feat(gateway): let a tenant pick its Gateway class, and follow that class for TLS termination - #3861

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In `@packages/system/tenant-rd/cozyrds/tenant.yaml`:
- Line 39: Add ["spec", "gateway"] to the keysOrder list immediately before
["spec", "gatewayClass"], preserving the existing ordering of all other fields.

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In `@docs/gateway-classes.md`:
- Line 42: Update the documentation wording in the Gateway field description to
use the hyphenated adjective “read-only” instead of “read only,” without
changing the surrounding behavior or terminology.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/gateway-classes.md`:
- Around line 108-117: Align the verification commands with the preceding
example by using its defined gateway name and namespace, or clearly mark the
current tenant and gateway values as placeholders; update every affected kubectl
command consistently.
- Line 90: Update the wildcard-secret transition handled around reconcileGateway
so a tenant changing from existingSecret to http01 or dns01 retains the old
Secret until the Gateway no longer references it. Coordinate deletion with an
explicit readiness/reference guard, ensuring existing HTTPS listeners keep their
Secret until replacement certificates and listener configuration are ready.

LGTM with notes. Carefully designed and well covered. Tenant isolation holds: the allowlist is enforced fail-closed in the chart on the tenant-writable tenant.spec.gatewayClass, an inheriting tenant ignores the field (the gateway HR is gated on tenant.gatewayEffective), and a separate publishing-tenant guard closes the cluster-wide ACME gap. Upgrade is safe: new _cluster keys default softly when absent, existing tenants stay on cilium/http01, the non-edge listener set is unchanged, certMode extends reversibly, RBAC on tenantgateways is already covered, and generated artifacts are committed. Local tests green (helm unittest gateway 46 / platform 145 / tenant 45, Go tests for both controllers).

Non-blocking:

• [MINOR] Switching an existing http01 tenant to edge can leave stale route conditions (a route may keep Accepted=True), and an existingSecret to edge switch has a brief window where an HTTPS listener references an already-pruned Secret. Both affect only the switching tenant, are transient, and are documented as inherent to the two-controller design.
• [Caveat] The per-tenant selection path is covered by unit tests only. Recommend a cozystack-pr-test run switching a tenant's class on a live dev cluster before merge, since class reprogramming is render-blind to static review. Gateway.spec.gatewayClassName is not immutable, so the switch is not apiserver-rejected.

LGTM.

Class selection cannot escalate: the allow-list admits only the default class plus tenantSelectableClasses, whose default is empty, so a tenant gets nothing beyond the platform default without an explicit operator action, and a test pins this. Edge listeners are scoped by the same subtree selector as HTTPS plus the hostname VAP. certMode is derived from the class and interacts safely with #3342 (passthrough is nulled in edge mode, in both chart and controller) and #3475 (hostname policy preserved). Backward compat holds (no class selected falls back to cilium). Ran locally: go tests green, helm unittest gateway 26/26, platform 133/133, tenant 43/43.

• [MINOR] templates/tenantgateway.yaml — the publishing-tenant guard compares .Release.Namespace against the overloaded expose-ingress key; safe on the default deploy, self-documented for split configs.
• [MINOR] reconciler.go edge branch uses the wide buildAllowedRoutes subtree selector by design (TLS ends at the edge); if an operator wrongly lists a non-edge class in edgeTerminatedClasses, traffic goes cleartext with no render-time validation. Documented in three places.

Verdict

NOT LGTM

One blocker: a switch into certMode: edge leaves this controller's own Accepted=True standing on TLSRoutes whose listener it just removed, and in the whole-platform edge topology those are the platform's own endpoints.

Reviewed at 053e615394414fd94fb9f9edf7bf78e161f3296e against merge-base 3a70f91423b17cafa27e59a5d40fe7c3076416bf. I approved this PR on 2026-08-21 and review-helper self-reversal-check reports the PR's contribution is IDENTICAL in all 25 touched files since then, so the 2026-09-02 force-push was a rebase and this is a reversal on unchanged code. What changed is on my side: I ran a mutation pass and a fake-client probe that the earlier rounds did not, and they re-grade the "stale route conditions" item my own 2026-08-21 note had filed as [MINOR] ... transient.

Findings

[MAJOR] internal/controller/tenantgateway/reconciler.go:81, a switch to certMode: edge leaves a stale Accepted=True on TLSRoutes whose listener it removed

servesWholeApex returns true for CertModeEdge, so collectHostnameClaims (reconciler.go:325) returns nil, allRefs is empty, and updateRouteStatuses (internal/controller/tenantgateway/conflict.go:129) iterates allRefs only. It writes nothing and retracts nothing.

Probed on a fake client with one fixture, varying only certMode:

edge:            listeners = edge(:80), edge-apex(:80)                    <- no tls-api
existingSecret:  listeners = http(:80), https, https-apex, tls-api(:443)  <- tls-api present

AFTER edge reconcile: TLSRoute default/kubernetes-api
  controller="gateway.cozystack.io/tenantgateway-controller"
  Accepted=True reason=Accepted msg="Route attached to TenantGateway tenant-root/cozystack"

The non-retraction predates this branch, but it was harmless before it: dns01 and existingSecret both render the passthrough listeners, so the retained Accepted=True was true. edge is the only mode that removes them, which is what turns a stale condition into a wrong one.

The scenario is an operator running gateway.enabled: true with the default publishing.exposedServices ([api, dashboard, vm-exportproxy, cdi-uploadproxy], packages/core/platform/values.yaml:154) who points gateway.className at a tunnel class, the topology this PR's own description calls supported. api.<root-host> stops being served, because default/kubernetes-api pins sectionName: tls-api (packages/system/cozystack-api/templates/api-tlsroute.yaml:17) and an edge Gateway has no such listener. Whoever debugs the dead endpoint reads the route status and finds Accepted=True, written by this controller and never withdrawn. vm-exportproxy and cdi-uploadproxy go the same way.

I am not asking for the endpoint loss itself to be refused. That cost is deliberate, docs/gateway-classes.md:67 states it precisely including the avoidance, and a hard fail would forbid a legitimate topology. The defect is narrower: a status this controller owns now asserts something false, and the branch already establishes the fix pattern for every other object the same switch invalidates. It deletes the owned redirect HTTPRoute (reconciler.go:243), the owned Issuer (reconciler.go:641) and the owned wildcard Certificate. The route statuses it owns are the one thing left behind.

Test that goes red today and green after: seed a TLSRoute carrying an Accepted=True RouteParentStatus under ControllerName, reconcile a TenantGateway in edge, assert the entry is retracted or flipped to Accepted=False, reason=NoMatchingListener.

What would change my mind: evidence that some other writer retracts it, or a decision that a TLSRoute in edge mode is outside this controller's status contract, stated where an operator reading the route will find it.

[MINOR] packages/core/platform/templates/apps.yaml:148, the kindIs "invalid" conjunct added by the final commit has no isolating fixture

Deleting that line leaves all 12 cases in packages/core/platform/tests/apps_gateway_class_wiring_test.yaml green. Rendered both ways:

with the guard:     className: null -> gateway-class-name: "cilium"
without the guard:  className: null -> Error: apps.yaml:150: gateway.className must be a GatewayClass name, got <nil>
                    className: 0    -> Error (both ways, which is the commit's actual target)

053e6153 added the 0 and false cases and those are not vacuous, reverting the kind check reddens them. The wrapper that preserves the documented unset fallback is what has no fixture, and a regression there fails the whole platform chart render rather than one tenant. One case covers it: gateway: {className: null} asserting gateway-class-name: "cilium".

[MINOR] internal/controller/wildcardsecret/reconciler.go:573, the TenantGateway watch is unpinned

Removing Watches(&gatewayv1alpha1.TenantGateway{}, toSingleton) leaves both Go suites green. The comment beside it states the cost of losing it: withdrawal falls back to the periodic resync, so the operator wildcard private key stays in a namespace that no longer terminates TLS for up to sourceResyncInterval (reconciler.go:143, five minutes). Nothing asserts on SetupWithManager in either test file.

[MINOR] the release-note block omits the capability loss

It covers the plain HTTP listeners, the absent certificates and the withdrawn wildcard replica. It does not say that pointing gateway.className at an edge class unpublishes api.<root-host>, vm-exportproxy and cdi-uploadproxy. docs/gateway-classes.md:67 says it well, but the changelog is what gets read before the docs.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "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." The unit coverage is real and I re-ran it. What no layer covers is the transition: reprogramming a live Gateway onto a different class. Gateway.spec.gatewayClassName carries no immutability rule in the shipped CRD (packages/system/gateway-api-crds/templates/crds-experimental.yaml:2180-2186 has only minLength/maxLength), so the apiserver will accept the update, but what the outgoing class controller does with the LoadBalancer Service it provisioned is invisible to a static review.

Caveats

• The class switch on a live Gateway is not exercised anywhere. Needs a cozystack-pr-test run.
• The existingSecret -> edge window between the two controllers is unchanged at HEAD. Filed before, declined as a key-lifetime decision rather than an ordering fix, and I am not reopening it.
• The publishing-tenant guard keys on the overloaded _cluster.expose-ingress (packages/extra/gateway/templates/tenantgateway.yaml:78). Correct on the default deployment, silently inert on one that splits the two meanings. Self-documented in the template.
• The edge arm of servesWholeApex is also unpinned by tests, but inert today: reconcilePerListenerCertificates checks certMode independently at reconciler.go:475.
• Mechanical anti-pattern sweep run and clean. No shell in the diff, no || true or 2>/dev/null on a decision command, and the only RBAC touched is the kubebuilder marker at internal/controller/wildcardsecret/reconciler.go:198, already covered by the pre-existing gateway.cozystack.io: ['*'] rule in packages/system/cozystack-controller/templates/rbac.yaml:6.

Verified and sound

Upgrade from N-1 holds, shown by render rather than reasoning. No existing Tenant carries spec.gatewayClass, so spec.values is not emitted, .Values.gatewayClassName stays "", the allowlist guard does not execute at all, $className resolves to cilium and certMode stays http01. No default flips. All three new _cluster keys degrade softly in each of their three readers when the platform predates them.

Tenant isolation holds. The allowlist is fail-closed (gatewayClass="secret-internal" renders an error naming the allowed set), packages/extra/gateway has no ApplicationDefinition so its HelmRelease only ever comes from the tenant chart, and spec.values and valuesFrom share no keys, leaving no second route to gatewayClassName. The publishing-tenant guard fires in both directions.

ACME on an edge publishing class still completes: cozy-cert-manager is in the default gateway.attachedNamespaces (packages/core/platform/values.yaml:552) and picks up the namespace.cozystack.io/gateway label from ensureNamespaceLabels, which is exactly the selector the edge listeners carry. I had this down as a likely break and the render refuted it.

terminationNamespaces returns its error before any prune, so a transient List failure never withdraws a key; reverting that reddens the suite.

Executed: 21 rendered configuration corners, 28 mutations (gateway 7/7 covered, platform 6/7, issuers 4/4, Go 8/10), and a green baseline of helm unittest at gateway 46, tenant 45, platform 151, issuers 13, plus go build ./..., go vet and both controller suites.

LGTM for api/ and internal/, which is the scope I am reviewing. Ivan's blocker is his to close, and my read is below in case it saves him a pass.

api/ is additive in both places. ConfigSpec.GatewayClass is a new optional string defaulting to "", so every existing Tenant keeps rendering exactly as before, and CertMode gains edge without touching the three existing values. Extending an enum only closes the door on a downgrade, which is inherent and not worth avoiding here.

The choice not to constrain GatewayClass in the schema is the right one. The allowlist is gateway.tenantSelectableClasses, an operator-set platform value, so it cannot become a CRD enum without baking one deployment's policy into the API. The field comment is explicit that a bad value fails this tenant's own gateway release and reaches no other tenant, which is the blast radius that makes a chart-level check acceptable instead of an admission-level one.

internal/ — the withdrawal in b464b4422. The rule it settles on is the right one: the controller owns a condition only where it judges. collectHostnameClaims returns nothing for a whole-apex mode, so updateRouteStatuses ran over an empty ref set and left a stale Accepted=True on TLSRoutes whose listener had just been removed — which is worse than saying nothing, because whoever went looking at the dead endpoint read that condition as proof the route was fine.

Both directions are handled, and that symmetry is what makes it correct rather than a patch over the reported case: edge writes Accepted=False with NoMatchingParent, and the other whole-apex modes retract the condition written while the tenant ran edge. Leaving the retraction out would invert the bug into a served endpoint reported as matching no parent.

The hostname-less carve-out is also consistent with #3475 rather than incidental to it: collectHostnameClaims iterates spec.hostnames, TLSRoute v1alpha2 sets no minItems, so such a route never reaches judgement in any mode — and a condition written on it would have no path back. Holding no opinion is the correct behaviour, and it is the same reasoning the route policy uses about what it can and cannot compare.

CI is green apart from the API-owner gate, which this approval clears, and E2E passes on b464b4422.