbessems/generic/npp-prepper/v0.4.5/npp-prepper
+    - filename: kubectl-slice
+      url: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/kubectl-slice/releases/download/v1.2.9/kubectl-slice_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
+      archive: compressed
+    - filename: pinniped
+      url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/releases/download/v0.25.0/pinniped-cli-linux-amd64
     - filename: skopeo
-      url: https://code.spamasaurus.com/api/packages/djpbessems/generic/skopeo/v1.11.0-dev/skopeo
+      url: https://code.spamasaurus.com/api/packages/djpbessems/generic/skopeo/v1.12.0/skopeo_linux_amd64
     - filename: step
-      url: https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.23.0/step_linux_0.23.0_amd64.tar.gz
+      url: https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.25.2/step_linux_0.25.2_amd64.tar.gz
       archive: compressed
       extra_opts: --strip-components=2
     - filename: yq
-      url: http://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/download/v4.30.5/yq_linux_amd64
+      url: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/download/v4.43.1/yq_linux_amd64
 
   packages:
     apt:

ansible/vars/workloadcluster.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+downstream:
+
+  helm_repositories:
+    - name: bitnami
+      url: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
+    - name: longhorn
+      url: https://charts.longhorn.io
+    - name: sealed-secrets
+      url: https://bitnami-labs.github.io/sealed-secrets
+
+  helm_charts:
+
+    longhorn:
+      version: 1.5.4
+      chart: longhorn/longhorn
+      namespace: longhorn-system
+      parse_logic: cat values.yaml | yq eval '.. | select(has("repository")) | .repository + ":" + .tag'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        defaultSettings:
+          createDefaultDiskLabeledNodes: true
+          defaultDataPath: /mnt/blockstorage
+
+    pinniped:
+      version: 1.3.10  # (= Pinniped v0.27.0)
+      chart: bitnami/pinniped
+      namespace: pinniped-concierge
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      chart_values: !unsafe |
+        supervisor:
+          enabled: false
+      extra_manifests:
+        - src: jwtauthenticator.j2
+          _template:
+            name: metacluster-sso
+            spec: !unsafe |2
+                issuer: https://auth.{{ vapp['metacluster.fqdn'] }}/sso
+                audience: "{{ vapp['workloadcluster.name'] | lower }}"
+                tls:
+                  certificateAuthorityData: "{{ (stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['intermediate_ca.crt'] ~ _newline ~ stepca_cm_certs.resources[0].data['root_ca.crt']) | b64encode }}"
+
+    sealed-secrets:
+      version: 2.8.1  # (= Sealed Secrets v0.20.2)
+      chart: sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets
+      namespace: sealed-secrets
+      parse_logic: helm template . | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | sort -u | awk '!/ /'
+      # chart_values: !unsafe |
+      #   # Empty

deployment/playbook.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+- hosts: localhost
+  vars_files:
+    - vars/ova.bootstrap.yaml
+    - vars/hv.vcenter.yaml
+    - vars/pb.secrets.yaml
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: Retrieve target folder details
+    community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
+      hostname: "{{ hv.hostname }}"
+      username: "{{ hv.username }}"
+      password: "{{ secrets.hv.password }}"
+      folder: "{{ hv.folder }}"
+      validate_certs: false
+    register: vm_info
+
+  - name: User prompt
+    ansible.builtin.pause:
+      prompt: Virtual machine '{{ appliance.id }}' already exists. Delete to continue [yes] or abort [no]?"
+    register: prompt
+    until:
+      - prompt.user_input in ['yes', 'no']
+    delay: 0
+    when: (vm_info | selectattr('guest_name', 'equalto', appliance.id) | length) > 0
+
+  - name: Destroy existing VM
+    community.vmware.vmware_guest:
+      hostname: "{{ hv.hostname }}"
+      username: "{{ hv.username }}"
+      password: "{{ secrets.hv.password }}"
+      folder: "{{ hv.folder }}"
+      name: appliance.id
+      state: absent
+    when:
+      - (vm_info | selectattr('guest_name', 'equalto', appliance.id) | length) > 0
+      - (prompt.user_input | bool) == true
+
+  - name: Deploy VM from OVA-template
+    community.vmware.vmware_deploy_ovf:
+      hostname: "{{ hv.hostname }}"
+      username: "{{ hv.username }}"
+      password: "{{ secrets.hv.password }}"
+      validate_certs: false
+      datacenter: "{{ hv.datacenter }}"
+      folder: "{{ hv.folder }}"
+      cluster: "{{ hv.cluster }}"
+      name: airgapped-k8s-meta1
+      datastore: "{{ hv.datastore }}"
+      disk_provisioning: thin
+      networks:
+        "LAN": "{{ hv.network }}"
+      power_on: yes
+      ovf: "{{ appliance.path }}/{{ appliance.filename }}"
+      deployment_option: cp1w1ws0
+      properties:
+        metacluster.fqdn: k8s.lab
+        metacluster.vip: 192.168.154.125
+        metacluster.token: "{{ secrets.appliance.installtoken }}"
+        # guestinfo.hostname: _default
+        metacluster.password: "{{ secrets.appliance.password }}"
+        guestinfo.ipaddress: 192.168.154.126
+        guestinfo.prefixlength: '24'
+        guestinfo.dnsserver: 192.168.154.225
+        guestinfo.gateway: 192.168.154.1
+        # workloadcluster.name: _default
+        workloadcluster.vip: 192.168.154.130
+        ippool.startip: 192.168.154.135
+        ippool.endip: 192.168.154.140
+        workloadcluster.nodetemplate: ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.30.0
+        workloadcluster.nodesize: small
+        # workloadcluster.additionaldisk: '75'
+        guestinfo.rootsshkey: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAiRc7Og+cRJGFwdUzgpX9YqvVenTk54N4kqM7emEfYHdsJLMjKQyxr8hklHmsam5dzxx3itFzc6SLf/ldJJ2JZuzE5FiCqUXXv4UFwN6HF5xqn7PTLicvWZH93H4m1gOlD5Dfzi4Es34v5zRBwbMScOgekk/LweTgl35jGKDgMP5DjGTqkPf7Ndh9+iuQrz99JEr8egl3bj+jIlKjScfaQbbnu3AJIRwZwTKgw0AOkLliQdEPNLvG5/ZImxJG4oHV9/uNkfdJObLjT1plR1HbVNskV5fuRNE/vnUiWl9jAJ1RT83GOqV0sQ+Q7p214fkgqb3JPvci/s0Bb7RA85hBEQ== bessems.eu
+        hv.fqdn: "{{ hv.hostname }}"
+        hv.username: "{{ hv.username }}"
+        hv.password: "{{ secrets.hv.password }}"
+        ldap.fqdn: _unused
+        ldap.dn: _unused
+        ldap.password: _unused

deployment/requirements.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+collections:
+# - ansible.posix
+# - ansible.utils
+# - community.general
+- community.vmware

packer/build.pkr.hcl

@@ -1,21 +1,30 @@
 packer {
   required_plugins {
+    vsphere = {
+      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/vsphere"
+      version = "~> 1"
+    }
+
+    ansible = {
+      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/ansible"
+      version = "~> 1"
+    }
   }
 }
 
 build {
   source "vsphere-iso.ubuntu" {
     name = "bootstrap"
-    vm_name = "${var.vm_name}-bootstrap"
+    vm_name = "bld_${var.vm_name}_bootstrap"
   }
 
   source "vsphere-iso.ubuntu" {
     name = "upgrade"
-    vm_name = "${var.vm_name}-upgrade"
+    vm_name = "bld_${var.vm_name}_upgrade"
   }
 
   provisioner "ansible" {
-    pause_before     = "2m30s"
+    pause_before     = "45s"
 
     playbook_file    = "ansible/playbook.yml"
     user             = "ubuntu"
@@ -24,11 +33,16 @@ build {
       "PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1"
     ]
     use_proxy        = "false"
+    collections_path = "ansible/collections"
+
     extra_arguments  = [
       "--extra-vars", "appliancetype=${source.name}",
-      "--extra-vars", "ansible_ssh_pass=${var.ssh_password}"//,
-      // "--extra-vars", "repo_username=${var.repo_username}",
-      // "--extra-vars", "repo_password=${var.repo_password}"
+      "--extra-vars", "applianceversion=${var.appliance_version}",
+      "--extra-vars", "ansible_ssh_pass=${var.ssh_password}",
+      "--extra-vars", "docker_username=${var.docker_username}",
+      "--extra-vars", "docker_password=${var.docker_password}",
+      "--extra-vars", "repo_username=${var.repo_username}",
+      "--extra-vars", "repo_password=${var.repo_password}"
     ]
   }
 
@@ -36,12 +50,12 @@ build {
     inline = [
       "pwsh -command \"& scripts/Update-OvfConfiguration.ps1 \\",
       " -ApplianceType '${source.name}' \\",
-      " -OVFFile '/scratch/airgapped-k8s/${var.vm_name}-${source.name}.ovf' \"",
+      " -OVFFile '/data/scratch/bld_${var.vm_name}_${source.name}.ovf' \"",
       "pwsh -file scripts/Update-Manifest.ps1 \\",
-      " -ManifestFileName '/scratch/airgapped-k8s/${var.vm_name}-${source.name}.mf'",
+      " -ManifestFileName '/data/scratch/bld_${var.vm_name}_${source.name}.mf'",
       "ovftool --acceptAllEulas --allowExtraConfig --overwrite \\",
-      " '/scratch/airgapped-k8s/${var.vm_name}-${source.name}.ovf' \\",
-      " /output/airgapped-k8s.${source.name}.ova"
+      " '/data/scratch/bld_${var.vm_name}_${source.name}.ovf' \\",
+      " /output/airgapped-k8s-${var.appliance_version}+${var.k8s_version}-${source.name}.ova"
     ]
   }
 }

packer/iso.auto.pkrvars.hcl

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-iso_url      = "sn.itch.fyi/Repository/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu%20Server%2022.04/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso"
-iso_checksum = "sha256:10F19C5B2B8D6DB711582E0E27F5116296C34FE4B313BA45F9B201A5007056CB"
+iso_url      = "sn.itch.fyi/Repository/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu%20Server%2022.04/ubuntu-22.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso"
+iso_checksum = "sha256:A4ACFDA10B18DA50E2EC50CCAF860D7F20B389DF8765611142305C0E911D16FD"
 
-// iso_url      = "sn.itch.fyi/Repository/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu%20Server%2022.04/ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso"
-// iso_checksum = "sha256:84AEAF7823C8C61BAA0AE862D0A06B03409394800000B3235854A6B38EB4856F"
+// iso_url      = "sn.itch.fyi/Repository/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu%20Server%2022.04/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso"
+// iso_checksum = "sha256:10F19C5B2B8D6DB711582E0E27F5116296C34FE4B313BA45F9B201A5007056CB"

packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/user-data

@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
 #cloud-config
 autoinstall:
   version: 1
+  apt:
+    geoip: true
+    preserve_sources_list: false
+    primary:
+      - arches: [amd64, i386]
+        uri: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
+      - arches: [default]
+        uri: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports
+  early-commands:
+    - sudo systemctl stop ssh
   locale: en_US
   keyboard:
-    layout: en
-    variant: us
+    layout: us
   network:
     network:
       version: 2
@@ -16,14 +25,18 @@ autoinstall:
     layout:
       name: direct
   identity:
-    hostname: packer-template
+    hostname: ubuntu-server
     username: ubuntu
-    # password: $6$ZThRyfmSMh9499ar$KSZus58U/l58Efci0tiJEqDKFCpoy.rv25JjGRv5.iL33AQLTY2aljumkGiDAiX6LsjzVsGTgH85Tx4S.aTfx0
     password: $6$rounds=4096$ZKfzRoaQOtc$M.fhOsI0gbLnJcCONXz/YkPfSoefP4i2/PQgzi2xHEi2x9CUhush.3VmYKL0XVr5JhoYvnLfFwqwR/1YYEqZy/
   ssh:
-    install-server: yes
+    install-server: true
     allow-pw: true
+  packages:
+    - openssh-server
+    - open-vm-tools
+    - cloud-init
   user-data:
     disable_root: false
   late-commands:
     - echo 'ubuntu ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' > /target/etc/sudoers.d/ubuntu
+    - curtin in-target --target=/target -- chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/ubuntu

packer/source.pkr.hcl

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+source "vsphere-iso" "ubuntu" {
+  vcenter_server                 = var.hv_fqdn
+  username                       = var.hv_username
+  password                       = var.hv_password
+  insecure_connection            = "true"
+
+  datacenter                     = var.hv_datacenter
+  cluster                        = var.hv_cluster
+  host                           = var.hv_host
+  folder                         = var.hv_folder
+  datastore                      = var.hv_datastore
+
+  guest_os_type                  = "ubuntu64Guest"
+
+  boot_order                     = "disk,cdrom"
+  boot_command                   = [
+    "e<down><down><down><end>",
+    " autoinstall network-config=disabled ds=nocloud;",
+    "<F10>"
+  ]
+  boot_wait                      = "2s"
+
+  communicator                   = "ssh"
+  ssh_username                   = "ubuntu"
+  ssh_password                   = var.ssh_password
+  ssh_timeout                    = "20m"
+  ssh_handshake_attempts         = "100"
+  ssh_pty                        = true
+
+  CPUs                           = 4
+  RAM                            = 8192
+
+  network_adapters {
+    network                      = var.hv_network
+    network_card                 = "vmxnet3"
+  }
+  storage {
+    disk_size                    = 76800
+    disk_thin_provisioned        = true
+  }
+  disk_controller_type           = ["pvscsi"]
+  usb_controller                 = ["xhci"]
+
+  set_host_for_datastore_uploads = true
+  cd_files                       = [
+    "packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/user-data",
+    "packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/meta-data"
+  ]
+  cd_label                       = "cidata"
+  iso_url                        = local.iso_authenticatedurl
+  iso_checksum                   = var.iso_checksum
+
+  shutdown_command               = "echo '${var.ssh_password}' | sudo -S shutdown -P now"
+  shutdown_timeout               = "5m"
+
+  remove_cdrom                   = true
+
+  export {
+    output_directory             = "/data/scratch"
+  }
+
+  destroy                        = true
+}

packer/sources.pkr.hcl

@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-source "vsphere-iso" "ubuntu" {
-  vcenter_server          = var.vcenter_server
-  username                = var.vsphere_username
-  password                = var.vsphere_password
-  insecure_connection     = "true"
-
-  datacenter              = var.vsphere_datacenter
-  cluster                 = var.vsphere_cluster
-  host                    = var.vsphere_host
-  folder                  = var.vsphere_folder
-  datastore               = var.vsphere_datastore
-
-  guest_os_type           = "ubuntu64Guest"
-
-  boot_order              = "disk,cdrom"
-  boot_command            = [
-    "e<down><down><down><end>",
-    " autoinstall ds=nocloud;",
-    "<F10>"
-  ]
-  boot_wait               = "2s"
-
-  communicator            = "ssh"
-  ssh_username            = "ubuntu"
-  ssh_password            = var.ssh_password
-  ssh_timeout             = "20m"
-  ssh_handshake_attempts  = "100"
-  ssh_pty                 = true
-
-  CPUs                    = 4
-  RAM                     = 8192
-
-  network_adapters {
-    network               = var.vsphere_network
-    network_card          = "vmxnet3"
-  }
-  storage {
-    disk_size             = 76800
-    disk_thin_provisioned = true
-  }
-  disk_controller_type    = ["pvscsi"]
-  usb_controller          = ["xhci"]
-
-  cd_files                = [
-    "packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/user-data",
-    "packer/preseed/UbuntuServer22.04/meta-data"
-  ]
-  cd_label                = "cidata"
-  iso_url                 = local.iso_authenticatedurl
-  iso_checksum            = var.iso_checksum
-
-  shutdown_command        = "echo '${var.ssh_password}' | sudo -S shutdown -P now"
-  shutdown_timeout        = "5m"
-
-  remove_cdrom            = true
-
-  export {
-    images                = false
-    output_directory      = "/scratch/airgapped-k8s"
-  }
-}

packer/variables.pkr.hcl

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-variable "vcenter_server" {}
-variable "vsphere_username" {}
-variable "vsphere_password" {
+variable "hv_fqdn" {}
+variable "hv_username" {}
+variable "hv_password" {
     sensitive = true
 }
 
-variable "vsphere_host" {}
-variable "vsphere_datacenter" {}
-variable "vsphere_cluster" {}
+variable "hv_host" {}
+variable "hv_datacenter" {}
+variable "hv_cluster" {}
 
-variable "vsphere_templatefolder" {}
-variable "vsphere_folder" {}
-variable "vsphere_datastore" {}
-variable "vsphere_network" {}
+variable "hv_templatefolder" {}
+variable "hv_folder" {}
+variable "hv_datastore" {}
+variable "hv_network" {}
 
 variable "vm_name" {}
 variable "ssh_password" {
@@ -28,3 +28,11 @@ local "iso_authenticatedurl" {
     expression = "https://${var.repo_username}:${var.repo_password}@${var.iso_url}"
     sensitive  = true
 }
+
+variable "docker_username" {}
+variable "docker_password" {
+    sensitive = true
+}
+
+variable "appliance_version" {}
+variable "k8s_version" {}

packer/vsphere.auto.pkrvars.hcl

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-vcenter_server         = "bv11-vc.bessems.lan"
-vsphere_username       = "administrator@vsphere.local"
-vsphere_datacenter     = "DeSchakel"
-vsphere_cluster        = "Cluster.Legacy"
-vsphere_host           = "bv11-esx.bessems.lan"
-vsphere_datastore      = "ESX00.SSD01"
-vsphere_folder         = "/Packer"
-vsphere_templatefolder = "/Templates"
-vsphere_network        = "LAN"
+hv_fqdn           = "lab-vc-01.bessems.lan"
+hv_username       = "administrator@vsphere.local"
+# urlencoded        "4/55-Clydebank-Rd"
+hv_datacenter     = "4%2f55-Clydebank-Rd"
+hv_cluster        = "Cluster.01"
+hv_host           = "lab-esx-02.bessems.lan"
+hv_datastore      = "ESX02.SSD02"
+hv_folder         = "/Packer"
+hv_templatefolder = "/Templates"
+hv_network        = "LAN"

scripts/Update-OvfConfiguration.bootstrap.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 DeploymentConfigurations:
 
-- Id: cp1w1
+- Id: cp1w1ws0
   Label: 'Workload-cluster: 1 control-plane node/1 worker node'
   Description: 1 control-plane node/1 worker node
 
-- Id: cp1w2
-  Label: 'Workload-cluster: 1 control-plane node/2 worker nodes'
-  Description: 1 control-plane node/2 worker nodes
+- Id: cp1w1ws1
+  Label: 'Workload-cluster: 1 control-plane node/1 worker node/1 worker-storage node'
+  Description: 1 control-plane node/1 worker node/1 worker-storage node
+
+- Id: core
+  Label: No workload-cluster
+  Description: Only the metacluster is deployed (useful for recovery scenario's)
 
 DynamicDisks:
 
@@ -24,8 +28,9 @@ PropertyCategories:
   - Key: deployment.type
     Type: string
     Value:
-    - cp1w1
-    - cp1w2
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
+    - core
     UserConfigurable: false
 
 - Name: 1) Meta-cluster
@@ -41,8 +46,8 @@ PropertyCategories:
 
   - key: metacluster.vip
     Type: ip
-    Label: Meta-cluster virtual IP*
-    Description: Meta-cluster control plane endpoint virtual IP
+    Label: Meta-cluster virtual IP address*
+    Description: Meta-cluster control plane endpoint virtual IP address
     DefaultValue: ''
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
@@ -101,18 +106,18 @@ PropertyCategories:
   - Key: guestinfo.gateway
     Type: ip
     Label: Gateway*
-    Description: ''
+    Description: 'A default route is *required*, use a dummy IP address if there is no actual gateway router present'
     DefaultValue: ''
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
 
-  - Key: guestinfo.ntpserver
-    Type: string(1..)
-    Label: Time server*
-    Description: A comma-separated list of timeservers
-    DefaultValue: 0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org
-    Configurations: '*'
-    UserConfigurable: true
+  # - Key: guestinfo.ntpserver
+  #   Type: string(1..)
+  #   Label: Time server*
+  #   Description: A comma-separated list of timeservers
+  #   DefaultValue: 0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org
+  #   Configurations: '*'
+  #   UserConfigurable: true
 
 - Name: 3) Workload-cluster
   ProductProperties:
@@ -122,31 +127,75 @@ PropertyCategories:
     Label: Workload-cluster name*
     Description: ''
     DefaultValue: 'workload-{{ hostname.suffix }}'
-    Configurations: '*'
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
     UserConfigurable: true
 
   - Key: workloadcluster.vip
     Type: ip
-    Label: Workload-cluster virtual IP*
-    Description: Workload-cluster control plane endpoint virtual IP
-    DefaultValue: ''
-    Configurations: '*'
+    Label: Workload-cluster virtual IP address*
+    Description: Workload-cluster control plane endpoint virtual IP address
+    DefaultValue: '0.0.0.0'
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
     UserConfigurable: true
 
   - Key: ippool.startip
     Type: ip
-    Label: Workload-cluster IP-pool start IP*
+    Label: Workload-cluster IP-pool start IP address*
     Description: All nodes for the workload-cluster will be provisioned within this IP pool
-    DefaultValue: ''
-    Configurations: '*'
+    DefaultValue: '0.0.0.0'
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
     UserConfigurable: true
 
   - Key: ippool.endip
     Type: ip
-    Label: Workload-cluster IP-pool end IP*
+    Label: Workload-cluster IP-pool end IP address*
     Description: All nodes for the workload-cluster will be provisioned within this IP pool
-    DefaultValue: ''
-    Configurations: '*'
+    DefaultValue: '0.0.0.0'
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
+    UserConfigurable: true
+
+  - Key: workloadcluster.nodetemplate
+    Type: string["ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.30.0", "photon-5-kube-v1.30.0.ova"]
+    Label: Workload-cluster node template
+    Description: |
+      All worker and worker-storage nodes for the workload-cluster will be provisioned with this node template.
+      Note:
+      Make sure that this exact template has been uploaded to the vCenter instance before powering on this appliance!
+    DefaultValue: ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.30.0
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
+    UserConfigurable: true
+
+  - Key: workloadcluster.nodesize
+    Type: string["small", "medium", "large"]
+    Label: Workload-cluster node size*
+    Description: |
+      All worker and worker-storage nodes for the workload-cluster will be provisioned with number of cpu-cores and memory as specified:
+      - SMALL: 2 vCPU/6GB RAM
+      - MEDIUM: 4 vCPU/8GB RAM
+      - LARGE: 8 vCPU/16GB RAM
+    DefaultValue: 'small'
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws0
+    - cp1w1ws1
+    UserConfigurable: true
+
+  - Key: workloadcluster.additionaldisk
+    Type: int(0..120)
+    Label: Workload-cluster block storage disk size*
+    Description: 'All worker-storage nodes for the workload-cluster will be provisioned with an additional disk of the specified size'
+    DefaultValue: '42'
+    Configurations:
+    - cp1w1ws1
     UserConfigurable: true
 
 - Name: 4) Common
@@ -187,6 +236,33 @@ PropertyCategories:
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
 
+- Name: 6) Identity provider
+  ProductProperties:
+
+  - Key: ldap.fqdn
+    Type: string(1..)
+    Label: LDAP server FQDN/IP-address*
+    Description: The address of the LDAP server which this bootstrap appliance will perform LDAP queries against.
+    DefaultValue: ''
+    Configurations: '*'
+    UserConfigurable: true
+
+  - Key: ldap.dn
+    Type: string(1..)
+    Label: LDAP bind distinguished name*
+    Description: The distinguished name of the user account used for LDAP queries; for example 'CN=ldapreader,OU=Useraccounts,DC=example,DC=com'
+    DefaultValue: ''
+    Configurations: '*'
+    UserConfigurable: true
+
+  - Key: ldap.password
+    Type: password(1..)
+    Label: LDAP bind password*
+    Description: The password of the user account used for LDAP queries.
+    DefaultValue: ''
+    Configurations: '*'
+    UserConfigurable: true
+
 ---
 Variables:
 - Name: hostname.suffix

scripts/Update-OvfConfiguration.upgrade.yml

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ PropertyCategories:
 
   - key: metacluster.vip
     Type: ip
-    Label: Meta-cluster virtual IP*
-    Description: Meta-cluster control plane endpoint virtual IP
+    Label: Meta-cluster virtual IP address*
+    Description: Meta-cluster control plane endpoint virtual IP address
     DefaultValue: ''
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ PropertyCategories:
   - Key: metacluster.password
     Type: password(7..)
     Label: Meta-cluster administrator password*
-    Description: 'Needed to authenticate with target meta-cluster'
+    Description: Needed to authenticate with target meta-cluster
     DefaultValue: ''
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ PropertyCategories:
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
 
-- Name: 2) Add meta-cluster node
+- Name: 2) Meta-cluster new node
   ProductProperties:
 
   - Key: guestinfo.hostname
@@ -87,15 +87,28 @@ PropertyCategories:
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
 
-  - Key: guestinfo.ntpserver
-    Type: string(1..)
-    Label: Time server*
-    Description: A comma-separated list of timeservers
-    DefaultValue: 0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org
-    Configurations: '*'
+  # - Key: guestinfo.ntpserver
+  #   Type: string(1..)
+  #   Label: Time server*
+  #   Description: A comma-separated list of timeservers
+  #   DefaultValue: 0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org
+  #   Configurations: '*'
+  #   UserConfigurable: true
+
+- Name: 3) Workload-cluster
+  ProductProperties:
+
+  - Key: workloadcluster.nodetemplate
+    Type: string["ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.30.0", "photon-5-kube-v1.30.0.ova"]
+    Label: Workload-cluster node template
+    Description: |
+      All worker and worker-storage nodes for the workload-cluster will be provisioned with this node template.
+      Note:
+      Make sure that this exact template has been uploaded to the vCenter instance before powering on this appliance!
+    DefaultValue: ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.30.0
     UserConfigurable: true
 
-- Name: 3) Common
+- Name: 4) Common
   ProductProperties:
 
   - Key: guestinfo.rootsshkey
@@ -106,7 +119,7 @@ PropertyCategories:
     Configurations: '*'
     UserConfigurable: true
 
-- Name: 4) Hypervisor
+- Name: 5) Hypervisor
   ProductProperties:
 
   - Key: hv.fqdn