Migrate to rootful container architecture with infrastructure fact pattern

Major architectural change from rootless user services to system-level (rootful)
containers to enable group-based Unix socket access for containerized applications.

Infrastructure Changes:
- PostgreSQL: Export postgres-clients group GID as Ansible fact
- Valkey: Export valkey-clients group GID as Ansible fact
- Valkey: Add socket-fix service to maintain correct socket group ownership
- Both: Set socket directories to 770 with client group ownership

Authentik Role Refactoring:
- Remove rootless container configuration (subuid/subgid, lingering, user systemd)
- Deploy Quadlet files to /etc/containers/systemd/ (system-level)
- Use dynamic GID facts in container PodmanArgs (--group-add)
- Simplify user creation to system user with infrastructure group membership
- Update handlers for system scope service management
- Remove unnecessary container security options (no user namespace isolation)

Container Template Changes:
- Pod: Remove --userns args, change WantedBy to multi-user.target
- Containers: Replace Annotation with PodmanArgs using dynamic GIDs
- Remove /dev/shm mounts and SecurityLabelDisable (not needed for rootful)
- Change WantedBy to multi-user.target for system services

Documentation Updates:
- Add ADR-005: Rootful Containers with Infrastructure Fact Pattern
- Update ADR-003: Podman + systemd for system-level deployment
- Update authentik-deployment-guide.md for system scope commands
- Update service-integration-guide.md with rootful pattern examples
- Document discarded rootless approach and rationale

Why Rootful Succeeds:
- Direct UID/GID mapping preserves supplementary groups
- Container process groups match host socket group ownership
- No user namespace remapping breaking permissions

Why Rootless Failed (Discarded):
- User namespace UID/GID remapping broke group-based socket access
- Supplementary groups remapped into subgid range didn't match socket ownership
- Even with --userns=host and keep_original_groups, permissions failed

Pattern Established:
- Infrastructure roles create client groups and export GID facts
- Application roles validate facts and consume in container templates
- Rootful containers run as dedicated users with --group-add for socket access
- System-level deployment provides standard systemd service management

Deployment Validated:
- Services in /system.slice/ ✓
- Process groups: 961 (valkey-clients), 962 (postgres-clients), 966 (authentik) ✓
- Socket permissions: 770 with client groups ✓
- HTTP endpoint responding ✓
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2025-12-14 16:56:50 +01:00
parent 9e570ac2a3
commit 3506e55016
21 changed files with 587 additions and 288 deletions

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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ postgresql_unix_socket_enabled: true
postgresql_unix_socket_directories: "/var/run/postgresql"
postgresql_unix_socket_permissions: "0770"
# Group-Based Access Control
postgresql_client_group: "postgres-clients"
postgresql_client_group_create: true
# Authentication
postgresql_auth_method: "scram-sha-256"

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@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@
name: python-psycopg2
state: present
- name: Create PostgreSQL client access group
group:
name: "{{ postgresql_client_group }}"
system: true
when: postgresql_client_group_create
- name: Ensure postgres user is in client group
user:
name: postgres
groups: "{{ postgresql_client_group }}"
append: true
when: postgresql_client_group_create
- name: Check if PostgreSQL data directory exists and is initialized
stat:
path: "/var/lib/postgres/data/PG_VERSION"
@@ -72,10 +85,21 @@
path: "{{ postgresql_unix_socket_directories }}"
state: directory
owner: postgres
group: postgres
group: "{{ postgresql_client_group }}"
mode: '0770'
when: postgresql_unix_socket_enabled
- name: Get PostgreSQL client group GID for containerized applications
shell: "getent group {{ postgresql_client_group }} | cut -d: -f3"
register: postgresql_client_group_lookup
changed_when: false
when: postgresql_client_group_create
- name: Set PostgreSQL client group GID as fact
set_fact:
postgresql_client_group_gid: "{{ postgresql_client_group_lookup.stdout }}"
when: postgresql_client_group_create and postgresql_client_group_lookup.stdout is defined
- name: Enable and start PostgreSQL service
systemd:
name: postgresql

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@@ -7,14 +7,11 @@
# Unix Socket Configuration
unix_socket_directories = '{{ postgresql_unix_socket_directories }}'
unix_socket_permissions = {{ postgresql_unix_socket_permissions }}
unix_socket_group = '{{ postgresql_client_group }}'
{% endif %}
listen_addresses = '{{ postgresql_listen_addresses }}'
port = {{ postgresql_port }}
# Unix socket configuration
unix_socket_directories = '{{ postgresql_unix_socket_directories | default("/run/postgresql") }}'
unix_socket_permissions = {{ postgresql_unix_socket_permissions | default("0777") }}
# Basic Performance (only override if needed)
max_connections = {{ postgresql_max_connections }}
shared_buffers = {{ postgresql_shared_buffers }}