Closes the LAST scaffold-only safety-critical requirement. The operator has attested DR works (Velero -> Proxmox versitygw S3, restore demonstrated), but the L3 test carried the right tag and layer label over a 5-line TODO body — so coverage counted it and reported "0 safety-critical gaps" while the suite asserted nothing. That was test debt, not capability debt. This makes the suite assert what the operator already demonstrated. Three steps: 1. assert-backup-target-is-off-cluster (read-only): BSL must be phase Available (Velero itself reached the store), s3Url host is not localhost/*.svc/*.cluster.local, and the resolved IPv4 is none of — loopback, any Node Internal/ExternalIP, any Service ClusterIP, any Pod IP, inside any node podCIDR, inside any ServiceCIDR. A BSL that exists but never reaches Available FAILS (a live DR defect), it does not skip. 2. assert-backups-are-scheduled: R-STATE-03 says SCHEDULED off-cluster backups — Velero + BSL but zero Schedule in phase Enabled is a fail. 3. The drill: seed a nanosecond-unique canary onto a longhorn PVC in its own scratch namespace; Backup to Completed; assert a PodVolumeBackup for that volume is Completed WITH a non-empty status.snapshotID (the kopia snapshot of volume DATA reached the remote repo, not just resource JSON); ANNIHILATE the source (delete ns, poll until gone, force-delete a lingering PV, FAIL if the original PV survived — a survivor makes the restore prove nothing); Restore with namespaceMapping into a clean namespace; assert the restored PVC bound a DIFFERENT PV and that the canary bytes are identical. Off-cluster proof = endpoint outside every cluster address + BSL Available + kopia snapshotID present + every in-cluster copy destroyed + restore landing on a new PV. The bytes could only have come from outside. Skips GREEN on: no longhorn SC, Velero API absent, no BSL, Velero/node-agent not ready — all three steps re-derive the same gates so it can never half-run. An RBAC denial is deliberately NOT a skip: it fails loudly as a harness defect. Teardown is a step-level `finally` that ALWAYS runs — deletes the Restore, issues a DeleteBackupRequest so objects leave the bucket (2h ttl as backstop), deletes both scratch namespaces by name and by label, releases leftover PVs whose claimRef is one of its own. Everything it destroys is something it created. conformance/incluster/rbac.yaml: authored the R-STATE-03 grants (velero.io backups/ restores/deletebackuprequests create+delete+read; BSL/schedules/podvolume* read-only; persistentvolumes get/list/DELETE — the off-cluster proof requires destroying the PV). Also two pre-existing gaps other tests already depended on: storageclasses get/list (the skip gate of five tests) and apps deployments/daemonsets read. No write verbs on platform controllers. NOT ASSERTED, stated in the file header rather than implied: off-HOST (on dev the nodes are VMs on the same Proxmox host as the S3 target, so this does not survive hypervisor loss); no direct S3 client read (that would hand a privileged test identity the backup credential for weaker evidence); real service data (Nextcloud/Gitea/CNPG drills stay operator exercises); bare-metal rebuild DR; encryption-at-rest; retention/GC. status: scaffold-only 5 -> 4; safety-critical w/o executable L3 1 -> 0 (of 6); executable 35 -> 36. coverage unchanged at 40/51 (correct — coverage only asks whether a tagged test exists). PROVEN stayed 0 / not-derivable: it did NOT flip to proven just because the body is non-empty. AUTHORED, NEVER EXECUTED — carries a conformance.home.k3s/never-executed annotation. No cluster access from this workstation. To convert authored -> proven the operator must, IN A MAINTENANCE WINDOW (it deletes namespaces and PVs and writes/deletes bucket objects): apply the updated rbac.yaml, run `./conformance/run.sh --requirements R-STATE-03 --layer l3`, confirm the log shows DR_RESTORED_FROM_OFF_CLUSTER_BACKUP_OK and NOT DR_RESTORE_SKIPPED_OK (green but proves nothing), confirm no leaked *-dr-src/*-dr-dst namespaces or orphan PVs or *-dr-backup objects, and record the green run. Serves: R-STATE-03, R-TEST-05. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
In-cluster conformance Job (L2/L3)
Per ADR-0011 and docs/14 "Where each layer runs": L0/L1 run in CI without a cluster, but L2 behavioral and L3 fault-injection run as an in-cluster Chainsaw Job on the dev/test cluster that CI triggers and waits for. CI holds no cluster credentials — the Job's own scoped ServiceAccount does (R-SEC-02).
Files
rbac.yaml— theconformancenamespace, theconformance-runnerServiceAccount, and a least-privilege ClusterRole skeleton. Rules start empty and are added — each commented with the test/requirement that needs it — only as the matching fault-injection test lands. This is a privileged test identity: never reused by workloads, its own audit item.chainsaw-job.yaml— the Job skeleton. Single entrypoint./run.sh; CI setsargsto--requirements <touched IDs>(merge gate) or--layer all --strict-coverage(phase exit). Image pinned toversions.envCHAINSAW_IMAGE.
Flow
- CI (Gitea Actions, delivered in T-6.1b) creates a Job from
chainsaw-job.yaml(via a trigger with narrow rights: create Job + read its logs/status — not a broad kubeconfig). - The Job clones/loads the impl repo at the commit under test into
/workspaceand runs./run.shunderconformance-runner. run.shruns Chainsaw over the selected tests and writesreport.junit.xml+coverage/to the results volume (/workspace/conformance/_artifacts).- CI collects those artifacts (results volume or the terminating log stream, which echoes their paths) and enforces the merge / phase-exit gate on them.
Phase 0
No cluster exists, so nothing here is applied yet. These manifests are reconciled by Flux
from Phase 1+ and first exercised when L2/L3 can run (T-3.0 onward). In Phase 0 the same
run.sh runs in CI's no-cluster stage and emits a skipped JUnit + the coverage report.