Kea 2.6.5 restricts control/HA unix socket paths to its compiled
runstatedir and rejects any other path by exact string match
("invalid path specified: '/run/kea', supported path is '/var/run/kea'"),
even though /var/run is a symlink to /run. The operator rendered sockets
under /run/kea, so kea-dhcp4 and kea-ctrl-agent crash-looped on startup.
- Point RunDir at /var/run/kea so all derived config/socket paths match.
- Pre-create /var/run/kea in the kea image.
- Assert rendered socket paths live under /var/run/kea.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JUoARVdmhxKQHyyyp1pxeT
Replace the ISC dhcpd PXE-boot VM with a Kea DHCP Kubernetes operator, modelled
on bind-operator. The operator renders kea-dhcp4 config from CRs and runs an HA
pair of kea-dhcp4 + kea-ctrl-agent servers behind an anycast Service.
- add KeaCluster/KeaSubnet/KeaClientClass/KeaAPI CRDs (group kea.unkin.net)
- render deterministic kea-dhcp4.conf + kea-ctrl-agent.conf into a ConfigMap and
roll the StatefulSet via a config-hash annotation; best-effort hot-reload via
the kea-ctrl-agent REST channel
- run HA hot-standby (memfile leases) with stable per-peer DNS identity from a
StatefulSet; expose an anycast LoadBalancer Service for PureLB
- represent the full legacy dhcpd config: 198.18.13-17.0/24 pools, pool-less
198.18.25.0/24, and the Legacy/UEFI-64 PXE arch classes (option 93)
- add the KeaAPI-spawned REST service: Terraform-friendly CRUD over subnet and
client-class CRs (stable IDs, PUT upsert, 404 drift, bearer-token auth)
- add Makefile (patch/minor/major tag targets), distroless operator/api images,
an AlmaLinux+EPEL kea workload image, and woodpecker CI with k8s resources +
serviceAccountName on every step
- unit tests for config rendering, controller reconcile/config-hash, and the API
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JUoARVdmhxKQHyyyp1pxeT
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