Cluster targets dial the upstream via the host network stack, so an
empty Host leaves the proxy with nothing to dial and DirectUpstream=false
would route the request through the embedded NetBird client (wrong
network for a cluster address). Validate() and validateTargetReferences
now reject both shapes.
Tests:
- TestValidate_HTTPClusterTarget / _RequiresTargetId /
TestValidate_Private_{AcceptsClusterTargetWithAccessGroups,
RequiresAccessGroups, RejectsBearerAuth} updated to populate Host and
DirectUpstream so they exercise the path past the new gates.
- TestValidate_HTTPClusterTarget_RequiresHost and _RequiresDirectUpstream
pin the two new error paths.
- TestValidateTargetReferences_ClusterTargetSkipsLookup updated to set
DirectUpstream on its fixture; new _ClusterTargetRequiresDirectUpstream
test covers the store-side rejection.
Drive-bys (no behavior change beyond what existing tests cover):
- proxy/proxy.go: shortened the Capabilities.Private / Cluster.Private
doc comments.
- users/manager.go: moved the GetUserWithGroups doc from the interface
to the impl.
- proxy/cmd/proxy/cmd/root.go: removed unused NewRootCmd.
- tunnel_cache.go: bumped tunnelCacheTTL from 30s to 300s (matches the
"5 minutes" target documented on the constant; existing TTL-expiry
test uses the constant directly so the bump is picked up automatically).
Adds a new "private" service mode for the reverse proxy: services
reachable exclusively over the embedded WireGuard tunnel, gated by
per-peer group membership instead of operator auth schemes.
Wire contract
- ProxyMapping.private (field 13): the proxy MUST call
ValidateTunnelPeer and fail closed; operator schemes are bypassed.
- ProxyCapabilities.private (4) + supports_private_service (5):
capability gate. Management never streams private mappings to
proxies that don't claim the capability; the broadcast path applies
the same filter via filterMappingsForProxy.
- ValidateTunnelPeer RPC: resolves an inbound tunnel IP to a peer,
checks the peer's groups against service.AccessGroups, and mints
a session JWT on success. checkPeerGroupAccess fails closed when
a private service has empty AccessGroups.
- ValidateSession/ValidateTunnelPeer responses now carry
peer_group_ids + peer_group_names so the proxy can authorise
policy-aware middlewares without an extra management round-trip.
- ProxyInboundListener + SendStatusUpdate.inbound_listener: per-account
inbound listener state surfaced to dashboards.
- PathTargetOptions.direct_upstream (11): bypass the embedded NetBird
client and dial the target via the proxy host's network stack for
upstreams reachable without WireGuard.
Data model
- Service.Private (bool) + Service.AccessGroups ([]string, JSON-
serialised). Validate() rejects bearer auth on private services.
Copy() deep-copies AccessGroups. pgx getServices loads the columns.
- DomainConfig.Private threaded into the proxy auth middleware.
Request handler routes private services through forwardWithTunnelPeer
and returns 403 on validation failure.
- Account-level SynthesizePrivateServiceZones (synthetic DNS) and
injectPrivateServicePolicies (synthetic ACL) gate on
len(svc.AccessGroups) > 0.
Proxy
- /netbird proxy --private (embedded mode) flag; Config.Private in
proxy/lifecycle.go.
- Per-account inbound listener (proxy/inbound.go) binding HTTP/HTTPS
on the embedded NetBird client's WireGuard tunnel netstack.
- proxy/internal/auth/tunnel_cache: ValidateTunnelPeer response cache
with single-flight de-duplication and per-account eviction.
- Local peerstore short-circuit: when the inbound IP isn't in the
account roster, deny fast without an RPC.
- proxy/server.go reports SupportsPrivateService=true and redacts the
full ProxyMapping JSON from info logs (auth_token + header-auth
hashed values now only at debug level).
Identity forwarding
- ValidateSessionJWT returns user_id, email, method, groups,
group_names. sessionkey.Claims carries Email + Groups + GroupNames
so the proxy can stamp identity onto upstream requests without an
extra management round-trip on every cookie-bearing request.
- CapturedData carries userEmail / userGroups / userGroupNames; the
proxy stamps X-NetBird-User and X-NetBird-Groups on r.Out from the
authenticated identity (strips client-supplied values first to
prevent spoofing).
- AccessLog.UserGroups: access-log enrichment captures the user's
group memberships at write time so the dashboard can render group
context without reverse-resolving stale memberships.
OpenAPI/dashboard surface
- ReverseProxyService gains private + access_groups; ReverseProxyCluster
gains private + supports_private. ReverseProxyTarget target_type
enum gains "cluster". ServiceTargetOptions gains direct_upstream.
ProxyAccessLog gains user_groups.
The internal Target model uses a plain bool for ProxyProtocol,
which was always serialized to the API response as false even
when not configured. Only set the API field when true so it
gets omitted via omitempty when unset.
The expose tracker used sync.Map for in-memory TTL tracking of active expose sessions, which broke and lost all sessions on restart.
Replace with SQL-backed operations that reuse the existing meta_last_renewed_at column:
- Add store methods: RenewEphemeralService, GetExpiredEphemeralServices, CountEphemeralServicesByPeer, EphemeralServiceExists
- Move duplicate/limit checks inside a transaction with row-level locking (SELECT ... FOR UPDATE) to prevent concurrent bypass
- Reaper re-checks expiry under row lock to avoid deleting a just-renewed service and prevent duplicate event emission
- Add composite index on (source, source_peer) for efficient queries
- Batch-limit and column-select the reaper query to avoid DB/GC spikes
- Filter out malformed rows with empty source_peer
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