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netbird/e2e/agentnetwork/settings_cluster_validation_test.go
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mlsmaycon 0a33ad8979 [management] Validate the proxy cluster an agent network bootstraps onto
The synthesised agent network gateway service is unconditionally private:
agents reach it over the WireGuard tunnel and are authorised by
ValidateTunnelPeer against the enabled policies' source groups, and its
only target is the cluster itself with DirectUpstream. Only a proxy
running embedded in a netbird client can serve that, which management
already reports per cluster as the `private` capability.

CreateSettings accepted any hostname as proxy_address, so a labeled
bootstrap could pin an account to a cluster that cannot serve its
gateway — another account's BYOP cluster, or one whose proxies are all
centralised. The endpoint assigned at bootstrap is immutable, so the
account is then stuck with a dead gateway until someone deletes and
re-bootstraps the settings row.

Validate the cluster before allocating an endpoint beneath it. Whether
management knows a cluster is decided on its proxy rows, never on how
fresh their heartbeats are: the rows outlive their proxies' liveness, so
a known cluster stays judged as one and has to prove with a live embedded
proxy that it can serve the gateway. Deciding on liveness instead would
let the same centralised cluster pass or fail depending on whether its
proxies had heartbeated in the last couple of minutes, turning "wait for
the proxy to go quiet" into a way to pin the endpoint to a cluster that
can never serve it. Ownership comes from the same time-independent
source, so a foreign cluster stays refused while it is offline.

Only a cluster no proxy has ever declared is still pinnable — that is the
address-first order the dedicated (self-addressed) path documents, and
the one self-hosted setups follow when they configure before deploying.
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//go:build e2e
package agentnetwork
import (
"context"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"github.com/netbirdio/netbird/e2e/harness"
"github.com/netbirdio/netbird/shared/management/http/api"
)
// TestSettingsBootstrapValidatesProxyCluster covers the bootstrap-time check
// on the picked cluster, end to end against a real proxy.
//
// The synthesised gateway service is always private: agents reach it over the
// WireGuard tunnel and are authorised by their peer identity. Only a proxy
// running embedded in a netbird client (`netbird proxy --private`) can serve
// that, and management reports it per cluster as the `private` capability —
// the same supports_private flag the dashboard reads to decide which clusters
// it may offer. The endpoint assigned at bootstrap is immutable, so pinning
// to a cluster that cannot serve it has to be refused up front rather than
// leaving the account with a dead gateway.
//
// One combined server and one cluster address, walked through three states:
// a live centralised proxy (refused), that proxy stopped so nothing in the
// cluster is live any more (still refused — the record of what the cluster is
// outlives its heartbeats), and finally an embedded proxy (accepted, the
// capability being any-true across the cluster's live proxies). Same account,
// same address, so nothing but the cluster's state accounts for the different
// answers.
func TestSettingsBootstrapValidatesProxyCluster(t *testing.T) {
ctx := context.Background()
fresh, err := harnessStartFresh(ctx, t)
require.NoError(t, err, "start dedicated combined server")
proxyToken, err := fresh.CreateProxyTokenCLI(ctx, "e2e-cluster-validation")
require.NoError(t, err, "mint proxy token via CLI")
const cluster = harness.AgentNetworkCluster
// A centralised proxy: connected and serving the cluster, but not
// embedded in a netbird client, so it cannot authenticate tunnel peers.
central, err := harness.StartProxy(ctx, fresh, proxyToken, map[string]string{
"NB_PROXY_PRIVATE": "false",
})
require.NoError(t, err, "start centralised proxy")
// Terminated mid-test; the cleanup only covers an early failure.
t.Cleanup(func() { _ = central.Terminate(context.Background()) })
waitClusterPrivate(ctx, t, fresh, cluster, false)
_, err = fresh.CreateSettings(ctx, api.AgentNetworkSettingsCreateRequest{
ProxyAddress: ptr(cluster),
})
require.Error(t, err, "bootstrap onto a cluster with no embedded proxy must be refused")
requireClientError(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "embedded proxy",
"the refusal must name what the cluster is missing: %v", err)
after, err := fresh.GetSettings(ctx)
require.NoError(t, err, "settings must still read after a refused bootstrap")
assert.Empty(t, after.Endpoint, "a refused bootstrap must not assign an endpoint")
assert.Empty(t, after.ProxyAddress, "a refused bootstrap must not pin a cluster")
// Stopping the centralised proxy must not turn the refusal into an
// acceptance: the cluster's proxy rows outlive their heartbeats (only the
// hourly stale reaper removes them), so the cluster is still on record as
// one that cannot serve the gateway. Judging on liveness instead would
// make "wait for the proxy to go quiet" a way to pin the account's
// immutable endpoint to a cluster that can never serve it.
require.NoError(t, central.Terminate(ctx), "stop the centralised proxy")
waitClusterAbsent(ctx, t, fresh, cluster)
_, err = fresh.CreateSettings(ctx, api.AgentNetworkSettingsCreateRequest{
ProxyAddress: ptr(cluster),
})
require.Error(t, err, "an offline cluster with no embedded proxy on record must stay refused")
requireClientError(t, err)
// Add an embedded proxy to the same cluster: now it can serve a private
// service, and the very same request must go through.
embedded, err := harness.StartProxy(ctx, fresh, proxyToken)
require.NoError(t, err, "start embedded proxy")
t.Cleanup(func() { _ = embedded.Terminate(context.Background()) })
waitClusterPrivate(ctx, t, fresh, cluster, true)
bootstrapped, err := fresh.CreateSettings(ctx, api.AgentNetworkSettingsCreateRequest{
ProxyAddress: ptr(cluster),
})
require.NoError(t, err, "bootstrap onto a private-capable cluster must succeed")
assert.Equal(t, cluster, bootstrapped.ProxyAddress, "the pinned cluster is the requested one")
assert.True(t, strings.HasSuffix(bootstrapped.Endpoint, "."+cluster),
"the endpoint must hang one label beneath the cluster: %s", bootstrapped.Endpoint)
}
// waitClusterPrivate polls the domains endpoint — the list the dashboard picks
// its bootstrap cluster from — until the free domain for clusterAddr reports
// supports_private == want. A proxy's capabilities land when it registers, so
// this is the barrier between starting a proxy and asserting on what
// management thinks its cluster can do.
func waitClusterPrivate(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, c *harness.Combined, clusterAddr string, want bool) {
t.Helper()
deadline := time.Now().Add(90 * time.Second)
var last string
for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
domains, err := c.API().ReverseProxyDomains.List(ctx)
if err != nil {
last = "list domains: " + err.Error()
} else {
last = "cluster not listed"
for _, d := range domains {
if d.Domain != clusterAddr {
continue
}
if d.SupportsPrivate == nil {
last = "supports_private not reported yet"
break
}
if *d.SupportsPrivate == want {
return
}
last = "supports_private is not the expected value"
break
}
}
if !waitBeforeRetry(ctx, 2*time.Second) {
break
}
}
t.Fatalf("cluster %s never reported supports_private=%v: %s", clusterAddr, want, last)
}
// waitClusterAbsent polls the domains endpoint until clusterAddr is no longer
// offered, i.e. management sees no live proxy in it. The free-domain list is
// built from the active clusters, so this is how a proxy going away becomes
// observable — while the cluster's rows, and so its capability record, remain.
func waitClusterAbsent(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, c *harness.Combined, clusterAddr string) {
t.Helper()
deadline := time.Now().Add(90 * time.Second)
var last string
for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
domains, err := c.API().ReverseProxyDomains.List(ctx)
if err != nil {
last = "list domains: " + err.Error()
} else {
listed := false
for _, d := range domains {
if d.Domain == clusterAddr {
listed = true
break
}
}
if !listed {
return
}
last = "cluster still listed as active"
}
if !waitBeforeRetry(ctx, 2*time.Second) {
break
}
}
t.Fatalf("cluster %s never dropped out of the active list: %s", clusterAddr, last)
}