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fix(tcp-balancer): rename backends and pin HAProxy so the chart starts on 3.3+ - #4366
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In `@packages/apps/tcp-balancer/templates/configmap.yaml`:
- Around line 37-38: Extend cozyvalues-gen to support conditional validation,
then annotate the whitelistHTTP/whitelist dependency in the source values
configuration so the generated schema rejects whitelistHTTP=true when whitelist
is empty. Regenerate the chart artifacts, including values.schema.json, without
editing generated files manually, and retain the existing template fail guard as
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europrinter (@yankawai) NOT LGTM for now. The template change is right and I would take it as it is. Two things block it. The PR body says something false about main, and in this repository the body becomes the merge commit message. The whitelist tests also let a frontend lose its reject rule without going red.
The case that matters most is what an existing release sees on upgrade. I rendered main and this branch with the same inputs and ran each render through haproxy -c on 2.9.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.4.
- A release with
whitelistHTTP: trueand an emptywhitelistnever ran. On main HAProxy rejects that config on all four versions, because theaclline sits inside thewithandaccept if whitelistdoes not. After this PR the render fails instead, so its HelmRelease upgrade fails withwhitelistHTTP is enabled but whitelist is emptyand it stays on its old revision, which is already crash-looping. No working balancer loses service. - A release with
kubernetesAndTalosand an emptywhitelistnever ran either, for the same missing ACL. After this PR HAProxy starts, and ports 6443 and 50000 accept any source. Withexternal: truethe Service is a LoadBalancer and carries both ports, because it declares them wheneverhttpAndHttpsis set, and it is set by default. This is the one input where the upgrade changes who can connect: from nobody to everybody. It is the semantics I suggested on #2321, and I still think it is right becausewhitelistis the only switch those frontends have. It has to be written down, though. - Every other input renders the same config apart from the backend names, and the new configs pass on all four versions. The image and the
checksum/configannotation both change, so the Deployment rolls. With two replicas the default RollingUpdate adds one new pod at a time and removes an old one only after the new one runs. Pods started afterlatestmoved to 3.3 are already crash-looping, since:latestdefaults toimagePullPolicy: Always. For those releases the rollout is the fix.
# main, whitelistHTTP: true, whitelist: [], haproxy 2.9.7
[ALERT] (1) : config : parsing [/dev/stdin:17] : 'tcp-request content accept' : error detected in frontend 'http' while parsing 'if' condition : no such ACL : 'whitelist'
# main, kubernetesAndTalos set, whitelist: [], haproxy 2.9.7
[ALERT] (1) : config : parsing [/dev/stdin:39] : 'tcp-request content accept' : error detected in frontend 'kubernetes' while parsing 'if' condition : no such ACL : 'whitelist'
The premise checks out upstream. HAProxy turned a backend named like a frontend into a fatal error for 3.3 in haproxy/haproxy@067be38 ("MAJOR: cfgparse: turn the same proxy name warning to an error"). 3.2 only warns. On Docker Hub latest, lts and 3.4.4 are the same digest today, sha256:b77062fc…, and 3.4 is the LTS line until 2031.
The first blocker is a false sentence in the PR body. It says that whitelistHTTP: true with an empty whitelist "fails the render instead of silently opening the frontend". On main that frontend was never open, because HAProxy exits at config parse, as above. The sentence describes where #2321 stood, not main, and it will land in main as a claim about past security behaviour. Two more lines need a look. The body says "an empty whitelist on the kubernetes and talos frontends means no filtering", which is true of the new code but hides that on main those frontends never started. It also says "this PR adds the two remaining review points from that thread", which tells where the change came from instead of what it does. Please say that on main both inputs are a fatal no such ACL on every HAProxy version. Then say that the first now fails the render with a named error, and the second starts with 6443 and 50000 open to everyone. Keep the credit for the rename.
The second blocker is in the tests: nothing checks that each frontend keeps its reject rule. acl whitelist is anchored to its frontend, but tcp-request content accept if whitelist and tcp-request content reject match anywhere in haproxy.cfg, so one frontend carrying them passes for all. I deleted the reject line from the https frontend only, then from the talos frontend only, and all 9 tests stayed green. Without reject, a connection that does not match falls through to HAProxy's default for tcp-request content, which is to accept, so that frontend is open to everyone. The other mutations I tried are caught. Renaming a backend back, dropping the fail, inverting its condition, restoring the old kubernetes guard and putting latest back each turn exactly their own tests red. The inline comment has a pattern that anchors accept and reject to each frontend. It goes red for the http, https and talos variants and stays green on this branch.
Another open PR adds tests to this chart, and whichever of the two lands second needs a rebase. #4093 adds a test: target to the same Makefile and asserts that the image is haproxy:latest. The Makefile is the only textual conflict, and each PR merges cleanly into main on its own. If this one lands first, #4093 has to drop its Makefile hunk and change its image assertion, which goes red against haproxy:3.4.4. If #4093 lands first, this PR has to keep one test target and delete or rewrite the image assertion in tests/tcp-balancer_test.yaml, since this change turns it red.
The rest does not block.
The image is not pinned by digest, and the repository's image docs expect that for third-party images. haproxy:{{ .Chart.AppVersion }} is a bare tag in a template, and hack/lib/image-refs.sh reads only values.yaml, images/*.tag and one declared file, collecting only @sha256 refs. So the promote, retag and mirror tooling never see it. Nothing is missed today, because third-party images are never retagged or mirrored, and latest was just as invisible. But Docker Hub rebuilds official tags in place: 3.4.4 was released on 2026-08-27 and its tag was last pushed on 2026-09-19. An images/haproxy.tag holding docker.io/library/haproxy:3.4.4@sha256:b77062fc0a7b827f78ec923f9256165e1c3c65e2b505cb7b7c2cc102896062b1, read with .Files.Get like images/busybox.tag in packages/apps/kubernetes, would make it reproducible and visible to that tooling. Several app templates still carry bare third-party tags, so I am not holding the PR on it.
Changing the chart's app version only moves the image. App charts ship as 0.0.0, the ApplicationDefinition does not carry it, and I found no other reader of a chart's appVersion in hack/, pkg/, internal/ or the platform templates.
It would help if the values docs said that the HTTP whitelist switch needs a non-empty list, so users learn it from the README before the render fails. That is the whitelistHTTP description in values.yaml.
Both suites pass locally, 9/9, on helm-unittest 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. CI has not run yet: the fork workflows are waiting for approval, so pre-commit and E2E Tests have no result.
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This matches tcp-request content reject anywhere in the file, so removing it from the https frontend alone keeps the test green, and that frontend then accepts every source. Anchoring it to each frontend catches that:
- matchRegex:
path: data["haproxy.cfg"]
pattern: '(?m)^frontend https$\n(?:[ \t]+.*\n)*?[ \t]+tcp-request content accept if whitelist\n[ \t]+tcp-request content reject$'The repetition only takes indented lines, so it stops at the blank line after the frontend and a neighbour cannot satisfy it. Same for http here, and for kubernetes and talos at lines 141-144.
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europrinter (@yankawai) NOT LGTM, but only for one paragraph in the PR body. Both earlier blockers are closed. The first commit and the base did not change, so I reviewed the two new commits.
The body now describes main correctly: both empty-whitelist inputs fail with no such ACL : 'whitelist', and it says plainly that 6443 and 50000 open to any source on an empty whitelist. That matches what I saw with haproxy -c.
The tests now catch a missing rule. I removed one line at a time from a copy of the chart and wrote down which test should fail before each run. Without reject in https, only "filters http and https when whitelistHTTP is enabled with a whitelist" failed, on its https assertion. Without reject in talos, only "filters kubernetes and talos when a whitelist is set" failed, on its talos assertion. The other six accept and reject lines behave the same way, each one failing the assertion for its own frontend. Unchanged, the chart passes 9/9.
The regenerated schema, README and types.go match what cozyvalues-gen produces from the new values.yaml description.
What still blocks is the paragraph about #4093. This repository uses the PR body as the merge commit message, so "whichever of the two lands second needs a small rebase" goes into the history of main. It is a note about merge order and is out of date as soon as either PR merges. Please move it to a PR comment and drop it from the body. I will approve after that edit.
CI has not run on this head. The fork workflows created at 2026-09-22T22:26Z (attempt 1) are waiting for approval, so Pre-Commit Checks and Codegen Drift Check have no result yet.
…s on 3.3+ haproxy:latest now resolves to 3.3 and newer, where a backend named like a frontend is a fatal config error, so every tcp-balancer pod fails at config parse. Backends get a _backend suffix and the image follows the chart appVersion on the 3.4 LTS line instead of a floating tag. The whitelist rules render inside one guard. On the kubernetes and talos frontends an empty whitelist means no filtering; whitelistHTTP with an empty whitelist fails the render, because a security opt-in that quietly became a no-op would not be noticed the way a crash is. The unittest suite pins the rendered config for the default, whitelist and failure cases and the image pin, so a template refactor cannot bring the collision or the floating tag back. Fixes cozystack#1966 Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
The accept and reject assertions matched anywhere in haproxy.cfg, so a frontend that lost its reject rule stayed green as long as another frontend still carried one. Without reject a non-matching connection falls through to HAProxy's default accept, so that frontend is open to everyone. Each assertion now anchors the acl, accept and reject lines to the frontend they belong to. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
The render now fails when whitelistHTTP is set with an empty whitelist, so the values description tells users that before they hit the error. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
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europrinter (@yankawai) LGTM. The merge-order note is out of the body and lives in a PR comment now, which was the last thing I asked for. This head is a plain rebase of the same three commits onto a newer main, and nothing touched this chart on main in between.
The rendered output changes only where it should. I rendered main and this head with default values and with an external config (external: true, tcp-with-proxy, both port groups, a whitelist). Both give the same four objects, and they differ only in the backend names, checksum/config and the image. I also ran three mutations on the rename and the pin, writing down the expected failure before each run. Renaming only backend talos_backend back fails only "renames kubernetes and talos backends". Putting default_backend https back fails only "names backends so they never collide with frontends". Restoring haproxy:latest fails both deployment tests.
One sentence in the body is already out of date. HAProxy 3.4.5 was published on Docker Hub on 2026-09-24 and latest, lts and 3.4 point to it now, so 3.4.4 is no longer "the current 3.4 LTS tag". Since the body becomes the merge commit message, "a 3.4 LTS tag" would stay true. Not blocking. The 3.4.4 tag was also rebuilt in place on 2026-09-23, and its digest is now sha256:b3b42690… instead of the b77062fc… I quoted before. That is one more reason for the digest pin, in a separate PR.
CI on this head is green: pre-commit and Codegen Drift Check passed, and the fork E2E run set E2E Tests to success at 2026-09-23T10:03Z.
…roxy so the chart starts on 3.3+ (#4516) ## What this PR does Backports #4366 to release-1.6. All three original commits applied without conflicts and retain their cherry-pick references. HAProxy is pinned to 3.4.4 and backend names no longer collide with frontend names. An empty whitelist leaves Kubernetes and Talos frontends unfiltered. Enabling whitelistHTTP without a whitelist fails rendering. Validation passed with 9 Helm tests, five rendered configurations checked by HAProxy 3.4.4, and package generation without changes. The old chart reproduces the name collision. Removing only the HTTP reject rule makes the regression test fail. ### Downstream repositories - [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change - [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [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: - [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) - follow-up: ### Release note ```release-note fix(tcp-balancer): backport HAProxy 3.4.4, distinct backend names and whitelist validation to 1.6. ```
What this PR does
haproxy:latestnow resolves to 3.3 and newer. Since 3.3 a backend named like a frontend is a fatal config error, so every tcp-balancer pod fails at config parse (#1966). We hit it on Cozystack 1.6.1 withhaproxy:3.4.4behind the tag._backendsuffix and everydefault_backendfollows; the rename is the one from [tcp-balancer] Fix HAProxy 3.3 startup regression #2321 by Asish Kumar (@officialasishkumar)haproxy:{{ .Chart.AppVersion }}withappVersion: 3.4.4, the current 3.4 LTS tagacl,acceptandrejectlines of each frontend render inside one guardtests/holds helm-unittest suites, and the packageMakefilegets thetesttarget the sweep looks forwhitelistHTTPdescription says it needs a non-emptywhitelistTwo inputs change behaviour on upgrade. On
mainboth fail at config parse withno such ACL : 'whitelist'on every HAProxy version, because theaclline sits inside thewithandaccept if whitelistdoes not:whitelistHTTP: truewith an emptywhitelistnow fails the render withwhitelistHTTP is enabled but whitelist is empty. Its HelmRelease upgrade fails and the release stays on its old revision, which is already crash-looping.kubernetesAndTaloswith an emptywhitelistnow starts, and ports 6443 and 50000 accept any source. Withexternal: truethe Service is a LoadBalancer and carries both ports.whitelistis the only switch those frontends have, so an empty list means no filtering.Every other input renders the same config apart from the backend names. The image and the
checksum/configannotation change, so the Deployment rolls, and for releases already crash-looping onlatestthe rollout is the fix.Validation: renders of
mainand of this branch for the default, whitelist and empty-whitelist inputs were checked withhaproxy -con 2.9.7 and 3.4.4.helm unittest .passes 9/9, and removing therejectoracceptline from any single frontend turns a test red.Fixes #1966
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Chart.yaml, the packageMakefile,tests/, and a description-only change invalues.yamlwith its generated carriers. No field is added, removed or renamed and no default changes, so nothing in the map fires.Release note