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Implements Proposal 0007, which responds to a consumer request to move generic transport and instrumentation glue out of host applications.

The request originally asked for four things. A scope review cut it to three, on the grounds that the library should stay small and the Kubernetes API server should remain the authority on identity and watch counts:

Request Outcome
Bounded SSE writes and flushes Accepted — the gateway owns the byte seam
Lifecycle observations Accepted, narrowed — balanced lifetimes only, no new fields
Public ResolveSubject kube helper Declined as public API — shipped in the tested example instead
Composition example and capacity guidance Accepted — reusing manual cluster tooling, no new CI workflow

Authorization telemetry and upstream-watch gauges are deliberately deferred. Consumers should keep those wrappers; this change does not replace them.

1. Bounded HTTP delivery

Options.WriteTimeout / Gateway.WriteTimeout bound each HTTP write plus flush under one absolute deadline, covering headers, frames, heartbeats and terminal events. Zero installs no deadline, so existing hosts are unaffected; negative values panic at mount.

  • Successful operations clear the deadline, so a quiet stream outlives many timeout periods.
  • A failed operation poisons the sink and cancels its stream — a queued heartbeat or terminal frame cannot revive a broken transport.
  • Flush errors and short writes now propagate instead of being discarded.
  • CheckHTTPStreaming lets a host assert its actual mounted middleware stack supports flush and deadlines, in its own test, before deploying.

Known tradeoff: with a positive bound, a writer that cannot provide deadlines aborts with http.ErrAbortHandler and reports http_transport_rejected. No unbounded diagnostic frame is attempted, so browsers may reconnect. An unsupported writer cannot guarantee both bounded completion and delivery of an explanation; the abort is the honest failure. This is why CheckHTTPStreaming and the middleware recipe exist.

2. Balanced lifecycle observations

Three new kinds, no new Observation fields: stream_closed, shared_subscription_opened, shared_subscription_closed.

These count logical streams and active attachments. They are not HTTP request counts and not physical API-server watch counts — docs/operations.md says so explicitly and points at apiserver_longrunning_requests for the latter. terminal_error's meaning is corrected in both its doc comment and the operations runbook: it is observed before the terminal frame is attempted and never implied delivery.

3. Tested host example

gateway/kube/examples/sharedstream composes one process-wide shared backend, participant SelfSubjectReview, service-account SARs, fixed scope, session expiry, bounded delivery and a low-cardinality counter mapping. Subject resolution is a local function, not public API, and the docs are prominent that a service-account client resolves the service account.

Breaking changes

  • WriteSSEHeaders is removed. Use Gateway.ServeStream / ServeStreamProjection, which own headers, delivery and cleanup.
  • SSESink.Heartbeat now returns an error; callers must stop the stream on failure.
  • NewSSESink(io.Writer) stays generic and installs no HTTP deadline.

The v1 wire protocol, browser store and conformance fixtures are unchanged.

Verification

task fixtures-check, task test and task lint pass, plus go test -race ./... in both gateway and gateway/kube. The new socket and HTTP/2 transport tests were run at -race -count=3 to check timing stability. New tests cover non-reading peers, healthy streams idle across multiple timeout periods, header/heartbeat/flush/short-write failures, transparent Unwrap and opaque middleware, HTTP/2 isolation on one connection, and balanced lifetimes under concurrent and warm-cache joins, denial, revocation, overflow and repeated cleanup.

Real-cluster run

The e2e scenario has now been run on k3s v1.36.2+k3s1 and recorded in docs/facts/shared-host-rehearsal.md:

Observation Result
200 independent identities reached synced 109.2 ms
API-server ConfigMap WATCH requests baseline 26 → 27 with all 200 streaming
One RBAC grant withdrawn mid-stream closed in 27.3 s; 199 peers retained
After all disconnects API watch count and host gauges back to baseline

The +1 is measured from apiserver_longrunning_requests on the API server, not from the library's own counters. This replaces the consumer's reported numbers with first-party evidence for the sharing claim.

Its first run failed, and the failure was worth having. activeConfigMapWatches reads a cluster-wide gauge with no namespace label, and go test ./... runs packages in parallel, so the backend e2e suite's own real watches inflated the reading and the cleanup assertion failed at API=26 against baseline=23. Run alone it passes cleanly, and the gauge was verified stable at 26 while idle afterwards — the library was never at fault. Fixed by serializing the cluster packages with -p 1 and documenting that the scenario needs exclusive use of the cluster (commit ed5c4d0).

What the run does not show: no proxy (loopback httptest), no browsers, no resource limits, one sample rather than a distribution, and service-account tokens rather than logins. It is not a capacity guarantee and does not extend the supported Kubernetes version policy.

Review note

Proposal 0007 suggests reviewing the three increments separately. They landed as one commit because increments 1 and 2 are genuinely coupled — the transport rejection path emits an observation defined by increment 2 — and the docs cross-reference all three. The sections above are the intended review boundaries.

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable HTTP write timeouts for streaming responses.
    • Added streaming capability checks and clearer rejection handling for unsupported transports.
    • Added stream and shared-subscription lifecycle observations.
    • Added a copyable Kubernetes shared-stream host example with authentication, authorization, session expiry, bounded SSE delivery, and counters.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guidance for shared-host composition, operations, transport limits, monitoring signals, and authentication behavior.
    • Added a real-cluster rehearsal record and updated examples and changelogs.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for streaming failures, stalled clients, lifecycle tracking, authorization, cancellation, and real-cluster execution.

Implements Proposal 0007 after a scope review that cut it from four increments
to three: transport correctness, a minimal set of balanced lifecycle events,
and a tested host example. Identity resolution stays in the example rather than
becoming public API, and the real-cluster scenario reuses `task test-cluster`
instead of adding a CI workflow.

Transport: add opt-in `Options.WriteTimeout` / `Gateway.WriteTimeout` bounding
each HTTP write plus flush under one absolute deadline, covering headers,
frames, heartbeats and terminal events. Successful operations clear the
deadline so quiet streams outlive many timeout periods; a failed operation
poisons the sink and cancels its stream rather than being retried. Flush errors
and short writes now propagate. Add `CheckHTTPStreaming` so hosts can test a
mounted middleware stack before deploying it.

With a positive bound, a writer that cannot provide deadlines aborts before
streaming and reports `http_transport_rejected`. No unbounded diagnostic frame
is attempted, so clients may reconnect; this is a deliberate tradeoff, since an
unsupported writer cannot guarantee both bounded completion and delivery of an
explanation.

Observations: add `stream_closed`, `shared_subscription_opened` and
`shared_subscription_closed` with no new `Observation` fields. These count
logical streams and active attachments. They are not HTTP request counts and
not physical API-server watch counts; measure those independently. HTTP entry
and authorization instrumentation stay host-owned for now.

BREAKING CHANGE: `WriteSSEHeaders` is removed; use `Gateway.ServeStream` or
`ServeStreamProjection`, which own headers, delivery and cleanup.
`SSESink.Heartbeat` now returns an error and its caller must stop the stream on
failure. `NewSSESink(io.Writer)` stays generic and installs no HTTP deadline.
The v1 wire protocol is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The gateway adds bounded SSE delivery, transport rejection handling, and stream lifecycle observations. A new Kubernetes shared-stream example resolves participant identities, authorizes a fixed ConfigMap scope, tracks counters, and documents real-cluster validation.

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Shared stream integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded HTTP streaming
gateway/handler.go, gateway/sse.go, gateway/stream.go, gateway/sse_test.go, gateway/CHANGELOG.md, gateway/README.md, docs/operations.md, docs/proposals/0007-shared-stream-host-integration.md
Adds WriteTimeout, serialized write/flush operations, transport capability checks, deadline cleanup, flush error propagation, failed-sink handling, and HTTP streaming tests.
Lifecycle observations
gateway/observe.go, gateway/shared.go, gateway/lifecycle_test.go, gateway/stream.go, docs/operations.md
Adds stream and shared-subscription open/close observations, transport rejection observations, observer concurrency contracts, and lifecycle tests.
Shared Kubernetes host
gateway/kube/examples/sharedstream/*, gateway/kube/authz.go, gateway/kube/CHANGELOG.md, examples/README.md, docs/adopting.md, docs/auth.md, docs/facts/shared-host-rehearsal.md, Taskfile.yml, docs/proposals/0006-stream-and-save-implementation-plan.md
Adds a shared ConfigMap host with SelfSubjectReview identity resolution, service-account authorization, fixed scope enforcement, session expiry, counters, documentation, and serial real-cluster test execution.

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Bounded SSE delivery

Shared host request flow

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The cluster transport requirement should be clarified or enforced before merge to avoid exposing service and participant credentials through an unsafe host configuration. The rehearsal command should also be made directly reproducible.

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TestSharedHostRealAPI reads apiserver_longrunning_requests, a cluster-wide gauge
with no namespace label, so every other ConfigMap watcher is counted too. Under
`go test ./...` the backend e2e package runs concurrently and its own real
watches inflated the reading, failing the final cleanup assertion at API=26
against a baseline of 23.

The library was never at fault: run alone, the scenario shows exactly one
upstream watch for two subscribers and returns to baseline on cleanup. Serialize
the cluster packages with -p 1 and say in the test that it needs exclusive use
of the cluster.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds docs/facts/shared-host-rehearsal.md for a manual run on k3s v1.36.2+k3s1:
200 independent identities synced in 109 ms and cost exactly one additional
API-server ConfigMap watch, one withdrawn grant closed its stream in 27.3 s
while 199 peers kept streaming, and the watch count returned to baseline.

Measured from apiserver_longrunning_requests on the API server, not from the
library's own counters. The file states what the run does not show: no proxy,
no browsers, no resource limits, one sample rather than a distribution, and no
statement of Kubernetes version support.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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In `@docs/facts/shared-host-rehearsal.md`:
- Line 14: Update the documented shared-host rehearsal command to state that it
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- Line 37: Update Handler’s initial configuration validation to reject clusters
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Comment thread docs/facts/shared-host-rehearsal.md Outdated
Comment thread gateway/kube/examples/sharedstream/handler.go
The example's Handler sends the service-account token and every participant
token across the supplied rest.Config. A cleartext or Insecure configuration
put both on the wire in the clear, and rest.IsConfigTransportTLS alone does not
catch that: it only checks that the scheme is https and deliberately ignores
Insecure.

Reject both at construction, before any client exists. AnonymousClientConfig
carries CAData, CAFile, ServerName and Insecure through to the participant
client, so one check at construction covers both identities.

The boundary test now runs against httptest.NewTLSServer with verification left
on, trusting the server's own certificate rather than skipping the check, and
asserts that cleartext and Insecure configurations are refused. The cluster
fixture is unaffected: task cluster-kubeconfig already keeps verification on via
--tls-server-name.

Also state the working directory for the rehearsal command in
docs/facts/shared-host-rehearsal.md; ./examples/sharedstream/ resolves relative
to gateway/kube, which task test-cluster sets but a reader at the repository
root does not.

Both issues were raised by CodeRabbit on #35.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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