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52 changes: 40 additions & 12 deletions deploy/helm/sie-cluster/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -738,7 +738,10 @@ Use one of these patterns deliberately:
through `/v1/pools` with `queue_pool` set to that physical queue. Use a
logical pool name that does not collide with the protected static queue-pool
name, or target the static pool directly. SDK calls use
`gpu="<logicalPool>/<machineProfile>"`.
`gpu="<logicalPool>/<machineProfile>"`. A logical pool created with
`ttl_seconds: "never"` does not expire either, like a static queue pool, but
stays API-owned: it can be changed and deleted through `/v1/pools` and is held
to the pool API bounds below.

Missing named pools intentionally do not fail open. Falling back from
`pool=default,machineProfile=l4` to `pool=l4,machineProfile=l4` would cross the
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1383,7 +1386,9 @@ and `POST /v1/configs/resolve`. They accept the token in the Secret named by
`gateway.auth.adminTokenSecretName` (key `gateway.auth.adminTokenSecretKey`,
default `SIE_ADMIN_TOKEN`), which the chart passes to the gateway as
`SIE_ADMIN_TOKEN`. When it is empty, those requests get `403` (`Admin token not
configured`). The chart does not generate this token, and it must be separate
configured`). The gateway also accepts the admin token wherever it accepts a
client token, so an engineer who manages pools can use one key to create a
pool and send it traffic. The chart does not generate this token, and it must be separate
from the sie-config tokens: the render fails when it names the Secret and key
of the sie-config admin token, which would give every gateway pod catalog
write access, or of the read token, which every worker sidecar holds.
Expand All @@ -1394,8 +1399,8 @@ write access, or of the read token, which every worker sidecar holds.
- **sie-config read token:** sie-config, every gateway pod, and every worker
sidecar. It can read the whole catalog, including every model config, but
cannot write.
- **Gateway admin token (when set):** every gateway pod and the tooling that
manages pools.
- **Gateway admin token (when set):** every gateway pod and the tooling and
engineers that manage pools. It also works as a client token.
- **Gateway client token (when set or generated):** API clients, every gateway
pod, and every worker sidecar, which presents it when it calls the gateway.
See [Securing the cluster](#securing-the-cluster).
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1935,20 +1940,43 @@ an admin token is configured.

With gateway token auth, pool create, renew, and delete also require the
gateway admin token (see [Gateway admin token](#gateway-admin-token)).
Independently of auth, the gateway bounds API-created pools:

The chart sets the envelope that pools work inside: the machine profiles and
lanes in `workers.pools`, and each lane's KEDA `maxReplicas`. Within it, API
callers create pools. Independently of auth, the gateway bounds API-created
pools:

- the warm floor (`minimum_worker_count`, which applies to each of the pool's
machine profiles) and the `gpus` requirement may each add up to at most 4
workers per pool by default, and a pool's active lease keeps at most its
requirement warm;
- the lease TTL is capped at 3600 s by default;
- live API-created pools are capped at 64 by default. Each gateway replica
checks the pools it knows, including ones replicated from other replicas,
so concurrent creates on different replicas can briefly exceed the cap; it
is not a strict cluster-wide limit.
requirement warm. This bounds only the always-on floor: KEDA still scales
the lane above it on queue depth and pending demand, up to the lane's
`maxReplicas`, and a pool without `gpu_caps` is assigned every worker on its
lanes;
- a pool's lease (`ttl_seconds`) is capped at 30 days by default with gateway
auth on, and at one hour with it off, so one unauthenticated request cannot
hold warm capacity for long. A pool created with `ttl_seconds: "never"` has
no lease and lives until it is deleted; the gateway accepts it only with
gateway auth on, where the request carries the admin token, and refuses it
with `403` otherwise;
- live API-created pools are capped at 64 by default, pools that never expire
included. Each gateway replica checks the pools it knows, including ones
replicated from other replicas, so concurrent creates on different replicas
can briefly exceed the cap; it is not a strict cluster-wide limit.

Tune them with `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_MINIMUM_WORKER_COUNT`,
`SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S`, and `SIE_GATEWAY_MAX_POOLS` in `gateway.extraEnv`.
`SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S`, and `SIE_GATEWAY_MAX_POOLS` in `gateway.extraEnv`;
an explicit `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S` overrides either TTL default.

Give services that only send traffic a client token rather than the admin
token: the admin token can also change and delete every pool.

> **Upgrade note:** finish rolling out the gateway before you create a pool
> with `ttl_seconds: "never"`, change an existing pool to it, or give a pool a
> lease longer than one hour. A gateway replica from an earlier release cannot
> read a pool that never expires, keeps its older copy of the pool, and caps
> leases at one hour, so it can delete such a pool when that copy's lease runs
> out, which removes it from every replica.

> **Upgrade note (breaking):** `values-aws.yaml`, `values-gke.yaml`, and
> `values-aks.yaml` used to enable a host-less, TLS-less Ingress in front of an
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Expand Up @@ -358,9 +358,9 @@ gateway:
# -- Existing Secret with the gateway admin token (key:
# adminTokenSecretKey). With mode token or static, the gateway requires it
# on POST, PUT, and DELETE under /v1/pools, /v1/admin, and /v1/configs;
# when empty, those requests get 403. It must not name the Secret and key
# of either sie-config token or the gateway client token (the render
# fails).
# when empty, those requests get 403. The gateway also accepts it wherever
# it accepts the client token. It must not name the Secret and key of
# either sie-config token or the gateway client token (the render fails).
adminTokenSecretName: ""
adminTokenSecretKey: "SIE_ADMIN_TOKEN"

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1823,7 +1823,9 @@ queueRouting:
# lowercase before gateway storage/routing. Use this when
# poolAdmission.enabled=true and a worker group sets a named non-default
# workers.pools.<name>.queuePool but the pool is static/deploy-owned rather
# than created through the expiring /v1/pools API.
# than created through the /v1/pools API. They report ttl_seconds "never",
# like an API pool created to never expire, but stay operator-owned: the API
# cannot change or delete them and the pool API limits do not apply.
#
# Example:
# staticQueuePools:
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Expand Up @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ See [`docs/architecture-guide.md`](docs/architecture-guide.md) for the authorita
- **Worker discovery** — static URLs or Kubernetes service endpoints
- **Health monitoring** — WebSocket streaming or NATS heartbeats
- **Queue transport** — JetStream work publish, reply inbox collection, backpressure handling, and DLQ republish
- **Pool management** — named pools with TTLs, minimum worker counts, and Kubernetes-backed coordination
- **Pool management** — named pools with leases of up to 30 days or no expiry (with gateway auth on), warm floors that the lane autoscales above, and Kubernetes-backed coordination
- **Model registry** — filesystem seed + background-retried snapshot from `sie-config` (`GET /v1/configs/export`) + live NATS deltas + periodic `GET /v1/configs/epoch` drift detection; the gateway is read-only
- **Config write cutover** — `POST /v1/configs/models` is not registered on the gateway. Requests receive `405 Method Not Allowed` from axum's default router. Writes belong to the control plane at `SIE_CONFIG_SERVICE_URL`
- **Worker-ack readiness** — `GET /v1/configs/models/{id}/status` reports per-replica `bundle_config_hash` acknowledgement plus the local `config_epoch` for admin tooling polling after a `sie-config` write
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Each `--flag` above has a matching `SIE_*` environment variable (see next sectio
| `SIE_AUTH_MODE` | `none` | Auth mode for inbound requests: `none` disables, `token` (alias `static`) enforces. Values are case-sensitive. An unknown value, including `sie-server`'s `auto`, refuses every request with `500` except the probes and the API description (`/healthz`, `/readyz`, `/openapi.json`, `/docs`), and `main` logs a startup error naming the bad value. While it is unset on a non-loopback bind and the configuration is otherwise valid, `main` logs a warning: from 0.13.0 the gateway refuses to start that way |
| `SIE_AUTH_TOKENS` | | CSV of valid tokens for inference and pool/config read endpoints, presented as `Authorization: Bearer <token>` or `x-api-key: <token>` (the first `Authorization` value decides when it carries a token, and `x-api-key` is then ignored; when that value is empty or blank, `x-api-key` decides; an unreadable first value is refused, and `Bearer` alone counts as the token `Bearer`). Later `Authorization` values are ignored, as before. A request that passes authentication with a repeated `Authorization` header whose values carry different tokens, include one the gateway cannot read, or carry a token only after the first value logs a warning once per process (a refused request never logs it); from 0.13.0 such a request gets `401`. Repeated `x-api-key` values that carry different tokens get `401`. If unset, the singular `SIE_AUTH_TOKEN` is used as a fallback. When auth is enabled and this list is empty, non-probe requests return `500` |
| `SIE_AUTH_TOKEN` | | Singular alias for `SIE_AUTH_TOKENS` (fallback only; prefer the plural form) |
| `SIE_ADMIN_TOKEN` | | Admin bearer token the gateway requires inbound for admin-gated mutations: `POST/PUT/DELETE` on `/v1/configs/*`, `/v1/admin/*`, `/v1/pools/*`. If empty and an inbound request targets one of those paths, the middleware fails closed with `403`. Sent to `sie-config` only when `SIE_CONFIG_SERVICE_TOKEN` is unset (deprecated fallback) |
| `SIE_ADMIN_TOKEN` | | Admin bearer token the gateway requires inbound for admin-gated mutations: `POST/PUT/DELETE` on `/v1/configs/*`, `/v1/admin/*`, `/v1/pools/*`. If empty and an inbound request targets one of those paths, the middleware fails closed with `403`. The admin token is also accepted wherever an `SIE_AUTH_TOKENS` token is, so one key can create a pool and send it traffic; give services that only send traffic an `SIE_AUTH_TOKENS` token instead, since the admin token can also change and delete every pool. Sent to `sie-config` only when `SIE_CONFIG_SERVICE_TOKEN` is unset (deprecated fallback) |
| `SIE_CONFIG_SERVICE_TOKEN` | | Bearer token the gateway presents **as a client** on its `sie-config` reads (`/v1/configs/bundles`, `/export`, `/epoch`): `sie-config`'s read-scoped `SIE_CONFIG_READ_TOKEN`. When set, it decides and a blank value sends no token; when unset, the gateway falls back to `SIE_ADMIN_TOKEN` and logs a deprecation warning |
| `SIE_WORKER_AUTH_TOKEN` | | Token the gateway presents as `Authorization: Bearer` when it dials a worker's `/ws/status` (`ws` health mode). Set it to the workers' `SIE_AUTH_TOKEN` when workers require a token. Like that variable it may list comma-separated tokens; the gateway presents the first. The dial uses plain `ws://`, so the token crosses the network unencrypted: keep the gateway-to-worker network trusted. Startup fails when it is not a valid header value |
| `SIE_AUTH_EXEMPT_OPERATIONAL` | `false` | When `true`, `/`, `/health`, and `/ws/*` are exempt from auth (they expose worker URLs, queue depth, GPU inventory). `/healthz` and `/readyz` are always exempt (K8s probes carry no creds). Default is fail-closed |
Expand All @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ Each `--flag` above has a matching `SIE_*` environment variable (see next sectio
| `SIE_GATEWAY_LANE_BACKPRESSURE_ENFORCE` | `false` | Act on the per-lane decision. Off = shadow mode: the decision is computed and recorded, and admission is governed by `SIE_GATEWAY_MAX_STREAM_PENDING` alone. On = a saturated lane gets a targeted 503 while other lanes on the same pool keep admitting |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS` | `1024` | Output-token cap applied to `/v1/chat/completions` requests that omit both `max_completion_tokens` and `max_tokens`. OpenAI treats the field as optional, so the gateway defaults rather than rejecting — generic clients (Open WebUI) rely on this |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_ENABLE_POOLS` | `false` | Enable pool management |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_MINIMUM_WORKER_COUNT` | `4` | Largest number of workers one API-created pool may keep warm. `POST /v1/pools` rejects with `400 INVALID_REQUEST` a `minimum_worker_count` whose total across the pool's machine profiles (the floor applies to each profile) exceeds it, and `gpus` requirements summing to more than it. A pool stored before this budget existed is allotted it in machine-profile name order: it becomes Active once the allotted workers are available, its active lease keeps only those warm, and its warm floor is spread over its lanes (at least one worker each on as many lanes as the budget allows). Static Helm queue pools are exempt |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S` | `3600` | Largest `ttl_seconds` `POST /v1/pools` accepts; larger values get `400 INVALID_REQUEST`. The lease of any stored pool, including one restored from Kubernetes, expires no later than this many seconds after its last renewal. `0` is ignored with a warning |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_MINIMUM_WORKER_COUNT` | `4` | Largest number of workers one API-created pool may keep warm. It bounds only the always-on floor: KEDA still scales each lane above it on demand, up to the lane's Helm `maxReplicas`, and an uncapped pool is assigned every worker on its lanes. `POST /v1/pools` rejects with `400 INVALID_REQUEST` a `minimum_worker_count` whose total across the pool's machine profiles (the floor applies to each profile) exceeds it, and `gpus` requirements summing to more than it. A pool stored before this budget existed is allotted it in machine-profile name order: it becomes Active once the allotted workers are available, its active lease keeps only those warm, and its warm floor is spread over its lanes (at least one worker each on as many lanes as the budget allows). Static Helm queue pools are exempt |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S` | `2592000` (30 days) with gateway auth on, `3600` with it off | Largest numeric `ttl_seconds` `POST /v1/pools` accepts; larger values and `0` get `400 INVALID_REQUEST`. The default depends on whether pool writes require the admin token, so that one unauthenticated request cannot hold warm capacity for long; setting the variable overrides either default. The lease of any stored pool with a lease, including one restored from Kubernetes, expires no later than this many seconds after its last renewal. `ttl_seconds: "never"` is outside this limit: it creates a pool without a lease that lives until it is deleted, and the gateway accepts it only with gateway auth on (`SIE_AUTH_MODE=token`, so the request carries the admin token); with auth off it is refused with `403 POOL_OPERATION_FORBIDDEN`. `0` is ignored with a warning |

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

State which value the trailing "0 is ignored with a warning" sentence refers to.

This row describes two different zero values with opposite behavior:

  • A request with ttl_seconds: 0 gets 400 INVALID_REQUEST. The row says so earlier.
  • An environment value of SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S=0 is ignored with a warning, and the gateway uses the default. pool_limits_from_env in packages/sie_gateway/src/config.rs does this.

The final sentence comes right after the "never" description and does not name its subject. A reader can take it to mean that a request with ttl_seconds: 0 is ignored, and that contradicts the 400 statement. Name the variable in that sentence.

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-... with auth off it is refused with `403 POOL_OPERATION_FORBIDDEN`. `0` is ignored with a warning |
+... with auth off it is refused with `403 POOL_OPERATION_FORBIDDEN`. Setting `SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S=0` is ignored with a warning, and the default applies |
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Update the README table entry for SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S so the trailing
zero-value statement explicitly refers to setting SIE_GATEWAY_POOL_MAX_TTL_S=0,
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| `SIE_GATEWAY_MAX_POOLS` | `64` | Largest number of live API-created pools (the `default` pool and static Helm queue pools do not count). Creating one more gets `403 POOL_OPERATION_FORBIDDEN`; `0` disables API pool creation. Each replica checks the pools it knows, including ones replicated from other gateways, so concurrent creates on different replicas can briefly exceed it |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_HOT_RELOAD` | `false` | Enable filesystem watcher for bundle/model directories |
| `SIE_GATEWAY_WATCH_POLLING` | `false` | Use polling file-watcher instead of inotify/fsevents (alias: `SIE_GATEWAY_POLLING_WATCHER`). Useful on filesystems where native notifications are unreliable |
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| GET | `/v1/pools` | List pools |
| POST | `/v1/pools` | Create pool |
| GET | `/v1/pools/{name}` | Get pool details |
| POST | `/v1/pools/{name}/renew` | Renew pool TTL |
| POST | `/v1/pools/{name}/renew` | Renew a pool's lease (a no-op for a pool that never expires) |
| DELETE | `/v1/pools/{name}` | Delete pool (default pool protected) |

### Config API (read-only)
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