From 807d764bdf8d266b752287b1390d26b718f6d00d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Haudiquet <valentin.haudiquet@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:16:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cilium(kube): scale replicas down to 1

---
 infra/kube/manifests/cilium/values.yaml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/infra/kube/manifests/cilium/values.yaml b/infra/kube/manifests/cilium/values.yaml
index c2acb67..ea227cf 100644
--- a/infra/kube/manifests/cilium/values.yaml
+++ b/infra/kube/manifests/cilium/values.yaml
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ l2announcements:
     enabled: true
 externalIPs:
     enabled: true
+# Single-node cluster: the operator defaults to 2 replicas, but both
+# bind the same host ports, so the second replica can never schedule ("node(s)
+# didn't have free ports for the requested pod ports") and sits Pending forever.
+operator:
+    replicas: 1
 ingressController:
     enabled: false
     loadbalancerMode: shared