This change updates the kube cert agent to a middle ground behavior
that balances leader election gating with how quickly we load the
signer.
If the agent labels have not changed, we will attempt to load the
signer even if we cannot roll out the latest version of the kube
cert agent deployment.
This gives us the best behavior - we do not have controllers
fighting over the state of the deployment and we still get the
signer loaded quickly.
We will have a minute of downtime when the kube cert agent deployment
changes because the new pods will have to wait to become a leader
and for the new deployment to rollout the new pods. We would need
to have a per pod deployment if we want to avoid that downtime (but
this would come at the cost of startup time and would require
coordination with the kubelet in regards to pod readiness).
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
This commit makes the following changes to the kube cert agent tests:
1. Informers are synced on start using the controllerinit code
2. Deployment client and informer are synced per controller sync loop
3. Controller sync loop exits after two consistent errors
4. Use assert instead of require to avoid ending the test early
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
Not required, but within the spirit of using the version number.
Since the existing kube cert agent deployment will get deleted anyway
during an upgrade, it shouldn't hurt to change the version number.
New installations will get the new version number on the new kube cert
agent deployment.
Fixes#801. The solution is complicated by the fact that the Selector
field of Deployments is immutable. It would have been easy to just
make the Selectors of the main Concierge Deployment, the Kube cert agent
Deployment, and the various Services use more specific labels, but
that would break upgrades. Instead, we make the Pod template labels and
the Service selectors more specific, because those not immutable, and
then handle the Deployment selectors in a special way.
For the main Concierge and Supervisor Deployments, we cannot change
their selectors, so they remain "app: app_name", and we make other
changes to ensure that only the intended pods are selected. We keep the
original "app" label on those pods and remove the "app" label from the
pods of the Kube cert agent Deployment. By removing it from the Kube
cert agent pods, there is no longer any chance that they will
accidentally get selected by the main Concierge Deployment.
For the Kube cert agent Deployment, we can change the immutable selector
by deleting and recreating the Deployment. The new selector uses only
the unique label that has always been applied to the pods of that
deployment. Upon recreation, these pods no longer have the "app" label,
so they will not be selected by the main Concierge Deployment's
selector.
The selector of all Services have been updated to use new labels to
more specifically target the intended pods. For the Concierge Services,
this will prevent them from accidentally including the Kube cert agent
pods. For the Supervisor Services, we follow the same convention just
to be consistent and to help future-proof the Supervisor app in case it
ever has a second Deployment added to it.
The selector of the auto-created impersonation proxy Service was
also previously using the "app" label. There is no change to this
Service because that label will now select the correct pods, since
the Kube cert agent pods no longer have that label. It would be possible
to update that selector to use the new more specific label, but then we
would need to invent a way to pass that label into the controller, so
it seemed like more work than was justified.
For clusters where the control plane nodes aren't running a CNI, the
kube-cert-agent pods deployed by concierge cannot be scheduled as they
don't know to use `hostNetwork: true`. This change allows embedding the
host network setting in the Concierge configuration. (by copying it from
the kube-controller-manager pod spec when generating the kube-cert-agent
Deployment)
Also fixed a stray double comma in one of the nearby tests.
In the upstream dynamiccertificates package, we rely on two pieces
of code:
1. DynamicServingCertificateController.newTLSContent which calls
- clientCA.CurrentCABundleContent
- servingCert.CurrentCertKeyContent
2. unionCAContent.VerifyOptions which calls
- unionCAContent.CurrentCABundleContent
This results in calls to our tlsServingCertDynamicCertProvider and
impersonationSigningCertProvider. If we Unset these providers, we
subtly break these consumers. At best this results in test slowness
and flakes while we wait for reconcile loops to converge. At worst,
it results in actual errors during runtime. For example, we
previously would Unset the impersonationSigningCertProvider on any
sync loop error (even a transient one caused by a network blip or
a conflict between writes from different replicas of the concierge).
This would cause us to transiently fail to issue new certificates
from the token credential require API. It would also cause us to
transiently fail to authenticate previously issued client certs
(which results in occasional Unauthorized errors in CI).
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
At a high level, it switches us to a distroless base container image, but that also includes several related bits:
- Add a writable /tmp but make the rest of our filesystems read-only at runtime.
- Condense our main server binaries into a single pinniped-server binary. This saves a bunch of space in
the image due to duplicated library code. The correct behavior is dispatched based on `os.Args[0]`, and
the `pinniped-server` binary is symlinked to `pinniped-concierge` and `pinniped-supervisor`.
- Strip debug symbols from our binaries. These aren't really useful in a distroless image anyway and all the
normal stuff you'd expect to work, such as stack traces, still does.
- Add a separate `pinniped-concierge-kube-cert-agent` binary with "sleep" and "print" functionality instead of
using builtin /bin/sleep and /bin/cat for the kube-cert-agent. This is split from the main server binary
because the loading/init time of the main server binary was too large for the tiny resource footprint we
established in our kube-cert-agent PodSpec. Using a separate binary eliminates this issue and the extra
binary adds only around 1.5MiB of image size.
- Switch the kube-cert-agent code to use a JSON `{"tls.crt": "<b64 cert>", "tls.key": "<b64 key>"}` format.
This is more robust to unexpected input formatting than the old code, which simply concatenated the files
with some extra newlines and split on whitespace.
- Update integration tests that made now-invalid assumptions about the `pinniped-server` image.
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
TestAgentController really runs the controller and evaluates multiple
calls to the controller's Sync with real informers caching updates.
There is a large amount of non-determinism in this unit test, and it
does not always behave the same way. Because it makes assertions about
the specific errors that should be returned by Sync, it was not
accounting for some errors that are only returned by Sync once in a
while depending on the exact (unpredictable) order of operations.
This commit doesn't fix the non-determinism in the test, but rather
tries to work around it by also allowing other (undesired but
inevitable) error messages to appear in the list of actual error
messages returned by the calls to the Sync function.
Signed-off-by: Margo Crawford <margaretc@vmware.com>
Previously, our controllers would automatically create a CredentialIssuer with a singleton name. The helpers we had for this also used "raw" client access and did not take advantage of the informer cache pattern.
With this change, the CredentialIssuer is always created at install time in the ytt YAML. The controllers now only update the existing CredentialIssuer status, and they do so using the informer cache as much as possible.
This change is targeted at only the kubecertagent controller to start. The impersonatorconfig controller will be updated in a following PR along with other changes.
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
Since 0dfb3e95c5, we no longer directly create the kube-cert-agent Pod, so our "use"
permission on PodSecurityPolicies no longer has the intended effect. Since the deployments controller is now the
one creating pods for us, we need to get the permission on the PodSpec of the target pod instead, which we do somewhat
simply by using the same service account as the main Concierge pods.
We still set `automountServiceAccountToken: false`, so this should not actually give any useful permissions to the
agent pod when running.
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
This controller is responsible for cleaning up kube-cert-agent pods that were deployed by previous versions.
They are easily identified because they use a different `kube-cert-agent.pinniped.dev` label compared to the new agent pods (`true` vs. `v2`).
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
This is a relatively large rewrite of much of the kube-cert-agent controllers. Instead of managing raw Pod objects, they now create a single Deployment and let the builtin k8s controller handle it from there.
This reduces the amount of code we need and should handle a number of edge cases better, especially those where a Pod becomes "wedged" and needs to be recreated.
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
All controller unit tests were accidentally using a timeout context
for the informers, instead of a cancel context which stays alive until
each test is completely finished. There is no reason to risk
unpredictable behavior of a timeout being reached during an individual
test, even though with the previous 3 second timeout it could only be
reached on a machine which is running orders of magnitude slower than
usual, since each test usually runs in about 100-300 ms. Unfortunately,
sometimes our CI workers might get that slow.
This sparked a review of other usages of timeout contexts in other
tests, and all of them were increased to a minimum value of 1 minute,
under the rule of thumb that our tests will be more reliable on slow
machines if they "pass fast and fail slow".
These controllers were a bit inconsistent. There were cases where the controllers ran out of the expected order and the custom labels might not have been applied.
We should still plan to remove this label handling or move responsibility into the middleware layer, but this avoids any regression.
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
This prevents unnecessary sync loop runs when the controller is
running with a single worker. When the controller is running with
more than one worker, it prevents subtle bugs that can cause the
controller to go "back in time."
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Moyer <moyerm@vmware.com>
And delete the agent pod when it needs its custom labels to be
updated, so that the creator controller will notice that it is missing
and immediately create it with the new custom labels.
This should fix integration tests running on clusters that don't have
visible controller manager pods (e.g., GKE). Pinniped should boot, not
find any controller manager pods, but still post a status in the CIC.
I also updated a test helper so that we could tell the difference
between when an event was not added and when an event was added with
an empty key.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Keesler <akeesler@vmware.com>
Right now in the YTT templates we assume that the agent pods are gonna use
the same image as the main Pinniped deployment, so we can use the same logic
for the image pull secrets.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Keesler <akeesler@vmware.com>
- Only inject things through the constructor that the controller
will need
- Use pkg private constants when possible for things that are not
actually configurable by the user
- Make the agent pod template private to the pkg
- Introduce a test helper to reduce some duplicated test code
- Remove some `it.Focus` lines that were accidentally committed, and
repair the broken tests that they were hiding
I think we want to reconcile on these pod template fields so that if
someone were to redeploy Pinniped with a new image for the agent, the
agent would get updated immediately. Before this change, the agent image
wouldn't get updated until the agent pod was deleted.
3 main reasons:
- The cert and key that we store in this object are not always used for TLS.
- The package name "provider" was a little too generic.
- dynamiccert.Provider reads more go-ish than provider.DynamicCertProvider.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Keesler <akeesler@vmware.com>
- Lots of TODOs added that need to be resolved to finish this WIP
- execer_test.go seems like it should be passing, but it fails (sigh)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Keesler <akeesler@vmware.com>
- All of the `kubecertagent` controllers now take two informers
- This is moving in the direction of creating the agent pods in the
Pinniped installation namespace, but that will come in a future
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