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package/src/server/underpost-gateway.js

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+/**
+ * The centralized gateway infrastructure service.
+ *
+ * One Nginx deployment is the cluster's single edge utility layer: it serves
+ * every host's status pages, maintenance pages and shared edge contexts, and it
+ * reverse-proxies the application workloads whose errors it is asked to
+ * intercept. Application runtimes stay agnostic — they return a standard status
+ * code or become unreachable, and nothing about status page delivery lives in
+ * them.
+ *
+ * Interception is Nginx's `proxy_intercept_errors`, not an Envoy response
+ * substitution, because only it satisfies all three constraints at once: the
+ * document is served from disk so its size is unbounded, the upstream's status
+ * code is preserved, and the client's URI never changes. Envoy's own mechanisms
+ * substitute an inline body capped at 4096 bytes, and Envoy cannot re-dispatch a
+ * request to another cluster once the upstream has answered.
+ *
+ * Layout under the Nginx root:
+ *   <root>/<host>/<path>/status-pages/<status>/index.html
+ *   <root>/<host>/<path>/<context>/...
+ *   <root>/conf.d/<host>.conf                    generated server blocks
+ * where `<path>` is the proxy sub-path with `/` written as `root`, so
+ * `www.cyberiaonline.com` + `/` + 404 becomes
+ * `www.cyberiaonline.com/root/status-pages/404/index.html`.
+ *
+ * @module src/server/underpost-gateway.js
+ * @namespace UnderpostGateway
+ */
+
+import crypto from 'node:crypto';
+import fs from 'fs-extra';
+import nodePath from 'node:path';
+import { timer } from '../client/components/core/CommonJs.js';
+import { instanceStatusPageEntriesFactory, loadConfServerJson, loadReplicas } from './conf.js';
+import Underpost from '../index.js';
+import { loggerFactory } from './logger.js';
+import { shellExec } from './process.js';
+
+const logger = loggerFactory(import.meta);
+
+/**
+ * @constant UNDERPOST_GATEWAY
+ * @description Identity of the shared gateway workload. One deployment serves
+ * every host of every deploy, so these names are cluster-wide constants rather
+ * than per-deploy.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const UNDERPOST_GATEWAY = {
+  name: 'underpost-gateway',
+  serviceName: 'underpost-gateway-service',
+  configMapName: 'underpost-gateway-nginx',
+  claimName: 'pvc-underpost-gateway',
+  volumeName: 'pv-underpost-gateway',
+  image: 'nginx:alpine',
+  root: '/var/www/static',
+  port: 80,
+  healthPath: '/healthz',
+  defaultHostDir: 'default',
+  confDir: 'conf.d',
+  // kube-dns's conventional ClusterIP; overridden from the live Service.
+  resolver: '10.96.0.10',
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method staticPathSegmentFactory
+ * @description Folds a proxy sub-path into one directory name. `/` has no
+ * directory of its own, so it is written as `root`; anything else keeps its
+ * segments joined by `-` to stay a single level under the host.
+ * @param {string} [path] - Proxy sub-path (`/`, `/peer`, `/app`).
+ * @returns {string} Directory name.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const staticPathSegmentFactory = (path = '/') => {
+  const segment = `${path || '/'}`.replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, '').replace(/\//g, '-');
+  return segment || 'root';
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method kubernetesUpstreamFactory
+ * @description Qualifies a short Kubernetes Service name for Nginx's runtime DNS resolver.
+ *
+ * Nginx uses the configured `resolver` whenever `proxy_pass` contains a
+ * variable. That resolver does not apply the pod's `/etc/resolv.conf` search
+ * suffixes, so `service-name:80` fails even though the same short name works in
+ * wget/curl. A fully-qualified Service DNS name is unambiguous and continues to
+ * resolve after the Service is recreated.
+ *
+ * Already-qualified hosts and IP literals are kept as supplied.
+ * @param {string} upstream - `host:port`.
+ * @param {string} [namespace] - Kubernetes namespace containing the Service.
+ * @returns {string} Runtime-resolvable upstream.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const kubernetesUpstreamFactory = (upstream, namespace = 'default') => {
+  const value = `${upstream || ''}`.trim();
+  const separator = value.lastIndexOf(':');
+  if (separator < 1) return value;
+  const host = value.slice(0, separator);
+  const port = value.slice(separator + 1);
+  if (host.includes('.') || host === 'localhost' || /^\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3}$/.test(host)) return value;
+  return `${host}.${namespace}.svc.cluster.local:${port}`;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method nginxTokenFactory
+ * @description A sub-path as an identifier nginx accepts. Variable names admit
+ * only word characters, so the `-` that {@link UnderpostGateway.staticPathSegmentFactory}
+ * joins multi-segment paths with cannot appear in one.
+ * @param {string} [path] - Proxy sub-path.
+ * @returns {string} Identifier-safe token.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const nginxTokenFactory = (path = '/') => staticPathSegmentFactory(path).replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, '_');
+
+/**
+ * @method staticLocationFactory
+ * @description The three forms every placed document is addressed by: where it
+ * sits under the root, the directory a prefix rewrite targets, and the exact URL
+ * a full-path rewrite targets.
+ *
+ * `dir` is what routes normally use. A `ReplacePrefixMatch` onto the directory
+ * lets one rule cover the document *and* everything beside it — `/maintenance`
+ * resolves through `try_files $uri/index.html`, while `/maintenance/logo.png`
+ * resolves through `$uri` — which is why the layout keeps each context in its
+ * own directory rather than as a bare file.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname the document belongs to.
+ * @param {string} [path] - Proxy sub-path the document belongs to.
+ * @param {string} context - Directory under the sub-path (`status-pages/404`, `maintenance`).
+ * @param {string} [file] - Document within the context.
+ * @returns {{ assetPath: string, dir: string, url: string }} Root-relative path, prefix target, full-path target.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const staticLocationFactory = ({ host, path = '/', context, file = 'index.html' }) => {
+  const dir = `${host}/${staticPathSegmentFactory(path)}/${context}`;
+  const assetPath = `${dir}/${file}`;
+  return { assetPath, dir: `/${dir}`, url: `/${assetPath}` };
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method statusPageAssetPathFactory
+ * @description Location of one host's status page.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname the page belongs to.
+ * @param {string} [path] - Proxy sub-path the page belongs to.
+ * @param {string|number} status - HTTP status code.
+ * @returns {{ assetPath: string, dir: string, url: string }} See {@link UnderpostGateway.staticLocationFactory}.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const statusPageAssetPathFactory = ({ host, path = '/', status }) =>
+  staticLocationFactory({ host, path, context: `status-pages/${status}` });
+
+/**
+ * @method statusPageBuildSegment
+ * @description Where a status page is built inside the client bundle, relative
+ * to that client's served root.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not `<status>/index.html`. A status page is an edge artifact, and
+ * a document sitting on the runtime's own `/<status>` route makes it an
+ * application route too: the runtime then has a page to serve — or to redirect to
+ * — for its own errors, which is exactly the URI change the edge exists to
+ * prevent. Kept under the same `status-pages` name the gateway layout uses, so
+ * both sides read one convention.
+ * @param {string|number} status - HTTP status code.
+ * @returns {string} Bundle-relative path of the document.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const statusPageBuildSegment = (status) => `status-pages/${status}/index.html`;
+
+/**
+ * @method defaultStatusPagePath
+ * @description Root-relative location of the shared fallback document.
+ * @param {string|number} [status] - HTTP status code.
+ * @returns {string} Root-relative path.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const defaultStatusPagePath = (status = 404) => `${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.defaultHostDir}/status-pages/${status}/index.html`;
+
+/**
+ * @method nginxConfFactory
+ * @description Renders the server config.
+ *
+ * The gateway always rewrites into the layout before forwarding, so `try_files`
+ * only has to resolve a path that is already root-relative: the document itself
+ * for an asset request, then `index.html` beneath it for a directory — which is
+ * what a `ReplacePrefixMatch` onto a context directory produces.
+ *
+ * A miss ends on the shared default page, so a host with nothing on disk still
+ * answers with a deliberate document — but through `error_page`, which keeps the
+ * 404 status rather than presenting the fallback as the host's own page with a
+ * 200. That status is what stops the document being stored: the PWA service
+ * worker caches navigations for hours and would otherwise keep serving the
+ * fallback long after the host's real page landed in the tree.
+ * @returns {string} nginx.conf contents.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const nginxConfFactory = ({ resolver = UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.resolver } = {}) => `worker_processes auto;
+error_log /dev/stderr warn;
+pid /tmp/nginx.pid;
+
+events {
+  worker_connections 1024;
+}
+
+http {
+  include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+  default_type text/html;
+  sendfile on;
+  tcp_nopush on;
+  server_tokens off;
+
+  gzip on;
+  gzip_vary on;
+  gzip_min_length 512;
+  gzip_types text/html text/css text/plain application/javascript application/json image/svg+xml;
+
+  log_format concise '$remote_addr "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$host"';
+  access_log /dev/stdout concise;
+
+  # Websocket upgrades must be forwarded verbatim; a proxied hop that drops the
+  # Connection header leaves the client holding a half-open socket.
+  map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
+    default upgrade;
+    ''      close;
+  }
+
+  # Cluster DNS as a literal address — nginx cannot resolve its own resolver.
+  # Needed because every upstream is passed through a variable: without it nginx
+  # resolves a Service name once at start-up and keeps the address for the life
+  # of the process, and a redeployed workload gets a new ClusterIP.
+  resolver ${resolver} valid=10s ipv6=off;
+
+  # Per-host server blocks, written into the volume by the deploy that owns the
+  # host. They live beside the documents rather than in this ConfigMap because
+  # the workload is shared: one deploy must not rewrite another's routing.
+  include ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.root}/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.confDir}/*.conf;
+
+  server {
+    listen ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port} default_server;
+    server_name _;
+    root ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.root};
+
+    error_page 404 /${defaultStatusPagePath(404)};
+
+    # Probes are the only traffic that would otherwise dominate the log.
+    location = ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.healthPath} {
+      access_log off;
+      add_header Content-Type text/plain;
+      return 200 'ok';
+    }
+
+    location = /${defaultStatusPagePath(404)} {
+      internal;
+      add_header Cache-Control 'no-store' always;
+    }
+
+    location / {
+      add_header Cache-Control 'public, max-age=60';
+      try_files $uri $uri/index.html =404;
+    }
+  }
+}
+`;
+
+/**
+ * @method statusPageLocationsFactory
+ * @description The internal locations an intercepted status resolves to, and the
+ * `error_page` lines that reach them.
+ *
+ * Each is `internal`, so a client cannot request the document at its storage
+ * path — it is only ever reached by interception, which is what keeps the
+ * client's URI unchanged. The `=` form is deliberately absent: `error_page 404
+ * /x` preserves the upstream's status, while `error_page 404 = /x` would rewrite
+ * it to the status of the page itself.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname the documents belong to.
+ * @param {string} [path] - Proxy sub-path the documents belong to.
+ * @param {Object<string,string>} statuses - Status code → context directory under the sub-path.
+ * @returns {{errorPages: string, locations: string}} Rendered `error_page` directives and their locations.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const statusPageLocationsFactory = ({ host, path = '/', statuses }) => {
+  const entries = Object.entries(statuses);
+  const named = (status) => `@status_${nginxTokenFactory(path)}_${status}`;
+  return {
+    errorPages: entries.map(([status]) => `    error_page ${status} ${named(status)};`).join('\n'),
+    locations: entries
+      .map(
+        ([status, context]) => `  location ${named(status)} {
+    add_header Cache-Control 'no-store' always;
+    try_files /${staticLocationFactory({ host, path, context }).assetPath} =${status};
+  }`,
+      )
+      .join('\n'),
+  };
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method hostServerConfFactory
+ * @description Renders one host's server block: every proxied sub-path, and the
+ * documents its errors are intercepted with.
+ *
+ * `proxy_intercept_errors` is the whole mechanism. The upstream answers 404 or
+ * dies, Nginx swaps in the document from disk, and the client sees its own URI
+ * with the upstream's status code — no redirect, no size ceiling, and nothing
+ * for the application runtime to implement. A sub-path that declares no status
+ * page is proxied untouched, so an API keeps returning its own error bodies.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname this block serves.
+ * @param {Array<object>} routes - `{ path, upstream, statuses, stripPrefix }` per proxied
+ *   sub-path; `statuses` maps a status code to the context directory holding its
+ *   document, and `stripPrefix` drops the sub-path before dialling the upstream.
+ * @returns {string} nginx server block, or an empty string when the host proxies nothing.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const hostServerConfFactory = ({ host, routes = [], namespace = 'default' }) => {
+  const proxied = routes.filter((route) => route.upstream);
+  if (proxied.length === 0) return '';
+  // Longest sub-path first: nginx prefix locations are longest-match, but the
+  // emitted order keeps the block readable next to the HTTPRoute it mirrors.
+  const sorted = [...proxied].sort((a, b) => (b.path || '/').length - (a.path || '/').length);
+  const blocks = sorted.map((route) => {
+    const { errorPages, locations } = statusPageLocationsFactory({
+      host,
+      path: route.path,
+      statuses: route.statuses || {},
+    });
+    const intercept = errorPages ? `    proxy_intercept_errors on;\n${errorPages}` : '    proxy_intercept_errors off;';
+    const path = route.path || '/';
+    // The upstream is dialled through a variable, so nginx forwards the request
+    // URI verbatim and a prefix strip has to be an explicit rewrite. `break`
+    // keeps it inside this location instead of re-running location matching.
+    const rewrite = route.stripPrefix && path !== '/' ? `    rewrite ^${path}/?(.*)$ /$1 break;\n` : '';
+    return {
+      path,
+      upstream: kubernetesUpstreamFactory(route.upstream, namespace),
+      intercept,
+      locations,
+      rewrite,
+    };
+  });
+  return `
+server {
+  listen ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port};
+  server_name ${host};
+  root ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.root};
+
+  # This host's own documents, served from disk before anything is proxied.
+  # Every path in the layout begins with the hostname, which is exactly what the
+  # gateway rewrites a status or context route onto — and a longer prefix than
+  # the proxied root below, so nginx prefers it. Without this location the
+  # rewritten document path falls into the proxy and is sent to the application,
+  # which has no such route: the app answers 404, and an app that redirects its
+  # own 404s turns that into a loop between the route and the rewrite.
+  location /${host}/ {
+    add_header Cache-Control 'public, max-age=60';
+    try_files $uri $uri/index.html =404;
+  }
+
+${blocks
+  .map(
+    ({ path, upstream, intercept, rewrite }) => `  location ${path} {
+    proxy_http_version 1.1;
+    proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+    # Websockets: the upgrade must survive this hop or a client that negotiated
+    # one at the edge is left holding a half-open connection.
+    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
+    proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
+    set $upstream_${nginxTokenFactory(path)} ${upstream};
+${intercept}
+${rewrite}    proxy_pass http://$upstream_${nginxTokenFactory(path)};
+  }`,
+  )
+  .join('\n\n')}
+
+${blocks
+  .map(({ locations }) => locations)
+  .filter(Boolean)
+  .join('\n')}
+}
+`;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method underpostGatewayManifestsFactory
+ * @description Renders the whole workload: the Nginx config, the hostPath volume
+ * holding the documents, the deployment and the Service routes target.
+ * @param {string} [namespace] - Kubernetes namespace.
+ * @param {string} hostPath - Node directory backing the static root.
+ * @param {string} [nodeName] - Node the hostPath volume is pinned to.
+ * @param {string} [storage] - Volume size.
+ * @returns {string} Multi-document YAML.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const underpostGatewayManifestsFactory = ({
+  namespace = 'default',
+  hostPath,
+  nodeName = '',
+  storage = '1Gi',
+  resolver,
+} = {}) => {
+  const nginxConf = nginxConfFactory({ resolver });
+  // The config is mounted with `subPath`, which Kubernetes never refreshes in
+  // place, and the pod template is otherwise identical across rebuilds — so
+  // without this annotation an edited nginx.conf reaches the ConfigMap and
+  // nothing else, and the running Nginx keeps serving under the previous
+  // layout for the life of the pod.
+  const configHash = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(nginxConf).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
+  return `
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.configMapName}
+  namespace: ${namespace}
+data:
+  nginx.conf: |
+${nginxConf
+  .replace(/\n$/, '')
+  .split('\n')
+  .map((line) => (line.length > 0 ? `    ${line}` : ''))
+  .join('\n')}
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: PersistentVolume
+metadata:
+  name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.volumeName}
+spec:
+  capacity:
+    storage: ${storage}
+  accessModes:
+    - ReadOnlyMany
+    - ReadWriteOnce
+  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
+  storageClassName: manual${
+    nodeName
+      ? `
+  nodeAffinity:
+    required:
+      nodeSelectorTerms:
+        - matchExpressions:
+            - key: kubernetes.io/hostname
+              operator: In
+              values:
+                - ${nodeName}`
+      : ''
+  }
+  claimRef:
+    apiVersion: v1
+    kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
+    name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.claimName}
+    namespace: ${namespace}
+  hostPath:
+    path: ${hostPath}
+    type: DirectoryOrCreate
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
+metadata:
+  name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.claimName}
+  namespace: ${namespace}
+spec:
+  accessModes:
+    - ReadWriteOnce
+  storageClassName: manual
+  volumeName: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.volumeName}
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      storage: ${storage}
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name}
+  namespace: ${namespace}
+  labels:
+    app: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name}
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name}
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name}
+      annotations:
+        underpost.net/nginx-conf-hash: '${configHash}'
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: nginx
+          image: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.image}
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port}
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: 10m
+              memory: 16Mi
+            limits:
+              cpu: 200m
+              memory: 128Mi
+          readinessProbe:
+            httpGet:
+              path: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.healthPath}
+              port: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port}
+            initialDelaySeconds: 2
+            periodSeconds: 10
+          livenessProbe:
+            httpGet:
+              path: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.healthPath}
+              port: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port}
+            initialDelaySeconds: 10
+            periodSeconds: 20
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: nginx-conf
+              mountPath: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+              subPath: nginx.conf
+            - name: static-root
+              mountPath: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.root}
+              readOnly: true
+      volumes:
+        - name: nginx-conf
+          configMap:
+            name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.configMapName}
+        - name: static-root
+          persistentVolumeClaim:
+            claimName: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.claimName}
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.serviceName}
+  namespace: ${namespace}
+  labels:
+    app: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name}
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  selector:
+    app: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name}
+  ports:
+    - name: http
+      protocol: TCP
+      port: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port}
+      targetPort: ${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.port}
+`;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method writeStaticAsset
+ * @description Places one document in the node directory backing the static
+ * root. The deploy runs on that node, so the file is copied directly rather than
+ * shipped through the API server — which is also what keeps a page of any size
+ * out of the cluster's object store.
+ * @param {string} hostRoot - Node directory backing the static root.
+ * @param {string} assetPath - Root-relative destination.
+ * @param {string} sourcePath - File to copy.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when the document was placed.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const writeStaticAsset = ({ hostRoot, assetPath, sourcePath }) => {
+  if (!sourcePath || !fs.existsSync(sourcePath) || fs.statSync(sourcePath).size === 0) return false;
+  const target = nodePath.join(hostRoot, assetPath);
+  // sudo: the node directory is root-owned, and the deploy may run unprivileged.
+  shellExec(`sudo mkdir -p ${nodePath.dirname(target)}`, { silent: true });
+  shellExec(`sudo cp -f ${sourcePath} ${target}`, { silent: true });
+  return true;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method syncStaticAssetFromPod
+ * @description Pulls one document out of the running workload and places it in
+ * the static tree.
+ *
+ * The pod is the authority for these artifacts, not the host: several clients
+ * are built from sources that only exist inside the container (cloned from the
+ * private repo at start-up), so the host's `public/` tree is both incomplete and
+ * as old as the last host-side build. Copying from the pod is what makes the
+ * placed document match what the workload would actually have served.
+ * @param {string} podName - Workload pod holding the built artifact.
+ * @param {string} [namespace] - Pod namespace.
+ * @param {string} [container] - Container within the pod.
+ * @param {string} sourcePath - Absolute path of the artifact inside the container.
+ * @param {string} hostRoot - Node directory backing the static root.
+ * @param {string} assetPath - Root-relative destination.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when the document was placed.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const syncStaticAssetFromPod = ({ podName, namespace = 'default', container, sourcePath, hostRoot, assetPath }) => {
+  const target = nodePath.join(hostRoot, assetPath);
+  const containerFlag = container ? ` -c ${container}` : '';
+  // Keyed by destination, not by basename: every document in the layout is an
+  // `index.html`, so a shared staging name lets one asset's copy be mistaken
+  // for another's.
+  const staged = nodePath.join(
+    '/tmp',
+    `underpost-gateway-${crypto.createHash('sha256').update(assetPath).digest('hex').slice(0, 12)}-${process.pid}`,
+  );
+  // Staged through /tmp because `kubectl cp` runs unprivileged while the node
+  // directory is root-owned; the move is the only step that needs sudo.
+  fs.removeSync(staged);
+  shellExec(`kubectl cp ${namespace}/${podName}:${sourcePath} ${staged}${containerFlag} 2>/dev/null || true`, {
+    silent: true,
+    silentOnError: true,
+  });
+  if (!fs.existsSync(staged) || fs.statSync(staged).size === 0) {
+    fs.removeSync(staged);
+    return false;
+  }
+  shellExec(`sudo mkdir -p ${nodePath.dirname(target)}`, { silent: true });
+  shellExec(`sudo cp -f ${staged} ${target}`, { silent: true });
+  fs.removeSync(staged);
+  logger.info('Static asset synced from workload', { podName, sourcePath, assetPath });
+  return true;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method writeHostServerConf
+ * @description Writes one host's server block into a directory, or removes it
+ * when there is nothing to serve.
+ *
+ * A build artifact and nothing more: it touches no cluster, so generating
+ * manifests works with no cluster running at all. Installing the block into the
+ * live gateway and reloading it is {@link UnderpostGateway.installGatewayConf}'s
+ * job, on the apply path where a cluster is a precondition.
+ * @param {string} confDir - Directory the block is written to.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname the block serves.
+ * @param {string} conf - Rendered block from {@link UnderpostGateway.hostServerConfFactory}; empty removes it.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when the file changed.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const writeHostServerConf = ({ confDir, host, conf }) => {
+  const target = nodePath.join(confDir, `${host}.conf`);
+  const current = fs.existsSync(target) ? fs.readFileSync(target, 'utf8') : '';
+  if (current === (conf || '')) return false;
+  if (!conf) {
+    fs.removeSync(target);
+    return true;
+  }
+  fs.mkdirpSync(confDir);
+  fs.writeFileSync(target, conf, 'utf8');
+  return true;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method hostInstanceRegistryPathFactory
+ * @description Path of the descriptor set last published for a host.
+ *
+ * Kept beside the host's server block because it describes the same object, and
+ * given a non-`.conf` suffix so {@link UnderpostGateway.installGatewayConf}
+ * never installs it into Nginx.
+ * @param {string} confDir - Directory holding the built blocks.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname.
+ * @returns {string} File path.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const hostInstanceRegistryPathFactory = ({ confDir, host }) => nodePath.join(confDir, `${host}.instances.json`);
+
+/**
+ * @method readHostInstanceRegistry
+ * @description The instance descriptors last published for a host.
+ *
+ * The conf declares what *should* run; this records what the host was last
+ * rendered with, which is the only place a variant's descriptor survives being
+ * removed from the conf while its workload is still up. Unreadable or malformed
+ * content is treated as absent: a broken registry must not block a deploy, it
+ * just means nothing extra is preserved.
+ * @param {string} confDir - Directory holding the built blocks.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname.
+ * @returns {Array<object>} Descriptors, or an empty list.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const readHostInstanceRegistry = ({ confDir, host }) => {
+  const target = hostInstanceRegistryPathFactory({ confDir, host });
+  if (!fs.existsSync(target)) return [];
+  try {
+    const parsed = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(target, 'utf8'));
+    return Array.isArray(parsed) ? parsed.filter((entry) => entry?.id) : [];
+  } catch (error) {
+    logger.warn('Ignoring unreadable host instance registry', { target, message: error.message });
+    return [];
+  }
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method writeHostInstanceRegistry
+ * @description Records the descriptors a host was just rendered with.
+ * @param {string} confDir - Directory holding the built blocks.
+ * @param {string} host - Hostname.
+ * @param {Array<object>} instances - Descriptors used for this render.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when the file changed.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const writeHostInstanceRegistry = ({ confDir, host, instances = [] }) => {
+  const target = hostInstanceRegistryPathFactory({ confDir, host });
+  const next = `${JSON.stringify(instances, null, 2)}\n`;
+  const current = fs.existsSync(target) ? fs.readFileSync(target, 'utf8') : '';
+  if (current === next) return false;
+  fs.mkdirpSync(confDir);
+  fs.writeFileSync(target, next, 'utf8');
+  return true;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method installGatewayConf
+ * @description Installs the built server blocks into the shared gateway and
+ * reloads Nginx.
+ *
+ * The blocks live in the volume rather than the ConfigMap because the workload is
+ * shared by every deploy: a ConfigMap would make one deploy's apply rewrite
+ * another's routing, and a `subPath` mount would never refresh anyway. Reloading
+ * signals the running master, so the config lands without dropping a connection.
+ *
+ * A block that does not parse would take the whole edge down on reload, so the
+ * config is validated first and the previous content is put back if it fails —
+ * leaving the running Nginx exactly as it was.
+ * @param {string} hostRoot - Node directory backing the gateway root.
+ * @param {string} confSourceDir - Directory holding the built blocks.
+ * @param {string} [namespace] - Namespace holding the workload.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when Nginx was reloaded with the new config.
+ * @throws {Error} When Nginx rejects the candidate config or cannot reload. A
+ *   rejected candidate is restored before the error is raised.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const installGatewayConf = ({ hostRoot, confSourceDir, namespace = 'default' }) => {
+  if (!fs.existsSync(confSourceDir)) return false;
+  const blocks = fs.readdirSync(confSourceDir).filter((name) => name.endsWith('.conf'));
+  if (blocks.length === 0) return false;
+  const confDir = nodePath.join(hostRoot, UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.confDir);
+  // sudo: the node directory is root-owned, and the deploy may run unprivileged.
+  shellExec(`sudo mkdir -p ${confDir}`, { silent: true });
+  const previous = Object.fromEntries(
+    blocks.map((name) => {
+      const target = nodePath.join(confDir, name);
+      return [name, fs.existsSync(target) ? fs.readFileSync(target, 'utf8') : null];
+    }),
+  );
+  const restorePrevious = () => {
+    for (const [name, content] of Object.entries(previous)) {
+      const target = nodePath.join(confDir, name);
+      if (content === null) shellExec(`sudo rm -f ${target}`, { silent: true });
+      else {
+        const staged = nodePath.join('/tmp', `underpost-gateway-restore-${name}-${process.pid}`);
+        fs.writeFileSync(staged, content, 'utf8');
+        shellExec(`sudo cp -f ${staged} ${target}`, { silent: true });
+        fs.removeSync(staged);
+      }
+    }
+  };
+  for (const name of blocks)
+    shellExec(`sudo cp -f ${nodePath.join(confSourceDir, name)} ${nodePath.join(confDir, name)}`, { silent: true });
+  const test = shellExec(`kubectl exec -n ${namespace} deploy/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name} -- nginx -t 2>&1`, {
+    stdout: true,
+    silent: true,
+    silentOnError: true,
+  });
+  if (!`${test}`.includes('successful')) {
+    restorePrevious();
+    logger.error('Gateway config rejected; the previous config was restored and Nginx left running', {
+      blocks,
+      test: `${test}`.trim().split('\n').slice(-3).join(' '),
+    });
+    throw new Error(
+      `Gateway config rejected for ${blocks.join(', ')}: ${`${test}`.trim().split('\n').slice(-3).join(' ')}`,
+    );
+  }
+  try {
+    shellExec(`kubectl exec -n ${namespace} deploy/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name} -- nginx -s reload`, {
+      silent: true,
+    });
+  } catch (error) {
+    restorePrevious();
+    // The running master normally retains its old config when a reload signal
+    // fails. Re-signal after restoring so even a partial reload converges back
+    // to the last validated state.
+    shellExec(`kubectl exec -n ${namespace} deploy/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name} -- nginx -s reload`, {
+      silent: true,
+      silentOnError: true,
+    });
+    throw error;
+  }
+  logger.info('Gateway config installed and reloaded', { blocks, confDir });
+  return true;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method seedDefaultStatusPage
+ * @description Writes the shared fallback document `nginx.conf` serves through
+ * `error_page`, so a host with nothing on disk gets a deliberate page instead of
+ * Nginx's stock error. Never overwrites an existing document — an operator may
+ * have replaced it.
+ * @param {string} hostRoot - Node directory backing the static root.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when the document was written.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const seedDefaultStatusPage = (hostRoot) => {
+  // The base config includes `<confDir>/*.conf`; the directory has to exist
+  // before any deploy contributes a block to it.
+  shellExec(`sudo mkdir -p ${nodePath.join(hostRoot, UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.confDir)}`, { silent: true });
+  const target = nodePath.join(hostRoot, defaultStatusPagePath(404));
+  if (fs.existsSync(target)) return false;
+  const document = `<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+  <head>
+    <meta charset="utf-8" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+    <title>404 Not Found</title>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h1>404</h1>
+    <p>The requested resource was not found.</p>
+  </body>
+</html>
+`;
+  shellExec(`sudo mkdir -p ${nodePath.dirname(target)}`, { silent: true });
+  shellExec(`sudo tee ${target} > /dev/null <<'EOF'\n${document}EOF\n`, { silent: true });
+  return true;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method gatewayStaticAssetExists
+ * @description Whether a document is present and non-empty under the gateway
+ * root. An empty file is treated as absent: it is what a half-finished copy
+ * leaves behind, and serving it would answer a status page with a blank body.
+ * @param {string} hostRoot - Node directory backing the gateway root.
+ * @param {string} assetPath - Root-relative path of the document.
+ * @returns {boolean} True when the document can be served.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const gatewayStaticAssetExists = ({ hostRoot, assetPath }) => {
+  const target = `${hostRoot}/${assetPath}`;
+  return fs.existsSync(target) && fs.statSync(target).size > 0;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method pwaFallbackChecksFactory
+ * @description The fallback probes a deploy's own hosts are verified with, read
+ * from `conf.server.json` and `conf.ssr.json`.
+ *
+ * One probe per host/sub-path that declares a maintenance view, because that is
+ * the document an unreachable workload has to answer with — the condition the
+ * edge must satisfy before any application is deployed behind it.
+ *
+ * `loadReplicas` expansion and the `singleReplica` skip mirror
+ * `buildProxyRouter`/`buildManifest` exactly: a plain `replicas` path (no
+ * `singleReplica`) is built and routed by this same deploy id, so its fallback
+ * is checked too; a `singleReplica` canonical path is never built or routed
+ * under this deploy id at all — it is each replica's own, separate deploy id —
+ * so probing it here would poll a document that structurally cannot exist.
+ * @param {string} deployId - Deploy id whose conf declares the views.
+ * @returns {Array<{host: string, path: string, assetPath: string, kind: string}>} One probe per declaring sub-path.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const pwaFallbackChecksFactory = (deployId) => {
+  const confServer = loadReplicas(deployId, loadConfServerJson(`./engine-private/conf/${deployId}/conf.server.json`));
+  const confSSRPath = `./engine-private/conf/${deployId}/conf.ssr.json`;
+  const confSSR = fs.existsSync(confSSRPath) ? JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(confSSRPath, 'utf8')) : {};
+  const checks = [];
+  for (const host of Object.keys(confServer))
+    for (const path of Object.keys(confServer[host])) {
+      if (confServer[host][path].singleReplica) continue;
+      const maintenance = Underpost.deploy
+        .edgeRouteEntriesFactory({ confServer, confSSR, host, path })
+        .find((entry) => entry.context === 'maintenance');
+      if (maintenance)
+        checks.push({
+          host,
+          path,
+          assetPath: maintenance.assetPath,
+          kind: maintenance.kind,
+        });
+    }
+  return checks;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method instanceFallbackChecksFactory
+ * @description The fallback probes a set of instances are verified with, one per
+ * host and sub-path.
+ *
+ * Deduplicated on `host + path`: a variant that declares several status pages is
+ * still one route to probe, and probing it once per declared status would report
+ * the same reachability several times.
+ * @param {Array<object>} [instances] - Expanded instance entries.
+ * @returns {Array<{host: string, path: string, assetPath: string, kind: string}>} One probe per instance sub-path.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const instanceFallbackChecksFactory = (instances = []) => {
+  const checks = new Map();
+  for (const entry of instanceStatusPageEntriesFactory({ instances }))
+    if (!checks.has(`${entry.host}${entry.path}`))
+      checks.set(`${entry.host}${entry.path}`, {
+        host: entry.host,
+        path: entry.path,
+        assetPath: entry.assetPath,
+        kind: `status:${entry.status}`,
+      });
+  return [...checks.values()];
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method assertStaticAssets
+ * @description Fails the deploy when a configured document reached neither the
+ * placement pass nor the gateway root.
+ *
+ * Deliberately fatal. A missing document is not visible at deploy time — the
+ * routes are accepted, the workload is healthy, and the gap only surfaces later
+ * as a shared default page in place of the host's own. Refusing to continue is
+ * what turns that into an immediate, attributable failure.
+ * @param {Array<object>} records - Placement records carrying `source` and `assetPath`.
+ * @param {string} hostRoot - Node directory backing the gateway root.
+ * @param {string} label - Workflow name used in the thrown message.
+ * @returns {Array<object>} The records, unchanged, when every document is present.
+ * @throws {Error} When any configured document is absent.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const assertStaticAssets = ({ records, hostRoot, label }) => {
+  const missing = records.filter(
+    (entry) => !entry.source && !gatewayStaticAssetExists({ hostRoot, assetPath: entry.assetPath }),
+  );
+  if (missing.length > 0)
+    throw new Error(
+      `[${label}] Static gateway bootstrap is missing configured assets: ` +
+        missing.map((entry) => entry.assetPath).join(', '),
+    );
+  return records;
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method placeInstanceStaticAssets
+ * @description Places every instance's declared status page in the gateway root
+ * and asserts the result.
+ *
+ * The documents come from the project each instance runs, so this is the only
+ * pass that can supply them; anything still missing afterwards would leave a
+ * route pointing at a document that cannot exist.
+ * @param {Array<object>} instances - Expanded instance entries.
+ * @param {object} options - Deploy/run options (gateway root, namespace).
+ * @param {string} label - Workflow name used in the thrown message.
+ * @returns {Array<object>} One record per document, with where it came from.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const placeInstanceStaticAssets = ({ instances, options, label }) => {
+  const hostRoot = Underpost.deploy.underpostGatewayRootFactory(options);
+  const records = instanceStatusPageEntriesFactory({ instances }).map((entry) => ({
+    ...entry,
+    source: writeStaticAsset({ hostRoot, assetPath: entry.assetPath, sourcePath: entry.sourcePath }) ? 'project' : null,
+  }));
+  return assertStaticAssets({ records, hostRoot, label });
+};
+
+/**
+ * @method gatewayFallbackProbeRunner
+ * @description Proves the edge answers each configured fallback with the exact
+ * document on disk, before any application is deployed behind it.
+ *
+ * The assertion is on the response, not on the manifests: an accepted route and a
+ * Programmed Gateway say nothing about which body a client receives, and every
+ * failure this pipeline has had was invisible in object status. The expected body
+ * is hashed from the file the config points at, so a probe cannot pass against a
+ * shared default page.
+ *
+ * With no workload deployed yet the upstream is unreachable, so the wanted status
+ * is an upstream failure carrying the configured document — which is the whole
+ * contract being verified. Polling absorbs the reconciliation window in which the
+ * data plane still serves the previous generation.
+ *
+ * `gatewayStatusRunner` is injected rather than imported so this module never
+ * depends on the runner collection that calls it.
+ * @param {Array<object>} checks - Probes from {@link UnderpostGateway.pwaFallbackChecksFactory} or {@link UnderpostGateway.instanceFallbackChecksFactory}.
+ * @param {object} options - Deploy/run options (namespace, dev, gatewayApi).
+ * @param {string} label - Workflow name used in log lines and thrown messages.
+ * @param {Function} gatewayStatusRunner - `(hosts, options) => Promise<{programmed: boolean, servesHttps: boolean}>`.
+ * @returns {Promise<Array<object>>} One result per probe.
+ * @throws {Error} When the gateway is not operational, or any probe fails.
+ * @memberof UnderpostGateway
+ */
+const gatewayFallbackProbeRunner = async ({ checks, options, label, gatewayStatusRunner }) => {
+  if (!options.gatewayApi || checks.length === 0) return [];
+  const namespace = options.namespace || 'default';
+  shellExec(`kubectl rollout status deployment/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name} -n ${namespace} --timeout=5m`);
+  const hosts = [...new Set(checks.map((check) => check.host))];
+  const gatewayStatus = await gatewayStatusRunner(hosts.join(','), { ...options, namespace });
+  if (!gatewayStatus.programmed || (options.dev && !gatewayStatus.servesHttps))
+    throw new Error(`[${label}] Gateway is not operational before application deployment`);
+
+  const hostRoot = Underpost.deploy.underpostGatewayRootFactory(options);
+  const failures = [];
+  const results = [];
+  for (const check of checks) {
+    const expectedPath = `${hostRoot}/${check.assetPath}`;
+    const expectedHash = gatewayStaticAssetExists({ hostRoot, assetPath: check.assetPath })
+      ? crypto.createHash('sha256').update(fs.readFileSync(expectedPath)).digest('hex')
+      : '';
+    let body = '';
+    let status = '';
+    let actualHash = '';
+    let passed = false;
+    let attempts = 0;
+    // Gateway and HTTPRoute status can still show the previous generation for a
+    // short reconciliation window. Poll the actual response until the intended
+    // fallback is observable instead of racing the controller once.
+    for (attempts = 1; attempts <= 30; attempts++) {
+      if (options.dev) {
+        const url = `https://${check.host}${check.path || '/'}`;
+        const curl = `curl -sSk --noproxy '*' --resolve ${check.host}:443:127.0.0.1`;
+        body = shellExec(`${curl} ${url}`, { stdout: true, silent: true, silentOnError: true });
+        status = shellExec(`${curl} -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' ${url}`, {
+          stdout: true,
+          silent: true,
+          silentOnError: true,
+        }).trim();
+      } else {
+        const request = `http://127.0.0.1${check.path || '/'}`;
+        body = shellExec(
+          `kubectl exec -n ${namespace} deploy/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name} -- sh -c ` +
+            `"wget -q -O - -T 10 --header 'Host: ${check.host}' ${request} 2>/dev/null || true"`,
+          { stdout: true, silent: true, silentOnError: true },
+        );
+        const headers = shellExec(
+          `kubectl exec -n ${namespace} deploy/${UNDERPOST_GATEWAY.name} -- sh -c ` +
+            `"wget -S -O /dev/null -T 10 --header 'Host: ${check.host}' ${request} 2>&1 || true"`,
+          { stdout: true, silent: true, silentOnError: true },
+        );
+        status = [...headers.matchAll(/HTTP\/[0-9.]+\s+([0-9]{3})/g)].pop()?.[1] || '';
+      }
+      actualHash = crypto
+        .createHash('sha256')
+        .update(body || '')
+        .digest('hex');
+      passed = /^50[234]$/.test(status) && !!expectedHash && actualHash === expectedHash;
+      if (passed) break;
+      if (attempts < 30) await timer(2000);
+    }
+    const result = {
+      ...check,
+      status,
+      bodyMatchesConfiguredAsset: actualHash === expectedHash,
+      attempts,
+      passed,
+    };
+    results.push(result);
+    if (!passed) failures.push(result);
+  }
+  logger.info(`[${label}] Pre-runtime fallback probes`, { results });
+  if (failures.length > 0) throw new Error(`[${label}] ${failures.length}/${checks.length} fallback probes failed`);
+  return results;
+};
+
+export {
+  UNDERPOST_GATEWAY,
+  assertStaticAssets,
+  gatewayFallbackProbeRunner,
+  gatewayStaticAssetExists,
+  hostInstanceRegistryPathFactory,
+  hostServerConfFactory,
+  installGatewayConf,
+  instanceFallbackChecksFactory,
+  placeInstanceStaticAssets,
+  pwaFallbackChecksFactory,
+  readHostInstanceRegistry,
+  writeHostInstanceRegistry,
+  kubernetesUpstreamFactory,
+  underpostGatewayManifestsFactory,
+  nginxConfFactory,
+  seedDefaultStatusPage,
+  staticLocationFactory,
+  staticPathSegmentFactory,
+  statusPageAssetPathFactory,
+  statusPageBuildSegment,
+  statusPageLocationsFactory,
+  syncStaticAssetFromPod,
+  writeHostServerConf,
+  writeStaticAsset,
+};