#!/usr/bin/env bash # ============================================================================= # L0 static check (offline, no cluster) — flux-postbuild-substitution # Serves: R-ENV-02 ("Same GitOps config promotes dev/test -> prod (authored once)." # — spec docs/02-environments-and-provisioning.md) # R-GITOPS-01 ("All desired state in git, reconciled by Flux." # — spec docs/05-gitops-and-delivery.md) # # WHY THIS EXISTS — Flux post-build substitution FAILS OPEN # -------------------------------------------------------- # R-ENV-02 is implemented by exactly one mechanism: `clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml` # is injected into every `${TOKEN}` of the manifests each Flux Kustomization renders, # via `postBuild.substituteFrom`. That mechanism is silently lossy by default: an # UNDEFINED variable becomes the EMPTY STRING and the Kustomization still reports # Ready. On 2026-09-01 that emptied `k8sServiceHost` in the Cilium HelmRelease and put # cilium into Init:Error on 2 of 3 dev nodes (DECISIONS-LOG "substitution race that # fails OPEN"). "Authored once, promoted" is therefore only true while every token a # substituted path renders is either DEFINED or deliberately ESCAPED — and nothing in # the repo asserted that. This check does. # # SECOND INCIDENT, 2026-09-13 — THE INVERSE HAZARD (commit 16b7fcd) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ # The first incident was a variable the author wanted EXPANDED that rendered EMPTY. This one # is its mirror: content the author wanted to reach the workload UNTOUCHED that substitution # silently REWROTE. A CronJob reconciler in apps/wave-0/nextcloud-db.yaml asserted its own # convergence in a dollar-quoted PL/pgSQL block — # # DO BEGIN ... END ; where is two literal dollars: standard Postgres # # — inside a ConfigMap under apps-wave-0, which declares postBuild.substituteFrom. envsubst # collapses a doubled dollar into ONE dollar, ALWAYS, so Postgres received a half-quoted # `DO ` and died with `syntax error at or near "$"`. Three scheduled runs left # nine Error pods in nextcloud-db before anyone looked. # # It PASSED verification because it was hand-applied with `kubectl apply`, which runs NO # envsubst. The defect existed ONLY on the Flux-rendered path. And the damage landed # precisely on the self-check: the GRANT on line 1 still ran, so the privilege stayed # correct and the only thing broken was the assertion meant to make a silent regression # visible — the part whose whole job is to stop a blind spot being quiet. # # THE ASSERTION GAP THIS CLOSES: assertions (1)-(3) below ask whether every `${...}` is # defined, escaped, or parseable. They said NOTHING about a doubled dollar that is not an # escape, because the old classifier treated a `$` run of length >= 2 as "escaped, therefore # fine" and stopped looking. Nothing failed the gate; the manifest rendered "successfully" # into something broken. Assertion (7) is that hole, closed. # # ENVSUBST BEHAVIOUR ASSERTED HERE (empirically verified against the pinned toolchain, # `flux envsubst`, flux 2.4.0 — this is measured behaviour, not assumption): # ${DEFINED} -> substituted with the cluster-vars value. # ${UNDEFINED} -> EMPTY STRING, silently. `--strict` / the cluster-wide # StrictPostBuildSubstitutions feature gate turns this into a # loud Kustomization failure ("variable not set (strict mode)"). # ${UNDEFINED:-d} -> the DEFAULT is applied AT RECONCILE TIME. Strict mode does # NOT catch this (it exempts default-operator forms by design), # so a shell guard written `[ -z "${X:-}" ]` inside a rendered # manifest is pre-resolved to `[ -z "" ]` and its else-branch # becomes unreachable in the container. Silent, and permanent. # $${VAR}, $${V:-d}, $${ARR[0]} -> emitted as the LITERAL ${...} for a downstream # shell/cloud-init consumer. Escaping is total: it neutralises # even the indexed form. # $VAR, $(cmd) -> left alone by envsubst; they need no escaping. # # DOLLAR-RUN ARITHMETIC — the exact rule, MEASURED, not inferred (see assertion (7)) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # envsubst here is `github.com/fluxcd/pkg/envsubst` v1.1.0 — Flux's own maintained FORK of # `github.com/drone/envsubst` ("This package is a fork of drone/envsubst", its README) — and it # is exposed by the `flux envsubst` CLI ("replicate the behavior of the Flux Kustomization # post-build substitutions", its own --help). Named from the binary, not from memory: the # pinned flux 2.4.0 in the dev image embeds the Go module path # `/home/runner/go/pkg/mod/github.com/fluxcd/pkg/envsubst@v1.1.0/parse` # (`grep -ao 'github.com/fluxcd/pkg/envsubst[^ ]*' "$(command -v flux)"`). Its scanner walks # the input left to right; on a `$` it looks at the NEXT byte: # * another `$` -> BOTH are consumed and ONE `$` is emitted. This is UNCONDITIONAL. What # follows the pair is irrelevant — `{`, a letter, a digit, a semicolon, # a newline, end of input. `$$` is not "the escape for `${`"; it is the # escape for `$` itself, everywhere. # * `{` -> the braced expression is parsed and EXPANDED. # * anything else -> the `$` is emitted literally (hence `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` survive). # So a run of N consecutive dollars emits floor(N/2) literal dollars, and when N is ODD the # final dollar is still LIVE. Measured with flux 2.4.0 `flux envsubst`, DEFINED=VALUE — the # left column is authored bytes, the right is what reaches the cluster: # # $ -> $ ${DEFINED} -> VALUE # $$ -> $ $${DEFINED} -> ${DEFINED} <- the escape # $$$ -> $$ $$${DEFINED} -> $VALUE <- ODD: brace LIVE # $$$$ -> $$ $$$${DEFINED} -> $${DEFINED} # $$$$$ -> $$$ $$$$${DEFINED} -> $$VALUE # DO $$ .. $$; -> DO $ .. $; $$${NOPE:-d} -> $d # awk '{print $$2}' -> awk '{print $2}' $${ARR[0]} -> ${ARR[0]} (safe) # $$@ $$< $$^ -> $@ $< $^ $$${ARR[0]} -> HARD PARSE ERROR, whole # Kustomization dies # # TWO CONSEQUENCES THIS CHECK IS BUILT ON: # (a) THERE IS NO WAY TO SHIP A LITERAL `$$` THROUGH A SUBSTITUTED PATH. To make two # dollars arrive you must author FOUR. So any authored `$$` that is meant to reach the # workload verbatim is a BUG, full stop — that is the 2026-09-13 incident, and Postgres # dollar-quoting is its commonest shape (Makefile `$$@`, awk `$$2` and docker-compose # `$${}` are the same hazard arriving from the other direction: there the collapse is # what the author wanted). # (b) `$$$` + brace is NOT "more escaped" than `$$` + brace — it is NOT escaped at all. An # odd run leaves one live dollar, so the brace expands, or, for an inner envsubst # cannot parse, fails the ENTIRE Kustomization (proven above with $$${ARR[0]}, which # aborted the whole stream while $${ARR[0]} on the line before it was fine). # `--strict` reports NONE of this: every row of that table except the parse error was # accepted SILENTLY by `flux envsubst --strict`, exit 0, and its output was BYTE-IDENTICAL to # non-strict (`cmp`). Strict mode cannot see this class, so a source-level assertion is the # only available guard. # # TO REPRODUCE THE TABLE (30 seconds, no cluster) — it is a measurement, so re-measure it # after any FLUX_VERSION bump in infra/devcontainer/versions.env. Open the toolbox with # `./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh` and run these INSIDE it (do NOT pipe into `dev.sh run` from # the host: it starts the container with `-it`, so a piped stdin hangs): # printf '[$$] [$$$] [$${D}] [$$${D}] [DO $$ x $$;]\n' | D=VALUE flux envsubst # -> [$] [$$] [${D}] [$VALUE] [DO $ x $;] # And end-to-end, on the actual delivery path, with the pre-16b7fcd manifest checked out # (`git show 16b7fcd^:apps/wave-0/nextcloud-db.yaml > apps/wave-0/nextcloud-db.yaml`): # kubectl kustomize apps/wave-0 | grep 'DO \$' -> "DO $$" (the kubectl path) # kubectl kustomize apps/wave-0 | flux envsubst --strict | grep 'DO \$' # -> "DO $" (the FLUX path), exit 0 # (`kubectl kustomize` IS the kustomize build here; the image ships no standalone binary.) # That two-command contrast IS the 2026-09-13 incident, and is why review missed it. # ${...}, ${a b}, ${ARR[0]} (UNESCAPED) -> HARD PARSE ERROR ("unable to parse # variable name" / "missing closing brace") which fails the # WHOLE Kustomization — every resource in the path, not just # the offending one. # The escape contract this enforces is the one already documented in # `clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml`; this check is that comment made executable. # # GIVEN the repository as authored, # WHEN every Flux Kustomization under clusters/ that declares postBuild.substituteFrom # is resolved to the exact file set its `spec.path` renders (by following # kustomization.yaml `resources:` transitively — a path, not a glob), # THEN (1) every `${...}` in those files is DEFINED in cluster-vars, or ESCAPED `$${...}`; # (2) no UNESCAPED expansion carries a default/length/substitution operator on an # undefined name (the silent-empty class strict mode does not catch); # (3) no UNESCAPED expansion is unparseable by envsubst (`${...}`, `${ARR[0]}`) — # that fails the entire Kustomization, so it is fatal wherever it appears; # (4) every Kustomization that renders a cluster-vars token actually declares # `substituteFrom` a ConfigMap named cluster-vars (else the literal token # ships into the cluster); # (5) every knob an overlay patches (`/data/KEY`) exists in the BASE ConfigMap — # the "add the knob with a base default BEFORE referencing it" rule that the # incident's interim discipline depends on; # (7) NO DOLLAR RUN IS SILENTLY REWRITTEN: the only run of length >= 2 that passes # unremarked is exactly `$$` immediately followed by `{` — the documented, total, # already-inventoried escape. EVERY other run of >= 2 dollars (a bare `$$`, an odd # `$$$`, an over-counted `$$$$`) is rewritten by envsubst between git and the # container, so it must be named and justified in `dollar-collapse.allow`, a file # this check also holds to being exact and non-stale; # AND (6) this check is LOAD-BEARING: it DECLARES `conformance.home.k3s/scope: whole-repo`, # so ci/l0.sh's `--include-scope whole-repo` runs it on every gate run, and # ci/gate.sh sets the merge block when the l0 stage fails. # Assertion (1)-(3) are applied to COMMENTS as well as content: `kustomize build` # preserves body comments into the stream envsubst reads (verified: a `$`-carrying # comment survives into the built apps/wave-1 output), so a braced expression in a # comment is a live hazard, not prose. # # WHAT THIS DOES *NOT* PROVE (honest gaps — this is a STATIC check): # - It does NOT render the manifests. It scans the SOURCE files a path includes, # which is a deliberate SUPERSET of the post-`kustomize build` stream (kustomize # drops some comments). A finding in a comment may not reach envsubst TODAY; it is # still reported, because whether a given comment survives the build is a kustomize # implementation detail that changes with the pinned version, and the failure it # causes is total (assertion 3). The end-to-end proof — `kustomize build | # flux envsubst --strict` for every substituted path — needs kustomize + flux, # which the L0 CI toolchain does not install (.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh # l0), so it cannot run here without permanently SKIPPING. It was run by hand and # recorded in DECISIONS-LOG; this check is the reproducible static half. # - It does NOT prove the cluster's live state matches git, nor that the # StrictPostBuildSubstitutions feature gate is actually enabled on # kustomize-controller. Both are cluster facts (L2), untested here. Tagging # R-GITOPS-01 claims ONLY the static slice: what git says a Kustomization renders # is fully determined, with no variable silently emptied on the way in. # - It CANNOT prove the thing that actually let 16b7fcd's bug reach a cluster: that a # change was VERIFIED through a substituting path. "It was hand-applied with kubectl" is # a fact about a shell session, not about any tracked file — git records the manifest, # never the command someone ran to try it, so the property is not statically decidable # here and no honest formulation of it exists. Nor is a proxy worth having: grepping # commit prose or runbooks for `kubectl apply` would be trivially satisfiable by # rewording, and would fire on the many legitimate break-glass runbooks whose whole # content is that command. So this check does not attempt it, and does not pretend to. # Assertion (7) answers that incident a different way: it moves the proof off the # verification PATH, which is unknowable, and onto the SOURCE, which is not — the # mangling is now caught by reading the manifest, whichever way a human chose to try it. # (The one decidable half-measure, `kustomize build | flux envsubst --strict` per # substituted path in CI, is already ruled out above: the L0 toolchain installs neither # tool, so the stage would SKIP permanently. The dev image has both, and it is how the # arithmetic table above was measured.) # - It does NOT validate cluster-vars VALUES (that GATEWAY_VIP is inside the LB pool, # that an overlay's LAN block is self-consistent). Presence, not correctness. # - A cluster-vars key nothing references is reported as an ADVISORY, never a failure: # several are deliberately reference-only and say so in cluster-vars.yaml # (PIA_REGION "retained, not substituted"; CLUSTER_POD_CIDR "Documents ..."), so # failing on them would be a false block on documented intent. # ============================================================================= set -euo pipefail DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)" ROOT="$(cd "${DIR}/../../../.." && pwd)" # repo root PYTHON="${PYTHON:-python3}" # Honest SKIP (never green) if the thing under test is not present at all. if [ ! -d "${ROOT}/clusters" ] || [ ! -f "${ROOT}/clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml" ]; then echo "check SKIPPED: clusters/ or clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml absent — nothing to audit" >&2 exit 3 fi cd "${ROOT}" "${PYTHON}" - "${ROOT}" <<'PY' """Static audit of Flux postBuild substitution safety. Pure standard library. No PyYAML: the file shapes parsed here are line-constrained and the parse contracts are documented at each parser, matching lib/coverage.py + lib/status.py. The kustomization `resources:` parser is IMPORTED from lib/status.py rather than forked, so there is one definition of "what a Flux path actually renders" in the harness. """ from __future__ import annotations import bisect import os import re import sys from pathlib import Path ROOT = Path(sys.argv[1]) sys.dont_write_bytecode = True # keep __pycache__ out of the tracked tree sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "conformance" / "lib")) import status as st # noqa: E402 — reuse the walk, don't fork it FAILURES: list[str] = [] ADVISORIES: list[str] = [] CHECKS = 0 def check(cond, msg): global CHECKS CHECKS += 1 if not cond: FAILURES.append(msg) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ cluster-vars # Parse contract: `data:` block of a single ConfigMap, one ` KEY: "value"` per line # (every entry in clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml is a quoted scalar; comments and # continuation-comment lines are indented further and never match). _DATA_KEY_RE = re.compile(r'^ ([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*):\s*(?:"|\')') def cluster_vars_keys(path: Path) -> set[str]: keys: set[str] = set() in_data = False for raw in path.read_text().splitlines(): if re.match(r"^data:\s*$", raw): in_data = True continue if not in_data: continue if st._TOP_KEY_RE.match(raw): # a new top-level key ends the data block break m = _DATA_KEY_RE.match(raw) if m: keys.add(m.group(1)) return keys VARS_FILE = ROOT / "clusters" / "base" / "cluster-vars.yaml" KEYS = cluster_vars_keys(VARS_FILE) check(len(KEYS) > 0, f"no data keys parsed from {VARS_FILE} — the parser or the file shape changed") # ------------------------------------------- Flux Kustomizations with substituteFrom # Parse contract mirrors lib/status.py's flux_paths(): docs split on a lone `---`, a doc # is a Flux entrypoint only if it carries the kustomize.toolkit apiVersion AND # `kind: Kustomization` AND a spec-level `path:`. Inline `patch: |-` bodies in the # overlays carry Flux Kustomizations WITHOUT a path and are correctly skipped. _SUBFROM_RE = re.compile(r"^(\s*)substituteFrom:\s*$", re.M) _SUBITEM_KIND_RE = re.compile(r"^\s*-\s*kind:\s*(\S+)") _SUBITEM_NAME_RE = re.compile(r"^\s*(?:-\s*)?name:\s*([^\s#]+)") def substitute_sources(doc: str) -> list[tuple[str, str]]: """[(kind, name)] declared under postBuild.substituteFrom in this doc.""" m = _SUBFROM_RE.search(doc) if not m: return [] indent = len(m.group(1)) out: list[tuple[str, str]] = [] kind = "" for raw in doc[m.end():].splitlines(): if raw.strip() == "" or raw.lstrip().startswith("#"): continue if len(raw) - len(raw.lstrip()) <= indent and not raw.lstrip().startswith("-"): break # dedented out of the list km = _SUBITEM_KIND_RE.match(raw) if km: kind = km.group(1) continue nm = _SUBITEM_NAME_RE.match(raw) if nm and kind: out.append((kind, nm.group(1))) kind = "" return out kustomizations: list[dict] = [] for yfile in sorted((ROOT / "clusters").rglob("*.yaml")): text = yfile.read_text() if st.FLUX_API not in text: continue for doc in st._DOC_SPLIT_RE.split(text): if st.FLUX_API not in doc or not re.search(r"^kind:\s*Kustomization\s*$", doc, re.M): continue pm = st._PATH_RE.search(doc) if not pm: continue nm = st._NAME_RE.search(doc) srcs = substitute_sources(doc) if not srcs: continue # no substitution => nothing to audit kustomizations.append({ "file": str(yfile.relative_to(ROOT)), "name": nm.group(1) if nm else "?", "path": pm.group(1), "sources": srcs, }) check(len(kustomizations) > 0, "no Flux Kustomization with postBuild.substituteFrom found under clusters/ — " "the parser or the repo layout changed; this check would silently audit nothing") # ------------------------------------------------------------------ token scanning # One `$`-run followed by a braced expression. `[^{}]*` is exhaustive for this tree: # a repo-wide sweep found no nested/unclosed brace expression in any manifest (only # Gitea Actions `${{ ... }}` in .gitea/, which no Flux Kustomization renders). TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r"(\$+)\{([^{}]*)\}") NAME_RE = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$") # An expansion whose name is followed by a POSIX parameter operator. envsubst EVALUATES # these, so an undefined name yields the default/empty AT RECONCILE TIME. OP_RE = re.compile(r"^([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)(:[-=?+].*|:[0-9].*|/.*|#.*|%.*|\^.*|,.*)$") LEN_RE = re.compile(r"^#([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)$") def classify(dollars: int, inner: str) -> tuple[str, str] | None: """Return (severity-tag, remediation) for a hazardous expansion, else None. PARITY, not ">= 2" (the 2026-09-13 correction). envsubst consumes dollars in PAIRS and emits one per pair, so a run of N dollars in front of a brace leaves the brace ESCAPED only when N is EVEN. An ODD run emits floor(N/2) literal dollars and its last dollar is still LIVE, so `$$${X}` expands exactly as `${X}` does — and `$$${ARR[0]}` fails the whole Kustomization where `$${ARR[0]}` is harmless. The old `dollars >= 2 -> return None` called every such run "escaped" and stopped looking. Assertion (7) flags the run itself; this function additionally classifies the still-live expansion an odd run carries. """ if dollars % 2 == 0: return None # fully escaped: emitted as a literal if NAME_RE.match(inner): if inner in KEYS: return None # defined knob — the happy path return ("UNDEFINED", f"strict mode fails the Kustomization; today it renders EMPTY. Either add " f"'{inner}' to clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml with a base default, or " f"escape it as $${{{inner}}} if it is meant for a shell/cloud-init consumer") m = OP_RE.match(inner) or LEN_RE.match(inner) if m: base = m.group(1) if base in KEYS: return None # defined knob with an operator return ("SILENT-EMPTY", f"envsubst resolves this AT RECONCILE TIME because '{base}' is not a " f"cluster-var, so the rendered manifest carries the default, not the " f"expression. StrictPostBuildSubstitutions does NOT catch this form. " f"Escape it as $${{{inner}}} if the CONTAINER's shell is meant to expand it") return ("FATAL-PARSE", "envsubst cannot parse this and fails the ENTIRE Kustomization (every resource " "in the path). Escape it as $${...} or rewrite the prose without braces") def rendered_files(path_spec: str) -> tuple[list[str], bool]: """Repo-relative files the Flux `spec.path` renders, resolving `resources:` transitively.""" rel = os.path.normpath(path_spec.lstrip("./")) if path_spec not in (".", "./") else "." if not (ROOT / rel).is_dir(): return [], False applied, _ = st.reconciled_files(ROOT, rel) return sorted(applied), True findings: list[str] = [] referenced: dict[str, set[str]] = {} inventory: list[str] = [] # rel path -> the Kustomization name(s) that render it, for assertion (7)'s second pass. # A file can be rendered by more than one Kustomization; all of them substitute. subst_files: dict[str, set[str]] = {} for k in kustomizations: files, exists = rendered_files(k["path"]) check(exists, f"{k['file']}: Kustomization '{k['name']}' renders path '{k['path']}' " f"which is not a directory in this repo") has_cluster_vars = ("ConfigMap", "cluster-vars") in k["sources"] n_def = n_esc = n_bad = 0 for rel in files: f = ROOT / rel try: text = f.read_text() except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError): continue subst_files.setdefault(rel, set()).add(k["name"]) for lineno, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1): for m in TOKEN_RE.finditer(line): dollars, inner = len(m.group(1)), m.group(2) verdict = classify(dollars, inner) if verdict is None: if dollars % 2 == 0: # PARITY, see classify(): an odd run is n_esc += 1 # live, not escaped else: n_def += 1 referenced.setdefault(re.split(r"[:/#%^,]", inner)[0] or inner, set()).add(k["name"]) # (4) a DEFINED knob is only substituted if this Kustomization # actually pulls cluster-vars in; otherwise the literal ships. check(has_cluster_vars, f"{rel}:{lineno}: renders cluster-var ${{{inner}}} but " f"Kustomization '{k['name']}' ({k['file']}) does not " f"substituteFrom ConfigMap/cluster-vars — the literal token " f"would ship into the cluster") continue n_bad += 1 tag, fix = verdict findings.append(f" [{tag}] {rel}:{lineno} {m.group(0)}\n" f" rendered by Flux Kustomization '{k['name']}' " f"({k['file']}, path {k['path']})\n" f" {fix}\n" f" | {line.strip()[:120]}") inventory.append(f" {k['name']:<16} path={k['path']:<22} files={len(files):<3} " f"defined={n_def:<3} escaped={n_esc:<3} hazards={n_bad}") check(not findings, f"{len(findings)} unescaped, undefined or unparseable expansion(s) in substituted paths") # ----------------------------------- (7) no dollar run is silently rewritten on the way out # THE 2026-09-13 CLASS. envsubst consumes dollars in PAIRS and emits one per pair, # unconditionally and everywhere (header: DOLLAR-RUN ARITHMETIC, measured against flux 2.4.0). # So every run of >= 2 dollars in a substituted manifest is REWRITTEN between git and the # container, and from the text alone the two intents are indistinguishable: # # (a) a deliberate escape the author WANTS collapsed — `$${VAR}` -> literal `${VAR}`; # (b) content that must arrive VERBATIM — `DO $$ ... $$;` -> `DO $ ... $;` # i.e. the incident. A BUG. # # THE RULE CHOSEN, AND WHY IT IS NEITHER NOISY NOR VACUOUS. # Exactly ONE shape passes unremarked: a run of EXACTLY TWO dollars immediately followed by # `{`. That is not a guess about intent, it is the escape contract this repo already # documents in clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml, that assertions (1)-(3) already validate the # inside of, and that 18 reviewed occurrences already rely on (unifi cloud-init, the gitea # and nextcloud OIDC bootstrap scripts, two longhorn comments). Failing those would be a # permanently-firing alert on documented, correct intent, and this repo has already been # bitten by one of those. # # EVERY OTHER run of >= 2 dollars FAILS unless it is named in `dollar-collapse.allow`: # * DOLLAR-COLLAPSE — a run not followed by `{`. Cannot survive verbatim: `$$` -> `$`. # This is the incident's exact shape and a blanket bug by default. # * DOLLAR-HALF-ESCAPED — an ODD run >= 3 before `{`. Looks escaped, is not: the last # dollar is live. Occasionally legitimate (`$$${PRICE}` to render a # literal `$` before a value), so it is allowlistable, not banned. # * DOLLAR-OVER-ESCAPED — an EVEN run >= 4 before `{`. Emits N/2 dollars then a literal # brace; nearly always a miscount, sometimes deliberate. # # WHY AN ALLOWLIST AND NOT A BLANKET BAN: a blanket ban was the first choice and was # rejected on evidence, not taste — main carries two real non-braced `$$` occurrences today # (prose inside embedded shell comments), so a blanket ban would have shipped RED. Nor is # the allowlist a hole: an entry is a hand-written edit to a file inside the conformance # test, which is loud in review; it must quote a >= 24-character VERBATIM context, so it can # only ever cover the occurrence it was written for and never a future one that drifts into # the same file; it must carry a >= 40-character reason; and every entry must still MATCH # something, so the allowlist cannot rot into a blanket exemption after the code it excused # is deleted. A wildcard, a bare `$$` context and a stale entry each FAIL. ALLOW_FILE = (ROOT / "conformance" / "tests" / "l0-static" / "flux-postbuild-substitution" / "dollar-collapse.allow") MIN_CONTEXT = 24 MIN_REASON = 40 DOLLAR_RUN_RE = re.compile(r"\$+") allow_entries: list[dict] = [] check(ALLOW_FILE.is_file(), f"{ALLOW_FILE.relative_to(ROOT)} is missing — assertion (7) needs its allowlist to " f"exist even when empty, because an absent file and an empty file are the same green " f"and the next author would not know the mechanism is there") if ALLOW_FILE.is_file(): for lineno, raw in enumerate(ALLOW_FILE.read_text().splitlines(), 1): if not raw.strip() or raw.lstrip().startswith("#"): continue parts = [x.strip() for x in raw.split("|")] if len(parts) != 3: check(False, f"dollar-collapse.allow:{lineno}: expected exactly 3 '|'-separated " f"fields (path | verbatim-context | reason), got {len(parts)}") continue allow_entries.append({"line": lineno, "path": parts[0], "ctx": parts[1], "reason": parts[2], "used": 0}) for e in allow_entries: tag = f"dollar-collapse.allow:{e['line']}" check((ROOT / e["path"]).is_file(), f"{tag}: names '{e['path']}', which is not a file in this repo — a stale entry is " f"a standing exemption for a path someone could recreate") check(len(e["ctx"]) >= MIN_CONTEXT, f"{tag}: context {e['ctx']!r} is {len(e['ctx'])} chars; at least {MIN_CONTEXT} are " f"required so an entry cannot be a near-wildcard that swallows future occurrences") check(DOLLAR_RUN_RE.search(e["ctx"]) is not None and max((len(m.group(0)) for m in DOLLAR_RUN_RE.finditer(e["ctx"])), default=0) >= 2, f"{tag}: context {e['ctx']!r} contains no run of two or more dollars, so it excuses " f"nothing and is either a typo or a decoy") check(len(e["reason"]) >= MIN_REASON, f"{tag}: reason is {len(e['reason'])} chars; at least {MIN_REASON} are required. " f"State what envsubst will actually emit and why that is acceptable — an entry " f"nobody had to explain is an accident wearing an approval") RUN_TAGS = { "collapse": ("DOLLAR-COLLAPSE", "envsubst collapses each PAIR of dollars into one, everywhere and " "unconditionally, so this CANNOT reach the workload verbatim (a literal $$ " "needs $$$$ in source). This is the 2026-09-13 nextcloud-db shape: a " "dollar-quoted PL/pgSQL DO block arrived half-quoted and every Flux-" "reconciled run died. Rewrite without dollars, double them again if the " "collapse is what you want, or justify it in dollar-collapse.allow"), "half": ("DOLLAR-HALF-ESCAPED", "an ODD run of dollars before a brace is NOT escaped: floor(N/2) literal " "dollars are emitted and the LAST dollar is still live, so this expansion " "EVALUATES at reconcile time (and if its inner is unparseable it fails the " "entire Kustomization). Use an EVEN run to escape, or justify it in " "dollar-collapse.allow if a literal dollar before a substituted value is " "really what you meant"), "over": ("DOLLAR-OVER-ESCAPED", "an EVEN run of four or more dollars emits N/2 literal dollars followed by a " "LITERAL brace — the value is never substituted and extra dollars appear in " "the rendered manifest. Almost always a miscount of the escape; justify it in " "dollar-collapse.allow if it is not"), } run_findings: list[str] = [] n_runs_ok = 0 for rel in sorted(subst_files): text = (ROOT / rel).read_text(errors="replace") # Absolute offsets, not per-line: the gitea/nextcloud bootstrap scripts are single # 4000-character folded scalars, so "the line" is not a reviewable unit of context here. nl = [i for i, ch in enumerate(text) if ch == "\n"] spans = [] # allowlisted [start, end) regions for e in allow_entries: if e["path"] != rel: continue start = text.find(e["ctx"]) while start >= 0: spans.append((start, start + len(e["ctx"]), e)) start = text.find(e["ctx"], start + 1) for m in DOLLAR_RUN_RE.finditer(text): n = len(m.group(0)) if n < 2: continue braced = text[m.end():m.end() + 1] == "{" if n == 2 and braced: n_runs_ok += 1 # the documented escape; (1)-(3) own it continue covering = [e for (a, b, e) in spans if a <= m.start() and m.end() <= b] if covering: for e in covering: e["used"] += 1 continue kind = "collapse" if not braced else ("half" if n % 2 else "over") tag, fix = RUN_TAGS[kind] lineno = bisect.bisect_right(nl, m.start()) + 1 ctx = text[max(0, m.start() - 60):m.end() + 60].replace("\n", "\\n") run_findings.append( f" [{tag}] {rel}:{lineno} a run of {n} dollar(s)" f"{' before a brace' if braced else ''}\n" f" rendered by Flux Kustomization(s) {', '.join(sorted(subst_files[rel]))}" f" — postBuild substitution REWRITES it\n" f" {fix}\n" f" | ...{ctx}...") check(not run_findings, f"{len(run_findings)} dollar run(s) in substituted paths that envsubst rewrites and " f"nothing justifies (the 2026-09-13 nextcloud-db class)") for e in allow_entries: check(e["used"] > 0, f"dollar-collapse.allow:{e['line']}: STALE — its context is not present in " f"{e['path']} any more (or no longer contains a rewritten dollar run), so the entry " f"now excuses nothing. Delete it. A stale allowlist is how an opt-in decays into a " f"blanket exemption for whatever lands in that file next") # --------------------------------------------- (5) overlay knobs exist in the base # Parse contract: overlays patch cluster-vars with JSON6902 ops (`- op: replace` / # `path: /data/KEY`) inside an inline `patch: |-` block. The repo rule (cluster-vars.yaml # header) is that a knob is ADDED TO THE BASE with a default BEFORE any overlay or # manifest references it — that ordering is what closes the define-then-use race. _OP_PATH_RE = re.compile(r"^\s*(?:-\s*)?path:\s*/data/([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\s*$", re.M) for overlay in sorted((ROOT / "clusters").glob("*/kustomization.yaml")): for key in set(_OP_PATH_RE.findall(overlay.read_text())): check(key in KEYS, f"{overlay.relative_to(ROOT)}: patches /data/{key} but '{key}' has no BASE " f"default in clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml — a second overlay would render " f"${{{key}}} empty (R-ENV-02: author once, supply per env)") # ------------------------------------------------------- (6) the check is load-bearing L0 = (ROOT / "ci" / "l0.sh").read_text() if (ROOT / "ci" / "l0.sh").is_file() else "" GATE = (ROOT / "ci" / "gate.sh").read_text() if (ROOT / "ci" / "gate.sh").is_file() else "" # THIS CHECK IS LOAD-BEARING — asserted against the DECLARATIVE mechanism. # It used to assert `"flux-postbuild-substitution/check.sh" in L0`: ci/l0.sh carried a hand-written # "UNCONDITIONAL" stage per whole-repo check, hardcoding this path. Those stages are gone # (they did not scale, and the next whole-repo invariant only got one if someone REMEMBERED # to write it). The same property is now asserted two ways: this test DECLARES # `conformance.home.k3s/scope: "whole-repo"`, and ci/l0.sh unions every declaring test into # the run via `--include-scope`. Neither half alone is enough, so both are checked here; the # mechanism ITSELF (the union really selects, and a scope-declared SKIP exits 3 rather than # passing) is proven end-to-end and falsifiably by # conformance/tests/l0-static/whole-repo-invariants-wired. SELF_YAML = ROOT / "conformance" / "tests" / "l0-static" / "flux-postbuild-substitution" / "chainsaw-test.yaml" SELF = SELF_YAML.read_text() if SELF_YAML.is_file() else "" check(re.search(r'^\s*conformance\.home\.k3s/scope:\s*["\']?whole-repo', SELF, re.M) is not None, "flux-postbuild-substitution/chainsaw-test.yaml does not declare " 'conformance.home.k3s/scope: "whole-repo", so the merge gate selects this check only ' "when a change happens to touch one of the requirements it is labelled with. " "The path map keys only clusters/* to R-ENV-02, so an edit to a SUBSTITUTED manifest under apps/ or platform/ attributes nothing and this check would be filtered out of exactly the change that empties a variable (the 2026-09-01 Cilium k8sServiceHost CNI outage)") check("--include-scope" in L0, "ci/l0.sh no longer passes --include-scope to the conformance runner, so the L0 stage is " "a purely requirement-scoped run again and the scope annotation is inert decoration — " "this check would then run only by coincidence") check(re.search(r"^for s in .*\bl0\b.*; do", GATE, re.M) and re.search(r"fail\).*BLOCK=1", GATE), "ci/gate.sh does not set the merge block when the l0 stage fails") # ------------------------------------------------------------- advisory: dead knobs for key in sorted(KEYS - set(referenced)): ADVISORIES.append(f"cluster-vars knob '{key}' is referenced by NO reconciled manifest " f"(dead knob, or documentation-only — advisory, not a failure)") # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- report print("Flux postBuild substitution inventory (per Kustomization):") for line in inventory: print(line) print(f"\ncluster-vars knobs defined: {len(KEYS)} referenced: {len(referenced)}") print(f"dollar runs >=2 in substituted files: {n_runs_ok} documented $${{...}} escapes, " f"{sum(e['used'] for e in allow_entries)} justified by dollar-collapse.allow " f"({len(allow_entries)} entr{'y' if len(allow_entries) == 1 else 'ies'}), " f"{len(run_findings)} unjustified") if ADVISORIES: print("\nADVISORIES (not failures):") for a in ADVISORIES: print(f" - {a}") if findings: print("\nHAZARDS — unescaped expansions that are not cluster-vars knobs:", file=sys.stderr) for f in findings: print(f, file=sys.stderr) if run_findings: print("\nHAZARDS — dollar runs envsubst rewrites between git and the container:", file=sys.stderr) for f in run_findings: print(f, file=sys.stderr) print() if not FAILURES: print(f"check OK: flux-postbuild-substitution — {CHECKS} assertions " f"(R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01)") raise SystemExit(0) print(f"CHECK FAIL (flux-postbuild-substitution): {len(FAILURES)} failed, " f"{CHECKS - len(FAILURES)} passed", file=sys.stderr) for f in FAILURES: print(f" FAIL {f}", file=sys.stderr) raise SystemExit(1) PY