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TL;DR

Add a repeatable Stargate development stack and a Rust benchmark controller for
testing routing policies with mock inference backends. The stack supports five
AWS regions and a local two-region k3d deployment. This supersedes #1519.

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Routing policy changes need a controlled multi-cluster environment, resumable
campaigns, and retained measurements. This change supplies those pieces:

• deploy/stacks/stargate-dev: phased Helmfile deployment of hub routers,
  worker authentication, MockDC clusters running MockDynamo and Pylon, and
  optional AWS observability. Preflight validates credentials, CA bundles,
  digest pins, protected values, and AWS account/resources.
• stargate-dev-bench: a standalone Rust controller that generates deterministic
  workloads, runs Spark in a Pod, verifies deployment/cache controls, reconciles
  interrupted work, and renders accepted raw reports offline.
• Shared router chart: optional backend LoadBalancer Service, existing auth
  Secrets, upstream CA configuration, digest validation, and a load-balancer
  configuration checksum that rolls routers when their startup policy changes.
  A separate internal Service preserves backend-router ServiceMonitor scraping
  in LoadBalancer mode without exposing the health port publicly.
• stargate-dev-auth: development worker-auth RPC service with constant-time
  token comparison, graceful shutdown, and initialized request metrics. It
  replaces the old worker-auth fixture in images and the loopback test.
• Local deployment: connected hubs on one Docker network, digest-pinned local
  images, and isolated CA/Secret generation. MockDC keeps two backend Pods with
  different simulated capacities and prefers separate nodes; both may schedule
  on one node with enough resources.
• CI and agent guidance: chart, deployment, and controller checks; meaningful
  Stargate changes require runtime mock validation and relevant changes require
  repeated baseline/candidate performance evidence before readiness or merge.
  The performance gate is scoped to components whose image digests or runtime
  settings differ from the merge base, judges results against baseline
  variation, and caps inconclusive follow-ups at one extra pair.

Customer release notes: Adds a development deployment and benchmark workflow
for Stargate routing experiments. Existing ClusterIP chart users retain their
Service behavior. Releases with loadBalancer.config receive a router rollout
on upgrade because the policy checksum is new.

Plan summary: AWS uses one hub and two MockDC clusters per region, with three
main routers, three backend routers, one auth service per hub, and two backends
per MockDC. Connected regions share credentials, routing identity, and router
CA. Observability uses Grafana Alloy and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.
Local mode creates six k3d clusters for two regions and refuses observability.

Usage: See the development stack guide
for prerequisites, phased deployment, local operation, campaigns, and teardown.

For the Reviewer

Review the shared chart templates/helpers and values, the new dev-auth binary
and fixture removal, and .github/workflows/build-test.yml most closely.
The benchmark workspace has its own pinned toolchain and dependency notice.

The CodeRabbit digest validation and performance-guidance findings are addressed.
Performance evidence is linked below. Bora's LoadBalancer/ServiceMonitor finding
is fixed with an internal metrics Service and regression coverage. The missing
DCO sign-off on the performance-guidance commit is corrected.

For QA (optional for docs, build, test, refactor, ci, chore, style, and revert PRs)

Current chart integration candidate: 6ec3158b8e4b68f8bcd7cba0d33adc2cb80d85dd.
Runtime images were built from eb04cd97744315b4c20990f6c1217501d37406b3.
Performance baseline: merge-base a8abe14f361fccf485f457929dffdd51f8a44f6d.
Later changes update guidance, retain evidence, and fix ServiceMonitor discovery
for the backend LoadBalancer. The fix leaves images and Pod templates unchanged;
no additional revision-level performance comparison is required for it.

The current validation report
retains individual results, raw numerical reports, prompt hashes, image/resource
controls, policy, workloads, source adapters, and proxy-log observations.

• Fresh isolated local deployment: six single-node clusters, with both backend
  Pods Ready on the same node in each MockDC. Both hubs discover all eight
  backends. Streaming probes pass 192/192 requests and observe every backend
  through each hub. Controller smoke passes 64/64 requests with zero failures
  or retries, plus acceptance and offline rendering.
• Three measured repetitions per revision, alternating baseline/candidate,
  candidate/baseline, baseline/candidate. Both policies run 5,760 requests at
  48 RPS and 1,536 affinity requests at 24 RPS under identical frozen controls.
  All twelve campaigns accept 87,552/87,552 requests, with zero failures,
  timeouts, cancellations, or retries.
• A predeclared additional candidate/baseline affinity-only pair per policy
  investigates tail variation, separately from the primary sequence. All four
  arms accept 6,144/6,144 requests. Ten on-wire auth probes complete 200,000 valid
  RPCs and reject missing service auth and unknown workers.
• Stack Python tests: 50 pass. Full shared-chart test target: pass. Scoped native
  Bazel Pylon and Stargate suites: pass. The controller's fmt, Clippy, and
  70 unit/execution/planning tests also pass in CI.

No consistent revision-specific latency regression is established; this is not
statistical equivalence or a blanket performance pass. WaW affinity's primary
median TTFT p95/p99 rises 2.048/3.072 ms, while the focused pair reverses the
direction. PowerOfN has mixed primary tails and worse focused tails, all retained
in the report. Routing draws are unseeded. The comparison uses fixed offered
loads, not saturation capacity. Its frozen harness isolates the auth revision
and does not compare historical chart settings or node-topology capacity.

Auth working set increases by 0.6152 MiB across two Pods, about 0.3076 MiB per
Pod on average, with the new HTTP health/metrics service. Merge was requested
after this measured resource tradeoff and the latency variation were disclosed.

GitHub checks are green at 6ec3158b8e4b68f8bcd7cba0d33adc2cb80d85dd.
The earlier runtime/performance candidate passed its checks. The current fix
passes the full chart render target and Helm lint; its regression fails against
the original template.

The current chart runtime receipt
also records a passing live Prometheus Operator regression: the
original monitor has zero targets; the fixed chart scrapes all three backend
routers in LoadBalancer and ClusterIP modes, then succeeds after restoration.
Health stays off the public LoadBalancer, and all application Pod templates
remain unchanged. Streaming passes another 192/192 requests across both hubs,
both policies, and all eight backends per hub.

Earlier validation at 1a531da02 also covered local and five-region AWS mock
deployment, all-backend streaming probes, and controller interrupt/reconcile/
resume. AWS releases were restored to saved revisions after those runs. The
current validation used an isolated local environment and made no AWS changes.

QA limits: mock measurements qualify the reported workload and environment.
AWS observability provisioning/upgrades, production capacity, real-model
performance, full canonical suites, and scheduled session ramps remain
unvalidated. The validated Spark 0.3.8 image lacks the controller's rate-step
flag, so the performance comparison uses fixed-count sustained and affinity
workloads with complete request draining. Co-located backends share host
resources. Baseline packaging/auth adapters and the frozen comparison harness
are described in the report.

Other operator notes: connected hubs need registration/watch reachability;
local registration is h2c and QUIC uses the local CA. Local images need host
capnp; operators supply a compatible Spark image. Rerun local image/value
generation after node-address changes. Existing deployments using old
unprefixed observability IAM role names must regenerate values and reapply
observability. Pulsar rows are unpaired with WaW by the controller CLI.

Issues

Relates to #1420

Dependencies

New standalone benchmark crates, exact pins: anyhow 1.0.103, clap 4.6.1,
rustix 1.1.5, serde 1.0.228, serde_json 1.0.150, serde_yaml_ng 0.10.0,
sha2 0.10.9, tempfile 3.27.0, time 0.3.47, tokio 1.52.3, uuid 1.22.0.
Licenses are MIT or Apache-2.0; rustix also offers Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception.
Transitive unicode-ident carries Unicode-3.0, already used elsewhere in the Rust
workspace but absent from .allowed-licenses.txt; license review is flagged.
Dependency license CI passes. Root NOTICE links the benchmark NOTICE, and
dependencies.md is updated. Generated dependency checks pass.

Related Pull Requests: #1519 (superseded), #2286 (batched mock engine, merged),
#1002, #2223, #2288, #2241.

Checklist

• I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
• I have signed off my commits for Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) compliance.
• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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📝 Walkthrough

The pull request adds an AWS and local k3d Stargate development deployment, a Rust benchmark CLI, and a development authentication service. It also updates the LLM request router chart with digest-aware images, Secret-based authentication, upstream CA settings, configurable backend Services, and load-balancer configuration checksums.

Changes: LLM request router chart

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image, authentication, and TLS settings deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/values.yaml, templates/*, deploy/helm/llm-request-router/README.md	Image references support digest pinning. The Deployment can mount an existing authentication Secret when Vault annotations are disabled. Backend-router TLS settings can project and use an upstream CA bundle.
Backend Service and rollout checks deploy/helm/llm-request-router/llm-request-router/templates/backend-router.yaml, templates/_helpers.tpl, scripts/check-*-render.sh	The backend-router Service supports configurable type, annotations, load-balancer class, and source ranges. LoadBalancer Services omit the health port. Embedded load-balancer configuration adds a Pod-template checksum annotation, which render checks validate.

Stargate development deployment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Environment values and release wiring deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/environments/*, helmfile.yaml.gotmpl, loadtest/*, values/versions.yaml, README.md	Regional files define AWS and local cluster settings, router values, and observability values. Helmfile configures auth, router, MockDC, Grafana, and Alloy releases. The guide describes deployment and benchmark workflows.
Development charts and dashboard deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/charts/*, dashboards/stargate-services.json, src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/mock-dynamo/BUILD.bazel, crates/mock-dynamo/src/tests.rs	New charts define the development auth service and MockDC resources. The dashboard adds Stargate service panels. A MockDynamo OCI image target and chart-argument test are added.
Deployment, local setup, and observability commands deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/scripts/*, deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/tests/*	The deployment CLI initializes credentials, validates and applies stack phases. The local CLI manages k3d resources, certificates, Secrets, and images. The observability CLI provisions AMP and IAM roles. Tests cover rendered stack resources, deployment preflights, local setup, and observability configuration.

Stargate development benchmark

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CLI, suite planning, and workloads deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/src/main.rs, src/suite.rs, src/workload.rs, tests/planning.rs, loadtest/*	The CLI lists and plans suites, runs campaigns, renders results, reconciles launches, and verifies regions. Suite validation builds plans for configured scenarios. Workload recipes generate prompt files with fingerprints.
Cluster and Spark execution deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/src/cluster.rs, src/pod.rs, src/process.rs, tests/support/*	The benchmark validates topology and cluster state, uploads workloads, launches and polls Spark processes, downloads reports, and reconciles saved launches. Process helpers capture command output and stop process groups.
Campaigns, evidence, and reports deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/src/campaign.rs, src/artifact.rs, src/schedule.rs, src/report.rs, tests/execution.rs	Campaigns freeze inputs, record evidence, resume when saved inputs match, and reconcile outstanding work. Schedule timelines and Spark reports are validated before summaries are rendered.
Tooling and guidance deploy/stacks/stargate-dev/benchmark/Cargo.toml, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, NOTICE, rust-toolchain.toml, .github/workflows/build-test.yml, NOTICE, dependencies.md	The benchmark adds pinned Rust tooling, dependency notices, guidance, and CI checks for formatting, tests, and Clippy.

Development authentication service

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authentication service and image src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/bin/stargate-dev-auth.rs, crates/stargate/BUILD.bazel, src/libraries/rust/stargate/Dockerfile, stargate-worker-auth-gateway.rs	The service authenticates service and worker tokens, returns a routing key, and exposes health and metrics endpoints. Build targets package the new binary; the old gateway binary and Dockerfile copy are removed.
End-to-end fixture src/libraries/rust/stargate/scripts/e2e-last-cluster.sh	The fixture starts the new service with separate configuration and Stargate secrets. Both Pylons use the shared worker token.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as Benchmark CLI
  participant Campaign as Campaign controller
  participant Cluster as Kubernetes topology
  participant Runner as Spark runner
  participant Pod as Spark Pod
  participant Reports as Report renderer
  CLI->>Campaign: Submit plan and campaign options
  Campaign->>Cluster: Load topology and check controls
  Campaign->>Runner: Inspect Pod and prepare workloads
  Runner->>Pod: Upload workloads and launch streams
  Pod-->>Runner: Return exit status and report files
  Runner-->>Campaign: Return verified reports and launch state
  Campaign->>Cluster: Collect Pod and cache evidence
  Campaign->>Reports: Validate reports and render summary

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Use constant-time comparison for token checks.

The code compares service_token and worker_token with ==. This comparison stops at the first differing byte. A network client could in theory use response timing to recover a token. The service is a development fixture, so the risk is low. A constant-time compare, such as subtle::ConstantTimeEq, removes the risk. The crate must also be added to the dependencies.

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With service.type=LoadBalancer the Service loses the health port, but the ServiceMonitor still scrapes health. If both are on you get no metrics and no error. Also, the last commit is missing DCO.

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Addressed Bora's review in 6ec3158b8e4b68f8bcd7cba0d33adc2cb80d85dd.

• LoadBalancer mode now creates an internal ClusterIP metrics Service when metrics and ServiceMonitor scraping are enabled. The public Service keeps only gRPC and QUIC.
• Render coverage checks both Service types, enabled/disabled monitoring, custom namespaces and health ports, and exactly one selected health endpoint. The regression fails against the original template. Full make -C deploy/helm/llm-request-router test and Helm lint pass from a fresh checkout.
• Live Prometheus Operator reproduction: the original chart loads the ServiceMonitor but discovers zero backend targets. The fixed chart scrapes all three backend-router Pods through two consecutive successful scrapes, including real QUIC counter series. ClusterIP mode also scrapes all three, and restoring LoadBalancer mode passes again.
• Runtime mock validation passes 192/192 streaming requests across both hubs and both routing policies, observing all eight backends through each hub. Every application Pod template and image remains unchanged by the fix; existing performance evidence remains applicable.
• The prior performance-guidance commit now has its missing DCO sign-off (25278176e); the metrics fix is also signed off.

GitHub still reports REVIEW_REQUIRED despite Barry's approval. The required code-owner approval remains pending before the normal merge queue can proceed.

Retained numerical runtime receipt

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  "separatePerformanceRerun": "Not required: no image, Pod template, routing policy, or inference resource change."
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