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feat(operator): metrics over TLS, authenticated EPP scraping, quieter logs, stub collection, and a site phase metric - #278

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This PR also carries #273, certificate rotation for site identities, which merged with it. Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D8fQfDyzNCAPAxPntwO7OOfRaq_r92QJsc3oSOKyZXo/edit?tab=t.0

Operator changes for running a grid in production and watching it. The metrics port serves TLS, the operator can scrape an EPP that requires a bearer token, reconcile passes log only what changed, departed auto-discovered GridSites are collected, and each GridSite's phase is a metric. Five commits, one per change below.

What changed

  • Metrics and health over TLS: the operator serves its metrics and health port over TLS when given a certificate and key, reloads it on change, and caps connections at 128. metrics.tls.enabled defaults to auto, which turns TLS on where OpenShift runs. metrics.tls.source picks existingSecret, the OpenShift service CA, or the site identity once the site enrolls. Probes and the ServiceMonitor follow the port, and the ServiceMonitor scrapes every 30s with a 10s timeout. On OpenShift a NetworkPolicy admits only the monitoring namespaces to the metrics port, and opens SWIM, plus the signals port when signals are on, to peers. Elsewhere no NetworkPolicy is rendered, so that port has no authentication unless you add one. Under siteIdentity the port listens only after enrollment, so the scrape target is down until then.
  • Authenticated EPP scraping: metricsConfig.auth {type: serviceAccountToken} sends a token for a dedicated metrics scraper ServiceAccount that may only get /metrics. The operator mints it with TokenRequest for 600 seconds, bound to the operator pod, reuses it until two thirds of its lifetime, and never logs it or sends its own token. After a failed mint with no valid token held, scrapes fail at once for 30 seconds instead of each waiting on the API server. A credential goes only to a host proven by the CA metricsConfig.tls names. tls.caConfigMapRef reads the CA from a ConfigMap such as the platform service CA, and the CRD admits exactly one of caSecretRef and caConfigMapRef. The chart creates the scraper ServiceAccount and its RBAC (rbac.metricsScraper, default true).
  • Quieter logs: seeds drop this node's own address, so the hub no longer announces to itself, and SWIM data carrying this node's identity warns once (it then most likely means two sites share an identity). A pass with nothing new logs nothing at INFO, and per-pass reconcile lines move to debug. An unchanged consumer config neither writes nor logs.
  • Provider status: an InferenceProvider with an empty siteSelector now lists only this site in status.matchingSites, when the install names the site (GRID_SWIM_SITE_NAME, read once) and that site is in the provider's network, and status.matchingSites holds site IDs rather than GridSite object names. Dashboards or tests that read it shift.
  • Stub collection: when gossip stops vouching for an auto-discovered GridSite, the operator records status.absentSince and deletes the stub once it has been absent 24 hours, independent of staleCandidateTtlSeconds, with uid and resourceVersion preconditions. The 256-site discovery cap counts only live stubs. Nothing is judged absent in the first gossip verification window after startup. A pass that would delete more than half the stubs and more than 8, or every stub of several, deletes none. Declared GridSites are never collected.
  • Site phase metric: grid_site_phase{site,phase} is a state set shaped like kube_pod_status_phase, 1 for the current phase and 0 for the other five, set from the GridSites the GridNetwork reconcile already lists. A site is ready when phase="Active" is 1. A removed GridSite drops its series, and the series clear when the sites cannot be listed or no reconcile has refreshed them in 15 minutes.

This version has no upgrade path from earlier ones; reinstall. The chart README lists the metrics TLS changes.

Testing

  • Operator unit tests cover the TLS listener and reload, token minting and reuse, the TLS and plaintext refusals, both CA sources, seed filtering, change-only logging, matchingSites, stub marking, collection, the startup window and the brake, and phase transitions and removal for the metric.
  • Helm unit tests cover each TLS source, the probes, the ServiceMonitor, the NetworkPolicy, the scraper ServiceAccount and RBAC, and delete on gridsites.
  • verify-helm-chart passes.

Certificate rotation (from #273)

Adds automatic certificate rotation for site identities under spiffe peer trust. A site rotates its certificate for a new key before it expires, with no new invite. The grid CA does not rotate. Today a certificate lasts 30 days and is replaced by hand.

  • A site rotates over mutual TLS with its current certificate. Certificates last 180 days and rotate when a third of the lifetime remains. Existing certificates move to 180 days at their first rotation.
  • The hub rotates the same way, from a record the bootstrap signs with the grid CA key.
  • The enrollment service keeps each site's current and previous key and freezes a site when two parties hold its key. A grid admin can read an enrollment, or delete it to release the name for a new invite.
  • After a rotation the operator restarts the gateway, because the gateway reads its client certificate only at start. This needs patch on the gateway Deployment, granted only while rotation is on.
  • Sites using pin peer trust do not rotate, because peers pin the certificate. They re-enroll before the certificate expires (feat: rotate a site identity under pin trust #274 tracks rotation under pin).
  • Rotation can be turned off for the grid on grid-enrollment, or for one site on grid-operator, with enrollment.rotation.enabled=false. Current certificates stay valid until they expire.
  • The bootstrap refuses to create a new grid CA when one is already in use, so a lost CA key cannot silently split the grid.
  • Enrollment errors are a fixed list of codes in the API spec, and every 503 carries Retry-After. The rotation endpoint is /v1alpha1/rotations.
  • The operator starts in the grid modes its chart values declare (grid.signals, grid.peerTrust) before its GridNetwork exists, so a poll install no longer restarts once when the network appears.

Testing for rotation:

  • Unit and Postgres tests, plus a property test that runs 20,000 random sequences of enroll, rotate, lost responses, cloned keys, restores, and deletes.
  • The hub-site e2e gains a rotation leg with 8 minute certificates: hub and site each rotate twice, gateway traffic from hub to site and peer polls in both directions succeed across every rotation, a cloned key freezes the site, and delete plus a new invite re-enrolls it. The pin leg asserts that rotation stays off.

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  • New Features
    • Added automatic site identity rotation for eligible sites, with certificate status details and gateway updates. Site certificates now default to a 180-day lifetime.
    • Added enrollment status and deletion for authorized admins, enrollment rotation controls, and reserved-site enrollment support.
    • Added configurable TLS for metrics and health endpoints, bearer-token authentication for metrics scraping, and configurable NetworkPolicies.
    • Added ConfigMap CA references for provider TLS settings and metrics showing each site’s current phase.
    • Added cleanup of stale auto-discovered sites after 24 hours.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded guidance on TLS, authentication, network access, enrollment, rotation, and site cleanup.

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This pull request adds site identity rotation and enrollment administration, metrics TLS and authenticated EPP scraping, ConfigMap CA trust, and cleanup of stale auto-discovered sites. It also updates operator startup modes, status metrics, Helm configuration, tests, and documentation.

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Enrollment and identity rotation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Enrollment API and renewal state
api/enrollment-v1alpha1.yaml, enrollment/src/api.rs, enrollment/src/generated.rs, enrollment/src/store*, enrollment/db/schema/*, certs/src/*
The API adds renewal, enrollment lookup, and enrollment deletion. Stores track renewal keys, certificate expiry, reserved records, and frozen states. Certificate helpers support signed seeds and identity verification.
Bootstrap and reserved-site seeds
enrollment/src/bootstrap.rs, enrollment/src/ca.rs, enrollment/src/seed.rs, enrollment/src/tls.rs, enrollment/src/main.rs, charts/grid-enrollment/templates/*
Bootstrap validates CA and identity Secrets, registers hub identity keys through signed seeds, and refuses unsafe CA replacements. The enrollment service loads reserved seeds and supports mutual-TLS identity renewal.
Operator renewal and chart wiring
operator/src/enroll/*, operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs, operator/src/main.rs, charts/grid-operator/templates/*, scripts/e2e-hub-site.sh
The operator renews eligible site identities, retains the previous certificate, and rolls the gateway Deployment. Chart settings and RBAC configure rotation; integration tests cover renewal and recovery.

Metrics TLS and scraper authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metrics TLS and chart configuration
operator/src/metrics_tls.rs, operator/src/main.rs, operator/src/resources/tls_backend.rs, charts/grid-operator/templates/*, charts/grid-operator/values.*
The operator serves metrics over TLS with file- or Secret-sourced certificates and reloads changed material. Helm configures TLS sources, HTTPS probes, ServiceMonitor TLS, scraper RBAC, and conditional NetworkPolicy rules.
Authenticated EPP scraping
operator/src/metrics_token.rs, operator/src/metrics_scraper.rs, operator/src/resources/provider_metrics.rs, charts/grid-operator/templates/metrics-scraper.yaml, operator/src/crd/inference_provider.rs
The chart creates a restricted scraper ServiceAccount. The operator mints and caches short-lived tokens and sends them as bearer credentials when the configured transport policy allows it.

ConfigMap CA trust sources

Layer / File(s) Summary
CA contracts and resolution
operator/src/crd/inference_provider.rs, operator/src/resources/endpoint_tls.rs, operator/src/resources/secret.rs, operator/src/resources/mcp_probe.rs, charts/grid-operator/templates/crds/*, deploy/crds/*
TLS configurations accept exactly one Secret or ConfigMap CA reference. The operator reads the selected key and maps missing resources or keys to TLS failure results.

GridSite discovery and operator runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Site absence tracking and metrics
operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs, operator/src/crd/grid_site.rs, operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs, operator/src/metrics.rs, deploy/crds/*
The controller tracks when gossip stops vouching for auto-discovered stubs and conditionally deletes them after 24 hours. It adds identity status and per-site phase metrics.
Startup modes and SWIM behavior
operator/src/cli.rs, operator/src/main.rs, operator/src/swim_runtime.rs, operator/src/controller/inference_provider.rs, swim/src/node.rs
The operator accepts configured startup modes and site names, passes the local site to provider placement, filters local addresses from SWIM seeds, and limits repeated self-identity warnings.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1b445

The change adds metrics TLS, identity rotation and stale-site cleanup. A few small documentation and status inaccuracies from earlier review remain open and should be settled, but none is likely to cause serious failure. This is mergeable with owner follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1b445

Authentication and signed bootstrap controls constrain the new administrative paths. The main design risks concern identity recovery: deleting an enrollment does not retire its issued certificates, and a repeated deletion can remove a newly recovered enrollment. These require privileged administration or possession of an existing site key; unauthenticated exploitation was not established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new fork-recovery flow releases a site name for re-enrollment without retiring previously issued certificates. A holder of an old private key can retain a cryptographically valid identity until certificate expiry at consumers relying on CA and site-name verification. The API documents this behavior, and renewal-state checks constrain subsequent rotation, but complete downstream rejection of retired identities was not established.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A deletion retried after a lost response can remove a replacement enrollment created during recovery: the mutation targets only the site name, not the enrollment ID or generation. Database atomicity and the memory-store lock prevent partial row deletion, but neither distinguishes the retired enrollment from its replacement. This can erase the recovered identity's renewal state and interrupt security recovery; enrollment-admin authority is required.
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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — A configured enrollment administrator can delete ordinary enrollment records throughout the enrollment namespace. Bootstrap holds CA-signing authority and configured cross-namespace Secret-management authority. The inspected permissions do not establish access to unrelated namespaces or environments.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A holder of an old site private key may retain that site's identity after administrative deletion and re-enrollment wherever acceptance depends only on the still-valid CA-signed certificate and site name. The new recovery workflow creates this overlap; the certificate-validity contract alone is not a newly verified vulnerability. Complete peer admission, application authorization, and downstream retirement checks remain unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Unsigned, malformed, non-reserved, and older-generation seeds do not authorize reserved enrollment changes. Enrollment consumes the configured seed through a read-only projected Secret; the inspected enrollment ServiceAccount permissions provide authentication delegation rather than Secret API access.
  • observed — Rotation requires a peer certificate verified against the current CA and its claimed site name, followed by stored key-lifecycle checks. Missing or frozen records are refused, and previous-key retries are limited to re-signing the recorded current key rather than unrestricted rotation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Enrollment deletion is atomically applied but not bound to an expected incarnation. Repetition after successful recovery can therefore delete the replacement enrollment and remove its renewal eligibility, even though the caller remains properly authorized.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind administrative deletion to an expected enrollment ID or generation so a delayed request cannot delete a replacement incarnation. Preserve retry outcomes for the targeted incarnation without mutating a newer one.
  • proposed — Define a retirement policy for fork recovery that accounts for already-issued identities, using enforced revocation or incarnation checks, or an explicitly accepted and bounded certificate-overlap window. Record deletion should not be treated operationally as credential revocation.
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Review comments at @charts/grid-operator/README.md:
- Line 202: Update the `health.startup.failureThreshold` table description to
hyphenate “15-minute enrollment deadline”; leave the rest of the description
unchanged.

Review comments at @charts/grid-operator/templates/crds/agenttoolprovider.yaml:
- Line 145: Represent the CA choice in the shared Rust TLS type as a serde enum
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Review comments at @charts/grid-operator/tests/metrics_tls_test.yaml:
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site-identity case that sets enrollment.enabled, enrollment.siteName, and
serviceMonitor.enabled, then asserts the rendered tlsConfig.serverName uses the
enrollment site identity. Keep the existing swim.siteName test intact.

Review comments at @charts/grid-operator/values.yaml:
- Around line 237-238: Update the `tlsConfig` comment to document all
empty-value behaviors: the service CA is used by default, `siteIdentity` uses
the grid CA, and `existingSecret` causes rendering to fail. Align the wording
with the README.

Review comments at @docs/architecture/crds.md:
- Around line 738-743: Update the token lifetime in the EPP documentation to 10
minutes to match TOKEN_LIFETIME; keep the existing description of token reuse
and refresh behavior.

Review comments at @operator/src/controller/inference_provider.rs:
- Line 654: Update hosting_sites so the local-site branch returns a match only
when the local ID appears among the filtered sites; otherwise return no matches.
Add a test for a configured local site absent from the filtered sites.

Review comments at @operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs:
- Around line 703-709: Correct the `staleCandidateTtlSeconds` documentation to
say auto-discovered `GridSite` stubs are collected after a fixed 24 hours,
regardless of this field. Apply this wording in
`operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs` lines 703-709, then regenerate the CRD
documentation in `charts/grid-operator/templates/crds/gridnetwork.yaml` lines
477-483 and `deploy/crds/gridnetwork.yaml` lines 469-475. In
`deploy/operator/cluster-role-crd.yaml` lines 13-14, replace the reference to
`staleCandidateTtlSeconds` with wording that states stubs are absent from gossip
for 24 hours.

Review comments at @operator/src/resources/endpoint_tls.rs:
- Line 199: Update the standalone RBAC guidance associated with the CA ConfigMap
access used by read_config_map_bytes to include tls.caConfigMapRef.namespace in
the list of namespaces requiring a RoleBinding; leave the existing namespace
references unchanged.

Review comments at @operator/src/swim_runtime.rs:
- Line 2808: Add explanatory failure messages to the seed-filter assert_eq!
calls for both the mixed-seed case and the self-only case in the relevant test,
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Review comments at @api/enrollment-v1alpha1.yaml:
- Around line 461-477: Remove the enum from the Error.error schema in the
enrollment API specification so generated clients accept unrecognized
machine-readable codes. Keep the field’s string type and description, and rely
on the existing description table for known codes.

Review comments at @deploy/crds/gridnetwork.yaml:
- Line 758: Add an enum to the CRD schema for identity.reason that permits only
IdentityExpired and IdentityUnreadable, while keeping the field optional so
healthy identities can omit it.

Review comments at @docs/architecture/signals.md:
- Around line 33-35: Update the trust-change description in the “poll” and
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“poll” exits the operator, “pin” stops renewal, and only a trust change under
“gossip” avoids restarting the operator.

Review comments at @docs/installation/enrollment.md:
- Line 227: Update the `kubectl` hub log command in the enrollment guide to use
the `grid-enrollment` namespace where Step 1 installs the chart, so it can
access the deployment's logs.

Review comments at @operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs:
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`renews` only when this operator has rotation enabled and
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and the message tells the operator to re-enroll before `notAfter`.

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port-forward or metrics scrape fails, regardless of shell pipefail settings, and
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🟡 Minor · Report disabled SPIFFE renewal separately from pin trust. · grid_network.rs:2823-2829

operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs:2823-2829
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report disabled SPIFFE renewal separately from pin trust.

When SPIFFE trust is active but operator renewal is disabled or Settings::from_config fails, the status call passes false to this branch. It then tells operators to re-enroll and re-pin, although the recovery docs say to enable rotation before notAfter (or re-enroll if rotation remains off). Pass trust mode separately from renewal availability. Keep the re-enroll/re-pin message for pin trust, and direct SPIFFE operators to enable or repair rotation before expiry.

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@@
     let grid_id = resolve_grid_id(&network);
+    let modes = GridModes::of(&network);
     let identity = site_identity_status(
         &network,
         client,
         time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
-        ctx.rotation && GridModes::of(&network).renews(),
+        ctx.rotation && modes.renews(),
+        modes.trust == PeerTrustMode::Pin,
     )
@@
 async fn site_identity_status(
     network: &GridNetwork,
     client: &Client,
     now: time::OffsetDateTime,
     renews: bool,
+    pin_trust: bool,
 ) -> Option<SiteIdentityStatus> {
@@
-        .and_then(|pem| identity_status(&pem, now, renews));
+        .and_then(|pem| identity_status(&pem, now, renews, pin_trust));
@@
-fn identity_status(cert_pem: &str, now: time::OffsetDateTime, renews: bool) -> Option<SiteIdentityStatus> {
+fn identity_status(
+    cert_pem: &str,
+    now: time::OffsetDateTime,
+    renews: bool,
+    pin_trust: bool,
+) -> Option<SiteIdentityStatus> {
@@
         } else if renews {
             String::new()
-        } else {
+        } else if pin_trust {
             "rotation is off under pin peer trust: re-enroll and re-pin this site before notAfter".to_owned()
+        } else {
+            "site identity rotation is off; enable or repair operator rotation before notAfter".to_owned()
         },
@@
-        let pinned = identity_status(&leaf.cert_pem, time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc(), false).expect("status");
+        let pinned = identity_status(&leaf.cert_pem, time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc(), false, true).expect("status");
@@
         assert!(pinned.message.contains("re-pin"), "names the manual step");
+
+        let spiffe_without_rotation =
+            identity_status(&leaf.cert_pem, time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc(), false, false).expect("status");
+        assert!(
+            spiffe_without_rotation.message.contains("enable or repair"),
+            "names the renewal recovery"
+        );
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Review comment at @operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs around lines 2823 -
2829:
Update the site identity status flow to pass peer trust mode separately from
renewal availability: use GridModes at the status call and carry the trust
distinction through site_identity_status to identity_status. Keep the
re-enroll/re-pin guidance for pin trust, and direct SPIFFE operators with
unavailable renewal to enable or repair rotation before expiry.
🟡 Minor · Correct the GridSite cleanup timing in the architecture guide. · crds.md:234-241

docs/architecture/crds.md:234-241
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Correct the GridSite cleanup timing in the architecture guide.

The guide says staleCandidateTtlSeconds controls when auto-discovered GridSite stubs are deleted. The controller uses a fixed 24-hour TTL instead. Operators who change this setting to control stub cleanup will not change its timing. Correct this paragraph in the architecture guide only; the Rust CRD and generated CRDs already describe the fixed TTL.

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-With site auto discovery on, the same TTL bounds auto-discovered GridSites. When
+With site auto discovery on, a separate fixed 24-hour TTL bounds auto-discovered
+GridSites, independent of `staleCandidateTtlSeconds`. When
 gossip stops vouching for a stub's site (any SWIM state but `Dead`), the operator
 records `status.absentSince` and clears it if the site returns. Once that is at
-least `N` seconds old, the stub is deleted and no longer counts against the
+least 24 hours old, the stub is deleted and no longer counts against the
 256-site discovery cap. The delete is conditional on the object being unchanged,
 so a site that rejoins first keeps its stub. Declared GridSites are never deleted.
-With the TTL absent, stubs use a 24-hour default, so the cap always drains; the
-overlay still keeps stale candidates.
+Stubs use this fixed TTL whether or not `staleCandidateTtlSeconds` is set; the
+overlay still keeps stale candidates when that field is absent.
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Review comment at @docs/architecture/crds.md around lines 234 - 241:
Update the GridSite cleanup paragraph in the architecture guide to state that
stub deletion uses a separate fixed 24-hour TTL, independent of
staleCandidateTtlSeconds. Replace the configurable N-second timing and remove
the claim that the field’s absence selects a 24-hour default; clarify that this
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- Around line 234-241: Update the GridSite cleanup paragraph in the architecture
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of staleCandidateTtlSeconds. Replace the configurable N-second timing and remove
the claim that the field’s absence selects a 24-hour default; clarify that this
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Review comments at @operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs:
- Around line 2823-2829: Update the site identity status flow to pass peer trust
mode separately from renewal availability: use GridModes at the status call and
carry the trust distinction through site_identity_status to identity_status.
Keep the re-enroll/re-pin guidance for pin trust, and direct SPIFFE operators
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LGTM, nice cleanup 🙏

…rk exists

An operator installed before its GridNetwork started in gossip, then
restarted into poll when the network appeared. The chart now passes
grid.signals and grid.peerTrust, and with no GridNetwork the operator
starts in those modes, so a fresh install never restarts.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
POST /v1alpha1/renewals authenticates the site by the grid certificate it
presents over mutual TLS and signs a CSR for a new key under the same name.
The listener requests a client certificate without requiring one, so
enroll is unchanged. The record keeps the replaced key so a renewal whose
response was lost can retry. A reserved name, issued by bootstrap with no
token, gets its record on first renewal, and a newer bootstrap leaf
supersedes it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
…te an enrollment

A reserved name's record comes only from a seed bootstrap signs with the CA
key, so the service registers the hub without trusting the first leaf that
renews. A replaced key asking for any key but the current one means two
parties hold the identity, and the record freezes.

A grid-admin reads a site's record with GET /v1alpha1/enrollments/{siteName}
(state, key digests, notAfter) and deletes it with DELETE, which ends
renewal and releases the name. enrollment.renewal.enabled=false refuses
every renewal with 503. Error codes are a closed set in the spec, and every
503 carries Retry-After.

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…hub identity with a mismatched key

When the CA key Secret was lost, the next bootstrap minted a fresh CA and
overwrote the bundle, splitting the grid across two CAs. Bootstrap now
decides the CA once, before it writes anything, and mints only when no CA
is distributed. It fails naming the recovery when the key is gone or does
not match. Only ca.forceRegenerate starts a new grid CA. A placeholder hub
identity is replaced only if unchanged since bootstrap read it, an identity
whose tls.key does not match its certificate is issued again, and a hub seed
that names another key is signed again.

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A 30-day leaf renewing at a third remaining expires after about 10 days
without the hub. 180 days renews around day 120 and leaves about 60. A
renewed leaf takes the service's lifetime when it is issued, so existing
30-day leaves move to 180 days at their first renewal.

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…he gateway after

When a third of the lifetime remains, the operator presents the current
certificate to the enrollment service and writes the renewed certificate
and key into the same Secret. It stores the new key before sending, so a
lost response retries with the key the service recorded, and rechecks soon
after a renewal so the next is scheduled from the new leaf. GridNetwork
status.identity reports the expiry, and an expired or unreadable identity
is Degraded.

Renewal follows the GridNetwork's declared peer trust on every check and is
off under pin, because a pinned peer refuses a renewed leaf. The gateway
loads its client certificate only at start, so after a renewal the operator
rolls the gateway Deployment. The chart grants patch on that one Deployment
while renewal is on. The operator also self-signs a grid CA only when both
TLS Secrets are absent and never overwrites one.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
A deterministic model drives enroll, renew, lost responses, cloned keys,
database restores, enrollment deletes, hub seeds, and CA key loss over a
simulated clock. After every step it checks that no two keys renew one
site, that a frozen site recovers through the documented steps, and that
the grid CA never changes without a deliberate regeneration.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
Covers the renewal flow and recovery, the 180-day lifetime, why pin trust
does not renew, the gateway roll, reading and deleting an enrollment, and
turning renewal off.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
With RENEWAL_LIFETIME set, the spiffe leg issues short-lived site
certificates and polls signals, then asserts that the hub and the site each
renew twice with an advancing notBefore and one INFO per renewal, that both
gateway mutual TLS paths and peer polls answer across every rotation, that
each gateway rolls onto its current leaf, that a replaced leaf asking for a
new key freezes the site, and that a grid-admin delete and a new invite
re-enroll it. The pin leg asserts that renewal stays off. NET_PREFIX runs
calls to LoadBalancer addresses through a rootless podman network.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
Every user-facing surface says rotation: the enrollment.rotation.enabled value, env vars, the /v1alpha1/rotations endpoint, the rotation_disabled code, status.identity.rotateAfter and rotatedAt, the rotations metric, logs, and docs.

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…compares to

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…t be read

The gauge kept the last good notAfter, so an alert never fired on broken identity material.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
…red trust

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
…ake rotation when the declared trust changes

With no GridNetwork the rotation loop assumed spiffe trust, ignoring the
install's grid.peerTrust, and it re-read the declared trust only at its next
check, up to an hour later. It now applies the install's modes until a
GridNetwork exists, and the GridNetwork reconcile wakes it when the declared
trust changes, so rotation stops and says so as soon as pin is declared.

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…id ships

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…ll as mint tokens

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…hich now guard enrollments too

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…heck

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…erTrust

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…perator rolls

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Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
The metrics and health listener serves TLS from the OpenShift service CA, the
site identity, or an existing Secret, reloading on change. The chart wires the
ServiceMonitor scheme, CA, server name and default interval and timeout, and on
OpenShift a NetworkPolicy admits only monitoring to the metrics port and SWIM,
plus signals when enabled, to peers.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
…ics scraper

The operator scrapes an EPP that requires a bearer token with a short-lived
token minted for a dedicated scraper ServiceAccount and bound to the operator
Pod. A credential goes only over https to a host proven by a named CA, from a
Secret or a ConfigMap, exactly one of which the CRD admits.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
INFO logs only what changed, the operator never announces to itself, and data
carrying this node's identity warns once. The site name is read once, and an
unplaced provider is hosted only by the local site when that site is in its
network.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
Auto-discovered GridSite stubs that gossip stops vouching for are deleted after
a fixed 24 hours, after a verification window, with a brake against collecting
every stub at once. Declared GridSites are never deleted.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
…te set

grid_site_phase{site,phase} is 1 for the current phase and 0 for the other five,
like kube_pod_status_phase. Series clear when sites cannot be listed or no
reconcile refreshes them.

Signed-off-by: Sam Batschelet <sbatsche@redhat.com>
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