feat(e2e): make e2e:kubernetes work transparently on OpenShift

[jgarciao]

Note: do not merge this PR (yet). I'm sending it here to get feedback from CodeRabit and the team. I'll send it upstream after. Thanks!

Running mise run e2e:kubernetes on OpenShift required manual namespace creation, SCC grants, Helm value overrides, and cleanup. A separate e2e:openshift task existed but only checked pod readiness without running the Rust e2e test suite, and even with the suite wired up the SSH-relay sandbox connect path stalled to the ready timeout because kubectl port-forward cannot carry round-trip-heavy SSH over the internet.

The harness now auto-detects OpenShift via the route.openshift.io API group and, on OpenShift, both configures the cluster and switches the gateway transport automatically:

• Drives the gateway through a passthrough OpenShift Route secured with mandatory mTLS instead of port-forward, so the connect suites (live_policy_update, port_forward, sync, connect-based sandbox_lifecycle, settings_management) actually pass. Computes the Route host from the cluster ingress domain, extracts client mTLS material from the openshell-client-tls secret, waits for the Route to serve mTLS, asserts a certless caller is rejected at the TLS handshake, and registers an mTLS CLI gateway pointing at the Route.
• Applies an SCC-compatible Helm values overlay that removes hardcoded runAsUser/fsGroup, letting OpenShift assign UIDs from the namespace range.
• Grants the privileged SCC to openshell-sandbox before Helm install and removes it during cleanup.
• Grants the anyuid SCC to the PostgreSQL fixture service account in DB scenarios and removes it during cleanup.
• All oc commands use --context to target the correct cluster.

The OpenShift e2e overlay (ci/values-openshift-e2e.yaml) turns TLS back on, enables the Route, promotes the cert-verified caller to a dev principal, and forces image.pullPolicy/supervisor.image.pullPolicy to Always so runs against the latest upstream image use it instead of a stale copy cached on the cluster nodes. Every OpenShift branch is gated on OPENSHIFT_DETECTED, so the vanilla-Kubernetes port-forward path is unchanged.

The Helm template for podSecurityContext is wrapped with {{- with }} so null values omit the block instead of rendering invalid YAML.

The separate e2e:openshift task and e2e-openshift.sh script are removed since e2e:kubernetes now covers OpenShift.

TESTING.md is updated with Kubernetes e2e documentation including OpenShift auto-detection, dropping the e2e-host-gateway feature on remote clusters, pinning IMAGE_TAG when the CLI and image versions differ, task variants, and environment variables.

The debug-openshell-cluster skill gains an OpenShift platform row and two SCC failure patterns (gateway rejected over hardcoded runAsUser, sandbox missing the privileged SCC) covering the SCC handling and podSecurityContext behavior this change introduces.

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The change adds OpenShift support to the Kubernetes E2E harness. It adds SCC-compatible Helm overlays, conditional pod security context rendering, OpenShift detection, SCC lifecycle management, and passthrough mTLS Route registration. It preserves port-forward transport for standard Kubernetes clusters. Documentation now covers Kubernetes E2E execution, OpenShift behavior, image selection, test scoping, and environment variables.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ba822

The change adds OpenShift Route and SCC automation, but unresolved permission-handling paths can leave elevated access behind or apply cluster changes to the wrong target, while the TLS rejection check can produce false confidence from unrelated failures. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Contribution Quality And Spam Detection	✅ Passed	No qualifying pair of signals is present. The actual diff is a substantial, codebase-specific OpenShift e2e integration across eight files, including Route/mTLS transport, SCC setup, Helm overlays, cl…
No Hardcoded Secrets	✅ Passed	No hardcoded secret was introduced. The added OpenShift code reads CA, client certificate, and private key from the cluster Secret at runtime. Added YAML and documentation contain no credential values…
No Weak Cryptography	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed lines add TLS/mTLS configuration and certificate extraction only. They introduce no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage. The added SHA references identify Git commit ha…
No Injection Vectors	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff introduces no SQL interpolation, eval/exec, os.system, shell=True, unsafe YAML/pickle loading, or dangerouslySetInnerHTML pattern under CWE-89, CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-502, or CWE-79. New s…
No Privileged Containers	✅ Passed	PASS — The diff adds no privileged: true, host namespace fields, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation: true, runAsUser: 0, or USER root in Kubernetes/OpenShift manifests, Helm templates, or D…
No Sensitive Data In Logs	✅ Passed	No sensitive-data logging condition was introduced. New output contains SCC names, the secret name, ports, generic errors, and the derived Route hostname. mTLS material is written to files, and curl…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: making the Kubernetes end-to-end test harness work transparently on OpenShift.

Full details: Contribution Quality And Spam Detection

Explanation

No qualifying pair of signals is present. The actual diff is a substantial, codebase-specific OpenShift e2e integration across eight files, including Route/mTLS transport, SCC setup, Helm overlays, cleanup, and documentation. The description explains concrete repository behavior and names affected suites; it does not use a generic vulnerability-report template, severity/CWE/CVE claims, or scanner-style wording. This is not security theater: the change addresses an operational OpenShift transport and SCC compatibility problem, and the harness includes an explicit certless mTLS rejection check. No CWE/CVE issue is claimed or applicable. No cross-repository evidence is available.

Full details: No Hardcoded Secrets

Explanation

No hardcoded secret was introduced. The added OpenShift code reads CA, client certificate, and private key from the cluster Secret at runtime. Added YAML and documentation contain no credential values, embedded-credential URLs, private-key blocks, or base64 strings over 32 characters. Credential-looking literals in the modified shell script are pre-existing test fixtures and are explicitly exempt. No CWE-798 or CWE-259 condition applies.

Full details: No Weak Cryptography

Explanation

PASS. The changed lines add TLS/mTLS configuration and certificate extraction only. They introduce no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage. The added SHA references identify Git commit hashes, which the check exempts. No custom cryptographic implementation or secret/HMAC comparison is introduced. CWE-327, CWE-328, and CWE-208 conditions are not present.

Full details: No Injection Vectors

Explanation

PASS. The diff introduces no SQL interpolation, eval/exec, os.system, shell=True, unsafe YAML/pickle loading, or dangerouslySetInnerHTML pattern under CWE-89, CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-502, or CWE-79. New shell inputs are passed as quoted arguments or Helm argument-array elements. The existing array-based test command execution remains in the e2e harness, which is a test file and is excluded by the check. The new YAML, Helm template, documentation, and deleted test script contain no injection sink.

Full details: No Privileged Containers

Explanation

PASS — The diff adds no privileged: true, host namespace fields, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation: true, runAsUser: 0, or USER root in Kubernetes/OpenShift manifests, Helm templates, or Dockerfiles. The new SCC commands are test-harness oc adm policy commands, and the PostgreSQL fixture is test-only. The OpenShift overlay sets allowPrivilegeEscalation: false, clears runAsUser, and drops all capabilities. The Helm change only omits an empty pod security context. No CWE/CVE applies.

Full details: No Sensitive Data In Logs

Explanation

No sensitive-data logging condition was introduced. New output contains SCC names, the secret name, ports, generic errors, and the derived Route hostname. mTLS material is written to files, and curl sends responses to /dev/null; no password, token, key, certificate content, or request/response body is logged. The gateway-log dump and command logging predate this pull request. No CWE-532 or CWE-359 issue is attributable to the changes.

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Inline comments:
In @.agents/skills/debug-openshell-cluster/SKILL.md:
- Line 74: Update the OpenShift detection and SCC modification commands in the
cluster-debugging instructions to use the target context from
OPENSHELL_E2E_KUBE_CONTEXT, falling back to the current context only when unset.
Pass that context explicitly to both api-resources and oc adm policy, and verify
the selected context before changing openshell-sandbox SCC state.

In `@e2e/with-kube-gateway.sh`:
- Around line 157-159: Track successful anyuid SCC grants separately from
EXTERNAL_PG_FIXTURE_DEPLOYED immediately after oc adm policy add-scc-to-user
succeeds, and update cleanup_postgres_fixture to revoke the SCC whenever that
grant flag is set, even if fixture deployment fails.
- Line 544: Update the Route validation curl invocation in with-kube-gateway.sh
to use --cacert "${pki_dir}/ca.crt" instead of disabling certificate
verification, and classify its result so only a client-certificate
authentication handshake failure counts as the expected certless rejection;
treat certificate, DNS, timeout, and connection failures as unrelated errors
rather than successful validation.

In `@TESTING.md`:
- Around line 215-217: Update the OpenShift prerequisites section to state that
oc must be installed and authenticated against the target cluster, and that the
user needs permission to grant and remove the required SCCs; remove the claim
that no extra steps are needed.
- Around line 194-195: Update the Kubernetes E2E documentation to clarify that
port-forwarding is used only for standard Kubernetes clusters; note that
OpenShift clusters use a passthrough OpenShift Route instead, as handled by the
e2e/with-kube-gateway.sh harness.
- Around line 271-272: Update the skopeo inspect example in the tag-verification
instructions to replace the shell-redirection placeholder with either a clearly
assigned tag variable or a concrete image tag, so copying the command executes
safely.

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[jgarciao]

Thanks @coderabbitai — addressed in 2138e608:

• anyuid SCC leak (with-kube-gateway.sh) — Fixed. Added a dedicated OPENSHIFT_POSTGRES_SCC_GRANTED flag set before the fixture apply; cleanup now revokes the binding whenever the grant succeeded, independent of whether the apply/deploy completed. This mirrors the existing OPENSHIFT_SANDBOX_SCC_GRANTED pattern.
• Certless mTLS gate (with-kube-gateway.sh) — Fixed. Replaced curl -sk with curl --cacert (validates the server cert) and now classify the exit code: 0 → security hole, 35/56 → the expected TLS client-auth rejection, anything else → hard failure ("cannot confirm mTLS is enforced"). A transient DNS/timeout/TLS error no longer masquerades as a certless rejection.
• TESTING.md (transport exception, OpenShift prerequisites, skopeo copy-safety) — All three applied: documented port-forward vs. passthrough-Route+mTLS, the oc/SCC prerequisites (the harness exit 2s without oc), and a copy-safe TAG=…; skopeo inspect "…:${TAG}" example.
• "Scope OpenShift commands to target context" (SKILL.md:74) — This is a documentation example in the debug skill, not executing code. The harness already scopes every cluster call: detection uses kctl (kubectl --context "${KUBE_CONTEXT}") and each oc adm policy grant passes --context "${KUBE_CONTEXT}". The skill's other examples use bare kubectl for readability, so I'm leaving it as-is. The attached SAST findings (implicit :latest, credential-path access, session persistence) are false positives on documentation content.

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@jgarciao Verified commit 2138e608.

The PostgreSQL anyuid SCC grant is now revoked after fixture-apply failure paths. This resolves the privilege-retention finding (CWE-269).

The certless Route probe now validates the server certificate and rejects unrelated curl failures. It accepts only the expected TLS client-auth rejection codes. This resolves the mTLS validation finding (CWE-295).

TESTING.md contains the required transport, OpenShift prerequisite, and copy-safe skopeo documentation.

The context-scoping finding is withdrawn. The SKILL.md command is documentation only. The executable harness scopes kubectl through kctl and passes --context "${KUBE_CONTEXT}" to each oc adm policy command.

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[EmilienM]

please rebase on main, we fixed a few issues with Konflux.

[jgarciao]

Closing this PR, as it is being reviewed upstream at NVIDIA#3183