Enable Reloader secret watching, scope existing auto to configmap-only (#326) (#339)

## Why

The re-keyed internal `unkin.net` intermediate broke CA consumers (CNPG->RGW backups, subPath/startup-cached CA mounts) and needed manual pod restarts, because Reloader was deployed with `ignoreSecrets: true` and could not restart on the `vault-ca-cert` Secret. Enabling secret watching naively is unsafe: many workloads carry the generic `reloader.stakater.com/auto`, and the estate rotates numerous Secrets via Vault/VSO — those would restart on every rotation. This enables secret watching but scopes existing `auto` to ConfigMaps, making secret-reload opt-in per Secret.

## Changes

- Set `reloader.ignoreSecrets: false` (au-syd1 reloader-system values) so Secrets are watched.
- Convert every generic `reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"` to the ConfigMap-only `configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"` — 22 annotations across 19 files. Existing ConfigMap-reload behaviour is preserved; Vault/VSO Secret rotations no longer restart these workloads.
- Add explicit `secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"` to the CA consumers that mount the CA and carry a Reloader annotation: `artifactapi/api`, `cephrgw-operator`, `puppetserver-master`, `puppetserver-compiler`, `litellm`, `logarchiver`.
- Add `secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "kanidm-tls"` so kanidm rolls when cert-manager renews its leaf.
- Add `docs/ca-rotation.md` runbook (indexed in `docs/README.md`).

## Safety review (secret-only / CA workloads)

`vault-ca-cert` is a plain reflected Secret that bootstraps Vault trust (not VSO-rotated; changes only on intermediate re-key). `kanidm-tls` is a cert-manager leaf. Everything else mounted (`environment`, `*-credentials`, `eyaml-keys`, `puppetboard-secrets`, `s3-credentials`, `nats-auth`, `clickhouse-credentials`, `woodpecker-*`) is VSO/CNPG Vault-rotated and deliberately excluded.

- `cephrgw-operator` — mounts only Secrets (`cephrgw-credentials` VSO + `vault-ca-cert`), no ConfigMap. Its old comment said "restart when the credentials Secret rotates"; `cephrgw-credentials` is VSO so that is now excluded, and reload is scoped to `vault-ca-cert` only. Comment updated.
- `nats` (logging) — old comment "Roll the StatefulSet when nats-auth changes"; `nats-auth` is VSO, so this is now ConfigMap-only (deliberately no roll on rotation). Comment updated. Same for the vector agent/aggregator/vm-ingest (VSO `nats-auth`/`clickhouse-credentials`).
- `artifactapi/ui` — mounts neither a ConfigMap nor a Secret; its `auto` was already a no-op. Left as ConfigMap-only.
- `puppetdb` / `puppetboard` — mount a ConfigMap plus VSO Secrets (postgres creds / puppetboard-secrets); ConfigMap-only is correct, no secret reload added.

CA consumers that mount `vault-ca-cert` but have **no** Reloader annotation (CRD-managed or startup-cached) are documented in `docs/ca-rotation.md` for manual restart rather than annotated here: `grafana`, `observability/vmagent`, `paperclip`, `argocd-repo-server`, plus CNPG clusters (`kubectl cnpg restart`).

## Notes / coordination

- Annotations left in their existing location (some sit on the pod template, e.g. `litellm`, `puppetdb`; Reloader reads controller-level metadata — placement unchanged from before, no regression).
- Touches `apps/overlays/au-syd1/logging/values-vector-*.yaml`, which overlap open PR #320 (Tier-2 Vector pipelines) — only the one-line reloader annotation is changed here.

## Validation

- `make kubeconform` — touched overlays (reloader-system, logging, woodpecker, authentik) valid; only the known-unrelated cattle-system rancher chart kubeVersion failure remains.
- `uvx pre-commit run --all-files` — all hooks pass.

Closes #326

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Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <neotheo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: #339
Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>

apps/base/age-api/deployment.yaml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ spec:
   template:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
       labels:
         app: age-api
     spec:

apps/base/artifactapi/api-deployment.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ metadata:
   name: api
   namespace: artifactapi
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"
 spec:
   selector:
     matchLabels:

apps/base/artifactapi/ui-deployment.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
   name: ui
   namespace: artifactapi
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
 spec:
   selector:
     matchLabels:

apps/base/cephrgw-system/deployment.yaml

@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ metadata:
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: cephrgw-operator
   annotations:
-    # Restart the operator when the credentials Secret rotates.
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    # Restart on internal CA rotation only; cephrgw-credentials is Vault-rotated
+    # (VSO) and deliberately excluded so routine key rotation causes no restart.
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"
 spec:
   replicas: 1
   selector:

apps/base/encapi/deployment.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
   name: encapi
   namespace: encapi
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
 spec:
   replicas: 2
   selector:

apps/base/kanidm/statefulset.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ metadata:
   name: kanidm
   namespace: kanidm
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "kanidm-tls"
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: kanidm
     app.kubernetes.io/instance: kanidm

apps/base/litellm/deployment.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ spec:
   template:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"
       labels:
         app: litellm
     spec:

apps/base/logging/deployment_logarchiver.yaml

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ metadata:
   name: logarchiver
   namespace: logging
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: logarchiver
     app.kubernetes.io/component: archiver

apps/base/pdbmux/deployment.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
   name: pdbmux
   namespace: pdbmux
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
 spec:
   replicas: 2
   selector:

apps/base/puppet/deployment_puppetboard.yaml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ spec:
   template:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
       labels:
         app.kubernetes.io/component: puppetboard
         app.kubernetes.io/instance: puppetserver

apps/base/puppet/deployment_puppetdb.yaml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ spec:
   template:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
       labels:
         app.kubernetes.io/component: puppetdb
         app.kubernetes.io/instance: puppetserver

apps/base/puppet/deployment_puppetserver-compiler.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
 metadata:
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/component: puppetserver-compilers
     app.kubernetes.io/instance: puppetserver

apps/base/puppet/deployment_puppetserver-master.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
 metadata:
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/component: puppetserver
     app.kubernetes.io/instance: puppetserver
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ spec:
   template:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
       labels:
         app.kubernetes.io/component: puppetserver
         app.kubernetes.io/instance: puppetserver

apps/overlays/au-syd1/authentik/values.yaml

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ global:
 server:
   replicas: 3
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
   ingress:
     enabled: false
   resources:
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ server:
 worker:
   replicas: 2
   annotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
   resources:
     limits:
       cpu: "2"

apps/overlays/au-syd1/logging/values-nats.yaml

@@ -86,12 +86,13 @@ container:
       cpu: "2"
       memory: 4Gi
 
-# Roll the StatefulSet when nats-auth changes.
+# Roll the StatefulSet on config changes only; nats-auth is Vault-rotated (VSO)
+# so it is deliberately not watched here (no restart on routine key rotation).
 podTemplate:
   merge:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+        configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
 
 # Config-reloader sidecar image, also through artifactapi.
 reloader:

apps/overlays/au-syd1/logging/values-vector-agent.yaml

@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ existingConfigMaps:
   - vector-agent-config
 
 workloadResourceAnnotations:
-  reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+  configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"

apps/overlays/au-syd1/logging/values-vector-aggregator.yaml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ autoscaling:
   targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 70
 
 workloadResourceAnnotations:
-  reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+  configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
 
 podLabels:
   vector.dev/exclude: "true"

apps/overlays/au-syd1/logging/values-vector-vm-ingest.yaml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ image:
   tag: 0.57.0-distroless-libc
 
 workloadResourceAnnotations:
-  reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+  configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
 
 podLabels:
   vector.dev/exclude: "true"

apps/overlays/au-syd1/reloader-system/values.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 reloader:
   autoReloadAll: false
   isArgoRollouts: true
-  ignoreSecrets: true
+  # Watch Secrets so opt-in secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload works (issue
+  # #326). Workloads use configmap-only auto by default; Vault/VSO-rotated
+  # Secrets do NOT trigger restarts unless explicitly named.
+  ignoreSecrets: false
   ignoreConfigMaps: false
   ignoreJobs: true
   ignoreCronJobs: true

apps/overlays/au-syd1/woodpecker/values.yaml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ agent:
   persistence:
     storageClass: cephrbd-fast-delete
   podAnnotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
   resources:
     requests:
       cpu: 50m
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ server:
   persistentVolume:
     storageClass: cephrbd-fast-delete
   podAnnotations:
-    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+    configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
   ingress:
     enabled: true
     annotations:

docs/README.md

@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ Operational notes for the manifests in this repo.
 | [cnpg-restore.md](cnpg-restore.md) | Restoring a CNPG cluster: full recovery, point-in-time recovery, cutover, and gotchas. |
 | [authentik-rancher-sso.md](authentik-rancher-sso.md) | Manual runtime step to point Rancher's OIDC auth at the canonical `identity.unkin.net` issuer and trust the internal CA. |
 | [gitea-migration.md](gitea-migration.md) | Staged cutover of the git.unkin.net forge from the Puppet VM to the `gitea` namespace. |
+| [ca-rotation.md](ca-rotation.md) | Rolling the internal `unkin.net` PKI CA (`vault-ca-cert`): what Reloader restarts automatically vs. manual/CNPG restarts. |

docs/ca-rotation.md

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Internal CA rotation runbook
+
+How to roll the internal `unkin.net` PKI when the intermediate CA is re-keyed,
+without turning it into an incident (issue #326).
+
+Trust in the internal CA is bootstrapped by the plain `vault-ca-cert` Secret in
+the `certificates` namespace (it cannot be Vault-sourced — it is what teaches
+workloads to trust Vault in the first place). It is replicated into every
+namespace by the emberstack reflector. Everything below keys off that Secret.
+
+## Before you start
+
+- `vault-ca-cert` MUST carry the **full current chain** (intermediate + root),
+  not a bare leaf. radosgw (Ceph RGW) serves a bare leaf, so CNPG->RGW backups
+  and any S3 client verifying against this bundle break if the chain is
+  incomplete. Update `apps/base/certificates/vault-ca-cert.yaml` with the full
+  chain and let Argo CD sync it before restarting consumers.
+
+## What restarts automatically
+
+Reloader watches Secrets (`ignoreSecrets: false`) but workloads use
+`configmap.reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"` — ConfigMap-only by default — so
+Vault/VSO-rotated app Secrets do NOT cause restarts. CA reload is opt-in via an
+explicit `secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "vault-ca-cert"` annotation.
+
+These roll on their own when `vault-ca-cert` changes:
+
+| Workload | Namespace | How it consumes the CA |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `api` (artifactapi) | `artifactapi` | init combines CA into trust bundle |
+| `litellm` | `litellm` | init combines CA into trust bundle |
+| `cephrgw-operator` | `cephrgw-system` | `CEPH_RGW_CA_FILE` subPath mount |
+| `puppetserver-master` | `puppet` | subPath mount |
+| `puppetserver-compiler` | `puppet` | subPath mount |
+| `logarchiver` | `logging` | subPath mount |
+
+## What needs a manual restart
+
+These mount `vault-ca-cert` but are not Reloader-annotated (CRD-managed or
+startup-cached), so restart them by hand after the Secret syncs:
+
+```sh
+kubectl -n grafana rollout restart deployment/grafana     # grafana-operator Grafana
+kubectl -n observability rollout restart deployment/vmagent
+kubectl -n paperclip rollout restart deployment/paperclip
+kubectl -n argocd rollout restart deployment/argocd-repo-server  # startup-cached
+```
+
+CNPG Postgres clusters cache the CA in the operator; roll each cluster that
+trusts `vault-ca-cert` (artifactapi, authentik, encapi, gitea, grafana,
+litellm, paperclip, woodpecker):
+
+```sh
+kubectl cnpg restart <cluster> -n <namespace>
+```
+
+## Verify
+
+Confirm the in-pod bundle matches the new CA:
+
+```sh
+kubectl -n <ns> exec deploy/<workload> -- \
+  sha256sum /path/to/ca.crt          # compare against the new vault-ca-cert
+```
+
+For RGW-backed backups, confirm a fresh CNPG base backup completes after the
+roll.