Exclude the Elasticsearch host from proxy routing on new installations

[mgruner]

Connections between pods of the same cluster are not external and must not be routed through a configured proxy. On a new installation proxy_no is now seeded with the Elasticsearch host, so that Zammad's own HTTP client contacts Elasticsearch directly.

This is the Helm counterpart of zammad/zammad!14238, which fixes the same issue in bin/docker-entrypoint. The chart does not use that entrypoint — it mounts its own init scripts from configmap-init.yaml — so the change has to be made here separately.

The call sits in the first-install branch of postgresql-init, not in elasticsearch-init. The latter is the closer analogue of the entrypoint's es config block, but by the time it runs, postgresql-init has already executed db:seed, which makes User.any? true — a first install is no longer detectable there. Placing it in the first-install branch also means an admin's own No Proxy value is never overwritten on a later upgrade.

It is skipped when zammadConfig.elasticsearch.initialisation is false, the chart's equivalent of the entrypoint's ELASTICSEARCH_ENABLED skip. The host comes from the existing zammad.elasticsearchHost helper, so it is correct both for the bundled ECK Elasticsearch and for an external one.

Existing installations are deliberately out of scope, per the parent story: no migration is written, and affected admins set the field by hand, which already works today.

Issue: https://github.com/zammad/coordination-scrum/issues/1735
Parent story: zammad/zammad#6228

Testing

Manually verified with helm install: a fresh installation comes up with the Elasticsearch host in the No Proxy field. Rendering was checked for the bundled ECK Elasticsearch, for an external host, and for initialisation: false (where the block is absent); helm lint is clean.

The helm test rake task now asserts that proxy_no contains the Elasticsearch host, so a wrong gate, a wrong helper or broken interpolation no longer passes CI silently. It is guarded with .Release.IsInstall, because ct install --upgrade installs the previous chart version first — that release's database is already seeded when the new init job runs, so the first-install branch is skipped by design and the assertion must not run there. This covers the bundled-Elasticsearch path that the ci/*-values.yaml scenarios install; the external-Elasticsearch path stays render-checked only.

For that assertion to be meaningful, the test has to wait for the init job. helm install --wait does not — --wait never waits for Jobs, --wait-for-jobs is a separate flag — and the init job is deliberately not a Helm hook (job-init.yaml:10-12), so helm test was running against half-initialised releases; see the comments below for the evidence.

So postgresql-init writes helm-postgresql-init-done-<revision> to the Rails cache when it finishes, and the test waits for that key before running any check. The revision in the key means a previous revision's flag cannot satisfy a newer test, and the wait is gated on zammadConfig.initJob.enabled, so it exists only where it can succeed. Cost is one extra rails r per init run, which delays only the job itself: service pods gate on RAILS_CHECK_PENDING_MIGRATIONS, satisfied by db:migrate earlier in the same container.

Passing --wait-for-jobs to ct install was tried instead and reverted. It is more correct — it fixes the same race for every scenario rather than for this test — but it makes every install and upgrade block on a full init cycle: 834s per leg against 454s with no wait, numbers in the comments. It stays documented in the README for anyone scripting installs or using ArgoCD.

One smaller thing in the same file: the test container no longer inherits railsserver's probes, which target a port this rake pod never listens on and would have killed it 80s into a wait.

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  • Elasticsearch hosts are now excluded from proxy routing during initial PostgreSQL setup only when Elasticsearch initialization is enabled.
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  • Updated the Helm chart version to 18.1.0.

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The chart version changes from 18.0.5 to 18.1.0. When Elasticsearch initialization is enabled, PostgreSQL initialization assigns the configured Elasticsearch host to proxy_no. The Helm test polls es_url until initialization completes, reports proxy-routing state, and allows up to 600 seconds for completion.

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Elasticsearch proxy exclusion is now skipped when initialization is disabled, and the initialization test waits for the seeded setting before validating it. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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[mantas]

Two issues from a review of this diff — the mechanism itself checks out (ES calls do route through UserAgent, so proxy_no takes effect, and NO_PROXY_DEFAULT keeps loopback covered), but the gate is on the wrong value and the host is interpolated unquoted.

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In `@zammad/templates/configmap-init.yaml`:
- Line 17: Update the conditional guarding the Elasticsearch configuration block
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The new proxy_no seeding logic is currently gated in a way that skips external Elasticsearch setups and also overwrites any existing proxy_no value instead of safely appending.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the Helm chart’s init workflow to ensure that, on new installations, Zammad’s proxy_no setting is seeded to bypass proxy routing for Elasticsearch requests, so in-cluster Elasticsearch traffic is contacted directly.

Changes:

• Add first-install seeding of Setting.proxy_no in the postgresql-init script.
• Bump chart version to 18.1.0.

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File	Description
zammad/templates/configmap-init.yaml	Seeds proxy_no during first-install init to exclude the Elasticsearch host from proxy routing.
zammad/Chart.yaml	Updates the chart version.

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zammad/templates/configmap-init.yaml:23

• Setting.set('proxy_no', ...) overwrites any existing proxy_no value. Even on first install, the seed may already provide defaults (or an installer may preseed values), so it's safer to append the Elasticsearch host if missing and avoid duplicates. Also, passing the host via ENV avoids quote-escaping issues in the Ruby snippet.

        ELASTICSEARCH_HOST="{{ include "zammad.elasticsearchHost" . }}"
        echo "Excluding ${ELASTICSEARCH_HOST} from proxy routing..."
        bundle exec rails r "Setting.set('proxy_no', '${ELASTICSEARCH_HOST}')"

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[fliebe92]

One more finding that has no diff line to hang on:

No CI coverage for this block. zammad/ci/full-values.yaml leaves zammadConfig.elasticsearch.enabled and initialisation at their defaults, so only the bundled-Elasticsearch path is ever installed, and no job asserts that proxy_no actually ends up set. A regression here (wrong gate, wrong helper, broken interpolation) passes CI silently. Acceptable for a change this size, but worth stating explicitly rather than leaning on the install-chart jobs.

[mgruner]

@fliebe92 on the CI coverage point — you were right that nothing covered this, so rather than just stating it, 0b3b8b7 adds an assertion to the helm test rake task:

{{- if and .Values.zammadConfig.elasticsearch.initialisation .Release.IsInstall }}
puts 'Checking if the Elasticsearch host is excluded from proxy routing…'
if Setting.get('proxy_no').to_s.exclude?('{{ include "zammad.elasticsearchHost" . }}')
  raise "Elasticsearch host is missing from the 'proxy_no' setting."
end

The .Release.IsInstall guard is load-bearing. .github/ct.yaml sets upgrade: true, so ct install --upgrade installs 18.0.5 first, then upgrades to 18.1.0 and runs the new chart's tests against it. That release's database was seeded by the old init job, so User.any? is already true when the new init job runs and the first-install branch is skipped — correctly. Without the guard the assertion would fail every upgrade leg. Since helm test runs the hook manifest stored at the last install/upgrade, IsInstall is exactly the right discriminator.

This covers the default (bundled ECK) path, which is what ci/default-values.yaml and ci/full-values.yaml install. The external-Elasticsearch path still has no install coverage — it would need a reachable external cluster — so that one remains render-checked only.

Also, for the record on Copilot's suppressed suggestion to append to proxy_no rather than overwrite it: not needed. proxy_no seeds with state: '' (db/seeds/settings.rb), so there is nothing to preserve on a first install, and NO_PROXY_DEFAULT (localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1) is prepended unconditionally in lib/user_agent/http_client.rb:78 regardless of the setting's value. Overwriting loses nothing, and it matches the merged entrypoint.

[mgruner]

Root cause of the failing assertion, with evidence from run 34576918975 — worth recording because it is a property of the chart, not of this change.

helm install --wait returns before the init job completes. The init job is deliberately not a Helm hook (job-init.yaml:10-12, the --wait deadlock), and --wait does not wait for Jobs at all — --wait-for-jobs is a separate flag, in Helm 3 as well as Helm 4. (Corrected: this comment originally called it Helm 4 behaviour, which was wrong — thanks @fliebe92 for the catch.) So helm test starts while postgresql-init is still running:

time	event
08:03:32	helm install … --wait starts
08:04:29	postgresql-init begins migrating a fresh database
08:04:41	still seeding — Setting.set('storage_provider', "S3"), after the seed-file loop, before locale/translation install
08:05:02	helm install --wait returns, helm test starts
08:05:15	assertion fails with proxy_no=""

The other release in the same run confirms it independently: at 08:05:17 its init pod was still inside elasticsearch-init running searchindex:rebuild, although its helm test had already run and passed.

The seeding itself was healthy — the assertion reported users=2, overviews=10, schedulers=29. Nothing was wrong with the proxy_no write; the test simply looked too early.

Fixed in 9ba5903 by waiting for the initialisation rather than racing it, once for the whole suite so later database dependent checks inherit it. elasticsearch-init sets es_url and only runs after postgresql-init succeeded, so a present es_url is a usable completion signal that needs no API access from the test pod. activeDeadlineSeconds on the test job goes from 30 to 600 to outlast the wait.

Beyond this PR: the same race means helm install --wait reports a release ready while migrations and seeding are still in progress. That affects ct install, ArgoCD syncs and anything scripting --wait — not something this PR introduces or should fix, but it is now documented here rather than lost.

[mgruner]

Measured the --wait-for-jobs approach and reverted it — it was correct but far too expensive, so the wait is back inside the test, now gated on .Release.IsInstall as @fliebe92 suggested.

Per-leg phase totals, install-chart (v1.37.0, full):

approach	install	upgrade	tests	total
no wait (20786e1)	109/127/126s	19/2s	13–15s	454s
wait in the test	96/129/76s	23/1s	15–51s	498s
--wait-for-jobs	195/192/195s	91/83s	15–17s	834s

--wait-for-jobs makes every helm install and helm upgrade block on a complete init job cycle — three Rails boots plus migrate/seed plus Elasticsearch index work — including the previous-revision install and both upgrades, which never needed to wait for this assertion. Six and a half minutes per leg for a gate that costs 44 seconds in the test. It does leave a real gap: ct install can still report success on a half-initialised release. Documented rather than fixed, since closing it costs that much.

The measured waits also settle two earlier open questions. They are 25–86s, so the cost is genuine initialisation time rather than polling overhead; and the post-upgrade invocations really were waiting, because without --wait-for-jobs the previous revision's init job was often still running when ct upgraded, so es_url was not yet set.

The 86s matters for a second reason: it is past the 80s ceiling (failureThreshold: 20 × periodSeconds: 4) of the railsserver startup probe that the test container was inheriting through containerSpec. The rake pod never listens on that port, so the probe could only ever kill it. That leg passed only because the probes had already been removed — hence that change staying in.

--wait-for-jobs is still the right advice for anyone scripting installs or using ArgoCD, so it stays documented in the README.

[mgruner]

Root cause of the intermittent proxy_no="" failures, fixed in e1479ba. It was a stale settings cache in the test process — the init job was correct the whole time.

From the failing test pod's own log:

12:22:28.28  Using memcached as Rails cache store          ← boot
12:22:29.78  ActionCable is configured …                   ← first Setting read, @@current populated
12:22:30.07  Waiting for the database initialisation to finish…
12:22:40.07    Database initialisation has finished, waited 10s.
12:22:40.07  Elasticsearch host '…' is missing from the 'proxy_no' setting ().

And from the same release's init job, which ran to completion:

12:22:24.96  Excluding zammad-rt0c5lpvaq-es-es-http from proxy routing...
12:22:38.32  postgresql init complete :)

Setting.load populated @@current at 12:22:29.8, before the init job's Setting.set('proxy_no', …) landed. cache_valid? short-circuits while @@lookup_at is newer than @@lookup_timeout (ZAMMAD_SETTING_TTL, 15s by default), so the read at 12:22:40.1 — 10.3s later — was served from the in-process cache and never re-queried. The database already held the right value. One Setting.reload before the check fixes it.

Two things worth recording:

The es_url version never hit this by accident. Its wait loop called Setting.reload on every attempt to see es_url appear, which incidentally left the later proxy_no read fresh. Replacing the loop with a Rails.cache flag removed the wait's dependency on settings, and with it the side effect that was keeping the assertion honest.

Two independent bugs produced an identical symptom. proxy_no="" on a healthy install was first the --wait race (helm install --wait does not wait for Jobs) and then this. Fixing the first exposed the second, which is why this took several rounds.

@fliebe92 — your retry-safety concern is not what was failing here: the init job demonstrably took the first-install branch and wrote the value. The exposure you described is still real and still unaddressed by agreement, and the Excluding … line in the init log is the way to tell the two apart if it ever does show up.