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Enhancement Proposal

Managed Ingress DNS for AWS Hosted Control Planes (RFE-9235 / OCPSTRAT-3616).

Enables the HyperShift CPO to create and reconcile Route53 DNS zones for AWS hosted control planes, removing the requirement that all DNS zones be pre-created externally. Annotation-gated with no behavioral change for existing clusters.

Key changes

  • Auto-create .hypershift.local zone when not provided (aligns AWS with Azure/GCP)
  • Annotation-gated managed ingress DNS zones with in. prefix for ACME challenge delegation
  • DNSEndpoint CR creation for NS delegation via external-dns (when deployed)
  • New AWSDNSZoneStatus and AWSManagedDNSAvailable condition for observability

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  • New Features
    • Added optional managed DNS support for AWS hosted control planes.
    • Automatically creates and manages local HyperShift DNS zones and, when enabled, ingress DNS zones.
    • Supports ACME DNS delegation and optional external DNS integration.
    • Displays managed zone IDs, names, nameservers, and availability status in cluster status.
    • Existing clusters retain current behavior unless managed ingress DNS is explicitly enabled.

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Summary

  • Enable the HyperShift CPO to create and reconcile Route53 DNS zones for AWS hosted control planes
  • Removes the requirement that all DNS zones be pre-created externally
  • Annotation-gated (hypershift.openshift.io/managed-ingress-dns) with no behavioral change for existing clusters
  • Auto-creates .hypershift.local zone when not provided (aligns AWS with Azure/GCP)
  • Creates ACME DNS01 challenge delegation CNAME for service-side certificate generation
  • Optionally creates DNSEndpoint CR for NS delegation via external-dns

Test plan

  • Unit tests with mock Route53 client
  • Envtest for CEL validation on new status types
  • E2e testing via existing e2e-aws suite

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Walkthrough

The enhancement proposal defines provisional Route53 DNS management for AWS hosted control planes. It covers local and ingress zones, ACME delegation, status reporting, cleanup, IAM permissions, validation, and operations.

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AWS managed DNS

Layer / File(s) Summary
DNS contracts and reconciliation
enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md
Defines the managed-DNS annotation, zone status types, AWS status fields, conditions, supported topologies, local-zone creation, annotation-gated ingress zones, ACME CNAME delegation, and optional DNSEndpoint resources.
AWS access and lifecycle
enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md
Defines Route53 and EC2 IAM permissions, ownership tags, cleanup ordering, failure handling, retry behavior, upgrade and downgrade behavior, and version-skew handling.
Validation and operations
enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md
Defines unit, envtest, and end-to-end validation, graduation criteria, monitoring, support procedures, and recovery actions.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 005ec

The proposal adds annotation-gated AWS DNS reconciliation with several bounded documentation clarifications around naming, status conditions, persistence ordering, and version-skew behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal owner follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HostedCluster
  participant CPO
  participant Route53
  participant ExternalDNS
  HostedCluster->>CPO: Set managed-ingress-dns annotation
  CPO->>Route53: Reconcile local and ingress DNS zones
  CPO->>Route53: Create ACME delegation records
  CPO->>ExternalDNS: Create optional DNSEndpoint resources
  Route53-->>CPO: Return zone IDs and nameservers
  CPO-->>HostedCluster: Report DNS status and availability condition
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291-300: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Expand the test plan around failure and compatibility paths.

Add tests for stable CallerReference retries, foreign-zone collisions, local-zone cleanup, IAM policy validation, missing or misconfigured external-dns, Route53 PENDING to INSYNC transitions, parent NS removal, and old/new CRD version skew.

The current plan covers the main happy paths but not the failure modes introduced by this proposal.

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In `@enhancements/hypershift/aws-managed-ingress-dns.md` around lines 291 - 300,
Add the missing failure and compatibility scenarios to the test plan: stable
CallerReference retries, foreign-zone collisions, local-zone cleanup, IAM policy
validation, missing or misconfigured external-dns, Route53 PENDING-to-INSYNC
transitions, parent NS removal, and old/new CRD version skew. Keep the existing
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326-327: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Define a stable Route53 idempotency key.

The proposal calls zone creation idempotent but does not define a stable CallerReference. A retry after a lost response can create an orphaned or duplicate zone.

Derive the value deterministically from the cluster UID and zone type. Persist it. Test the lost-response case. AWS documents CallerReference as the retry identity for CreateHostedZone. (docs.aws.amazon.com)


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Make external-dns support an explicit capability contract.

A deployed external-dns instance may not watch the CRD source, the CPO namespace, or NS records. It may also lack credentials for the parent zone.

Require explicit configuration for the CRD source, API version, NS in managed record types, parent-zone filtering, namespace scope, and cross-account permissions. Otherwise use the consuming-platform fallback. ExternalDNS documents these configuration requirements. (kubernetes-sigs.github.io)


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Do not derive DNS readiness from DNSEndpoint.status.

DNSEndpoint.status reports the observed generation. It does not prove that external-dns updated the parent Route53 records. Route53 hosted-zone creation also starts in PENDING before its NS and SOA records become available. (kubernetes-sigs.github.io)

When external-dns is absent, AWSManagedDNSAvailable becomes true before consuming-platform NS delegation. This conflicts with the instruction to gate certificate requests on that condition.

Use separate conditions, or keep the readiness condition false until Route53 and parent-zone DNS checks confirm delegation.

Also applies to: 257-259


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Replace the unsupported tag-based IAM scope.

Route53 does not support tag-based condition keys, so aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed cannot enforce the listed resource scope. CreateHostedZone also has no tag field; tagging requires a separate ChangeTagsForResource call. (docs.aws.amazon.com)

Add tag-management permissions if tags are used for discovery. Scope operations with exact hosted-zone ARNs and supported Route53 record-condition keys. Otherwise reconciliation will fail, or broad permissions may allow changes to unrelated zones.


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Verify the version-skew claim against the CRD schemas.

An older HostedCluster or HostedControlPlane CRD can prune status fields that are absent from its OpenAPI schema. Older typed writers can also drop fields during full-status updates. Kubernetes preserves unknown fields only when the schema explicitly enables that behavior. (kubernetes.io)

Do not rely on generic status copying without verifying served and stored schemas, conversion behavior, and full-status writes. Add a downgrade test with old CRDs and operators, or require coordinated rollout.

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Inline comments:
In `@enhancements/hypershift/aws-managed-ingress-dns.md`:
- Line 28: Update the documentation wording to hyphenate the compound adjectives
as “AWS-hosted control planes” and “Route53-hosted zones,” preserving the
existing meaning and opt-in behavior description.
- Around line 68-70: Update the local-zone creation and discovery flow to
persist per-zone ownership and cleanup policy alongside IngressDNSZoneIDs,
including zones found through ListHostedZones. Mark newly created zones as
controller-owned, while supplied or discovered existing zones remain non-owned
unless explicit adoption is enabled; ensure cleanup only drains or deletes zones
marked controller-owned.
- Around line 247-249: Update the HostedCluster deletion cleanup flow to
explicitly remove the parent NS delegation and wait for its TTL to expire before
draining records from and deleting the child zone. Apply this ordering when the
consuming platform owns the parent zone, and document the behavior alongside the
existing DNSEndpoint and managed-zone cleanup description.

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In `@enhancements/hypershift/aws-managed-ingress-dns.md`:
- Around line 291-300: Add the missing failure and compatibility scenarios to
the test plan: stable CallerReference retries, foreign-zone collisions,
local-zone cleanup, IAM policy validation, missing or misconfigured
external-dns, Route53 PENDING-to-INSYNC transitions, parent NS removal, and
old/new CRD version skew. Keep the existing happy-path, unit, envtest, and e2e
coverage unchanged.
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308-317: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add tests for cross-layer failure paths.

Add cases for private-ingress VPC association, ambiguous local-zone discovery, ExternalDNS absence or delayed NS creation, condition propagation to HostedCluster, and tag or permission failures during partial zone creation.

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In `@enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md`
around lines 308 - 317, Add unit and integration coverage for cross-layer
failure handling: private-ingress VPC association failures, ambiguous local-zone
discovery, missing or delayed ExternalDNS NS records, propagation of conditions
to HostedCluster, and tag or permission errors during partial zone creation.
Extend the existing Route53/ExternalDNS test scenarios without changing the
successful paths.
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- Around line 78-81: Clarify the ownership and status path for
AWSManagedDNSAvailable: specify whether CPO writes the condition on
HostedControlPlane or HostedCluster, then define how it propagates through the
existing hcp.Status.Platform to hcluster.Status.Platform contract. Add
version-skew tests covering successful and failed DNS zone creation and
condition propagation.
- Around line 355-357: The operational guidance should distinguish always-on
creation/reconciliation of the .hypershift.local zone from annotation-gated
ingress-zone and DNSEndpoint creation. Update the Route53 call,
unannotated-cluster impact, and failure-mode statements so they accurately
describe both paths, while preserving the AWSManagedDNSAvailable condition
behavior.
- Line 127: The AWSManagedDNSAvailable condition must not become True from only
zone and CNAME creation when external-dns is absent. Update the no-external-dns
status logic described in the managed DNS flow to keep the condition False or
Unknown until parent NS delegation is confirmed, or introduce separate
conditions so consumers gate ACME issuance on confirmed delegation.
- Line 75: Update the private ingress Route53 zone flow described in step 4 to
associate the zone with the guest VPC, including the required VPC ID and region
or equivalent association reconciliation. Define cleanup behavior, add the
necessary IAM permissions, and add coverage for association and private DNS
resolution.
- Around line 250-262: Update the Route53 IAM design in the enhancement to add
route53:ChangeTagsForResource for post-creation tagging and ec2:DescribeVpcs for
CreateHostedZone prerequisites; remove unsupported aws:ResourceTag conditions
from hosted-zone actions, define the ownership boundary, and account for the
interval between zone creation and tagging.
- Around line 85-87: Update the local-zone discovery logic to require
Config.PrivateZone == true and validate the hosted zone’s association with the
expected guest VPC using GetHostedZone or ListHostedZonesByVPC. Reuse an
existing zone only when exactly one matching private zone is found; otherwise
preserve creation behavior.
- Line 95: Expand the ExternalDNS delegation contract in the managed ingress
design: specify the pinned ExternalDNS version, --source=crd, watched namespace,
parent-zone selection, ownership policy, and --managed-record-types=NS. Define
the readiness/status contract, and require AWSManagedDNSAvailable=True only
after explicit synchronization or verification of the Route 53 parent-zone
record, not merely from status.observedGeneration.

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`@enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md`:
- Around line 308-317: Add unit and integration coverage for cross-layer failure
handling: private-ingress VPC association failures, ambiguous local-zone
discovery, missing or delayed ExternalDNS NS records, propagation of conditions
to HostedCluster, and tag or permission errors during partial zone creation.
Extend the existing Route53/ExternalDNS test scenarios without changing the
successful paths.
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28-28: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the established product name.

Use Hosted Control Planes with the established capitalization. Do not hyphenate the product name as a generic compound adjective.

Based on learnings, “Hosted Control Planes” is the established product name; preserve this capitalization and spelling.

Also applies to: 32-32

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In `@enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md`
at line 28, Update the documentation’s product references to use “Hosted Control
Planes” with that exact capitalization and spacing, including the occurrences in
the feature description and corresponding later section; do not hyphenate the
product name as a generic compound adjective.

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`@enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md`:
- Line 28: Separate the test contracts so local-zone reconciliation is verified
independently from annotation-gated ingress-zone and DNSEndpoint no-op behavior.
Ensure tests cover that .hypershift.local is created whenever LocalZoneID is
absent, including private and PublicAndPrivate clusters, while absent
annotations still prevent ingress-zone and DNSEndpoint changes.
- Line 264: Update the ownership enforcement described for SharedVPC.LocalZoneID
so existing supplied zones remain eligible for CPO updates without requiring the
red-hat-managed tag. Keep ownership-tag validation limited to cleanup/deletion
of controller-created ingress zones, and define separate update and deletion
boundaries in the enhancement documentation.
- Line 82: Update the AWS managed DNS documentation to distinguish always-on
local-zone creation failures from optional ingress-DNS availability: define a
status condition or other explicit status path for local-zone failures, keep
AWSManagedDNSAvailable scoped to annotated ingress-DNS clusters, state that
local-zone failure affects private control-plane/VPC endpoint connectivity, and
revise the support procedure to direct administrators to the appropriate
condition for each failure.
- Around line 72-73: The managed-ingress-DNS workflow must document how the
annotation moves from HostedCluster to the matching HostedControlPlane: state
whether hypershift-operator mirrors it or the CPO resolves HostedCluster during
reconciliation. Add coverage ensuring reconciliation only uses the annotation
from the matching cluster and cannot consume it across clusters.
- Around line 266-268: Define paginated Route 53 record draining in the
HostedCluster deletion cleanup flow: use the SDK paginator or handle
ListResourceRecordSets continuation fields until all pages are processed, while
preserving the exclusion of SOA and NS records before DeleteHostedZone. Add a
cleanup test covering multiple record pages.
- Line 268: Define the deletion finalizer owner for managed ingress DNS
resources and specify how IngressDNSZoneIDs propagate to durable status before
HostedControlPlane deletion. Ensure the chosen persisted source remains
available to the cleanup controller and contains all zone IDs needed to drain
records and delete the Route53 zones.
- Around line 92-94: The ingress-zone reconciliation must recover when zone
creation succeeds but status persistence fails: use a deterministic
CallerReference per cluster and zone type, and on HostedZoneAlreadyExists
paginate zone listing and adopt only a zone matching the ownership tag, exact
name, PrivateZone setting, and required VPC association. Never identify zones by
name alone; add route53:ListTagsForResource to IAM and cover lost create
responses, status-write failures, and ambiguous matches for both public and
private zones.
- Around line 343-351: Define a version-safe status update strategy for the CPO
and hypershift-operator: preserve DNSZones and the new condition when older
controllers update status by using field-preserving patches, or require
compatible controller versions. Add reconciliation coverage for downgrade and
upgrade scenarios to verify these fields are retained.

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- Line 28: Update the documentation’s product references to use “Hosted Control
Planes” with that exact capitalization and spacing, including the occurrences in
the feature description and corresponding later section; do not hyphenate the
product name as a generic compound adjective.
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Add coverage for the external-dns-absent fallback.

The test plan covers DNSEndpoint creation but not the fallback branch. Add a test that verifies no DNSEndpoint is created, public-ingress nameservers are propagated through HostedCluster status, and the consuming platform can use them to create and verify parent NS delegation before ACME.

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   - **Unit tests** with mock Route53 client covering:
+    - external-dns absent → no DNSEndpoint is created; nameservers are exposed in HostedCluster status
+    - consuming platform verifies parent NS delegation before starting ACME
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In `@enhancements/hypershift/managed-ingress-dns-for-aws-hosted-control-planes.md`
around lines 310 - 319, The test plan must cover the external-dns-absent
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- Around line 310-319: The test plan must cover the external-dns-absent
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- Around line 72-75: Update the ingress-zone naming description to use
spec.dns.baseDomainPrefix, defaulting to the HostedCluster name when omitted,
for constructing in.{baseDomainPrefix}.{baseDomain}; state that both the CPO and
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Did an initial pass and left some comments/questions

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When `SharedVPC.LocalZoneID` is not provided (or `SharedVPC` is nil), the AWS PrivateLink controller creates the `<clusterName>.hypershift.local` private Route53 zone itself, associated with the guest cluster's VPC. This matches the behavior already implemented for Azure and GCP.

No opt-in annotation is needed — every private or PublicAndPrivate cluster requires this zone. If the zone ID is not provided, the controller creates it. If a zone ID is provided via `SharedVPC.LocalZoneID`, or if the zone already exists (discoverable via `ListHostedZones`), the existing behavior is preserved.

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If the zone ID is not provided, the controller creates it. If a zone ID is provided via SharedVPC.LocalZoneID, or if the zone already exists (discoverable via ListHostedZones), the existing behavior is preserved.

Just to clarify, SharedVPC.LocalZoneID is only used in the case of a shared VPC (a separate account owns the vpc for the hosted cluster's instances and also owns the hosted zones associated with that vpc)

The normal route is that LocalZoneID is not specified in the HostedCluster and is always discovered by the PrivateLinkController. Therefore, if you intend for the local zone to be created, we need a way to indicate that in the API.

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Thanks for the clarification on SharedVPC, I had that wrong. Fixed the text to scope it correctly.

For the auto-create question: gating it behind managedDNS. Without managedDNS, behavior is exactly as before.

With managedDNS, I think this could work for shared VPC too, since the CPO already assumes SharedVPC.RolesRef.IngressARN for Route53 operations. Looking at the code, lookupZoneID already uses the IngressARN-assumed client, so discovery should work. And CreateHostedZone would go through the same assumed role. So SharedVPC.LocalZoneID would become unnecessary when managedDNS is set.

But I might be missing something here. Is there a reason LocalZoneID was made explicit for shared VPC instead of relying on discovery via IngressARN? If there is a subtlety I'm not seeing, that would affect whether managed DNS can work for shared VPC at all.

Assuming it does work, the shared VPC Route53 policy would need CreateHostedZone and DeleteHostedZone added. Thoughts?

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Is there a reason LocalZoneID was made explicit for shared VPC instead of relying on discovery via IngressARN?

Looking at the shared ingress role it does seem like we should be able to discover it. But possibly because of the condition limiting the domains it can operate on or simply a point in time version of the policy, when we developed support for shared vpc we were not able to query zones, which is why we required it.

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Assuming it does work, the shared VPC Route53 policy would need CreateHostedZone and DeleteHostedZone added. Thoughts?

My understanding is that one of the main motivations for shared vpc is to centralize management in an account where we have reduced powers. Do we want to extend zone management to that account? (might be good to check with product mgmt)

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Good call. We talked to the business and field teams about this and we are not going to extend zone-management permissions to the shared VPC account. As you already mentioned, the whole point of shared VPC is a more restrictive environment, so adding CreateHostedZone/DeleteHostedZone there does not feel right.

So for shared VPC + managedDNS: the .hypershift.local zone and private ingress zone must still be pre-created by the VPC owner, same as today. SharedVPC.LocalZoneID stays required. The only thing managedDNS does in shared VPC is create the public ingress zone (which lives in the cluster account, created with the CPO own credentials, not IngressARN), plus the ACME CNAME and NS delegation.

Updated the enhancement to reflect this. Change 1 has the full rationale, rest of the doc references it.

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**Zone cleanup:**

On HostedCluster deletion, the controller deletes the `DNSEndpoint` CR (if created), drains all non-SOA/NS records from each managed zone, then deletes the zones. Zone IDs are stored in `AWSEndpointServiceStatus.IngressDNSZoneIDs` so cleanup can proceed even if the HostedControlPlane resource has been deleted.

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What controller would delete the hosted zones?

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The PrivateLink controller handles it. On HC deletion it drains non-SOA/NS records from each managed zone, then deletes the zones. Zone IDs come from hcp.Status.Platform.AWS.DNSZones. If the HCP is already gone by then, the ingress zone IDs are unavailable and those zones would be orphaned. The .hypershift.local zone is tracked separately in AWSEndpointServiceStatus so it can still be cleaned up even if the HCP is gone.

We could add tag-based fallback for the HCP-already-deleted case later, but it might be overkill. Let me know if that makes sense to you.

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The PrivateLink controller handles it

This controller reconciles AWSEndpointService resources. Should it not be the CPO since the zone Ids are stored in the hcp status?

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You are right, this is a piggyback on the AWSEndpointService reconciler and the ingress zones are really an HCP concern, not an endpoint service concern. Moving the managed DNS feature (creation + cleanup) to the HCP reconciler. The .hypershift.local zone stays in the AWSEndpointService reconciler since it is genuinely an endpoint service concern (zone ID in AWSEndpointServiceStatus).

I've moved ingress dns reconciliation to the main CPO reconcile loop and adapted the rate limiting strategy (as we reconcile that loop a lot and I don't want to break route53 ;) )


**Risk: Race between zone creation and certificate issuance**

The consuming platform may attempt ACME DNS01 challenges before the ingress zone and ACME CNAME are created. Mitigation: the `AWSManagedDNSAvailable` condition signals when DNS is ready. The consuming platform should gate certificate requests on this condition.

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Still seems like you could end up with a race. Should there be a dns query/check to indicate that the customer's public zone is available?

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Good input. I would add a live net.LookupNS() check that the CPO runs when delegation is configured. The AWSManagedDNSAvailable condition stays False with reason NSDelegationPending until delegation actually resolves in DNS. The consuming platform could gate certificate requests on that condition, so it won't try ACME challenges until DNS is ready.

In practice and in our setup, it might even be advantageous for the initial certificate to be created before delegation, as this would succeed as well through the non delegated path. I'm not intending to gate on this but instead let the certificate challenge through whatver path is available - whether that's directly by finding the acme DNS01 record in the service-owned hostedzone, or by going through the delegation loop.

Does a net.LookupNS() check cover the race you're thinking about?

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Yes though I wonder if it might be overkill

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I think it is worth keeping. It is a lightweight check and gives us really useful signal operationally.

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// managedDNS configures CPO-managed Route53 DNS zones for this cluster.
// +optional
// +openshift:enable:FeatureGate=AWSManagedDNS
ManagedDNS *AWSManagedDNSSpec `json:"managedDNS,omitempty"`

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when using this would additional allowed principals for the vpc endpoint role arn be automatically set? Today CS validates the customer input includes both route53 and vpc endpoint role arns as part of the flow

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Can you expand on this? What exactly is CS doing and what is the expected outcome?

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This is just so the operators can assume the role afaik, it is a hypershift requirement not CS
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when using this would additional allowed principals for the vpc endpoint role arn be automatically set?

@gdbranco not sure why we would need additional allowed principals (afaik we only set one up for backplane access today). I agree that the route53 (aka ingress role) and vpc endpoint role (aka cpo role) need to be set. That is not changing.

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In general I am +1 to these changes, I think pushing (when it makes sense) into HyperShift for things it really should/can manage makes sense. Also agree that keeping shared VPC setups as they are (bring-your-own-all-the-things) is best for long term management.

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