fix(sec): the R-SEC-02 admission policy was never applied -- and nothing could tell
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PR #13 added conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml to platform/kyverno/admission/
kustomization.yaml. That file applies NOTHING. Its own sibling says so: "kept as
reference; THIS file is the buildable render root" -- and that render root
(platform/kyverno/kustomization.yaml) ships only the namespace and the HelmRelease,
noting that ClusterPolicies are applied a tier later, by platform-config, because they
need the Kyverno CRDs first.

So three lists exist and only platform-config/kustomization.yaml applies anything. The
policy went into the wrong one and EVERYTHING WENT GREEN: the file parsed, kyverno test
exercised it by path and passed, the merge gate passed, and Flux reported `platform`
Ready at the new revision. Measured on prod afterwards:

    kubectl get clusterpolicy conformance-trigger-job-shape
    Error from server (NotFound)

while ns conformance, the conformance-trigger ServiceAccount, its Role and its
RoleBinding were all live. That is exactly the state that identity's own RBAC header
says must never exist -- the trigger identity present with nothing bounding it. Blast
radius was small only because no trigger kubeconfig exists yet, which is luck, not design.

Wires the policy into platform-config (verified: the render goes from 7 ClusterPolicies to
8 and contains conformance-trigger-job-shape).

CLOSES THE CLASS, which matters more than the instance. Adds the L0 check
admission-policies-actually-applied: every ClusterPolicy file under platform/kyverno/ is
either referenced by platform-config/kustomization.yaml or named in a CI_ONLY list with a
reason -- and CI_ONLY may not name a policy that IS applied, so the exemption cannot rot in
either direction. Declared scope whole-repo deliberately: a policy wired nowhere touches no
requirement the diff attributes, so a path-scoped run would have skipped it on the exact
commit that introduced the defect.

Proven both ways, not assumed:
  with the fix reverted -> FAIL, naming conformance-trigger-job-shape as never applied
  with the fix          -> PASS, 9 policy files, 8 applied, 1 CI-only with a reason

`kyverno test` proves a policy is CORRECT. This proves it is DEPLOYED. Nothing did before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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# policies, the next import is blocked in the gap.
- ../platform/kyverno/policies/label-cdi-worker-pods.yaml
- ../platform/kyverno/admission/secret-provenance.yaml
# R-SEC-02 — bounds what the conformance CI trigger may create. MUST be listed HERE: this
# Kustomization is what actually applies ClusterPolicies. Adding a policy only to
# platform/kyverno/admission/kustomization.yaml is a SILENT NO-OP — that file is reference
# only ("kept as reference; THIS file is the buildable render root" in
# platform/kyverno/kustomization.yaml, which itself ships only the namespace + HelmRelease).
# That is exactly how this policy shipped green and never reached the cluster on 2026-09-29,
# leaving the conformance-trigger identity live with nothing bounding it.
- ../platform/kyverno/admission/conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml
# cilium: L2 LB IP pool + announcement policy (cilium.io CRDs already registered by Cilium)
- cilium/l2-ip-pool.yaml
- cilium/l2-announcement-policy.yaml