Correct two firewall claims the runtime test disproved

FIREWALL_INPUT_PORTS does not open the app ports inside a pod network. gluetun
detects the pod's own subnet and inserts an INPUT accept for it ahead of the
per-port rules, and every packet arriving at the pod IP matches that rule by
destination. Measured with the packet counters: 50 fresh requests moved the
subnet rule from 306 to 356 packets while every --dport rule stayed at 0 since
container start. A port that listens but is not in the list (gluetun's control
server on 8000) is reachable from another pod all the same.

The variable is kept - it is the explicit statement of which ports are meant to
be reachable, and the subnet detection is gluetun's behaviour rather than a
guarantee of this chart - but the comments no longer claim the traffic would be
dropped without it.

Second correction, same run: the /tmp/gluetun emptyDir fixed the "open ...
permission denied" failure, but gluetun also chowns the file, which needs
CAP_CHOWN. With all capabilities but NET_ADMIN dropped that logs "chown
/tmp/gluetun/ip: operation not permitted" on every VPN restart. The file is
written and the public IP is persisted, so this is a log line rather than a
failure, and granting CHOWN to silence it would widen the container's
capabilities for nothing. Noted where the mount is declared.

freesailarr/templates/_helpers.tpl

@@ -197,8 +197,18 @@ ingress block with enabled: true. Used by the ingress template.
 {{/*
 Comma-separated FIREWALL_INPUT_PORTS for gluetun: the ports of the enabled app
 containers (ingress traffic and the kubelet probes both arrive on the pod IP)
-plus 9999 for gluetun's own health server. Without these the gluetun firewall
+plus 9999 for gluetun's own health server.
-drops the traffic.
+
+Measured caveat: inside a pod network these rules never actually match. gluetun
+detects the pod's own subnet and inserts
+"-A INPUT -d <pod-subnet> -i eth0 -j ACCEPT" ahead of the per-port rules, and
+every packet arriving at the pod IP matches it by destination - the packet
+counters on the --dport rules stayed at 0 while the subnet rule absorbed the
+traffic. The declaration is kept as an explicit statement of which ports are
+meant to be reachable, and because that subnet detection is gluetun's, not a
+guarantee of the chart's: a CNI that hands out a /32 or a future gluetun that
+drops the rule would make these the only thing keeping probes and ingress
+alive. It is not what opens the ports today.
 */}}
 {{- define "freesailarr.firewallInputPorts" -}}
 {{- $ports := list -}}

freesailarr/templates/freesailarr.sfs.yaml

@@ -133,9 +133,12 @@ spec:
             - name: FIREWALL_OUTBOUND_SUBNETS
               value: {{ . | quote }}
             {{- end }}
-            # Open the firewall for the UI/probe ports of the enabled apps and
+            # Declare the UI/probe ports of the enabled apps and the health
-            # the health server - kubelet probes and ingress traffic arrive on
+            # server as reachable. Note that inside a pod network gluetun's own
-            # the pod IP and would be dropped otherwise.
+            # pod-subnet rule already accepts this traffic and these per-port
+            # rules never match (measured - see the helper's comment); they are
+            # the explicit statement of intent and the fallback if that subnet
+            # detection ever stops covering the pod IP.
             - name: FIREWALL_INPUT_PORTS
               value: {{ include "freesailarr.firewallInputPorts" . | quote }}
             # Bind the health server to all interfaces so the kubelet HTTP
@@ -169,6 +172,14 @@ spec:
             # and every write fails with "clearing public IP data: open
             # /tmp/gluetun/ip: permission denied". An emptyDir provides the
             # path with usable permissions.
+            # Remaining, cosmetic: gluetun also chowns the file, which needs
+            # CAP_CHOWN. With all capabilities but NET_ADMIN dropped that call
+            # is denied and logs "clearing public IP data: chown
+            # /tmp/gluetun/ip: operation not permitted" on every VPN restart.
+            # The file itself is written and the public IP is persisted
+            # (verified at runtime), so this is a log line, not a failure -
+            # granting CHOWN just to silence it would widen the container's
+            # capabilities for nothing.
             - mountPath: /tmp/gluetun
               name: gluetun-tmp
         {{- if .Values.qbittorrent.enabled }}