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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 f5931944fa feat(keycloak): reconcile the passkey realm config via GitOps, the browser flow blue/green
PR #72 declared the WebAuthn passwordless policy and a restructured browser-mfa
flow in the realm import. That declaration could not take effect: a
KeycloakRealmImport is a ONE-SHOT, and prod's reads Done=True / Started=False, so
every realm-level field and flow declared after the first import is inert -- in
git, applied by Flux, reported Ready, reaching the realm never. Merging it changed
nothing about how anyone logs in, and nothing anywhere said so. Same failure class
as the 2026-09-06 client-secret incident, third field over.

A SIBLING reconciler converges all three declared things every 15 minutes. It is a
sibling, not a second pass of client-secret-reconciler.yaml, so that reconciler's
allow-list -- and its guarantee that prod's real user and the media-users /
platform-admins / viewers groups are structurally unreachable -- stays literally
true. Its selftest still passes unchanged.

  pass 1  webAuthnPolicyPasswordless* -- strict read-modify-write of
          GET/PUT /admin/realms/homelab, readback-verified.
  pass 2  webauthn-register-passwordless -- strict read-modify-write of ONE
          literally-named alias; enabled, defaultAction false so enrolment stays
          opt-in.
  pass 3  the browser flow -- BLUE/GREEN.

PASS 3 NEVER MUTATES THE FLOW USERS ARE LOGGING IN THROUGH. Converging a
five-flow, ten-execution tree needs create-subflow, create-execution,
set-requirement and bind-config as SEPARATE untransacted calls; doing that to the
BOUND flow means a run dying between them leaves a half-built login path for every
SSO app and kubectl, and this repo has had a total SSO outage from a realm change.
So instead:

  1. BUILD under a NEW, unused alias (declared alias + a hash of the desired
     shape, applied to EVERY alias in the tree -- reusing browser-mfa-forms would
     mean writing INTO the bound tree). A failure leaves an orphaned, unbound flow
     and zero user-visible effect.
  2. VERIFY by readback -- levels, ordering, authenticators, requirements, and the
     conditional-OTP config CONTENTS -- before anything is bound, so the
     regression that once 403'd every platform-admin is caught BEFORE it bites.
  3. BIND with ONE atomic PUT setting browserFlow.
  4. ROLLBACK is one write; no DELETE exists anywhere in the allow-list, so the old
     flow survives as the rollback target.

The widened allow-list is made safe structurally. It cannot say "but not the bound
flow" -- its write entries are alias-parameterised -- so a second guard screens
every write against the live browserFlow's WHOLE subtree (sub-flow aliases and
execution ids) before a socket opens, FAIL-CLOSED until that binding has been
read. The create-flow endpoint carries no alias in its path, so it is screened on
its request BODY; the selftest caught that it otherwise escaped the guard.

Idempotence is load-bearing: a rebuild-and-reflip every 15 minutes would churn the
login path on a schedule. The bound flow is compared STRUCTURALLY and a match
produces zero writes and no new flow. Sub-flow and config ALIASES are deliberately
not compared -- a built flow carries a hash suffix, so comparing labels would make
it permanently unrecognisable as converged.

Single source of truth: the desired state is GENERATED from the realm import by
ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py and gated with --check, so the RP ID -- baked
into every credential at enrolment and never re-keyable -- is declared once. The
pod keeps automountServiceAccountToken: false and reads a mounted ConfigMap, so no
rbac.yaml is added anywhere.

Read from Keycloak 26.0.6 source before being relied on: updateRealm
(DefaultExportImportManager 725-894) makes no getUsers/getClients/getGroups/
getRoles/getRequiredActions/getAuthenticationFlows call; it DOES read
getBrowserFlow(), which is what makes the atomic bind possible and why the policy
write pins it; the passwordless policy is applied all-or-nothing only when
RpEntityName is non-empty, with defaults substituted for omitted keys; and
updateExecutions compares rep.getPriority(), so a body omitting `priority` would
silently reshuffle the whole execution order.

Gate coverage: a new whole-repo L0 check extracts the script and runs its
--selftest (216 assertions, including a build killed at four different points each
asserting the old flow is still bound and the bound subtree was never written),
plus mutations.py (30 injected regressions, all caught) proving the selftest can
fail. An earlier iteration of this work only AUDITED the flow and left the
restructure manual; decisions/2026-10-18-keycloak-passkey-reconciler.md records
that design and why it was reconsidered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-29 21:22:08 -05:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# =============================================================================
# ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py
#
# Render platform/keycloak/passkey-desired-state.yaml FROM
# platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-import.yaml.
#
# WHY THIS EXISTS
# ---------------
# The Keycloak realm import is a ONE-SHOT that fails OPEN: once it rests at
# Done=True / Started=False it never re-runs. Measured on prod 2026-10-18, hours
# after the passkey declaration merged:
#
# kubectl -n keycloak get keycloakrealmimport homelab -o jsonpath=...status
# Done=True Started=False HasErrors=False
#
# So the WebAuthn passwordless policy and the restructured `browser-mfa` flow that
# keycloak-realm-import.yaml declares are INERT. They are in git, Flux applied
# them, and they reach the realm never. platform/keycloak/passkey-reconciler.yaml
# is the level-triggered loop that closes that; this renderer supplies the DESIRED
# STATE it converges towards (and, for the flow, audits against).
#
# THE CONSTRAINT THAT SHAPES IT: the reconciler pod runs with
# automountServiceAccountToken: false, exactly like its client-secret sibling. It
# has NO Kubernetes API access at all, by design (R-SEC-02) — so it cannot read the
# KeycloakRealmImport CR to learn what the realm is supposed to look like. Its input
# must be MOUNTED. Hence a ConfigMap.
#
# THAT IS ALSO WHY THIS IS A RENDERER AND NOT A HAND-WRITTEN ConfigMap. A
# hand-authored copy of the policy would be a SECOND SOURCE OF TRUTH for the RP ID,
# the user-verification requirement and the whole flow tree — free to disagree with
# the realm import. "Two declarations that can disagree" is the same shape as the
# bug this whole effort is closing. So the ConfigMap is GENERATED from the realm
# import and the generation is GATED:
# conformance/tests/l0-static/keycloak-passkey-reconciler/check.sh runs this script
# with --check on every merge, and the merge fails if the committed file is not what
# this renderer produces. Same render==golden idiom as
# ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py, catalog/render.py and ci/render-golden.sh.
#
# STRINGS ARE COPIED VERBATIM, NEVER RE-DERIVED. webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessRpId is
# written in the realm import as the Flux substitution token ${BASE_DOMAIN}, and it
# is carried through into the ConfigMap CHARACTER FOR CHARACTER. Both files are
# rendered by the SAME Flux Kustomization (./platform-config, whose
# postBuild.substituteFrom reads cluster-vars), so both are substituted in the same
# pass with the same value and cannot disagree about what the base domain is. This
# renderer never parses, splits or reconstructs a hostname and never reads
# cluster-vars — there is no second place the domain is decided.
#
# THE ONE THING THIS RENDERER DERIVES RATHER THAN COPIES
# -----------------------------------------------------
# The enrolment required action, `webauthn-register-passwordless`. It is
# deliberately NOT declared in the realm import, and the import's own header
# explains at length why declaring it there would be actively DANGEROUS: Keycloak
# 26.0.6 treats `requiredActions` in a realm representation as REPLACE, not merge,
# so declaring one action imports exactly that action plus delete_account and skips
# DefaultRequiredActions.addActions entirely — deleting CONFIGURE_TOTP,
# UPDATE_PASSWORD, VERIFY_EMAIL and seven more. Losing CONFIGURE_TOTP is a hard
# lock-out of every platform-admin, because auth-otp-form in the browser flow still
# demands a TOTP they could then never enrol.
#
# So the required action cannot be copied from the import, because it is correctly
# absent from it. It is instead DERIVED, as a consequence of what the import DOES
# declare:
#
# IF the declared browser flow contains a `webauthn-authenticator-passwordless`
# execution, THEN passkey logins are offered, THEREFORE the enrolment action must
# be registered and enabled — and NOT a defaultAction, because the import's whole
# stated posture is "additive and optional" and a defaultAction forces enrolment
# on every user at next login.
#
# This is a derivation, not a second declaration: there is no value here that a
# human could edit into disagreement with the import. If the import stops declaring
# the passkey execution, this renderer stops emitting the required action (and
# fails, because then the whole desired state is empty of passkey intent).
#
# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT EXPORTED
# * the TWO-FACTOR webAuthnPolicy* family. Nothing in this realm uses the
# `webauthn-authenticator` two-factor authenticator; the passwordless
# authenticator reads getWebAuthnPolicyPasswordless() only, so a policy written
# into the two-factor family is a silent no-op. Exporting it would hand the
# reconciler a write surface with no purpose.
# * `clients`, `users`, `groups`, `roles`. Client secrets and client URLs are the
# SIBLING reconciler's surface (platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml),
# and users/groups/roles are nobody's — prod's real user and the media-users /
# platform-admins / viewers groups must survive every run of everything.
# * execution `priority`. It is consumed here to ORDER the exported executions
# (Keycloak returns them in priority order), but the numbers themselves are not
# exported: the reconciler compares the resulting SEQUENCE, which is what
# actually determines behaviour. Exporting the integers would make a
# priority renumbering that changes no ordering read as drift.
#
# USAGE
# python3 ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py # print the rendered file
# python3 ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py --write # write it (regenerate)
# python3 ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py --check # exit 1 if it has drifted
# =============================================================================
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import difflib
import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path
try:
import yaml
except ImportError: # pragma: no cover
print("FATAL: PyYAML is required (same dependency as catalog/render.py)",
file=sys.stderr)
raise SystemExit(1)
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
IMPORT_FILE = "platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-import.yaml"
OUT_FILE = "platform/keycloak/passkey-desired-state.yaml"
DATA_KEY = "passkey-desired-state.json"
CONFIGMAP_NAME = "keycloak-passkey-desired-state"
NAMESPACE = "keycloak"
# The realm keys this renderer exports, and therefore the ONLY realm keys the
# reconciler may write. Every one is a webAuthnPolicyPasswordless* field. Kept in
# lockstep with POLICY_FIELDS in the reconciler script; the L0 check asserts the two
# tuples are identical, so they cannot drift apart silently.
POLICY_STR_FIELDS = (
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessRpId",
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessRpEntityName",
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessRequireResidentKey",
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessUserVerificationRequirement",
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessAuthenticatorAttachment",
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessAttestationConveyancePreference",
)
POLICY_LIST_FIELDS = (
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessSignatureAlgorithms",
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessAcceptableAaguids",
)
POLICY_INT_FIELDS = ("webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessCreateTimeout",)
POLICY_BOOL_FIELDS = ("webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessAvoidSameAuthenticatorRegister",)
POLICY_FIELDS = (POLICY_STR_FIELDS + POLICY_LIST_FIELDS + POLICY_INT_FIELDS
+ POLICY_BOOL_FIELDS)
# The field Keycloak 26.0.6 gates the WHOLE passwordless policy on
# (DefaultExportImportManager.updateRealm: the policy is applied only when
# RpEntityName is non-null and non-empty). A desired state without it would produce
# an accepted PUT that changes nothing, so refuse to render one.
RP_ENTITY_NAME = "webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessRpEntityName"
# The execution whose presence is what makes passkey enrolment necessary.
PASSKEY_AUTHENTICATOR = "webauthn-authenticator-passwordless"
ENROL_ACTION = "webauthn-register-passwordless"
def render(root: Path) -> str:
"""Return the full text of passkey-desired-state.yaml as it should be committed."""
docs = list(yaml.safe_load_all((root / IMPORT_FILE).read_text()))
imp = next((d for d in docs if d and d.get("kind") == "KeycloakRealmImport"), None)
if imp is None:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: no KeycloakRealmImport document in %s" % IMPORT_FILE)
realm = (imp.get("spec") or {}).get("realm") or {}
realm_name = realm.get("realm")
if not isinstance(realm_name, str) or not realm_name:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s declares no spec.realm.realm name" % IMPORT_FILE)
# ---- the passwordless policy, copied VERBATIM ----------------------------------
policy: dict[str, object] = {}
for f in POLICY_STR_FIELDS:
if f not in realm:
continue # not declared => NOT MANAGED
v = realm[f]
# A bare ${BASE_DOMAIN} parses as a plain string; an int or bool here would be
# a YAML quoting mistake that must not be silently stringified.
if not isinstance(v, str):
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s realm field %s is not a string (got %r) — "
"quote it in the realm import" % (IMPORT_FILE, f, v))
policy[f] = v
for f in POLICY_LIST_FIELDS:
if f not in realm:
continue
v = realm[f]
if not isinstance(v, list) or not all(isinstance(x, str) for x in v):
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s realm field %s is not a list of strings"
% (IMPORT_FILE, f))
policy[f] = list(v) # verbatim, order as authored
for f in POLICY_INT_FIELDS:
if f not in realm:
continue
v = realm[f]
if not isinstance(v, int) or isinstance(v, bool):
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s realm field %s is not an integer"
% (IMPORT_FILE, f))
policy[f] = v
for f in POLICY_BOOL_FIELDS:
if f not in realm:
continue
v = realm[f]
if not isinstance(v, bool):
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s realm field %s is not a boolean"
% (IMPORT_FILE, f))
policy[f] = v
if not policy:
# Fail closed. An empty policy would make the reconciler believe every field is
# unmanaged and silently stop reconciling — the realm import's own fail-open.
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s declares no webAuthnPolicyPasswordless* field — "
"refusing to render an empty desired state" % IMPORT_FILE)
if not policy.get(RP_ENTITY_NAME):
raise SystemExit(
"FATAL: %s does not declare a non-empty %s. Keycloak 26.0.6 applies the "
"passwordless policy ONLY when that field is set, so every realm PUT would "
"be accepted and change nothing" % (IMPORT_FILE, RP_ENTITY_NAME))
# ---- the flow tree, flattened per flow and ORDERED BY PRIORITY -----------------
browser_flow = realm.get("browserFlow")
if not isinstance(browser_flow, str) or not browser_flow:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s declares no spec.realm.browserFlow — the flow could "
"be perfect and still not be the one anyone logs in through"
% IMPORT_FILE)
raw_flows = realm.get("authenticationFlows") or []
if not isinstance(raw_flows, list) or not raw_flows:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s declares no authenticationFlows" % IMPORT_FILE)
flows: dict[str, object] = {}
for fl in raw_flows:
alias = fl.get("alias")
if not isinstance(alias, str) or not alias:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s has an authentication flow with no alias"
% IMPORT_FILE)
if alias in flows:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s declares the flow %r twice"
% (IMPORT_FILE, alias))
execs = fl.get("authenticationExecutions") or []
if not isinstance(execs, list) or not execs:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s flow %r declares no authenticationExecutions"
% (IMPORT_FILE, alias))
ordered = []
for ex in sorted(execs, key=lambda e: (e.get("priority") or 0)):
is_flow = bool(ex.get("authenticatorFlow"))
name = ex.get("flowAlias") if is_flow else ex.get("authenticator")
if not isinstance(name, str) or not name:
raise SystemExit(
"FATAL: %s flow %r has an execution with neither an authenticator "
"nor a flowAlias" % (IMPORT_FILE, alias))
requirement = ex.get("requirement")
if not isinstance(requirement, str) or not requirement:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s flow %r execution %r declares no requirement"
% (IMPORT_FILE, alias, name))
entry: dict[str, object] = {
"kind": "flow" if is_flow else "authenticator",
"name": name,
"requirement": requirement,
}
cfg = ex.get("authenticatorConfig")
if cfg is not None:
if not isinstance(cfg, str) or not cfg:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s flow %r execution %r has a non-string "
"authenticatorConfig" % (IMPORT_FILE, alias, name))
entry["configAlias"] = cfg
ordered.append(entry)
flows[alias] = {"topLevel": bool(fl.get("topLevel")), "executions": ordered}
if browser_flow not in flows:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s binds browserFlow to %r but declares no such flow"
% (IMPORT_FILE, browser_flow))
# Every referenced subflow must be declared, or the reconciler's flattening walks
# into a hole and the audit silently covers less than it claims.
for alias, spec in flows.items():
for ex in spec["executions"]:
if ex["kind"] == "flow" and ex["name"] not in flows:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s flow %r references subflow %r, which is not "
"declared" % (IMPORT_FILE, alias, ex["name"]))
# ---- authenticator configs, copied verbatim ------------------------------------
configs: dict[str, dict] = {}
for cfg in realm.get("authenticatorConfig") or []:
alias = cfg.get("alias")
if not isinstance(alias, str) or not alias:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s has an authenticatorConfig with no alias"
% IMPORT_FILE)
body = cfg.get("config") or {}
if not isinstance(body, dict) or not body:
raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s authenticatorConfig %r has no config body"
% (IMPORT_FILE, alias))
# Values are stringified because Keycloak stores authenticator config values as
# strings. `negate: "false"` in the import and a stored "false" are the same
# declaration, and a YAML-unquoted `false` must not become a Python bool that
# then never matches.
configs[alias] = {k: str(v) for k, v in sorted(body.items())}
# Every configAlias a flow references must be defined, else the reconciler reports
# "git declares config X but defines no key/value for it" on every run forever.
for alias, spec in flows.items():
for ex in spec["executions"]:
ca = ex.get("configAlias")
if ca and ca not in configs:
raise SystemExit(
"FATAL: %s flow %r execution %r references authenticatorConfig %r, "
"which is not declared" % (IMPORT_FILE, alias, ex["name"], ca))
# ---- the enrolment required action, DERIVED (see the header) -------------------
offers_passkey = any(
ex["kind"] == "authenticator" and ex["name"] == PASSKEY_AUTHENTICATOR
for spec in flows.values() for ex in spec["executions"])
if not offers_passkey:
raise SystemExit(
"FATAL: %s declares a webAuthnPolicyPasswordless* policy but no %r execution "
"in any flow. The policy decides what a passkey must BE; without that "
"execution nothing ever OFFERS one, so the policy is unreachable "
"configuration and this desired state would be meaningless"
% (IMPORT_FILE, PASSKEY_AUTHENTICATOR))
want = {
"realm": realm_name,
"webAuthnPolicyPasswordless": policy,
# enabled: passkey enrolment must be possible, since the flow offers passkeys.
# defaultAction FALSE: enrolment stays OPT-IN. True would force every user to
# enrol a passkey at next login — the platform-wide lock-out the realm import's
# "additive and optional" posture exists to avoid. Derived, not copied; see the
# header for why the import cannot declare this itself.
"requiredAction": {"alias": ENROL_ACTION, "enabled": True,
"defaultAction": False},
"browserFlow": browser_flow,
"flows": flows,
"authenticatorConfig": configs,
}
body = json.dumps(want, indent=2, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False)
indented = "\n".join((" " + ln) if ln else "" for ln in body.splitlines())
return HEADER + indented + "\n"
HEADER = """---
# =============================================================================
# GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT BY HAND.
#
# source: platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-import.yaml (spec.realm)
# regenerate: python3 ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py --write
# gated by: conformance/tests/l0-static/keycloak-passkey-reconciler
# (runs this renderer with --check on every merge)
#
# WHAT THIS IS: the DESIRED STATE for the `homelab` realm's PASSKEY configuration —
# the WebAuthn passwordless policy, the enrolment required action, and the declared
# browser authentication flow tree. platform/keycloak/passkey-reconciler.yaml mounts
# it and (a) converges the policy and the required action onto it, (b) AUDITS the
# live browser flow against it and alarms on divergence without rewriting it.
#
# WHY IT IS A SEPARATE OBJECT: the realm import is a ONE-SHOT that never re-runs
# once Done=True, so a realm-level field or a flow edited in git never reaches the
# realm. Measured on prod 2026-10-18, hours after the passkey declaration merged:
# Done=True / Started=False, with the whole passkey block inert. The reconciler is
# the level-triggered loop that closes that; this file is what it reconciles
# TOWARDS.
#
# WHY IT IS GENERATED AND NOT AUTHORED: a hand-written copy of the RP ID, the
# user-verification requirement and the flow tree would be a second source of truth,
# free to disagree with the realm import — the same "two declarations that can
# disagree" shape as the bug being closed. It is rendered from the import and the
# render is gated, so the two cannot drift.
#
# STRINGS ARE VERBATIM: webAuthnPolicyPasswordlessRpId is the ${BASE_DOMAIN}
# substitution token exactly as the realm import writes it. Both files are rendered
# by the SAME Flux Kustomization (./platform-config), so the token resolves to the
# same value in both and the domain is decided in exactly one place.
#
# `requiredAction` is the ONE entry that is DERIVED rather than copied: the realm
# import deliberately declares no `requiredActions` block, because Keycloak 26.0.6
# treats that as REPLACE and declaring one action would delete CONFIGURE_TOTP and
# nine more (a hard lock-out of every platform-admin). It is derived instead from
# the presence of a webauthn-authenticator-passwordless execution in the flow:
# passkeys are offered, therefore enrolment must be enabled — and defaultAction is
# false, so enrolment stays opt-in.
#
# A field NOT declared on the realm in the import is simply ABSENT here, and the
# reconciler leaves it alone. Absence means UNMANAGED, never "force to a default".
# =============================================================================
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: %s
namespace: %s
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: %s
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: keycloak
data:
%s: |
""" % (CONFIGMAP_NAME, NAMESPACE, CONFIGMAP_NAME, DATA_KEY)
def main() -> int:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
g = ap.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
g.add_argument("--write", action="store_true", help="write %s" % OUT_FILE)
g.add_argument("--check", action="store_true",
help="exit 1 if the committed file has drifted from the source")
args = ap.parse_args()
want = render(ROOT)
target = ROOT / OUT_FILE
if args.write:
target.write_text(want, encoding="utf-8")
print("wrote %s" % OUT_FILE)
return 0
if args.check:
if not target.is_file():
print("CHECK FAIL: %s does not exist. Run: python3 "
"ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py --write" % OUT_FILE,
file=sys.stderr)
return 1
have = target.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
if have == want:
print("passkey-desired-state.yaml is in sync with %s" % IMPORT_FILE)
return 0
print("CHECK FAIL: %s has DRIFTED from %s — the reconciler would converge the "
"realm on a passkey policy the realm import does not declare, and audit "
"the login flow against a tree nobody authored.\n"
"Regenerate with: python3 ci/render-keycloak-passkey-policy.py --write\n"
% (OUT_FILE, IMPORT_FILE), file=sys.stderr)
for line in difflib.unified_diff(have.splitlines(True), want.splitlines(True),
fromfile="committed " + OUT_FILE,
tofile="rendered from " + IMPORT_FILE):
sys.stderr.write(line)
return 1
sys.stdout.write(want)
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())