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The Known gaps table was wrong

It still said bootstrap-cluster.yml passes no gatewayClass or envoyProxy. It does now, and tum-production depends on it - that entry would have sent the next person to create those by hand on a cluster where the workflow already does it. Only spec.loadBalancerIP remains genuinely inert, and the row now says what replaced it.

The "what does bootstrap do for you" table gains the two things it gained in #125: the GatewayClass and EnvoyProxy, and redirects.

spec.redirects was undocumented

Added to the Gateway page, with the check that matters - headers, not a browser:

curl -sI https://theia.artemis.cit.tum.de/foo?bar=1 | grep -i '^location'
# location: https://eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de/foo?bar=1

and why 302 is the wrong choice even though it works: it is not cached, so the old hostname keeps taking traffic forever.

A certificate that will not issue

New section distinguishing a transient ACME finalize failure - which puts cert-manager into an hour of exponential backoff, and is cleared by patching the status - from challenges that stay pending, which is a real listener or DNS fault. Hit during the tum-production bootstrap; the first retry succeeded. Without this the instinct is to go looking at the configuration, where nothing is wrong.

Two traps in AGENTS.md

  • A release tag is vX.Y.Z, the image is X.Y.Z - but an image-tag override is used verbatim, so a caller passing the raw tag publishes v1.2.0. The spelling that passes the tag-format check is the one that breaks the images, which is exactly why it stayed hidden.
  • helm-diff must stay pinned. Its current release cannot be parsed by the pinned helm v3.16.3, the plugin fails to load, and both preview steps end in || true - so every "Pending change" diff was silently empty until it was pinned.

test-deploy-logic.sh ALL PASS, check-agents-md.sh clean, all relative links resolve.

Companion to EduIDE/Docs#13, which adds the operator-facing runbooks.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Clarified release image tagging and Helm plugin version requirements.
    • Updated cluster setup guidance for GatewayClass, EnvoyProxy, and hostname redirects.
    • Added troubleshooting guidance for certificate issuance failures.
    • Documented permanent hostname redirects, including TLS, ACME, path, and query handling.
    • Added a curl example for verifying redirects.

The Known gaps table still said bootstrap passes no `gatewayClass` or
`envoyProxy`. It does now, and tum-production depends on it - that entry would
have sent the next person to create those by hand. Only `spec.loadBalancerIP`
remains inert.

Documents `spec.redirects`, which nothing described, and how to check one with
headers rather than a browser.

Adds a runbook for a certificate that sits unissued with no challenges
outstanding: a transient ACME finalize failure puts cert-manager into an hour of
backoff, and the fix is to clear it rather than to go looking at the config.

Two traps in AGENTS.md:

  - a release tag is vX.Y.Z and the image is X.Y.Z, but an image-tag override is
    used verbatim, so a caller passing the raw tag publishes v1.2.0. The
    spelling that passes the tag-format check is the one that breaks the images.
  - helm-diff must stay pinned. Its current release cannot be parsed by the
    pinned helm, the plugin fails to load, and both preview steps end in
    `|| true` - so every rendered diff was silently empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qeiQRFu8xAMRYWPdZewjG
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The documentation updates describe gateway bootstrap responsibilities, certificate issuance failures, hostname redirects, image-tag normalization, and the helm-diff version constraint.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Gateway bootstrap and certificate guidance
docs/cluster-setup.md
The guide documents GatewayClass and EnvoyProxy creation, redirect application, certificate issuance failure modes, and the remaining spec.loadBalancerIP gap.
Hostname redirect procedure
docs/envoy-gateway-setup.md
The guide documents TLS-backed hostname redirects, path and query preservation, verification, and required 301 responses.
Release and Helm troubleshooting notes
AGENTS.md
The notes document image-tag normalization and the helm-diff pin required for Helm v3.16.3 compatibility.

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The documentation still contains a stale bootstrap instruction and several concrete inaccuracies that could lead operators to create conflicting resources or troubleshoot certificate and redirect behavior incorrectly. These bounded correctness and validation issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/cluster-setup.md`:
- Around line 117-119: Update the stale bootstrap behavior statement in the
Gateway guide to reflect that bootstrap-cluster.yml supplies
spec.gatewayClass.create: true and a spec.envoyProxy pool name, so operators do
not need to create those resources manually. Align the wording with the
tum-production example and remove the contradictory manual-creation guidance.
- Around line 117-119: Update the sentence around spec.gatewayClass.create and
spec.envoyProxy to clarify that spec.envoyProxy names the EnvoyProxy resource,
while the MetalLB address pool is configured through
spec.envoyProxy.spec.provider.kubernetes.envoyService.annotations; do not
describe spec.envoyProxy as naming the pool.
- Around line 330-333: Add the text language identifier to the fenced
error-output block containing “Failed to finalize Order,” changing the fence to
use text while preserving its contents.
- Around line 343-344: Update the failed-retry guidance in the tum-production
bootstrap documentation to instruct operators to inspect Certificate,
CertificateRequest, Order, Challenge, ClusterIssuer, and cert-manager events or
logs before changing configuration, while preserving the transient-success
context.

In `@docs/envoy-gateway-setup.md`:
- Around line 153-154: Update the Bootstrap documentation’s ACME listener
statement to specify that the HTTP-01 :80 listener is created only when
ACME_HTTP is "true" and the role is not "webview"; clarify that clusters with
acmeHttp: false do not receive this listener.
- Around line 162-163: Update the redirect guidance in the documentation so it
recommends 301 for permanent hostname relocation and explains that 302
represents a temporary redirect rather than claiming it is never cached;
preserve the warning against using 302 for this migration.
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Six findings from the review, all valid.

envoy-gateway-setup.md still claimed bootstrap-cluster.yml passes neither the
GatewayClass nor the EnvoyProxy block and that both must be created by hand.
It passes both, and creating them by hand as well would have two owners fighting
over the same names.

The redirect section presented the ACME :80 listener as unconditional. Bootstrap
only emits it when the cluster sets acmeHttp, so a cluster issuing certificates
some other way has no such listener.

The 302 rationale was wrong: a 302 is not categorically uncacheable. The reason
to use 301 is that it means permanently moved, which is what lets clients update
what they have stored.

cluster-setup.md described spec.envoyProxy as naming the MetalLB pool. It names
the EnvoyProxy; the pool sits in its nested provider config.

The certificate runbook jumped straight to patching away the backoff. It now
says to confirm the finalize 404 down the CertificateRequest/Order/Challenge
chain first, notes that --subresource needs kubectl v1.24, and says what to do
when the cleared retry also fails - the previous 'do not go looking' was too
absolute. Pending challenges are also split by cause: an HTTP 404 means
something answered but did not route the solver path, while a DNS or connection
failure means nothing answered at all.

Also typed six fenced blocks that markdownlint flagged as MD040.

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