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feat(gateway): probe that the fence refuses a peer other than the load balancer - #5660
The Gateway now limits encrypted traffic to the load balancer, but so far we have only seen allowed traffic pass. Email's next step depends on that limit really refusing other sources, and nothing shows this yet.
What
Adds a manually started check that connects to the Gateway from a short-lived test pod and reports whether the connection was refused, using a plain request and Envoy's own counter to show why. It removes the pod when it finishes, changes no existing setting, and has not run on the real cluster yet.
Read the Envoy counter through the node's agent, require a selected fence,
and clean up after a cancelled job.
Part of #5448.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/operations/gateway-receiver-boundary.md:
- Line 142: Update the wording near the Envoy no-chain counter to clarify that
the node-wide counter supports, but does not prove, that the fence caused the
refusals; avoid claiming it identifies this pod’s attempts.
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.github/workflows/ci.yaml
.github/workflows/probe-gateway-denied-peer.yaml
docs/operations/gateway-receiver-boundary.md
scripts/probe-gateway-denied-peer.sh
scripts/tests/test-probe-gateway-denied-peer.sh
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Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 2825
File: .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml:70-73
Timestamp: 2026-07-28T00:33:10.828Z
Learning: For GitHub Actions concurrency configuration in this repo, don’t use `queue: single` on a shared production concurrency group (e.g., `prod-deploy`) that is used for normal production deployments—`queue: single` will cancel/replace any pending run in that group. Normal production deployments must use a uniform `queue: max` for that shared group to ensure serialization without coalescing. If you need DR rebuild coalescing (replacement of pending DR rebuild runs), it must use a separate DR-only concurrency scope/group (not the shared production `prod-deploy` group).
Applied to files:
.github/workflows/probe-gateway-denied-peer.yaml
Learning: 2026-10-07T03:40:29.047Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 4614
File: scripts/tests/test-read-actual-budget-userns-maps.sh:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-07T03:40:29.047Z
Learning: GitHub Actions processes workflow commands, including ::add-mask::, from both stdout and stderr. In devantler-tech/platform, the stable-endpoint helper writes its mask command to stderr. The invocation ./scripts/use-prod-stable-api-endpoint.sh >/dev/null preserves that command while discarding helper stdout. Do not require stderr-to-stdout redirection for masking.
Applied to files:
.github/workflows/probe-gateway-denied-peer.yaml
Learning: 2026-08-10T13:01:12.782Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3057
File: .github/workflows/ci.yaml:622-659
Timestamp: 2026-08-10T13:01:12.782Z
Learning: Repository shell tests and scripts must remain compatible with macOS Bash 3.2. Do not use Bash 4+ features such as `mapfile`; use portable constructs, such as a `while IFS= read -r` loop, instead.
workflow_dispatch can run the workflow revision from a selected ref, so this github.ref check is controlled by that revision. If prod accepts a non-main ref, that revision can remove the guard before reading KUBE_CONFIG or HCLOUD_TOKEN. Configure prod to allow only main, or otherwise keep these credentials unavailable to non-main refs.
scripts/probe-gateway-denied-peer.sh: 1
211-211: Stability & Availability
No node configuration change is required for hostUsers: false.
The cluster configuration raises user.max_user_namespaces above zero, and existing Hetzner workloads already run with hostUsers: false. The reported sandbox-creation failure does not apply to the configured cluster.
Adds a manually dispatched production workflow and a Kubernetes probe that tests TLS connections to the Gateway from a pod whose physical peer is not the load balancer. The probe combines HTTP controls, TLS attempt results, and Envoy counter changes to classify connections as accepted, refused, or inconclusive. A fixture-based test harness checks probe behavior and workflow declarations. CI runs ShellCheck and the test when Kubernetes validation is selected.
Possibly related PRs
devantler-tech/platform#5547: Establishes the Gateway receiver physical-peer fence whose selected state the probe checks.
devantler-tech/platform#5634: Adds deployment verification that reports the selected-fence state checked by the probe workflow.
This adds a manually dispatched probe that checks whether the Gateway refuses connections from a peer other than the load balancer. The documentation slightly overstates what the counter evidence proves, so operators could read a refusal as stronger proof than it is. Merging is low risk after the wording is softened.
Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1
Failed checks: 1 warning
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Explanation
Resolution
Docstring Coverage
Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…
Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed checks: 4 passed
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Status
Explanation
Title check
The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a Gateway probe to verify that the fence refuses peers other than the load balancer.
Description check
The description explains why the probe is needed and what it does. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check
Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check
Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Full details: Docstring Coverage
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Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)
Resolution
Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/operations/gateway-receiver-boundary.md:
- Line 142: Update the wording near the Envoy no-chain counter to clarify that
the node-wide counter supports, but does not prove, that the fence caused the
refusals; avoid claiming it identifies this pod’s attempts.
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Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 7cfe5fa and afde5bc.
Files selected for processing: 5
.github/workflows/ci.yaml
.github/workflows/probe-gateway-denied-peer.yaml
docs/operations/gateway-receiver-boundary.md
scripts/probe-gateway-denied-peer.sh
scripts/tests/test-probe-gateway-denied-peer.sh
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Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 2825
File: .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml:70-73
Timestamp: 2026-07-28T00:33:10.828Z
Learning: For GitHub Actions concurrency configuration in this repo, don’t use `queue: single` on a shared production concurrency group (e.g., `prod-deploy`) that is used for normal production deployments—`queue: single` will cancel/replace any pending run in that group. Normal production deployments must use a uniform `queue: max` for that shared group to ensure serialization without coalescing. If you need DR rebuild coalescing (replacement of pending DR rebuild runs), it must use a separate DR-only concurrency scope/group (not the shared production `prod-deploy` group).
Applied to files:
.github/workflows/probe-gateway-denied-peer.yaml
Learning: 2026-10-07T03:40:29.047Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 4614
File: scripts/tests/test-read-actual-budget-userns-maps.sh:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-07T03:40:29.047Z
Learning: GitHub Actions processes workflow commands, including ::add-mask::, from both stdout and stderr. In devantler-tech/platform, the stable-endpoint helper writes its mask command to stderr. The invocation ./scripts/use-prod-stable-api-endpoint.sh >/dev/null preserves that command while discarding helper stdout. Do not require stderr-to-stdout redirection for masking.
Applied to files:
.github/workflows/probe-gateway-denied-peer.yaml
Learning: 2026-08-10T13:01:12.782Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3057
File: .github/workflows/ci.yaml:622-659
Timestamp: 2026-08-10T13:01:12.782Z
Learning: Repository shell tests and scripts must remain compatible with macOS Bash 3.2. Do not use Bash 4+ features such as `mapfile`; use portable constructs, such as a `while IFS= read -r` loop, instead.
workflow_dispatch can run the workflow revision from a selected ref, so this github.ref check is controlled by that revision. If prod accepts a non-main ref, that revision can remove the guard before reading KUBE_CONFIG or HCLOUD_TOKEN. Configure prod to allow only main, or otherwise keep these credentials unavailable to non-main refs.
scripts/probe-gateway-denied-peer.sh: 1
211-211: Stability & Availability
No node configuration change is required for hostUsers: false.
The cluster configuration raises user.max_user_namespaces above zero, and existing Hetzner workloads already run with hostUsers: false. The reported sandbox-creation failure does not apply to the configured cluster.
Tried at dc1456bedc: the probe self-test passes, including mutation-checked refused, accepted, inconclusive and cleanup-failure verdicts, and shellcheck passes. CI is green, Codex found nothing at this head, and the one review thread is fixed and resolved. The probe has not yet run against production; that happens by one dispatch from main after merge.
It writes one labelled pod and one policy in a test namespace, removes them at the end, and only runs when dispatched from main with its confirmation phrase and with the fence verified as selected.
This PR stays a draft for now: the agent permission layer refused the promote-and-merge call in this run. A later run picks it up if the head is unchanged.
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Why
The Gateway now limits encrypted traffic to the load balancer, but so far we have only seen allowed traffic pass. Email's next step depends on that limit really refusing other sources, and nothing shows this yet.
What
Adds a manually started check that connects to the Gateway from a short-lived test pod and reports whether the connection was refused, using a plain request and Envoy's own counter to show why. It removes the pod when it finishes, changes no existing setting, and has not run on the real cluster yet.
Part of #5448