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Summary

Rewrites self-hosting/methods/airgapped-edition-kubernetes.md. Every value in the page was checked against the plane-enterprise 3.5.7 chart (appVersion v3.1.4), pulled and read locally.

The page had several defects that would break an install for anyone following it end to end.

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Issue Detail
Chart two majors stale plane-enterprise-1.6.4 was hardcoded in four places; latest is 3.5.7. Now a single CHART_VERSION variable, with helm repo add/helm pull as the primary path.
Every image placeholder malformed The page said image: /web-commercial, and image: /email-commercial: with a trailing colon. The chart renders <image>:<planeVersion>, so these produced invalid references (/web-commercial:v3.1.4) and no pod would start.
busybox missing from the transfer list The chart runs BusyBox init containers for silo (wait-for-rabbitmq, on every install), silo/live (prepare-ca-bundle, when an S3 CA secret is set) and the MinIO client job. It appears in neither this page's not-cloned list nor clone-docker-images.md.
No dockerRegistry config Pulling from an authenticated internal registry is the airgapped case, and nothing created an image pull secret.
No domain configured anywhere license.licenseDomain is required and sets the ingress host, so following the page gave you an instance on plane.example.com.
TLS example impossible in an air gap It recommended generateCerts: true against acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org, with Cloudflare and DigitalOcean DNS issuers as the alternatives. Rewritten around ssl.tls_secret_name from an internal CA, plus ssl.externalTermination.
Chart placeholder secrets copied verbatim aes_secret_key: "dsOdt7Yr..." was the chart's shipped default, pasted into the docs. Replaced with a rotate-these section covering secret_key, live_server_secret_key, the silo_envs keys, pi_envs.internal_secret and the bundled datastore credentials.
Self-contradiction on Valkey Listed as both valkey:7.2.5-alpine and valkey/valkey:7.2.11-alpine on the same page. The chart says the latter.
OpenSearch orphaned Named in two callouts but had no config block, while the chart has services.opensearch and env.opensearch_remote_*.
Broken cross-reference "check the logs using the commands above" — no log commands appeared above. Copied over from the Docker guide, which does have them.

Additions

  • Staging host vs airgapped host labeled on every command, with an explicit step for carrying the chart archive, license file and CA certificate across the gap. The old page's wget/curl steps assumed internet on the target.
  • env.storageClass guidance — airgapped clusters frequently have no default class, and the PVCs otherwise sit Pending until the install times out.
  • ingress.controller, which in 3.5.x renders no ingress at all, silently, when the class name is not exactly nginx/openshift/traefik*.
  • pullPolicy: IfNotPresent rationale — the chart defaults app services to Always, which re-hits the internal registry on every pod restart.
  • Optional Plane AI (services.pi, services.runner) and hardened cluster (securityContext) sections.
  • Real log commands in Verify, using the chart's app.name=<namespace>-<release>-<service> label.
  • An Upgrade section — licenses are issued per Plane version, so a version bump needs a fresh download plus re-mirrored images.
  • A Troubleshooting section for ImagePullBackOff, Pending PVCs, migrator failures and the missing-ingress case.
  • A link to the architecture/requirements page, which links here but was previously unreachable from this page.

Structure

Airgapped-specific frontmatter description (it was a byte-for-byte copy of kubernetes.md, so both pages shipped the same meta description), frontmatter title aligned with the H1, consistent "airgapped" spelling, a/b/c/d sub-steps promoted to ### headings so they can be deep-linked, and relative links with descriptive text instead of "this document" and absolute developers.plane.so URLs.

Test plan

  • prettier --check passes
  • vitepress build docs completes clean
  • The three new in-page anchors (#init-container-images, #ingress-and-tls, #step-6-activate-your-license) resolve in the rendered HTML
  • All internal link targets exist on disk

Not in this PR

clone-docker-images.md still omits busybox and lists iframely:v2.5.3 where the Helm chart defaults to v1.2.0. This PR works around both by giving the Kubernetes page its own mirror list, but the shared source lists are still wrong for the Docker path — confirming what the Docker deployment needs requires the airgapped compose file.

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  • Documentation
    • Rewrote the air-gapped Kubernetes deployment guide with updated Helm chart references and a two-machine workflow.
    • Added requirements for internal registries, storage classes, TLS certificates, and optional cert-manager.
    • Added detailed instructions for image mirroring, artifact transfer, configuration, installation, verification, licensing, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

Verified every value in this guide against plane-enterprise chart 3.5.7
(appVersion v3.1.4). Fixes for things that would fail if followed:

- Chart version was pinned to 1.6.4 in four places (latest is 3.5.7). Now a
  single CHART_VERSION variable, with `helm repo add`/`helm pull` as the
  primary path and Artifact Hub as the version source.
- Every service image placeholder was malformed (`image: /web-commercial`,
  and `image: /email-commercial:` with a trailing colon). The chart renders
  `<image>:<planeVersion>`, so these produced invalid references. Fixed to
  full internal-registry paths, with a warning that `services.*.image` takes
  a repo without a tag and that iframely is the sole exception.
- busybox was missing from the transfer list. The chart runs BusyBox init
  containers for silo (wait-for-rabbitmq, unconditional), silo/live
  (prepare-ca-bundle, when an S3 CA secret is set) and the MinIO client job.
  Added an "Init container images" section covering the three init_image keys
  and recommending a pinned tag over the implicit busybox:latest.
- dockerRegistry was never mentioned, so an authenticated internal registry
  left every pod in ImagePullBackOff. Added.
- license.licenseDomain was never set, so the guide produced an instance on
  plane.example.com. Added.
- The TLS example drove cert-manager at Let's Encrypt (and offered Cloudflare
  and DigitalOcean DNS issuers), none of which are reachable from an air gap.
  Rewritten around ssl.tls_secret_name from an internal CA, with
  ssl.externalTermination for upstream termination.
- The chart's shipped placeholder secrets were copied into the page verbatim.
  Replaced with a "Rotate the default secrets" section covering secret_key,
  live_server_secret_key, the silo_envs keys, pi_envs.internal_secret and the
  bundled datastore credentials, with generate commands.
- Valkey was listed as both 7.2.5-alpine and 7.2.11-alpine on the same page;
  the chart says 7.2.11-alpine.
- OpenSearch was called out in two callouts but had no config block.

Additions:

- Staging-host vs airgapped-host labelling on every command, and an explicit
  step for transferring the chart archive, licence file and CA certificate.
- env.storageClass guidance (airgapped clusters often have no default class,
  and PVCs otherwise sit Pending).
- ingress.controller, which silently renders no ingress at all when the class
  name is not exactly nginx/openshift/traefik*.
- pullPolicy: IfNotPresent rationale for airgapped registries.
- Optional Plane AI (services.pi, services.runner) and hardened-cluster
  (securityContext) sections.
- Real log commands in Verify; the page previously said "check the logs using
  the commands above" with no such commands.
- An Upgrade section, noting licences are issued per Plane version.
- A Troubleshooting section for ImagePullBackOff, Pending PVCs, migrator
  failures and the missing-ingress case.

Structure: airgapped-specific frontmatter description (it was a byte-for-byte
copy of kubernetes.md), title and H1 aligned, consistent "airgapped" spelling,
a/b/c/d sub-steps promoted to headings, and relative links with descriptive
text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Kubernetes airgapped deployment guide was rewritten for the plane-enterprise Helm chart. It now covers artifact preparation, image mirroring, chart configuration, internal services, TLS, installation, licensing, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

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Airgapped Kubernetes deployment

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Artifact preparation
docs/self-hosting/methods/airgapped-edition-kubernetes.md
Defines staging and airgapped hosts, chart downloads, image mirroring, and artifact transfer.
Airgapped chart configuration
docs/self-hosting/methods/airgapped-edition-kubernetes.md
Documents registry credentials, service images, init images, pull policy, storage, infrastructure services, ingress, TLS, and secret rotation.
Deployment options and validation
docs/self-hosting/methods/airgapped-edition-kubernetes.md
Adds configuration for integrations, email intake, Plane AI, hardened clusters, installation, verification, and license activation.
Upgrades and troubleshooting
docs/self-hosting/methods/airgapped-edition-kubernetes.md
Adds upgrade instructions, backup and license handling, troubleshooting procedures, and an internal configuration link.

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In `@docs/self-hosting/methods/airgapped-edition-kubernetes.md`:
- Around line 288-289: Update the airgapped Kubernetes pull-policy guidance to
include the enabled pi and runner services alongside the existing service list,
or explicitly state that every enabled service must use IfNotPresent. Ensure the
guidance covers services.pi and services.runner so cached images can restart
without registry access.
- Line 36: Reconcile the cert-manager prerequisite between this guide and
airgapped-requirements.md: either make cert-manager consistently required, or
explicitly document a pre-issued internal-CA Secret as the supported exception
when certificates are not issued in-cluster. Keep the air-gapped constraints for
internal CA configuration and unavailable public issuers consistent across both
guides.
- Around line 159-163: Update the Helm chart values guidance around
custom-values.yaml to prohibit committing live credentials. Require Kubernetes
Secret or external-secret references for registry, datastore, connector, and
GitHub credentials, and clearly state that inline credential fields are
placeholders only and must not contain real secrets.

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- Pull policy: the IfNotPresent list omitted services.pi and
  services.runner. The chart has no global pull-policy value and both
  default to Always, so a cached Plane AI image could still fail to
  restart while the registry was unreachable. Now spells out every
  enabled service, and notes the bundled datastores already default to
  IfNotPresent.

- cert-manager: this guide scoped it to in-cluster issuance while
  airgapped-requirements.md listed it as a required component. Both pages
  now state the two supported paths — a pre-issued certificate loaded as
  a TLS Secret and referenced with ssl.tls_secret_name, or cert-manager
  with an internal CA issuer — and that public ACME and DNS-01 issuers
  are unreachable either way.

- Credentials: the guide told readers to keep custom-values.yaml under
  version control while showing inline credential fields. It now marks
  those fields as placeholders and directs real values to Kubernetes
  Secrets via dockerRegistry.existingSecret and the
  external_secrets.*_existingSecret keys, managed by Vault, ESO, or
  sealed-secrets. Connector client secrets and the GitHub App private key
  are called out at the integrations section too.

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Closing — this repository is no longer maintained (see the README: developer docs moved to the documentation monorepo under apps/developer-docs).

Reopened against the monorepo as makeplane/docs#527, with the three CodeRabbit findings from this PR already folded in.

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