## Why
kea-dhcp4 crash-loops at HA hook load: kea 2.6's HA hook parses each peer url host as an IP literal and never resolves DNS, so the StatefulSet headless hostnames are rejected ("Failed to convert string to address ..."). Verified in-cluster that only an IP works (short name, FQDN both fail; `kea-dhcp4 -t` does not exercise this, which is why the v0.1.3 wait did not catch it). Pod IPs cannot be baked into the config because they change on restart and would roll-loop the StatefulSet via the config hash.
## How
- create one ClusterIP Service per HA peer, selecting the pod by its statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name label, with publishNotReadyAddresses so peers are routable during bootstrap
- render each HA peer url as its peer Service ClusterIP (a stable IP literal, safe in the config hash); reconcile Services before the ConfigMap and requeue until the ClusterIPs are allocated
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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