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Unattended upgrades install kernel updates on k1-k5 but never reboot, so each new kernel waits for someone to reboot the node by hand. Kured watches /run/reboot-required on every node and reboots one node at a time: cordon, drain, reboot, uncordon.

Reboots happen between 04:15 and 05:15 ET, after the 04:00 descheduler and cluster backup, and never on Thursday, when Renovate's auto-merged Ansible deploys run. A node is held back while a restic job is running on it or the control-plane backup is running there, or while NodeDown, PodStuckNotRunning, PodNotReady or a CNPG alert is pending or firing. Counting pending alerts makes the gate trip within a minute or two of a pod or database replica going missing rather than after each alert's 5 to 60 minute threshold, so it also checks that the previous node's workloads have settled. The lock is held for 10 minutes after a node returns, long enough for Prometheus to see anything that did not come back, which fits two or three nodes in a night. A drain that cannot finish in 30 minutes is abandoned and retried instead of forced. PodNotReady is added to the Prometheus rules separately.

Kured runs in its own kured namespace and posts drain and reboot messages to Slack #alerts through the webhook Alertmanager uses, read from 1Password by an ExternalSecret. No GPU guard is needed on k2: if DKMS fails to build the NVIDIA module for a new kernel, the kernel install hooks stop before the reboot flag is written.

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This change adds Helm chart metadata and rendering for Kured, configures its reboot schedule and notification URL, and adds Kubernetes workload, access-control, namespace, and Kustomize resources.

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kubernetes/kured/Chart.yaml, kubernetes/kured/values.yaml, kubernetes/kured/render
Adds chart metadata and Kured runtime settings. The render script generates chart resources in the helm directory.
Kured workload and permissions
kubernetes/kured/helm/templates/*
Adds a Kured DaemonSet, ServiceAccount, namespaced Role and RoleBinding, and cluster-scoped ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding.
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kubernetes/kured/namespace.yaml, kubernetes/kured/externalsecret.yaml, kubernetes/kured/kustomization.yaml
Adds the kured namespace and an ExternalSecret that maps the remote Slack webhook to KURED_NOTIFY_URL. Kustomize assembles these resources and pins the Kured image.

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As configured, Kured can leave a node cordoned for about an hour after a failed drain. It can also reboot after the 05:15 cutoff, and it can reboot Linux nodes outside k1–k5. Resolve these maintenance-window and scope gaps before merging.

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- Around line 117-118: Update the DaemonSet’s node constraints so Kured runs
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label assigned only to those nodes, or use required node affinity matching their
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Unattended upgrades install kernel updates on k1-k5 but never reboot, so
each new kernel waits for someone to reboot the node by hand. Kured
watches /run/reboot-required on every node and reboots one node at a
time: cordon, drain, reboot, uncordon.

Reboots happen between 04:15 and 05:15 ET, after the 04:00 descheduler
and cluster backup, and never on Thursday, when Renovate's auto-merged
Ansible deploys run. A node is held back while a restic job is running
on it or the control-plane backup is running there, or while NodeDown,
PodStuckNotRunning, PodNotReady or a CNPG alert is pending or firing.
Counting pending alerts makes the gate trip within a minute or two of a
pod or database replica going missing rather than after each alert's 5
to 60 minute threshold, so it also checks that the previous node's
workloads have settled. The lock is held for 10 minutes after a node
returns, long enough for Prometheus to see anything that did not come
back, which fits two or three nodes in a night. A drain that cannot
finish in 30 minutes is abandoned and retried instead of forced.
PodNotReady is added to the Prometheus rules separately.

Kured runs in its own kured namespace and posts drain and reboot
messages to Slack #alerts through the webhook Alertmanager uses, read
from 1Password by an ExternalSecret. No GPU guard is needed on k2: if
DKMS fails to build the NVIDIA module for a new kernel, the kernel
install hooks stop before the reboot flag is written.
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