feat(platform): package address-controller and its MetalLB driver - #3382

Timofei Larkin (@lllamnyp) NOT LGTM, mostly because of where the code and images come from.

1. Both PackageSources pull from github.com/lllamnyp/* on branch: main without spec.verify (sources/address-controller.yaml:13-14, sources/metallb-iad.yaml:13-14). Any push to those branches reaches clusters within minutes, with upgradeCRDs: CreateReplace, and metallb-iad has cluster-wide write on Services. Please pin a tag or a commit, or vendor the charts.
2. The images are ghcr.io/lllamnyp/{address-controller,metallb-iad}:main with no digest and IfNotPresent. docs/agents/image-refs.md requires tag plus digest, and hack/lib/image-refs.sh does not see these refs, so promote, retag and mirror skip them. A release tag then does not say what it installs, and different nodes can run different builds.
3. templates/sources.yaml renders every file under sources/, so the GitRepository objects exist on every cluster whether the package is enabled or not, and air-gapped clusters keep polling github.com.
4. The commit carries Assisted-By: Claude <[email protected]> and the body has the "Generated with Claude Code" line. contributing.md accepts only Assisted-by: LLM. The PR template is not filled in either: no release note and no downstream checklist, and a new platform component is a website trigger.

There is also a conflict with main in bundles/system.yaml, where main added talos-log-collector; both sides should stay. helm unittest packages/core/platform passes, 88/88.

Timofei Larkin (@lllamnyp) NOT LGTM, one thing left: a generated test fixture is stale, so Unit & controller tests is red and the required E2E Tests never ran.

The points from my last review are fixed at 1ae06175. The charts are vendored from cozystack/* at pinned commits and come from the cozystack-packages artifact, so no GitRepository is left and nothing polls github.com. The image digests match ghcr: a154074e... is address-controller:main-ee38d0a and 143bd582... is metallb-iad:main-7d0017a, the same commits the Makefiles pin, and hack/lib/image-refs.sh sees both refs. Trailers and the PR template are fine now, and a trial merge with current main is clean.

Blocker

The fixture packages/core/platform/tests/fixtures/selective-install-postgres-values.yaml was not regenerated after the two new PackageSources. hack/select-install_test.bats "generated Helm values fixture matches the current disable list" fails on this head (the Unit & controller tests run of 2026-10-07T11:28Z, attempt 1), and I get the same failure on a trial merge with main. hack/select-install.sh --disabled postgres now prints cozystack.address-controller and cozystack.metallb-iad, and the fixture has neither. Since that job is red, E2E (in-tree) was skipped. Regenerating the fixture from select-install.sh should fix it.

Non-blocking

1. Please fold the last two commits into 2b9d011a. Each was true when written, but together they record three stops: a SHA in lllamnyp/*, then v0.1.0 in lllamnyp/*, then main-<sha> in cozystack/*. The repo merges with merge commits, so all three land in main. 5279c46b pins ghcr.io/lllamnyp/address-controller:0.1.0 and the next commit replaces it, and the body of 2b9d011a still says the update target "becomes a tag once the projects start releasing".
2. The PR body says the cozystack org "has not cut a release of either yet". Both repos have a v0.1.0 tag, the pinned commits are a few commits ahead of it, and ghcr has no 0.1.0 image under ghcr.io/cozystack/. "Has not built a release image yet" would be accurate.
3. Require API owner review for sizeable API changes is red because of the new API group. You are one of the two owners it lists, so it needs kvaps.

On the trial merge helm unittest passes for platform (268/268), address-controller (3/3) and metallb-iad (4/4), and hack/select-install.sh --validate passes.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/core/platform/templates/_helpers.tpl:
- Around line 236-237: Update the MetalLB driver gate in the template to require
both `cozystack.metallb-iad` and `cozystack.address-controller` before emitting
`cozystack.platform.package.optional.default`; alternatively, reject the
missing-core-package combination with a clear error. Add a render test covering
`enabledPackages` containing `cozystack.metallb-iad` but not
`cozystack.address-controller`.

Review comments at
@packages/system/metallb-iad/templates/metallb-address-policy.yaml:
- Around line 29-32: Update the MetalLB address policy to prevent changes to the
legacy metallb.universe.tf loadBalancerIPs and address-pool annotations and
spec.loadBalancerIP, preserving the existing checks for metallb.io selectors.
Add matching template assertions for both legacy annotation keys and the Service
field in the policy tests.

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Review: not ready to merge as is. The admission fence can be bypassed, and enabling the package changes behaviour for existing tenants.

Blocking

1. cozystack-metallb-address-policy can be bypassed, and the comment explaining what it leaves out is wrong.
MetalLB still uses two inputs that the policy does not look at. Both v0.15.2 and v0.16.1 behave the same way here (controller/service.go):

• spec.loadBalancerIP: getDesiredLbIPs (l.309–333) still parses it and pins the address from it. MetalLB did not stop honouring this field in v0.14.
• The deprecated keys metallb.universe.tf/loadBalancerIPs and metallb.universe.tf/address-pool: valueForAnnotation falls back to them whenever the metallb.io/* key is absent.

A tenant can reach both today. The kubevirt CCM (pkg/provider/loadbalancer.go, createLoadBalancerService) copies the guest Service's Annotations and Spec.LoadBalancerIP onto the LB Service it creates in tenant-*. Someone who administers a tenant Kubernetes cluster can create a guest Service with spec.loadBalancerIP: <address reserved by another tenant>, or use the legacy annotation, and the policy lets it through. The driver will flag a Conflict, but only after the fact, which is exactly the case the policy is meant to prevent.

Suggested fix: add the two metallb.universe.tf/* keys to the list, and compare object.spec.loadBalancerIP against oldObject in the same way as the annotations. The current unit tests only check, with regexes, that certain strings appear in the expression. A behavioural test would be better: a server-side dry-run in E2E covering every bypass above, plus the legitimate driver path.

2. Enabling the package breaks workflows that exist today.
The policy applies to every Service in tenant-*. Only the driver's ServiceAccount is exempt. In practice:

• metallb.io/address-pool on a guest Service of a tenant Kubernetes cluster is currently the way to choose a pool, for example public or private, and the CCM propagates it. Once the package is installed, those creates are denied: the guest Service stays pending and the CCM retries forever.
• A cluster admin pinning a fixed address on a tenant Service by hand is denied too.
• Removing a pin counts as a change, so a legacy Service can't be unpinned.

Please consider:

• an exemption for an admin group, or a configurable list of exempt identities;
• a rollout mode set through values (validationActions: [Warn, Audit]) before switching to Deny;
• a migration note on adopting addresses that are already pinned (static IPAddress pre-bound with a claimRef).

Important

3. Tenant users have no way to attach an address. cozy:tenant:base and the admin roles give tenants only get/list/watch/delete on Services. No app chart exposes a value that would set local.sdn.cozystack.io/ip-address-claim. The only path that actually works is a tenant Kubernetes cluster, where the CCM copies the annotation. That path is implicit and undocumented, and it depends on the CCM's create path. The release note ("Tenants can … attach it to a LoadBalancer Service") overstates what the PR delivers. Either wire the annotation into the relevant app charts and docs, or reword the note.

4. No limit on claims and no billing for them.

• Unlimited claims. A tenant can create as many claims as it likes, while public IPv4 is scarce. An object-count quota count/ipaddressclaims.local.sdn.cozystack.io would work with the tenant's resourceQuotas, which passes keys through as-is. It should at least be documented.
• Reserved addresses are billed to nobody. WorkloadMonitor counts addresses from status.loadBalancer.ingress on the tenant's Services. A reserved but unattached address sits on a placeholder in cozy-metallb-iad, so no tenant Workload sees it. A tenant can therefore hold addresses for free.
• Released addresses (left behind by the default Retain reclaim policy) belong to no one either.

5. Lifecycle and teardown. The core puts a finalizer on claims, and the driver puts metallb.drivers.local.sdn.cozystack.io/teardown on every IPAddress it creates. As a result:

• If the package is disabled, or a controller is down, while claims exist, deleting a tenant namespace hangs.
• IPAddressClass owns the rendered IPAddressPool and L2Advertisement through ownerReferences, so deleting a class garbage-collects them and withdraws every bound address of that class at once.
• Because Retain is the default, every deleted tenant leaves Released addresses behind that someone has to clear by hand.

A documented teardown procedure, and some guard or warning on class deletion, would help.

6. Network model.

• L2 only. The driver renders one L2Advertisement per class with no nodeSelectors or interfaces, and it has no BGP support.
• No scoping. A cluster that announces over BGP, or that restricts L2 to specific nodes or interfaces, can't use it. Worse, the rendered advertisement announces the class's range from every node on every interface.
• Migration. MetalLB rejects overlapping pools, so moving an existing range into a class means removing the existing pool first. That migration needs to be documented.

At minimum these constraints belong in the PR body and the docs. Exposing advertisement options through the class parameters would be the real fix.

7. Operations.

• The images are main-<sha> builds outside ghcr.io/cozystack/cozystack/, so the nightly mirror skips them. Air-gapped installs, or installs using a mirrored registry, have to copy them by hand. Please document this.
• upgradeCRDs: CreateReplace on v1alpha1 CRDs with no conversion: a later bump that renames or drops a field silently invalidates objects already stored. Every bump PR should spell out its schema changes.
• Both controllers run one replica, with no PDB, no priorityClass, and metrics turned off ("0"). Nothing reports Conflict, Lost or Released addresses. Turning metrics on, adding a ServiceMonitor and alerting on those phases would make the feature usable in production.

Minor

• Claims can target any class or address. Classes aren't scoped per tenant, so any tenant can claim from any class, including one reserved for a single customer. spec.addressName also lets any tenant take any Available address. An admin who pre-provisions an address must pre-bind it with a claimRef, or it goes to whichever tenant claims it first. This should be documented, and could be a follow-up for per-tenant class scoping.
• Namespace check. The match condition reads object.metadata.namespace. request.namespace would be more robust because it doesn't depend on the request body.

Timofei Larkin (@lllamnyp) NOT LGTM. The fixture, folded history and release-image wording from my previous review are fixed.

Please remove the section banners from the new tenant-role template. It contains # == addresses tenant ServiceAccount role ==, # == addresses view cluster role == and # == addresses admin cluster role ==; the repository's comment rules explicitly reject section banners.

The admission-policy issue already raised by CodeRabbit and mattia-eleuteri remains a blocker; I missed it in my earlier review. Evidence: I checked the rendered CEL against the pinned MetalLB backend, which accepts allocation inputs the policy does not cover. A local policy control rejects those paths while preserving the driver and unchanged-value cases. Please address that existing finding and correct the claim about which inputs MetalLB honors.

Please also link the website follow-up before closing the downstream checklist. The API-owner gate still needs an independent owner's approval.