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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 (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 and KubeletPassthrough()); pkg/node only reads the two typed Config fields, 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 handed to kubelet. The values the user configured remain available from microshift show-config, so they are not duplicated in the journal. 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.
  • The two keys must not resolve to the same path (kubelet would otherwise read the bin dir as the config directory and fail at registration).
  • 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.
  • Structural (after the trusted-path rule, on the canonical paths): if the config path is a directory it must contain at least one .json/.yaml/.yml file; each config file must decode as a CredentialProviderConfig using the same strict decoder kubelet uses (built from the vendored k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis/config internal type plus its v1/v1beta1/v1alpha1 conversions — unknown fields rejected, all three accepted API versions, at least one provider); and every providers[].name must resolve to an executable in the bin dir (exec.LookPath(filepath.Join(binDir, name))).

Why MicroShift parses the provider config (structure only): upstream kubelet calls os.Exit(1) when provider registration fails (kuberuntime_manager.go:314), which in MicroShift terminates the whole process after other components are up, and its missing-binary error carries an empty path. MicroShift now verifies the three structural conditions that reach that exit — non-empty config directory, files decode with kubelet's own strict decoder (built from the same vendored kubelet apis/config packages, so unknown fields are rejected and exactly the three API versions kubelet accepts are accepted; no independent schema), and each providers[].name resolves in the bin dir — so they fail at config load with actionable messages. Kubelet's semantic validation (matchImages, cache durations) is unexported and unchanged, and its failures still exit the process; documented in the enhancement.

Tests

  • pkg/config/kubelet_test.go: reading (types/empty/null/absent, map-unmodified), KubeletPassthrough (drops exactly the two keys, nil→nil), the full validation + trusted-path table (real temp files/FIFO/symlinks; ownership exercised via an overridable statForTrust hook so the suite runs without root), TestValidateKubeletCredentialProviderStructure (empty dir, .txt-only dir, wrong kind/apiVersion, malformed YAML, no providers, unresolvable provider naming the joined path, non-executable provider, provider name with /, valid file/dir, v1beta1/v1alpha1 decode, strict rejection of an unknown field, and ordering: a world-writable bin dir beats an unresolvable provider).
  • pkg/node/kubelet_test.go: Test_GenerateConfig asserts the reserved keys are stripped from the generated KubeletConfiguration; Test_GenerateConfig_EmptyKubelet asserts an empty (or reserved-keys-only) map produces the same output as a nil map with no stray {}; Test_setImageCredentialProviderFlags asserts flags are set to canonical values when configured and left empty when not.
  • test/suites/configuration1/kubelet-credential-provider.robot: keys absent (no configured line), valid config (configured line, show-config, keys excluded from generated KubeletConfiguration), missing bin dir, single key, world-writable bin dir, missing provider binary (error names the provider, configured line absent), and empty configuration directory — each failure case followed by recovery. Fixtures install a mock provider so kubelet registration succeeds. Remaining scenarios tracked in OCPEDGE-2974.

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

Removed after host validation

Two checks were dropped as redundant/unreachable after the full edge-case run on a real host (see the validation comment below): the extended-ACL check — Linux reports the POSIX ACL mask in the group mode bits, so any ACL entry with effective write access already fails mode&0o022; the dedicated xattr check only ever fired for read-only ACLs — and the EACCES "run as root" branch — every caller of ActiveConfig() runs as root (show-config has a root guard at pkg/cmd/showConfig.go:32), so the branch is unreachable and the generic "unable to read file" error suffices.

Behavior notes (stated, not changing)

  • show-config --mode effective now validates credential-provider paths. Validation runs on the ActiveConfig() path, so an invalid imageCredentialProviderConfigPath/imageCredentialProviderBinDir (non-absolute, missing, wrong type, or failing the trusted-path rule) will make microshift show-config --mode effective return an error rather than print config. This is consistent with existing precedent — dns.go already os.Stats files during validation — and matches MicroShift's fail-fast-on-bad-config behavior at startup.
  • Empty kubelet: {} no longer emits {}. generateConfig() now guards on len(passthrough) > 0 instead of cfg.Kubelet != nil, which incidentally fixes a latent oddity where a kubelet: {} (or a section containing only the two reserved keys) would have appended a stray {} to the generated KubeletConfiguration YAML.
  • Docs scope: the new Kubelet doc comment is rendered into packaging/microshift/config.yaml (sample config) and the OpenAPI description in config-openapi-spec.json (both generated; do not hand-edit — verify-config rejects it). Additionally, a hand-written "Kubelet Image Credential Provider" section was added to docs/user/howto_config.md, placed outside the generated {{ template }}…{{ end }} blocks so make generate-config leaves it untouched (verified). It intentionally stays short — what the keys are, what MicroShift enforces, and the SELinux placement rule (the bin dir must sit at a bin_t location such as /usr/libexec or /usr/local/bin, since MicroShift validates paths but not SELinux labels) — and points upstream for the CredentialProviderConfig format. The full end-user walkthrough (ECR/GCR/ACR, defaultCacheDuration, trust-boundary guidance) lives in OSDOCS, tracked under OCPEDGE-2976. The enhancement (NO-ISSUE: Fix makefile clean target to delete the top-level directory #2089) wording was corrected to match.

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  • New Features
    • Kubelet image credential-provider settings now support dedicated configuration and binary-directory paths.
    • Validated paths are applied as kubelet startup flags and excluded from generated kubelet configuration.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Added validation for paired absolute paths, file types, root ownership, secure permissions, symlinks, and directory contents.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded configuration guidance with setup requirements, security checks, restart behavior, and startup logging.

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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.

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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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 45317

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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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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pkg/config/kubelet.go (1)

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
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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
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Read imageCredentialProviderConfigPath and imageCredentialProviderBinDir
from the kubelet section, validate them with a trusted-path rule, and
set them on KubeletFlags for the embedded kubelet. The keys are filtered
out of the KubeletConfiguration passthrough; show-config is unchanged.

Enhancement: openshift/enhancements#2089

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Upstream kubelet calls os.Exit(1) when RegisterCredentialProviderPlugins
fails (kuberuntime_manager.go:314). In MicroShift, where kubelet runs as a
goroutine, that terminates the whole process after etcd, the API server, and
the other components have started, and systemd restarts it into the same
failure until the start-rate limit trips. The upstream missing-binary error
also prints an empty path ("plugin binary executable  did not exist").

Validate the three structural conditions that reach that exit, in
Config.validate(), after the trusted-path rule and before the canonical paths
are stored:

- a configuration directory contains at least one .json/.yaml/.yml file;
- each file decodes as a CredentialProviderConfig using the vendored
  k8s.io/kubelet/config/v1 types (apiVersion/kind checked, >=1 provider),
  so the check cannot drift from the kubelet in the same build;
- every providers[].name resolves to an executable in the bin dir via
  exec.LookPath(filepath.Join(binDir, name)), reporting the joined path (never
  LookPath's empty-on-error return).

Kubelet's semantic validation (matchImages, cache durations) is unexported and
deliberately not replicated; those failures still reach the upstream exit path.

Adds unit cases (TestValidateKubeletCredentialProviderStructure) and two Robot
Framework cases (missing provider binary, empty configuration directory).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eject ACLs

Decode each credential provider config file with the same strict decoder the
vendored kubelet uses (EnableStrict, built from k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/
apis/config and its v1/v1beta1/v1alpha1 sub-packages), so unknown fields are
rejected and all three accepted API versions decode to the internal type
exactly as the kubelet in the same build does. Report an unreadable file
(EACCES) as needing root rather than as invalid.

Reject any trusted-path component or directory entry that carries an extended
POSIX ACL (system.posix_acl_access), which can grant write access the mode bits
do not reveal.

Match kubelet's directory read: kubelet does not resolve symlinks and reads
every matching entry with os.ReadFile, so a dangling symlink or a non-regular
entry (e.g. a FIFO) with a .json/.yaml/.yml extension is now an error rather
than a skip, closing a gap that would otherwise reach kubelet's os.Exit(1).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Host validation showed both checks are unnecessary:

- Extended-ACL rejection: Linux reports the POSIX ACL mask in the group
  mode bits, so any ACL entry with effective write access already fails the
  mode&0o022 test in validateTrustedChain. A dedicated system.posix_acl_access
  xattr check only ever fired for read-only ACLs, which grant no write and are
  harmless. Remove aclForTrust, checkNoExtendedACL, the call in
  validateTrustedChain, the now-unused golang.org/x/sys/unix import, the four
  ACL unit tests, the withACLMock helper, and the Robot "Extended ACL On Bin
  Directory Prevents Start" case (suite is now 7 cases).

- EACCES "run as root" branch in decodeCredentialProviderNames: every caller of
  ActiveConfig() runs as root (show-config has a root guard at
  pkg/cmd/showConfig.go:32), so the branch is unreachable. Remove it and keep
  the generic "unable to read file %q: %w"; remove the corresponding test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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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