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The CAS shared endpoint mirrors the merged control plane (spec D-020). One standard HTTP listener owns server.http.addr (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, optional TLS) and dispatches each request:

  • Native gRPC (HTTP/2 + application/grpc*, excluding application/grpc-web*, which CAS does not serve) → an in-process httputil.ReverseProxy streaming to a private native gRPC server bound to an ephemeral loopback address — grpc.Server.Serve, the native transport, the same services and interceptors as the legacy listener, with the client's original :authority restored by the proxy's Rewrite.
  • Everything else → the existing HTTP routes (downloads, status, CORS).

ByteStream keeps the native transport with no unbounded read-ahead in either direction: the proxy streams the request body into the private connection, whose HTTP/2 flow-control window paces the proxy's reads while the shared listener's window paces the client. This replaces the two earlier designs on this branch, each rejected by measurement: the per-request ServeHTTP adapter (~1.25 GiB live heap on a 1 GiB upload, −11.8% download) and cmux connection classification (native parity, but a silent matcher deadlocks grpc-go clients, the SETTINGS-writing matcher breaks plain-HTTP/2 connections with GOAWAY, and pooled mixed connections return 502 under a single-location ingress).

The private server is independent of the legacy listener: the legacy flag, address, and TLS settings are unchanged, and the shared endpoint works with the legacy listener disabled. Mixed native-gRPC and plain-HTTP requests share one upstream connection in any order — the control-plane property. The cmux dependency and its classification machinery are gone.

flowchart TD
    edge["Ingress: TLS termination, one / location, HTTP/2 (gRPC) upstream"] --> shared["CAS :8001: net/http, dispatch each request"]
    direct["VM / Compose: HTTP/1.1, h2c, or TLS"] --> shared
    shared -->|"application/grpc* + HTTP/2"| proxy["httputil.ReverseProxy (stdlib)"]
    proxy --> private["Private native gRPC server: 127.0.0.1 ephemeral"]
    shared -->|"ordinary HTTP"| routes["Existing HTTP routes"]
    legacy["Legacy listener :9001: unchanged flag, address, TLS"] --> services["Same services and interceptors"]
    private --> services
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Helm chart

One Service port and one catch-all Ingress on the same hostname, matching the control-plane shape: path / with backend-protocol: GRPC (HTTP/2 upstream), grpc-services, and the upload body-size annotations; Traefik h2c Service annotation. Removed: the RPC-path second Ingress and its path list, the grpc-shared Service port alias, and the pool-isolation validations — per-request dispatch makes them unnecessary. cas.ingress.enabled defaults to false: the chart README now documents the enabling block. cas.ingressAPI, cas.serviceAPI, and the control-plane connection to the legacy CAS endpoint keep their existing settings.

Spec

  • D-020 supersedes D-017 (cmux + SETTINGS contract), D-018 (path-split chart), and D-019 (connection-reuse isolation); the grpc-web exclusion is documented in the entry.
  • R-010 supersedes R-009: native gRPC over HTTP/2 plus plain HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, mixed per request; ByteStream through the proxy.
  • The merged control-plane design stays unchanged.

Measured evidence

1 GiB transport comparison, three runs per operation, disk-backed staging, reproduced with the benchmark command in app/artifact-cas/README.md (raw output in the PR discussion):

Listener Upload Download Peak live heap (upload)
Legacy native :9001 233.92 MB/s 192.82 MB/s 29.13 MiB
Shared :8001 (proxy) 212.89 MB/s (−9.0%) 177.11 MB/s (−8.1%) 32.45 MiB

Within the R-003 10% shape with a thin margin; heap claims are scoped to the observed 1 GiB runs. TestCASSharedConcurrentUploadsMemoryBounded adds the concurrency dimension: four concurrent 128 MiB uploads through the dispatcher peaked at 58 MiB combined, so per-stream buffers do not accumulate toward the transferred bytes.

Backpressure is regression-tested in both directions through the production proxy (TestCASSharedPausedConsumerBackpressure, via a test-only pacing hook that is nil in production): a paused consumer stops the producer after bounded in-flight buffering — uploads and downloads alike — and cancellation releases both sides. This is the property whose absence disqualified the ServeHTTP adapter.

-race tests pass across the CAS: native gRPC over h2c and TLS, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 requests, six mixed requests reusing one pooled connection, the auth/error matrix, mid-upload cancellation through the proxy, authority preservation through the proxy, private-socket cleanup on failed construction and before Start, and shutdown draining (HTTP first, then the private native server). A standalone probe (PR discussion) additionally covered gzip, binary metadata, trailers, rich error details, and downstream cancellation through the standard proxy. Chart-rendering tests assert the control-plane shape and unchanged legacy values.

Open before adoption

  • Full R-002 authentication/authorization alignment matrix through the shared hostname (the native peer is now the proxy connection; authority is preserved and verified by test, but the full matrix remains).
  • Original R-003 qualification against the current release with representative object storage, including multi-size heap measurements; the local 10%-gate margin is thin (−9.0% upload, −8.1% download).
  • F5 and Traefik controller qualification, and a deployed ingress-nginx check of the single-location arrangement (the local kind harness was removed as out of scope; the reproduction lives in the discussion).
  • Paused-consumer behavior through a real ingress, including nginx grpc_read_timeout interaction with multi-minute mid-stream stalls.
  • Moving the control-plane→CAS connection and direct clients to the shared hostname before legacy_grpc_listener: false.

Refs #3628. Spec supersessions: D-017/D-018/D-019 → D-020, R-009 → R-010.

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Change Summary

  • Adds a shared CAS HTTP listener that dispatches native gRPC through httputil.ReverseProxy to a private native server.
  • Adds server tests and a 1 GiB transport benchmark for mixed protocols, backpressure, shutdown, and memory bounds.
  • Simplifies the Helm CAS ingress to one catch-all path and removes the grpc-shared alias and path-split design.
  • Updates the CAS spec and docs to supersede the cmux and path-split decisions while keeping qualification gaps explicit.

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modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/http_test.go +453 / -91
modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/http.go +338 / -127
modified ai deployment/chainloop/chart_test.go +180 / -189
deleted ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/ingress_test.go +3 / -211
modified ai docs/specs/issue-3628-single-endpoint.md +132 / -82
deleted ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/classification_test.go +0 / -154
deleted ai app/artifact-cas/experiments/shared-endpoint-benchmark.txt +54 / -92
modified ai deployment/chainloop/values.yaml +71 / -75
deleted ai deployment/chainloop/templates/cas/ingress-grpc-shared.yaml +61 / -83
deleted ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/classification.go +0 / -130
modified ai app/artifact-cas/README.md +29 / -49
modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/grpc.go +48 / -22
modified ai deployment/chainloop/README.md +25 / -10
modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/service/bytestream.go +26 / -4
modified ai app/artifact-cas/configs/samples/config.yaml +11 / -8
modified ai app/artifact-cas/configs/config.devel.yaml +9 / -7
modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/service/service.go +14 / -0
modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/httpmetrics_test.go +7 / -6
modified ai app/artifact-cas/internal/server/httpmetrics.go +6 / -5
modified ai deployment/chainloop/templates/cas/service-http.yaml +0 / -8
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P2 app/artifact-cas/internal/service/bytestream.go ▶

Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must happen before backend upload.

P2 app/artifact-cas/cmd/main.go ▶

Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must happen before backend upload.

P2 app/artifact-cas/internal/conf/conf.proto ▶

Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must happen before backend upload.

P2 app/artifact-cas/internal/service/service.go ▶

Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must happen before backend upload.

P2 deployment/chainloop/values.yaml ▶

When keyless signing is configured, a pushed attestation must be a valid Sigstore bundle whose signing certificate chains to the configured CA set and identifies the organization that owns the workflow run, unless an operator explicitly opts out.

Past fixes (4)

P2 59d1818 · CWE-345

The commit fixes a genuine artifact-cas integrity bug: gRPC downloads are now fully verified against the requested digest before any bytes are streamed to the client.
1 file

P2 26a6cec · CWE-354

Artifact-CAS previously wrote unverified object-store uploads under the caller-declared digest; this commit stages and hashes uploads first, rejecting mismatches before backend storage.
4 files

P2 6a32501 · CWE-400

Fixes an authenticated resource-exhaustion vulnerability where artifact-cas buffered full Azure/S3/S3 Access Point uploads in memory before uploading them, allowing uploader clients to consume excessive RAM and degrade or deny service.
1 file

P2 6a5ff5e · CWE-347

Fixes an attestation-integrity vulnerability by enforcing keyless verification and organization binding on attestation uploads before they reach CAS or database persistence.
1 file

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app/artifact-cas/internal/service/bytestream.go - 4 past fixes, peak severity medium
  must hold: Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of
    the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must
    happen before backend upload.
  also enforced at: 4 other entry points
  grep for: WithStagingDir, digestMismatchError, prepareStagingDir, spillVerifyUpload

app/artifact-cas/cmd/main.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of
    the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must
    happen before backend upload.
  also enforced at: 4 other entry points
  grep for: WithStagingDir, digestMismatchError, prepareStagingDir, spillVerifyUpload

app/artifact-cas/internal/conf/conf.proto - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of
    the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must
    happen before backend upload.
  also enforced at: 4 other entry points
  grep for: WithStagingDir, digestMismatchError, prepareStagingDir, spillVerifyUpload

app/artifact-cas/internal/service/service.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Bytes may reach the canonical digest key only if the server-computed SHA-256 of
    the uploaded content equals the client-declared digest, and that verification must
    happen before backend upload.
  also enforced at: 4 other entry points
  grep for: WithStagingDir, digestMismatchError, prepareStagingDir, spillVerifyUpload

deployment/chainloop/values.yaml - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: When keyless signing is configured, a pushed attestation must be a valid
    Sigstore bundle whose signing certificate chains to the configured CA set and identifies
    the organization that owns the workflow run, unless an operator explicitly opts out.
  also enforced at: 5 other entry points
  grep for: ForceVerification, WithExpectedOrganization, checkCertOrganization,
    verifyAttestationToStore
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CAS transport alternatives after the shared-endpoint experiment

CAS uploads should remain native gRPC. The existing ordinary HTTP surface is small: authenticated /download/{digest}, /infoz, and /statusz, plus download CORS handling. ByteStream also provides gRPC downloads; ResourceService.Describe remains gRPC. We do not need to add HTTP uploads, gRPC-Web, or Connect to CAS.

The experiment already accepts native gRPC uploads. The issue is the server transport used to receive them: grpc.Server.ServeHTTP versus the existing native gRPC listener. Removing non-gRPC upload support would not fix the observed regression, because that support is not present.

Recommended next approach: retain the native gRPC and HTTP listeners and unify the public endpoint at the proxy.

flowchart LR
    C["Clients: one hostname and port"] --> P["Ingress or reverse proxy<br/>routes each request / HTTP2 stream"]
    P -->|"Native gRPC"| G["CAS :9001<br/>Existing native gRPC server"]
    P -->|"/download/*, /infoz, /statusz"| H["CAS :8001<br/>Existing HTTP server"]
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Use explicit HTTP routes and gRPC routes, with separate upstream destinations/pools and the correct backend protocol for each. Preserve the RPC paths, authentication metadata, trailers, deadlines, and cancellation behavior. The public connection may carry both kinds of requests: the proxy routes individual requests rather than handing the whole connection to one application server. Envoy documents per-request routing, gRPC support, and streaming flow control.

Alternative Implication
Existing ingress routes one hostname to the two CAS ports Least application change. Requires controller-specific routing and upstream protocol settings, potentially separate Ingress resources under the same hostname. This is a proposal to qualify, not something the current shared-ingress annotations automatically implement.
Envoy or NGINX alongside CAS Same routing model for VMs or Compose, with an additional process/container and configuration. Envoy is not Kubernetes-only: its documentation covers standalone and Docker deployment. NGINX provides native upstream gRPC forwarding via grpc_pass, alongside ordinary HTTP proxy routes.
cmux inside CAS One application listener, with gRPC connections handed to the native gRPC server. No per-request proxy hop, but each connection must remain exclusively gRPC or ordinary HTTP: this is an explicit cmux limitation.
Current per-request ServeHTTP experiment One application listener and mixed streams, but the measured upload memory regression prevents recommending this implementation for CAS migration.

cmux remains a candidate if one port inside the CAS process is required. Direct CLI gRPC connections fit its connection model. Separate client connections alone do not establish compatibility behind an ingress: a proxy may pool ordinary HTTP and gRPC onto one upstream HTTP/2 connection. Supporting cmux therefore requires an explicit separate-upstream-pool contract and qualification of the actual TLS and HTTP/2 SETTINGS handshake behavior. It should not be presented as a drop-in replacement for the earlier custom classifier. An HTTP-side ServeHTTP fallback would still expose gRPC uploads routed there to the measured adapter behavior; it is not a performance solution.

Given the preference to maintain minimal custom code, the first option to evaluate is one public endpoint with the two existing application transports. For a deployment without an ingress, a maintained reverse proxy can provide the same arrangement. This changes the deployment requirement from one application listener to one public endpoint. The control-plane implementation does not have to use the same transport design as CAS.

Evidence and spec limits: the recorded 1 GiB comparison measured approximately 1.25 GiB of combined client/server sampled peak live heap for adapter uploads versus 28 MiB for native uploads. This is not server-only RSS or production object-store qualification. None of the proxy alternatives has been benchmarked by this experiment. Qualification must include large transfers, slow readers/writers, concurrency, cancellation, ingress limits/timeouts, TLS, and the authentication behavior. Avoid full-body buffering filters on the streaming path. Full R-002 alignment evidence remains outstanding, and the original CAS R-003 performance and bounded-memory requirements remain unmet. Adoption requires a new CAS design decision/spec that explicitly supersedes the affected original D-014–D-016 decisions; this comment does not amend the approved specs or select a production implementation.

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Is it possible to move the http endpoint to grpc gateway or equivalent so we maintain a pure grpc+annotated rest for http downloads? What http endpoints do we have?

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Following up on the gRPC-Gateway question: yes, a gRPC implementation plus generated HTTP mappings is possible, but gRPC-Gateway alone does not solve the shared-port/native-transport problem.

The current CAS HTTP surface is:

Endpoint Current implementation
/infoz Already declared as an annotated StatusService.Infoz RPC; Kratos generates the HTTP handler.
/statusz (including the readiness query) Already declared as an annotated StatusService.Statusz RPC; Kratos generates the HTTP handler.
/download/{digest} A custom authenticated raw-file handler, with CORS, header/query-token authentication, downloader-role enforcement, disk staging and digest verification before response bytes, filename/content headers, and ETag/304 behavior.
/metrics Separate internal metrics listener; not part of the shared public endpoint.

Uploads, ByteStream reads, and resource metadata remain native gRPC. We do not need to expose HTTP uploads.

For downloads, gRPC-Gateway documents an annotated server-streaming RPC returning stream google.api.HttpBody. That is the relevant alternative to evaluate for raw binary responses. Simply annotating the existing ByteStream Read response does not give it the HttpBody response shape; a download-facing RPC or adapter would be needed. Returning the entire artifact in one unary message would conflict with the large-file memory goal.

Version-specific caveat: this repository pins gRPC-Gateway v2.31.0. In that version, ForwardResponseStream writes a delimiter after each streamed response, including HttpBody; the default delimiter is a newline. A local probe against our installed dependency sent chunks ab and cd and received ab\ncd\n, rather than abcd. The default configuration therefore cannot be assumed to preserve artifact bytes. A suitable marshaler/forwarding configuration and digest-integrity tests would be required, alongside handling stream errors without appending error content to a file. This is not a tested download replacement yet.

A migration would also need to preserve the existing download behavior listed above, including verification before sending content and the authentication/cache response semantics. Generating a route does not establish that parity automatically. The status routes already have generated HTTP mappings, so replacing Kratos with gRPC-Gateway there offers little direct benefit for this issue.

The transport arrangement would still be:

HTTP client -> HTTP server / gRPC-Gateway -> native gRPC server
native gRPC client ----------------------> native gRPC server

Both servers can live in the same binary, but they still need listeners and routing. The official gateway tutorial demonstrates a separate HTTP listener forwarding to the gRPC listener. To expose one public port, we still need an ingress/reverse proxy or constrained connection multiplexing. If we combine the gateway with grpc.Server.ServeHTTP on one HTTP listener, native uploads still traverse the adapter implicated in this experiment's memory regression.

Recommendation: treat a protobuf-defined download API as a separate cleanup option, not the fix for streaming upload memory or port sharing. For the next CAS transport experiment, keep ByteStream on the native gRPC server and evaluate request routing to the existing two transports. No gateway/proxy alternative has yet met the outstanding full R-002 alignment evidence or original CAS R-003 performance and bounded-memory requirements. No code or approved spec is changed by this analysis.

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to be clear, we do not need to support bytestream in http

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Agreed: ByteStream stays native gRPC only. We do not need REST/JSON bindings for ByteStream.Write or ByteStream.Read, nor gRPC-Web/Connect support for them.

The intended split is:

  • Native gRPC: ByteStream uploads/downloads and the existing CAS RPCs.
  • Ordinary HTTP: the existing browser download URL, /infoz, and /statusz; metrics remain on their separate internal listener.

My HttpBody discussion concerned one possible implementation of the browser download route if we choose to replace that custom handler with an annotated download RPC. It was not a proposal to expose the ByteStream API through HTTP bindings. If we keep the current browser download handler, no gRPC-Gateway or HttpBody migration is needed.

The experiment's memory regression occurred with a native gRPC ByteStream upload routed through grpc.Server.ServeHTTP, not an HTTP/JSON upload. Restricting the supported API to native ByteStream therefore does not remove that particular transport issue.

That leaves the recommendation unchanged: retain the native gRPC server and the small existing HTTP surface, and evaluate routing both behind one public hostname/port. A proxy routes individual requests to the two listeners; cmux is the in-process alternative if we require one application listener and accept its separate-connection contract. Neither alternative is performance/alignment-qualified by the current experiment.

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Replace the per-request grpc.Server.ServeHTTP experiment with cmux
connection classification: HTTP/2 connections whose first request
declares a native gRPC content type go to the existing native gRPC
transport, everything else goes to the existing HTTP server. ByteStream
keeps the native transport: the adapter experiment peaked at ~1.25 GiB
of live heap for a 1 GiB upload against ~28 MiB native, and its
downloads were 11.8% slower (PR chainloop-dev#3663 benchmark history).

The gRPC matcher is the SETTINGS-writing one: grpc-go clients wait for
the server's SETTINGS before their first request and a silent matcher
deadlocks them. Once the matcher has written, the connection belongs to
native gRPC; the HTTP side therefore supports HTTP/1.1 only. A plain
HTTP/2 client that falls through acknowledges the injected SETTINGS and
net/http rejects it (GOAWAY, PROTOCOL_ERROR). Mixed connections are out
of contract; supported proxies keep separate upstream pools.

Chart: cas.ingress keeps HTTP/1.1 for the HTTP routes and a second
Ingress from cas.ingress.grpc routes the /cas.v1.* paths with the gRPC
backend protocol and the upload body limits. The Traefik h2c Service
annotation default is removed (per-Service scheme cannot differ per
upstream pool).

Spec (issue-3628-single-endpoint.md): D-016 is superseded by D-017
(the cmux SETTINGS contract; the D-016 replay/ACK removal is not
implementable with the cmux library), D-018 records the chart
path-split, and R-009 supersedes R-001 for the CAS. A fresh 1 GiB
benchmark through the shared endpoint matches the native listener
(median upload +1.6%, download -2.2%, heap parity).

Refs chainloop-dev#3628, stacked on chainloop-dev#3647.

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@migmartri migmartri changed the title feat(cas): experiment with a shared HTTP and gRPC endpoint feat(cas): shared HTTP and gRPC endpoint with cmux and the native transport Oct 19, 2026
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Reviewed ebf01b522b8d1b663a7b5bd26ec0b6af938ea358. The cmux native gRPC path is consistent with the CAS transport decision; the recorded direct-transfer results show the expected memory improvement over the earlier adapter experiment. I found three concrete issues to fix:

  1. [P1] ByteStream is missing its actual gRPC ingress route. The default paths use /cas.v1.ByteStream/, but the registered Google service uses /google.bytestream.ByteStream/Write and /google.bytestream.ByteStream/Read. Those calls therefore enter the catch-all HTTP/1.1 upstream, where the CAS HTTP handler returns 404. I reproduced this through NGINX 1.28.0: the gRPC client receives Unimplemented, HTTP 404, and text/plain. Correcting the prefix reaches the native gRPC authentication interceptor. The same route list also omits cas.v1.StatusService, gRPC health, and reflection; cover all intended existing RPC endpoints. The current chart test repeats the incorrect prefix, so it passes without establishing RPC reachability. Derive the expected paths from registered service descriptors and add a real proxy request check.

  2. [P1] Bound classification before handing sockets to either server. At cmux.New(lis), the mux retains its default unlimited matcher read time. The HTTP server's later ReadHeaderTimeout and the native gRPC transport's handshake limits do not apply while cmux is still sniffing, including the TLS handshake on the wrapped listener. An idle connection or a partial matching preface can retain a socket and goroutine indefinitely. A focused test sent PRI , waited beyond a shortened HTTP header timeout, called APIServer.Stop, and confirmed that the accepted socket still remained open. Configure a classification deadline and ensure pending classification connections are closed during shutdown; cover incomplete plaintext/TLS clients in the lifecycle tests. Keep these limits independent of long-running ByteStream transfers after handoff.

  3. [P2] Use the same certificate condition for the gRPC ingress TLS block and its entries. The outer TLS condition checks the gRPC/common annotations, but the inner condition checks cas.ingress.annotations instead. With cas.ingress.enabled=true, cas.ingress.tls=true, and cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer set only in cas.ingress.grpc.annotations, Helm renders the annotation plus tls: null, with no hosts or secret. The HTTP ingress does not request a certificate in that configuration either. Align the conditions or explicitly centralize certificate ownership on the HTTP ingress; test the supported annotation placements.

Upstream connection isolation needs an additional acceptance test. The two Ingress resources both target the same Service and port. Separate Ingress objects and different forwarding directives do not by themselves prove separate connection pools. The community controller's template uses a shared upstream_balancer with keepalive, and its proxy-pass generation selects the protocol per location.

I ran a standalone NGINX 1.28.0 warm-pool probe against the actual cmux CAS server, alternating ResourceService RPCs and /statusz. With one shared keepalive upstream, the alternation breaks with upstream prematurely closed connection and no connection data found for keepalive http2 connection. Correcting only the ByteStream prefix does not fix that. With separate NGINX upstream blocks and the corrected prefix, the alternating requests and ByteStream authentication check pass. This is evidence of the pooling hazard, not a deployed Kubernetes-controller reproduction. Verify the actual controller's generated config and connection reuse before claiming that the chart establishes D-018's separate-pool contract; implement explicit isolation where necessary. F5/Traefik qualification remains open as already documented.

Validation: the submitted server, app-wiring, and chart race tests all pass. The additional review probes were run in an isolated worktree; no implementation changes were made. These checks do not establish the full R-002 matrix or original R-003 release/object-store performance qualification.

The parent control-plane PR #3647 is merged, but this PR still targets its mirrored branch. Rebase the CAS commits onto current main and retarget the PR when updating it; the merged control-plane changes do not need another transport change.

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Serve native gRPC and HTTP per request on the CAS HTTP listener while preserving the native endpoint and legacy ingress settings. Add authenticated ByteStream checks, local testing instructions, and a 1 GiB transport comparison that records the HTTP adapter upload memory regression.

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Replace the per-request grpc.Server.ServeHTTP experiment with cmux
connection classification: HTTP/2 connections whose first request
declares a native gRPC content type go to the existing native gRPC
transport, everything else goes to the existing HTTP server. ByteStream
keeps the native transport: the adapter experiment peaked at ~1.25 GiB
of live heap for a 1 GiB upload against ~28 MiB native, and its
downloads were 11.8% slower (PR chainloop-dev#3663 benchmark history).

The gRPC matcher is the SETTINGS-writing one: grpc-go clients wait for
the server's SETTINGS before their first request and a silent matcher
deadlocks them. Once the matcher has written, the connection belongs to
native gRPC; the HTTP side therefore supports HTTP/1.1 only. A plain
HTTP/2 client that falls through acknowledges the injected SETTINGS and
net/http rejects it (GOAWAY, PROTOCOL_ERROR). Mixed connections are out
of contract; supported proxies keep separate upstream pools.

Chart: cas.ingress keeps HTTP/1.1 for the HTTP routes and a second
Ingress from cas.ingress.grpc routes the /cas.v1.* paths with the gRPC
backend protocol and the upload body limits. The Traefik h2c Service
annotation default is removed (per-Service scheme cannot differ per
upstream pool).

Spec (issue-3628-single-endpoint.md): D-016 is superseded by D-017
(the cmux SETTINGS contract; the D-016 replay/ACK removal is not
implementable with the cmux library), D-018 records the chart
path-split, and R-009 supersedes R-001 for the CAS. A fresh 1 GiB
benchmark through the shared endpoint matches the native listener
(median upload +1.6%, download -2.2%, heap parity).

Refs chainloop-dev#3628, stacked on chainloop-dev#3647.

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Pushed the review fixes in 9ec310ed, rebased the CAS commits onto current main, and retargeted this draft PR. The description now includes the full ingress → cmux → native gRPC / HTTP flow.

  • Corrected ByteStream to /google.bytestream.ByteStream/ and added StatusService, health, reflection, metadata, and channelz paths. Expected application routes come from protobuf descriptors.
  • Bounded pending classification by time, socket bytes, and concurrency. Pending plaintext/TLS connections close on shutdown, while handed-off transfers drain. Removed the CAS per-request gRPC adapter fallback and disabled HTTP/2 on its HTTP server.
  • Fixed shared TLS references and certificate ownership, rejected unsupported metrics TLS, and validated the public key before binding.
  • Kept the legacy CAS listener, cas.ingressAPI, cas.serviceAPI, and the control-plane → CAS endpoint settings unchanged.

The controller reproduction exposed an additional requirement. ingress-nginx deduplicates backends by Service and port, and its keepalive cache can reuse sockets across HTTP and gRPC. The shared Service now has http and grpc-shared port names, both targeting the same application listener. The gRPC route uses the ClusterIP and alias port; HTTP uses pod endpoints. This gives the protocols different backend identities and upstream addresses while retaining one Service, hostname, and application listener. D-019 records this supplement to D-018.

I tested the rendered chart resources through ingress-nginx v1.15.1 in kind, forced to one worker so different frontend connections exercise the same cache. The negative control with shared addresses reproduces gRPC 502 / no connection data found for keepalive http2 connection after HTTP warms the cache. The revised configuration passes authenticated ByteStream upload/download, reflection, status, and 20 download/RPC alternations for each of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 browser clients. The HTTP/2 browser connection terminates at the ingress; its CAS HTTP upstream stays HTTP/1.1. The opt-in integration test and reproduction instructions are included.

The direct 1 GiB comparison also passes after adding the classification guard. Medians across three runs: native/shared upload 225.34 / 232.85 MB/s, download 198.05 / 189.63 MB/s, upload peak live heap 28.91 / 27.46 MiB. Heap is sampled for the combined client/server process. Raw results include the complete disk-backed TMPDIR setup.

The simplification pass removed the obsolete adapter fallback and unused test bookkeeping. Formatting, golangci-lint 2.14, Helm lint, and race tests across CAS and chart packages pass locally. CI and review comments are being monitored.

The full original R-002 authentication alignment, original R-003 release/object-store performance qualification, and F5/Traefik controller qualification remain open. These local checks do not establish that evidence.

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Review of the proposed per-request CAS endpoint (research; not implemented at head 1b0c4cac).

The direction fits the clarified requirements: TLS stays at the ingress, one catch-all location forwards h2c, and CAS dispatches each request. Mixed ordinary HTTP/gRPC streams can then share an upstream connection. ByteStream must continue to reach grpc.Server.Serve, avoiding the measured ServeHTTP read-ahead problem.

Recommendation: test an in-process standard-library HTTP/2 reverse proxy before writing a raw gRPC framing forwarder. httputil.ReverseProxy streams bodies and forwards response trailers. A dedicated http.Transport can use h2c through Protocols.SetUnencryptedHTTP2(true) with HTTP/1 disabled. It forwards the existing gRPC frames, compression headers, and metadata without decoding or rebuilding messages. This is a library inside CAS, not an additional service or sidecar. Go reverse proxy documentation, Go transport documentation. Traefik also builds its standard proxy on httputil.ReverseProxy; this is a library-use reference, not CAS performance evidence.

The simplest candidate is to proxy all native gRPC requests to a private native server, while ordinary HTTP stays on the existing HTTP routes. This removes both cmux and the ByteStream-specific path branch; it also avoids the adapter on reflection streams. A ByteStream-only proxy remains an option if measured results justify retaining the extra dispatch branch.

flowchart TD
    edge["Ingress: TLS termination, one / location, h2c upstream"] --> shared["CAS :8001: net/http, dispatch each request"]
    direct["VM / Compose: HTTP/1.1 or h2c"] --> shared
    shared -->|"native gRPC content type + HTTP/2"| proxy["httputil.ReverseProxy: streaming HTTP/2"]
    proxy --> private["Private native gRPC server: 127.0.0.1 ephemeral port"]
    shared -->|"ordinary HTTP"| routes["Existing HTTP routes"]
    legacy["Optional legacy listener: unchanged address and TLS"] --> services["Existing services and interceptors"]
    private --> services
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Changes needed in the pasted proposal:

  1. The actual ByteStream service prefix is /google.bytestream.ByteStream/, not /cas.v1.ByteStream/.
  2. Do not make the forwarder depend on the public legacy listener. That listener supports independently configured TLS and networking, and is genuinely optional today. An h2c forwarder cannot blindly dial a TLS-configured server.grpc.addr. Use a separate private listener, for example 127.0.0.1:0, for the shared endpoint's native server. Keep the legacy flag/address/TLS and Helm settings unchanged, including leaving the legacy port unbound when disabled. This still exposes one shared application port.
  3. The proposed raw codec bridge is not transparent merely because it skips protobuf decoding. It must handle compressed frames, validate message sizes before allocation, preserve repeated/binary metadata and rich error details, encode status messages correctly, and stop blocked upload work after an early upstream rejection. The gRPC wire specification defines these cases. The HTTP proxy avoids implementing gRPC message framing ourselves.
  4. Existing interceptor code can be reused, but the auth/telemetry path is not literally identical: the native peer becomes the private proxy connection. Verify authority, metadata, deadlines, and observability behavior explicitly. The full R-002 alignment matrix remains outstanding.
  5. MaxRecvMsgSize bounds a message, not the number of messages queued by the handler transport. Reflection is streaming too. Do not use this limit alone as a bounded-memory argument for every non-ByteStream RPC.
  6. Supersede D-018 as well as D-017 and D-019, and supersede R-009. D-018 is the path-split chart decision this proposal removes. The merged control-plane design stays unchanged.

Compatibility probe completed: a standalone local Go 1.27.2 -race probe using the standard reverse proxy and a native ByteStream server passed 1 MiB uploads/downloads with and without gzip, repeated and binary response metadata, binary trailers, unauthenticated rejection, rich status details with an escaped/non-ASCII message, and downstream cancellation reaching the native stream. It also alternated HTTP GET and ByteStream QueryWriteStatus calls 10 times on one confirmed HTTP/2 connection (one client dial). The probe is outside the branch; it does not exercise CAS JWTs, storage, Helm, or a real ingress.

Acceptance gates stay unchanged. This probe is compatibility evidence only. Neither the standard proxy nor the raw forwarder is yet qualified for the 1 GiB throughput/heap gate, paused upload/download consumers, shutdown draining, CAS auth parity, or the single-location ingress-nginx deployment. Benchmark the library candidate first; do not widen R-003 if the extra hop fails its gate. Full R-002, original release/object-storage R-003, and F5/Traefik qualification remain open. The current PR still contains cmux and the path-split chart until a replacement is implemented and tested.

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Reviewed the per-request proxy implementation at bda44f1d, then pulled 712342a7 (which only removes local evaluation files and updates documentation). The server and chart design now match the intended arrangement: one HTTP listener, native gRPC through the standard-library proxy to an independent private native server, ordinary HTTP routes in process, and one catch-all ingress. The legacy listener and legacy chart settings remain independent.

I found two reproducible implementation issues, attached inline:

  • The proxy replaces the incoming :authority with the ephemeral loopback address.
  • The newly prebound private listener is not released by Private.Stop before Start, and is left open when a later constructor fails.

Two acceptance/documentation gaps also remain:

  • Add committed paused-consumer regression tests for both transfer directions, including cancellation and bounded buffering/heap. The current transfer benchmark uses one artifact size and an actively draining consumer; it does not establish the claimed artifact-size independence. My temporary tests call this branch's actual grpcProxy: with a 1 GiB attempted stream and the consumer paused, the upload producer stopped at 1,376,256 bytes and the download producer at 4,456,448 bytes; both remained stationary at the next sample, and cancellation reached the native server. This is encouraging transport evidence, not the full CAS/storage memory qualification. These probes are outside the branch and need durable regression coverage.
  • D-020/R-010 do not retire all contradictory CAS instructions. D-014/D-015 still require separate upstream connections; the Summary, main flow, diagram, and risks still describe classification; R-006 literally permits only the shared listener plus metrics/profiling when legacy is disabled, whereas this design intentionally adds an internal loopback listener. Explicitly supersede the affected CAS statements, describe the requirement as one public application port, and follow the spec's process for replacing the obsolete main flow. The existing bot's partial-strikethrough/open-question findings are valid too. The merged control-plane spec stays unchanged.

Verification completed:

  • go test -race ./app/artifact-cas/... ./deployment/chainloop -count=1 -timeout=3m: passed.
  • golangci-lint 2.14 against the PR changes: zero issues.
  • The single-location kind/ingress-nginx harness at bda44f1d, before its removal: passed with one controller worker, ingress TLS termination, authenticated ByteStream upload/download, reflection/status, and repeated ordinary downloads from HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 clients. This is a local ingress-nginx check only, not F5/Traefik qualification. The committed direct mixed-request test separately verifies one reused HTTP/2 connection.
  • Temporary race probes reproduced both inline findings and confirmed paused-consumer backpressure/cancellation. No repository files were changed by these probes.

Independent repeat of the same 1 GiB comparison (three runs, disk-backed btrfs staging, Go 1.27.2, Linux amd64): upload median native/shared 228.02 / 211.49 MB/s (−7.25%); download 188.73 / 176.79 MB/s (−6.33%). Shared sampled peak live heap was 32.33–32.94 MiB upload, 40.73–40.80 MiB download. This supports the local transport gate on this run; it does not establish size independence or the original release/object-store requirement. This ran against bda44f1d; production transport and benchmark code are identical at 712342a7.

Independent benchmark output

Command: TMPDIR=/home/migmartri/.cache/chainloop-cas-bench go test ./app/artifact-cas/internal/server -run '^$' -bench '^BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport$' -benchtime=1x -count=3 -timeout=10m

BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/legacy/upload-8  	       1	5238997369 ns/op	 204.95 MB/s	        28.61 peak-heap-MiB	1491974776 B/op	 3045703 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/legacy/upload-8  	       1	4709036344 ns/op	 228.02 MB/s	        28.86 peak-heap-MiB	1508804832 B/op	 3032993 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/legacy/upload-8  	       1	4675985453 ns/op	 229.63 MB/s	        29.21 peak-heap-MiB	1489356240 B/op	 3032751 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/legacy/download-8         	       1	5848793137 ns/op	 183.58 MB/s	        30.14 peak-heap-MiB	1325340552 B/op	   85077 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/legacy/download-8         	       1	5689425973 ns/op	 188.73 MB/s	        30.90 peak-heap-MiB	1322216144 B/op	   84140 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/legacy/download-8         	       1	5575636479 ns/op	 192.58 MB/s	        29.42 peak-heap-MiB	1345592384 B/op	   83862 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/shared/upload-8           	       1	5168795941 ns/op	 207.74 MB/s	        32.33 peak-heap-MiB	1480489768 B/op	 3620531 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/shared/upload-8           	       1	4991759200 ns/op	 215.10 MB/s	        32.57 peak-heap-MiB	1448759264 B/op	 3580498 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/shared/upload-8           	       1	5077009716 ns/op	 211.49 MB/s	        32.94 peak-heap-MiB	1444601344 B/op	 3566283 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/shared/download-8         	       1	6194323538 ns/op	 173.34 MB/s	        40.79 peak-heap-MiB	1253534440 B/op	  520850 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/shared/download-8         	       1	6008496870 ns/op	 178.70 MB/s	        40.73 peak-heap-MiB	1276118248 B/op	  512504 allocs/op
BenchmarkCASByteStreamTransport/shared/download-8         	       1	6073454615 ns/op	 176.79 MB/s	        40.80 peak-heap-MiB	1287373680 B/op	  512984 allocs/op
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The original full R-002 alignment and R-003 release/object-storage qualification remain open. The PR should not claim those are complete. Latest CI also reports DCO and AI-session policy failures; the new commits lack the required sign-off/AI-assistance trailers, and the trace-evidence limitation remains unresolved.

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Added inline follow-ups for the two acceptance/spec findings from the previous review. The authority and listener-cleanup findings already have separate open threads. Checked the latest commit acf1a9a: these findings still apply.

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Replace the per-request grpc.Server.ServeHTTP experiment with cmux
connection classification: HTTP/2 connections whose first request
declares a native gRPC content type go to the existing native gRPC
transport, everything else goes to the existing HTTP server. ByteStream
keeps the native transport: the adapter experiment peaked at ~1.25 GiB
of live heap for a 1 GiB upload against ~28 MiB native, and its
downloads were 11.8% slower (PR chainloop-dev#3663 benchmark history).

The gRPC matcher is the SETTINGS-writing one: grpc-go clients wait for
the server's SETTINGS before their first request and a silent matcher
deadlocks them. Once the matcher has written, the connection belongs to
native gRPC; the HTTP side therefore supports HTTP/1.1 only. A plain
HTTP/2 client that falls through acknowledges the injected SETTINGS and
net/http rejects it (GOAWAY, PROTOCOL_ERROR). Mixed connections are out
of contract; supported proxies keep separate upstream pools.

Chart: cas.ingress keeps HTTP/1.1 for the HTTP routes and a second
Ingress from cas.ingress.grpc routes the /cas.v1.* paths with the gRPC
backend protocol and the upload body limits. The Traefik h2c Service
annotation default is removed (per-Service scheme cannot differ per
upstream pool).

Spec (issue-3628-single-endpoint.md): D-016 is superseded by D-017
(the cmux SETTINGS contract; the D-016 replay/ACK removal is not
implementable with the cmux library), D-018 records the chart
path-split, and R-009 supersedes R-001 for the CAS. A fresh 1 GiB
benchmark through the shared endpoint matches the native listener
(median upload +1.6%, download -2.2%, heap parity).

Refs chainloop-dev#3628, stacked on chainloop-dev#3647.

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Close incomplete connections during shutdown and bound classification time,
bytes, and concurrency without limiting active native ByteStream transfers.
Remove the HTTP adapter fallback and validate shared endpoint initialization
before binding. Reject unsupported metrics TLS configuration.

Correct the ByteStream and infrastructure RPC paths. Give ingress-nginx
separate backend identities and upstream addresses through two port names
on the same Service, both targeting the shared CAS listener. Share one TLS
Secret and request its certificate from only one Ingress. Preserve the
legacy listener and ingress settings.

Record the CAS routing clarification, local controller regression checks,
and refreshed 1 GiB transport comparison. Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

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…ive server

Replace cmux connection classification with the control-plane request
dispatch: one net/http listener owns server.http.addr (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2,
optional TLS) and routes each request. Native gRPC goes through an
in-process httputil.ReverseProxy to a private native gRPC server bound
to an ephemeral loopback address; everything else uses the existing HTTP
routes. ByteStream keeps the native transport: the proxy streams the
request body into the private connection, whose HTTP/2 flow-control
window paces the proxy's reads, so no unbounded read-ahead exists in
either direction (the ServeHTTP adapter measured ~1.25 GiB of live heap
on a 1 GiB upload). The private server runs the same services and
interceptors as the legacy listener and is independent of it; the legacy
flag, address, and TLS settings are unchanged, and the shared endpoint
works with the legacy listener disabled.

Mixed native-gRPC and plain-HTTP requests now share one upstream
connection in any order, as on the control plane. The cmux dependency
and its classification bounds are removed.

Chart: one Service port and one catch-all Ingress on the same hostname
as the control plane - backend-protocol GRPC (HTTP/2 upstream),
grpc-services, and the upload body limits; Traefik h2c Service
annotation. The RPC-path second Ingress, the grpc-shared Service port
alias, and the pool-isolation validations are removed.

Measured (1 GiB, three runs per operation, disk-backed staging): shared
median upload 212.89 MB/s vs legacy 233.92 (-9.0%), download 177.11 vs
192.82 (-8.1%), peak live heap ~32-43 MiB vs ~29-32 MiB - within the
R-003 10% shape with bounded memory, thin margin.

Spec: D-020 supersedes D-017, D-018, and D-019; R-010 supersedes R-009.
Full R-002 alignment, the original R-003 qualification, and F5/Traefik
controller qualification remain open. Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

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Remove TestCASIngressNGINX and its kind-cluster setup instructions, and the
app/artifact-cas/experiments raw benchmark output: they are local evaluation
aids, not part of the shared-endpoint change. The benchmark harness and the
observed-results table stay; the raw output now lives in the PR discussion.

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local kind ingress harness and the raw benchmark output were removed at
the owner's request and live in the PR discussion; the benchmark harness
stays in app/artifact-cas. Fix the missing section spacing around the
D-020/R-010 entries.

Update code comments that still cited the superseded D-017/R-009 contract
and the removed cmux design to reference D-020 and the reverse proxy.

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Push four 128 MiB streams at once through the per-request dispatcher and
reverse proxy, multiplexed on one connection as a single-location ingress
sends them, with the payload generated on the fly so no test buffer is
resident. Sampled peak live heap: 58 MiB for 512 MiB transferred. The
assertion fails if any hop buffers whole streams instead of window-pacing
them. Complements the single-stream 1 GiB benchmark (about 32 MiB peak
against about 1.25 GiB on the rejected ServeHTTP adapter under the same
conditions). Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

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…e socket on failed construction, and add paused-consumer regression tests

The reverse proxy Rewrite now restores pr.Out.Host after SetURL, so the
native server observes the client's original :authority instead of the
loopback dial target - the same value a direct legacy connection would
carry - with a regression test that dials under a distinct authority.

GRPCServers holds the private listener and exposes Close for
construction-failure paths: before Start registers the listener with
grpc-go, Private.Stop does not close it, so a failed NewHTTPServer leaked
the bound loopback socket. NewHTTPServer closes the socket on every
construction error, and tests cover both the failed-construction and
never-started paths.

Add a test-only per-chunk pacing hook (service.WithPaceHook, nil in
production wiring) and regression tests that pause the consumer
mid-stream in both directions through the production proxy: uploads stall
at the paused consumer with bounded in-flight buffering, downloads stall
the server-side sender, and cancellation releases both sides. Also fix
the proxy ErrorHandler log call to a real format string.

Spec/docs: strike the full superseded entry bodies (the earlier pass left
their first lines rendered as current text), align the Open Questions
answer with R-010's mixed-connection support, document the
application/grpc-web exclusion in D-020, scope the heap claim to the
observed runs plus the concurrent-stream test, and document enabling
cas.ingress in the chart README.

Refs chainloop-dev#3628. Review threads: cubic 4319424790/4319424800/4319424812/
4319424832/4319424842/4319424850, owner probes on authority, socket
cleanup, and paused consumers.

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The example enabled tls without an issuer or pre-created Secret, so the
rendered Ingress referenced a secret nobody creates. Add the cert-manager
issuer annotation to the example and state the requirement.

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…mment

- Build targetURL once at construction instead of per Rewrite call; add a
  terse comment noting SetURL does not mutate the shared URL.
- Drop the explicit FlushInterval: 0 (zero value is identical behavior).
- Fix the flush comment: immediate flushing for gRPC comes from
  ReverseProxy's streaming special case (ContentLength == -1), not from
  FlushInterval.
- Remove the unused grpcAddr field from APIServer.

Verified: gofmt clean, go vet clean, go test -race passes for all CAS
packages.

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Factor the repeated artifact filename into casTestFileName and drop the
unused opts parameter from serviceOptsForTest. Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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Both config.devel.yaml and samples/config.yaml are development/sample
configs with local placeholder values (public-key paths, dev tokens). The
PR-validation iac-misconfiguration policy flags them as Base64 High
Entropy String errors. Annotate the shared-endpoint blocks with
checkov:skip=CKV_SECRET_6, matching the existing precedent in
deployment/chainloop/values.yaml. Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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It's weird to me that we need a reverse proxy and we cannot just pass the request to the in process grpc handlers, whatever they are.

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…cy_grpc_listener

The suppression must sit immediately before the placeholder values it
covers (the dev vault token and the commented TLS examples), not on the
unrelated legacy_grpc_listener field, or Checkov still reports the lines.
Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

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…if the private gRPC transport dies

server.http_metrics.tls_config was never applied by the metrics server;
rejecting it broke existing deployments that set it. Ignore it with a
warning and stay plaintext, preserving the previous behavior.

APIServer.Start filtered ErrClosed/ErrServerStopped unconditionally, so a
private gRPC transport that failed on its own was swallowed and the app
kept serving HTTP while proxied gRPC returned 502. Track an explicit
stopping flag: the ordinary-stop sentinel is benign only when it comes
from Stop. A spontaneous failure now propagates so the whole endpoint
stops. TestCASSharedGRPCFailureStopsEndpoint pins this.

Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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@jiparis Fair instinct — and "pass the request to the in-process gRPC handlers" is exactly what we tried first. That's grpc.Server.ServeHTTP: it mounts the same services and interceptors as an http.Handler. The catch is that it's not the native gRPC transport — it's a separate HTTP transport inside grpc-go that decodes the already-decoded h2 request and re-runs the RPC. We measured it on this branch: a 1 GiB ByteStream upload peaked at ~1.25 GiB of live heap against ~28 MiB on the native transport, and download throughput dropped 11.8%. Root cause: the handler transport reads the request body in a separate goroutine into an unbounded receive buffer, so read-ahead isn't paced by the application. For unary control-plane calls that's irrelevant (which is why #3647 ships it there); for CAS's GB-scale ByteStream it fails R-003's bounded-memory requirement.

The alternative you might expect — serve the native transport in-process on the shared port — doesn't exist as an API. grpc-go's native transport is a listener transport (grpc.Server.Serve); the only way to feed it an already-accepted request in-process is ServeHTTP. There's no "dispatch this request to the native transport" hook. So the choice is ServeHTTP (measured bad) or reach Serve somehow.

We also tried keeping Serve reachable in-process without a proxy via connection classification (cmux): it kept native parity, but it can't serve the single-location, all-HTTP/2 ingress we want — a silent matcher deadlocks grpc-go clients (they wait for server SETTINGS), the SETTINGS-writing matcher poisons plain-HTTP/2 connections (GOAWAY PROTOCOL_ERROR), and pooled mixed connections 502. All three reproduced. Path-splitting at the ingress was the other way to keep native, and we dropped it by design.

So the "reverse proxy" is the in-process way to reach the native Serve transport without ServeHTTP and without a classifier. Despite the name, it's not a separate service or sidecar — it's the stdlib httputil.ReverseProxy, a library call in the same process, dialing a private loopback listener that runs the identical services/interceptors. It streams the body into a connection whose h2 window paces the reads, so backpressure propagates end to end and memory stays bounded (the thing ServeHTTP can't do). Cost measured on the 1 GiB benchmark: −9.0% upload, −8.1% download, heap ~32–43 MiB — inside the 10% gate with the native streaming semantics intact.

In short: we're not proxying instead of calling handlers; the proxy is the mechanism that lets us call the native transport at all on a single mixed HTTP/2 endpoint. If we didn't need one public hostname/port, none of this would exist. (Recorded in spec D-020.)

AI assistance: Claude Code.

…enabled

Match the merged control-plane change (chainloop-dev#3647): when
server.legacy_grpc_listener is on, log that the gRPC-only listener is
deprecated and point at the shared HTTP endpoint and the flag. This is
the R-006 startup warning. TestCASLegacyListenerDeprecationWarning pins
it firing when enabled and staying quiet when disabled. Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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…n docs, dispatch comments

Cap the proxy upstream pool at 10 connections: the target is one loopback
host and HTTP/2 multiplexes many streams per connection, so the cap only
bounds idle loopback FDs between requests, not throughput. Document the
idle-timeout and ExpectContinue rationale on the transport.

Document that the ErrorHandler's headers-only 502 is finalized by net/http
with END_STREAM when the handler returns (covered by
TestCASProxyErrorTerminatesHTTP2Stream against a dead upstream), that the
Start errCh is buffered to the worker count so a second transport error
never blocks, and that native gRPC requires HTTP/2 at the dispatch gate.

Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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Cover the errCh contract empirically: when both transports fail before
Start reads the first error, the second transport's report is still
buffered (the channel capacity equals the worker count), so its goroutine
finishes and Stop's workers.Wait() does not hang. The channel is not
closed after the first read: a late writer would panic on send-to-closed.
Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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jiparis
jiparis previously approved these changes Oct 20, 2026
The SARIF findings point at the dev credential-path prefix and a
commented-out example secret, not the TLS/vault lines the earlier
annotations guarded. Move the suppressions inline onto those exact lines
(secret_prefix in both files, and the commented secret_key in the sample),
matching the end-of-line pattern already used in
deployment/chainloop/values.yaml. Refs chainloop-dev#3628.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev>

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migmartri merged commit 575eaaf into chainloop-dev:main Oct 20, 2026
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