CNTRLPLANE-3740: Add hypershift details for additional identity information sources - #2050
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Overall, I think this looks pretty good. A handful of comments on the open questions.
| ##### Open Question: Compatibility across multiple Kubernetes API Servers | ||
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| At the current state of HyperShift and the CPO v2, it seems like the CPO is baked into the payload, which means that the kube-apiserver version should be on par with CPO | ||
| within a payload. However, there has been discussion of evidence that this is not always true, and that we might still need to maintain compatibility with multiple | ||
| kube-apiserver versions. We need to clarify this before proceeding with decisions on how to manage the API types going forward. |
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I think some of the concern here may stem from the validation we added to prevent invalid KAS configurations where possible since HCP kind of eats KAS rollout failures IIRC.
More specifically: https://github.com/openshift/hypershift/blob/2d2b2d0805d36dcf401fdb5f3d913b9f7984ce42/support/validations/authentication.go#L51-L75
Maybe we ought to try to resolve that TODO in there to help have a more consistent validation pattern with the desired OCP installation version rather than always assuming the lowest possible version.
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Right, I see what you mean -- however I'm now thinking that maybe this is out of scope for this EP, as it's pre-existing in HyperShift and not specific to external claims sourcing. The existing approach would still work respectively with any validations we'd do for the new type anyway.
If you also agree, I'd drop this open question; we should definitely revisit that TODO at some point but that's probably orthogonal to the work we'll do in the context of this EP.
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I think the main thing I'd be concerned about here is whether or not we need to have version awareness in how we generate the configuration based on OCP version compatibility so that we never accidentally attempt to deploy an older oauth-apiserver with the newer configuration.
If we are confident that we do not need to be concerned with any potential version skew here, I think it would at least be worth explicitly documenting why we do not need to be concerned with it.
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@everettraven I've rewritten this question to describe better what my current understanding of versioning between CPO and control plane components is, but also our concerns both with version skew and with validations -- my aim is to get feedback from hypershift folks as well on this topic before we finalize it.
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Aside from one comment, this LGTM
| ##### Open Question: Compatibility across multiple Kubernetes API Servers | ||
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| At the current state of HyperShift and the CPO v2, it seems like the CPO is baked into the payload, which means that the kube-apiserver version should be on par with CPO | ||
| within a payload. However, there has been discussion of evidence that this is not always true, and that we might still need to maintain compatibility with multiple | ||
| kube-apiserver versions. We need to clarify this before proceeding with decisions on how to manage the API types going forward. |
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I think the main thing I'd be concerned about here is whether or not we need to have version awareness in how we generate the configuration based on OCP version compatibility so that we never accidentally attempt to deploy an older oauth-apiserver with the newer configuration.
If we are confident that we do not need to be concerned with any potential version skew here, I think it would at least be worth explicitly documenting why we do not need to be concerned with it.
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| ##### Open Question: Version skew between the CPO and control plane components | ||
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| Our current understanding is that the CPO is baked into the payload alongside the control plane components it configures (kube-apiserver, oauth-apiserver), meaning there is no version skew between them within a given payload. If this holds, the feature gate alone is sufficient to prevent the CPO from generating a configuration that the deployed component cannot understand, and no version-aware generation logic is needed. | ||
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| However, it is not clear whether this is always the case. If a newer CPO could end up deploying an older oauth-apiserver that does not support the new configuration format, we would need version-aware generation logic to avoid deploying incompatible configurations. | ||
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| Additionally, version skew affects admission-time validation: HyperShift currently compiles CEL expressions at admission time using a CEL environment pinned to the minimum supported OCP version, to avoid generating configurations that the target KAS cannot parse. If there is no version skew, validation could use the actual target version instead, reducing false rejections of valid CEL expressions. | ||
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| We would like HyperShift maintainers to confirm whether version skew between the CPO and the components it deploys is a scenario we need to account for. |
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Maybe we can get @sjenning @enxebre or @csrwng to take a look to confirm our understanding here?
I suspect the HyperShift operator validation behavior is going to prove problematic here since there will be different validation based on the fact that the behavior will only be available starting with a specific openshift payload.
i.e We need to make sure we don't perform the new configuration generation and validation for a HostedCluster instance that wouldn't support it anyways.
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At least for now, it is always the case that the CPO minor version corresponds to the OCP minor version that it is operating. The only skew we support is Z release skew when a fix needs to be applied to already-released OCP z releases in managed services.
As you call out, the HyperShift operator validation is tricky because the HO can support HostedClusters of various minor releases at the same time. In these cases where CEL validation is not possible, it should be possible to validate within the operator code and declare a config invalid if it doesn't match an expected OCP minor release.
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WalkthroughThe proposal defines a dedicated external OIDC webhook for HyperShift. It separates operator responsibilities, shares configuration generation, aligns validation, and gates unsupported fields by HostedCluster target version. ChangesHyperShift external OIDC topology
Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer the HyperShift external OIDC guidance because it is a narrow documentation and architecture clarification with no supplied elevated product or external urgency. Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The HyperShift external-claims configuration could reach a control plane during rollout before its CPO and webhook support it, potentially disrupting authentication. Define the required readiness gate before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AuthenticationResource
participant ControlPlaneOperator
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AuthenticationResource->>ControlPlaneOperator: configuration
ControlPlaneOperator->>OIDCWebhook: deploy with AuthenticationConfiguration and secrets
ControlPlaneOperator->>KubeAPIServer: configure external OIDC webhook Service
KubeAPIServer->>OIDCWebhook: identity information request
OIDCWebhook-->>KubeAPIServer: identity information response
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- Around line 582-586: The CPO kube-apiserver configuration generation must
point the webhook authenticator client to the dedicated HyperShift Service when
authentication type is OIDC. Preserve the existing webhook target for all other
authentication modes while retaining the new component, deployment, Service, and
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| Unlike standalone clusters where the existing oauth-apiserver deployment is reconfigured into the new mode, in HyperShift a **new dedicated component** will be deployed for this purpose. The new component uses the oauth-apiserver binary (with its `external-oidc` subcommand) but runs as a separate deployment with its own Service, independent of the existing `openshift-oauth-apiserver` deployment. The existing oauth-apiserver teardown behavior in External OIDC mode is preserved. | ||
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| - Clean separation of concerns: the integrated OAuth functionality and the external OIDC webhook authenticator are fundamentally different functions with different lifecycles. |
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seems this all would apply to standalone as well, why is this separate only in hcp?
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We did consider a similar approach for standalone (i.e. a new standalone component for the webhook); you can read more about it and why we rejected that approach for standalone further down in the enhancement: https://github.com/openshift/enhancements/pull/2050/changes#diff-455fc88e41faf3906c26ee0764767487caf1617122b7f4c827fad831a4f4c0c1R821-R838
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| As part of the CAO implementation of this feature, the CAO uses an [oauth-apiserver generator](https://github.com/openshift/cluster-authentication-operator/blob/28632f237aa003bb191100eabdc46c3e20c1fb49/pkg/controllers/externaloidc/generation/oauthapiserver/generate.go) that produces the oauth-apiserver's `AuthenticationConfiguration` type (including the `externalClaimsSources` fields introduced with this EP). Since both topologies need to generate the same configuration for the new dedicated component, this generator should be extracted to a shared library and reused in HyperShift. |
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this produces externaloidc/apis/authentication/v1alpha1?
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Yes -- I've added some text to clarify.
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| The HyperShift Operator (HO) is a different case: it runs on the management cluster and manages `HostedCluster` resources across multiple OCP minor releases simultaneously. Today, HyperShift pins CEL expression compilation at admission time to the minimum supported OCP version, as a conservative approach to ensure CEL expressions are compatible with the CEL libraries available at the target Kubernetes version. | ||
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| This feature introduces a new dimension to the version-awareness problem: the `externalClaimsSources` configuration fields only exist behind a new feature gate and are not supported by older OCP versions. The HO must therefore validate not just whether CEL expressions compile against a given version's CEL environment, but also whether the target `HostedCluster` version supports the new configuration fields at all. The minimum supported version approach does not cover this -- it would either reject the new fields entirely or accept them for hosted clusters that cannot consume them. The HO will need to version-gate the validation of the authentication configuration based on the target `HostedCluster` version. |
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he HO will need to version-gate the validation of the authentication configuration based on the target
HostedClusterversion.
can we be flesh out how this will be implemented?
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Based on other examples I've seen, it would roughly look like this:
- HO already knows the target OCP version of each
HostedClusterfrom.spec.release - if that version is older than the one introducing the
ExternalOIDCExternalClaimsSourcingfeature gate, the HO will reject any config that includesexternalClaimsSourcesfields with an error
I'll try to add some code to demonstrate this in the respective POC for reference.
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@enxebre I've pushed some code in my POC to demonstrate how we'd implement this. Basically, the POC adds validation in HO before propagating authentication configuration to the HCP:
- HO resolves the target control plane version from release metadata, honoring
spec.controlPlaneRelease, and requires 5.1+ with the external claims sourcing feature gate enabled. - Shared HO/CPO validation checks external source URLs, authentication settings, mappings, and predicates, including CEL compilation with the appropriate variables.
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ValidConfigurationand blocks propagation. Release lookup failures leave validationUnknownand trigger a retry. - For now, the POC implements the webhook’s validation rules locally because its validator depends on Kubernetes APIs unavailable in HyperShift’s current dependencies.
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I've also done some small text adjustments to explain this a bit better.
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| The CPO minor version always corresponds to the OCP minor version it operates on. The only supported skew is at the Z-release level (for backported fixes in managed services), which does not affect feature-level configuration changes. This means the feature gate alone is sufficient to prevent the CPO from generating a configuration that the deployed component cannot understand, and no version-aware generation logic is needed within the CPO. | ||
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| The HyperShift Operator (HO) is a different case: it runs on the management cluster and manages `HostedCluster` resources across multiple OCP minor releases simultaneously. Today, HyperShift pins CEL expression compilation at admission time to the minimum supported OCP version, as a conservative approach to ensure CEL expressions are compatible with the CEL libraries available at the target Kubernetes version. |
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fwiw o/hypershift has envtest to validate CEL expressions back to the minimum management cluster supported
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| There is currently a difference in how HyperShift and Standalone validate the generated configuration. CAO does inline validation during generation (CEL expression compilation, `email_verified` enforcement, SA issuer URL overlap check, CA cert reachability), while HyperShift defers to upstream `ValidateAuthenticationConfiguration`. Where possible, CAO should be aligned with HyperShift and rely on the upstream validations provided by the components being configured (both the KAS and the oauth-apiserver validate their own configuration). This reduces duplicated validation logic and ensures both topologies are consistent. | ||
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Keep pre-persistence validation.
externalOIDCController.sync applies auth-config only after the generator succeeds. If the shared generator delegates validation to the components, invalid configuration may be persisted before component rejection. Preserve equivalent checks for CEL compilation, email_verified, issuer overlap, and CA reachability.
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externalOIDCController.sync and the shared configuration generator so invalid
configurations are rejected before auth-config is applied. Retain equivalent
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| Before propagating authentication configuration to the `HostedControlPlane`, HO resolves the target control plane version from release metadata, using `spec.controlPlaneRelease.image` when set and otherwise `spec.release.image`. External claims sourcing requires a target release that supports the feature and the `ExternalOIDCExternalClaimsSourcing` feature gate enabled in the feature set passed to CPO. The minimum supported release will be determined before the feature is introduced. Unsupported or invalid configuration sets `ValidConfiguration=False` and blocks propagation. Release metadata lookup or version parsing failures set `ValidConfiguration=Unknown` and cause reconciliation to retry. | ||
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| Upgrade sequencing also remains to be defined: a supported target release does not mean the running control plane already supports the configuration. Configuration requiring the new feature must only reach the component once the running CPO and webhook support it. |
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Define upgrade sequencing before propagation.
A supported target release does not prove that the running CPO and dedicated webhook support externalClaimsSources. Define a readiness or observed-version gate that blocks HyperShift Operator propagation until both components support the feature. Otherwise, a rolling upgrade can apply unsupported authentication configuration and cause an authentication outage.
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