docs(runbooks): forward-auth IS enforced — correct the posture note

The serving route's comment claimed that because no Gateway ext-authz
attachment exists, every forward-auth route is 'in practice reachable
unauthenticated today'. That is wrong, and wrong in a dangerous direction
for a document an operator reads during an incident.

Enforcement here is PER-POD, not gateway-level: each of the five services
declaring auth: forward-auth (pihole, jackett, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr)
publishes both its app port and 4180 on its Service, and its HTTPRoute
targets :4180 — the oauth2-proxy sidecar. Verified on prod. The app port
remains reachable in-cluster on purpose, which is how sonarr/radarr drive
qBittorrent's API, and Cilium default-deny governs that path.

The public-by-design decision for this route is unchanged and still correct;
what changes is that it is genuinely the exception rather than one open route
among many. Headlamp's exclusion is likewise deliberate (native OIDC with
per-user id_token forwarding and no ServiceAccount cluster rights).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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# during an outage. If that trade is ever revisited, the correct fix is NOT forward-auth on this
# route; it is to keep it public and move sensitive specifics out of the runbooks.
#
# HONEST NOTE ON TODAY'S POSTURE. The Gateway ext-authz attachment that would ENFORCE forward-auth
# does not exist anywhere in this repo yet (platform/oauth2-proxy is the authenticator only; the one
# CiliumEnvoyConfig on the cluster is the Gateway's own). So every `forward-auth` route — homepage,
# pihole, jackett, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr — is in practice reachable unauthenticated today.
# This route is therefore no more open than its neighbours right now; the difference is that when
# ext-authz does land, this one must be left OUT of it ON PURPOSE, and this comment is the record of
# that decision so nobody "fixes" it later and re-closes the loop.
# HOW forward-auth IS ENFORCED HERE — and why this route is genuinely different. Enforcement is NOT
# a Gateway ext-authz attachment; it is PER-POD. Each forward-auth service runs an oauth2-proxy
# sidecar, its Service publishes BOTH the app port and 4180, and the service's HTTPRoute targets
# :4180 — verified on prod for all five that declare `auth: forward-auth` in the catalog (pihole,
# jackett, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr). Ingress traffic therefore always traverses oauth2-proxy,
# which performs the Keycloak exchange and the group check. The app port stays on the Service so
# in-cluster clients can talk service-to-service without SSO (that is how sonarr/radarr reach
# qBittorrent's API), which is deliberate, not a leak: Cilium default-deny decides who may use it.
#
# So this route is NOT "no more open than its neighbours" — its neighbours are closed and this one is
# open, on purpose, for the lockout reason argued above. It has no oauth2-proxy sidecar and targets
# its app port directly. If a Gateway-level ext-authz attachment is ever introduced, this route must
# be left OUT of it ON PURPOSE, and this comment is the record of that decision so nobody "fixes" it
# later and re-closes the loop. (Headlamp is also excluded from forward-auth, for a different and
# equally deliberate reason: it runs native Keycloak OIDC and forwards the logged-in user's id_token
# to the apiserver for per-user RBAC, with clusterRoleBinding.create=false so its ServiceAccount can
# do nothing on its own.)
apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: HTTPRoute
metadata: