Add KMS plugin image sourcing - #2082
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WalkthroughThe enhancement defines OLM-managed ConfigMaps and OpenShift payload images as KMS plugin image sources. Controllers consume and validate these references, report missing or invalid sources, and remove ChangesKMS plugin image delivery
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change documents KMS plugin image sourcing, but the Vault example could leave provider implementations unclear about which image source to use. The PR is mergeable with owner follow-up to make that contract explicit. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant OLMOperator
participant ProviderConfigMap
participant EncryptionController
participant PreflightChecker
participant PluginConfiguration
OLMOperator->>ProviderConfigMap: publish provider image reference
ProviderConfigMap->>EncryptionController: provide labeled image reference
EncryptionController->>PreflightChecker: validate image availability
PreflightChecker-->>EncryptionController: return validation status
EncryptionController->>PluginConfiguration: apply validated image reference
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In `@enhancements/kube-apiserver/kms-encryption-foundations.md`:
- Around line 516-518: Update the data.image contract and its examples to
require immutable digest-pinned OLM image references, rejecting mutable tags;
alternatively define equivalent signature verification and revalidation behavior
that triggers the watch and pre-flight flow when the referenced image changes.
- Around line 487-501: Define a normative provider-to-image-source mapping for
each KMSProviderType, specifying whether the image comes from a ConfigMap or
payload environment variable, the exact identifier and required data key, and
precedence when both sources exist. Reconcile the conflicting treatment of
payload sourcing so the contract consistently states whether it is part of this
design.
- Around line 483-485: Update both references to the KMS plugin section so their
anchors match the current “KMS Plugin Image Sourcing” heading, preserving
consistent navigation without changing the heading or surrounding content.
- Around line 654-658: Update the VaultKMSConfig removal section to explicitly
define how pre-existing kmsPluginImage values in serialized KMSConfig objects
and revisioned encryption secrets are handled, including whether Tech Preview
upgrades are unsupported or specifying migration and last-known-good behavior.
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Overall mechanism looks good to me. Just dropped some comments for clarification.
| - We will remove the kmsPluginImage field from the vault encryption spec for the vault plugin. Future encryption plugin implementations will not include a field that takes an image reference. | ||
| - The KMS encryption configuration fields will remain in the API Server config object in the encryption spec. | ||
| - To source the image reference for the vault plugin, we will query a well known hardcoded provider specific configmap named `ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider` that contains an `image:` field. The value of that image field is the KMS plugin image reference. Future plugins will also map to unique configmap names to ensure that there is no overlap. | ||
| - For all plugins, that configmap will be stored in the `openshift-kms-plugin-provider` namespace. |
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Will all the OLM operators be able to write this namespace, even if they are configured as single namespace?
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or all KMS OLM Operators will run in this namespace?
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Answered in the next bullet point, right? But I had the same question while reading :)
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I think, yes. This is detailed in the sections below.
| - To source the image reference for the vault plugin, we will query a well known hardcoded provider specific configmap named `ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider` that contains an `image:` field. The value of that image field is the KMS plugin image reference. Future plugins will also map to unique configmap names to ensure that there is no overlap. | ||
| - For all plugins, that configmap will be stored in the `openshift-kms-plugin-provider` namespace. | ||
| - For each third party plugin provider, there will be a kms plugin provider operator. The purpose of that operator is only to ensure that the configmap with the correct mapping is created and enforced on the cluster. That operator will run in the `openshift-kms-plugin-provider` namespace in single namespace mode. | ||
| - If the vault kms encryption configuration is defined in the API server config API, the encryption controllers will read the configmap to generate the plugin sidecar. |
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If configmap does not exist (or image field is empty), encryption controllers will detect this and go degraded (no new key is created), until configmap is populated.
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I discussed this further down in the implementation details of the olm managed plugins. But yes, I agree this is the case.
| name: ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider | ||
| namespace: openshift-kms-plugin-provider | ||
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| config.openshift.io/kms-plugin-image: "true" |
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Initially I thought this label is unnecessary. But I think that would be useful to query all the kms plugin images in the cluster.
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Unnecessary as we deduct it from the APIServer CR, right?
Wouldn't it be queryable by kubectl get cm -n openshift-kms-plugin-provider?
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This label is definitely not necessary for the encryption controllers, and you are right that with this design you could just get all configmaps in the namespace. But I am thinking about this label as future proofing. If in the future something is extended in this namespace, it could be useful to find the traditional kms plugin provider configmaps.
| image: registry.example.com/vault-plugin@sha256:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef | ||
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| The encryption controllers watch ConfigMaps matching the `config.openshift.io/kms-plugin-image` label. When the KMS configuration references a provider type whose image is OLM-managed, the encryption controllers read the image reference from the corresponding ConfigMap and include it in the `kms-plugin-config` written to the encryption key secret. |
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I think, it might be better that encryption controllers do not watch that resource. Periodic 1 minute sync should be sufficient to catch any changes.
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include it in the
kms-plugin-configwritten to the encryption key secret.
@bertinatto we used to carry the data in o/api. But now we extend it to carry additional image field (this field won't present in o/api).
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Updated to add clarity here
| - Updating the image reference when the operator is updated (e.g., bug fixes, CVE patches) -- there is a 1:1 relationship between Operator version and plugin version | ||
| - Ensuring the ConfigMap exists when the user enables the KMS provider type | ||
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| If the ConfigMap is missing or does not contain a valid image reference when the user specifies KMS plugin configuration in the encryption spec, the keyController goes degraded with a clear status message indicating which ConfigMap is expected. This tells the user when the encryption controllers cannot find an image for the configured provider type. |
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Key controller can not check the validity of the image. Probably preflight will verify it.
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Updated to add clarity here
| - The KMS encryption configuration fields will remain in the API Server config object in the encryption spec. | ||
| - To source the image reference for the vault plugin, we will query a well known hardcoded provider specific configmap named `ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider` that contains an `image:` field. The value of that image field is the KMS plugin image reference. Future plugins will also map to unique configmap names to ensure that there is no overlap. | ||
| - For all plugins, that configmap will be stored in the `openshift-kms-plugin-provider` namespace. | ||
| - For each third party plugin provider, there will be a kms plugin provider operator. The purpose of that operator is only to ensure that the configmap with the correct mapping is created and enforced on the cluster. That operator will run in the `openshift-kms-plugin-provider` namespace in single namespace mode. |
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Sorry, for putting my "PSA" hat on, but it is not recommended for third-parties to deploy to openshift-* namespaces as they loose the auto-PSA-labeling, no?
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I am imagining that we will create the namespace as part of the CVO perhaps when the openshift-kube-apiserver-operator deploys. OLM actually does not create namespaces for operators to be deployed, it relies on the namespace already existing. There's an openshift console thing that can do it from the UI, but I agree that we shouldn't expect these operator installs to create the namespace. I think the actual requirement inside the operator is that it shouldn't be allowed to run in any other namespace.
| apiVersion: v1 | ||
| kind: ConfigMap | ||
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| name: ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider |
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So technically we will have the image references for multiple different KMS providers to be able to do a kms-to-kms migration.
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Yes, but those will be separate configmaps. Each provider operator would create and sync its own unique configmap with its own name following this convention
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In `@enhancements/kube-apiserver/kms-encryption-foundations.md`:
- Around line 495-497: Clarify the Vault payload example so it does not imply a
universal image source: either use a provider-neutral environment variable or
explicitly state that VaultKMSProvider uses only the OLM-managed ConfigMap,
while preserving the requirement that each provider selects exactly one image
source.
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| - We will remove the kmsPluginImage field from the vault encryption spec for the vault plugin. Future encryption plugin implementations will not include a field that takes an image reference. | ||
| - The KMS encryption configuration fields will remain in the API Server config object in the encryption spec. | ||
| - To source the image reference for the vault plugin, we will query a well known hardcoded provider specific configmap named `ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider` that contains an `image:` field. The value of that image field is the KMS plugin image reference. Future plugins will also map to unique configmap names to ensure that there is no overlap. |
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needles = {
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print("OLM section names Vault ConfigMap:", "ibm-kms-vault-plugin-provider" in olm_text)
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Clarify the payload example for Vault.
Use a provider-neutral environment variable in the payload example, or state that VaultKMSProvider uses only the OLM-managed ConfigMap. Each provider implementation must select one image source.
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In `@enhancements/kube-apiserver/kms-encryption-foundations.md` around lines 495 -
497, Clarify the Vault payload example so it does not imply a universal image
source: either use a provider-neutral environment variable or explicitly state
that VaultKMSProvider uses only the OLM-managed ConfigMap, while preserving the
requirement that each provider selects exactly one image source.
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| image: registry.example.com/vault-plugin@sha256:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef | ||
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| The encryption controllers will periodically sync on ConfigMaps matching the `config.openshift.io/kms-plugin-image` label. When the KMS configuration references a provider type whose image is OLM-managed, the encryption controllers read the image reference from the corresponding ConfigMap and include it in the `kms-plugin-config` written to the encryption key secret. |
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left this in slack too, but just leave a small section on why we're using a CM instead of an api
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| When a KMS plugin is open source and maintained as part of the OpenShift ecosystem, the plugin image is built from source, included in the OpenShift release payload, and referenced by the encryption controllers through the operator's image environment variables (e.g., `RELATED_IMAGE_KMS_VAULT_PLUGIN`). This follows the same pattern used by other payload-managed images in OpenShift — the CVO injects image references into operator deployments, and the operators use those references when building workload pod specs. |
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this is actually not done by CVO, but rather "oc adm release" when rendering the manifests.
There's some mapping magic in the image streams that need to be updated to reflect what image to put into the env variable:
https://github.com/openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator/blob/main/manifests/image-references
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what I wanted to convey: this needs to be configured per operator X per plugin combination. Not sure whether leveraging the above CM approach here would also be easier from a deployment perspective. That way we can just put it into a manifest in KAS-O and we can reuse the same logic.
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