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Aleksei Sviridkin d000d02b99 feat(rabbitmq): add TLS support for AMQPS and management HTTPS (#2683)
## What this PR does

Adds TLS for AMQP and the management API, and hands the tenant a
key-free trust anchor instead of a private key.

- A chart-authored cert-manager chain issues the broker certificate. The
chart names its CA Secret in a `TenantProjection` sentinel; the
CA-extraction controller reads `ca.crt` from that Secret and writes a
key-free projection, stamping `internal.cozystack.io/tenant-ca` on the
projection it owns. That label is what the ResourceDefinition selects.
Nothing labels the CA Secret itself, which holds the CA private key and
is excluded by name.
- The leaf `<release>-tls` carries the broker's private key and reaches
no tenant. Neither the dashboard Role nor the ResourceDefinition grants
it, and the ResourceDefinition excludes it by name as well, so a label
mis-stamped onto it later still does not get through.
- SAN coverage now lists every resolvable form explicitly, including the
bare `*.<release>-nodes` wildcard that the operator uses for
`RABBITMQ_NODENAME`.

## TLS is opt-in here, unlike the sibling charts

`tls.enabled` defaults to `false` and is not inferred from `external`.
That diverges from nats, qdrant and kafka, which infer it, and the
divergence is deliberate for a reason specific to this operator.

Setting `spec.tls.secretName` makes the cluster operator rewrite the
`port` key in the `<release>-default-user` Secret from 5672 to 5671, on
the mere fact of TLS and regardless of whether the plaintext listener is
still open. That Secret is the Service Binding the chart hands the
tenant. A client with a hardcoded `:5672` keeps working. A client that
reads the endpoint from the binding, which is the documented way, gets
moved to the TLS port and must then speak TLS and be given a CA to
verify against, neither of which it was configured for. Inferring TLS
from `external` would fire all of that on an ordinary upgrade, with no
configuration change, against exactly the clients that followed the
documentation.

Whether the other engines should follow is an epic-level question rather
than this PR's to answer; for nats it is raised in #3348.

## The plaintext ports are still published, and this PR says so

There is no operator-supported way to publish the TLS ports alone.
`spec.override.service.spec.ports` is a strategic merge keyed on `port`
against defaults the operator rebuilds every reconcile, so it adds and
mutates entries but never subtracts one, and a TLS-only port list there
would read as a guarantee while changing nothing. The chart renders no
service override at all and says why at the callsite.

`tls.disableNonTLSListeners` is offered as an explicit opt-in, and it
refuses to render rather than failing silently in three situations.

- Together with `users` or `vhosts`. The flag forces
messaging-topology-operator onto TLS regardless of its own
configuration, after which it verifies the broker against the system
certificate pool, where a per-release CA cannot be. Every topology
object bound to the release would stop reconciling, silently:
already-created users keep working while password rotation and new users
simply never apply. There is no working route left for it, so the chart
refuses instead. Managing those objects as hand-written CRs is not a way
out, because the operator takes TLS from the `RabbitmqCluster` and not
from whoever created the CR, so manual objects break identically and
without the render-time refusal. `rabbitmqctl` or a definitions import
are.
- While topology objects are still live in the namespace. See the next
section.
- With TLS off, where no listener of either kind would remain.

Erlang distribution (25672) and epmd (4369) stay plaintext under every
setting; the flag does not touch them, so `disableNonTLSListeners: true`
is not "TLS everywhere".

A third route, closing AMQP at the broker through
`spec.rabbitmq.additionalConfig` while leaving the operator on plaintext
management, has been suggested and is plausible, but the operator's
sources are not vendored here and it was not verified. It is recorded as
an open question rather than promised.

## Closing the listeners takes two upgrades, and the chart enforces it

Clearing `users` and `vhosts` and setting `tls.disableNonTLSListeners:
true` in one edit is the natural thing to try, and it wedges the objects
being removed. The values-level refusal cannot catch it, because by then
both maps are empty. Helm applies every object in the target release
before pruning the ones the release dropped, so the broker closes
plaintext and loses the `rabbitmq.com/operator-connection-uri`
annotation while the topology objects still hold
`deletion.finalizers.<plural>.rabbitmq.com`. Their operator then has to
reach a management API it can only get to over a certificate it verifies
against the system trust pool. The delete never completes, and the
upgrade reports success over objects left in `Terminating`, with the
users still live in the broker and `kubectl delete namespace` on that
tenant hanging.

The chart now reads the namespace rather than the values. When the flag
is being introduced and any topology object is still there, the render
refuses and names them, gives the two-upgrade order and the `kubectl
get` that confirms nothing bound to this release is left, and says how
to unwedge a release that is already stuck. The check keys on the live
`RabbitmqCluster` as well, so it applies only to the transition: once
the listeners are closed, an object a tenant creates afterwards is
theirs to clean up rather than something that stops the release
rendering. Eleven unit cases cover the firing and the silent paths.

The set is wider than the three kinds this chart creates. All twelve
kinds `messaging-topology-operator` drives through its shared
`TopologyReconciler` carry that finalizer and share one deletion path,
so a `Queue` or a `Shovel` written by hand against the release wedges
exactly the same way, and a runbook step that checks only users, vhosts
and permissions says the namespace is clear when it is not. The list is
derived in one place and read from both the lookup and the `kubectl get`
the refusal prints, and a unit test holds it against the operator's own
CRDs so a bump cannot introduce a kind the guard has never heard of.
`SuperStream` is the one CRD left out: it runs on its own reconciler
with no finalizer, and the objects it owns are already on the list. An
object that binds through `connectionSecret` instead of naming the
cluster stays outside the guard, which the comment says.

## Breaking for metrics scrapers

Enabling TLS moves the metrics endpoint from 15692 to 15691. A
ServiceMonitor selecting the port by the name `prometheus` silently
stops matching and the instance's metrics disappear with no error
anywhere. Nothing in this repository scrapes RabbitMQ, so only
user-defined monitoring is affected, silently, which is why it is stated
here.

## Known limitations

1. Turning TLS back off leaves the raw CA material behind. The anchor
itself is collected: the projection carries an owner reference to the
`TenantProjection` sentinel, and Helm deletes the sentinel along with
the rest of the chain. What survives is `<release>-ca` and
`<release>-tls`, because cert-manager runs with
`enableCertificateOwnerRef: false` and does not delete the Secrets it
issued, so the README says to remove them by hand. #3349 asks the same
question of the label-driven leg of the contract, which this chart does
not use.
2. No e2e coverage for the TLS path. The one-upgrade wedge above is the
case that most deserves it: install with TLS and users, upgrade to no
users plus the flag, and assert the `User` is actually gone rather than
merely marked for deletion. A template test cannot reach that.

On certificate renewal, the leaf carries `duration: 8760h` and
`renewBefore: 720h`, so cert-manager rewrites the Secret around day 335.
The cluster operator mounts it as a projected volume with no `subPath`,
so the kubelet refreshes the files in place, and the operator does not
watch a user-supplied TLS Secret, so nothing rolls the pods. The last
hop, the broker picking the new file up, rests on Erlang's
`ssl_pem_cache` re-reading by mtime and has only been read from sources
rather than exercised against a live broker. The merged qdrant chart
ships the same duration and `rotationPolicy`, so this is a platform-wide
property rather than something this PR introduces.

### Downstream repositories

`packages/apps/rabbitmq/values.schema.json` gains the `tls` object, so
`cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack` needs the field modelled for
`cozystack_rabbitmq`; tracked in
cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#42.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(rabbitmq): opt-in TLS for AMQP and the management API, with the CA published to tenants as a key-free trust anchor. Enabling TLS moves the metrics port from 15692 to 15691 (ServiceMonitors selecting the port named `prometheus` must be updated) and moves the `port` value in the `<release>-default-user` binding Secret from 5672 to 5671. Plaintext AMQP and management ports remain published; `tls.disableNonTLSListeners` closes them but also drops in-cluster plaintext clients, and must be enabled in a separate upgrade after the topology objects are gone.
```
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