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jklein 2d7c11d137 refactor(keycloak): ambientMesh becomes an object carrying Istio's two constants
Gitea #143, maintainer's instruction. The HBONE port and the redirected probe
source are ISTIO CONSTANTS, not standards, so they move from template literals
into values with documented defaults - an operator can then correct them when
Istio changes a number, without waiting for a chart release.

One object under one "enabled", so the two halves still cannot be set
separately; two values could drift apart, which is what this design exists to
prevent. Every read is null-safe (#99), so a deleted object or one carrying
only "enabled: true" falls back to the defaults declared here rather than
dereferencing nil - the defect #136 shipped one value away.

Provenance now written on each constant: 15008 is Istio's HBONE port, not
IANA-registered for this and unknown to Kubernetes; 169.254.7.127 is link-local
(RFC 3927, never routed), its IPv6 counterpart carries the same digits plus
1337, and neither the NetworkPolicy API nor the kubelet knows the address -
only Istio's data plane rewrites the probe source onto it. Both read for
ztunnel 1.30.6, and a change in either fails silently.

The exception in ci/run-networkpolicy-test.sh stays pinned to the numbers that
test names, and additionally asserts this chart declares the same defaults -
never "whatever the value says", which would let a mistyped port in through a
configurable field.

No version change: nothing is published yet, the default is still off, and the
render at defaults is byte-identical - re-diffed against origin/main.
2026-10-19 17:56:59 +00:00

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{{- /*
NetworkPolicy for keycloak (Gitea #5).
THE RICHEST POLICY OF THIS ROLLOUT, AND THE ONE WITH THE LARGEST BLAST RADIUS.
Read both halves of that before changing anything here.
Keycloak is the only chart in the repository whose three ports fall into three
DIFFERENT classes, so it is the one place the convention is visible in full:
http (8080) NOT addressed by any probe, so it CAN be restricted by
source - and it is. Own namespace, allowedNamespaces, and
the ingress controller. This is the only real inbound
restriction in the sweep, and it is possible only because
the probes use a different port.
management (9000) the port all three probes address, so it stays open by
default. That is unfortunate here specifically: 9000
carries the health and metrics surface UNAUTHENTICATED,
and "no Ingress" was its only protection before this
object existed. The policy improves it from "anything that
can route to the pod" to "anything inside the cluster",
and networkPolicy.probeSources is what closes the rest -
at the price of needing the worker node IPs.
jgroups (7800) the cluster bus between this release's own replicas.
Restricted to the pods this policy itself selects, which
is the narrowest rule this object can express.
All three port numbers and the database port are DERIVED from the chart's own
values through keycloak.settings, not written down twice: an operator who moves
keycloak.ports.http moves the policy with it. The database port is
keycloak.db.port, so unlike most charts in this sweep the egress rule here is
the CONFIGURED port and not a guess.
THE BLAST RADIUS, stated plainly because it is the largest in this issue: this
release is the cluster's identity provider. If the ingress-controller source
below is wrong, every login everywhere breaks, and NOTHING IN CI CAN CATCH IT -
no ingress controller runs in the install-test, and the probes use 9000, so the
pod becomes Ready either way. The source was measured on the live cluster
(DaemonSet rke2-traefik in kube-system, which also serves the Gateway API
here), but measured labels are not proven traffic. After the first upgrade,
verify with an actual login rather than with kubectl.
AND THE SECOND TRAP, which is the same shape: a consumer that reaches Keycloak
on its IN-CLUSTER Service address rather than through its public URL is a pod
in another namespace, and the http rule blocks it. Those namespaces belong in
allowedNamespaces. Consumers that use the public issuer URL arrive through
Traefik and are already covered.
WHAT THIS OBJECT IS: a ceiling on reachability, not an authentication layer.
Only the ports declared below are reachable at all - whatever else the process
binds, now or after the next app update, is blocked without anyone having to
notice it exists.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
- EGRESS IS COARSE. A NetworkPolicy matches CIDRs and selectors and NEVER
hostnames, so "only to the database host" cannot be expressed at all. This
cluster's CNI is Canal (Flannel plus Calico for policy) and has no FQDN
rule; Calico's GlobalNetworkSet could express one but would bind this chart
to Calico, the same argument that kept implementation-specific objects out
of the Gateway-API sweep (#114). Each egress rule therefore permits its
PORT to any destination.
- NOT A BOUNDARY WHERE THE CNI DOES NOT ENFORCE ONE. An unenforced policy is
accepted by the API server and filters nothing, so everything reads as
configured while nothing is filtered.
- THE REASONING IS IN TEMPLATE COMMENTS, not in "#" comments: those are part
of the rendered object, travel into the cluster and appear in every release
diff. ci/run-networkpolicy-test.sh fails on a rendered "#".
THE PORT NUMBERS BELOW ARE POD PORTS, NEVER NODEPORTS. A NetworkPolicy is
evaluated at the pod's network interface, after kube-proxy has already
translated a NodePort to the targetPort, so a NodePort number here would match
nothing while looking strict - and, being the only rule for that port, would
block every inbound connection instead. ci/run-networkpolicy-test.sh asserts
every port here against the containerPorts of the pod spec this policy
selects.
*/ -}}
{{- if .Values.networkPolicy.enabled }}
{{- $settings := fromYaml (include "keycloak.settings" .) }}
{{- $np := .Values.networkPolicy }}
{{- $ns := .Release.Namespace }}
{{- $probeSources := $np.probeSources | default list }}
{{- $allowedNs := $np.allowedNamespaces | default list }}
{{- $ic := $np.ingressController | default dict }}
{{- $routed := or .Values.ingress.enabled .Values.httpRoute.enabled }}
{{- /* networkPolicy.ingress - the policy's INBOUND side, and not the same thing
as networkPolicy.ingressController (the SOURCE SELECTOR for the ingress
controller's pods, a SIBLING of it and no part of it) nor as the
top-level .Values.ingress (the Ingress object). All three match a search
for "ingress"; one round of this work already mistook the second for an
inbound escape hatch on the strength of the substring. */}}
{{- $npIngress := $np.ingress | default dict }}
{{- /* NULL-SAFE ON PURPOSE (#99): ambientMesh is an OBJECT, so every read goes
through a fallback reproducing THIS chart's declared defaults. An
operator who deletes the object, or writes only "enabled: true", must
land on the defaults and not in a nil dereference - #136 shipped exactly
that defect one value away, where the NOTES.txt branch dereferenced
.networkPolicy.egress directly. Clearing the probe-source list restores
the constant rather than removing the ipBlock, deliberately: the two
halves are not separable, and enabled: false is how you open nothing. */}}
{{- $ambient := $npIngress.ambientMesh | default dict }}
{{- $ambientEnabled := $ambient.enabled }}
{{- $ambientPort := $ambient.port | default 15008 }}
{{- $ambientProbeSources := $ambient.redirectedProbeSources | default (list "169.254.7.127/32") }}
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-networkpolicy
labels:
app: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-networkpolicy
spec:
{{- /*
Selects the Deployment's pods, and the same label the PodDisruptionBudget and
the two Services use. ci/run-networkpolicy-test.sh fails if it matches no pod
spec of the same render.
*/}}
podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-deployment
policyTypes:
- Ingress
{{- /*
Egress is listed because there is a great deal to restrict and almost all of it
is known: the database on its configured port, the cluster bus, and HTTPS. What
is NOT permitted and is the likely first surprise: SMTP. Keycloak sends mail
(verification, password reset) through a server configured per realm, which
this chart cannot see - so it needs networkPolicy.egress.extraPorts.
*/}}
- Egress
ingress:
{{- /*
THE HTTP PORT, AND THE ONE GENUINELY RESTRICTED INBOUND RULE IN THIS SWEEP.
It can be restricted because no probe addresses it - the probes use the
management port - so there is no kubelet traffic to accommodate and no need for
probeSources here. Allowed: this release's own namespace, whatever
allowedNamespaces adds, and the ingress controller.
Both selectors of the controller entry sit in ONE list item, which makes them
an AND: those pods in that namespace. Split into two items they would be an OR
and would open Keycloak's login endpoint to every pod in kube-system.
If this rule is wrong, every login in the cluster breaks and no part of CI will
say so. See the header.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ $settings.ports.http | int64 }}
from:
- namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
{{- /*
Set by Kubernetes itself on every namespace (>= 1.21), so this needs no
labelling work on a namespace this chart does not own.
*/}}
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: {{ $ns }}
{{- if and $routed $ic.namespace }}
{{- /*
ONE from-entry with TWO selectors, which is an AND: pods carrying these labels
IN that namespace. Written as two list entries it would be an OR, and would
open the port to every pod in kube-system.
*/}}
- namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: {{ $ic.namespace | quote }}
{{- with $ic.podLabels }}
podSelector:
matchLabels:
{{- toYaml . | nindent 14 }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- range $allowedNs }}
- namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: {{ . | quote }}
{{- end }}
{{- /*
THE MANAGEMENT PORT - health, readiness and metrics, and all three probes
address it. So it is the probe path and stays open by default.
That is worth naming rather than glossing: this surface is UNAUTHENTICATED, and
before this object existed its only protection was that no Ingress pointed at
it. What this policy adds is a smaller ceiling, not a closed door - the port is
reachable from inside the cluster. Closing it means listing the worker node IPs
in networkPolicy.probeSources, with the usual cost of getting them wrong.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ $settings.ports.management | int64 }}
{{- if $ambientEnabled }}
{{- /* FIRST HALF OF networkPolicy.ingress.ambientMesh (Gitea #143). 15008/TCP
is ztunnel's HBONE tunnel, the port every inbound connection arrives on
once the namespace carries istio.io/dataplane-mode - ambient "does not
and will never bypass Kubernetes NetworkPolicy enforcement", so without
it a pod in the mesh is simply unreachable.
It is the one port here that is NOT a containerPort of the selected pod
spec: ztunnel terminates it, not the application. ci/run-networkpolicy-
test.sh therefore holds a NAMED exception for exactly this number, gated
on exactly this value - and assertion 7 of that script proves, on a
second render, that 15008 stays the ONLY such port and that it is absent
while the value is false.
AN ISTIO CONSTANT, NOT A STANDARD: 15008 is not registered with
IANA for this, no protocol prescribes it, and Kubernetes knows
nothing about it - Istio picked it for HBONE and Istio can change
it. Hence a VALUE with a documented default rather than a literal
here, so an operator can correct it without a chart release. Read
for ztunnel 1.30.6. The exception ci/run-networkpolicy-test.sh
grants is pinned to the number THAT TEST names, plus a check that
this chart declares the same default - never to whatever the value
says, because that would let a mistyped port ride in through a
configurable field (design A of #143).
NOT MEASURED: that 15008 alone suffices comes from Istio's
documentation. Measured on this cluster is only which listeners ztunnel
opens. Provable at the first namespace to join the mesh; none has. */}}
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ int $ambientPort }}
{{- end }}
{{- if $probeSources }}
{{- /*
RESTRICTED, because the operator supplied probeSources. The kubelet's probes
come from the IP of the WORKER NODE running the pod, so that address has to be
in the list or the pod never becomes Ready - and a pod that is never Ready
reads as a broken application rather than as a policy.
No ingress-controller entry on this rule: nothing routes to the management port
from outside, and it should stay that way.
*/}}
from:
- namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
{{- /*
Set by Kubernetes itself on every namespace (>= 1.21), so this needs no
labelling work on a namespace this chart does not own.
*/}}
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: {{ $ns }}
{{- range $allowedNs }}
- namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: {{ . | quote }}
{{- end }}
{{- range $probeSources }}
- ipBlock:
cidr: {{ . | quote }}
{{- end }}
{{- if $ambientEnabled }}
{{- /* SECOND HALF OF networkPolicy.ingress.ambientMesh, and the reason it is
one value and not two. Inside the mesh the kubelet's probes are
redirected and no longer arrive from the worker node's address: they
arrive from 169.254.7.127.
An operator who only opens 15008 by hand writes a policy that passes
review - and the moment probeSources is non-empty every probe is
dropped, the pod never becomes Ready, and the symptom reads as a broken
application rather than as a policy. That is assertion 4 of
ci/run-networkpolicy-test.sh one value further along. A switch whose
halves can only be had together cannot be set halfway.
Only in this branch, because this is the only branch with a "from" list:
with no sources restricted the rule is open and needs no peer. The IPv6
counterpart is deliberately absent - this cluster is SingleStack IPv4,
and an ipBlock of the wrong family is accepted and matches nothing.
WHERE 169.254.7.127 COMES FROM - vendor magic, not protocol:
it is LINK-LOCAL (169.254.0.0/16, RFC 3927), a range reserved for
node-local use and never routed; Istio's IPv6 counterpart
fd16:9254:7127:1337:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff carries the SAME DIGITS
plus 1337; and KUBERNETES DOES NOT KNOW THE ADDRESS - neither the
NetworkPolicy API nor the kubelet - only Istio's data plane
rewrites the probe source onto it. Read for ztunnel 1.30.6, and if
Istio changes it THE FAILURE IS SILENT: probes dropped, and only
where probeSources is non-empty, which is nowhere today.
A LIST, not a string, and the one case where that does not
contradict "a constant, not a configuration": a DUAL-STACK cluster
needs BOTH entries at once. This cluster is SingleStack IPv4, so
the IPv6 counterpart is left out - an ipBlock of the wrong family
is accepted and matches nothing. Add it ALONGSIDE, never instead.
UNPROVEN IN OPERATION: probeSources is empty in every chart here, so no
release reaches this branch. CI proves its render, through the overlays
in ci/networkpolicy. */}}
{{- range $ambientProbeSources }}
- ipBlock:
cidr: {{ . | quote }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- else }}
{{- /*
NO "from" SELECTOR, WHICH MEANS OPEN - deliberately, and only inside the
cluster, because this port carries no NodePort. The alternative was to guess
the worker node CIDRs, and a wrong guess blocks every kubelet probe: the pod
stays un-Ready, the rollout times out, and the cause looks like the
application. An empty "from: []" would be worse than either - it allows
everything too, but while reading as a restriction. Narrow it with
networkPolicy.probeSources.
*/}}
{{- end }}
{{- /*
THE CLUSTER BUS between this release's own replicas, and the narrowest rule
this object can express: a podSelector with no namespaceSelector, which means
"pods with these labels IN THIS NAMESPACE" - i.e. exactly the pods this policy
already selects.
Infinispan discovery here is jdbc-ping (see values.yaml), so no multicast and
no extra port is involved; the peers find each other through the database and
then connect on this port. The matching egress rule below is what lets them
dial OUT - without it the cluster would form in one direction only.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ $settings.ports.jgroups | int64 }}
from:
- podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-deployment
egress:
{{- /*
DNS, unconditionally. There is no value to switch this off, and that is
deliberate: a knob whose only other setting breaks every name lookup in
the pod is a trap and not a feature.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: UDP
port: 53
- protocol: TCP
port: 53
{{- /*
The external PostgreSQL, on THE CONFIGURED PORT - keycloak.db.port, derived
through keycloak.settings. This chart is the exception in the sweep: its
database port is a value rather than a field inside an opaque secret, so this
rule follows the configuration instead of guessing at 5432.
It also carries Infinispan's jdbc-ping discovery, which is why a blocked
database here costs the cluster as well as the data.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ $settings.db.port | int64 }}
{{- /*
Outbound cluster bus. Needed as well as the ingress rule above: policyTypes
lists Egress, so a replica dialling its peer is subject to this policy too, and
without this rule the bus would be permitted inbound and blocked outbound - a
cluster that never forms, with two nodes that each look healthy.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ $settings.ports.jgroups | int64 }}
{{- /*
Outbound HTTPS. Keycloak needs it for identity brokering and for external
identity-provider metadata, both configured inside REALMS this chart never
sees - so the port has to be permitted here or a federated login fails with no
hint pointing at this object. Also covers an outbound webhook or a remote JWKS.
Ports only: these are hostnames.
*/}}
- ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 443
{{- with $np.egress }}
{{- with .extraPorts }}
{{- /*
Ports only, to any destination - see the header. This is the operator's
escape hatch from the egress cap, and the only alternative to switching
the whole policy off.
*/}}
- ports:
{{- range . }}
- protocol: TCP
port: {{ int . }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}