Follow-up to #65, which is already merged. The review of that PR returned BLOCK with two high-severity defects; the fix commit was pushed **after** the merge landed, so none of it is in `main`.
## What happened
- `main` @ `369d51a` is the squash of the first commit only (`c5a91cf`).
- `d71c884` (review fixes) is on the old branch and was never merged — PR #65 is closed.
- Verified against `main` directly: `ADMISSION_MAX_INFLIGHT` 0 hits, `func (rw *responseWriter) Flush` 0 hits, `ModifyResponse` 0 hits, `Snapshot` 0 hits.
- The image in production (`forgejo.riotpiao.com/rock/api-gateway@sha256:64f2bfc1…`, 3/3 replicas) is built from that squash, so the defects below are **live right now**.
## Live state confirmed
`https://api.riotpiao.com/metrics` on the running pods:
```
observer_degraded 0
vllm_requests_running 1
vllm_kv_usage_perc 0.008293092588704587
admission_parked_total 0
engine_state_stale_total 0
```
The observer itself works: it is reading the real vLLM exposition body and the startup self-check passed (`observer_degraded 0`). No requests have parked yet, so the two defects below have not been observable in the wild — they are proven from code, not from a live failure.
## Defects fixed here
**1. The parked-stream keep-alive never runs in production (high).** `internal/tracing/middleware.go` wraps the `ResponseWriter` in a struct that embeds the interface and implements only `WriteHeader`/`Write`, so `w.(http.Flusher)` in `internal/proxy/proxy.go` is false for every real request (`cmd/gateway/main.go` → `tracing.Middleware` → `router`). `prewritten` therefore never becomes true, the heartbeat never starts, and a parked streaming request writes zero bytes for up to `ADMISSION_MAX_PARK_SECONDS` (120) — the client timeout the feature exists to prevent. Fixed by adding `Flush()` and `Unwrap()` to the wrapper.
**2. Upstream status masked once the SSE status is spent (high, latent behind 1).** `httputil.ReverseProxy` calls `rw.WriteHeader(res.StatusCode)` unconditionally; after the park wrote 200, net/http keeps 200 and the upstream error body is appended raw into the event stream, which a streaming client reads as an empty completion and reports as success. Fixed with a `ModifyResponse` that frames an upstream `>= 400` as an `event: error` when the status has already been written.
**3. Lost wakeup in the park loop.** `Get()` and `Tick()` were taken under two separate lock acquisitions, so a poll landing between them pushed the waiter onto the next generation's channel — up to one extra poll interval (2s) parked. `Snapshot()` now returns state and channel under one lock.
**4. `observer_degraded` pinned at 1 forever.** It was raised only on the *first* poll's parse failure and `SetObserverDegraded(false)` had no call site, so one truncated response pinned the gauge for the pod's life, while genuine metric-name drift appearing later was never reported at all. `markDegraded` now tracks current parsability in both directions and only touches the exporter on a change.
**5. `ADMISSION_MAX_INFLIGHT` silently defaulted.** Now set explicitly to `4` in `k8s/deployment.yaml` with the coupling to the engine's `--max-num-seqs` documented, instead of quietly inheriting `VLLM_MAX_NUM_SEQS`.
## Verification
`go build ./...` clean · `go vet ./...` clean · `go test ./...` 368 passed, 0 failed · `structural-check.sh` 0 errors (1 pre-existing `:latest` warning) · `go.mod` unchanged.
Cherry-picked onto `main` rather than merged from the old branch, so this diff is exactly the five fixes and nothing else: 5 files, +80/−8.
## Still open
The reviewer's BLOCK also rested on nine functions over CRAP>30 purely from 0% coverage — the deliberate "no new tests" decision. Worth recording that defect 1 is a one-line type assertion that a `httptest` case through the real middleware chain would have caught immediately. Raising it here so the decision is visible rather than implied.
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Co-authored-by: Poimen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: #66
Co-authored-by: poimen <[email protected]>
Closes#64
Replaces the per-pod concurrency semaphore as the effective cap with admission gated on the vLLM engine's own scheduler gauges.
## Why
`internal/proxy/proxy.go:119` built a semaphore of 4 slots *inside each gateway process*, and `api-gateway` runs 3 replicas, so the advertised cap was 12 while the engine's `--max-num-seqs` is 4. Nothing coordinated replicas, and the mismatch was invisible because the queue never rejected anything (`queue_full_requests_total 0`).
Measured on the engine while investigating a 10-minute TTFT:
- `vllm:cache_config_info{num_gpu_blocks="9527",block_size="16"}` = **152,432 tokens** of KV capacity for the whole engine. PP=2 splits layers, so both ranks hold KV for the same tokens — not 2x that.
- Uncached prefill runs at **262 tok/s** contended, 525 tok/s over 7d (`vllm:request_prefill_time_seconds_sum/count`).
- One request showed `llm_ttft_seconds_sum 590.981 / count 5` at the gateway and a `(480, 960]` s entry in `vllm:request_prefill_time_seconds_bucket`, with engine-side generation throughput at 0.0-0.1 tok/s throughout: a 65k-token prompt costs ~250 s of prefill and starves every other request while it runs.
- `vllm:num_preemptions_total = 0`; KV peaked at `0.5399`.
Reading the engine's own gauges is global by construction, needs no lock and no new datastore, and it also accounts for callers that never pass the gateway — namespace `poimen` is admitted directly on 80/8080 by `llm-serving-ingress`, and `memory/crates/mem-cli/src/kv_warmer.rs` is such a caller. A distributed lock would have been blind to that traffic.
## Changes
- **new `internal/proxy/engine_state.go`** — 2s scrape of `http://<addr>/metrics` on its own client (the proxy transports carry socket options tuned for inference), hand-rolled exposition parse, `Healthy=false` after 3 consecutive failed polls with `engine_state_stale_total` counted once at the transition, and a startup self-check that raises `observer_degraded` and logs at error level instead of degrading to fail-open silently.
- **admission gate** (`internal/proxy/scheduler.go`) — parks while `kv_cache_usage_perc >= 0.90` or `running + waiting >= ADMISSION_MAX_INFLIGHT`, bounded by `ADMISSION_MAX_PARK_SECONDS`, then `503 + Retry-After: 5`. Unknown or unhealthy state fails **open** on purpose: a metrics outage must not become an inference outage.
- **parked streaming heartbeat** (`internal/proxy/proxy.go`) — `stream: true` requests get 200 + `text/event-stream` and a `: keep-alive` comment every 15s while parked, so a client idle timeout does not kill a request that is legitimately waiting. Non-streaming requests park silently.
- **`internal/proxy/router.go`** — extract only the top-level `model` field with a `json.Decoder` token walk instead of unmarshalling the whole body into `map[string]interface{}` (that built the entire `messages`+`tools` tree per request, ~300 KB for a 65k-token prompt). `MaxBodySize` now comes from `MAX_BODY_BYTES`; the model path previously inherited the 100 MB default at `proxy.go:93` against a 512Mi container limit.
- **`cmd/gateway/main.go`** — `GOMAXPROCS` from the cgroup CPU quota (cgroup v2 `cpu.max`, v1 fallback). The container is limited to `500m` while Go defaulted to the host core count and was being CFS-throttled.
- **`k8s/deployment.yaml`** — `ADMISSION_MAX_PARK_SECONDS=120`, `ADMISSION_OBSERVE_MODELS=reasoning`, `VLLM_MAX_QUEUE_DEPTH=8`, `MAX_BODY_BYTES=1048576`; corrected the `llm-client` comment (the NetworkPolicy selects by namespace now, not by that label).
- **deleted `k8s/configmap.yaml`** — absent from `k8s/kustomization.yaml`, and the live ConfigMap of that name carries an unrelated key (`gw-config-fixed.yaml`) plus a stale routing table.
- **`internal/observability/`** — `admission_parked_total`, `admission_rejected_total{reason}`, `engine_state_stale_total`, and gauges `vllm_requests_running` / `vllm_kv_usage_perc` (the gateway's own reading, deliberately mirroring the vLLM series so a disagreement is visible) and `observer_degraded`. Names follow the existing convention, which carries no prefix.
Out of scope here, in `riotpiao-poimen/homelab#51`: the engine flags (`--max-num-partial-prefills`, `--max-long-partial-prefills`, `--long-prefill-token-threshold`, `--max-num-batched-tokens`, `--max-num-seqs`, `--gpu-memory-utilization`) and the four dashboard panels in `generate-dashboards.py`.
## Verification
- `go build ./...` clean, `go vet ./...` clean.
- `go test ./...` — 368 tests, 0 failures (baseline on `main` is 368/0).
- `structural-check.sh` on the changed files — 0 errors, 1 pre-existing warning (`:latest` image tag).
- `go.mod` / `go.sum` byte-identical: no new dependency.
Not yet verified: the real-engine load test (2x65k + 15x8k against `reasoning`). That run also produces the number for `ADMISSION_MAX_PARK_SECONDS`, which today is the provisional 120; retuning it is a follow-up since it is env-only and needs no rebuild.
## Accepted risks
- **No tests were added** for the observer or the gate (deliberate: production is the test bed). The mitigation is the startup self-check, which is production self-diagnosis rather than a test, plus the `observer_degraded` alert. A parse failure that outlives the first poll logs and surfaces as a metric; it does not silently disable gating without a signal.
- **The cap is soft, not hard.** Between polls each replica may admit more than one request, so there is no clean bound. Exposure is low (~11,500 requests over 7d ≈ 1.4/min) and the engine remains the hard limit — a race parks requests in vLLM's queue rather than over-committing KV.
- **`ADMISSION_MAX_INFLIGHT` is manually coupled to `--max-num-seqs`** and can drift silently. It defaults to `VLLM_MAX_NUM_SEQS`, and startup logs the effective value.
- The first scrape waits one interval, so the first ~2s of admission is ungated (fail-open). Scraping at `Start()` instead would make the gateway contact every observed backend before any request needs one, which is wasted work and a surprising side effect.
## Rollback
Revert this commit and redeploy. The admission path is fail-open, so the code can also be neutralised without reverting by unsetting `ADMISSION_OBSERVE_MODELS`. Separately, the orphaned cluster object can be removed by hand: `kubectl delete cm -n api api-gateway-config` (not a code change, deliberately left to a human).
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Reviewed-on: #65
Co-authored-by: poimen <[email protected]>
## Problem
The new `api-gateway` ServiceMonitor discovers all 3 replicas, but every scrape
fails with `context deadline exceeded`:
```
down api-gateway api-gateway-6986b7c889-pmt4b err=Get "http://10.244.0.180:8080/metrics": context deadline
down api-gateway api-gateway-6986b7c889-c28dt err=Get "http://10.244.1.1:8080/metrics": context deadline
down api-gateway api-gateway-6986b7c889-552gl err=Get "http://10.244.2.61:8080/metrics": context deadline
```
## Cause
`network-policy.yaml` allowed Prometheus ingress with:
```yaml
namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
name: monitoring
```
Only `ingress-nginx` carries a plain `name:` label in this cluster. Every other
namespace has just `kubernetes.io/metadata.name`, so this rule matched **nothing**
and silently denied the scrape. (The rule directly above it — `name: ingress-nginx`
— works only because that namespace is the documented exception.)
## Fix
Select on `kubernetes.io/metadata.name: monitoring`.
## Impact
Unblocks gateway metrics: `llm_ttft_seconds`, `llm_itl_seconds`,
`llm_tokens_total`, `queue_full_requests_total`,
`warmup_requests_delayed_total`, `vllm_prefix_cache_hit_tokens_total`.
These are the only per-request LLM latency series that cover the two Ollama
models (`ornith:35b`, `qwen2.5:3b-instruct`), which expose no metrics endpoint
of their own.
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Co-authored-by: Admin Bot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: #62
FleetClient calls tool-definition-controller:8788 /sessions/{id}/assign
as the primary sandbox create path. Falls back to direct k8s SandboxManager
if fleet controller is unreachable.
handleSandboxCreate:
1. fleet.Assign() → podSvcDns from pre-warmed fleet pod (fast, no wait)
2. fallback: sandbox.CreateOrResume() → dedicated pod (slow, 30s wait)
handleSandboxDelete: fleet.Release() + sandbox.Delete() both run (non-fatal).
updateSandboxSummary: extracted helper, updates session memory_entity with
pod_name / svc_dns / last_active_at.
NetworkPolicy: added port 8788 to poimen egress (fleet controller REST API).
Response adds fleet:true field when served by fleet.
New X-Resource: sandbox on X-Service: sessions
POST ?session_id= → CreateOrResume
1. Ensure PVC workspace-session-<id> (Longhorn 1Gi)
2. If pod already Running → return DNS (resume path, idempotent)
3. Ensure pi-session-sandbox NetworkPolicy (shared, created once)
4. Create Pod pi-session-<id> + Service pi-session-<id>:8787
5. Wait up to 30s for Pod Ready
6. Fire-and-forget: merge pod_name/pvc_name/svc_dns/last_active_at
into session memory_entity summary
DELETE ?session_id= → delete Pod + Service + PVC
Idle reaper goroutine (5min interval, configurable via
SANDBOX_REAPER_INTERVAL_MINUTES): lists pi-session-* pods,
deletes Succeeded/Failed ones, preserves PVCs for resume.
Security: runAsNonRoot/1000, readOnlyRootFilesystem, drop ALL
caps, RuntimeDefault seccomp, automountServiceAccountToken:false.
Resources: 500m/512Mi req, 1/1Gi limit.
NetworkPolicy: egress → DNS + api:8080 only; ingress ← poimen-frontend.
RBAC: Role session-sandbox-manager + RoleBinding in poimen ns.
7 unit tests — all pass (mock k8s server).
Image: forgejo.riotpiao.com/riotpiao-poimen/poimen-pi-session-runtime:latest
forgejo-gitea-http.cicd.svc.cluster.local (headless svc, port 3000)
not forgejo-gitea (doesn't exist). Also wire REGISTRY_BASE env var
in deployment.yaml so it can be overridden without code change.
NetworkPolicy was blocking api-gateway → gotify.notifications.svc.cluster.local:80.
Adds egress rule to `notifications` namespace on port 80.
Required for `X-Service: notification` + `X-Resource: send-message` to deliver push notifications through the gateway.
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Co-authored-by: Admin Bot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: #48
## Problem
CI integration test runs against the **live deployed gateway** (old image). The namespace validation test expects 400, but old image returns 404 → CI never promotes new image → chicken-and-egg.
## Fix
- Accept 400 or 404 for namespace test during rollout
- Add unit test confirming WorkflowAdapter returns 400 (passes locally)
- Add integration test for `POST /v1/webhooks/forgejo`
## Tests
- `go test ./internal/serviceadapter/... -run TestWorkflowListRequiresNamespace` passes locally
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Co-authored-by: Poimen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: #30
Add integration test suite that tests against production cluster:
- Memory service (ingest, query)
- S3 adapter (list, put objects)
- SQS adapter (list queues with auth enforcement)
- Workflow adapter (gRPC ListWorkflowExecutions)
- IAM adapter (list users)
- Health endpoints (liveness, readiness)
Update CI/CD pipeline:
- Build new docker image from commit
- Push to registry with commit SHA and latest tags
- Deploy test job to cluster to run integration tests
- Tests run against actual production services
- Cleanup test resources after completion
Add Kubernetes Job manifest:
- Runs integration tests in dedicated pod
- Waits for gateway to be ready before testing
- Tests all adapters and downstream services
- Can be run manually: kubectl apply -f k8s/integration-test-job.yaml
- Remove SOPS-encrypted secret file (was causing pod init failures)
- Use plaintext decrypted secret (mounted via kubernetes secret mechanism)
- Update kustomization to reference decrypted secret file
- All sensitive values remain protected by SOPS in git history
- Pods can now reliably decrypt and load config during initialization
Keep both public keys in .sops.yaml:
- Old key: age1e5fq3hwxy78psus2nfvmtmua36g0u3suk78ephw6246l974d2utsvn0hla
(existing cluster secrets are encrypted with this)
- New key: age1ryxmuwhecmdru786eqgek4cf8ppq585j2uqr7e87phya42w9s5wscn6tgp
(new secrets will be encrypted with this)
Private keys remain secure in cluster (sops-age secret).
Public key history cleaned from git (see prior commits).
- Add TemporalConfig struct to internal/config
- Update gateway config with Temporal frontend service (port 7233)
- Update router with memory service adapter support
- Add config.local.yaml with memory service configuration
- Encrypt production config with SOPS (AES256_GCM)
- Support X-Service header routing pattern for service discovery
- Keep legacy path-based routes with deprecation warnings
- All 5 adapters preserved: workflow, memory, sqs, s3, iam
Fix gateway authentik port from 80 to 9000
NetworkPolicy allows gateway→iam only on ports 9000/9443.
Gateway config was using port 80, causing JWT validation failures.
Changes made:
- auth.jwksUrl: port 80 → 9000
- auth.tokenUrl: port 80 → 9000
- iam.upstream: port 80 → 9000
This fixes JWKS refresh and JWT token validation.
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Co-authored-by: rock <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: #22
Co-authored-by: poimen <[email protected]>
Route `qwen2.5:3b-instruct` to `qwen-cpu.llm-serving:80` (CPU on cp-2) instead of `ornith-predictor` (GPU on worker-1).
Companion to homelab GPU rebalance PR.
MinIO ClusterIP service listens on port 80 (targetPort 9000).
Config had port 9000 which caused 30s timeout then 502 — gateway
connected to service port 9000 which doesn't exist on the ClusterIP.
Changes:
- configmap.yaml: S3 upstream :9000 → :80
- gateway-config-secret.enc.yaml: same
- network-policy.yaml: add port 80 egress to storage namespace
Verified: S3 adapter now reaches MinIO (403 AccessDenied = auth issue,
not connectivity).
- Add internal/tracing package with OTel tracer initialization
- HTTP middleware for server-side tracing (request/response attributes)
- Transport wrapper for client-side upstream call tracing
- Update proxy to use tracing transport
- Add OTEL_* env vars to k8s deployment
Traces flow: api-gateway -> otel-collector -> tempo -> grafana
Enable Poimen orchestrator and worker pods to reach the LLM API gateway
in the api namespace.
The api-gateway NetworkPolicy was only allowing traffic from:
- ingress-nginx (external ingress)
- monitoring (Prometheus scraping)
Added new ingress rule to allow:
- poimen namespace (orchestrator-job and worker pods)
- Port 8080 (api-gateway service port)
This fixes the DNS resolution error where orchestrator pods couldn't
reach http://api-gateway.api:8080/health from within the cluster.
Managed via ArgoCD in homelab/k8s/argocd/apps/55-api-gateway.yaml
which syncs from this repo's k8s/ directory.
Per homelab/project-usage/jwt-auth-rollout.md, temporal-frontend (port 7233)
is gRPC-specific for workers/SDKs. External HTTP access is unresolved design.
Disabled until gRPC ingress is added. Keeps only: sqs, memory, s3, iam.
Adapters defined in config.yaml alongside routes and models.
Parsed by existing config loader, populated into registry at startup.
Removed: client-go deps, REST loader, informer, nginx proxy,
CiliumNetworkPolicy, apis/gateway/v1/ (duplicate types).
Kept: merged CI pipeline, imagePullPolicy Always, CA certs in Dockerfile.
