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Adds two optional keys under the kubelet: config section:

kubelet:
  imageCredentialProviderConfigPath: /etc/microshift/credential-providers.yaml
  imageCredentialProviderBinDir: /usr/libexec/microshift/credential-providers

These are kubelet flags, not KubeletConfiguration fields. MicroShift reads them out of the schemaless kubelet: map, validates them at startup, sets them on the embedded kubelet, and filters them out of the generated KubeletConfiguration. Everything else under kubelet: still passes through, and show-config reports the keys exactly as the user wrote them.

Validation (first failure wins): both keys set together and absolute; config path resolves to a regular file or directory, bin dir to a directory; the two must differ. Trusted-path checks cover what kubelet consumes: every path component of both paths must be root-owned and not group/other-writable; in a config directory only the .json/.yaml/.yml files kubelet reads are checked (unrelated entries are ignored); each declared provider binary is symlink-resolved and checked the same way. The provider configuration is then validated as kubelet itself does — structurally (kubelet's strict decoder; non-empty config dir; v1/v1beta1/v1alpha1; no duplicate provider names; each providers[].name resolves to an executable in the bin dir) and semantically (a mirror of kubelet's unexported validateCredentialProviderConfig: required apiVersion/matchImages/defaultCacheDuration, valid names, parseable match images, tokenAttributes rules). Kubelet calls os.Exit(1) on a bad provider config after startup, so MicroShift surfaces it as an ordinary config error instead. Messages name the key and, for a config directory, the file.

Design: openshift/enhancements#2089.

Tests

  • pkg/config/kubelet_test.go: key reading, KubeletPassthrough (drops exactly the two keys), and the full validation + trusted-path + structural table (real temp files/symlinks/FIFO; ownership injected so the suite runs non-root).
  • pkg/node/kubelet_test.go: reserved keys stripped from the generated KubeletConfiguration; flags set to canonical values.
  • test/suites/standard2/kubelet-credential-provider.robot: happy path, single-key, missing bin dir, world-writable bin dir, missing/duplicate/unresolved provider, empty config dir — each failure asserts one specific error and recovers.

generate-config/verify-config, go build, go test, golangci-lint, verify-rf all pass.

Validation

End-to-end on a real RHEL 9.6 host against real Amazon ECR (upstream ecr-credential-provider): configured log line with canonical paths, reserved keys absent from the generated config, real pod pull with no imagePullSecrets, and every failure mode above rejected with the expected message. Full matrix in the validation comment.

Review

All comments across three review rounds are addressed with a commit or a documented reason (see the inline threads). Key round-2 changes: read the keys directly (no map iteration), os.Stat+exec-bit instead of exec.LookPath, duplicate-name rejection, raw/canonical field split behind an accessor, lazy codec (sync.OnceValue), single ancestor walk, entry.IsDir() symlink-to-dir parity, and the RF suite moved to standard2/ with one specific regex per case.

Notes

  • show-config --mode effective now validates the credential-provider paths (consistent with dns.go already stat-ing files) — an invalid path makes it error rather than print.
  • Extended-ACL and EACCES "run as root" checks were dropped as redundant/unreachable after host validation (mode bits already reflect the ACL mask; all callers run as root).
  • User-facing walkthrough (ECR/GCR/ACR, cache tuning) lives in OSDOCS (OCPEDGE-2976); docs/user/howto_config.md has a short pointer plus the SELinux bin_t placement rule.

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@Neilhamza: This pull request references OCPEDGE-2973 which is a valid jira issue.

Warning: The referenced jira issue has an invalid target version for the target branch this PR targets: expected the story to target the "5.1.0" version, but no target version was set.

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What

Adds two optional keys under the kubelet: section of MicroShift config:

kubelet:
 imageCredentialProviderConfigPath: /etc/microshift/credential-providers.yaml
 imageCredentialProviderBinDir: /usr/libexec/microshift/credential-providers

These are kubelet flags, not KubeletConfiguration fields. MicroShift reads them out of the schemaless kubelet: map, validates them at startup with a trusted-path rule, sets them on KubeletFlags for the embedded kubelet, and filters them out of the generated KubeletConfiguration. Everything else under kubelet: still passes through unchanged, and show-config still reports the keys exactly as the user wrote them.

Design: openshift/enhancements#2089 (enhancements/microshift/microshift-kubelet-image-credential-provider.md).

Notes for reviewers (up front)

  1. Enhancement: Enhancement: MicroShift kubelet image credential provider configuration enhancements#2089 is the authoritative design, including the trusted-path validation rule (symlink resolution, ancestor + directory-contents ownership checks, canonical paths handed to kubelet).

  2. New pattern — reading typed values out of the schemaless kubelet map. Until now the kubelet: map was passed straight through to the KubeletConfiguration. This is the first time MicroShift consumes specific keys from it as its own settings. The reserved-key knowledge is deliberately confined to pkg/config (constants, KubeletPassthrough(), and a ConfiguredKubeletCredentialProviderPaths() accessor); pkg/node only reads the two typed Config fields and calls those helpers, so the key strings never leak into the node package.

  3. Log line QE asserts on. On a valid config, configure() emits exactly:

Kubelet image credential provider configured  configPath="…" binDir="…"

configPath/binDir are the canonical (symlink-resolved) paths. configuredConfigPath/configuredBinDir are appended only when symlink resolution changed a path. The message text is fixed (Kubelet image credential provider configured) — note it deliberately does not say "enabled", because kubelet registers the providers later and may still fail.

Validation rules (first failure wins)

  • Neither key set → feature inactive (backward compatible).
  • Exactly one set → error (must be set together).
  • Not absolute → error.
  • Config path must resolve to a regular file or directory; bin dir must resolve to a directory.
  • Trusted-path rule on both: every component from / to the object (and, for directories, every entry, with symlinked entries checked at their target including ancestors) must be root-owned and not group/other-writable. Canonical paths are handed to kubelet.

Deliberately not validated (kubelet does it at registration): provider-config contents/apiVersion, and presence/executability of the specific binaries the config names.

Tests

  • pkg/config/kubelet_test.go: reading (types/empty/null/absent, map-unmodified), KubeletPassthrough (drops exactly the two keys, nil→nil), and the full validation + trusted-path table (real temp files/FIFO/symlinks; ownership exercised via an overridable statForTrust hook so the suite runs without root).
  • pkg/node/kubelet_test.go: Test_GenerateConfig asserts the reserved keys are stripped from the generated KubeletConfiguration; Test_setImageCredentialProviderFlags asserts flags are set to canonical values when configured and left empty when not.

make generate-config + verify-config, go build ./..., go test ./pkg/config/... ./pkg/node/..., and golangci-lint all pass.

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Walkthrough

The change adds kubelet image credential-provider path parsing, trusted-path validation, canonical path storage, startup flag wiring, passthrough filtering, documentation, and tests.

Changes

Kubelet credential-provider integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse and validate credential-provider paths
pkg/config/kubelet.go, pkg/config/config.go, pkg/config/kubelet_test.go
Reserved keys are parsed separately. Validation checks paired absolute paths, supported types, symlinks, ancestors, ownership, permissions, and directory entries. Canonical paths are stored in typed configuration fields.
Separate passthrough settings from startup flags
pkg/config/kubelet.go, pkg/config/config.go, cmd/generate-config/config/config-openapi-spec.json, packaging/microshift/config.yaml, pkg/config/kubelet_test.go
The passthrough map excludes reserved keys. Configuration documentation describes startup-flag handling, required pairing, and filesystem requirements.
Apply kubelet startup flags
pkg/node/kubelet.go, pkg/node/kubelet_test.go, docs/user/howto_config.md
Canonical paths populate kubelet startup flags. Generated kubelet YAML excludes MicroShift-owned credential-provider settings. Tests and user documentation cover configured paths and installation requirements.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Config
  participant NodeKubelet
  participant KubeletFlags
  participant KubeletYAML
  Config-->>NodeKubelet: Return canonical credential-provider paths
  NodeKubelet->>KubeletFlags: Set credential-provider startup flags
  NodeKubelet->>Config: Request kubelet passthrough settings
  Config-->>NodeKubelet: Return settings without reserved keys
  NodeKubelet->>KubeletYAML: Serialize filtered settings
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This change adds optional kubelet credential-provider paths, validates and canonicalizes them, and applies them as startup flags while keeping them out of generated kubelet YAML. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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99-103: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Handle the kubeletStringValue errors explicitly.

The current startup path rejects non-string values before this diagnostic accessor runs. However, the two ignored errors violate the repository’s checked-in Go rule and make direct callers receive silent empty values. Return the errors and handle them in setImageCredentialProviderFlags instead of discarding them.

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In `@pkg/config/kubelet.go` around lines 99 - 103, Update
ConfiguredKubeletCredentialProviderPaths to return errors from both
kubeletStringValue calls instead of discarding them, preserving the configPath
and binDir results on success. Update setImageCredentialProviderFlags to handle
and propagate the accessor errors explicitly, while keeping the existing startup
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In `@pkg/config/kubelet.go`:
- Around line 99-103: Update ConfiguredKubeletCredentialProviderPaths to return
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In `@pkg/config/kubelet.go`:
- Around line 105-106: Update the exported configuration method containing the
kubeletImageCredentialProviderConfigPathKey and
kubeletImageCredentialProviderBinDirKey lookups to propagate errors from
kubeletStringValue instead of discarding them; return immediately on either
failure and update its diagnostic caller to handle the returned error while
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Full edge-case validation against real Amazon ECR

Ran the complete A–G edge-case matrix on a real RHEL 9.6 host (SELinux Enforcing)
against real Amazon ECR with the upstream ecr-credential-provider v1.36.1 using
the instance role — build 86190e241 (this PR, rebased on main). Every failure
case recovered to a healthy 7-pod cluster before the next.

After the host run, three checks were removed as redundant/unreachable (ACL —
mask is visible in mode bits; EACCES branch — all callers are root; SELinux
static-creds note — not reproducible). Net effect is a smaller diff.

Results

  • Happy paths (A1–A7): dormant when keys absent / empty; configured line with
    canonical paths; reserved keys excluded from the generated KubeletConfiguration;
    real ECR pull with no imagePullSecrets; directory config path and symlinked
    bin dir both resolve correctly.
  • Structural path validation (B1–B7): all seven reject with the expected
    message (missing/relative/nonexistent paths, non-dir bin dir, FIFO config,
    config↔binDir collision).
  • Trusted-path ownership (C1–C7): every ownership/permission violation
    (writable dir/binary/config, non-root owner, non-root symlink target, writable
    ancestor) fails closed with the ownership message; ownership error correctly
    wins over structural error.
  • Provider-config decode / os.Exit guard (D1–D13): missing binary (full joined
    path reported), empty dir, malformed YAML, wrong kind, unregistered apiVersion,
    empty providers, / in name, non-exec binary — all become clean config errors.
    JSON, multi-file directories, and v1 / v1beta1 / v1alpha1 all accepted.
    D12 (key result): an unknown field (matchImage) is rejected by the strict
    decoder at config load and never reaches kubelet's os.Exit(1) — the
    original registration-crash finding is closed.
  • Cache/token lifecycle on real ECR (F): tokens rotate per call (distinct
    SHA-256, username AWS, provider-returned cacheDuration: 6h); one exec-plugin
    invocation serves two in-window pulls; a restart clears the in-memory provider
    cache; ECR-pulled workloads survive a restart with no re-pull/re-auth.
  • Committed Robot suite on the real host: 7 / 8 pass. The one failure is the
    ACL case — see below.

One check to remove: the extended-ACL rule is redundant

The trusted-path rule has a dedicated extended-POSIX-ACL check
(aclForTrust/checkNoExtendedACL) with the rationale that "mode bits do not
reveal ACL write grants." That rationale is false. When an extended ACL is
present, Linux reports the ACL mask in the object's group permission bits, so any
ACL entry with effective write access makes the group-write bit visible and the
existing mode check (mode&0o022) rejects it first. Confirmed on the host:

chmod 0755 d; setfacl -m u:nobody:rwx d   -> stat 0775 (drwxrwxr-x)  # mode check catches it
chmod 0755 d; setfacl -m u:nobody:r-x d   -> stat 0755 (drwxr-xr-x)  # grants no write, harmless

The only ACL that reaches the dedicated check is one that grants no write
(e.g. r-x), which is harmless. So the mode-bit check was already sufficient
against ACL write grants; the ACL check adds nothing. This is also why the Robot
case "Extended ACL On Bin Directory Prevents Start" fails: it grants rwx and
asserts the "must not have an extended ACL" message, but the mode check fires first
with the ownership message. MicroShift still refuses to start in that case — the
security outcome is correct, only the check that fires (and the message) differ.

Follow-up: drop aclForTrust + checkNoExtendedACL (and the now-unused
unix import), the ACL unit tests and the "no ACL passes" test, and the Robot ACL
case (suite back to 7); replace the ACL rationale in the enhancement with the
correct mask-reflection explanation. One fewer thing to maintain, and a doc
sentence that's actually true.

Two smaller findings (documented, non-blocking)

  • The EACCES "run as root" branch in decodeCredentialProviderNames is
    unreachable via show-config: show-config already refuses non-root with
    "command requires root privileges" before reading any config file. The branch's
    stated rationale (non-root show-config vs a 0600 file) does not hold.
  • The static-credentials SELinux concern (creds under /root/.aws,
    admin_home_t) did not reproduce on this build: kubelet_t read /root/.aws
    with zero AVC denials. The /etc/microshift placement remains reasonable
    portability guidance but isn't required to avoid an AVC here.

Full per-case evidence and the raw logs are attached to the validation artifacts.
AWS writes during the entire run: exactly one (the test image push).

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@Neilhamza Neilhamza changed the title [WIP] OCPEDGE-2973: Add kubelet image credential provider configuration OCPEDGE-2973: Add kubelet image credential provider configuration Sep 14, 2026
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${config}= Show Config effective
Should Be Equal As Strings ${config.kubelet.imageCredentialProviderConfigPath} ${CP_CONFIG_FILE}
Should Be Equal As Strings ${config.kubelet.imageCredentialProviderBinDir} ${CP_BIN_DIR}
Command Should Fail grep -q imageCredentialProvider ${KUBELET_GENERATED_CONFIG}

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Is this assertion necessary? The test already validates that the configuration is applied correctly (log output + show-config)

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It covers a different property than the log line / show-config. Those prove the two keys were accepted and surface back to the user; this assertion (grep -q imageCredentialProvider against the generated KubeletConfiguration → Should Fail) is the guarantee that they're stripped from the generated KubeletConfiguration and handed to kubelet as flags rather than config fields — the whole point of the feature. If a future change let them fall through into the KubeletConfiguration, only this check would catch it. Kept for that reason.

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Agree it's worth testing, but this is asserting an internal implementation detail (flag vs. config field) rather than end-to-end behavior. A unit test on the config generation would cover this more precisely and run faster.

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Fair — it's an implementation property, already pinned by Test_GenerateConfig in pkg/node/kubelet_test.go. Removed from the suite in 38c3ebd32; the log line and show-config are the user-visible checks.

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Round-2 smoke validation — fresh EC2 (RHEL 9.6) + real Amazon ECR

Validated the round-2 commit on a fresh host: base built from upstream/main, branch RPMs swapped
in, real ECR (us-west-2) via the instance role. Product behavior: correct in all 9 product cases.
One test-only assertion defect surfaced in the RF suite and is fixed in b449d6c3a (details below).

Round-2 changes exercised, all correct:

  • Raw vs canonical split + accessor — symlinked bin dir resolves to its canonical target for kubelet while show-config still reports the raw user path; survives a second updateComputedValues().

  • Real ECR pull — pod pulled …/microshift-cred-provider-test:v1 via the instance role with no imagePullSecrets and nothing added to the CRI-O pull secret.

  • exec-bit provider check (os.Stat+regular+0o111) — a missing binary and a chmod 0644 binary both fail before kubelet, with the message attributed to imageCredentialProviderBinDir:

    error validating kubelet.imageCredentialProviderBinDir ("/usr/libexec/microshift/credential-providers"): provider "no-such-provider" (declared in "/etc/microshift/credential-providers.yaml") has no executable at "/usr/libexec/microshift/credential-providers/no-such-provider"
    
  • Duplicate provider name across files rejected:

    provider "ecr-credential-provider" is declared more than once (in ".../a.yaml" and ".../b.yaml")
    
  • Symlink-to-directory parity — a x.yaml symlink pointing at a directory is rejected rather than silently skipped, and no kubelet CRI-registration failure is reached:

    configuration file "/etc/microshift" is not a regular file
    

    A real subdirectory named x.yaml is still skipped (kubelet DirEntry.IsDir() parity) and startup succeeds.

  • Strict decoder rejects an unknown field (providers[0].matchImage) at config load; empty-dir and single-key cases also error as expected.

  • Lazy codec — microshift version ~0.08s, show-config --mode default ~0.10s (sub-second).

One test-only fix — RF suite standard2/kubelet-credential-provider.robot (fixed in b449d6c3a).
The smoke run caught a broken assertion in Missing Provider Binary Prevents Start: it failed
deterministically even though the product logs the error correctly (S4/S5 above). The regex wrapped
the provider name with a single-char . on each side (provider .no-such-provider.), but klog
escapes the inner quotes of err="…" as \" (two chars), so the journal reads
provider \"no-such-provider\" — the single . can't span \". Verified on the real journal: the
old pattern → 0 matches, the new .+ pattern → 10. It was the only failure-case regex that
wrapped a klog-escaped quoted token this way, which is why the other three passed. Fixed by loosening
those two . to .+ in b449d6c3a; the product was already correct. (Rebased onto current main
in the same push.)

[Setup] Apply Invalid Credential Provider Config ${CP_ONLY_CONFIG_PATH}
Pattern Should Appear In Log Output
... ${CURSOR}
... imageCredentialProviderConfigPath and kubelet.imageCredentialProviderBinDir must be set together

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should this be .* instead of . or is this expected ?

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Expected that's the literal . in kubelet.imageCredentialProviderBinDir, and an unescaped . matches it. Not the " case from the provider assertion (two chars, hence .* there). Escaped it to kubelet. for strictness.

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For the record, escaped in 38c3ebd32 — the pattern is now kubelet\.imageCredentialProviderBinDir must be set together.

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/lgtm

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// resolve to an executable in the bin directory. It does not replicate kubelet's
// semantic validation. configKey and binDirKey are the configured values, used
// only in messages; the checks operate on the symlink-resolved paths.
func validateCredentialProviderStructure(configKey, binDirKey, canonicalConfigPath, canonicalBinDir string) error {

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There is a gap in this function, it does not validate the same required fields as kubelet does. For example, a configuration without apiVersion, matchImages or defaultCacheDuration passes this validation but kubelet wont start properly, making MicroShift crash.
The validation function is not exported in kubelet, so maybe we need to mimic the behavior of the required fields?

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Agreed — that was the residual I'd documented rather than closed. Everything kubelet's validateCredentialProviderConfig relies on is exported (ParseSchemelessURL, IsQualifiedName, the SchemeGroupVersion and cache-type constants), so validateCredentialProviderSemantics now mirrors it rule for rule, same order and messages, with a note to re-check at each rebase. The only rule not mirrored is the KubeletServiceAccountTokenForCredentialProviders gate check on tokenAttributes, since the gate's value at registration comes from the kubelet passthrough; that's called out in the code. Unit tests cover each rule including your example (a provider with only name now fails with the three Required value errors), plus a new RF case for a missing matchImages. 7dd710c.

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// validateDirEntries applies the trusted-path rule to every entry in dir.
// Symlinked entries are resolved and the full rule, including the target's
// ancestors, is applied to the target.
func validateDirEntries(dir string, checker *trustChecker) error {

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There is a caveat in this function. If the dir contains anything that is not owned by root then MicroShift wont start, when that is not really an issue. Validation should only care about json, yaml and yml files because that is what the readCredentialProviderConfig consumes, ignoring everything else.
Can we filter that out here too to mimic the behavior from the kubelet, as that function is not exported either?

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Yes, that was stricter than needed. It now checks only what kubelet consumes: in a config directory the non-directory .json/.yaml/.yml entries (one shared predicate isCredentialProviderConfigEntry, used by both the trusted-path walk and the file collection so they can't diverge), and for the bin dir the declared provider binaries themselves instead of every entry. Both directories still have to be root-owned and not group/other-writable, and each declared binary is symlink-resolved and checked at its target with ancestors. howto_config.md updated to match. 7dd710c.

Neilhamza and others added 2 commits September 23, 2026 13:51
Add two optional keys under the kubelet: config section,
imageCredentialProviderConfigPath and imageCredentialProviderBinDir.
MicroShift reads them out of the schemaless kubelet: map as kubelet
flags (not KubeletConfiguration fields), validates them at startup,
sets them on the embedded kubelet, and filters them out of the
generated KubeletConfiguration. Everything else under kubelet: still
passes through, and show-config reports the keys as the user wrote them.

Both paths are validated (paired, absolute, correct type, distinct, and
every ancestor root-owned and not group/other-writable), then
canonicalized before being handed to kubelet. The provider config is
pre-checked with kubelet's own strict decoder (non-empty config dir,
files decode, no duplicate provider names, each provider resolves to an
executable in the bin dir) so a bad config fails as an ordinary
configuration error instead of reaching kubelet's os.Exit(1).

Design: openshift/enhancements#2089

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Escape the literal dot in the "Only One Key Prevents Start" pattern so
journalctl --grep matches kubelet.imageCredentialProviderBinDir literally
instead of the unescaped `.` matching any character (Robot strips a single
backslash, so the data table needs `\\.` to pass `\.` to the regex).

Drop the "Valid Configuration Applies Kubelet Flags" assertion that the
reserved keys are absent from the generated KubeletConfiguration (and the
now-unused KUBELET_GENERATED_CONFIG variable). That implementation
property is already pinned by Test_GenerateConfig in pkg/node; the Robot
case stays end-to-end (configured log line + show-config).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…sted-path checks to consumed entries

Address two review comments on pkg/config/kubelet.go.

Comment 1 (required-field validation gap): decodeCredentialProviderConfig
now returns the parsed CredentialProviderConfig, and a new
validateCredentialProviderSemantics mirrors kubelet's unexported
validateCredentialProviderConfig rule-for-rule (providers non-empty; name
constraints; apiVersion required and one of the supported credentialprovider
versions; matchImages present and parseable; defaultCacheDuration required
and non-negative; tokenAttributes rules). MicroShift now rejects a
semantically invalid config up front instead of letting kubelet os.Exit(1)
and crash MicroShift. Per-file validation names the offending file when the
config path is a directory; cross-file duplicate detection stays at the merged
level. The KubeletServiceAccountTokenForCredentialProviders feature-gate check
is the one documented residual and is intentionally not mirrored.

Comment 2 (validateDirEntries checked entries kubelet never reads): the
trusted-path checks now apply only to entries kubelet actually consumes. A
single isCredentialProviderConfigEntry predicate (used by both the config-dir
validation and file collection) restricts config-dir checks to non-directory
.json/.yaml/.yml files. The bin dir is no longer walked; instead each declared
provider binary is EvalSymlinks-resolved and run through the trust checker's
checkChain, while the bin dir itself is still required root-owned and
non-writable.

Unit tests add one case per semantic rule (asserting the field path), Pablo's
only-name example, and reworked trusted-path cases for the scoped behavior. A
new Robot case (Semantically Invalid Provider Config Prevents Start) covers a
provider missing matchImages. Docs (howto_config.md and the Kubelet config
field comment) describe the scoped ownership checks and semantic pre-validation;
generated config regenerated accordingly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Round-4 review addressed in 7dd710c60 (branch rebased on main). Both of @pacevedom's comments on pkg/config/kubelet.go are fixed:

  • Required-field validation gap: validateCredentialProviderSemantics now mirrors kubelet's unexported validateCredentialProviderConfig rule for rule (same order and messages), so a config missing apiVersion/matchImages/defaultCacheDuration (or with an invalid name, unparseable match image, or bad tokenAttributes) is rejected up front instead of making kubelet os.Exit(1). The only rule not mirrored is the KubeletServiceAccountTokenForCredentialProviders gate check, which depends on the kubelet passthrough at registration — documented in the code.
  • Over-strict directory validation: trusted-path checks now cover only what kubelet consumes — .json/.yaml/.yml files in a config directory (shared predicate with the file collection) and the declared provider binaries in the bin dir, rather than every entry. Both directories are still required root-owned and non-writable.

Unit tests add one case per semantic rule plus the only-name example from the review; a new RF case covers a config missing matchImages. Docs and the regenerated config are updated. Re-requested review from @pacevedom, @qJkee and @kasturinarra.

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