fix(kubernetes): render the aggregation-layer UID header for tenant OIDC - #3539

LGTM. Carefully done. The template faithfully mirrors kube-apiserver semantics (RequestHeaderAuthenticationOptions.Validate() and featureGate.Set(), checked against upstream release-1.33/1.35), the Kamaji extraArgs last-wins collapse the ownership logic depends on is real at the pinned 26.3.6-edge (ArgsFromSliceToMap), the version matrix matches the RemoteRequestHeaderUID gate status (alpha-off on 1.32, beta-on on 1.33+), the breaking change is intentional and well documented with the render error doubling as the migration instruction, and the test suite is exhaustive and non-vacuous (mutating the gate-ownership guard reddens 7 tests; helm unittest 224/224). No regression on any valid config and no false render failure on a bootable one.

A few non-blocking fidelity notes, all in the same theme (parser stricter/looser than upstream at the edges, only reachable via invalid operator input, none breaking a valid config):

1. Feature-gate name matched case-insensitively (packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml:423). featureGate.Set() does not lowercase the gate name (Feature(k), TrimSpace only); an unknown name is fatal at apiserver start. So --feature-gates=remoterequestheaderuid=true on v1.32 is read as ownership, the chart suppresses its own RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true, Kamaji keeps the mis-cased entry, and the apiserver fails to boot with no render-time signal. This is the same "more permissive than upstream" direction the header-name comment at :390-394 deliberately avoids. One-line fix: drop lower on the gate name (keep it on the value, ParseBool is case-insensitive) and compare the exact RemoteRequestHeaderUID/AllBeta/AllAlpha keys, turning the silent boot-fail back into the actionable render error.

2. Empty / whitespace-only elements in a uid-headers list are accepted as ownership (cluster.yaml:396-401). The check is membership-only, so --requestheader-uid-headers=X-Remote-Uid, (trailing comma, or X-Remote-Uid, ) sets $userOwnsUidHeader=true and the chart steps aside, but upstream's checkForWhiteSpaceOnly rejects the empty element and the apiserver refuses to start. Since user args render before the chart's flags, a chart copy would otherwise win under last-wins. Consider rejecting a list with any empty/whitespace-only element (same actionable-fail treatment as the omit-X-Remote-Uid path).

3. Empty value --requestheader-uid-headers= produces a false render failure (cluster.yaml:397-401). splitList "," "" yields [""], so the render fails claiming the list omits X-Remote-Uid, whereas upstream treats an empty value as a no-op (both checks guarded by len>0) and the apiserver boots. Degenerate input, not covered by tests.

4. Test coverage nits: no case for "v1.32, operator supplies only a conforming --requestheader-uid-headers, chart must still add the gate" (renders correctly, just unpinned); ParseBool t/T/f/F spellings untested (path identical to 0/1).

Not blocking, but worth one live pass before release: neither chainsaw suite boots a Kamaji control plane (they assert the rendered object), so a real v1.32 tenant boot is the only end-to-end confirmation the gate+header pair is accepted by a running apiserver.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/oidc-tenant.md`:
- Around line 149-155: Revise the v1.32 migration guidance to require adding
RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true only when the existing feature-gates configuration
does not effectively enable it. Preserve acceptance of blanket AllAlpha=true,
while continuing to reject explicit RemoteRequestHeaderUID=false and other
configurations that leave the gate disabled.

LGTM with notes. The upstream behavior was verified against the Kubernetes sources (release-1.33), not the PR description: the RemoteRequestHeaderUID gate lifecycle (alpha/off in 1.32, beta/on in 1.33, no LockToDefault), the --requestheader-uid-headers validation that forces the gate on 1.32, the case-insensitive X-Remote-Uid requirement, and the feature-gate precedence all match what the chart renders across the mode x version matrix. The break is justified and scoped: fresh install is untouched (default oidc.mode: None renders []), no identity spoofing is added (trust in X-Remote-Uid is gated by the requestheader client CA, which this PR does not touch), and it ships a migration release note.

Non-blocking:

• [MINOR] Main caveat for release: an existing OIDC tenant on v1.32 that already sets an unrelated --feature-gates value will start failing the render of the whole kubernetes-app after upgrade until the operator merges in RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true by hand. Narrow population, documented, and the failure is an actionable render-time message rather than a silent break.
• [MINOR] The "defer to the user / judge by the last write / cannot add a second flag" logic rests on the pinned Kamaji (26.3.6-edge) collapsing duplicate flags last-wins; a Kamaji bump that changes this silently invalidates the guards. Flagged inline and in docs.
• [NIT] The e2e suites assert the flag in the rendered KamajiControlPlane but do not bring up a tenant apiserver, so runtime UID propagation is not exercised end to end.

LGTM (re-review). Prior concerns are resolved: CodeRabbit's latest run is clean and the earlier docs note on AllAlpha=true ownership is addressed in docs/oidc-tenant.md.

Version gating (the breaking aspect) is verified with two independent signals: RemoteRequestHeaderUID is alpha in 1.32 (default off), beta+on in 1.33, absent in 1.31, and the chart logic matches exactly (v1.31 renders nothing, v1.32 header+gate, v1.33+ header only). The version enum has no patch suffix, so the exact-string match is safe. Security-wise the PR only names the UID header, the trust boundary (requestheader-client-ca-file/requestheader-allowed-names) is Kamaji's front-proxy and is untouched, so there is no new spoofing surface. Local helm unittest 60/60 + 21/21.

• [MINOR] e2e asserts only the rendered flag, not an end-to-end UID reaching the aggregated apiserver (by design).

Note (not code): the PR is CONFLICTING and needs a rebase.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml`:
- Around line 464-531: Update the pinned Kamaji build reference used by the
chart to a build containing commit 126fe65c9875e122678201bfa33a80a46d1149de
before enabling the opt-out handling around $uidGateOptedOut and $uidArgs. Do
not rely solely on the rendered kube-apiserver argument changes; preserve the
existing transition behavior while ensuring Kamaji resets arguments when the
list content changes without a count change.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The version split, the guards and the tests hold up under render and mutation, but the migration note that carries the whole Kamaji count-reset hazard only covers one of the two directions an operator can move through it.

Findings

• [MAJOR] docs/oidc-tenant.md:159, the count-keyed reset is documented for adding the opt-out but not for removing it
• [MINOR] packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml:364, an empty element in an operator's uid list passes the conformance check
• [MINOR] packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml:388, one quoted entry suppresses the gate for every entry
• [MINOR] packages/apps/kubernetes/values.yaml:76, version gained a cross-field render constraint its own description does not carry (open from an earlier round)

Still open from my earlier rounds

Both are MINOR and both are unchanged at this head; neither blocks on its own.

• packages/apps/kubernetes/values.yaml:76, version gained a cross-field render constraint that its own description still does not carry. The extraArgs description was reworked to mention the v1.32 behaviour; version's one-liner was not touched, and it is the field a tenant edits to reach that behaviour.
• hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh, the e2e still asserts the rendered flag on the admitted KamajiControlPlane rather than a UID actually arriving at the aggregated apiserver. The new assertion is a real improvement over the previous round, and I read the commit message as saying this scope is deliberate, so I am noting it rather than pressing it.

Caveats

• Every tenant on v1.32+ with spec.oidc.mode not None gains an extraArgs entry on upgrade, so the count moves and Kamaji clears Args before rebuilding (deployment.go:1158-1161), taking --egress-selector-config-file with it until the konnectivity resource re-adds it (konnectivity_server.go:199). Reasoned only, not executed: it needs a live control plane and the OIDC e2e lanes do not boot one. Worth a cozystack-pr-test run on a dev cluster before merge.
• Checked and sound: gate lifecycle and both refusals against kubernetes/[email protected]; the provider copies spec.apiServer.extraArgs verbatim (kamajicontrolplane_controller_tcp.go:132 at v0.19.0) and Kamaji collapses duplicates last-wins (utilities/args.go:13-23), so the merged --feature-gates entry does decide; base-vs-head render leaves mode: None byte-identical; 13 of 13 per-guard mutations turn the suite red.
• The one red check on this head is Build packages/system/redis-operator, failing at Login to GitHub Container Registry with Get "https://iad.ocir.io/v2/": received unexpected HTTP status: 500 Internal Server Error. Registry-side, unrelated to this change.

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MINOR] packages/apps/kubernetes/values.yaml:76 version gained a cross-field render constraint its own description does not carry (open from an earlier round)

The extraArgs description was reworked this round to mention the v1.32 behaviour, and all four generated carriers picked that up. version's own one-liner still reads "Kubernetes major.minor version to deploy" and says nothing about the constraint, even though version is the field a tenant edits to reach it.

Verdict

LGTM with non-blocking notes

Every finding my last round blocked on is closed, and closed by mechanism rather than by wording: the two shapes I argued had a non-breaking alternative now take that alternative, and the migration note reads in both directions. Nothing I rendered regresses, and each new fail path lands on a kube-apiserver that already refuses to start. What is left is a comment that disagrees with its loop, one shape the render contract promises to catch and does not, and what no offline pass can settle.

Findings

[MINOR] packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml:463, a trailing comma in --emulated-version silently discards the emulation the chart parsed

The comment above this loop says "an unparseable version is left alone, the way an unparseable gate value is", and the --feature-gates loop does exactly that with if eq (len $kv) 2. This loop has no such guard: an element with no = assigns unconditionally, so the empty tail of 1.32, overwrites the 1.32 before it.

$ cd packages/apps/kubernetes
$ for v in '--emulated-version=1.32' '--emulated-version=1.32,'; do
    printf 'version: v1.35\ncontrolPlane: {apiServer: {extraArgs: ["%s"]}}\n' "$v" > /tmp/e.yaml
    echo "$v -> gate rendered: $(helm template t . -n tenant-test \
      -f tests/values/oidc-system.yaml -f /tmp/e.yaml | grep -c RemoteRequestHeaderUID)"
  done
--emulated-version=1.32 -> gate rendered: 1
--emulated-version=1.32, -> gate rendered: 0

No reachable harm: toVersionMap runs version.Parse("") on that element, so the apiserver refuses to start either way. The comment is what is wrong, and the gate loop's skips a zero-length element the way both parse layers do has no twin here.

[MINOR] packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml:511, one shape the render contract promises to catch is still not caught

The per-entry quote tracking closes the case you named: a quoted entry followed by an unquoted one on the same flag now renders the gate. One shape survives it. When the entry the chart reads is itself quoted, and the effective version is 1.32, and nothing else in extraArgs enables the gate, the chart yields and the control plane does not start.

$ helm template t . -n tenant-cozy-stub --set version=v1.32 --set oidc.mode=System \
    --set-string 'controlPlane.apiServer.extraArgs[0]=--requestheader-uid-headers="X-Remote-Uid"'
      - --requestheader-uid-headers="X-Remote-Uid"
      - --authentication-config=/etc/kubernetes/authentication-config/config.yaml

$ # the same corner unquoted, for contrast
      - --requestheader-uid-headers=X-Remote-Uid
      - --authentication-config=/etc/kubernetes/authentication-config/config.yaml
      - --feature-gates=RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true

The operator's own flag still reaches the apiserver, and the quotes come off before it is read: requestheader-uid-headers is a StringSliceVar (authentication.go:137), pflag parses the value with encoding/csv, and csv returns ["X-Remote-Uid"] for "X-Remote-Uid". On 1.32 the gate is {Version: 1.32, Default: false, PreRelease: Alpha}, so Validate() takes the branch that appends to allErrors: --requestheader-uid-headers requires the "RemoteRequestHeaderUID" feature to be enabled (authentication.go:93-96, v1.32.13).

Not a regression, and that is why it is MINOR: base renders no gate on this corner either, so the operator's own flag broke their apiserver before this PR as well. What changed is that types.go and the extraArgs description now promise the render fails on shapes the apiserver would refuse to start on, and this is one. The gate is decidable here in a way the quoted value is not: --feature-gates is not a CSV flag, so the chart already knows whether the operator enabled it, and quoted uid-headers plus effective 1.32 plus no enabling entry is fatal whatever the quotes contain. Either fail with "drop the quotes", or narrow the promise to say quoted entries are yielded on rather than validated.

Still open from earlier rounds

Ten of the seventeen carried findings are closed at this revision; I re-verified each against the code rather than against the round that filed it. These four are not, and none of them blocks:

• The Kamaji collapse is still load-bearing in two places. The merge no longer depends on it, and the comment now says so. Reading only the last entry of each flag, and failing on a uid-headers list without X-Remote-Uid, still do. The pin is named next to them and #3541 tracks the pin-side fix, but packages/system/kamaji/Makefile takes the newest *-edge tag on make update, so nothing fails if that assumption stops holding.
• The e2e asserts the rendered CR, not a UID in flight. cozy_assert_oidc_apiserver_flags greps kamajicontrolplane ... .spec.apiServer.extraArgs. Nothing in hack/e2e-chainsaw or hack/run-kubernetes-oidc_test.bats reaches an aggregated apiserver or reads extension-apiserver-authentication. The PR says as much; recording it so it does not quietly become settled.
• Two spellings in the boolean parse are unheld. Removing TRUE and FALSE from the two lists at cluster.yaml:426 and :428 leaves all 113 cases in tests/oidc_test.yaml green. The rest of the matrix is real: 23 single-term mutations elsewhere in the block all redden.
• The quoted-entry shape above, which is the finding form of a row carried since the round that first raised it.

Caveats

• Not executed, needs a cluster. The chart appends to KamajiControlPlane.spec.apiServer.extraArgs, a field it already owns and writes [] into, so I see no SSA or immutability hazard, but I did not replay the upgrade through helm-controller. E2E (in-tree) was still pending on 187e4ce, and it carries the new --requestheader-uid-headers assertion.

• The documented opt-out can strand a running control plane. From the pinned build, not the PR body: resetKubeAPIServerFlags wipes the container args only when len(extraArgs) differs from the kube-apiserver.kamaji.clastix.io/args annotation (clastix/kamaji 26.3.6-edge, internal/builders/controlplane/deployment.go:1157-1163). So on v1.33+ adding the opt-out is count-neutral, the header flag stays on the Deployment beside the now-disabled gate, and the apiserver refuses to start. docs/oidc-tenant.md carries this in both directions with the mitigation and #3541 tracks the pin-side fix, so it is a note and not a request. No upgrade path reaches it without a deliberate operator edit: mode: None base vs head differs only in the chart's pre-existing per-render random secrets, and on every System and CustomConfig corner the chart's own contribution moves the count.

• Three shapes that render today stop rendering. A uid-headers list without X-Remote-Uid, one with a trailing comma, and a header flag beside RemoteRequestHeaderUID=false each render on 41ef4a6 and fail on 187e4ce. Not a regression: upstream Validate() rejects all three (authentication.go:93-103 at v1.33.0; the trailing comma leaves a " " element, checked against pflag v1.0.9 in a container), so those control planes already refuse to start.

• The values-prose-drift hit on version is refuted: that text is byte-identical across values.yaml, values.schema.json, the kubernetes-rd openAPISchema, README.md and hack/update-versions.sh. The envelope's two CRD-schema warnings are harness artefacts.