feat(llm-request-router): route LLM workers through backend router - #999
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe request-router charts now support optional Stargate backend routing for multi-replica LLM workers. The change adds TCP and UDP Gateway routes, TLS and ServiceAccount validation, packaged router binaries, pre-initialized metrics, and image-publishing collision checks. ChangesLLM worker routing and delivery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new routing resources remain disabled by default, preserving existing deployments, but enabling them can currently produce unreachable reverse tunnels, incorrect replica routing, or an invalid deployment image, with monitoring and setup documentation also needing correction. The PR should not be treated as merge-ready until these bounded deployment and verification issues are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker
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Worker->>Gateway: Send gRPC registration or QUIC reverse-tunnel traffic
Gateway->>BackendRouter: Forward TCPRoute or UDPRoute traffic
BackendRouter->>StargateReplica: Select replica using authority or SNI
StargateReplica-->>Worker: Maintain registration or reverse tunnel
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97-105: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDocument the required reverse-tunnel listener.
The chart rejects
externalAccess.enabled=truewhenllmRequestRouter.transport.reverseTunnelListenAddris empty. This example enables external access but does not state that prerequisite. Add the listener setting or state that an existing listener must remain configured.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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129-136: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover the single-replica external-access case.
The PR objective includes single-replica deployments, but this block tests only the default replica count and five replicas. Add a
replicaCount=1render and assert one per-pod Service and the expected per-pod dial address.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/templates/_helpers.tpl`:
- Around line 165-166: Update the external domain validation around
llm-request-router.isValidDnsName to reject underscore-containing labels and
validate the full generated $(POD_NAME).<domain> hostname, including its maximum
253-character length, rather than validating only the domain. Preserve the
existing failure behavior and add render test cases covering an underscore and
the hostname-length boundary.
- Around line 168-169: Update the external-access validation in the Helm helper
around llmRequestRouter.transport.reverseTunnelListenAddr to parse its listener
port and require it to equal llmRequestRouter.service.reverseTunnelPort, while
preserving the existing required-address check. Add a render failure test
covering a mismatched listener and Service port.
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`@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/templates/service-per-pod.yaml`:
- Around line 36-38: Update the per-pod Service rendering around the
service.annotations block to generate replica-specific annotations using each
pod ordinal, so the external-dns hostname matches the corresponding
$(POD_NAME).<domain> address. Add a Helm render test or check that every
generated Service receives its matching ordinal-specific hostname.
Apply the same fix in `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md` around lines 124
- 127.
In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md`:
- Around line 118-122: Update the fenced code block containing the
llm-request-router DNS mappings to specify the text language identifier,
resolving markdownlint MD040 without changing its contents.
In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/scripts/check-multi-replica-render.sh`:
- Around line 100-127: Update the default-render assertions near the per-pod
Service check to capture `statefulset_args "${default_manifest}"` and require
the exact `--reverse-tunnel-pylon-dial-addr=$(POD_IP):50072` argument. Keep the
existing no-Service assertion and external-access checks unchanged.
- Around line 43-56: Update per_pod_service_names to derive expected per-pod
Service names from the rendered StatefulSet fullname, appending each ordinal
instead of hard-coding the llm-request-router prefix. Ensure fullnameOverride
values such as router-prod are supported, and keep per_pod_service_field aligned
with the derived names.
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In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md`:
- Around line 97-105: Update the llmRequestRouter externalAccess example to
include a non-empty transport.reverseTunnelListenAddr setting, or explicitly
state that an existing reverse-tunnel listener must remain configured when
externalAccess.enabled is true.
In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/scripts/check-multi-replica-render.sh`:
- Around line 129-136: The multi-replica render checks in the external-access
section do not cover a single replica. Add a render using
llmRequestRouter.replicaCount=1 with external access enabled, then assert
exactly one per-pod Service and verify its per-pod dial address using the
existing service/address helper symbols.
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124-126: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRemove the unsupported
external-dnsautomation claim.
externalAccess.service.annotationsis copied unchanged to every per-pod Service. A static hostname annotation cannot create distinct<pod-name>.<domain>records. Document separate per-pod DNS management, or add per-ordinal annotation templating. Update the corresponding comment inllm-request-router/values.yaml.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md`:
- Around line 152-157: Update the local k3d example in the README to append the
reverse-tunnel port :50072 to the documented --reverse-tunnel-pylon-dial-addr
value, matching the exact address expected by check-multi-replica-render.sh.
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In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md`:
- Around line 124-126: Remove the external-dns automation claim from the
externalAccess.service.annotations documentation in the README and the
corresponding comment in values.yaml; document that DNS records require separate
per-pod management unless per-ordinal annotation templating is implemented.
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112-117: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueDocument the
grpcPortandquicPortkeys.Line 75 documents the generic
nvcfGatewayRoutes.routes.<route>.backend.{name,namespace,port}shape.llmWorkeris the only route that usesbackend.grpcPortandbackend.quicPortinstead ofbackend.port. Name both keys in this note so operators can find them.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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46-50: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueReset the awk parser state at document boundaries.
in_deploymentandin_bindingare never cleared on the---separator, unlikeassert_service_account_existsat Lines 76-81. A Service or other document that carries the samename:value after a Deployment can setbackend_routerortarget_binding, and the assertion then reads a field from the wrong document. Clear the state on---for consistency.Also applies to: 57-71
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137-146: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winNegative render tests in both scripts pass for the wrong reason. Each negative case runs
helm templatewith>/dev/null 2>&1and treats any non-zero exit as success. An unrelated template error, a renamed value path, or a typo in a--setflag satisfies the assertion, so the tests can silently stop covering the validation they name.
deploy/helm/llm-request-router/scripts/check-backend-router-render.sh#L137-L146: add anassert_render_fails <expected-text> <args...>helper that captures stderr and matches the expected validation message, then convert this block and the blocks at Lines 148-160, 162-174, 176-189, 209-219, 241-251, 253-265, 267-279, 281-293, 295-309, 311-322, and 324-339.deploy/helm/gateway-routes/scripts/check-llm-worker-routes.sh#L62-L69: capture stderr and match thellmWorker.backend.namespace is requiredtext emitted bydeploy/helm/gateway-routes/chart/templates/_helpers.tpl.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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97-141: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConfirm and update architecture or sequence documentation for the changed flows.
This PR changes the worker traffic path, runtime image contents, image-publishing flow, and gateway configuration. Confirm that the relevant architecture or sequence diagrams cover these flows, and update them if they still describe the previous topology.
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In `@deploy/helm/gateway-routes/scripts/check-llm-worker-routes.sh`:
- Around line 56-60: Update the backend_namespace_references assignment in the
route validation script to tolerate grep -Fc returning status 1 when no matches
are found, by appending the required non-failing fallback. Preserve the existing
count comparison and diagnostic failure message.
In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/templates/_helpers.tpl`:
- Around line 220-229: Update the backendRouterImage helper to require the
resolved repository after applying the backend-router and global fallback
values, before formatting the image reference. Preserve the existing registry
and tag handling, and add a render test confirming backendRouter.enabled with
both repository values empty is rejected.
In
`@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/templates/backend-router-servicemonitor.yaml`:
- Around line 9-12: Set metadata.namespace on the ServiceMonitor using the
existing llm-request-router.namespace template, matching the namespace
configuration used by the other cohort resources and its namespaceSelector.
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In `@deploy/helm/gateway-routes/README.md`:
- Around line 112-117: Update the llmWorker routing note to explicitly document
the backend.grpcPort and backend.quicPort keys, alongside the existing backend
namespace guidance, so operators can distinguish them from the generic
backend.port key.
In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md`:
- Around line 97-141: The documentation adds the backend router to the worker
traffic path, so inspect existing architecture and sequence diagrams for the
previous worker-to-router flow and update any affected diagrams to show workers
reaching the backend router and its Stargate pod selection via gRPC authority
and QUIC SNI.
Apply the same fix in @.github/workflows/image-push-manual.yml around lines 329
- 342: Covers the changed image-publishing flow.
Apply the same fix in `@src/libraries/rust/stargate/Dockerfile` at line 132.
Apply the same fix in
`@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/values.yaml` around lines 74 -
110: Covers the backend routing configuration and traffic flow.
In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/scripts/check-backend-router-render.sh`:
- Around line 46-50: The awk parsers used by the backend-router and binding
assertions must reset their document-scoped state when encountering the YAML
document separator `---`. Update the parser logic around the backend-router
replica extraction and the related binding checks to clear `in_deployment`,
`backend_router`, `in_binding`, and `target_binding` as appropriate, while
preserving the existing document-matching behavior.
- Around line 137-146: Replace broad non-zero exit checks with stderr
validation: add an assert_render_fails helper in
deploy/helm/llm-request-router/scripts/check-backend-router-render.sh and
convert the cases at 137-146, 148-160, 162-174, 176-189, 209-219, 241-251,
253-265, 267-279, 281-293, 295-309, 311-322, and 324-339 to assert their
expected validation messages. In
deploy/helm/gateway-routes/scripts/check-llm-worker-routes.sh at 62-69, capture
Helm stderr and require the llmWorker.backend.namespace is required message.
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In `@deploy/helm/llm-request-router/scripts/check-pki-render.sh`:
- Around line 482-488: Update the direct wildcard test case around
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Superseded by #1010. The replacement uses per-replica TCP and UDP dial endpoints while preserving the internal advertised hostname for gRPC authority and QUIC TLS SNI, and includes split-cluster PKI validation. |
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Route worker gRPC registration by HTTP/2 authority and reverse QUIC by SNI through a highly available backend router. Wire it into the LLM addon, expose the required Gateway routes, harden PKI and render validation, and make local self-managed testing use the same path.
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Why
Each LLM worker maintains a gRPC registration stream and a reverse QUIC tunnel for every Stargate replica. Both connections must terminate on the replica the worker selected. A shared L4 endpoint cannot make that decision from connection affinity alone: gRPC carries the target replica in HTTP/2
:authority, while QUIC carries it in TLS SNI. If either connection reaches a different replica, registration and tunnel state are split and the worker path fails.The previous direct pod-to-pod path also made single-cluster testing misleading. It relied on pod addresses that are locally reachable but are not the endpoint model used by a split control/compute installation. Making backend routing part of every LLM-enabled installation gives workers one reachable endpoint while preserving per-replica identity, and makes a single-cluster deployment exercise the same authority/SNI path as a split deployment.
Release status and landing order
src/libraries/rust/stargate/v0.11.1exists. The semanticstargate:0.11.1image was pulled and exercised in the clean split-cluster run; it packagesstargateandstargate-k8s-routerin one image. test(stargate): validate reachable OCI manifests #1089 validates every reachable platform manifest in the assembled OCI layout.main, including merged fix(stack): default LLM transport to managed PKI #1070 and fix(compute-stack): harden self-hosted collector defaults #1071. The request-router chartappVersionand default shared image tag are0.11.1.0.11.1image. Rerun the checked-in local multi-cluster BDD on the current PR head after the latest alias/fixture changes, then mark this PR ready.The backend-router Deployment runs
/usr/local/bin/stargate-k8s-routerfrom the shared Stargate image. Customers do not need to mirror or coordinate a second router image.The stable self-managed path still pins request-router chart
1.7.2and gateway-routes chart1.15.0; both predate this feature. Until the publishing follow-up lands, source-tree validation must select the local charts throughaddons.llm.requestRouter.chartPathandingress.gatewayApi.chartPath. This PR is therefore the feature source, not yet a consumable released-chart pin update.Traffic path
flowchart LR subgraph old[Before] W1[LLM worker] -->|gRPC + reverse QUIC| S0[Stargate-0] W1 -->|gRPC + reverse QUIC| S1[Stargate-1] W1 -->|gRPC + reverse QUIC| S2[Stargate-2] end subgraph new[After] W2[LLM worker] -->|gRPC :authority / QUIC SNI| R[stargate-k8s-router] R -->|named replica| T0[Stargate-0] R -->|named replica| T1[Stargate-1] R -->|named replica| T2[Stargate-2] endFor the checked-in local two-cluster topology, the compute cluster owns an Endpoints-backed
llm-request-router.nvcf.svc.cluster.localalias. It forwards 50071/TCP and 50072/UDP to the control-plane k3d load balancer, so the test needs neither public DNS norsslip.io. NVCF API advertises that compute-reachable alias asLLM_REQUEST_ROUTER_ADDRESS, and Stargate advertises the same alias as the gRPC/QUIC dial path.The dial address is not the TLS identity. Pylon preserves each selected Stargate pod hostname as the HTTP/2 authority and reverse QUIC SNI even when it dials the shared alias or another load balancer. The managed certificate therefore covers the stable Service plus
*.llm-request-router-headless.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local; a load-balancer hostname or IP is not an additional SAN unless the advertised Stargate hostname template itself changes.Implemented fixes
addons.llm.enabledis true; the in-cluster path needs no backend-router image or dial-address values.appVersion: 0.11.1; an explicit backend image remains available for development overrides.ClientIPService affinity, soft hostname anti-affinity, and amaxUnavailable: 1PodDisruptionBudget.global.workerEndpoints.llmRequestRouterAddressinto NVCF API remote config, so launched LLM workers receive the correct address.pki.allowedDomainsrender guard._1xinstance type.Validation
Post-rebase regression suites pass:
make testindeploy/stacks/self-managedmake test-multicluster-makeintools/ncp-local-clustergo test -short ./...intests/bddThe first full two-cluster k3d run demonstrated:
quic_insecure=false, and an unrelated system-trust-only client rejected withUnknownIssuer;qa966-okthrough the relayed tunnel; andTen sequential post-HA invocations completed in 79-107 ms (median 86 ms, mean 89.0 ms). An eight-way diagnostic burst completed 8/8 in 435 ms, with router sampling peaking at 7m CPU and 14 MiB memory. This is not sustained-token sizing: the available echo workload emits one token even when asked for 128, so a representative throughput test remains deferred.
A subsequent clean split-cluster run on PR head
f0a79415used the published semanticstargate:0.11.1image for all three Stargate pods and both backend-router pods. It independently reconfirmed the always-on resources and runtime argv, managed PKI, three simultaneous authority/SNI mappings with one active-server metric per Stargate pod, a realqa966-okinvocation, and failover through the surviving router. The affected tunnel was disrupted for 8.02 seconds and the post-failover invocation completed successfully.The remaining live check is the checked-in local-only multi-cluster BDD on current head
ec0e52c5. That rerun validates the new alias Service, NVCF API worker-address handoff, and local-chart fixture from clean clusters; semantic image publication itself is no longer an open prerequisite.Coordinated and follow-up work
Related
Relates to #689 and #584.