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unkinben 4d877531b0 Add vpa-system: VPA CRDs + recommender (advise mode) (#281)
## Why

Rolls out the Vertical Pod Autoscaler control plane so the estate can gather right-sizing recommendations for every workload (advise mode, follow-up PR adds the per-workload VPA objects). Deploys the **recommender only**: advise mode never mutates pods, so the updater and admission-controller (and its mutating webhook) are intentionally omitted — fewer moving parts, no webhook in the admission path.

## Changes

- Add `apps/base/vpa-system/`: namespace, VPA CRDs (verticalpodautoscalers + verticalpodautoscalercheckpoints) pulled from the kubernetes/autoscaler repo at the pinned tag (same upstream-raw pattern node-feature-discovery uses), recommender-scoped RBAC (SA + metrics-reader/actor/status-actor/checkpoint-actor/target-reader), and the recommender Deployment.
- Add `apps/overlays/au-syd1/vpa-system/` referencing the base.
- Register `apps/overlays/*/vpa-system` in the platform ApplicationSet.

## Notes

- Pins upstream **vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.7.0** (latest stable, 2026-05-29) for both CRDs and the `registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-recommender:1.7.0` image.
- No platform AppProject change needed: `*-system` namespace destination plus CustomResourceDefinition/ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding are already whitelisted.
- The recommender image is pull-through-cached via terraform-artifactapi PR #13 (merge gate below).

## Merge gate

- Requires terraform-artifactapi PR #13 (adds the `autoscaling/vpa-` pattern to the k8s-registry docker remote) to land first so the recommender image is served through the cache.

Reviewed-on: #281
Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
2026-07-25 18:26:15 +10:00

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---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system
---
# Read pods from the metrics API (metrics-server) to build recommendations.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: vpa-system:metrics-reader
rules:
- apiGroups: ["metrics.k8s.io"]
resources: ["pods"]
verbs: ["get", "list"]
---
# Watch pods/nodes/limitranges and VPA objects; emit events.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: vpa-system:actor
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["pods", "nodes", "limitranges"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: ["", "events.k8s.io"]
resources: ["events"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "create", "update", "patch"]
- apiGroups: ["autoscaling.k8s.io"]
resources: ["verticalpodautoscalers"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
---
# Write recommendations back to the VPA object's status subresource.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: vpa-system:status-actor
rules:
- apiGroups: ["autoscaling.k8s.io"]
resources: ["verticalpodautoscalers/status"]
verbs: ["get", "patch"]
---
# Manage recommender checkpoints (recovery of history after restart).
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: vpa-system:checkpoint-actor
rules:
- apiGroups: ["autoscaling.k8s.io"]
resources: ["verticalpodautoscalercheckpoints"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "create", "patch", "delete"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["namespaces"]
verbs: ["get", "list"]
---
# Resolve VPA targetRef workloads and their scale subresource.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: vpa-system:target-reader
rules:
- apiGroups: ["*"]
resources: ["*/scale"]
verbs: ["get", "watch"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["replicationcontrollers"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: ["apps"]
resources: ["daemonsets", "deployments", "replicasets", "statefulsets"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: ["batch"]
resources: ["jobs", "cronjobs"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: vpa-system:metrics-reader
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: vpa-system:metrics-reader
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: vpa-system:actor
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: vpa-system:actor
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: vpa-system:status-actor
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: vpa-system:status-actor
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: vpa-system:checkpoint-actor
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: vpa-system:checkpoint-actor
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: vpa-system:target-reader
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: vpa-system:target-reader
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: vpa-recommender
namespace: vpa-system