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Why

helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway is deployed today but has no source anywhere. It
exists only as a published OCI artifact with two tags. It is consumed as a
pinned chart dependency by the NVCF umbrella chart, so the deployed topology
depends on a chart nobody can read, review, or change. This recovers the source
and puts it under normal review.

What changed

Unpacked the newest published artifact, helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway:0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1,
and imported it at deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway. The
chart files are byte for byte identical to the artifact. The only added file
inside the chart is .helmignore, which helm package strips and so could not
be recovered; it is copied from ess-api.

Around it, the standard chart subtree scaffolding, matching
deploy/helm/encrypted-secret-store: .gitignore, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md,
Makefile (release vanity-gateway, namespace nvcf, helm_dir
helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway), README.md, and values.local.yaml. Also adds
tools/ci/helm-validate-values/vanity-gateway.yaml, mirroring ess.yaml.

Diff between the two published tags, for the record. 0.1.0-nvcf-10204.0 is not
imported:

  • adds values.schema.json
  • adds vanityGateway.shutdown, wiring terminationGracePeriodSeconds (330)
    and a preStop sleep hook (70s) into the deployment, so pods drain instead of
    being cut off
  • changes the default config.secretsPath from a hardcoded agent-injected path
    to empty
  • appVersion 1.25.0 becomes 1.25.0-nvcf-10204.0

Plan Summary

Renders 6 objects with the CI validation values: ServiceAccount, 2 ConfigMaps
(env and route mapping), Service, Deployment, ServiceMonitor. With chart
defaults alone it renders 5, since serviceMonitor.enabled is false. Nothing
is deployed by this PR.

Usage

cd deploy/helm/vanity-gateway
make lint
make template

Testing

helm lint passes with only the icon is recommended INFO. helm template
renders the 6 objects above. values.local.yaml renders too, at replica count

  1. make validate was not run; kubeconform is not installed locally.

The chart renders on defaults alone, but vanityGateway.image.registry is empty
by default and produces an unqualified image reference, so the CI values set a
registry and repository. Note that values.schema.json requires a non-empty
image.repository, so unlike the ESS chart, values.local.yaml cannot blank it
out; it keeps the default repository and leaves only the registry empty.

Notes

No release lane is registered, deliberately. 0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 is not a
version the release tooling accepts (it wants X.Y.Z, X.Y.Z-dev.N, or
X.Y.Z-rc.N), so initial_version cannot be set from it. Nothing was added to
tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json and no tag or Release was created.
Recommendation: renumber version to 0.2.0 and set appVersion to the plain
image tag, then register the lane in a follow-up. 0.2.0 rather than 0.1.0
because 0.1.0 sorts below the two artifacts already published, which would
make the first released chart look older than what is deployed.

The chart version and appVersion still carry a nvcf-10204 build token. It is
kept here so the imported files match the published artifact exactly, but it is
another reason to renumber before release.

OSS hygiene: scanned the unpacked chart and all added files for internal GitLab
hosts, artifact and vault endpoints, internal URLs and IPs, private tracker IDs,
and credential-shaped strings. Nothing found that cannot be published. The only
hits were Apache license URLs, the nvcr.io OCI host default copied verbatim
from the existing ESS Makefile, the in-cluster DNS name
invocation.nvcf.svc.cluster.local, and the version strings above. Notably the
older artifact defaulted secretsPath to an agent-injected secrets path; the
imported version no longer does.

Provenance that could not be determined: which repo and pipeline built these two
artifacts. They are absent from deploy/helm/, the archived GitLab umbrella, the
*-colocated-deploy repos, and the archived gateway service repo (whose deploy
repo is Kustomize, not Helm). There is no config/charts entry and no dispatcher
tag prefix for it. So the build lane that produced these tags is still unknown,
and until this chart has a release lane there is nothing keeping it in sync.

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feat(vanity-gateway): import the vanity-gateway helm chart

The chart existed only as a published OCI artifact. No source tree for it
was present in this repo or in any known upstream project, so the chart was
recovered by unpacking helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway:0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 and is
imported here byte for byte, plus a .helmignore that packaging strips.

Adds the usual chart subtree scaffolding (Makefile, README, AGENTS.md,
values.local.yaml) and CI validation values, matching the shape of
deploy/helm/encrypted-secret-store.

No release lane is registered. The published version 0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 is
not a form the release tooling accepts, so the chart needs renumbering to a
plain X.Y.Z before it can ship from here.

Co-authored-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a Helm chart for deploying and configuring the Vanity Gateway on Kubernetes.
    • Supports configurable replicas, images, services, ports, resources, scheduling, graceful shutdown, service accounts, and route mappings.
    • Added optional Prometheus metrics collection through ServiceMonitor.
    • Added validation for chart settings and route configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Added installation, upgrade, configuration, validation, packaging, and release guidance.
    • Documented chart metadata, prerequisites, defaults, and operational behavior.
  • Chores

    • Added local development values and Helm packaging, deployment, and validation commands.

The chart existed only as a published OCI artifact. No source tree for it
was present in this repo or in any known upstream project, so the chart was
recovered by unpacking helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway:0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 and is
imported here byte for byte, plus a .helmignore that packaging strips.

Adds the usual chart subtree scaffolding (Makefile, README, AGENTS.md,
values.local.yaml) and CI validation values, matching the shape of
deploy/helm/encrypted-secret-store.

No release lane is registered. The published version 0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 is
not a form the release tooling accepts, so the chart needs renumbering to a
plain X.Y.Z before it can ship from here.

Co-authored-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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The pull request adds the NVCF Vanity Gateway Helm chart. It defines configuration schemas, Kubernetes resources, deployment and packaging commands, and chart documentation.

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Vanity Gateway Helm Chart

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Chart contract and default configuration
deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway/Chart.yaml, values.yaml, values.schema.json, deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/values.local.yaml, tools/ci/helm-validate-values/vanity-gateway.yaml
Defines chart metadata, default values, environment values, and schemas for gateway settings and route mappings.
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deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway/templates/*
Renders naming helpers, ConfigMaps, Deployment, Service, ServiceAccount, and optional ServiceMonitor resources.
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deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/Makefile, README.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .gitignore, helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway/.helmignore
Adds Helm lifecycle, validation, packaging, and OCI publication targets. Documents chart usage and excludes generated or local artifacts.

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The imported chart’s default values omit pod and container security controls, weakening runtime isolation, and its clean target deletes packaged artifacts without an explicit confirmation guard. These are bounded risks that warrant owner awareness or follow-up, but the supplied evidence does not indicate a release-blocking correctness or availability issue.

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  participant Gateway
  Operator->>Makefile: run install
  Makefile->>Helm: install chart with values
  Helm->>Kubernetes: create ConfigMaps, Deployment, Service, and ServiceAccount
  Kubernetes->>Gateway: start configured pods
  Gateway->>Kubernetes: expose HTTP and admin endpoints
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20-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unreachable values guard.

Line 20 always defines values before GNU Make evaluates lines 46-48. The error branch cannot run.

Remove the guard and document the default, or redesign the variable contract. Check the shared Helm Makefile pattern before applying a chart-only change.

Based on learnings: values := $(helm_dir)/values.yaml before ifndef values makes the guard unreachable and should be corrected consistently across the shared template.

Also applies to: 46-48

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In `@deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/Makefile` at line 20, Remove the unreachable
values guard around the values assignment and align the change with the shared
Helm Makefile template pattern. Preserve the default values path defined by the
values variable, and update the shared pattern consistently rather than making
only a chart-specific correction.

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`@deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway/templates/deployment.yaml`:
- Around line 44-47: Update the deployment security context configuration around
podSecurityContext to provide secure defaults even when the values map is empty:
enforce non-root execution, RuntimeDefault seccomp, and a read-only root
filesystem, and configure the container security context to disable privilege
escalation and drop capabilities. Add writable volumes only where the gateway
runtime requires filesystem writes.

In `@deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/Makefile`:
- Around line 91-92: Update the clean target to delete packaged-charts only when
an explicit confirmation variable such as CONFIRM_CLEAN=yes is provided;
otherwise refuse or skip deletion. Find and update automated callers of this
Makefile target to pass the confirmation variable.

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In `@deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/Makefile`:
- Line 20: Remove the unreachable values guard around the values assignment and
align the change with the shared Helm Makefile template pattern. Preserve the
default values path defined by the values variable, and update the shared
pattern consistently rather than making only a chart-specific correction.
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Recording the versioning decision so it is not lost between this pull request and the publishing lane.

Anchor: initial_version: "0.2.0". Add to tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json:

{
  "id": "vanity-gateway-helm",
  "path": "deploy/helm/vanity-gateway",
  "service_name": "helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway",
  "initial_version": "0.2.0"
}

service_name must be the chart's published name, not the service's. The service is vanity-gateway and its image is nvcf-ai-api-gateway-service, so both read as plausible here and both are wrong: either would publish into an empty third repository and strand the two versions already in ncp-dev, while the pipeline reported success.

Consequence, stated plainly: an anchor is "the last version already released", so the first release computes above it. With 0.2.0 the first published chart will be 0.2.1 or 0.3.0; 0.2.0 itself is never cut. That is the intended choice. (An anchor of 0.1.0 would have made 0.2.0 the first published release instead. Either sorts above the existing 0.1.0-nvcf-10204.* artifacts, since a release outranks its own prereleases.)

Two Chart.yaml changes still needed:

  • version: 0.0.0 # autoversioning enabled via release pipeline — every released chart in this repo does this, and the real version comes from the git tag. Leaving 0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 would diverge from every sibling and be overwritten at publish anyway.
  • appVersion: "1.25.0" — dropping the nvcf-10204 build token, which is a ticket reference rather than an image tag.

Do not create a tag or a GitHub Release for the anchor version. initial_version alone is sufficient; the anchor is synthesised during the release run. Creating a Release for an already-published anchor is what caused repeated failing pipelines on cloud-tasks v1.4.4 and notary v1.4.2, both of which had to be deleted by hand.

One coupling to watch. The publishing lane in the internal repo pins chart_dir to deploy/helm/vanity-gateway/helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway. If this pull request moves the chart directory, that value has to move with it or the publish fails after cloning with no Chart.yaml at <chart_dir>. A guard test pins the value on that side, so a mismatch shows up as a test failure rather than at release time.

Publishing lane: nvcf-internal MR !157. It carries no version decision, so it is unaffected by whatever this pull request settles on.

vrv3814 and others added 3 commits August 14, 2026 22:02
The label was built as `printf "%s-%s" .Chart.Name .Chart.Version` with none
of the `replace "+" "_" | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-"` that the helm create
scaffold applies and that every sibling chart in deploy/helm carries.

helm and helmfile pass .Chart.Version as "0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1", so the label is
valid and nothing fails there. Flux does not: helm-controller passes the OCI
artifact revision, "0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1+14abb5bad4ee", and SemVer build metadata
is illegal in a label value. Server-side apply then rejects every object in the
release:

  ServiceAccount "vanity-gateway" is invalid: metadata.labels: Invalid value:
  "helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway-0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1+14abb5bad4ee": a valid label must
  be an empty string or consist of alphanumeric characters, '-', '_' or '.',
  and must start and end with an alphanumeric character

Reproduced with a HelmRelease against
helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway:0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1 pulled through an OCIRepository:
InstallFailed on all five objects (ServiceAccount, both ConfigMaps, Service,
Deployment). gateway-routes, llm-api-gateway, llm-request-router, nvct-api,
grpc-proxy, rate-limiter and helm-reval all install cleanly under the same
controller because they have the replace.

Rendering the published chart with the version helm-controller supplies:

  before  helm.sh/chart: "helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway-0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1+14abb5bad4ee"
  after   helm.sh/chart: "helm-nvcf-vanity-gateway-0.1.0-nvcf-10204.1_14abb5bad4ee"

All five objects then carry a valid label. `helm lint` is unchanged, still only
the "icon is recommended" INFO.

Note that neither `helm lint` nor `helm template` can catch this: both supply a
version with no '+', so CI stays green either way.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
appVersion was 1.25.0-nvcf-10204.0, and image tag defaults to
`default .Chart.AppVersion .Values.vanityGateway.image.tag`, so a chart install
that does not override image.tag resolves to that tag.

nvcr.io/0651155215864979/ncp-dev/nvcf-ai-api-gateway-service:1.25.0-nvcf-10204.0
is published arm64-only. Its OCI index carries linux/arm64 plus an
unknown/unknown attestation entry and no linux/amd64 manifest, so on amd64 nodes
the pull fails:

  Failed to pull image ".../nvcf-ai-api-gateway-service:1.25.0-nvcf-10204.0":
  no match for platform in manifest: not found

-> ImagePullBackOff, Deployment never becomes available.

Enumerated all 47 tags in that repository: 46 are linux/amd64 + linux/arm64.
1.25.0-nvcf-10204.0, the one this chart pinned, is the only arm64-only tag. That
is consistent with it being a branch build pushed outside the normal lane;
config/services/vanity-gateway.yaml builds
//src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway:image_index, which is multi-arch.

Moves to 1.32.1, the current release (tag
src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/v1.32.1, announced in #nv-nvcf-cicd
on 2026-08-13), which is multi-arch.

This also drops the nvcf-10204 build token from appVersion, which the PR
description already flagged as needing to go before the chart can be released.
`version` still carries it and still needs renumbering to a plain X.Y.Z before a
release lane can be registered.

Verified on a k3d cluster (amd64): with the arm64-only tag the pod sits in
ImagePullBackOff; on a multi-arch tag it reaches 1/1 Running and serves /health
200 through the Gateway API HTTPRoute.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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