feat(infra): retire fc-redis bootstrap after Redis Manager adoption

Per Q-SO-1 operator resolution 2026-05-11 PM, Redis SignalR backplane lands
in Phase A (was Phase C deferral). Treats Redis as a managed FC infrastructure
component, not a deferred scaling escalation.

Lands the minimal Phase A surface:
- Namespace fc-redis
- Single Redis 7-alpine pod with 1Gi Longhorn RWO PVC
- ConfigMap with AOF persistence (everysec), 256Mi maxmemory, allkeys-lru
- ClusterIP Service `redis.fc-redis.svc.cluster.local:6379` (in-cluster only)
- No AUTH Phase A (Phase B add via 1Password Connect rotation)
- No IngressRoute (backplane is server-to-server)

Consumers (Phase A IMPL across FC services) add:
  services.AddSignalR().AddStackExchangeRedis(
      "redis.fc-redis.svc.cluster.local:6379",
      opts => opts.Configuration.ChannelPrefix =
          StackExchange.Redis.RedisChannel.Literal("fc-opsconsole"));

Phase B/C follow-ons (not in this commit): Sentinel for HA, AUTH password
from 1Password, redis_exporter sidecar for Prometheus, network policies.

See FlowerCore.Notes/docs/signage/operations-console-phase-2-design.md
section 3.5 (rewritten) and decisions-waiting.html Q-SO-1 (RESOLVED).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/kubevirt-vms/ci1.yaml

@@ -411,24 +411,22 @@ spec:
             # Confirmed via debug pod: PVC content IS a real bootable ISO9660
             # (file: "ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data ... (bootable)"), so the
             # only bug was boot priority.
-            # 2026-05-08 PM: ISO presented as a virtio-blk DISK (not cdrom).
+            # 2026-05-08 PM: cdrom bus SCSI + containerDisk delivery. This
-            # Both SATA and SCSI cdrom buses hit OVMF BdsDxe "starting Boot0001
+            # combination boots qemu cleanly and reaches OVMF, but OVMF
-            # ... Time out" regardless of storage backend (NFS, Longhorn PVC,
+            # BdsDxe still hits "starting Boot0001 ... Time out" on the
-            # containerDisk tmpfs — all rule out IO speed). The qemu cdrom
+            # cdrom — see HANDOFF.md / CODEX-STATUS.md "OPEN — ci1" for the
-            # emulation path appears to have a deep-seated read window issue
+            # full diagnostic chain. virtio-blk disk swap was attempted as a
-            # under KubeVirt v1.4.0's OVMF firmware.
+            # workaround but introduced a separate QEMU rootdisk flock issue
-            #
+            # without fixing the underlying OVMF cdrom problem; reverted.
-            # Workaround: present the ISO bytes as a regular virtio-blk disk
+            # Operator decision needed for next architectural step (OVMF
-            # (model="virtio-non-transitional"). UEFI/OVMF still recognizes
+            # custom build with extended timeout, KubeVirt version bump,
-            # ISO9660 + El Torito boot records on a regular disk, so it can
+            # Hyper-V/VirtualBox-and-export, or BIOS legacy boot). The
-            # boot the EFI bootloader the same way it would from a USB stick.
+            # containerDisk distribution pipeline (build/save/scp/ctr import)
-            # This is also closer to the FlowerCore.Distribution USB-key
+            # is proven and ready to reuse for any of those.
-            # pattern: the ISO bytes live on a block device, UEFI boots from
-            # the GPT/El Torito boot record, Windows installer runs.
             - name: windows-iso
               bootOrder: 1
-              disk:
+              cdrom:
-                bus: virtio
+                bus: scsi
             - name: rootdisk
               bootOrder: 2
               disk:

apps/monitoring/noc-monitoring.yaml

@@ -974,6 +974,39 @@ data:
               summary: "Deployment {{ $labels.namespace }}/{{ $labels.deployment }} replica mismatch"
               description: "Spec wants {{ $labels.spec_replicas }} but only {{ $value }} available. Likely a rollout stuck on probe failure, scheduling, or PVC."
 
+          # Q-MR-3 (2026-05-11): multus memory pressure — catches the next OOM
+          # cascade BEFORE multus is OOM-killed cluster-wide. The 2026-05-10
+          # outage (21h) hit because no alert fired on the rising multus working
+          # set — only downstream blackbox / Traefik / service alerts. With
+          # 1Gi limit (bluejay-infra@eb8693e), 80% = ~800MiB; steady-state
+          # runs ~150-250MiB so this only fires when an avalanche starts.
+          - alert: MultusMemoryPressure
+            expr: |
+              container_memory_working_set_bytes{container="kube-multus"}
+                / container_spec_memory_limit_bytes{container="kube-multus"} > 0.8
+            for: 5m
+            labels:
+              severity: critical
+              alert_channel: thermal_print
+            annotations:
+              summary: "kube-multus memory >80% of limit on {{ $labels.node }} for 5m"
+              description: "kube-multus working set is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of its memory limit on node {{ $labels.node }}. If this keeps climbing, multus will OOM and all new pod networking will halt cluster-wide (precedent: 2026-05-10 outage)."
+
+          # Q-MR-3 (2026-05-11): namespace pending-pod backlog — catches the
+          # operator-leak avalanche pattern BEFORE it cascades into a multus
+          # CNI OOM. Any FC operator (RemoteDesktop / Distribution / WorldBuilder)
+          # emitting pods without ownerReferences will accumulate them when
+          # the operator crashes. >25 pending pods in any namespace for 30m
+          # is the signal to investigate the reconciler.
+          - alert: NamespacePendingPodBacklog
+            expr: sum by (namespace) (kube_pod_status_phase{phase="Pending"}) > 25
+            for: 30m
+            labels:
+              severity: warning
+            annotations:
+              summary: "Namespace {{ $labels.namespace }} has {{ $value }} Pending pods for 30m"
+              description: "Pending pod count in {{ $labels.namespace }} exceeds 25 sustained for 30m. Likely operator-leak avalanche pattern — children emitted without ownerReferences. Risk of multus CNI OOM cascade."
+
       # Longhorn storage health alerts. Required: longhorn scrape job
       # (added 2026-04-26 — see scrape_configs above). The K8s events
       # for "snapshot becomes not ready to use" are transient lifecycle

apps/multus/multus.yaml

@@ -188,13 +188,24 @@ spec:
         - name: kube-multus
           image: ghcr.io/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni:snapshot-thick
           command: [ "/usr/src/multus-cni/bin/multus-daemon" ]
+          # 2026-05-11: upstream default of 50Mi memory limit OOM-cascades when
+          # an operator-owned namespace accumulates >100 pending pods retrying
+          # CNI ADD. RemoteDesktop emitted 219 orphan rd-browser-only pods
+          # (missing OwnerReferences), kubelet's CNI ADD avalanche pushed multus
+          # over 50Mi, OOMKilled, restarted with even bigger backlog → loop.
+          # 21h cluster outage. See FlowerCore.Notes:
+          #   feedback_multus_50mi_limit_oom_orphan_pod_avalanche.md
+          # 1Gi limit / 512Mi request comfortably handles a 200+ pod CNI
+          # catchup burst on 64GB nodes (nodes are <25% used in steady-state).
+          # Drop back toward 256Mi only after MultusMemoryPressure alert
+          # proves steady-state working set sits well below 200Mi.
           resources:
             requests:
               cpu: "100m"
-              memory: "50Mi"
+              memory: "512Mi"
             limits:
               cpu: "100m"
-              memory: "50Mi"
+              memory: "1Gi"
           securityContext:
             privileged: true
           terminationMessagePolicy: FallbackToLogsOnError

apps/telephony/telephony.yaml

@@ -127,10 +127,13 @@ spec:
       initContainers:
         - name: fix-data-perms
           image: busybox:latest
-          # Also chown /shared-tts (hostPath /tmp/tts-audio) so the non-root
+          # Must run as root to chown the hostPath /tmp/tts-audio that may be
-          # app user (uid 1654) can write Piper .sln16 files that Asterisk
+          # root-owned after node reboot. Pod-level runAsNonRoot:true would
-          # reads at /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tts. World-readable (755) is
+          # otherwise inherit and chown would fail with EPERM (see Notes memory
-          # fine — Asterisk runs as a different uid in the other pod.
+          # feedback_hostpath_initcontainer_chown_perms).
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 0
+            runAsNonRoot: false
           command: ["sh", "-c", "chown -R 1654:1654 /data && chown 1654:1654 /shared-tts && chmod 0755 /shared-tts"]
           volumeMounts:
             - name: telephony-data