feat(eduide): redirect ended sessions to the landing page instead of a bare 404 by Mtze · Pull Request #39 · EduIDE/EduIDE-Helm

Mtze · 2026-09-23T17:22:16Z

The problem

The operator gives every session its own HTTPRoute, owner-referenced to the Session, so Kubernetes garbage-collects it the moment the session is deleted. The session path then matches nothing.

For the student that is: a dead tab, and an error page on reload, with no explanation and no way back to the landing page.

The change

The instances route's catch-all rule becomes a redirect to the landing page's /session-ended.

Why it goes on that route and not a new one. Gateway API defaults an omitted spec.rules to a single PathPrefix: / rule — there is a default: on that field in the HTTPRoute CRD, in both v1.2.1 and v1.3.0:

rules:
  default:
  - matches:
    - path:
        type: PathPrefix
        value: /

So this route has always had a catch-all rule; it was just an empty one with no backendRefs, which is why an ended session currently answers 5xx rather than a plain 404. A separate route with its own / rule would tie with it on path length and lose the creation-timestamp tie-break on every upgrade — the redirect would never be reached. (That was the first version of this PR; thanks to the review for catching it.)

Why live sessions are safe. Matches are ranked across all routes on a listener by hostname, then by characters in the matching path. A session's /<uid>/ prefix — and its Exact rule — are longer than / and outrank it.

Why the operator and Helm do not fight over this object. IngressManager.buildSessionRoute copies only parentRefs and hostnames from this template onto each per-session route. It never reads or writes rules, so a rule here is not inherited by session routes and is never patched away.

Why 302 is enforced. Production runs eagerStart: true, so session paths are /<appdef>-<instance>/ and are reused by the next student. A cached 301 would permanently break that instance in that browser for everyone who lands on it afterwards. The cluster chart's redirect template argues for 301 for its own case (dead hostnames); that reasoning does not transfer, so a template-level fail rejects anything but 302.

Gated on landingPage.enabled as well as its own flag — with either off, the route falls back to the defaulted empty rule, i.e. today's behaviour.

Also in here

Three places claimed the operator patches rules into httproute-instances.yaml and that it ships rules: []. Both halves were false. Corrected in the template header, the kubeconform justification in ci.yml, and the AGENTS.md conventions bullet. The -skip HTTPRoute stays; only the reason changes.

Verification

./scripts/resolve-deps.sh charts/eduide
helm lint charts/eduide                  # 0 failed
./scripts/test-app-consistency.sh        # ALL PASS
docker run ... jnorwood/helm-docs:v1.14.2

Render-diff of base vs head across all 8 environments: zero lines removed; the only change is the rules: block appearing on the existing instances route.

Guards checked by rendering:

Setting	Result
default	redirect rule on the instances route, covering the instance and `*.webview.` hostnames
`landingPage.enabled=false`	no rule emitted
`sessionEndedRedirect.enabled=false`	no rule emitted
`statusCode=301`	render fails with the eager-path-reuse reason

Before production

Please confirm match precedence on staging first — it has its own listener sections, so the blast radius is contained. With a session live, its path must still answer normally (not redirect), while a nonsense path must give 302 .../session-ended.

This is a prerequisite for the landing page's /session-ended page (EduIDE-Landing-Page#46), which explains what happened and offers to resume.

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A session's HTTPRoute is owner-referenced to its Session, so Kubernetes garbage-collects it the moment the session ends. The path then matches nothing and Envoy answers a bare 404: the student's tab is stuck, and reloading only produces a browser error with no way back. Add a catch-all route on the instance hostnames that redirects anything no live session claims to the landing page's /session-ended. Kept as a separate route rather than a rule on httproute-instances.yaml: that route is an input the operator READS - it copies its parentRefs and hostnames onto each per-session route - and leaving it rule-free keeps that one-way relationship intact. Live sessions are unaffected. Gateway API ranks matches across routes on a listener by hostname, then by characters in the matching path, so a session's /<uid>/ prefix and its Exact rule both outrank /. 302 only, enforced by a template fail. Eager sessions reuse instance paths (/<appdef>-<instance>/), so a cached 301 would permanently break an instance in that browser for every student who lands on it afterwards - the opposite of the argument the cluster chart's redirect template makes for its own case. Also corrects the claim, in three places, that the operator patches rules into httproute-instances.yaml and that it ships `rules: []`. It reads that route and never writes it, and the field is omitted rather than empty. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Walkthrough

The chart adds a configurable HTTPRoute that redirects unmatched instance requests to the landing page. It also updates chart documentation, release notes, and version metadata, and clarifies how the operator uses the instance route template.

Changes

Ended-session redirects

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and render the redirect route `charts/eduide/values.yaml`, `charts/eduide/templates/httproute-session-ended.yaml`, `charts/eduide/templates/httproute-instances.yaml`, `.github/workflows/ci.yml`, `AGENTS.md`	Adds redirect settings and a conditional HTTPRoute. The route redirects unmatched requests to the landing page path and can include wildcard instance hostnames. Comments clarify that the operator copies `parentRefs` and `hostnames` from the instance template and explain the kubeconform schema false positive.
Document and version the chart `charts/eduide/Chart.yaml`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `charts/eduide/README.md`	Updates the chart version and README badge to 2.2.0. The changelog and README describe the redirect and its default settings.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant GatewayAPI as Gateway API
  participant SessionRoute as session-ended HTTPRoute
  Client->>GatewayAPI: Request an instance path
  GatewayAPI->>SessionRoute: Evaluate the catch-all route
  SessionRoute-->>GatewayAPI: Provide landing-page redirect
  GatewayAPI-->>Client: Return redirect to the configured path

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e52fe

The new redirect to the landing page is meant to replace the bare error users see when they reach an ended session. On existing installations, the older instance route likely still claims those requests, so users keep getting an error instead of the redirect. This does not break live sessions, but the feature probably will not work as shipped. Fix the instance route or confirm precedence in staging before merging.

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diff -ru out-base/bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:05.741928315 +0000
+++ out-head/bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:07.981942272 +0000
@@ -637,6 +637,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "bonn.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:05.894929268 +0000
+++ out-head/e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:08.142943275 +0000
@@ -1580,6 +1580,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:06.029930109 +0000
+++ out-head/eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:08.297944241 +0000
@@ -1015,6 +1015,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "eduide.artemis.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:06.160930926 +0000
+++ out-head/mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:08.454945220 +0000
@@ -649,6 +649,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "mannheim.eduide.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:06.314931885 +0000
+++ out-head/staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:08.612946204 +0000
@@ -1580,6 +1580,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "staging.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:06.471932863 +0000
+++ out-head/test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:08.770966900 +0000
@@ -1580,6 +1580,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "test1.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:06.625933823 +0000
+++ out-head/test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:08.926994132 +0000
@@ -1580,6 +1580,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "test2.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
diff -ru out-base/test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml out-head/test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml
--- out-base/test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:06.780934789 +0000
+++ out-head/test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de.yaml	2026-09-23 17:43:09.084021538 +0000
@@ -1580,6 +1580,20 @@
   hostnames:
   - "instance.test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
   - "*.webview.instance.test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+  rules:
+  - matches:
+    - path:
+        type: PathPrefix
+        value: /
+    filters:
+    - type: RequestRedirect
+      requestRedirect:
+        scheme: https
+        hostname: "test3.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de"
+        statusCode: 302
+        path:
+          type: ReplaceFullPath
+          replaceFullPath: "/session-ended"
 ---
 # Source: eduide/templates/httproute-landing.yaml
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1

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In `@charts/eduide/templates/httproute-session-ended.yaml`:
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Review caught that the separate route could never have worked. Gateway API DEFAULTS an omitted spec.rules to a single PathPrefix "/" rule - there is a `default:` on that field in the HTTPRoute CRD, in both v1.2.1 and v1.3.0. So the instances route has always had a catch-all rule, just an empty one with no backendRefs, which is why an ended session answers 5xx rather than a plain 404. A second route carrying its own "/" rule therefore ties with it on path length, and the tie goes to the older creation timestamp - the instances route, on every upgrade. The redirect would simply never have been reached. Putting the rule on the instances route replaces the defaulted one instead of losing to it. Session routes are untouched: their /<uid>/ prefix and Exact rules are longer than "/" and outrank it, and the operator copies only parentRefs and hostnames from this template, never rules. includeWildcardInstances goes away with the separate route - the instances route already carries the webview hostnames, so the redirect covers them by construction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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