feat(cloudflare-tunnel): add Cloudflare Tunnel Gateway API controller as an opt-in package - #3858
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 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. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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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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In `@packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml`:
- Around line 320-327: Reformat each prose YAML comment paragraph onto one
continuous line without changing its content:
packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml lines 320-327;
packages/core/platform/tests/bundles_cloudflare_tunnel_optional_test.yaml lines
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packages/core/platform/tests/sources_cloudflare_tunnel_gateway_controller_test.yaml
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packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/tests/wiring_test.yaml
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- Around line 18-21: Update the upstream chart’s validating admission policy to
use apiVersions ["*"] for the CREATE and UPDATE rules covering httproutes and
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| {{- /* The vendored chart bakes the cluster domain into the proxy config-endpoint | ||
| URL (its own fallback is cluster.local) and subchart values cannot read | ||
| _cluster.cluster-domain, so networking.clusterDomain is threaded in through | ||
| the Package's component values. The tunnel ID the operator sets on the | ||
| same Package (gatewayClassConfig.tunnelID) is a sibling key: helm-controller | ||
| applies Packages server-side (a release still on client-side apply patches | ||
| only the fields it renders) and the values block merges per key, so the two | ||
| owners do not overwrite each other. */ -}} |
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Use one continuous line for each prose paragraph in YAML comments. Reformat these new comment paragraphs before merge.
packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml#L320-L327: Put the package-wiring comment paragraph on one line.packages/core/platform/tests/bundles_cloudflare_tunnel_optional_test.yaml#L2-L8: Put the test rationale paragraph on one line.packages/core/platform/tests/sources_cloudflare_tunnel_gateway_controller_test.yaml#L2-L7: Put the CRD rationale paragraph on one line.packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/tests/wiring_test.yaml#L3-L9: Put the wiring rationale paragraph on one line.packages/system/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller/values.yaml#L1-L35: Put each prose paragraph on one line. Apply the same change to lines 37-67.
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Reformat each prose YAML comment paragraph onto one continuous line without
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| - apiGroups: ["gateway.networking.k8s.io"] | ||
| apiVersions: ["v1", "v1alpha2"] | ||
| operations: ["CREATE", "UPDATE"] | ||
| resources: ["httproutes", "grpcroutes"] |
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Pinned apiVersions can be bypassed through an unlisted served version.
This policy matches only v1 and v1alpha2. The sibling policy in validatingadmissionpolicy-hostname-ownership.yaml (lines 33-37) uses apiVersions: ["*"] and documents that the route CRDs serve additional versions, naming v1beta1 for httproutes in gateway-api v1.6.0. A route written through v1beta1 therefore skips this uniqueness check. Align the two policies on ["*"].
This file is vendored chart content, so raise the change upstream rather than editing it here. Based on learnings: content under packages/system/*/charts/** is treated as read-only vendored content and problems should be reported to the upstream chart repository.
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In `@docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md`:
- 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
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temporary files after kubectl completes.
- Line 89: Update the Gateway selection guidance in the documentation to state
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
documentation to distinguish full DNS setup from partial CNAME setup: state that
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
that API tokens cannot be restricted to a single tunnel and that account-id only
selects the account; document the security impact and require using a dedicated
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| kubectl --namespace cozy-cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller \ | ||
| create secret generic cloudflare-tunnel-credentials \ | ||
| --from-literal=api-token="$CF_API_TOKEN" \ | ||
| --from-literal=tunnel-token="$CF_TUNNEL_TOKEN" |
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Do not pass credentials as --from-literal arguments. When this command runs on a shared workstation, shell expansion places both tokens in the kubectl process arguments, where local process inspection or endpoint tooling can capture them. Use --from-file with mode-0600 temporary files or an external Secret Manager, then remove the temporary files.
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| kubectl --namespace cozy-cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller \ | |
| create secret generic cloudflare-tunnel-credentials \ | |
| --from-literal=api-token="$CF_API_TOKEN" \ | |
| --from-literal=tunnel-token="$CF_TUNNEL_TOKEN" | |
| umask 077 | |
| tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)" | |
| trap 'rm -rf -- "$tmpdir"' EXIT | |
| printf '%s' "$CF_API_TOKEN" > "$tmpdir/api-token" | |
| printf '%s' "$CF_TUNNEL_TOKEN" > "$tmpdir/tunnel-token" | |
| kubectl --namespace cozy-cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller \ | |
| create secret generic cloudflare-tunnel-credentials \ | |
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LGTM with notes. The package is genuinely opt-in and off by default, and it does not change the render of a cluster that does not enable it (proven by render plus a mutation of the enabling guard, which went red). Cloudflare credentials flow only through a secretKeyRef to cloudflare-tunnel-credentials; no hardcoded token or UUID in git, and the new cf.k8s.lex.la API group is not reachable by tenants.
The remaining points are properties of the feature when an operator explicitly enables it, are documented in docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md, and some are render-blind:
- [Caveat] SSA field ownership on
spec.components.<c>.values: whether the operator-settunnelIDsurvives a platform re-apply ofclusterDomaincannot be verified hermetically. The failure is loud (arequiredrender failure, HR Failed), not silent. Please confirm on a live cluster viacozystack-pr-test: enable the package, settunnelID, force a platform reconcile, checktunnelIDsurvives. - [Caveat] The controller ClusterRole is broad (cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch/create, deployments create/update/patch/delete). Inherent to the upstream controller, vendored, disclosed in docs, and does not leak to tenants.
- [MINOR] The Makefile
updatetarget runsrm -rf chartswithout apatches/re-apply. Safe today, flagged for the future.
… 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: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
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: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
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: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
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: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
The retag filter drops anything outside $REGISTRY, and the comment
above it enumerates what that covers today, closing the lexfrei set at
{kuberture,ouroboros}. The cloudflare-tunnel controller and its proxy
ship under the same not-mirrored policy, so the set had quietly gained
two members it did not name. Behaviour is unchanged; the filter matches
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LGTM with non-blocking notes.
The package is genuinely opt-in (in no bundle, emitted only on explicit bundles.enabledPackages, with a test confirming non-emission by default and veto via disabledPackages). Secrets are handled correctly (tunnel-token/api-token via secretKeyRef from an operator-created Secret, no secret material in git, not logged), images are pinned tag@digest and the chart by OCI digest. helm unittest 6/6 + platform 4/4, and helm template renders correctly with a tunnelID and fails loudly without one. No regression on the default path.
- [MAJOR] Gateway API bundle skew: cozystack ships v1.5.1 while this controller is built against v1.6.1 and requires v1.6.x. On a stock install the class comes up Accepted=True but SupportedVersion=False, and v1.6-only fields are silently pruned by the older structural CRD. The proper fix is a coordinated gateway-api-crds bump to v1.6.x (this is exactly #3872), so this should land after #3872.
- [MAJOR] clusterrole.yaml grants a cluster-wide blast radius: secrets get/list/watch/create in all namespaces, deployments/services/networkpolicies/hpa create/update/delete cluster-wide, and gateways/gatewayclasses update/patch on spec (reaching Cilium-class Gateways too). Upstream design, documented under Limitations, but enabling the package means trusting this controller cluster-wide.
- [MINOR] Images come from
ghcr.io/lexfrei/*(a personal registry), intentionally not mirrored underghcr.io/cozystack. Digest-pinning removes tag-drift risk, but the supply chain is rooted in a personal account and air-gapped installs must mirror manually. - [MINOR] Enabling without a preset tunnelID reds the whole-cluster readiness sweep until tunnelID is set; teardown traps from
resource-policy: keep. Documented with the exact removal order.
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What this PR does
Adds cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller as an opt-in system package (
cozystack.cloudflare-tunnel-gateway-controller, enabled throughbundles.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-controllerowning 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 assystem/kuberture. Tenants attach a Gateway of classcloudflare-tunnel.Every Gateway of the class shares one tunnel and the proxy routes by hostname alone. The existing
cozystack-route-hostname-policydoes 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 onnamespace.cozystack.io/hostfor 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 threadsnetworking.clusterDomaininto 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-credentialswithapi-tokenandtunnel-token) and the tunnel UUID via the Package's component values. The render fails naminggatewayClassConfig.tunnelIDuntil it is set, so an enabled but unconfigured package cannot go quietly half-installed.upgradeCRDs: CreateReplacebecause the controller adds CRD kinds between minor releases.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 tenantTenantGatewaymoved togatewayClassName: cloudflare-tunnelrenders a Gateway that isAcceptedandProgrammedwith the tunnel CNAME as its address, and an HTTPRoute in that tenant answeredHTTP 200end-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 getHostnameNotPermitted. Two things from that run, both documented in the packagevalues.yaml: a tunnel-backed tenant Gateway needstlsPassthroughServices: [](the controller marks TLS-passthrough listenersUnsupportedProtocol, and with Helm 4's kstatus wait a never-ReadyTenantGatewayblocks the tenantgatewayrelease), and the GatewayClass reportsSupportedVersion=Falseagainst v1.5.1 CRDs. 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.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: keepmeans dropping the name frombundles.enabledPackagesdeletes 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, becausekeepblocks 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 theSupportedVersion=Falsethe class reports against the v1.5.1 Gateway API bundle.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.clusterDomainintospec.components[].valueswhile the operator addsgatewayClassConfig.tunnelIDto 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 withx-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields: trueand notypeand nox-kubernetes-map-type; kube-openapi's converter turns exactly that shape into the__untyped_deduced_type, whosemap.elementRelationshipisseparablewith 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:
tunnelIDis currently the only operator input here that is not reachable from platform values. Threading it the waycontroller.clusterDomainis 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 ashetzner-robotlb.Screenshots
Not a UI change.
Downstream repositories
docs/cloudflare-tunnel-gateway.md.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
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