tidaldb/k8s/cluster/statefulset.yaml
jordan c9adec040d k8s(cluster): declare the limits production actually runs
The manifest said cpu 2 / memory 6Gi while the live StatefulSet ran cpu 3 /
memory 7Gi, so `kubectl apply -k k8s/cluster/` DOWNGRADED production every time
it was run - a silent capacity regression on the write path, delivered by the
very command used to deploy a fix. Verified before and after with kubectl diff:
the cpu/memory hunks are now absent, so an apply is a no-op on resources.

The live values are the intended ones; this file is now the source of truth for
them. The comment keeps the reasoning that matters - the limit exists to keep the
measured query/apply burst reachable without reserving it, and when neighbours
burst too the answer is more REQUEST, not more limit, because CFS throttling is
how CockroachDB was pushed into multi-second Raft stalls on this fleet with nodes
70% idle.
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# The tidalDB CLUSTER: ONE StatefulSet, every pod a region (m11p5 §4).
#
# MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE with the standalone set in k8s/. THIS set is the production
# data plane (three voters, quorum-ack writes, live since 2026-08-18); the
# standalone set in `tidaldb` is SUPERSEDED and parked at 0. Never run both.
# `scripts/restore-fleet.sh` is the guarded path for restoring either data plane
# from the parked state — see the replicas note below for why that matters.
#
# WHY ONE StatefulSet (not one-per-region): the m11p5 bind/advertise split lets
# every pod mount the SAME topology ConfigMap (peers are advertised by per-pod
# DNS; the local socket binds 0.0.0.0), so a single StatefulSet with stable pod
# identities tidaldb-{0,1,2} IS the three regions. Scaling is `kubectl scale`
# (see docs/runbooks/kubernetes.md): pod N>=3 auto-seed-joins as a learner and
# auto-promotes to a voter — no file edits, no per-pod manifests.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: tidaldb
namespace: tidaldb-cluster
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/component: cluster-node
spec:
serviceName: tidaldb-peers # the headless peer Service — stable per-pod DNS
# PRODUCTION as of 2026-08-18: three voters is the desired state, not a value
# only the restore script may set. `replicas: 0` lived here while the cluster
# was parked and it cost two outages in one session: a plain `kubectl apply` of
# this file scaled a LIVE cluster to zero, twice, because the manifest still
# claimed parked. Source states intent; parking is an explicit `kubectl scale`
# divergence recorded in k3s-fleet/cluster-state.yaml, and
# scripts/restore-fleet.sh remains the guarded path back (its storage, image,
# and per-node capacity preflights are what a bare apply does not do).
replicas: 3
# Parallel: bring all pods up at once. There is no ordered-bootstrap
# dependency — siblings boot in any order (an unreachable-at-startup peer is
# normal; the election + catch-up timer converge them). Ordered start would
# only serialize a 3-region cold boot for no benefit.
podManagementPolicy: Parallel
selector:
matchLabels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/component: cluster-node
template:
metadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/component: cluster-node
annotations:
# Plain-Prometheus scrape hints (per-pod :9091, unauthenticated — keep
# cluster-internal). The Operator-native path is a PodMonitor/ServiceMonitor.
prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
prometheus.io/port: "9091"
prometheus.io/path: "/metrics"
# `tmp` is an emptyDir. velero-fleet-daily runs with
# defaultVolumesToFsBackup, so it snapshotted this scratch mount on
# every pod: three 0-byte PodVolumeBackups a night, and a live failure
# candidate — a file that vanishes mid-snapshot fails the PVB, which
# marks the WHOLE fleet backup PartiallyFailed and freezes
# velero_backup_last_successful_timestamp. The `data` volume (the
# corpus) is what must be captured; scratch never is. Fleet convention:
# deployments/k8s/base/databases/backups.yaml.
backup.velero.io/backup-volumes-excludes: tmp
spec:
# SIGTERM flips readiness to 503 (pod leaves the client Service), drains
# in-flight requests, then checkpoints + fsyncs the WAL AND saves every
# shard's HNSW graph before exit (m12p6). The graph save is the long pole at
# the production shape (~32k vectors/slot × 3 shards, serialized + fsynced),
# so the grace must cover it or k8s SIGKILLs mid-save and the next boot
# rebuilds. 600s is a generous ceiling; the bounded drain (below) starts the
# save early, and a clean save typically finishes in well under a minute.
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 600
# Spread the three pods across distinct nodes so a single node loss takes
# at most one voter — preserving quorum (2 of 3). ScheduleAnyway (not
# DoNotSchedule) so a smaller cluster still schedules, just less spread.
topologySpreadConstraints:
- maxSkew: 1
topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
whenUnsatisfiable: ScheduleAnyway
labelSelector:
matchLabels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/component: cluster-node
securityContext:
runAsNonRoot: true
runAsUser: 10001 # the fixed `tidal` uid (docker/deploy/Dockerfile)
runAsGroup: 10001
fsGroup: 10001 # makes the mounted PVC group-writable by the runtime user
seccompProfile:
type: RuntimeDefault
initContainers:
- name: init-datadir
image: busybox@sha256:73aaf090f3d85aa34ee199857f03fa3a95c8ede2ffd4cc2cdb5b94e566b11662
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
command: ["sh", "-c", "mkdir -p /data/db && chown -R 10001:10001 /data/db"]
securityContext:
runAsUser: 10001
runAsGroup: 10001
volumeMounts:
- name: data
mountPath: /data
containers:
- name: tidaldb
image: registry.threesix.ai/tidal/server:m12-boot-pull-fix-20260821@sha256:4150af1044b8084b84abeafedbbaedb1f084a2c84fd0600b56f5b04ed0697eba
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
# The image ENTRYPOINT is the bare binary. We override the command with
# a tiny /bin/sh wrapper (the bookworm-slim runtime HAS a shell) so we
# can branch on the pod ordinal: pods 0-2 are the initial voter set
# (plain topology boot); pods >=3 are SCALE-UP and must seed-join as
# learners. Keeping this in args (no initContainer, no extra image)
# means the whole scale story is readable in this one file.
#
# POD_NAME is e.g. "tidaldb-4"; ORD is its trailing ordinal. For ORD<3
# we boot from the topology file (the region IS this pod's name). For
# ORD>=3 we ALSO pass --seed (any peer; the headless Service load-
# balances to a live one) + this pod's advertised DNS addresses, and
# the node learns its roster/id/term from a seed and joins as a learner.
# The topology ConfigMap is STILL mounted+passed for the behavioral knob
# blocks (replication/election/...), required even for a --seed boot
# (m11p5 §3.5); its regions: list is ignored for a seed joiner's roster.
command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
args:
- |
set -eu
ORD="${POD_NAME##*-}"
# Per-pod STABLE DNS (headless Service) — what this pod ADVERTISES
# for peers to dial it directly. The headless Service publishes
# not-ready addresses (so a pod has DNS before it is Ready), so it
# resolves to EVERY pod incl. still-joining ones.
DOMAIN="tidaldb-peers.tidaldb-cluster.svc.cluster.local"
# READY-ONLY client Service (ClusterIP VIP) — the seed-join discovery
# target. It excludes not-ready pods, so a joiner always reaches a
# LIVE serving peer instead of round-robining onto a not-ready pod
# (often ITSELF, since the headless Service includes the joiner) and
# failing discovery for the whole 120s window — the real T4 scale-up
# blocker. Carries its own cert SAN (certs.yaml).
SEED_SVC="tidaldb.tidaldb-cluster.svc.cluster.local"
# Common args for every pod.
set -- cluster \
--listen 0.0.0.0:9500 \
--data-dir /data/db \
--schema /etc/tidal-server/schema/schema.yaml \
--topology /etc/tidal-server/cluster-topology.yaml \
--experimental-cluster
if [ "$ORD" -ge 3 ]; then
# SCALE-UP pod: seed-join as a learner. Discover a live leader via
# the READY-ONLY client Service ($SEED_SVC); advertise THIS pod's
# stable per-pod DNS ($DOMAIN) for gRPC (9601) and HTTP (9500) so
# peers dial it directly. --metrics gives the joiner a metrics
# listener (it has no topology entry).
# m11p7/m12p5: the :9500 plane serves TLS, and `peer_url` honors an
# explicit URL scheme VERBATIM (forward.rs) — so the seed MUST be
# `https://`, not `http://` (with `http://` the joiner dials
# plaintext to the TLS port and seed-join fails). The discovery
# target is the ready-only client Service, NOT the headless peers
# Service, so a joiner never round-robins onto a not-ready pod
# (incl. itself) and burns the 120s discovery window — both were
# real T4 scale-up blockers.
set -- "$@" \
--seed "https://${SEED_SVC}:9500" \
--advertise-grpc "${POD_NAME}.${DOMAIN}:9601" \
--advertise-http "${POD_NAME}.${DOMAIN}:9500" \
--metrics 0.0.0.0:9091
fi
exec tidal-server "$@"
env:
# Region identity == pod name (tidaldb-0/1/2/...). For ORD<3 this
# MUST match a region declared in the topology ConfigMap; the names
# line up by construction (regions are named after the pod identities).
- name: POD_NAME
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.name
- name: TIDAL_REGION
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.name
- name: TIDAL_API_KEY
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: tidaldb-credentials
key: TIDAL_API_KEY
# m11p7: the cluster key (mints/verifies per-node internal tokens that
# authenticate inter-node HTTP). A file mount (not an inline env) so a
# rotation of the Secret is picked up WITHOUT a pod restart by the
# credential poller. Distinct secret data key from the bearer.
- name: TIDAL_CLUSTER_KEY_FILE
value: /etc/tidaldb/cluster-key/cluster-key
# The cluster-admin credential. Pointing at a path that may not exist
# is safe and deliberate: the server treats an unreadable admin-key
# file as "not configured" and WARNs, so the gate is opt-in. Populate
# TIDAL_ADMIN_KEY in tidaldb-credentials to enable it - no restart
# needed, the credential poller picks the file up.
- name: TIDAL_ADMIN_KEY_FILE
value: /etc/tidaldb/admin-key/admin-key
- name: TIDAL_SERVER_LOG
value: info
- name: TIDAL_ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_CLUSTER
value: "1"
# m12p6: shorten the post-SIGTERM in-flight drain so the (long) HNSW
# graph save starts promptly within the grace window instead of after
# the full 15s default. 3s is ample for loopback/in-cluster drain.
- name: TIDAL_SHUTDOWN_DRAIN_MS
value: "3000"
ports:
- name: http
containerPort: 9500
# One gRPC port per hosted shard group (m11p6/m12p4). With the
# 3-group `shards:` block enabled in the topology ConfigMap, every
# pod replicates all three groups and binds a derived port per
# group: shard 0 → 9601, shard 1 → 9602, shard 2 → 9603
# (`node base port + shard id`; see topology-configmap.yaml). The
# headless Service reaches each by pod DNS, so these are declared
# for clarity/NetworkPolicy; the bind itself is driven by the
# topology. Collapse back to a single `grpc` port if `shards:` is
# removed (legacy single group).
- name: grpc
containerPort: 9601
- name: grpc-1
containerPort: 9602
- name: grpc-2
containerPort: 9603
- name: metrics
containerPort: 9091
# Three probes map to the three health endpoints. The readinessProbe is
# now CLUSTER-AWARE (m11p5 §4): /health returns 503 while shutting down,
# quarantined, removed/decommissioned, or a joiner/install boot has not
# yet first-converged (lag <= learner_promote_lag, sticky-ready after).
# A restarted PVC-retained voter is Ready on today's terms (no
# regression). The full predicate is documented in the kubernetes.md
# runbook so probe behavior is diagnosable.
# m11p7: the HTTP plane on :9500 serves TLS (inter-node mTLS), so every
# probe must use scheme HTTPS. kubelet does NOT verify the server cert
# for httpGet probes, so the cert's DNS-only SANs (no pod IP) are fine.
startupProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health/startup
port: http
scheme: HTTPS
periodSeconds: 5
failureThreshold: 240 # ~20 min: HNSW index rebuild/load at 1536-dim is CPU-bound (100k ~5min single-core; headroom for 1M gate)
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health/live
port: http
scheme: HTTPS
# A transiently saturated query runtime must shed readiness before
# kubelet turns load into a cascading restart. Six 10s failures give
# the process roughly one minute to recover while still detecting a
# genuinely wedged runtime.
periodSeconds: 10
timeoutSeconds: 5
failureThreshold: 6
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health # cluster-aware: 503 joiner/quarantined/draining
port: http
scheme: HTTPS
periodSeconds: 10
timeoutSeconds: 3
failureThreshold: 3
resources:
requests:
# CONSUMER-SIZED, not gate-sized (2026-08-18).
#
# The 2-core reservation this replaced came from the Ref-A soak
# envelope: the busiest leader sustained ~1.7 cores and peaked at
# ~2.5 under the 200 rps write-heavy mix. That is the ENDURANCE
# GATE's price, and three voters at 2 cores need 6,000m plus 2,000m
# free on each of the three nodes their local-path volumes are
# pinned to. The live fleet is 82-91% committed on requests, so that
# contract cannot be placed and the cluster stayed parked for it.
#
# 300m is what the tightest pinned node (k3s-agent-1, 355m free)
# can actually reserve for a voter, and it is honest for a FIRST
# CONSUMER's load - not for the gate. The limit below keeps the
# measured burst reachable without reserving it.
#
# This is provisioned optimism with named detectors: if real write
# volume approaches the knee, TidalDBClusterQuorumLag,
# TidalDBClusterCommitIndexStall, TidalDBClusterWritePoolShedding
# and TidalDBClusterQuorumTimeouts fire before users see it. Raise
# the request (or add shards - writes hash-route across shard
# groups) rather than waiting for a stall.
cpu: "300m"
# Baseline working set was ~3.6 GiB before load, and full placement
# means every pod holds the WHOLE 1536-D corpus. This is a resident
# footprint, not a gate artifact: it stays at 4 GiB.
memory: 4Gi
limits:
# 3 cores / 7Gi, matching what production actually runs.
#
# These were 2 cores / 6Gi here while the live StatefulSet ran 3/7,
# so `kubectl apply -k k8s/cluster/` DOWNGRADED production every
# time it was run - a silent capacity regression on the write path,
# applied by the very command used to deploy a fix. The live values
# are the intended ones and this file is now the source of truth for
# them; raise BOTH together or not at all.
#
# Why a limit above the request at all: it keeps the measured
# query/apply burst reachable on the tightest node without reserving
# it. Note the ratio - a burstable pod whose neighbours are also
# bursting gets CFS-throttled, which is precisely how CockroachDB was
# pushed into multi-second Raft stalls on this fleet with nodes 70%
# idle. The quorum alerts above are the detector for that; more
# REQUEST is the fix, not more limit.
cpu: "3"
# Four independent OOMKills occurred at 3.97-4.00 GiB. Six GiB was
# measured peak plus 50% headroom; production carries 7Gi and that is
# what is declared here. The exact internal growth source still
# requires heap/allocation profiling.
memory: 7Gi
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true # writes only /data (PVC) and /tmp (emptyDir)
capabilities:
drop: ["ALL"]
volumeMounts:
- name: data
mountPath: /data
- name: schema
mountPath: /etc/tidal-server/schema
readOnly: true
- name: topology
mountPath: /etc/tidal-server/cluster-topology.yaml
subPath: cluster-topology.yaml
readOnly: true
# m11p7 inter-node TLS material (cert-manager Secret). The grpc_tls
# block in the topology points at these paths. A renewal rewrites the
# Secret; the kubelet swaps the `..data` symlink and tidalDB's cert
# poller hot-swaps with zero connection drop.
- name: cluster-tls
mountPath: /etc/tidaldb/tls
readOnly: true
- name: cluster-key
mountPath: /etc/tidaldb/cluster-key
readOnly: true
- name: admin-key
mountPath: /etc/tidaldb/admin-key
readOnly: true
- name: tmp
mountPath: /tmp
volumes:
- name: schema
configMap:
name: tidaldb-schema
- name: topology
configMap:
name: tidaldb-cluster-topology
# m11p7: the cert-manager-issued node cert (tls.crt/tls.key/ca.crt).
- name: cluster-tls
secret:
secretName: tidaldb-cluster-tls
# m11p7: the cluster key for per-node internal tokens (own Secret key).
- name: cluster-key
secret:
secretName: tidaldb-credentials
items:
- key: TIDAL_CLUSTER_KEY
path: cluster-key
# The cluster-ADMIN key: the separate credential the destructive
# /cluster/* verbs require. `optional: true` is load-bearing - without it
# a deployment whose Secret has no TIDAL_ADMIN_KEY would fail to MOUNT and
# never start. Absent ⇒ the server logs a startup WARN and the admin verbs
# keep accepting the data bearer (previous behavior). Add the key to
# tidaldb-credentials to turn the gate on; the file form means a rotation
# is picked up without a restart.
- name: admin-key
secret:
secretName: tidaldb-credentials
optional: true
items:
- key: TIDAL_ADMIN_KEY
path: admin-key
- name: tmp
emptyDir: {}
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: data
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
# PRODUCTION data as of 2026-08-18: these three volumes hold the
# serving corpus, so they are backed up, not reseeded. They carried
# `expendable / tidal-stress-reseed` while this cluster existed only
# to run the nightly soak - a label that authorised throwing the
# store away. `volumeClaimTemplates` is immutable on a live
# StatefulSet, so the running PVCs were relabelled in place with
# `kubectl label`; this block is what a fresh install gets.
backup.orchard9.ai/class: protected
backup.orchard9.ai/method: velero-kopia
spec:
accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
storageClassName: local-path
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Gi