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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 8a2be824f6 feat(ci): substitution-safety gate + escape 6 comment hazards; strict mode is now SAFE
Adds conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-substitution/ — an offline, stdlib-only
L0 check tagged R-ENV-02 + R-GITOPS-01 (deliberately NOT R-TEST-01, which would
overclaim). It reuses lib/status.py's `resources:` walk rather than forking it, so "what a
path renders" has exactly one definition. It asserts: every ${...} on a substituted path
is defined-or-escaped (comments included); no default-operator form on an undefined name;
no unparseable expansion; the rendering path actually substitutes cluster-vars; every
overlay-patched /data/KEY has a base default; and that the gate itself is load-bearing.

WIRED AS AN UNCONDITIONAL STAGE (3c) in ci/l0.sh, and that matters: stage 3b scopes to
touched requirements, and ci/touched-requirements.sh maps only clusters/* to R-ENV-02 —
so an edit to a substituted manifest under apps/ or platform/ would have filtered this
check out of exactly the change that introduces the bug. l0 fail -> BLOCK=1 in gate.sh.

Mutation-tested all five assertion classes (undefined token, indexed expansion, :- form,
missing substituteFrom, un-wired gate); each fails as intended, baseline green.

STRICT MODE IS PROVEN SAFE TO ENABLE — measured, not inspected. For all 11 substituted
paths, `kubectl kustomize --load-restrictor LoadRestrictionsNone <path> | flux envsubst
--strict` exits 0 against cluster-vars base defaults. Negative control confirms the
incident: with K3S_API_HOST unset, non-strict renders k8sServiceHost empty while strict
exits 1 with `variable not set (strict mode)`. The feature gate itself is NOT flipped
here — that is a live-cluster change and the operator's call.

Escapes the six comment hazards that stood in the way (apps/vms/unifi x4,
platform/longhorn x2). All were prose ABOUT the escaping convention; since the repo's own
contract is that $${...} emits a literal ${...}, escaping them is both precise and
self-consistent. kustomize strips these particular comments today, but comment survival is
an implementation detail — a body comment carrying $ WAS observed surviving into built
apps/wave-1 — and a survivor would kill the whole Kustomization.

DOCTRINE CORRECTED (measured against flux 2.4.0): clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml claimed an
indexed expansion is fatal "escaped or not". Escaping is TOTAL — $${ARR[0]} emits the
literal text safely; only the UNESCAPED indexed form is fatal. Corrected in place.

Also empties DOCUMENTED_GAPS in conformance/run.sh with rationale: R-ENV-02 and
R-GITOPS-01 now have a real verifying test, which run.sh's own comment named as the
trigger for removing them.

Advisory output (not failures): 6 dead cluster-vars knobs — BASE_DOMAIN, CLUSTER_ENV,
CLUSTER_POD_CIDR, PIA_REGION, PLATFORM_NODE_SELECTOR_{KEY,VALUE}. The last four are
documented reference-only; BASE_DOMAIN and CLUSTER_ENV look like genuine rot (hostnames
are hardcoded elsewhere) and are worth a follow-up.

Gate: MERGE GATE: PASS. 102 assertions, 0 hazards.

Serves: R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-01 01:31:07 -05:00

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#!/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.
#
# 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}, $${ARR[0]} -> emitted as the LITERAL ${...} for a downstream
# shell/cloud-init consumer. Escaping is total: it neutralises
# even the indexed form.
# $VAR, $(cmd) -> left alone by envsubst; they need no escaping.
# ${...}, ${a b}, ${ARR[0]} (UNESCAPED) -> HARD PARSE ERROR ("unable to parse
# variable name" / "missing closing brace") which fails the
# WHOLE Kustomization — every resource in the path, not just
# the offending one.
# The escape contract this enforces is the one already documented in
# `clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml`; this check is that comment made executable.
#
# GIVEN the repository as authored,
# WHEN every Flux Kustomization under clusters/ that declares postBuild.substituteFrom
# is resolved to the exact file set its `spec.path` renders (by following
# kustomization.yaml `resources:` transitively — a path, not a glob),
# THEN (1) every `${...}` in those files is DEFINED in cluster-vars, or ESCAPED `$${...}`;
# (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;
# AND (6) this check is LOAD-BEARING: ci/l0.sh 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 `$`-carrying
# comment survives into the built apps/wave-1 output), so a braced expression in a
# comment is a live hazard, not prose.
#
# WHAT THIS DOES *NOT* PROVE (honest gaps — this is a STATIC check):
# - It does NOT render the manifests. It scans the SOURCE files a path includes,
# which is a deliberate SUPERSET of the post-`kustomize build` stream (kustomize
# drops some comments). A finding in a comment may not reach envsubst TODAY; it is
# still reported, because whether a given comment survives the build is a kustomize
# implementation detail that changes with the pinned version, and the failure it
# causes is total (assertion 3). The end-to-end proof — `kustomize build <path> |
# flux envsubst --strict` for every substituted path — needs kustomize + flux,
# which the L0 CI toolchain does not install (.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh
# l0), so it cannot run here without permanently SKIPPING. It was run by hand and
# recorded in DECISIONS-LOG; this check is the reproducible static half.
# - It does NOT prove the cluster's live state matches git, nor that the
# StrictPostBuildSubstitutions feature gate is actually enabled on
# kustomize-controller. Both are cluster facts (L2), untested here. Tagging
# R-GITOPS-01 claims ONLY the static slice: what git says a Kustomization renders
# is fully determined, with no variable silently emptied on the way in.
# - It does NOT validate cluster-vars VALUES (that GATEWAY_VIP is inside the LB pool,
# that an overlay's LAN block is self-consistent). Presence, not correctness.
# - A cluster-vars key nothing references is reported as an ADVISORY, never a failure:
# several are deliberately reference-only and say so in cluster-vars.yaml
# (PIA_REGION "retained, not substituted"; CLUSTER_POD_CIDR "Documents ..."), so
# failing on them would be a false block on documented intent.
# =============================================================================
set -euo pipefail
DIR="$(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 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."""
if dollars >= 2:
return None # 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] = []
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
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:
n_esc += 1
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 ${{{inner}}} but "
f"Kustomization '{k['name']}' ({k['file']}) does not "
f"substituteFrom ConfigMap/cluster-vars — the literal token "
f"would ship into the cluster")
continue
n_bad += 1
tag, fix = verdict
findings.append(f" [{tag}] {rel}:{lineno} {m.group(0)}\n"
f" rendered by Flux Kustomization '{k['name']}' "
f"({k['file']}, path {k['path']})\n"
f" {fix}\n"
f" | {line.strip()[:120]}")
inventory.append(f" {k['name']:<16} path={k['path']:<22} files={len(files):<3} "
f"defined={n_def:<3} escaped={n_esc:<3} hazards={n_bad}")
check(not findings,
f"{len(findings)} unescaped, undefined or unparseable expansion(s) in substituted paths")
# --------------------------------------------- (5) overlay knobs exist in the base
# Parse contract: overlays patch cluster-vars with JSON6902 ops (`- op: replace` /
# `path: /data/KEY`) inside an inline `patch: |-` block. The repo rule (cluster-vars.yaml
# header) is that a knob is ADDED TO THE BASE with a default BEFORE any overlay or
# manifest references it — that ordering is what closes the define-then-use race.
_OP_PATH_RE = re.compile(r"^\s*(?:-\s*)?path:\s*/data/([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\s*$", 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 ""
check("flux-postbuild-substitution/check.sh" in L0,
"ci/l0.sh does not run flux-postbuild-substitution/check.sh — the requirement-scoped "
"conformance selection can filter this check out of a gate run, so l0.sh must invoke "
"it directly and unconditionally or the gate is not actually enforcing it")
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)}")
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)
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