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Andrei Kvapil 45e21a330f feat(networking): add ouroboros for hairpin-NAT under PROXY-protocol (#2561)
## What this PR does

Adds
[`lexfrei/ouroboros@v0.7.0`](https://github.com/lexfrei/ouroboros/releases/tag/v0.7.0)
— a Go reimplementation of
[`compumike/hairpin-proxy`](https://github.com/compumike/hairpin-proxy)
— and wires it into cozystack as a *conditional default*: a single
`publishing.proxyProtocol: true` switch turns PROXY-protocol on at the
host ingress-nginx **and** auto-deploys ouroboros to fix the resulting
hairpin-NAT problem (intra-cluster traffic to the cluster's own public
hostnames arriving at ingress-nginx without the PROXY header it now
requires). Default stays `false` — clusters that do not run
PROXY-protocol get zero new resources, zero RBAC delta, zero behaviour
change.

The chart is platform-agnostic at v0.7.0: the controller and proxy
binaries auto-detect the cluster's DNS domain from `/etc/resolv.conf`
inside the pod and compose the rewrite target FQDN and the backend host
at runtime as `<svc>.<ns>.svc.<cluster-domain>`. Cozystack tenants on
`cozy.local`, kubeadm-bootstrapped clusters on `cluster.local`,
federations on `k8s.example.com`, custom-domain RKE2/k3s — all work
without operator override. Verified end-to-end on a `cozy.local`
cluster: controller logs `cluster-domain=cozy.local` at startup, chart
emits `--proxy-service-name + --proxy-service-namespace` (no chart-baked
`--proxy-fqdn`), Corefile picks up the rewrite block between BEGIN/END
markers, in-pod `dig <ingress-host>` returns the ouroboros-proxy
ClusterIP. Operators that prefer a chart-baked FQDN can still set
`controller.clusterDomain` explicitly — the explicit-override path is
preserved for non-Service backends and for split-horizon DNS topologies.

The chart runs in `coredns` mode for the host (the host CoreDNS is
Talos-managed and does not carry an `import` directive, so the
alternative would silently no-op there) and in `coredns-import` mode for
tenant deployments (tenants run cozystack-coredns, which carries the
import directive and ships an empty `kube-system/coredns-custom`
ConfigMap; ouroboros writes plugin-only `rewrite name` snippets into the
`ouroboros.override` data key without ever touching the chart-rendered
Corefile, so it does not race the chart that re-templates
`data.Corefile` on every Flux reconcile).

### Layout

* `packages/system/ouroboros/` — vendored chart from
`oci://ghcr.io/lexfrei/charts/ouroboros@0.7.0`. Cozystack-side defaults
pinned in `values.yaml`: `controller.mode=coredns` (host scenario),
`proxy.target.namespace=cozy-ingress-nginx` (override the chart-default
`ingress-nginx` namespace; chart-default
`serviceName=ingress-nginx-controller` matches as-is), Gateway-API
watching left at upstream's default of `false`. `proxy.target.host` is
left empty so the proxy composes the backend host at runtime. Image is
digest-pinned at
`0.7.0@sha256:478665e05dd0ffc4c1f7764320ea24b52251781884ddfd668d93a03e39d9094c`
and pulled directly from `ghcr.io/lexfrei/ouroboros` — this package is
intentionally not mirrored under `ghcr.io/cozystack/*`. The chart
manifest itself is also digest-pinned via
`OUROBOROS_CHART_DIGEST=sha256:f28bfac9fd7070b1f3357983ff5aad28c16115e7de1cfc16ee568a3b4cfc9d7e`
in the package Makefile, with a Chart.yaml-version vs. Makefile-version
assert that aborts the update target on lockstep drift. Helm-unittest in
`tests/` covers controller args, RBAC narrowing per mode, Gateway-API
gating, runtime-composition flag emission in both `coredns` and
`coredns-import` modes, image pin drift.
* `packages/system/coredns/templates/coredns-custom.yaml` +
`values.yaml` — empty `coredns-custom` ConfigMap as the chart-managed
`import` prerequisite, plus the `import /etc/coredns/custom/*.override`
plugin in the `.:53` server block + `extraVolumes`/`extraVolumeMounts`
mount at `/etc/coredns/custom/`. Same package serves host and tenant
CoreDNS, so this covers both layers without duplication. Helm-unittest
pins the rendered Corefile via a snapshot so future `make update` does
not silently drop the import directive. The empty rendered ConfigMap
deliberately omits `data:` — Helm three-way merge has no template-side
keys to compare against, so apiserver-side runtime writes (the
`ouroboros.override` data key) survive every chart upgrade. The
`notExists: data` assertion in `tests/coredns_custom_test.yaml` pins the
invariant.
* `packages/core/platform/sources/ouroboros.yaml` — new
`cozystack.ouroboros` PackageSource for the host install (`dependsOn:
cozystack.networking, cozystack.ingress-application`).
* `packages/core/platform/sources/kubernetes-application.yaml` —
`kubernetes-ouroboros` component registered against `system/ouroboros`
so the tenant HelmRelease can reference it.
* `packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/helmreleases/ouroboros.yaml` —
tenant-side HelmRelease deployed via the tenant admin-kubeconfig,
mirroring the cert-manager pattern. A `cozystack.defaultOuroborosValues`
helper flips `mode` back to `coredns-import` for tenants and mirrors
per-tenant `addons.gatewayAPI.enabled` into the controller (forcing
`--gateway-api` on a tenant without Gateway-API CRDs CrashLoops the
controller on `WaitForCacheSync`). `controller.clusterDomain` is
intentionally NOT pre-set — chart 0.7.0 auto-detects per-pod from
`/etc/resolv.conf` and composes the rewrite target at runtime, so the
same wrapper renders correctly on `cluster.local`, `cozy.local`, or any
custom tenant cluster-domain. Operators on a non-default cluster-domain
can still override via
`valuesOverride.ouroboros.controller.clusterDomain`. `dependsOn` grows a
conditional `gateway-api-crds` entry on the same gate. If
`addons.ouroboros.enabled` is true while `addons.ingressNginx.enabled`
is false, the HelmRelease fails the render with a clear error rather
than silently skipping — the hairpin fix has nothing to fix against
without ingress-nginx, and a no-op addon that quietly does nothing is
harder to debug than an explicit render-time error. The valuesOverride
gateway-api guard accepts every truthy spelling Helm/YAML emit (bool
`true`, string `"true"`/`"True"`/`"TRUE"`, numeric `1`, YAML
`yes`/`Yes`/`YES`/`on`/`On`/`ON`/`y`/`Y`) via
`toString`-then-`lower`-then-string-compare; direct bool `eq` would
error on type mismatch when an operator passes the value as a string
from `--set`, and case-insensitive folding catches `--set ...=On` /
`--set ...=True` that pure-lowercase comparison would miss. Tenant
disable is single-step: flipping `addons.ouroboros.enabled: false`
deletes the rendered HelmRelease, helm-controller runs `helm uninstall`
on the tenant, and the chart's pre-delete cleanup hook
(`coredns-cleanup-hook.yaml`, vendored at 0.7.0) nulls the
`ouroboros.override` key on the tenant's `kube-system/coredns-custom`
ConfigMap automatically. No render-time guard is wired on the tenant
side — gating on a `lookup` for the leftover HelmRelease would deadlock
the routine disable (the parent render runs before helm-controller
applies the missing-child diff, so the lookup would always find the
leftover at the moment of the flag flip). If the chart's hook fails to
land (controller pod stuck CrashLooping, ConfigMap RBAC drift, Job
timeout), operators recover manually via the documented tenant cleanup
recipe.
* `packages/apps/kubernetes/values.yaml` — new `OuroborosAddon` typedef
with `enabled` + `valuesOverride`. `make generate` re-emitted README,
JSON schema, the Go struct + deepcopy, and the kubernetes-rd
ApplicationDefinition openAPISchema in lockstep.
* `packages/core/platform/values.yaml` — new `publishing.proxyProtocol`
flag with extensive comment covering the upstream-LB precondition (the
L4 LB in front of ingress-nginx must already be injecting PROXY-v1
headers before the flag flips on, otherwise external traffic breaks),
the host-vs-tenant fan-out (the flag does not cascade into tenants), the
Talos re-render flap window, and the asymmetric disable path. The host
disable path: flipping back to `false` reverts ingress-nginx
PROXY-protocol config (flip the LB off first), but the host ouroboros
itself stays installed because its Package CR carries
`helm.sh/resource-policy: keep` — an explicit `kubectl delete
package.cozystack.io cozystack.ouroboros` (or `bundles.disabledPackages`
entry) actually triggers helm uninstall, at which point the chart's
pre-delete cleanup hook fires and patches the host Corefile
automatically. The values comment ships a manual `sed`-based cleanup
recipe as a fallback for the rare case where the chart's hook fails to
land (controller stuck in CrashLoop, ConfigMap RBAC drift, hook
timeout); the `publishing.proxyProtocolAcknowledgeUnclean` gate keys off
a `lookup` against the leftover Package CR to catch operators who flip
the flag back without confirming the cleanup landed.
* `packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml` — flips between
the default-form and explicit-form `cozystack.ingress-application`
Package emission so the host ingress-nginx gets `use-proxy-protocol` +
`real-ip-header=proxy_protocol` injected only when the flag is true
(`use-forwarded-headers` and `compute-full-forwarded-for` are
deliberately *not* on the list — they would let any upstream proxy spoof
`X-Forwarded-For`); the same conditional emits `cozystack.ouroboros`.
Host Gateway-API watching is left at the upstream chart's default of
`false` because cozystack does not install Gateway-API CRDs cluster-wide
on the host.
* `hack/e2e-apps/ouroboros.bats` — auto-discovered smoke test for the
tenant addon (HelmRelease ready, `coredns-custom` ConfigMap present in
tenant, controller pod running, and after creating a TLS Ingress the
rewrite snippet shows up in the import ConfigMap; an in-tenant `dig`
from a netshoot pod also confirms CoreDNS actually serves the rewrite —
pod-readiness alone passes vacuously since the upstream chart ships no
readiness probes).

### Why not KEP-1860 `ipMode=Proxy`

Cilium's `kubeProxyReplacement: true` (cozystack default) drops the LB
frontend entirely when `ipMode != VIP`, breaking Service ingress for
L2/BGP-announced IPs. KEP-1860's Proxy mode is reserved for clusters
fronted by an external CCM-managed proxy LB. ouroboros is the correct
fix for L2/BGP-announce topologies that cozystack ships by default.

### Coverage

Covered by helm-unittest (host chart, coredns wrapper, tenant addon —
including the `kubernetesProvider` mock that exercises the lookup-driven
`proxyProtocolAcknowledgeUnclean` gate, the lookup-returns-nil
CI/dry-run path, the gateway-api truthy-spelling acceptance across
`true`/`"true"`/`"True"`/`"TRUE"`/`1`/`yes`/`on`, the assertion that
`--proxy-service-name` + `--proxy-service-namespace` are emitted instead
of a chart-baked `--proxy-fqdn` in both `coredns` and `coredns-import`
modes, the assertion that `--target-service-name` +
`--target-service-namespace` are emitted for the proxy backend, and the
`_namespace.etcd`-empty render gate) and a tenant e2e bats test that
creates a real Ingress, asserts the rewrite snippet lands in the import
ConfigMap, and confirms in-tenant DNS serves it (with an in-pod retry
loop tolerating CoreDNS reload latency). The host-level
`publishing.proxyProtocol: true` path is not e2e-tested in this PR — it
requires a PROXY-protocol-aware upstream LB, which the cozystack e2e
harness does not stand up. That path is exercised manually and by docs
review.

End-to-end runtime auto-detect was verified manually on a `cozy.local`
cluster (dev17): chart deployed at v0.7.0, controller logged
`cluster-domain=cozy.local`, the rewrite block landed in
`kube-system/coredns` Corefile pointing at
`test-ouroboros-proxy.test-ouroboros.svc.cozy.local.`, an in-pod `dig
<ingress-host>` resolved to the ouroboros-proxy ClusterIP on the first
attempt, and the chart's pre-delete hook restored the Corefile cleanly
on `helm uninstall`.

### Supply-chain note

Image and chart are pulled from a contributor's personal namespace
(`ghcr.io/lexfrei/...`). Existing precedent
(`packages/system/etcd-operator/Makefile` pulls from
`ghcr.io/aenix-io/...`) is similar but `aenix-io` is the
cozystack-adjacent org while `lexfrei` is one human. Worth a maintainer
call.

Pairs with cozystack/website#527 (operator docs).

### Release note

```release-note
feat(networking): add `publishing.proxyProtocol: true` to enable PROXY-protocol on host ingress-nginx and auto-deploy ouroboros (a Go reimplementation of compumike/hairpin-proxy) to solve the resulting hairpin-NAT problem; tenants can opt in per-cluster via `addons.ouroboros.enabled` (requires `addons.ingressNginx.enabled`). Default behaviour unchanged.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added Ouroboros addon to address hairpin‑NAT for ingress‑nginx with
configurable enablement and tenant overrides.
* Added a packaged Ouroboros chart providing proxy, controller, CoreDNS
integration, external‑DNS and etc‑hosts modes.
* Introduced PROXY‑protocol gating with an explicit acknowledgement
flag.

* **Documentation**
* Expanded addon reference and platform docs with detailed
Ouroboros/PROXY‑protocol configuration and defaults.

* **Tests**
* Added extensive unit and e2e tests covering rendering, RBAC, uninstall
cleanup, and DNS behavior.
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