The pod running app.py had no kubectl binary and only a read-only SA
(management-platform-viewer-sa) — backup-k8s-apps.sh/restore-k8s-apps.sh
could never actually run from inside it. Adds:
- management-platform-backup-role (ClusterRole, bound via RoleBinding only
in n8n/odoo/mautic/nextcloud/erpnext — not cluster-wide): get/list/watch
on pods/deployments/configmaps/ingresses/PVCs, pods/exec create, pods
create+delete (needed for restore's populate-before-scale-up loader pod),
secrets get/list/update/patch, deployments/scale update/patch only (no
write on full Deployment/Service/ConfigMap/Ingress specs).
- management-platform-sa, replacing management-platform-viewer-sa as the
pod's identity — inherits the old viewer-role's read-only bindings too
(retargeted in management-platform-viewer-rbac.yaml) so the existing
cluster-view page keeps working under one SA.
- k3s binary hostPath-mounted read-only into the pod (same pattern as the
Jenkins agent's docker-cli container), so `k3s kubectl` is available
where no separate kubectl binary exists.
Both scripts updated to fall back to k3s kubectl when no kubectl is on
PATH, and to use /proc/meminfo instead of `free` for the resource-safety
check (not present in the pod's minimal image). Also fixes a real issue
found while live-testing this from inside the pod: the pod's pre-existing
/root hostPath mount also exposes the host's own admin ~/.kube/config,
which k3s kubectl was silently preferring over the scoped SA token —
forcing --kubeconfig=/dev/null in both scripts closes that.
Verified end-to-end from inside the actual management-platform pod:
manifests/secret/DB-dump/PVC-data backup for n8n succeeds under the new
SA's scoped permissions, and a kube-system access attempt is correctly
rejected (Forbidden) once the kubeconfig leak is closed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ServiceAccount management-platform-viewer-sa (in management-platform ns),
ClusterRole management-platform-viewer-role (get/list/watch on pods,
services, deployments.apps only - no secrets, no write verbs), and a
RoleBinding per app namespace (n8n, odoo, mautic, erpnext, nextcloud,
jenkins-agents, jenkins, management-platform). Already applied to the
live cluster and verified via kubectl auth can-i; committing here for
source-of-truth tracking.
