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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions gateway/gateway-controller/cmd/controller/main.go
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Expand Up @@ -469,6 +469,22 @@ func main() {
slog.Int("total_apis", len(loadedAPIs)),
slog.Int("configs_loaded", loadedCount))

// Regenerate the Envoy xDS snapshot now that the transformers are wired (above)
// and runtime configs are loaded. The initial snapshot generated earlier ran
// before SetTransformers, so it fell back to the legacy translation path — naming
// clusters "cluster_<scheme>_<host>" and routes without the header-hash
// discriminator. The policy engine's resources are keyed off the transformer path
// ("upstream_<name>_<host>_<port>" clusters, header-hashed route names), so without
// this rebuild Envoy and the policy engine disagree: cluster-header APIs fail with
// cluster_not_found and header-matched routes 500 with "policy chain not found"
// until the first redeploy happens to re-run the transformer path.
log.Info("Regenerating xDS snapshot via transformer path after wiring transformers")
ctx, cancel = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
if err := snapshotManager.UpdateSnapshot(ctx, ""); err != nil {
log.Warn("Failed to regenerate xDS snapshot after transformer init", slog.Any("error", err))
}
cancel()

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Install the transformer-aware snapshot before serving xDS.

The xDS server starts at Line 391, before this refresh. Envoy can connect during that interval and receive the legacy snapshot created before translator.SetTransformers. If UpdateSnapshot times out or fails, SnapshotManager.UpdateSnapshot leaves the existing snapshot unchanged, while the policy snapshot below still uses transformer-derived resources. The controller can therefore start with the route and cluster mismatch this PR is intended to remove.

Move the first snapshot generation and xDS server startup after transformer wiring and runtime loading, or retry and fail startup until this refresh succeeds. Add a regression test for the failed-refresh path.

This follows the supplied gateway/gateway-controller/pkg/xds/snapshot.go implementation and the PR objective that Envoy and policy resources use the same transformer-derived names.

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In `@gateway/gateway-controller/cmd/controller/main.go` around lines 472 - 487,
Ensure transformer-aware snapshot generation completes successfully before the
xDS server starts serving connections: reorder the initial snapshot generation
and xDS startup around transformer wiring and runtime loading, or retry the
refresh and fail startup if it cannot succeed. Update the startup flow around
SnapshotManager.UpdateSnapshot and the xDS server initialization, and add a
regression test covering refresh failure without allowing a legacy snapshot to
be served.

// Generate initial policy snapshot
log.Info("Generating initial policy xDS snapshot")
ctx, cancel = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions gateway/gateway-controller/pkg/xds/translator.go
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Expand Up @@ -747,6 +747,17 @@ func (t *Translator) TranslateConfigs(
routesList, clusterList, err = t.eventGatewayHooks.TranslateWebSubAPI(t, cfg, configs)
}
} else {
// No transformer produced routes for a non-WebSub kind. If the kind has
// no transformer registered at all, we silently fell back here — a nil or
// unwired transformer map returns ok=false at the check above, with no
// error. Surface it, because the resulting Envoy snapshot uses legacy
// cluster/route naming that the policy engine's transformer-path resources
// don't match. (A transformer that errored is already logged above.)
if _, ok := t.transformers[cfg.Kind]; !ok {
log.Warn("No transformer registered for API kind; using legacy translation path",
slog.String("kind", cfg.Kind),
slog.String("id", cfg.UUID))
}
routesList, clusterList, err = t.translateAPIConfig(cfg, configs)
}
if err != nil {
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