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Adds cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller as an opt-in system package (cozystack.cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller, enabled through bundles.enabledPackages). It implements Gateway API on top of a Cloudflare Tunnel: HTTPRoutes and GRPCRoutes get published through the tunnel, so a cluster without a public LoadBalancer (behind NAT, on-prem, homelab) gets an outbound-only publishing path next to the Cilium Gateway. TLS terminates at the Cloudflare edge; the in-cluster proxy embeds the cloudflared transport and does the L7 routing.

Shape: one controller in cozy-cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller owning the platform tunnel. The v3.4.1 chart is vendored from its OCI registry by manifest digest and both images are pinned by tag@digest, same layout as system/kuberture. Tenants attach a Gateway of class cloudflare-tunnel.

Every Gateway of the class shares one tunnel and the proxy routes by hostname alone. The existing cozystack-route-hostname-policy does not see GRPCRoute and admits hostname-less routes; behind a tenant-owned Cilium Gateway that is inert, here it is not. So the wrapper turns on the chart's controller-side hostname-ownership layer keyed on namespace.cozystack.io/host for tenant namespaces, and keeps the chart's admission layer off because that one would also police routes bound to the Cilium Gateway in the same namespaces.

The chart bakes the cluster domain into its proxy config endpoint and falls back to cluster.local, and subchart values cannot read _cluster.cluster-domain, so the system bundle threads networking.clusterDomain into the Package's component values. The tunnel ID the operator sets on the same Package is a sibling key and survives the apply: server-side apply merges the values block per key, a client-side release patches only what it renders.

Operator inputs: one Secret (cloudflare-tunnel-credentials with api-token and tunnel-token) and the tunnel UUID via the Package's component values. The render fails naming gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID until it is set, so an enabled but unconfigured package cannot go quietly half-installed. upgradeCRDs: CreateReplace because the controller adds CRD kinds between minor releases.

This package needs a Gateway API bundle at 1.6.x. The controller reads the gateway.networking.k8s.io/bundle-version annotation off the installed gatewayclasses CRD and requires an exact major-and-minor match with the bundle it was built against. Cozystack ships v1.5.1 today, so on that base the class comes up Accepted=True beside a permanent SupportedVersion=False, and because the Gateway API CRDs are structural, any field the controller writes that only the newer bundle knows is pruned on write with nothing logged anywhere. Nothing gates serving on that condition, so the install looks usable and is not. #3872 bumps the bundle to v1.6.1. This PR is sequenced behind it and must not merge first.

Manually verified on a v1.6.0-rc.2 cluster (Talos, k8s 1.36, Gateway API CRDs v1.5.1), both by installing the chart directly and through the platform path (PackageSource, Package with the bundle's component values, operator-generated HelmRelease, tunnel ID patched onto the Package next to them; the first install fails naming the missing tunnel ID and recovers once it is set): controller and proxy come up, the tunnel registers four QUIC connectors, the GatewayClass is Accepted, a tenant TenantGateway moved to gatewayClassName: cloudflare-tunnel renders a Gateway that is Accepted and Programmed with the tunnel CNAME as its address, and an HTTPRoute in that tenant answered HTTP 200 end-to-end through the Cloudflare edge. The ownership layer was probed too: an in-apex HTTPRoute is accepted, a hostname-less HTTPRoute and a GRPCRoute with a foreign hostname get HostnameNotPermitted. Two things from that run, both documented in the package values.yaml: a tunnel-backed tenant Gateway needs tlsPassthroughServices: [] (the controller marks TLS-passthrough listeners UnsupportedProtocol, and with Helm 4's kstatus wait a never-Ready TenantGateway blocks the tenant gateway release), and the GatewayClass reported SupportedVersion=False against the v1.5.1 CRDs, which is the bundle requirement above. That run was a one-off against real Cloudflare credentials. No test in this repository reproduces any of it.

Three things beyond the package itself. The bundle threads the cluster domain through an unguarded .Values.networking.clusterDomain, which took the whole platform render down with a nil pointer when networking: was written with nothing under it; it now uses the same dig guard the two variant blocks above it already use, with the missing case pinned. The proxy runs two replicas with no affinity in the upstream chart, so the package adds a topologySpreadConstraints entry and pins both it and the release name its selector depends on. And the package's four version pins are wired into .github/renovate.json behind marker comments, grouped so the chart and its two images move in one PR.

The operator guide is docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md: when to reach for this class instead of the Cilium one, what has to exist on the Cloudflare side before anything installs, the single credentials Secret with its exact key names, the two-step enable path (bundles.enabledPackages, then the tunnel ID on the Package that step creates), how a Gateway joins the class, and how the hostname-ownership layer behaves for a tenant. It also documents removal, which is asymmetric and worth reading before enabling: helm.sh/resource-policy: keep means dropping the name from bundles.enabledPackages deletes nothing, so a cluster that reads as disabled still runs a controller holding cluster-wide Secret read and Deployment write; and deleting the Package while the name is still listed does not stick, because keep blocks deletion rather than creation and the next platform upgrade renders it back without the operator's tunnel ID. It ends on a limitations section rather than a feature list: HTTP and gRPC only, TLS ending at the edge so the certificate a client sees is Cloudflare's, the passthrough listeners a tenant Gateway has to give up and what stops being published with them, the hostname-less redirect route the ownership layer rejects, Universal SSL reaching only one label below the zone apex, cluster-wide Secret read on the controller's ClusterRole, images that are not mirrored into the Cozystack registry, and the 1.6.x Gateway API bundle the controller requires.

One review finding is worth answering here rather than leaving for the next reader to re-derive, because it is plausible and wrong. The claim: the platform renders controller.clusterDomain into spec.components[].values while the operator adds gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID to the same map, and since that field is schemaless, server-side apply treats it as atomic, so one owner clobbers the other and the tunnel ID cannot be set persistently. The premise does not hold. The CRD declares that node with x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields: true and no type and no x-kubernetes-map-type; kube-openapi's converter turns exactly that shape into the __untyped_deduced_ type, whose map.elementRelationship is separable with a recursive element type. Separable means per-key ownership (only lists underneath are atomic), so a field becomes atomic when the schema asks for it, and this one does not. The client-side path reaches the same result differently: Helm's three-way merge never emits a delete for a key absent from both the old and the new rendered manifest. The two owners hold sibling keys and neither evicts the other.

Follow-up someone may want to take, not a defect left behind: tunnelID is currently the only operator input here that is not reachable from platform values. Threading it the way controller.clusterDomain is threaded would put the whole component values under one owner and remove both the two-step enable and the deliberate first-install failure. That is a change to the platform wiring rather than to this package, so it is not in scope here; the current flow is documented and behaves as designed.

Not in this PR: per-tenant dedicated tunnels via GatewayConfig. Two other gaps this package would otherwise leave are addressed in #3861, open in parallel: selecting the class per tenant, and a TenantGateway mode for classes whose provider terminates TLS upstream, so the platform stops issuing an origin certificate nobody serves. Neither PR depends on the other landing first. All three are follow-ups on the cozystack side. No e2e: the package cannot become Ready without real Cloudflare credentials, same as hetzner-robotlb. That bounds what can be asserted here. The chart suite pins the contract between these values and the vendored chart: the credentials Secret both planes read, the cluster domain, the digest pins, the proxy spread and its selector, and that the ownership flags appear only because these values ask for them and disappear when they do not. The ownership decision itself is not reachable from this repository: it lives in an internal package of the upstream module, which Go will not let another module import, and the controller resolves its Cloudflare account before it evaluates a single route, so no credential-free path reaches a verdict. Upstream pins it against a shared vector table driven through both its enforcement layers.

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Not a UI change.

Downstream repositories

The website box is left unticked on purpose: the component-reference entry and the licenses row are still to be filed, and I will open that once the package shape here is settled in review. The operator how-to is no longer part of it; it lands here as docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md.

Release note

feat(cloudflare-tunnel): add Cloudflare Tunnel Gateway API controller as an opt-in system package (`cozystack.cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller`), publishing tenant HTTPRoutes/GRPCRoutes through a Cloudflare Tunnel without a public LoadBalancer

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  • New Features

    • Added optional Cloudflare Tunnel Gateway Controller support for exposing services through Gateway API resources.
    • Added configurable tunnel credentials, tunnel IDs, proxy settings, networking, monitoring, scaling, and security policies.
    • Added external backend and tunnel configuration resources.
    • Added opt-in hostname ownership and duplicate-rule validation.
    • Added installation guidance and configuration documentation.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for optional installation, configuration wiring, dependencies, and upgrade behavior.

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Adds a Helm chart for the Cloudflare Tunnel Gateway Controller, its CRDs and Kubernetes resources, and optional platform integration. It also adds values validation, package wiring, operational documentation, and Helm tests.

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Cloudflare Tunnel Gateway Controller

Layer / File(s) Summary
Chart contracts and custom resources
packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/..., packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/values.yaml
Adds chart metadata, defaults, values schema, and three controller CRDs.
Controller and proxy runtime resources
packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/.../templates/*
Adds controller and proxy Deployments, RBAC, Services, monitoring, disruption budgets, NetworkPolicies, helpers, and probes.
Gateway resources and admission policies
packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/.../templates/gateway*, .../templates/validatingadmissionpolicy*
Adds optional GatewayClass, GatewayClassConfig, route rule uniqueness, and hostname ownership resources.
Platform package integration and validation
packages/core/platform/..., packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/Makefile, packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/tests/*
Registers the OCI package, adds optional bundle rendering, propagates the cluster domain, pins chart inputs, and adds tests.
Chart packaging and documentation
packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/..., packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/values.yaml, docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md
Adds packaging metadata, update targets, installation notes, README content, and platform documentation.

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  participant SystemBundle
  participant PackageSource
  participant CloudflareTunnelChart
  participant Kubernetes
  SystemBundle->>PackageSource: Enable the optional package
  PackageSource->>CloudflareTunnelChart: Install the OCI chart with clusterDomain
  CloudflareTunnelChart->>Kubernetes: Render controller, proxy, Gateway, and policy resources
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The PR adds opt-in Cloudflare Tunnel publishing for tenant Gateway API routes. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness, but the documentation should be tightened around credential handling, Cloudflare account permissions, required GatewayClass selection, supported TenantGateway usage, and DNS/TLS limitations; a disabled-by-default hostname policy bypass also remains a bounded follow-up risk.

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- Line 143: Revise the TenantGateway documentation to avoid presenting removal
of tlsPassthroughServices as a supported fix while TenantGateway still defaults
to the cilium GatewayClass. State that the limitation applies only after
GatewayClass override support is available, or instead document the raw Gateway
flow as the supported tenant path.
- Around line 39-42: Update the documented cloudflare-tunnel-credentials
creation command to avoid --from-literal token arguments; use --from-file with
mode-0600 temporary files or an external Secret Manager, and remove any
temporary files after kubectl completes.
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that Gateway.spec.gatewayClassName must exactly match the GatewayClass name
cloudflare-tunnel, while retaining that spec.controllerName controls controller
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- Line 145: Update the certificate guidance in the Cloudflare Tunnel hostname
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Universal SSL covers proxied subdomains at any depth with partial CNAME setup,
and for full DNS setup list Advanced Certificates or Custom Certificates as the
alternatives for deep hostnames. Do not suggest Total TLS for Tunnel hostnames.
- Around line 17-21: Update the Cloudflare Tunnel gateway documentation to state
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selects the account; document the security impact and require using a dedicated
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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The blocker is the Gateway API bundle skew, which is the same [MAJOR] I filed on 2026-08-21 and not a consequence of the force-push.

Before the findings, a correction about my own earlier reviews. Both were dismissed by the 2026-09-02 force-push, and my previous one graded the bundle skew [MAJOR], said it "should land after #3872", and then signed LGTM anyway. That was inconsistent, and the change here is in my grading rather than in your code. #3872 still has not landed on this base.

Findings

[MAJOR] packages/core/platform/sources/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller.yaml:16, the controller requires a Gateway API bundle cozystack does not ship

Upstream v3.4.1 compares major and minor for exact equality against the bundle it was built against:

// internal/controller/gatewayclass_controller.go:285-290 @ v3.4.1
if installedMajor != expectedMajor || installedMinor != expectedMinor {
    return false, fmt.Sprintf(
        "Gateway API CRD bundle version %s is not supported; controller requires %d.%d.x",
        installed, expectedMajor, expectedMinor,
    ), nil
}
$ grep -rn "bundle-version" packages/system/gateway-api-crds/templates/crds-experimental.yaml | head -1
7:    gateway.networking.k8s.io/bundle-version: v1.5.1

So every stock install brings GatewayClass/cloudflare-tunnel up Accepted=True next to a permanent SupportedVersion=False with reason UnsupportedVersion, and the Gateway API CRDs being structural means any field the controller writes that exists only in the 1.6 bundle is pruned on write with nothing logged. docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md:162 already says exactly this and tells the reader to treat the skew as a real signal. Writing the hazard down does not remove it. Land this after the bundle bump, or pin a chart built against 1.5.x.

[MAJOR] packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/values.yaml:56-63, the hostname-ownership control is tested on its flags and not on its decision

With admissionPolicy: false, the controller-side layer is the only thing keeping a route in one namespace from answering for another namespace's hostname once a second Gateway joins the class. tests/wiring_test.yaml:81-97 asserts that the four flags reach the container args. Nothing asserts an allow or a deny. packages/system/cozystack-basics sets the in-tree precedent for the equivalent control: CEL-level unit tests plus a chainsaw suite for cozystack-route-hostname-policy. This class has neither, and the PR body states there is no e2e.

The failure is a re-vendor. A make update that renames the flag, changes its default, or changes how --hostname-ownership-namespace-selector is parsed leaves the wiring test green, because the strings it greps for did not move, while the layer stops deciding. Nothing turns red.

Calibrating this honestly: it is an unprotected control rather than a live hole. No tenant-aggregated ClusterRole in packages/system/cozystack-basics/templates/clusterroles.yaml grants gateway.networking.k8s.io or cf.k8s.lex.la, and the tenant gateway HelmRelease at packages/apps/tenant/templates/gateway.yaml carries no spec.values, so gatewayClassName has no tenant-reachable surface. What I want is a provider-seeded unit case per vector (in-apex accepted, hostname-less rejected, foreign-apex GRPCRoute rejected, unlabelled namespace out of scope) so the semantic is pinned in this repo and not only in the upstream one.

What would change my mind: an assertion in this repo that fails when the ownership decision changes, wherever it lives.

[MINOR] docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md:17, the API token's reach is understated

Cloudflare offers no resource-scoped API token for a single tunnel, so Account → Cloudflare Tunnel → Edit can act on every tunnel in the account. Line 19's "Give the controller a tunnel of its own" bounds what the controller manages, not what the credential can reach. The Limitations section spells out the in-cluster blast radius in detail and leaves the Cloudflare-side one out, which is the one an operator cannot revoke per-tunnel afterwards. Raised on 2026-08-17 and still not in the text.

[MINOR] packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/templates/deployment-proxy.yaml:23, the internet-facing proxy runs on the namespace default ServiceAccount with its token mounted

$ yq -r 'select(.kind=="Deployment") | .metadata.name + " sa=" + (.spec.template.spec.serviceAccountName // "<none>")' rendered.yaml
cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller-proxy sa=<none> automount=<unset>
cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller sa=cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller

Unlike the controller, the proxy template sets no serviceAccountName, so it takes default and mounts its token. This is the pod that terminates every inbound request arriving from the Cloudflare edge. automountServiceAccountToken: false on the pod, or a dedicated tokenless SA, costs nothing. Vendored, so it wants a patches/*.diff here or a change upstream.

[MINOR] .../templates/deployment-proxy.yaml:8, two proxy replicas with nothing keeping them apart

No affinity, no topologySpreadConstraints, and templates/poddisruptionbudget.yaml:19-20 selects cf-tunnel-gw-ctrl.selectorLabels, which is the controller's label set rather than proxySelectorLabels, so the budget would not cover the proxy even when enabled (it is off by default). Both replicas can land on one node, and then a single drain or reboot takes down every hostname published through the class at once. docs:157 states the replica count without this.

[MINOR] packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/Makefile:12-13 and values.yaml:45,48, four pins with nothing to update them

.github/renovate.json enables gomod, dockerfile, github-actions and custom.regex, and its two custom managers target packages/extra/etcd/templates/etcd-cluster.yaml and packages/*/templates/hooks/*.yaml. Neither pattern reaches this package, so CHART_VERSION, CHART_DIGEST and both tag: values age silently, upstream security fixes included. Those managers exist because the repo already decided a hand-maintained pin is a hazard. packages/system/kuberture carries the identical gap, which is the only reason this is MINOR rather than MAJOR, and a third instance is the point at which a shared regex manager is cheaper than a third exception.

[MINOR] docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md:19, exclusive tunnel ownership does not name the second-cluster case

The warning covers a tunnel shared with another system. The tunnel ID lives on a Package CR, so the ordinary way to end up with two owners is a cluster restored from backup, a staging clone, or a rebuild that reuses the ID. Two controllers then each perform a full sync and delete the other's ingress rules, and the resulting outage is public and flapping. One sentence in that paragraph covers it.

[NIT] .github/workflows/pr-labeler.yaml:108

'cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller' duplicates what the shorter key already provides for every commit scope in this PR, so one of the two entries is dead.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "That one is cosmetic: the controller starts from v1.5.0 and everything it uses is present, a Gateway API bump to 1.6.x clears it". Upstream's check is exact major-and-minor equality against the bundle it was built against, and its own message reads "controller requires 1.6.x" (internal/controller/gatewayclass_controller.go:285-290 at v3.4.1). docs:162 in this same PR takes the opposite position and calls the skew a real signal. The "cosmetic" framing does not survive either source.

[UNVERIFIABLE] The live-cluster narrative in the body (four QUIC connectors, HTTP 200 end to end through the edge, HostnameNotPermitted on the hostname-less and foreign-hostname probes). A static review can neither confirm nor refute it, and no test in this repo encodes any of it, which is what finding 2 is about.

Caveats

  • Phase 5b upgrade path, partially unexecuted. Whether the operator-set gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID survives a platform re-apply of controller.clusterDomain still has not been exercised against a real apiserver. The code now defends it: the with guard at packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml:352-354 keeps the controller map rendered so the enclosing components path never collapses, and the two new platform tests pin the empty and absent cases. I confirmed the operator builds neither driftDetection nor force into the generated HelmRelease (internal/operator/package_reconciler.go:73-108), so nothing corrects the hand-added key as drift. The apply is what remains unrun, and cozystack-pr-test is where it belongs.
  • Air-gapped installs need manual mirroring. Both images sit under ghcr.io/lexfrei and neither goes through include "cozy-lib.image", so cozy-lib.images-registry cannot rewrite them. The release enumeration drops them by design: collect_refs_from_file on the wrapper values emits two host-less refs, and the ${REGISTRY}/ filter at hack/promote-retag.sh:165 skips them. The comment added there describes the mechanism accurately.
  • Everything in this review is static. No cluster was touched.

Verified, so it does not get re-litigated next round:

  • The vendored tree is byte-identical to upstream at CHART_DIGEST. I pulled oci://ghcr.io/lexfrei/charts/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller@sha256:398a4787... and diff -r reports no differences, so the charts-direct-edit lint is a false positive here and the missing patches/ re-apply in make update is latent rather than live.
  • Both image digests resolve to the pinned values on ghcr.io (docker-content-digest on tag 3.4.1 for both repositories).
  • The package is inert when not enabled, and disabledPackages vetoes it. Rendered both corners; only the PackageSource appears, no Package CR and so no HelmRelease.
  • The dependsOn closure renders in all three shipped presets. cozystack.networking and cozystack.gateway-api-crds are both present under isp-full, isp-full-generic and isp-hosted, so this is not a #3376-shaped DependenciesNotReady.
  • Cross-namespace backendRef is gated by ReferenceGrant and fails closed on a read error (internal/ingress/builder.go:178-189 and internal/controller/proxy_syncer.go:662-672 at v3.4.1).
  • gateways: update, patch is not gratuitous: the controller strips a legacy finalizer (internal/controller/gateway_controller.go:165-174), and RBAC cannot scope update to metadata. I withdraw that half of my earlier RBAC note.
  • networking.clusterDomain is the same source that feeds _cluster.cluster-domain at packages/core/platform/templates/apps.yaml:140, so threading it is equivalent rather than a second source of truth.
  • No Helm hooks, no checksum/* annotations, no post-install rollout restart, no cleanup Job anywhere in the chart, so the reconcile-amplifier and teardown-hang classes do not apply.
  • The negative absence asserts use any: true inside containsDocument rather than documentIndex, which is the shape that actually searches every document.
  • 11 of 11 mutations across both suites went red, including dropping the enabledPackages gate, collapsing the controller map, and flipping hostnameOwnershipPolicy.enabled.

Recommended follow-ups

  • Run cozystack-pr-test on a disposable cluster for the one render-blind item: enable the package, set tunnelID by hand, force a platform reconcile, and confirm the key is still there.
  • Add a regex manager to .github/renovate.json covering the two tag: pins and the Makefile pair, and fold packages/system/kuberture into the same pattern.

- name: default
dependsOn:
- cozystack.networking
- cozystack.gateway-api-crds

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[MAJOR] the controller requires a Gateway API bundle cozystack does not ship

Upstream v3.4.1 compares major and minor for exact equality against the bundle it was built against (internal/controller/gatewayclass_controller.go:285-290), and cozystack ships v1.5.1 (packages/system/gateway-api-crds/templates/crds-experimental.yaml:7). Every stock install therefore brings GatewayClass/cloudflare-tunnel up Accepted=True next to a permanent SupportedVersion=False / UnsupportedVersion, and structural CRDs mean any 1.6-only field the controller writes is pruned on write with nothing logged. docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md:162 says exactly this. Land after the bundle bump, or pin a chart built against 1.5.x.

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Sequenced after #3872 with a hold label. The doc states the 1.6.x requirement as hard and adds a CRD-annotation check before the enable step (18860ed).

cloudflareCredentialsSecretRef:
name: cloudflare-tunnel-credentials
hostnameOwnershipPolicy:
enabled: true

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[MAJOR] the hostname-ownership control is tested on its flags and not on its decision

With admissionPolicy: false the controller-side layer is the only thing keeping a route in one namespace from answering for another namespace's hostname on the shared tunnel. tests/wiring_test.yaml:81-97 asserts the four flags reach the container args; nothing asserts an allow or a deny. packages/system/cozystack-basics sets the precedent with CEL unit tests plus a chainsaw suite for the equivalent control. A make update that renames the flag or changes its default leaves the wiring test green while the layer stops deciding. Not tenant-reachable today (no tenant role grants gateway.networking.k8s.io or cf.k8s.lex.la, and the tenant gateway HR carries no spec.values), so this is an unprotected control rather than a live hole. Wanted: a provider-seeded case per vector, so the semantic is pinned in this repo.

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This repository cannot pin the decision: the logic is an internal/ package of the upstream module, SyncAllRoutes returns at ResolveAccountID before any route is bound, and the vendored chart's .helmignore drops upstream's tests/. Upstream pins all four vectors through both layers. Added here: negative cases proving these values are what select the layer and that the selector flag is derived, both mutation-checked (18860ed).

Comment thread docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md Outdated

1. A zone whose DNS is served by Cloudflare, covering the hostnames you intend to publish.
2. A Tunnel, created under **Zero Trust → Networks → Tunnels** with the `cloudflared` connector type. Keep both its **Tunnel ID** and its **tunnel token**.
3. An API token with the **Account → Cloudflare Tunnel → Edit** permission.

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[MINOR] the API token's reach is understated

Cloudflare has no resource-scoped API token for one tunnel, so Account → Cloudflare Tunnel → Edit acts on every tunnel in the account. Line 19's "Give the controller a tunnel of its own" bounds what the controller manages, not what the credential can reach. The Limitations section covers the in-cluster blast radius in detail and omits this one.

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Documented in 18860ed: the token is account-scoped, there is no per-tunnel scope, revocation is per token.

{{- with .Values.proxy.podLabels }}
{{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
{{- end }}
spec:

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[MINOR] the internet-facing proxy runs on the namespace default ServiceAccount with its token mounted

Unlike the controller template, this one sets no serviceAccountName, so the pod takes default and mounts its token. Render confirms sa=<none> automount=<unset>. This is the pod terminating every request arriving from the Cloudflare edge. automountServiceAccountToken: false, or a dedicated tokenless SA, costs nothing. Vendored, so it wants a patches/*.diff here or a change upstream.

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No values knob for it upstream, so this is lexfrei/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller#734; listed under Limitations for now.

labels:
{{- include "cf-tunnel-gw-ctrl.proxyLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
spec:
replicas: {{ .Values.proxy.replicas }}

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[MINOR] two proxy replicas with nothing keeping them apart

No affinity, no topologySpreadConstraints, and templates/poddisruptionbudget.yaml:19-20 selects cf-tunnel-gw-ctrl.selectorLabels (the controller) rather than proxySelectorLabels, so the budget would not cover the proxy even when enabled. Both replicas can land on one node, and one drain then takes down every hostname on the class at once.

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proxy.topologySpreadConstraints is set and pinned in 18860ed. The PDB selector is upstream: lexfrei/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller#735.

# crane digest ghcr.io/lexfrei/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller:<tag>
# crane digest ghcr.io/lexfrei/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller-proxy:<tag>
CHART_VERSION ?= 3.4.1
CHART_DIGEST ?= sha256:398a47876d172b86ecf3059586bb226f4af7701cdd0f17d2330f7f5182bcf642

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[MINOR] four pins with nothing to update them

.github/renovate.json enables gomod, dockerfile, github-actions and custom.regex, and its two custom managers target packages/extra/etcd/templates/etcd-cluster.yaml and packages/*/templates/hooks/*.yaml. Neither reaches this package, so CHART_VERSION, CHART_DIGEST and both tag: values in values.yaml age silently, security fixes included. packages/system/kuberture has the identical gap, which is the only reason this is MINOR.

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Wired into renovate in 18860ed: a custom manager for the chart and both images plus a rule grouping them into one PR; the regexes were checked against the files.

Comment thread docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md Outdated
2. A Tunnel, created under **Zero Trust → Networks → Tunnels** with the `cloudflared` connector type. Keep both its **Tunnel ID** and its **tunnel token**.
3. An API token with the **Account → Cloudflare Tunnel → Edit** permission.

Give the controller a tunnel of its own. Its upstream documentation states that it assumes exclusive ownership of the tunnel configuration, performs a full synchronization on startup, and removes ingress rules that do not come from routes it manages — so a tunnel that also carries hand-written public hostnames, or one shared with another system, loses them.

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[MINOR] exclusive tunnel ownership does not name the second-cluster case

The tunnel ID lives on a Package CR, so the ordinary way to get two owners is a cluster restored from backup, a staging clone, or a rebuild reusing the ID. Two controllers each full-sync and delete the other's ingress rules, and the outage is public and flapping. One sentence covers it.

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Sentence added in 18860ed.

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'securitygroups': 'area/networking',
'cozy-proxy': 'area/networking',
'cloudflare-tunnel': 'area/networking',
'cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller': 'area/networking',

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[NIT] duplicate labeler key

'cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller' duplicates what the shorter key already provides for every commit scope in this PR, so one of the two entries is dead.

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Pushed 18860ed. The bundle requirement is a hard one and the docs and body say so now; this PR lands after #3872 and carries a hold until then. On the ownership decision, the honest answer is that this repository cannot pin it: the logic sits in an internal/ package of the upstream module, the controller resolves the Cloudflare account before it looks at a single route, and the vendored chart's .helmignore drops upstream's own tests/. Upstream pins all four vectors against a shared table; what is added here are cases proving these values are what select the layer, mutation-checked. Token reach is documented (account-scoped, revocation per token), the proxy gets a spread constraint, the four pins are under renovate, the second-cluster case and the labeler key are fixed. The default ServiceAccount on the proxy and the PDB selector have no values knob, so they are upstream issues (lexfrei/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller#734, #735). A nil deref on networking: null that this branch introduced was found on the way and is fixed; the pre-existing one at apps.yaml:140 is #4072.

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…RPCRoute hostnames (#3872)

## What this PR does

Bumps the vendored Gateway API CRD bundle in
`packages/system/gateway-api-crds` from v1.5.1 to v1.6.1. The package
Makefile pins the upstream ref, so the change is that pin plus the
re-rendered `templates/crds-experimental.yaml`.

The bundle version is not only bookkeeping: it is a compatibility signal
consumers read at runtime. Every CRD in the bundle carries a
`gateway.networking.k8s.io/bundle-version` annotation, and a Gateway API
controller can read it off the `gatewayclasses` CRD to decide whether
the installed bundle matches the one it was built against. Controllers
that do this typically accept any patch release but require an exact
major and minor match, and report `SupportedVersion=False` with reason
`UnsupportedVersion` on their GatewayClass when the minor differs, a
status condition that surfaces the skew rather than a functional break.
The Cloudflare Tunnel Gateway API controller proposed for the platform
in #3858 is built against Gateway API v1.6.1 and performs exactly that
comparison, so against the v1.5.1 bundle shipped today its GatewayClass
reports the bundle unsupported, and with this bump it reports supported.
Neither change depends on the other landing first: this PR only moves
the bundle, and the check lives entirely on the consumer side.

One consequence worth stating plainly, since it will outlive this PR: an
exact-minor check makes the shipped bundle version a coupled pin for any
such controller. A future bump to v1.7.x flips the same condition back
to `UnsupportedVersion` until that controller is rebuilt against the
newer bundle, so the two want to move together.

The bundle still emits the same twelve CustomResourceDefinitions and the
same two `safe-upgrades.gateway.networking.k8s.io` admission objects,
and every CRD still carries the `helm.sh/resource-policy: keep` stamp
the Makefile's post-processing step adds. One of the policy's two CEL
rules is rewritten, though, and it changes what a cluster accepts. That
has its own section below.

Two kinds change their version surface: TCPRoute and UDPRoute gain a
served `v1` that takes over as the storage version, and their `v1alpha2`
stays served with a deprecation marker. Every other kind keeps exactly
the versions it served at v1.5.1. That matters because the Cilium
operator resolves GatewayClass, Gateway, HTTPRoute and GRPCRoute in
`v1`, ReferenceGrant in `v1beta1` and TLSRoute in `v1alpha2` before it
enables its Gateway API controller; all six are still served by the
v1.6.1 bundle. TLSRoute in particular keeps `v1alpha2`, which the tenant
gateway controller, the platform TLSRoute templates and the tenant
hostname admission policy all address.

Schema changes are small and land on fields nothing in this repository
sets. `sessionPersistence.idleTimeout` is gone from HTTPRoute, GRPCRoute
and XBackendTrafficPolicy, removed upstream under GEP-1619 because no
implementation ever implemented it and HTTP cookies have no native
idle-timeout mechanism, so no working behaviour is lost even though the
field disappears from the schema; HTTPRoute gains a lower bound on
`retry.attempts` and now rejects duplicate `retry.codes`; ReferenceGrant
requires `spec` at the root. In the other direction, Gateway
infrastructure annotations and frontend CA certificate references go
from a limit of 8 to 16, and TLSRoute hostnames from 16 to 1024. No CRD
schema loses or changes a CEL validation rule, and the six added belong
exclusively to the new TCPRoute and UDPRoute `v1` schemas.

### The safe-upgrades admission policy accepts a different set of
bundles

The experimental kustomization ships a `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` and
its binding, both named `safe-upgrades.gateway.networking.k8s.io`, next
to the twelve CRDs. The binding is `validationActions: [Deny]` with
`failurePolicy: Fail`, matching CREATE and UPDATE on
`apiextensions.k8s.io/v1 customresourcedefinitions` cluster-wide, and
Cozystack installs it in two places: on the host through
`cozystack.gateway-api-crds`, and inside every guest cluster that sets
`addons.gatewayAPI.enabled`.

Its second rule reads the `gateway.networking.k8s.io/bundle-version`
annotation off an incoming CRD. At v1.5.1 that rule was a blacklist:
reject anything matching `v1.[0-4].\d+` or containing `v0`, allow the
rest. At v1.6.1 it is a whitelist: allow `v0.0.0-dev` outright,
otherwise require the annotation to start with `v1.` and not match
`^v1\.[0-4](\.|$)`. Evaluating both expressions over a spread of
annotation values:

| bundle-version | v1.5.1 policy | v1.6.1 policy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `v1.6.1`, `v1.5.1`, `v1.5.0-dev`, `v1.10.0` | allow | allow |
| `v1.4.0`, `v1.4.10`, `v1.0.0` | reject | reject |
| `v0.0.0-dev` | reject | **allow** |
| `v2.0.0` | allow | **reject** |
| `1.6.1` (no leading `v`) | allow | **reject** |
| `v1.4` (no patch) | allow | **reject** |
| `main`, empty string | allow | **reject** |

Nothing in this repository trips the new rejections: every CRD the
bundle ships is stamped `v1.6.1`. What is exposed is an operator
applying a Gateway API CRD set from somewhere else on a cluster that
carries the policy. A fork, a vendor build or a nightly whose annotation
reads `1.6.1` or `v2.0.0` used to go in and is now denied with `reason:
Invalid`, naming a policy the operator may not know is installed, and
whatever HelmRelease owns those CRDs then sits un-Ready. Uninstalling
the policy is the escape hatch, and the denial message says so.

The same hunk fixes an upstream inconsistency: at v1.5.1 the policy pair
was stamped `v1.5.0-dev` while its twelve CRDs said `v1.5.1`. At v1.6.1
all fourteen documents agree.

The Gateway and HTTPRoute objects the tenant gateway controller renders
were serialized across all three certificate modes and checked against
both the v1.5.1 and the v1.6.1 schemas; the two runs are identical, so
the bump does not change what the controller can create. `go.mod` still
pins `sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api` v1.4.1 and this PR deliberately leaves it
there. The CRD bundle and the Go client types have been on separate
versions since before this change, and nothing the controller emits
depends on the gap.

One thing to know before the next bump: from v1.6 on, the two things
upstream calls the experimental bundle disagree. This package follows
`config/crd/experimental`, the kustomization, which emits 12 CRDs at
v1.6.1; the published `experimental-install.yaml` for the same tag emits
13, the extra one being `xbackends.gateway.networking.x-k8s.io`, new in
v1.6 and not listed in the kustomization. At v1.5.1 the two agreed, so
there was nothing to choose between. Nothing in this repository
references XBackend and no vendored CRD depends on it, so following the
kustomization costs nothing today, but whoever bumps next inherits the
choice, and it should be made deliberately rather than by whichever
command gets typed.

The second commit corrects a comment this bump invalidated. It claimed
TLSRoute stays at `v1alpha2` through Gateway API v1.5 and that the
promotion to `v1` was still upstream-only; TLSRoute has been served at
`v1` since v1.5.0, so the claim was already wrong before this bump and
the version range it named is now wrong too.

The third commit closes a gap that correction exposed.
`cozystack-route-hostname-policy-tls` named `v1alpha2` alone while the
bundle serves `tlsroutes` at `v1`, `v1alpha2` and `v1alpha3`: three
served versions against one named. The gap is not new and this bump
neither creates nor widens it: the v1.5.1 bundle and the v1.6.1 one
serve the same three versions, with the same two marked deprecated.
Coverage of the two unnamed versions rested entirely on request
conversion, because `matchPolicy` is unset on both rules in that file
and so defaults to `Equivalent`, which rewrites a request submitted
under any served version into the one the rule names before the policy
sees it. That is why there is no bypass to demonstrate, and equally why
the arrangement is brittle: the conversion has nothing left to convert
into once no named version is served, and a rule that selects nothing is
not caught by `failurePolicy: Fail`, because nothing failed. The rule
now names all three, which is the shape the HTTPRoute rule above it
already used, and `hack/route-hostname-policy-version-coverage.bats`
reads the served versions out of the vendored bundle and fails when a
policy does not cover every one of them, so a future bundle move cannot
outrun the list silently, in either direction.

That guard carries negative fixtures rather than only watching a correct
tree pass. Three of them drive `assert_covers` itself, with the two
readers redefined in a subshell, against an omitted served version, an
empty served set and an empty named set. Each requires the specific
complaint text rather than merely a non-zero exit, so a helper renamed
out from under it fails for the right reason instead of reading as a
successful rejection. A fourth drives the comparison helper directly.

The fourth commit pins the vendored bundle version in the CRD package's
unit suite. Nothing outside the package Makefile named a Gateway API
version, so re-running `make update` against a different ref landed
green: twelve CRDs, every one stamped, document count unchanged, suite
passing. The new case reads the
`gateway.networking.k8s.io/bundle-version` annotation off every rendered
CRD and fails when it is not the version the Makefile pins.

The fifth commit extends the version-coverage guard to
`cozystack-gateway-hostname-policy`, which names the `gateways` versions
literally the same way the two route policies do, and whose version set
lives in the vendored bundle and moves on `make update` there. It
matched the served set already; the guard now says so on every run
instead of leaving one of the three hostname policies unpinned.

Two notes for whoever reads the release: the TCPRoute and UDPRoute
storage version moves from `v1alpha2` to `v1`, and while nothing in this
repository ships either kind and the CRDs declare no conversion block,
an upgraded cluster accumulates both entries in `status.storedVersions`
— inert today, load-bearing only if a later bundle stops serving
`v1alpha2`.

The sixth commit gives GRPCRoute the same hostname rule the other two
route kinds have. GRPCRoute carries `spec.hostnames` and it can reach a
tenant Gateway: the port-443 listeners pin `allowedRoutes.kinds` to
HTTPRoute and TLSRoute, but the port-80 listener leaves `kinds` unset,
and an unset list resolves to the kinds the listener protocol supports,
which for HTTP includes GRPCRoute. A GRPCRoute in a tenant namespace
could claim any hostname on the plaintext listener with nothing checking
it. Tenants hold no `gateway.networking.k8s.io` RBAC in Cozystack, so
this is the same defence-in-depth against a chart bug that the other two
rules are, not a tenant-user control. The rule is the HTTPRoute rule
with `grpcroutes` in place of `httproutes` and the one version the
bundle serves for it, and the coverage guard pins that list to the
bundle like the others.

Several places in the tree enumerate which route kinds the hostname
policies cover, and all of them named two: the port-443 kinds invariant
in the tenant gateway controller and the test that pins it,
`packages/extra/gateway/README.md`, and the threat model together with
the self-assessment. They name three now. The port-443 kinds set also
carries an accurate reason now. cilium#45559 governs only that every
port-443 listener carries the same set, not what is in it, so the
contents are a least-privilege choice: nothing the platform ships needs
gRPC, TCP or UDP routing on port 443. The README had also described
HTTPS and TLS-passthrough listeners as carrying different kinds, where
the controller gives both the same one.

One more commit makes the suite's existing assertions bite. A
ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding whose `policyName` points at another
policy renders without complaint and leaves its own policy inert, and
the suite pinned `validationActions` on the bindings while never pinning
`policyName` at all, so pointing the GRPCRoute binding at the HTTPRoute
policy kept every case green with the GRPCRoute control doing nothing.
All three bindings now pin the policy they name. In the same file,
`uncovered()` assigned to the variable names its caller reads back when
printing a mismatch, so a call site with the arguments swapped would
have printed a diagnostic naming the wrong side.

Two things are named rather than made. The version-coverage guard
collects `apiVersions` from every `resourceRules` entry mentioning the
resource without also matching on `apiGroups` or `operations`, so a rule
in another group, or one scoped to a single verb, would donate its
versions to the set coverage is measured against; the chart's own suite
pins the group and the resource on the rule it checks, which closes that
a layer below. And
`packages/system/cozystack-api/templates/api-tlsroute.yaml` renders
`gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2` while the bundle serves `v1` as
storage and marks `v1alpha2` deprecated, but the identical pin sits in
the kubevirt and kubevirt-cdi TLSRoute templates, and the pinned
`sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api` carries no `apis/v1` TLSRoute type for the
controller side to follow, so moving one of the three here would leave
the tree less consistent than leaving all three.

Closes #3789.

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

Walked the trigger map in `docs/agents/contributing.md` against the
diff, file by file: neither `packages/system/gateway-api-crds/Makefile`
nor its rendered CRD template matches any entry. Leaving every box empty
rather than ticking the "no downstream repository" line, because the
docs site carries a Gateway API version statement that is already
inaccurate and needs a decision that is not mine:
`content/en/docs/next/networking/gateway-api.md` and its v1.5 and v1.6
copies say Gateway API v1.5 ships TLSRoute at `v1alpha2` and that the
graduation to `v1` is still upstream-only, when v1.5.0 already shipped
TLSRoute `v1` as the storage version.

### Release note

```release-note
chore(gateway-api-crds): update the vendored Gateway API CRD bundle to v1.6.1. TCPRoute and UDPRoute gain a served v1 that becomes their storage version, with v1alpha2 still served and now deprecated; every other kind keeps the versions it served at v1.5.1. Upstream removed `sessionPersistence.idleTimeout` from HTTPRoute, GRPCRoute and XBackendTrafficPolicy; the field is not set by anything Cozystack renders, but a hand-written route that carries it loses it silently on its next write, with no admission error.

The bundle's `safe-upgrades.gateway.networking.k8s.io` ValidatingAdmissionPolicy changes which CRDs it accepts. Cozystack installs it cluster-wide on the host and in every guest cluster with `addons.gatewayAPI.enabled`. Its `gateway.networking.k8s.io/bundle-version` rule was a blacklist on two patterns and is now a whitelist on the `v1.` prefix with a `v0.0.0-dev` escape hatch. A bundle annotated `v0.0.0-dev` is now accepted where it was denied. A bundle annotated `v2.0.0`, `1.6.1` without the leading `v`, `main`, `v1.4` without a patch, or carrying an empty annotation is now denied where it was accepted. Nothing Cozystack ships is affected, since every CRD in the bundle is stamped `v1.6.1`, but applying a Gateway API CRD set from a fork, a vendor build or a nightly on such a cluster can now fail admission with `reason: Invalid`. Uninstalling the policy remains the documented escape hatch.

fix(cozystack-basics): the tenant TLSRoute hostname admission policy now names every served TLSRoute version (`v1`, `v1alpha2`, `v1alpha3`) instead of `v1alpha2` alone. Coverage of the other two rested on request conversion, which holds only while a named version stays served, and a rule left selecting nothing is not caught by `failurePolicy: Fail`.

feat(cozystack-basics): GRPCRoute hostnames in `tenant-*` namespaces are now gated by the same admission policy that gates HTTPRoute and TLSRoute. A tenant Gateway's port-80 listener leaves `allowedRoutes.kinds` unset, which admits GRPCRoute by protocol default, so a GRPCRoute could claim any hostname on the plaintext listener unchecked. Tenants hold no `gateway.networking.k8s.io` RBAC, so this is defence-in-depth against a chart bug rather than a tenant-user control.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
  - Added hostname admission validation for `GRPCRoute` resources.
- Expanded `TLSRoute` hostname validation to support all served Gateway
API versions.
- Ensured route hostname policies consistently cover HTTP, TLS, and gRPC
routes.

- **Security**
- Updated listener policies to restrict port-443 routes to supported
HTTP and TLS route types.
- Clarified fail-closed hostname validation behavior across Gateway,
Route, and Ingress resources.

- **Documentation**
- Updated security and threat-model documentation to include GRPCRoute
handling and validation coverage.

- **Maintenance**
  - Updated the bundled Gateway API CRDs to version 1.6.1.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 4, 2026
…lass for TLS termination (#3861)

## What this PR does

Lets a tenant publish through a GatewayClass whose provider terminates
TLS upstream of the Gateway, and gives the platform the two knobs that
bound the choice. The first consumer is the Cloudflare Tunnel controller
from #3858, which ends TLS at the Cloudflare edge and reaches the
Gateway over the tunnel, but nothing here is tunnel-specific.

Until now every cert mode rendered HTTPS listeners with
`certificateRefs` and tied the TenantGateway's `Ready` to their
issuance. On such a class the platform issued origin certificates nobody
serves, and where ACME could not complete, the tenant's `gateway`
release never became Ready at all.

**Who picks the class.** The platform names a default in
`gateway.className` and the set a tenant may choose from in
`gateway.tenantSelectableClasses`; a tenant picks its own with
`tenant.spec.gatewayClass`. That set is an allowlist rather than free
choice because Tenant is a tenant-writable object while GatewayClass is
cluster-scoped: without it a tenant could attach its Gateway to a class
an admin keeps for internal-only traffic. Naming anything outside the
set fails that tenant's own gateway release with a message listing what
is allowed, and reaches no other tenant.

**Where TLS ends.** That is a property of the class, not of the tenant,
so it is declared once in `gateway.edgeTerminatedClasses`, and whichever
class a tenant lands on decides its `certMode`. The two therefore cannot
be configured out of step: a tenant on a tunnel class cannot keep
issuing origin certificates because a separate switch still says
otherwise.

In `edge` the controller renders the apex, its wildcard and every
inheriting child apex as plain HTTP listeners carrying the same
label-based `allowedRoutes` as the HTTPS listeners of the other modes,
so app HTTPRoutes attach by hostname unchanged. It mints no Issuer, no
Certificate and no http-to-https redirect route, and skips the
TLS-passthrough listeners an HTTP-only edge cannot serve, which leaves
the tenant Kubernetes API, VM export and CDI upload endpoints
unpublished through that Gateway. Those TLSRoutes each pinned a listener
that no longer exists, so the controller flips the acceptance it wrote
for them to `Accepted=False` with reason `NoMatchingParent`. Moving a
tenant into the mode removes the ACME objects it owned, and the
cluster-wide ACME solver drops its `sectionName: http` pin when the
publishing Gateway itself sits on such a class. Pointing
`gateway.className` at an edge class is therefore a supported topology
(the whole platform behind one terminator), and its cost is that those
three endpoints stop being published for the publishing tenant rather
than for one tenant among many. Nothing refuses it, because refusing it
would forbid the topology; `docs/gateway-classes.md` states the cost
where an operator will meet it.

Two consequences worth stating plainly. The wildcard-secret controller
replicated the operator's TLS Secret, private key included, into every
namespace owning a termination point, and a Gateway owner counted as
one; a Gateway on an edge class does not, so that tenant's replica is
pruned while its neighbours keep theirs. And listing a class as
edge-terminated is a claim nothing validates: name the bundled `cilium`
and its Gateways publish every app hostname over plain HTTP on a public
address. A hard `fail` there would forbid a legitimate topology, a
Cilium Gateway behind an external terminator, so it is stated in the
platform values, the chart README and the CRD field description instead.

**Documentation.** `docs/gateway-classes.md` is the operator-facing page
for the whole surface: the three platform values and what each bounds,
what a tenant writes to pick a class, how `certMode` is derived and in
what precedence, what moving a tenant between classes does to its
Issuer, its Certificates, the TLS Secrets those leave behind, the
redirect route and the wildcard replica, and what each way of getting
the names wrong actually looks like: a class name matching nothing
installed renders fine and never programs, a misspelling in
`edgeTerminatedClasses` silently leaves the tenant issuing certificates,
a default moved out from under a tenant that pinned the old name fails
that tenant's release. The chart README keeps the per-mode reference and
gains the one constraint it had not stated: the publishing tenant cannot
select a class that terminates TLS differently from the platform
default, because the cluster-wide ACME issuers derive their solver pin
from that default alone.

Verified on a v1.6.0-rc.2 dev cluster (Talos, k8s 1.36, cilium 1.19.5)
by building the controller from this branch: the CRD enum gained `edge`,
the Gateway came up with `edge` / `edge-apex` / `edge-child-*` HTTP
listeners and nothing else, no Issuer, no Certificate, no redirect
route, and the LoadBalancer Service exposed 80/TCP only. That run also
caught a defect no unit test could. The first implementation kept the
hostname-less `:80` listener at index 0, and on cilium 1.19.5
`CheckGatewayAllowedForNamespace` is first-listener-wins
([cilium#42159](cilium/cilium#42159), fixed in
1.19.6), so an inheriting tenant's HTTPRoute came back
`NotAllowedByListeners` even though a later listener admitted it.
Dropping that listener, which in edge mode carries neither ACME nor the
redirect, flipped the route to `Accepted=True` and removed a catch-all
at the same time.

The live check predates the redesign to per-tenant classes, so it
exercised the mode rather than the selection path; the selection is
covered by unit tests across the four charts and both controllers.
Moving a live Gateway from one class to another is covered nowhere.
`Gateway.spec.gatewayClassName` has no immutability rule in the shipped
CRD, so the apiserver accepts the update; what the outgoing class
controller then does with the LoadBalancer Service it provisioned was
not exercised by the live run and no unit test reaches it.

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up: `networking/gateway-api.md` documents the platform
`gateway.*` rows and the cert modes, so `className`,
`tenantSelectableClasses`, `edgeTerminatedClasses` and
`tenant.spec.gatewayClass` need a doc PR there;
`docs/gateway-classes.md` from this PR is what that port starts from.
Not filed yet.
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up: the provider hand-writes the Tenant schema, so
`spec.gatewayClass` needs an attribute there; not filed yet.
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:

Two boxes stay unticked on purpose: the website and provider follow-ups
are real and not filed yet. I will open them once the shape here settles
in review.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(gateway): tenant Gateways can now run on a GatewayClass other than the bundled Cilium one. The platform sets the default in `gateway.className` and bounds tenant choice with `gateway.tenantSelectableClasses`; a tenant selects its own with `tenant.spec.gatewayClass`. Classes whose provider terminates TLS upstream are listed in `gateway.edgeTerminatedClasses`, and a tenant Gateway on such a class serves plain HTTP listeners, issues no certificates, and no longer receives a replica of the operator wildcard Secret. Such a Gateway also has no TLS-passthrough listeners, so the `api`, `vm-exportproxy` and `cdi-uploadproxy` entries of `publishing.exposedServices` are not published through it, and their TLSRoutes report `Accepted=False` with reason `NoMatchingParent`
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added edge certificate mode with HTTP-only listeners, no certificate
issuance, and no TLS passthrough.
* Added configurable GatewayClass selection for tenant-owned Gateways,
with platform defaults, allowlists, and validation.
* Added platform configuration for edge-terminating and
tenant-selectable GatewayClasses.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved wildcard certificate replication for edge-terminated
Gateways.
* Ensured safe cleanup and restoration when switching certificate modes.
* **Documentation**
* Updated Gateway, tenant, and certificate configuration guidance for
edge termination and GatewayClass selection.
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Verdict

NOT LGTM, and the reason is not in the code. Mechanically this is one of the cleanest package additions I have read in this repo — the pinning, the renovate wiring, the vendored-tree hygiene, the test discovery and the docs are all done properly, and the documentation discloses nearly every finding below before a reviewer gets there. What I am not willing to wave through is the authority the component carries and the fact that an operator cannot turn it off. Both are decisions for the project rather than defects for you to fix in a commit, so I would like them settled before this lands.

Why it exists, and whether the shape fits

The problem is real and the audience is not hypothetical: a cluster behind NAT, on-prem or in a homelab has no public LoadBalancer, and today that means no way to publish a tenant's routes at all. An outbound-only tunnel is the standard answer to that, and Cloudflare's is the one most people already have.

The shape fits the architecture rather than fighting it. It arrives as a GatewayClass beside the Cilium one, so tenants reach it through the Gateway API surface the platform already exposes, and the two pieces of platform work it needs were done first and separately: #3861 gave a tenant the ability to pick its class, and gave TenantGateway a mode for classes whose provider terminates TLS upstream so the controller stops minting an origin certificate nobody serves. That is the right order to have done things in, and it means this PR adds a package rather than a mechanism. No new CRD of ours, no new controller of ours, no abstraction spanning the platform — a vendored chart, a wrapper, and one line in the labeler. Proportionate.

Blocking: the authority, and that it cannot be narrowed

packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/templates/clusterrole.yaml is 146 lines with no {{- if }} in it at all, bound cluster-wide by templates/clusterrolebinding.yaml. There is no rbac.create toggle, no namespaced variant, no resourceNames, no selector. Whatever it grants, it grants unconditionally, and the wrapper cannot trim it.

What it grants includes secrets: get, list, watch, create cluster-wide (:105-107) — every Secret in every namespace, which in this platform means tenant database passwords, TLS private keys and the Kamaji tenant control-plane kubeconfigs. The docs name that one. The stronger grant is the one below it: deployments: get, list, watch, create, update, patch, delete, also cluster-wide (:77-82). Creating a Deployment in a namespace lets the creator set serviceAccountName to any ServiceAccount in that namespace, and Kubernetes has no use-style check on that, so cluster-wide Deployment creation is a path to running a pod under a cluster-admin-bound ServiceAccount. services, horizontalpodautoscalers and networkpolicies carry the same create/update/delete shape. gatewayclasses and gateways carry update, patch on the main resource rather than only /status (:12-17), which reaches the spec of Gateways on the Cilium class too; the comment justifies it by the finalizer, and that justification is honest but the grant is wider than the reason.

The upstream rationale — per-Gateway data planes materialised in arbitrary namespaces — is coherent. That is the trouble: the feature is what forces the grant, so this is not something a values override can fix.

On precedent, and I want to be fair about it: this is not the first component in the tree from your personal namespace, and the pinning language here is verbatim what packages/system/kuberture/values.yaml already says. That precedent is real and I am not reopening it. But it covers supply-chain discipline, not authority — neither kuberture nor ouroboros holds cluster-wide Secret read and cluster-wide Deployment write. Extending the precedent from "a pinned third-party controller" to "a pinned third-party controller with cluster-admin-equivalent reach, whose images are pulled at runtime from a personal ghcr namespace and are not mirrored under ghcr.io/cozystack" is a different decision, and for a project on the CNCF track with a multi-tenancy story it belongs to the maintainers rather than to a code review. My own position is that it should not land in this shape, and that the narrowing has to happen upstream — scoping the Deployment and Secret access by namespace or label, or at minimum letting the chart render a namespaced Role for the single-tunnel deployment this package actually uses.

Blocking: an operator cannot switch it off

helm.sh/resource-policy: keep is stamped on the Package CR by packages/core/platform/templates/_helpers.tpl:16, the helper this package goes through. So removing the name from bundles.enabledPackages stops rendering the Package and deletes nothing: the Package, the HelmRelease, both Deployments, the ClusterRole and its binding all stay. A cluster whose configuration reads "disabled" is still running a controller with everything described above. bundles.disabledPackages does not help either, because that is a veto on rendering and keep blocks deletion.

Deleting the Package by hand while the name is still listed is worse than the body suggests: keep blocks deletion, not creation, so the next platform upgrade renders it back — carrying only controller.clusterDomain, because the operator's hand-set gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID died with the deleted object. The chart then hits its required and that HelmRelease fails permanently, and since cluster readiness sweeps every HelmRelease, the whole cluster reads not-ready. The doc gets the recovery order right, but prose is the only thing standing between an operator and that state.

This one has an in-repo answer already, which is why I am asking rather than just noting it. packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml:203-205 handles exactly this hazard for ouroboros: a lookup for the live Package plus a fail carrying the recovery steps, released by an explicit acknowledgement flag in values. The pattern exists, it was written for this precise interaction with resource-policy: keep, and this package has a far larger surface than ouroboros does. Please reuse it.

The one live run does not cover the supported configuration

The manual verification is described honestly and I am glad it was done. But it ran against a cluster with Gateway API CRDs at v1.5.1, and this package's own requirement is a 1.6.x bundle — the GatewayClass duly came up with a permanent SupportedVersion=False beside Accepted=True, and, as the body itself explains, any field the controller writes that only the newer bundle knows is pruned on write with nothing logged. So the run tells us the package installs and passes traffic on a base it declares unsupported. It does not tell us it behaves correctly on a supported one.

#3872 merged on 2026-09-04 and origin/main now carries the 1.6.1 bundle. This branch does not — its base is from 2026-09-02 and the merge commit is not an ancestor of the head. Rebase, then re-run the same end-to-end check on the 1.6.x bundle and say in the body that the GatewayClass came up without SupportedVersion=False. That is the run that discharges the sequencing note.

Notes, not blocking

The proxy Deployment sets neither serviceAccountName nor automountServiceAccountToken, so the pod terminating every request arriving from the Cloudflare edge runs as the namespace default ServiceAccount with its token mounted — and the chart exposes no value for either field, so the wrapper cannot correct it. It is bounded in practice because default holds no RBAC there, and the docs disclose it, but it is the wrong default for the most exposed pod in the package and it is a one-line fix upstream.

The controller is a single replica with leader election off and no PodDisruptionBudget, so configuration pushes pause across a restart or a node drain. The data plane keeps serving, so the impact is bounded. Worth noting that the ClusterRole grants full leases access for the leader election that is switched off.

Nothing enforces the tlsPassthroughServices: [] requirement for a tunnel-backed tenant Gateway. packages/extra/gateway/templates/tenantgateway.yaml passes both gatewayClassName and the passthrough list straight through with no cross-check, and the default list is non-empty, so an operator who switches a tenant to this class and forgets gets a TenantGateway permanently not-Ready and a blocked tenant gateway release, with the documentation as the only warning. A fail in that chart when an edge-terminated class meets a non-empty passthrough list would cost a few lines and turn a puzzle into a message.

Things I checked and found correct, so they need no further attention: all four pins are tag-or-manifest digests and the Makefile refuses a pull whose Chart.yaml version disagrees with CHART_VERSION; the renovate custom manager and its grouping rule genuinely cover all four; the vendored tree is pristine, with every Cozystack-specific value expressed as an outer override and no patches/ needed; the required guard on gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID is pinned by a failedTemplate assertion; the dig guard for networking.clusterDomain pins all three nil shapes, and asserts the controller map survives, which is the right assertion because dropping a rendered key would delete it from the live Package and take the operator's sibling tunnelID with it; the topologySpreadConstraints override pins both pod labels its selector depends on; the package declares a test: target so hack/helm-unit-tests.sh actually discovers the suite, which is not automatic here; and the claim about the two admission policies is accurate — the cluster-wide one with failurePolicy: Fail and no namespace selector ships off and stays off, and only the controller-side ownership layer is enabled, with a negative test proving the flags key on the value.

What I would like next

Rebase onto the 1.6.1 bundle and re-run the end-to-end check on it; add the ouroboros-style disable guard; and let us settle the RBAC question as a maintainer decision rather than in this thread. If the answer on RBAC is that the grant is acceptable for an opt-in package, I would still want it written down somewhere durable — a component that can read every Secret in the cluster should not be discoverable only by reading a ClusterRole.

@lexfrei
Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) marked this pull request as draft September 28, 2026 16:52
… as an opt-in package

Publishes tenant HTTPRoutes/GRPCRoutes through a Cloudflare Tunnel, so a
cluster with no public LoadBalancer (behind NAT, on-prem, homelab) can
expose services on the Gateway API path. One controller runs cluster-wide
in cozy-cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller and owns the platform tunnel;
tenants attach a Gateway of class `cloudflare-tunnel` and route hostnames
under the apex the existing route-hostname policy already binds them to.

The upstream chart is vendored from its OCI registry pinned by manifest
digest, and both images are pinned by tag@digest, the same shape as the
kuberture package. The wrapper wires one operator-created Secret into
both the API-token and connector-token references. Every Gateway of the
class shares one tunnel and the proxy routes by hostname alone, and the
platform's route-hostname policy neither sees GRPCRoute nor rejects
hostname-less routes, so the wrapper turns on the chart's controller-side
hostname-ownership layer keyed on namespace.cozystack.io/host for tenant
namespaces; the chart's admission layer stays off because it would also
police routes bound to the Cilium Gateway there. The chart bakes
the cluster domain into its proxy config endpoint and falls back to
cluster.local, and subchart values cannot read _cluster.cluster-domain,
so the system bundle threads networking.clusterDomain into the Package's
component values; the tunnel ID the operator sets on the same Package is
a sibling key that server-side apply keeps intact.

Opt-in via bundles.enabledPackages: the release cannot become Ready
without the credentials Secret and a tunnel ID, so it must never ship by
default. CRDs are applied with CreateReplace because the controller adds
kinds between minor releases.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
The wrapper suite guards what values.yaml overrides on the vendored chart:
the single credentials Secret read by both planes, the cozystack cluster
domain in the controller flags, digest-pinned images, the tunnel ID
reaching the GatewayClassConfig, the disabled hostname-ownership policy,
and a render that fails naming gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID when it is
missing. A re-vendor that drops an override fails here instead of on a
cluster.

The platform suites pin the PackageSource's CreateReplace and its
gateway-api-crds dependency, and that the Package is emitted only when
listed in bundles.enabledPackages.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
@lexfrei
Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) force-pushed the feat/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller branch 2 times, most recently from d898365 to acf47cf Compare October 2, 2026 11:37
Seven fixes upstream, all in the controller's own status and tunnel
handling: Gateway status writes that change nothing are skipped, route
parent and GatewayClassConfig conditions stop flapping, foreign
per-listener conditions survive a reconcile, the tunnel releases its
connection observer between bootstrap attempts, and config versions are
ordered by snapshot. Chart templates and CRDs are unchanged between the
two tags, so the wrapper needs nothing beyond the three digests.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
Covers what the package buys over the Cilium GatewayClass, the
Cloudflare-side prerequisites, the single credentials Secret and its
key names, the two-step enable path through bundles.enabledPackages
and the tunnel ID on the emitted Package, how a Gateway joins the
cloudflare-tunnel class, and the limits an operator hits: HTTP and
gRPC only, TLS terminated at the edge, the listeners a tenant
publishing Gateway cannot bring across, neither shipped external-dns
watching Gateway API, the cluster-wide write grant on the
controller's ClusterRole, and unmirrored images.

Also corrects the package header comment, which described moving a
tenant Gateway onto the class as a drop-in. Emptying
tlsPassthroughServices is necessary but not sufficient: the remaining
port-443 listeners are still rendered mode: Terminate with
cert-manager certificateRefs, and the port-443 allowedRoutes.kinds
stay HTTPRoute and TLSRoute, so a GRPCRoute cannot attach.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
The comment above the retag filter enumerates what promotion drops
today, and the two cloudflare-tunnel images were missing from it. They
are dropped for the same reason as kuberture: the wrapper overrides
only `tag:` and leaves the repository in the vendored chart, so the
enumeration emits a host-less "<ver>@sha256:..." that the $REGISTRY
prefix match never selects. kuberture was listed under the third-party
host bullet, which is not what drops it, so it moves with them.
Behaviour is unchanged.

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The vendored chart bakes the cluster domain into the proxy's config
endpoint and falls back to cluster.local, which is wrong on a Cozystack
default of cozy.local, and subchart values cannot read _cluster. So the
system bundle threads networking.clusterDomain into the Package's
component values.

Read it through the same dig guard the two variant blocks above already
use: `networking:` written with nothing under it is YAML null, and
dereferencing that would abort the whole platform render rather than
skip the domain. Render the enclosing controller map either way: on a
release applied client-side, a key this release rendered before and
stops rendering is deleted from the live Package, taking the operator's
sibling tunnelID with it.

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The chart runs two proxy replicas and sets no affinity or topology
spread of its own, so both can be scheduled onto one node. That pod
terminates every request arriving from the Cloudflare edge for every
hostname on the class, so a single drain or reboot takes them all down
at once.

ScheduleAnyway rather than DoNotSchedule, so a single-node cluster still
gets both replicas. The selector keys on app.kubernetes.io/instance,
which the chart fills from the release name set in the PackageSource, so
both halves are pinned: the package's own chart test cannot see that
coupling because it declares its own release name, and changing
releaseName would leave the constraint selecting nothing with every test
still green.

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The suite asserted that the hostname-ownership flags reach the container
args and nothing more, so a re-vendor that stopped keying them on
hostnameOwnershipPolicy.enabled -- renaming the value, flipping its
default, emitting the flags unconditionally -- would keep the suite
green while the values stopped selecting anything.

Render the feature off and assert the flags are gone, and assert the
namespace-selector flag is derived from the selector value rather than
baked in. An empty selector is not "police nothing": the controller
reads a missing selector as "police every namespace" and then fails
closed in each one carrying no host label.

Say in the guide where that coverage stops. The decision itself cannot
be pinned in this repository: it lives in an internal package of the
upstream module, which Go will not let another module import, and the
controller resolves its Cloudflare account before it evaluates any
route, so nothing credential-free reaches a verdict.

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The package pins its vendored chart by version and OCI digest in the
Makefile, and the two images that chart runs by tag@digest in the
wrapper values. No built-in manager reaches any of them: the chart is
vendored rather than fetched, the helm-values manager is off repo-wide,
and the wrapper carries the image tag without its repository, so the
depName cannot be read off the line. Marker comments supply it.

The manager reads the chart and the two images as three separate deps,
so group them into one PR: a split bump can land a chart passing a flag
the older image does not accept. Renovate rewrites the pins without
re-vendoring charts/, so a bump is not whole until someone runs
`make update`, and do-not-merge/hold puts a human in front of that.

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…running

The platform stamps helm.sh/resource-policy: keep on every Package it
emits, so dropping this one from enabledPackages, or vetoing it through
disabledPackages, deletes nothing. The controller then keeps a
cluster-wide Secret read and Deployment write on a cluster whose values
say it is off, which nothing reports.

Fail the platform render in that state, the way the ouroboros guard
does, and name the two ways out. Deleting the Package is itself the
release, because the next render's lookup finds nothing, so no
acknowledgement flag is needed.

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…ge mode

The platform now lets a tenant pick its Gateway class from an allowlist
and renders an edge-terminated TenantGateway for classes declared as
such, so a tenant's own Gateway can run on this class instead of only a
standalone one. Describe the two platform lists and the Tenant field
that get it there, what edge mode renders, and what it still cannot
carry. Neither list is declared by the package: both are an operator's
claim about the class, and the platform documents them that way.

Correct what the guide said about the route-hostname policy, which now
covers GRPCRoute and refuses hostname-less routes in tenant namespaces,
and about the proxy ServiceAccount token, which upstream stops mounting
in a release newer than the one vendored here. Describe removal under
the platform guard that refuses to leave a disabled Package running.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM — not ready to merge this round.

The code blockers I carried are closed, and I want that on the record. The Gateway API bundle skew I raised across three rounds is resolved: the branch is now rebased onto a base carrying the v1.6.1 bundle (#3872 is an ancestor of HEAD), the tree ships bundle-version: v1.6.1, and the controller's 1.6.x requirement is met. The "cannot switch it off" blocker is fixed properly: the new render guard reuses the ouroboros pattern, its enabled/disabled logic is identical to the optional.default helper, and I confirmed its fail path is load-bearing by mutation (forcing the guard off reddens exactly the two fail tests). The vendored chart is byte-identical to upstream at the pinned digest.

What still holds merge, none of it a code defect in the fix itself: the one end-to-end run described in the PR body was on the v1.5.1 CRDs, not the 1.6.x bundle this package now installs against, so re-run it on 1.6.x and refresh the now-stale PR body (it still says "ships v1.5.1" / "must not merge first"); and the RBAC authority this grants (cluster-wide Secret read plus Deployment-create) needs the maintainers' explicit accept-or-narrow decision before it merges. The notes below are improvements, not blockers.

Findings

  • [MINOR] packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/charts/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/templates/deployment-proxy.yaml:23, Internet-facing proxy runs on the default ServiceAccount with its token mounted; in Cozystack that token reads TenantNamespaces and clones public DataVolumes
  • [MINOR] packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml:382, tunnelID is a hand edit on a platform-rendered Package; hand-delete-while-enabled re-renders without it and fails the release
  • [MINOR] packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml:395, Disable guard fails the whole platform render while it fires (known ouroboros trade-off); state the mid-upgrade order
  • [MINOR] packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/values.yaml:67, Credentials Secret ref omits namespace; relies on an undocumented default for a cluster-scoped referrer
  • [MINOR] packages/extra/gateway/templates/tenantgateway.yaml:94, No cross-check that a tenant-selectable class is also edge-terminated; half-declared class renders a never-Ready tenant Gateway
  • [MINOR] packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/Makefile:19, make update runs rm -rf charts with no patches re-apply (latent)
  • [NIT] docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md:241, Hostname-ownership narrative implies tenants write Gateway API objects; they cannot today

kvaps's threads

  • Disable-off: resolved in code, verified.
  • RBAC authority: you added the durable disclosure he asked for (the docs now name the cluster-wide Secret read and the Deployment-create escalation). The accept-or-narrow decision itself is still open and belongs to the maintainers.
  • The one live run on the supported bundle: still open. The PR body documents a run on the v1.5.1 CRDs and still says "ships v1.5.1" and "must not merge first"; both are stale now that the base carries v1.6.1. Re-run the check on the 1.6.x bundle and refresh the body.

Caveats

  • Everything here is static; no cluster was touched. The supported-config end-to-end run is render-blind and only you can produce it.
  • The branch is 35 commits behind origin/main (merge-base 9c9a8c2). CI on the reviewed head (job 110829432435, step "Run unit and controller tests") is red only on TestHealthzReady_ReportsCacheState in token-proxy, a module this PR does not touch: an unrelated flake (jwks fetch 500 / TLS handshake on a closed socket), not evidence about this change.

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MINOR] packages/extra/gateway/templates/tenantgateway.yaml:94 No cross-check that a tenant-selectable class is also edge-terminated; half-declared class renders a never-Ready tenant Gateway

{{- with .Values.proxy.podLabels }}
{{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
{{- end }}
spec:

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[MINOR] Internet-facing proxy runs on the default ServiceAccount with its token mounted; in Cozystack that token reads TenantNamespaces and clones public DataVolumes

{{- with dig "clusterDomain" "" (default (dict) .Values.networking) }}
{{- $cfTunnelController = dict "clusterDomain" . -}}
{{- end }}
{{- $cfTunnelComponents := dict "cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller" (dict "values" (dict "cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller" (dict "controller" $cfTunnelController))) -}}

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[MINOR] tunnelID is a hand edit on a platform-rendered Package; hand-delete-while-enabled re-renders without it and fails the release

{{- $cfTunnelName := "cozystack.cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller" -}}
{{- $cfTunnelRendered := and (has $cfTunnelName (default (list) .Values.bundles.enabledPackages)) (not (has $cfTunnelName (default (list) .Values.bundles.disabledPackages))) -}}
{{- if and (not $cfTunnelRendered) (lookup "cozystack.io/v1alpha1" "Package" "" $cfTunnelName) -}}
{{- fail (printf "%s is no longer rendered (it is missing from bundles.enabledPackages or listed in bundles.disabledPackages), but its Package still exists on the cluster. helm.sh/resource-policy: keep leaves that Package, its HelmRelease and the controller's cluster-wide RBAC running. Either list it in bundles.enabledPackages again, or remove it: delete every Gateway on the cloudflare-tunnel class first (the controller is the only thing that clears the GatewayClass finalizer), then `kubectl delete package.cozystack.io %s`; the next platform reconcile then renders cleanly." $cfTunnelName $cfTunnelName) -}}

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[MINOR] Disable guard fails the whole platform render while it fires (known ouroboros trade-off); state the mid-upgrade order

gatewayClassConfig:
create: true
tunnelID: ""
cloudflareCredentialsSecretRef:

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[MINOR] Credentials Secret ref omits namespace; relies on an undocumented default for a cluster-scoped referrer

test:
helm unittest .

update:

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[MINOR] make update runs rm -rf charts with no patches re-apply (latent)

## See also

- [`packages/extra/gateway/README.md`](../packages/extra/gateway/README.md) — the Cilium-backed per-tenant Gateway, its cert modes, and the layered hostname security model.
- [Cloudflare Tunnel documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/) — creating a tunnel, connector tokens, and edge behaviour.

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[NIT] Hostname-ownership narrative implies tenants write Gateway API objects; they cannot today

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