Operator ruling: "I care about the state of the repository and what the status of each
spec is based on that state" — not a hand-maintained task board. This is that report.
conformance/lib/status.py (stdlib-only, --selftest) sits beside lib/coverage.py and
IMPORTS it rather than forking the registry/test parsers. Driven by a new
`conformance/run.sh --status`; artifacts land in _artifacts/status/ alongside coverage
and are git-ignored by the existing convention. Exit codes follow ci/lib.sh (0/1/3);
--strict-coverage also applies the status hygiene gate.
Signals derived per requirement: is there an implementing artifact; is it RECONCILED
(walk resources: from clusters/dev, expand each Flux Kustomization's spec.path, recurse
— so a commented-out resource correctly does not count); is there a tagged test and is
its body executable or a TODO scaffold (TODO markers OUTRANK an executable: "true"
annotation — ambiguity never upgrades a row).
DELIBERATELY NOT DERIVED, and reported as such rather than defaulting to green:
proof-of-pass (nothing tracked in git records a run result — _artifacts/ and results/
are git-ignored) and cluster liveness. "Reconciled" means Flux WOULD apply it, not that
it is healthy. PROVEN is reported as "not derivable" for all 51.
WHAT IT SHOWS THAT coverage.md DOES NOT. Coverage reports 37/51 covered, 0
safety-critical gaps. Three of those claims do not survive repo state:
1. 5 of the 37 "covered" requirements have only a TODO-body scaffold (R-STATE-03,
R-OBS-02, R-OBS-04, R-GITOPS-03, R-GITOPS-02). Coverage counts a tagged file; it
never looks inside it.
2. R-STATE-03 is SAFETY-CRITICAL and its L3 fault test asserts nothing. Coverage reports
"0 safety-critical gaps" only because dr-restore/chainsaw-test.yaml exists and carries
an L3 label. --strict now fails on this.
3. R-UPD-01/02/03 are NOT reconciled: platform/image-automation/ is commented out of
platform/kustomization.yaml. Coverage shows them covered with executable L3 tests,
which reads as delivered; automated updates are actually 0/3 wired+testable.
Headline: 51 requirements | reconciled 20 (+12 partial) | executable test 32 |
wired+testable 22 (+8 partial) | scaffold-only 5 | PROVEN 0 (not derivable).
Also surfaces 18 requirements with no reconciled manifest citing their R-ID — listed as
a traceability gap (R-TEST-04) rather than guessed either way. Annotating those manifests
makes the report self-correct, so it acts as a forcing function instead of another
hand-maintained map.
Serves: R-TEST-01..06. Gate: MERGE GATE: PASS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
R-STATE-02 was the last safety-critical requirement with no verifying test,
exempted via DOCUMENTED_GAPS. Author the L3 fault-injection test that proves the
guarantee and remove the exemption.
tests/l3-fault-injection/node-loss/chainsaw-test.yaml:
GIVEN a 3-replica Longhorn volume with written data attached on node N,
WHEN N is removed from service (cordon + evict the attached workload, forcing
the volume to detach from N),
THEN a fresh workload on a SURVIVING node re-attaches the same volume and reads
the canary intact — volume stays available, cluster reconverges.
Safe-by-construction for the 3-node embedded-etcd dev cluster:
- Disruption scoped to EXACTLY ONE node, at the scheduling layer only (cordon +
evict our own pod). kubelet/etcd stay up — etcd quorum is never touched.
- Never `kubectl drain`; only our own writer pod is deleted, so no unrelated or
system pod is disturbed.
- Victim node labelled conformance.home.k3s/cordoned-by=<test-ns>; `finally`
ALWAYS uncordons every node with THAT label and removes it — restored even on
failure/timeout, and never touches an operator-cordoned node.
- Self-skips green until a longhorn StorageClass AND >= 3 Ready nodes exist.
Bookkeeping:
- run.sh: remove R-STATE-02 from DOCUMENTED_GAPS; add node-loss to CONF_HEAVY_TESTS
(serial pass, matches the other Longhorn/KubeVirt L3 tests).
- incluster/rbac.yaml: enable the scoped nodes get/list/patch rule the test needs
(cordon/uncordon/label); no eviction rights (no drain).
- README.md / coverage.py docstring: refresh the documented-gap example.
Coverage: 36/51 -> 37/51 (70.6% -> 72.5%); safety-critical gaps 1 -> 0. Only
R-STATE-02 changed ([] -> node-loss); no other requirement or golden touched.
NOTE: LIVE execution is DEFERRED to an operator-chosen maintenance window. This
change AUTHORS + statically validates the test (renders, chainsaw-lints, harness
selects it, coverage updates). The static gate runs L2/L3 as SKIP without a
cluster (expected). The node-disruption test was NOT run live.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The content-scan half of the 'stop keying on doc-header tokens' follow-up is done
(ci/touched-requirements.sh). The path-map half remains: clusters/* and ci/* are
still keyed wholesale to R-ENV-02 + R-GITOPS-01, which is why those two stay in
DOCUMENTED_GAPS. Notes the accepted consequence for header-declared manifests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
TASK 1 — reliably single-pass green L2/L3:
Split run_chainsaw into a LIGHT pass (concurrent, config parallelism) and a
HEAVY pass (serial, parallel=1). The KubeVirt-CDI/Longhorn/DR tests
(vm-lifecycle, vm-data-survival, vm-default-deny, data-survival, dr-restore)
spike embedded-etcd on the small dev VMs; running them serially in their own
pass keeps their etcd spikes from ever coinciding with another test's setup —
the coincidence that let one heavy test's apiserver blip fail-close Kyverno
admission and abort every in-flight test at 0.01s. Heavy set is keyed by test
dir basename and overridable via CONF_HEAVY_TESTS. Each pass writes its own
JUnit; lib/merge_junit.py stitches them into the one stable report.junit.xml
CI collects, so the split is invisible downstream. Overall rc is the union of
both passes (no masking — real failures still surface).
Proof: full --layer l2,l3 run now completes single-pass green: 24/24 passed,
0 failures/errors/skipped. vpn-killswitch, which previously failed with an
apiserver EOF (etcd blip), passed; no mass environmental setup-aborts.
TASK 2 (T-4.1) — author conformance/tests/l3-fault-injection/alerting/
fixtures/smtp-sink.yaml: a hermetic Mailpit SMTP capture sink (Service
smtp-sink, SMTP 1025, HTTP API 8025) the alerting test applies as its mail
sink. restricted-PodSecurity compliant, in-memory (no PVC). Unblocks the
previously-aborting alerting scaffold; it now passes.
Touches conformance/ + ci-read content only — no apps/ or platform/ workload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Implements the two L1 rendering tests that were failing scaffolds:
- egress-class-render (R-NET-05/06/07): renders vpn + internet fixtures, diffs each
against a committed golden, asserts the vpn steering label is present on vpn and
absent on internet (fail-closed), and that flipping the class changes ONLY the
egress path (R-NET-07). This fixes the --requirements R-NET-05 merge gate.
- default-deny-baseline-render (R-NET-01): asserts every render carries the
namespaced default-deny baseline, shaped deny-all + both directions.
Each test carries a pure-offline render-check.sh (renderer + golden diff, no
cluster). run.sh runs L1 render checks offline and emits a REAL pass/fail JUnit
(docs/14: L1 rendering assertions run in CI without a cluster) instead of skipping
L1 with the cluster-gated layers; the chainsaw-test.yaml wrappers invoke the same
render-check.sh so an in-cluster run executes the identical assertion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Adopt the architect's spec advance (ADR-0013 amendment + ADR-0015 egress
steering/invariants) into ci/SPEC_PIN; the impl main pin was stale (a7fc19f) so the
R-TEST-06 spec-immutability gate was red on main. Verified the a7fc19f..b633b7f range
is spec-only architect commits.
Add R-ENV-02 and R-GITOPS-01 to conformance/run.sh DOCUMENTED_GAPS (same precedent as
R-STATE-02): the completeness gate's coarse path->requirement matcher keys ci/* and
clusters/* (and doc-header tokens) to these unscaffolded, other-workstream requirements,
false-blocking any infra/overlay/CI edit. Documented + reviewable, not silent. Logged a
WS-TEST follow-up to fix the matcher so real requirements need not be exempted.
Serves: R-TEST-06. PM/Integration-Release governance change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
run.sh exited non-zero (breaking the L2 gate) when invoked from the repo root:
chainsaw's config report.path is relative (_artifacts), so it resolved against
$PWD and failed to write ('open _artifacts/chainsaw-report.xml: no such file')
even though all tests passed. Pass --report-path ${ARTIFACTS} (absolute) +
mkdir -p first. Verified: R-NET-01 from repo root now exits 0 with report written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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