Introduce a single, typed caller identity that is resolved once at the auth
boundary and read by reference downstream, instead of being re-derived from a
50-field key object or rebuilt from request metadata.
What this adds (litellm/proxy/auth/resolvers/), organized by responsibility:
- Principal: a small, frozen, identity-only value type (user / organization /
teams / project / end-user / roles / scopes / network), with its sub-models
and the role mapping. No budget or policy state; those stay on the key object.
- DbIdentityStore: the auth flow's resolver, owning both halves of resolving a
caller. resolve_key does the one combined_view lookup (cache, then DB via the
shared lower-level helpers, then write-back) and returns the key object, which
still flows for budget / rate-limit / policy unchanged. principal_from_key
projects the identity slice of that key object into a Principal, issuing no
lookup. user_api_key_auth resolves every key through the store rather than
calling get_key_object directly; auth_checks.get_key_object stays as the legacy
entrypoint for its other callers until they migrate.
- network: the X-Forwarded-For / trusted-proxy CIDR primitives live here in one
place. trusted_proxy_utils now imports them rather than keeping a second copy.
At the seam, user_api_key_auth projects one per-request Principal off the
resolved key object and stamps the request network context onto it once
(X-Forwarded-For is trusted only when trusted_proxy_ranges is configured). It is
attached to request.state.principal for the downstream consumers later phases
add. The projection is additive and defensive: a failure never rejects an
already-authenticated request, and a missing principal must be treated as deny
by any future reader. The Principal is always identifiable (credential_ref and a
stable subject off the token), never anonymous.
This is additive and changes no behavior today; it is the identity foundation
the spend-attribution and authorization phases build on.
MCP server CRUD endpoints (/v1/mcp/server*) were bundled with MCP
tool-call / passthrough endpoints under llm_api_routes, so setting
DISABLE_LLM_API_ENDPOINTS=true on admin-only nodes also blocked the
Admin UI from listing, adding, or attaching MCP servers.
Separate mcp_inference_routes (data-plane, gated by
DISABLE_LLM_API_ENDPOINTS) from mcp_management_routes (control-plane,
gated by DISABLE_ADMIN_ENDPOINTS). Keep mcp_routes as a union for
backward compat with allowed_routes=["mcp_routes"] virtual key configs.
Upgrade is_management_route to pattern-aware matching so
/v1/mcp/server/{path:path} resolves for concrete IDs.
The error message for DISABLE_ADMIN_ENDPOINTS incorrectly said
"DISABLING LLM API ENDPOINTS is an Enterprise feature" instead of
"DISABLING ADMIN ENDPOINTS is an Enterprise feature".
This was a copy-paste bug from the is_llm_api_route_disabled() function.
Added regression tests to verify both error messages are correct.
* feat(route_checks.py): allow admin to disable proxy management endpoints on instance
useful for preventing multiple instances from doing admin actions
* docs(scaling_multiple_instances.md): add architecture doc on scaling multiple litellm instances
provide guidance on scaling proxy
* docs(scaling_multiple_instances.md): add doc on scaling across multiple regions for litellm
* fix(route_checks.py): allow disabling llm api endpoints on an instance
allows pure admin instance to exist
* refactor(enterprise/route_checks.py): refactor env var checks
* refactor: finish refactoring
* docs(control_plane_and_data_plane.md): refactor docs
* test: update tests
