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Aleksei Sviridkin 4bf95815a8 fix(kubernetes): render the aggregation-layer UID header for tenant OIDC (#3539)
## What this PR does

Tenant clusters with `spec.oidc.mode: System` or `CustomConfig`
authenticate users fine, but a UID does not survive the hop to an
aggregated API server. The tenant kube-apiserver publishes
`requestheader-uid-headers` into the
`extension-apiserver-authentication` ConfigMap only when the flag is
set, and the chart never set it. The aggregation layer still sends
`X-Remote-Uid`, but the extension server trusts only the header names
published in that ConfigMap, so it ignores the one it gets and the call
arrives without a UID. The field documentation even told operators to
add the flag by hand via `controlPlane.apiServer.extraArgs`.

It forwards a UID rather than creating one. ServiceAccount tokens carry
one, and for those the aggregation hop starts working. Users
authenticated by `spec.oidc.mode: System` still have none, because the
generated AuthenticationConfiguration maps `username` and `groups` only;
giving them one means mapping a claim, which changes the identity of
users who have none today, and is tracked separately.

The chart now renders `--requestheader-uid-headers=X-Remote-Uid` on
v1.32 and newer, and adds `--feature-gates=RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true`
on v1.32, where the gate is still alpha and the apiserver rejects the
flag without it. From v1.33 the gate is beta and on by default, so only
the header flag is rendered. v1.31 gets nothing: the flag does not exist
there, and writing it by hand stops the apiserver from starting.
`--emulated-version` in the same passthrough moves that decision,
because the gate resolves through the versioned spec at the emulated
version.

Rendering the gate on every version from v1.32 rather than on v1.32
alone was the alternative, and it would remove the migration step
entirely, because an opt-out would then drop two entries instead of one
and move the entry count by itself. It loses on what it leaves behind: a
redundant gate term on every cluster, which stops the apiserver from
starting on the day the gate is retired from the known list. The design
also prefers rendering over failing for the same reason the fail
branches are narrow, since a cluster stranded on a HelmRelease that no
longer converges is a worse outcome than one that never gets the UID
fix.

The chart reads an operator entry the way the apiserver reads it: header
list elements matched whole and untrimmed and folded as `EqualFold`
folds them, gate names compared exactly, gate values resolved as
`strconv.ParseBool` resolves them, `AllAlpha` and `AllBeta` blankets
honoured, an empty value treated as no entry. On v1.32 an entry that
says nothing about `RemoteRequestHeaderUID` gets a second one carrying
the operator's own terms plus `RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true`. Carrying
those terms into the merged copy is what makes it land correctly whether
the tenant control plane collapses duplicate flags into the last one or
hands both to the apiserver, which merges them in the order it reads
them.

Tests cover the render matrix over mode, version and operator input:
every fail path with its exact message, the ownership and merge paths,
duplicate entries in both orders, blanket gates, empty values, and case
variants on the header name and on the gate value. The latest-version
tenant lane creates its tenant with `spec.oidc.mode: System` and asserts
the flag on the rendered KamajiControlPlane, so the tenant apiserver
starts with the flag in CI. Nothing asserts the UID arriving at an
aggregated apiserver; that needs an extension server inside the tenant
and is not in this change. The layer where the count-keyed reset
actually bites is the tenant Deployment's arguments, and asserting there
needs a live tenant control plane, so it is not in this change either.

The rule this follows is that a configuration which renders and boots
today keeps rendering. Both flags are new, so an `extraArgs` shape
reaching this code was rendering before it existed, and stranding a
running tenant on a HelmRelease that no longer converges is a worse
outcome than one that never gets the fix. A few shapes do stop
rendering, and reaching any of them takes writing
`--requestheader-uid-headers` into the passthrough by hand, attempting
exactly what the chart now does and getting it wrong; in each the
kube-apiserver fails option validation and never starts, so nothing that
was working is lost. `docs/oidc-tenant.md` covers these shapes. One
known limitation is in there and worth naming here: on v1.33 and newer,
adding the documented opt-out is count-neutral in `extraArgs`, and so is
removing it again, and on v1.33 and v1.34 adding or removing
`--emulated-version=1.31`. The pinned Kamaji build rewrites a running
apiserver's arguments only when that count changes and otherwise keeps
every flag that has left the list, so either the header flag stays
beside a now-disabled gate or the disabled gate stays beside the header
flag, and the apiserver refuses to start. Changing the entry count in
the same edit is the mitigation, and the fix belongs to the pin rather
than to this chart, tracked in #3541. The paths that need no operator
edit are clear: turning the feature on for a default tenant moves the
count, and a tenant already carrying the opt-out renders
byte-identically before and after.

Out of scope: `mode: None` still publishes no UID header even though
ServiceAccount tokens carry UIDs. That is pre-existing, and widening the
condition changes the render for every default tenant. Tracked
separately, along with the claim mapping above.

Closes #3377

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change

Checked the trigger map against the diff: no package added or removed,
no schema field, enum or default changed (description text only), no
ApplicationDefinition surface touched, no hack/ layout moved. The
managed-apps reference page picks up the new field description through
release-time README regeneration.

### Release note

```release-note
fix(kubernetes): tenant clusters with `spec.oidc.mode` set to `System` or `CustomConfig` now render `--requestheader-uid-headers=X-Remote-Uid` on the tenant kube-apiserver, plus the `RemoteRequestHeaderUID` feature gate on v1.32, so that an aggregated API server can read the caller's UID out of the request headers. Without that flag the tenant apiserver never publishes `requestheader-uid-headers`, and an aggregated API server ignores the UID header even for callers that have one, ServiceAccount tokens among them. It forwards a UID rather than creating one: users authenticated by `spec.oidc.mode: System` still have none, because the generated AuthenticationConfiguration maps `username` and `groups` only, and that is tracked separately. Adding the flag by hand through `controlPlane.apiServer.extraArgs` is no longer necessary, and an entry of your own is respected: the chart steps aside when yours already carries `X-Remote-Uid` or already enables the gate, merges `RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true` into a copy of a v1.32 `--feature-gates` entry that says nothing about the gate, and renders neither flag when you switch the gate off. The render fails where a `--requestheader-uid-headers` list of your own would stop the kube-apiserver from starting anyway: one that omits `X-Remote-Uid`, one with an empty element, and a list of your own while the gate is off. On v1.33 and newer there is a migration step, and it applies in both directions: the pinned Kamaji build rewrites a running apiserver's arguments only when the number of `extraArgs` entries changes, and otherwise keeps every flag that has left the list. Adding the documented opt-out keeps that number the same, so the header flag already on the Deployment stays beside the now-disabled gate. Removing the opt-out later keeps it the same too, so the disabled gate stays on the Deployment beside the header flag the chart renders again, although your spec no longer shows it. Adding or removing `--emulated-version=1.31` has the same shape both ways on v1.33 and v1.34. The apiserver refuses to start in each case, so change the entry count in the same edit.
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Chainsaw E2E tests

The Cozystack E2E app suite, written for Kyverno Chainsaw — a declarative, Kubernetes-native E2E test framework (CNCF, part of the Kyverno project; successor to KUTTL).

This directory replaces the per-app BATS suite that used to live in hack/e2e-apps/*.bats. The CI e2e job runs chainsaw test hack/e2e-chainsaw/ after make install-cozystack; cluster bootstrap (hack/e2e-prepare-cluster.bats, hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats) and the OpenAPI checks (hack/e2e-test-openapi.bats) remain BATS.

Layout

hack/e2e-chainsaw/
├── .chainsaw.yaml          # global Configuration (namespace, timeouts, JUnit report)
├── _lib/                   # shell reused by the script-heavy suites
│   ├── run-kubernetes.sh   #   tenant Kubernetes bringup + LB/NFS/ouroboros checks
│   └── remediation-guard.sh
├── <app>/
│   ├── chainsaw-test.yaml  # one or more Test definitions
│   └── <app>.yaml          # the manifests the test applies
└── ...

Suites: postgres, bucket, mariadb, mongodb, redis, valkey, qdrant, clickhouse, kafka, rabbitmq, etcd, openbao, harbor, foundationdb, external-dns, kuberture, vminstance, gateway, opensearch, kubernetes-latest, kubernetes-previous, securitygroup.

What Chainsaw buys over the BATS suite

  • Readable tests — a list of resources and expected states, not shell control flow. The timeout N sh -ec "until kubectl get ..." + kubectl wait pair that appeared ~100 times collapses into a single assert that polls existence and state together.
  • Distinguishable failure modes — "object never created", "created but never ready", and "wrong status" all surface as a structured diff instead of an opaque shell timeout.
  • Automatic diagnostics — catch blocks dump events, describe, and pod logs on any failure (the BATS suite only did this in harbor.bats, by hand).
  • Automatic cleanup — resources Chainsaw applied are deleted (and waited on) in reverse order; finally covers operator-created leftovers.
  • CI-ready output — a JUnit chainsaw-report.xml is emitted for the test summary.

Test anatomy

Each suite is a directory with a chainsaw-test.yaml (one or more Test docs) plus the manifests it applies. A step has try (operations: apply, assert, error, script, delete, …), optional catch (diagnostics on failure), and optional finally (teardown regardless of outcome).

Declarative suites assert on status.conditions and concrete fields. Inherently imperative suites keep their logic in script steps:

  • openbao — bao operator init/unseal via kubectl exec.
  • kuberture — jq on Service annotations + external-dns split-horizon log assertions.
  • gateway — admission-rejection cases that need kubectl --as impersonation or error-message greps; the tenant apex is read from the namespace namespace.cozystack.io/host label at runtime so they pass on any host.
  • kubernetes-latest/previous — wrap _lib/run-kubernetes.sh (Kamaji bringup, port-forward, LB/NFS/ouroboros). The script cds to the repo root (the test dir is hack/e2e-chainsaw/<suite>, so repo root is ../../..).

Conventions / gotchas (Chainsaw v0.2.15)

  • Condition asserts use the filter-as-list form, not the documented [0] index:
    status:
      (conditions[?type == 'Ready']):
      - status: "True"
    
    The (conditions[?type == 'Ready'])[0]: {status: "True"} idiom fails with "field not found in the input object".
  • A reading of a failure diff: the "actual" side is a projection onto the expected fields — status: {} means the JMESPath expression failed, not that status is empty. Read the error line above the diff first.
  • error with a bare resource ref (name only) asserts the resource does not exist (used for "PVC reclaimed", "no backup schedule", "child has no Gateway HR").
  • script runs in the test directory with $NAMESPACE set to the config namespace (tenant-test).

Running locally

Requires a cluster with Cozystack installed and a tenant-test namespace (the environment hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats produces). bucket additionally needs mc and nc on the host; kuberture/openbao/harbor need jq.

# install chainsaw
go install github.com/kyverno/chainsaw@latest   # or: brew install kyverno/chainsaw/chainsaw

# run all suites (config picked up from .chainsaw.yaml)
cd hack/e2e-chainsaw
chainsaw test

# run a single suite
chainsaw test postgres/

kubernetes-latest/kubernetes-previous each bring up a full tenant Kubernetes cluster (~25 min, real worker nodes) and vminstance boots a nested VM — expect a long run for the full set.

CI integration

The e2e job in .github/workflows/pull-requests.yaml runs make -C packages/core/testing test-chainsaw (which execs chainsaw test hack/e2e-chainsaw/ inside the e2e sandbox) and uploads chainsaw-report.xml. The sandbox image (packages/core/testing/images/e2e-sandbox/Dockerfile) ships the chainsaw binary alongside kubectl/helm/mc/jq/nc.