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Aleksei Sviridkin 3a369fed99 feat(redis): add opt-in TLS for Redis and Sentinel (#2729)
## What this PR does

`tls.enabled` puts Redis and Sentinel on a TLS-only listener with a
per-release cert-manager chain, and hands the tenant the CA certificate
as `redis-<name>.tenant-ca`. Off unless set.

redis-operator v3.3.5 has no TLS support. The work is ported upstream in
freshworks-oss/redis-operator#85, which is open and not in a release, so
this carries it as three patches over the v3.3.5 tarball.
`images/redis-operator/patches/tls.diff` is the source half, cut from
that PR's commit `2ad2ed8d1`, which the patch header pins; it is applied
by the glob the image Dockerfile already runs, after the Dockerfile
strips the tarball's `manifests`, `charts`, `example` and `.github`, so
the image builds from source alone and the upstream tests that read the
CRD YAML skip instead of failing against the stale v3.3.5 copy.
`patches/crd-tls.diff` adds `spec.tls` to the vendored CRD, and with it
the CEL rule that fixes `tls.enabled` at creation; without the schema
block the apiserver prunes the field on admission and the patched binary
waits for something it never sees, and the rule cannot exist without the
block it references. `patches/rbac-tls.diff` grants Create, Get and
Update on Secrets, so the operator can publish the CA-only Secret it
addresses by name. That is the whole delta, and it is narrower than the
ported operator's own chart asks for: those three are the only Secret
calls in the patched source, and cert-manager Certificates get no grant
at all, because the operator only touches one under
`spec.tls.certManager` and this chart pins `certificateSecret` mode
instead. One change in `tls.diff` is not TLS and takes effect with TLS
off, named in the patch header: `MakeSlaveOfWithPort` connects to the
replica on its own port rather than on the master's. It changes a dial,
not a pod template, so shipping the rebuilt image rolls nothing; the
plaintext pod templates stay byte-identical to v3.3.5.

The image build registration this branch used to carry (`make -C
packages/system/redis-operator image` in the root `build:` target)
landed on main with the Valkey service (#3380), so the rebuilt operator
image is produced by CI from main as well; the digest in `values.yaml`
is still refreshed by release preparation, not here.

The chart patches re-apply at the end of `update:`, the same way
reloader, grafana-operator, ingress-nginx, seaweedfs and kamaji carry
theirs. Otherwise `rm -rf charts` takes TLS back out on the next `make
update` and nothing fails. `make update` reproduces the committed tree
byte for byte.

TLS is chosen when the instance is created. The config gets `port 0` and
the listener moves to `tls-port`, so TLS replaces plaintext rather than
running beside it, and a running instance cannot change mode: a replica
restarted onto the TLS listener cannot replicate from a master still on
plaintext, and Sentinels already on TLS would fail over to a stale
replica. The RedisFailover schema in the carried CRD patch rejects a
change of `tls.enabled`, which on an existing instance surfaces as a
failed HelmRelease upgrade while the instance keeps serving what it did;
the README points at creating a new instance and migrating. That is also
why TLS is not inferred from `external`: an externally reachable
instance is the one most likely to have clients an upgrade must not
drop. Existing releases keep their plaintext listener and are not
restarted by the rebuilt operator image.

The tenant gets `ca.crt` and nothing else, through `tenantsecrets`. The
chart's own Secrets take a dot between the release and the suffix
(`<release>.ca-tls`, `<release>.tls`, `<release>.ca-cert`): the suffixes
are dot-free, so the split is unique and release `foo`'s CA Secret can
no longer be release `foo-ca`'s leaf, the collision the hyphenated form
had. The chart renders a `TenantProjection` pointing at
`<release>.ca-tls`, and the CA-extraction controller re-encodes the one
named key from the parsed certificate, so nothing that is not a
certificate gets through. Same path as postgres, mongodb, nats and
qdrant.

No Secret of this release is granted to the tenant by name beyond the
generated password, and that includes `<release>.ca-cert`, the CA-only
copy the operator publishes for itself. It holds no key today, but the
operator has Create and Update on Secrets cluster-wide, so what sits at
that name is the operator's call rather than the platform's, and RBAC
cannot filter by key. `hack/check-redis-rd-secrets.bats` pins the whole
rendered Secret surface instead of a list of known-bad names, because an
include with no `resourceNames` and no `matchLabels` restricts nothing.

The chainsaw suite for redis gains two cases. A TLS fixture asserts the
cert-manager chain is issued, the TLS-probed Redis replicas and Sentinel
come up, the operator publishes its CA-only Secret under the widened
ClusterRole, the tenant receives exactly `ca.crt` through
`tenantsecrets` while the key-bearing Secrets stay off that path, and a
`redis-cli --tls` PING through the service name completes with the same
CA. A second case applies `tls.enabled` to a running plaintext release
and asserts the refusal: the HelmRelease upgrade fails with the schema's
message, the StatefulSet keeps its revision with both replicas Ready,
plaintext still answers and no TLS listener appears.

Certificate renewal rolls the pods from inside the operator. Redis and
Sentinel read the certificate once at startup, so the patched operator
stamps a hash of the TLS Secret's `tls.crt` and `ca.crt` into the pod
template of both the Redis StatefulSet and the Sentinel Deployment on
every reconcile, as `redis-failover.freshworks.com/tls-secret-hash`. A
renewal changes the hash; the operator's own roller replaces the Redis
pods one at a time and the Deployment controller rolls Sentinel. README
names the fallback: if the roll cannot run, the deadline is the old
certificate's expiry, past which the operator's own TLS connections fail
along with the clients.

`tls.authClients` maps to `tls-auth-clients` and defaults to `no`. The
platform mints no client certificate for the tenant and the CA key is
out of reach, so `yes` is only usable when the client certificate comes
from whoever also controls the CA. Changing the value on a running
release restarts the Redis and Sentinel pods: Redis reads the directive
from its config file only at startup, so the operator folds the
effective value into the certificate hash that drives the rollout, and
the change lands when it is made rather than at the next unrelated
restart.

Follow-ups in the carried operator patch go upstream first, to
freshworks-oss/redis-operator#85 or a successor there, and are picked up
here afterwards; the carried patch does not grow Go that upstream has
not seen. `tlsConfigFor` fetches the Secret on every call, tens of GETs
per reconcile. The renewal roll is static analysis so far: the live
check, `cmctl renew` on a running release while watching the `rfr-*` and
`rfs-*` pods roll, is still owed and belongs with the e2e follow-up.

Two facts about the shipped image rather than the patch.
`packages/system/redis-operator/values.yaml` keeps the digest of the
image built before the patch until release preparation rebuilds it, so
on `main` between this merge and the next release-prep, `tls.enabled`
renders the chain and `spec.tls` while the running operator ignores them
and serves plaintext. And the pinned v3.3.5 tarball carries GO-2026-5026
in `golang.org/x/net` v0.53.0, reached through
`PodService.UpdatePodLabels`; the port neither introduces nor fixes it,
upstream `master` is already on v0.55.0, so it lands with the next tag
bump rather than here.

Outside the patch: `cozyvalues-gen` renders `{}` in the README Value
column for `tls.authClients`: a child property without a default
inherits the parent object's `{}`, and `make generate` reproduces it
byte for byte, so it is a generator bug rather than something to
hand-edit here.

### Screenshots

No UI changes.

### Downstream repositories

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [x]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up: cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#37
- [ ]
[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:

I walked the trigger map against the diff file by file.
terraform-provider-cozystack is reached, tracked as
cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#37 rather than a speculative PR:
`values.schema.json` gains a `tls` object, and the provider hand-writes
a schema, model and expand/flatten pair per Kind. It already models
`tls` for postgres, kafka, nats and qdrant, not for redis. Redis needs
different wording from those four, whose descriptions say to omit the
block to follow `external`, which is the one thing redis does not do.

Nothing else is reached. The website regenerates this package's
reference page from `README.md` on a stable tag, so the README changes
need no PR there. No package added, renamed or removed.
`packages/core/platform/values.yaml`, variant and bundle composition and
release asset names are untouched, and so are `hack/package.mk`,
`hack/common-envs.mk` and `hack/update-crd.sh`, which is what ccp and
external-apps-example read. The two new files under `hack/` are bats
unit tests. No node prerequisite, installer value, telemetry metric or
cozy-proxy label changes.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(redis): add opt-in TLS for Redis and Sentinel. Set `tls.enabled: true` to serve both on a TLS-only listener backed by a per-release cert-manager chain; the tenant reads the CA certificate as the `<release>.tenant-ca` tenant secret. TLS is off unless set and is not inferred from `external`, so existing releases keep serving plaintext and are not restarted by the rebuilt operator image. TLS is chosen at creation: a running instance cannot switch modes, the change is rejected and surfaces as a failed HelmRelease upgrade, so add TLS by creating a new instance and migrating to it. Requires cert-manager, which the platform's `system` bundle installs on every variant. A renewed certificate rolls the Redis and Sentinel pods through the operator. TLS support is carried as a downstream patch over redis-operator v3.3.5 until freshworks-oss/redis-operator#85 lands in a release.
```
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