operator: Add an option to configure OVN-Kubernetes GatewayConfig without an uplink specified. - #3009
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| // is "Disabled", which requires an uplink on the gateway bridge. | ||
| // This setting only takes effect when routingViaHost is true (local gateway mode). | ||
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| AllowNoUplink AllowNoUplinkEnablement `json:"allowNoUplink,omitempty"` |
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The field name allowNoUplink with Enabled/Disabled values has a couple of issues:
- Double negative —
allowNoUplink: Disabledmeans "don't allow no uplink" = "require uplink." The conventions call for "only one phrasing for each idea." - Disguised boolean — Enabled/Disabled is essentially a boolean in enum form. It's recommended to use domain-meaningful enum values instead (e.g., "Optional", "Required").
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// Option A
UplinkMode UplinkMode `json:"uplinkMode,omitempty"`
// Option B
UplinkRequirement UplinkRequirement `json:"uplinkRequirement,omitempty"`With
// +kubebuilder:validation:Enum:="Required";"Optional"Required maps to the current default behavior (uplink must exist on br-ex), Optional maps to the new "allow no uplink" behavior.
The empty string enum "" value is unnecessary. The field is optional with omitempty, so omission already expresses "no opinion."
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I'd push back on Yes/No, those are still boolean-ish values, which is what we are trying to move away from. uplinkMode with Required / Optional reads more naturally and uses domain-meaningful values that can easily be extended in the future if needed.
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I think Optional is not the value we want - there is no option.. its gotta be absent or present as the intent of the API i.e if its set to allownouplink=true then we expect no uplink configured there
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Uplink: Present or Enabled or Required or Set or Expected?
Uplink: Absent or Disabled or ??
deff u/s definition of AllowNoUplink naming wasn't done well :) so we shouldn't use that as the user facing config
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What about Required (gateway bridges must have uplink configured) v/s None (gateway bridges must have no uplink configured) and in future Optional if someone asks for that...
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After looking at the upstream ovn-kubernetes code, I'm revising my earlier position. The --allow-no-uplink flag acts purely as a "tolerate absence" guard every usage checks both the config flag and whether the uplink is actually missing. If the flag is set but an uplink is present, the system works normally. It never disables uplink functionality; it just relaxes the requirement:
- bridgeconfig.go#L215-L219 : only enters the "no uplink" path when getIntfName fails; if the uplink exists, normal path runs.
- bridgeconfig.go#L215-L219 : only enters the "no uplink" path when getIntfName fails; if the uplink exists, normal path runs.
- gateway_shared_intf.go#L257-L260 : AllowNoUplink && ofportPhys == "" skips service flows only when both conditions are true; if uplink is present, ofportPhys is populated and flows are added normally.
- openflow_manager.go#L737-L741 : AllowNoUplink && physIntf == "" same pattern; if uplink is present, tracking proceeds as normal.
- gateway_init.go#L95-L97 suppresses error only when getDefaultGatewayInterfaceDetails fails; if uplink exists, this succeeds and the guard is irrelevant.
So maybe Optional is the right call :) but None is equally ok for me
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None would mean you need to explicitly validate there is no uplink configured, which doesn't seem the case based on your research.
Seems Required / Optional fits nicely here.
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In `@operator/v1/types_network.go`:
- Around line 657-659: Update the documentation for the uplink enum near
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| // When omitted or set to "Disabled", this means no opinion and the platform is left to | ||
| // choose a reasonable default which is subject to change over time. The current default | ||
| // is "Disabled", which requires an uplink on the gateway bridge. |
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Define Disabled as an explicit uplink requirement.
Disabled is an explicit enum value. It should not mean “no opinion” or depend on a future platform default.
Document omission as no opinion. Document Disabled as requiring a physical uplink. This matches AllowNoUplinkDisabled and the declared API contract.
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- // When omitted or set to "Disabled", this means no opinion and the platform is left to
- // choose a reasonable default which is subject to change over time. The current default
- // is "Disabled", which requires an uplink on the gateway bridge.
+ // When omitted, the platform chooses its default behavior.
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In `@operator/v1/types_network.go` around lines 657 - 659, Update the
documentation for the uplink enum near AllowNoUplinkDisabled so omission is
described as expressing no opinion, while the explicit Disabled value is
documented as requiring a physical uplink; remove wording that treats Disabled
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| // When set to "Optional", ovn-kubernetes allows the gateway bridge to start without an uplink. | ||
| // When omitted, this means no opinion and the platform is left to choose a reasonable default, | ||
| // which is subject to change over time. The current default is "Required". | ||
| // This setting only takes effect when routingViaHost is true (local gateway mode). |
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might want to enforce this using CEL on the parent struct GatewayConfig :
// +kubebuilder:validation:XValidation:rule="!has(self.uplinkMode) || (has(self.routingViaHost) && self.routingViaHost == true)",message="uplinkMode can only be set when routingViaHost is true"There was a problem hiding this comment.
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Allow users to start a local-gateway br-ex without a physical uplink. Omitted or Required preserves the current ovn-kubernetes default. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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The actual API changes look good to me here.
Because this is a change to a stable API version, we require the new fields to be feature-gated and those feature gates need to be associated with an openshift enhancement proposal.
This is so that each change goes through our feature promotion process, guaranteeing that all API fields have a backing implementation and automated regression testing in place.
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Why did this change need to be made?
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so verify-payload-crds.sh was failing the prow verify job.
The script fails with echo receiving SIGPIPE when the ${files} list is large and echo is still piping it to grep, when grep -q finds an early match and exits.
Without the fix, the script would incorrectly report a generated payload crd as untracked, although it did find the file. The change gets rid of the piping business entirely.
| // +kubebuilder:default:=false | ||
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| RoutingViaHost bool `json:"routingViaHost,omitempty"` | ||
| // uplinkMode controls whether the external gateway bridge (br-ex) requires a physical uplink port. |
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I forget if the option is only for br-ex or for all Uplinks (example Uplink API+CUDN API https://ovn-kubernetes.io/master/features/user-defined-networks/uplinks/#introduction - there is plans to make the whole CDN bridge an Uplink API defined thing in future and maybe answer is this option would then become a per Uplink thing) In upstream it might not be a well defined thing now and we don't support Uplink API in OCP yet, but its something we need to consider since once we defined the field's purpose as only for br-ex we won't be able to change that scoping, so it would be good for us to think if we only want it for br-ex or keep it vague to accommodate other bridges as well including the APBER Secondary bridge which is also an external gateway bridge today.
| // When set to "Required", ovn-kubernetes requires an uplink on the gateway bridge. | ||
| // When set to "Optional", ovn-kubernetes allows the gateway bridge to start without an uplink. | ||
| // When omitted, this means no opinion and the platform is left to choose a reasonable default, | ||
| // which is subject to change over time. The current default is "Required". |
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// which is subject to change over time. The current default is "Required".
can defaults really change over time - if its from API standing that's considered breaking change right? if we change from required -> optional later on? maybe we have to reword this - from API standpoint the CRD defaulting is "required" and that is not subject to change, the customer can choose their own value to override that default but when we say "choose a reasonable default" that is confusing with the API default
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also this field is mutable on day2 I suppose? and CNO will roll out the changes? (it comes with conditions apply on if people remove uplinks mid-way on day2 and change this knob that's on them for the downtime)
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That's a disclaimer that we can do without. It's simply saying that if the field is omitted, and tomorrow we move to a different behavior for some reason than requiring uplinks we are covering our bases. If it is adding confusion for a hypothetical future-proofing, I can remove it.
The behavior for Day 2 changes needs to be documented at the very least, if it can't be ensured for correctness functionally by the implementation.
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For configuration APIs like this, yes we can change default behaviors without warning when we make this explicit statement in the API documentation.
It allows us to change our opinion on what the default value should be for the platform as we see fit.
Customers can always override that by specifying an explicit opinion on the field.
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For configuration APIs like this, yes we can change default behaviors without warning when we make this explicit statement in the API documentation.
It allows us to change our opinion on what the default value should be for the platform as we see fit.
oh nice, I learnt something new then!
So this is technically not introducing a new feature. The field is optional. When omitted, the platform retains its existing behavior. Required explicitly selects the current behavior. Only users who deliberately select Optional get the no-uplink behavior. A feature gate and enhancement would add time and complexity without protecting existing clusters, because merely adding the field changes nothing. I would like for us to be balanced in thinking about the risk vs. policy here. Thoughts? |
While it may not be a net-new feature on the underlying thing, it is a new configuration option for the OpenShift platform that requires a backing implementation. Inherently, this new configuration option is a new feature for the OpenShift platform. Even if this field is optional, by this API field going GA immediately (even though it would be in the development branch) we run the risk of shipping an API field that has no backing implementation to wire it through to the operand. Additionally, we are immediately required to fully support it and it is put into customer's hands without having undergone any testing with how this new field being configured might impact the rest of the platform. How do we know that setting this to the non-default behavior of clusters today does not trigger a regression elsewhere in the platform? While I can understand that the enhancement and feature-gate process adds some additional time and complexity to getting this functionality into the product, this is in the name of ensuring that we ship a quality product. Every feature is subject to this process and I don't see any reason why this feature should be considered "special" and allowed to circumvent this process. |
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Allow users to start a local-gateway br-ex without a physical uplink. Omitted or Required preserves the current ovn-kubernetes default.