## Why
NetBox 4.6.5 refuses to save v2 API tokens without `API_TOKEN_PEPPERS` ("Unable to save v2 tokens: API_TOKEN_PEPPERS is not defined"), which blocks creating the superuser token the NetBox Vault engine needs (it defaults to v2 tokens). The chart only auto-generates a pepper when it creates the config secret itself; it does not do that while `existingSecret` (`netbox-secret-key`) is set, so the config secret carries no `api_token_peppers` key.
## Changes
- Document `api_token_peppers` on the `netbox-secret-key` VaultStaticSecret: a JSON pepper map `{"1": "<random>"}` seeded once into Vault alongside `secret_key`. VSO syncs every key at the path into the config secret, which the chart already mounts as an optional file into `API_TOKEN_PEPPERS`.
- Add a reloader annotation via `commonAnnotations` so the `netbox` and `netbox-worker` Deployments roll when `netbox-secret-key` changes, picking up the seeded pepper (and any rotated `secret_key`) without a manual restart.
## Follow-up (out of band)
seed the pepper once (rotating it invalidates existing v2 tokens):
```
PEP=$(openssl rand -base64 48 | tr -d '\n')
vault kv patch kv/kubernetes/namespace/netbox/default/netbox-secret-key \
api_token_peppers="{\"1\": \"$PEP\"}"
```
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Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <neotheo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: #346
Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
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