fix(kubernetes): move the OIDC users out of the bootstrap Job's script (#5213)

## What this PR does

Found while checking for other places with the failure from
https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack/issues/4968: data that grows with
configuration is passed to a process as one argument, and Linux allows
128 KiB for that. This one is in the `kubernetes` app and there is no
issue about it yet.

The OIDC bootstrap Job wrote a ClusterRoleBinding for every `oidc.users`
entry into its `sh -c` script, 526 bytes per user. I rendered current
main with `helm template` and users like `user123@example.org`: 238
users give a 130,889 bytes script that starts, 239 give 131,415 bytes
and `exec` fails with E2BIG. Then the container can't start, the
post-install and post-upgrade hook fails after its retries and the
HelmRelease of the tenant cluster stays unready. Schema has no limit for
`oidc.users` and each person needs own entry, so a cluster shared by 240
people gets there.

Now the bindings and the list of their names are rendered by the new
`oidc-rbac-bindings.yaml` into a ConfigMap `<release>-oidc-bindings`
that the Job mounts, so the script is 6,380 bytes for any number of
users. The ConfigMap has its own 1 MiB limit, about 2,500 users at 417
bytes each. Names, labels and roles of the bindings stay the same. I
compared the render of old and new chart for eight emails (ones YAML
reads as a boolean or null, a number, a quote, an apostrophe, unicode
and two plain) and the bindings are identical, so existing ones are
updated in place and nothing is orphaned.

The prune step reads the same ConfigMap. If the list is not mounted the
Job stops before it deletes anything, because `grep` on a missing file
exits 2, `! grep` is true and every binding of the release would be
pruned. A release with no users applies nothing (`kubectl apply` fails
on an empty file) and prunes all stale bindings, same as before.

`hack/kubernetes-oidc-bindings.bats` renders 300 users, checks the
script is under the limit without any email in it and that every user
has one binding with the old name and role. Three more tests run the
rendered script against a fake `kubectl` and check what it applies and
deletes. The prune condition forced to true or to false passes all
helm-unittest cases, so this part is tested in bats. The bug is in
release-1.6 and release-1.7 as well.

### Downstream repositories

I walked the trigger map against the diff (one chart template, its tests
and a bats file): no package added or removed, no values, schema or
default changed, no output Secret or Service renamed.

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
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follow-up:
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follow-up:
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[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
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[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
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follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
fix(kubernetes): the OIDC bootstrap Job no longer fails to start for a tenant cluster with about 240 or more oidc.users, the bindings now come from a ConfigMap the Job mounts.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Kubernetes OIDC configuration now supports per-user role bindings,
with administrator and viewer access assigned according to each user’s
role.
* OIDC role bindings are kept in sync with the configured user list,
including removal of obsolete bindings.
* Deployments with no OIDC users or with OIDC mode disabled continue to
avoid creating user bindings.

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#!/usr/bin/env bats
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# packages/apps/kubernetes: the OIDC bootstrap Job must not carry the users[]
# list inside its container command.
#
# The Job's script reaches the container as one `sh -c` argument, and Linux caps
# one exec argument at 128 KiB (MAX_ARG_STRLEN). With a ClusterRoleBinding per
# user written into that script, about 240 users take it past the cap: the
# container cannot start, the post-install/post-upgrade hook fails, and the
# tenant cluster's HelmRelease stays unready. The bindings reach the Job through
# a mounted ConfigMap instead, so the script is the same size for any list.
#
# The last three tests execute the rendered script against a fake kubectl, since
# no assertion on the script's text says what the prune step does with the list:
# a condition forced either way passes every helm-unittest case.
#
# Requires: helm, yq (mikefarah v4+), jq, like hack/admin-kubeconfig-invariant.bats.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
load test_helper
USERS=300
# render_users <dir> <count> renders the chart in System mode with <count>
# generated users and leaves one JSON document per object in <dir>/rendered.json.
render_users() {
jq -n --argjson n "$2" '
{oidc: {users: [range($n) | {email: "user\(.)@example.org", role: (if . % 7 == 0 then "admin" else "view" end)}]}}' \
> "$1/users.yaml"
helm template bindings packages/apps/kubernetes \
--namespace tenant-test \
--values packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/values/oidc-system.yaml \
--values "$1/users.yaml" \
> "$1/rendered.yaml"
yq --output-format=json eval-all '.' "$1/rendered.yaml" > "$1/rendered.json"
}
# render_job <dir> <users JSON> renders the chart in CustomConfig mode and unpacks
# what the bootstrap Job runs and mounts into <dir>: script.sh is its `sh -c`
# script, bindings/ holds the two files of the mounted ConfigMap. -j keeps an
# empty value an empty file, as the kubelet writes it.
render_job() {
jq -n --argjson users "$2" '
{_cluster: {"oidc-enabled": "false"},
oidc: {mode: "CustomConfig",
customConfig: {config: "apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1beta1\nkind: AuthenticationConfiguration\njwt: []\n"},
users: $users}}' > "$1/values.yaml"
helm template bindings packages/apps/kubernetes \
--namespace tenant-test \
--values packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/values/oidc-system.yaml \
--values "$1/values.yaml" \
> "$1/rendered.yaml"
yq --output-format=json eval-all '.' "$1/rendered.yaml" > "$1/rendered.json"
jq -s -j '.[] | select(.kind == "Job" and .metadata.name == "bindings-oidc-bootstrap")
| .spec.template.spec.containers[0].command[2]' "$1/rendered.json" > "$1/script.sh"
mkdir -p "$1/bindings"
jq -s -j '.[] | select(.kind == "ConfigMap" and .metadata.name == "bindings-oidc-bindings")
| .data["crbs.yaml"]' "$1/rendered.json" > "$1/bindings/crbs.yaml"
jq -s -j '.[] | select(.kind == "ConfigMap" and .metadata.name == "bindings-oidc-bindings")
| .data["desired.txt"]' "$1/rendered.json" > "$1/bindings/desired.txt"
}
# fake_kubectl <dir> <names> puts a kubectl first on PATH that logs every call and
# answers the script's list of existing bindings with <names>.
fake_kubectl() {
mkdir -p "$1/bin"
printf '%s' "$2" > "$1/existing"
cat > "$1/bin/kubectl" <<'KEOF'
#!/bin/sh
echo "$*" >> "$KLOG"
case "$*" in
*"get clusterrolebindings"*) cat "$EXISTING" ;;
esac
KEOF
chmod +x "$1/bin/kubectl"
}
# run_job <dir> runs the unpacked script as the container does and leaves its
# status in $rc and its output in <dir>/out. Run by bash, which has the pipefail
# the script sets and which is what the unit lane runs under; the container's own
# shell is not exercised.
run_job() {
: > "$1/kubectl.log"
echo kubeconfig > "$1/kubeconfig"
rc=0
env PATH="$1/bin:$PATH" KLOG="$1/kubectl.log" EXISTING="$1/existing" HOME="$1" \
KUBECONFIG_TENANT="$1/kubeconfig" RELEASE=bindings RELEASE_NAMESPACE=tenant-test \
OIDC_MODE=CustomConfig OIDC_BINDINGS_DIR="$1/bindings" \
bash "$1/script.sh" > "$1/out" 2>&1 || rc=$?
}
@test "the OIDC bootstrap Job script stays under the exec argument cap and carries no user" {
dir=$(mktemp -d)
render_users "$dir" "$USERS"
jq -s -r '.[] | select(.kind == "Job" and .metadata.name == "bindings-oidc-bootstrap")
| .spec.template.spec.containers[0].command[2]' "$dir/rendered.json" > "$dir/script"
size=$(wc -c < "$dir/script")
[ "$size" -gt 0 ]
[ "$size" -lt 131072 ]
if grep -q -E 'user[0-9]+@example\.org' "$dir/script"; then
echo "the Job script still carries users[] entries" >&2
false
fi
rm -rf "$dir"
}
@test "every user keeps one ClusterRoleBinding with its old name and role in the bindings ConfigMap" {
dir=$(mktemp -d)
render_users "$dir" "$USERS"
jq -s -r '.[] | select(.kind == "ConfigMap" and .metadata.name == "bindings-oidc-bindings")
| .data["crbs.yaml"]' "$dir/rendered.json" > "$dir/crbs.yaml"
jq -s -r '.[] | select(.kind == "ConfigMap" and .metadata.name == "bindings-oidc-bindings")
| .data["desired.txt"]' "$dir/rendered.json" > "$dir/desired.txt"
[ -s "$dir/crbs.yaml" ]
yq --output-format=json eval-all '.' "$dir/crbs.yaml" | jq -s '.' > "$dir/crbs.json"
[ "$(jq 'length' "$dir/crbs.json")" -eq "$USERS" ]
[ "$(jq -r '[.[].subjects[0].name] | unique | length' "$dir/crbs.json")" -eq "$USERS" ]
[ "$(jq -r '[.[] | select(.roleRef.name == "cluster-admin")] | length' "$dir/crbs.json")" -eq $(( (USERS + 6) / 7 )) ]
# The name is what the prune step and every binding already in a tenant cluster
# go by, so it must not move: cozystack-oidc- plus the first 16 hex digits of
# sha256("<release>-<email>").
for i in 0 1 6 7; do
email="user$i@example.org"
name="cozystack-oidc-$(printf '%s' "bindings-$email" | sha256sum | cut -c1-16)"
[ "$(jq -r --arg e "$email" '.[] | select(.subjects[0].name == $e) | .metadata.name' "$dir/crbs.json")" = "$name" ]
grep -q -x -F "$name" "$dir/desired.txt"
done
# The list the prune step compares against is exactly the applied names.
[ "$(jq -r '.[].metadata.name' "$dir/crbs.json" | sort)" = "$(grep . "$dir/desired.txt" | sort)" ]
rm -rf "$dir"
}
@test "the Job applies the mounted bindings and deletes only the bindings no user has" {
dir=$(mktemp -d)
render_job "$dir" '[{"email":"alice@example.org","role":"admin"},{"email":"bob@example.org","role":"view"}]'
alice="cozystack-oidc-$(printf '%s' 'bindings-alice@example.org' | sha256sum | cut -c1-16)"
bob="cozystack-oidc-$(printf '%s' 'bindings-bob@example.org' | sha256sum | cut -c1-16)"
fake_kubectl "$dir" "$alice cozystack-oidc-000000000000dead $bob cozystack-oidc-000000000000beef"
run_job "$dir"
if [ "$rc" -ne 0 ]; then
cat "$dir/out"
false
fi
grep -q -F -- "apply --filename $dir/bindings/crbs.yaml" "$dir/kubectl.log"
grep -q -F -- "delete clusterrolebinding cozystack-oidc-000000000000dead --ignore-not-found" "$dir/kubectl.log"
grep -q -F -- "delete clusterrolebinding cozystack-oidc-000000000000beef --ignore-not-found" "$dir/kubectl.log"
if grep -F -e "delete clusterrolebinding $alice" -e "delete clusterrolebinding $bob" "$dir/kubectl.log"; then
echo "the Job deleted a binding a user still has" >&2
false
fi
[ "$(grep -c 'delete clusterrolebinding' "$dir/kubectl.log")" -eq 2 ]
rm -rf "$dir"
}
@test "a release with no users applies nothing and deletes every binding it left behind" {
dir=$(mktemp -d)
render_job "$dir" '[]'
fake_kubectl "$dir" "cozystack-oidc-000000000000dead cozystack-oidc-000000000000beef"
run_job "$dir"
if [ "$rc" -ne 0 ]; then
cat "$dir/out"
false
fi
if grep -q -F -- ' apply ' "$dir/kubectl.log"; then
echo "the Job ran kubectl apply with no bindings to apply" >&2
false
fi
[ "$(grep -c 'delete clusterrolebinding' "$dir/kubectl.log")" -eq 2 ]
rm -rf "$dir"
}
@test "the Job stops before deleting anything when the desired list is not mounted" {
dir=$(mktemp -d)
render_job "$dir" '[{"email":"alice@example.org","role":"admin"}]'
fake_kubectl "$dir" "cozystack-oidc-000000000000dead cozystack-oidc-000000000000beef"
rm "$dir/bindings/desired.txt"
run_job "$dir"
[ "$rc" -ne 0 ]
if grep -q -E 'delete clusterrolebinding| apply ' "$dir/kubectl.log"; then
cat "$dir/kubectl.log"
false
fi
rm -rf "$dir"
}