Replace grand-central Ingress with HTTPRoute and Traefik Middlewares

CHANGES.rst

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Unreleased
   ``traefik``, the operator creates a ClusterIP service with Traefik
   IngressRouteTCP and MiddlewareTCP resources instead of a cloud LoadBalancer.
 
+* Replaced grand-central Ingress with HTTPRoute and Traefik Middlewares when
+  ``spec.cluster.exposure`` is set to ``traefik``.
+
 2.60.0 (2026-04-22)
 -------------------
 

crate/operator/exposure.py

@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@
     _lb_annotations_to_remove,
     get_owner_references,
 )
+from crate.operator.grand_central import (
+    create_grand_central_exposure,
+    delete_grand_central_ingress,
+    delete_grand_central_traefik_resources,
+    read_grand_central_deployment,
+)
 from crate.operator.utils import crate
 from crate.operator.utils.k8s_api_client import GlobalApiClient
 from crate.operator.utils.kopf import StateBasedSubHandler
@@ -614,3 +620,20 @@ async def handle(
                 postgres_port,
                 logger,
             )
+
+        # grand-central: only if GC is deployed in this cluster
+        gc_deployment = await read_grand_central_deployment(namespace, name)
+        if gc_deployment:
+            await create_grand_central_exposure(
+                namespace=namespace,
+                name=name,
+                spec=spec,
+                meta=body["metadata"],
+                logger=logger,
+                use_traefik=(new_exposure == "traefik"),
+            )
+
+            if old_exposure == "traefik":
+                await delete_grand_central_traefik_resources(namespace, name, logger)
+            else:
+                await delete_grand_central_ingress(namespace, name, logger)