webhook

pkg/webhook

A focused HTTPS server for Kubernetes validating admission webhooks. Given TLS credentials and a set of validator functions keyed by resource GVK, it speaks the AdmissionReview v1 protocol, dispatches to the right validator, and shuts down cleanly on context cancellation.

The package intentionally does not handle certificate provisioning — issuance, the Secret, the CA bundle, or ValidatingWebhookConfiguration management — those are the controller's and Helm chart's concern (the chart provisions the Secret plus validatingwebhookconfiguration.yaml). It does serve and hot-reload the mounted cert files it's pointed at: when ServerConfig.CertDir is set, the server re-reads tls.crt/tls.key from that directory on content change, so a cert-manager renewal is picked up without a restart. Keeping this library narrow means it can be reused by any controller that already has a cert pipeline.

Module path: github.com/haproxy-haptic/HAPTIC. Source is authoritative (go doc ./pkg/webhook); this README is a short map.

Minimal Example

import (
    "context"
    "log"

    "github.com/haproxy-haptic/HAPTIC/pkg/webhook"
)

func main() {
    // In production, point the server at the directory where the TLS Secret
    // is mounted (cert-manager writes tls.crt/tls.key there). The server
    // re-reads them per handshake and hot-reloads on rotation — no restart.
    srv, err := webhook.NewServer(&webhook.ServerConfig{
        Port:    9443,
        CertDir: "/etc/webhook/certs",
        // For unit tests without a mounted Secret, set CertPEM/KeyPEM instead
        // to serve a fixed cert.
        // BindAddress defaults to 0.0.0.0, Path to /validate,
        // ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout to 10s.
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    srv.RegisterValidator("networking.k8s.io/v1.Ingress", validateIngress)
    srv.RegisterValidator("gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1.HTTPRoute", validateHTTPRoute)

    ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
    defer cancel()
    if err := srv.Start(ctx); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}

func validateIngress(ctx *webhook.ValidationContext) (bool, string, []string, error) {
    // ctx.Object / ctx.OldObject are *unstructured.Unstructured.
    // ctx.Operation is "CREATE" / "UPDATE" / "DELETE" / "CONNECT".
    // ctx.UserInfo carries the requester identity.
    return true, "", nil, nil
}

RegisterValidator is thread-safe and suits a static table. Reconfiguring callers use ReplaceValidatorGeneration to swap a complete table atomically; it waits for requests using the previous generation before calling that generation's retirement callback.

Types at a Glance

• ServerConfig — port (default 9443), bind address, path (default /validate), read/write timeouts, and the TLS source. In production set CertDir to the directory holding tls.crt/tls.key (typically the mounted cert Secret); the server resolves the cert per handshake via a tls.Config.GetCertificate callback and a certReloader that re-parses the files on content change — a cert-manager renewal is served without a restart. When CertDir is unset (e.g. unit tests), it serves a fixed cert from the PEM-encoded CertPEM/KeyPEM instead.
• Server — wraps an http.Server and atomically dispatches each request through one validator generation.
• ValidationContext — everything the server extracts from an AdmissionRequest: Object, OldObject, Operation, Namespace, Name, UID, UserInfo. Object and OldObject are *unstructured.Unstructured; Object can be nil on DELETE, in which case metadata comes from OldObject.
• ValidationFunc — func(*ValidationContext) (allowed bool, reason string, warnings []string, err error). The allowed/reason pair maps to AdmissionResponse.Allowed and .Status.Message; warnings surfaces as AdmissionResponse.Warnings (visible to kubectl users even when allowed is true). A non-nil error is treated as a denied decision (Allowed: false, Result.Code: 500, Result.Message: "validation error: <err>") — not a transport-layer HTTP 500. The HTTP response itself is always 200 OK with a well-formed AdmissionReview. The API server's failurePolicy only kicks in when the webhook fails to respond (TLS handshake failure, malformed body, etc.); a ValidationFunc returning an error never triggers it.

GVK Keys

Keys are version.Kind for core types and group/version.Kind otherwise:

"v1.Pod"
"v1.ConfigMap"
"apps/v1.Deployment"
"networking.k8s.io/v1.Ingress"
"gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1.HTTPRoute"

Unknown GVKs are rejected with a denial message — the server never calls an unregistered validator.

Endpoints Exposed

• POST <Path> — admission endpoint.
• GET /healthz — 200 OK when the server is running. Useful as a liveness probe without interacting with the cert pipeline.

The admission endpoint accepts a JSON admission.k8s.io/v1 AdmissionReview with a nonempty request.uid. Malformed envelopes return HTTP 400; bodies larger than 16 MiB return HTTP 413 before validation. The limit includes the new object, old object, and admission metadata. Responses contain the decision and matching UID without echoing the request objects.

Graceful Shutdown

Start(ctx) blocks until either the HTTP serve loop fails or ctx is cancelled. On cancellation it calls http.Server.Shutdown with a 30-second deadline and joins the serve loop. Any in-flight admission calls run to completion subject to that deadline.

What's NOT In This Package

Deliberate omissions — and where to look instead in this repo:

Testing

go test ./pkg/webhook/...           # unit tests
go test ./pkg/webhook/... -race     # race detector

Server-level tests bring up a real TLS listener on a random port with a self-signed cert and exercise the AdmissionReview request/response path. Validator-level tests should call the ValidationFunc directly with a crafted ValidationContext — the server's dispatch logic is exercised once in the server tests, not in every validator's test suite.

See Also

• Kubernetes admission webhooks reference
• AdmissionReview v1 API
• pkg/controller/webhook — event adapter that owns the Server lifecycle inside the controller
• The controller passes the mounted Secret directory to the server via ServerConfig.CertDir, which the server reads and hot-reloads on rotation; the Helm chart provisions and mounts that Secret
• docs/site/docs/development/crd-validation-design.md — why the webhook lives in the controller pod and fails closed

License

Apache-2.0 — see root LICENSE.