security(k8s): scope the vault-config low UID to the openbao containers - #3051
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The Job's pod runs 100:1000 because that IS the openbao image's own baked identity, not a choice this manifest makes. Read from the pinned digest's layers rather than the tag, the image's /etc/passwd carries openbao:x:100:1000::/home/openbao:/sbin/nologin which runAsUser/runAsGroup restate exactly. Raising the UID would run the openbao binary as an identity its own image does not define, so this belongs in the image-baked class alongside umami's 1001 (#2901) rather than with the sites that were simply unconstrained. Both sibling images decide nothing either way: minio/mc and alpine/k8s declare no User and bake no uid-100 entry. An image's config.User is NOT the evidence for that and answers a different question. All three images here leave it unset, so reading it alone would have said "no baked identity" and argued for a raise. The /etc/passwd entry is what makes the UID the image's rather than the manifest's; record that distinction so the next slice does not repeat the wrong check. Measured with the repository's own reproduction, kubernetes framework: treatment 1853 passed / 9 failed / 32 skipped CKV_K8S_40 x2 baseline 1853 passed / 10 failed / 31 skipped CKV_K8S_40 x3 Two controls prove the suppression does the work and is not an incidental parser perturbation. Removing the directive restores the baseline exactly. Renaming the SAME directive to an unrelated check id leaves CKV_K8S_40 failing at 10 while skipping a passing check instead (1853 -> 1852 passed, 32 skipped), so this framework keys on the id a directive NAMES — unlike the secrets framework's presence-keyed behaviour (#2892), which had to be probed. Part of #2904 Part of #2787
The sibling clause asserted that minio/mc and alpine/k8s bake no uid-100 identity while the paragraph above it had just established that config.User cannot support that claim. Both were re-read on the /etc/passwd surface and carry no uid-100 line; say which surface answered it, so the note meets the standard it sets two paragraphs earlier. Part of #2904
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What was exercised, and what it showedNot a trace of the code path — the scanner this change is about was actually run, before and after, Treatment vs baseline (
Control A — remove the directive: returns to 1853 / 10 / 31 exactly. The suppression is what Control B — keep the directive, rename it to an unrelated check id: Confirmed against CI rather than assumed. The local run is checkov 3.3.0 and CI runs 3.3.2 in Manifest validation: Runtime effect: none, and that is checkable rather than asserted. The annotation is on the Job's Evidence for the disposition itself — the openbao image's |
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In @.mega-linter.yml:
- Line 123: Update the issue reference in the comment near runAsGroup so the
image-baked precedent points to `#2901` instead of `#2898`, matching the companion
Vault manifest and existing umami entry.
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Validate manifest-related changes statically; never run a cluster for maintenance. Prefer KSail workload validation, otherwise build both local and production Kustomize overlays and perform per-file dry-run validation.
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k8s/**/*.yaml: Keep Kubernetes resources in the appropriate Kustomize layer: shared behavior belongs ink8s/bases/, while overlays should contain only genuine provider- or consumer-specific differences.
Use component-folder-first organization for infrastructure resources. Keep a component's HelmRelease, HelmRepository, and owned CRs together; split CRs into plural-Kind folders only for dependency or cluster-scoped/cross-cutting reasons.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-01T21:13:36.950Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 2359
File: k8s/bases/apps/actual-budget/helm-release.yaml:62-111
Timestamp: 2026-07-01T21:13:36.950Z
Learning: When reviewing Kustomize/Helm YAML in this repo, keep the base vs provider overlay split: `k8s/bases/apps/**` and `k8s/bases/infrastructure/**` should contain each app’s full, environment-agnostic configuration (including base-level postRenderer Kustomize patches such as deployment strategy, topology spread, probes, and env injection). `k8s/providers/{docker,hetzner}/**` should only add small provider-specific deltas (e.g., `interval`, `persistence.size`) via patch files (like `k8s/providers/<provider>/apps/<app>/patches/helm-release-patch.yaml`). If configuration is identical across providers (e.g., OIDC/OAuth env vars where `${domain}` is resolved per cluster via envsubst), it belongs in the base and must not be duplicated into provider overlays.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-02T06:32:09.574Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 2377
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/vault-config/job.yaml:785-793
Timestamp: 2026-07-02T06:32:09.574Z
Learning: When reviewing OpenBao/Vault `vault-config` Kubernetes YAMLs, treat the infra readonly KV v2 policy pattern `secret/data/infrastructure/<area>/*` (area-wildcard) as an intentional design. Do NOT suggest narrowing these wildcard paths to specific keys as a first response.
Instead, verify the intended blast-radius scoping: each isolation unit `<area>` must have its own `infra-<area>-readonly` Vault policy, and that policy must be bound only to that area's dedicated Kubernetes auth role/ServiceAccount (e.g., `github-config`, `unifi`, `aws`). This should ensure the wildcard’s scope is controlled by the auth role binding rather than by narrowing KV paths.
Also confirm that adding new sibling secrets later under the same `<area>` path should be readable by the existing role without requiring policy edits (i.e., the wildcard path covers the new keys).
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.349Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.349Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, Checkov CI scans source manifests with `--skip-framework kustomize` rather than rendered Kustomize overlays. To suppress a Checkov finding on a base manifest, place the appropriate `checkov.io/skip*` annotation directly in that base YAML file; an overlay patch will not suppress findings reported for the source file.
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learning: For Kubernetes manifests under k8s/bases/, keep workload-related Checkov exception annotations (checkov.io/skip*) in the base manifest when the checked condition is defined there and CI scans that source manifest directly. Do not move these annotations to overlays solely because the base is immutable; keeping them with the workload ensures the disposition applies consistently to every consumer of the base.
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T21:23:32.529Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3025
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/helm-release.yaml:97-133
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T21:23:32.529Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, modify Kubernetes manifests directly under k8s/bases/ when a configuration change should apply to all Kustomize overlays. Use provider- or cluster-specific overlay patches only for changes that are intentionally limited to those overlays.
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86-86: LGTM!Also applies to: 100-101, 120-122, 124-139
k8s/bases/infrastructure/vault-config/job.yaml (1)
47-55: 🔒 Security & PrivacyResolve the missing static validation.
The Job and Kustomize structure are still valid, but the required KSail/cluster-specific dry-run validation step has no evidence in the repository tools or initial run. Use the documented KSail validation, or run both local and provider Kustomize dry-runs if that environment is available.
…ted class The line pointed at #2898 for the image-baked precedent while the companion job.yaml comment and the umami entry both point at #2901. #2901 is the right one: it is where an image-baked UID was actually demonstrated and dispositioned, whereas #2898 only named the class — and named it for the openbao workloads on a shared-PVC reason that #2904 refuted. Also stop asserting the other openbao workloads are settled members of that class. That is exactly the question still open in #2904, so claiming it here would record a proposal as a finding. Part of #2904
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The P2 is correct, and it invalidates this PR's disposition as written. Staying a draft.Verified against the manifest rather than reasoned about. The Job carries pod-level
My own PR body already contained the evidence and I did not follow it through — it notes that all What the fix is, and why it is not a follow-up commit hereThe correct shape is the one suggested: move So this stays a draft with the finding open, and the thread stays unresolved. The next slice |
checkov.io/skipN is resource-scoped, so the Job's pod-level runAsUser: 100 put the openbao-specific image-baked rationale in front of the minio/mc and alpine/k8s containers too. Set runAsUser per container instead: the pod defaults to 65532 and only the two openbao containers override it with the 100 their own image bakes.
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Why
#2787 keeps checkov reporting-only until its findings reach zero, and #2904 left one open
question: are the remaining
CKV_K8S_40sites a real constraint or a risk to accept? For thevault-config Job the answer is a constraint, and a checkable one — the UID it runs as is the
openbao image's own baked user, so there is nothing to raise it to that the image defines.
This clears one of the ten findings and takes the check from 3 sites to 2.
What
The Job carries a scoped skip naming that reason, and the linter's recorded figures are
refreshed to the measured ones. No workload behaviour changes — this is a disposition, not a
security-context edit.
Two things worth flagging for the next slice on this check:
grounded in the user-namespace rollout" as an option. That ground does not currently hold: user
namespaces are opted in per namespace, and the six namespaces carrying the opt-in label are all
apps.
openbaois not among them, so the two vault-backup writers are not covered by thatmitigation today. Recorded on security(k8s): CKV_K8S_40 needs one risk acceptance, not 11 per-site constraints #2904 rather than acted on here.
repeated: an image's
config.Userdoes not answer "is this UID image-baked". All three imagesin this Job leave it unset, which reads as "no baked identity" and argues for exactly the wrong
disposition.
Part of #2904
Part of #2787