feat(api): add the credentials API with mint and revoke subresources - #4921

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Review comments at @internal/controller/applicationdefinition_helmreconciler.go:
- Around line 163-176: Ensure account Secrets are seeded before
releaseValuesFrom adds required valuesFrom references for existing releases.
Enforce this ordering in the ApplicationDefinition reconciliation flow, using
the existing migration or seeding mechanism, so Helm never receives a required
reference to a missing Secret.

Review comments at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_credentials.go:
- Around line 76-87: Update seedBeforeCreate to check whether the HelmRelease
already exists before calling store.Ensure; return an AlreadyExists error if it
does, and propagate other lookup errors. Also ensure the store.Ensure path does
not delete Secrets owned by a live HelmRelease when owner is nil, failing the
create instead; cover this with a test confirming a duplicate create leaves the
existing Secret unchanged.

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Review comments at @pkg/credentials/format/format.go:
- Line 115: Update Encode so UTF-8 passwords are normalized using
PostgreSQL-compatible SASLprep before the PBKDF2 derivation; if that behavior is
unsupported, reject passwords that require normalization rather than deriving
the verifier from unnormalized bytes. Preserve handling of ASCII passwords.

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REQUEST CHANGES. Account Secrets are deleted or replaced by three normal write paths (duplicate create, server dry-run, any update), and nothing in CI runs the tests of the new packages.

No kind serves a credentials block yet, so none of this hits a cluster today. It starts when #4922 converts postgres, so I'd fix it here.

Blockers

B1: duplicate create deletes the live account Secrets (high)

pkg/credentials/store/store.go:93, pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:256. Create seeds the Secrets before it knows HelmRelease create will be accepted. Ensure gets owner == nil, Theirs treats a Secret owned by any HelmRelease as foreign, so it is deleted and recreated, then HelmRelease create fails with AlreadyExists and unseed removes what was just made. The live app ends with no account Secrets and the caller only sees AlreadyExists. CodeRabbit has the same on rest_credentials.go, I reproduced it.

Fix: Get the HelmRelease first and return AlreadyExists without touching Secrets. In Theirs with owner == nil replace a Secret owned by a HelmRelease only if that HelmRelease is gone or has another UID. Keep the repro as a regression test, TestCreateFailureRemovesSeeded doesn't cover it.

B2: server dry-run writes for real (high)

pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:264, pkg/registry/core/credential/subresources.go:58. The dry-run option goes to the HelmRelease write, but seedBeforeCreate, ownSeeded, seedBeforeUpdate and pruneAfterUpdate write through r.c without it, and mint and revoke drop *metav1.CreateOptions completely. kubectl diff or kubectl apply --dry-run=server on an app with a user removed deletes that user's Secret while the release still declares it, and POST .../mint?dryRun=All mints for real.

Fix: skip Ensure, SetOwner, unseed and Prune when dryrun.IsDryRun(options.DryRun). For mint and revoke either reject dry-run or answer without writing and without a password. Add DryRunAll tests for create, update, mint and revoke.

B3: update seeds every account without a Secret, not only the added ones (medium)

pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_credentials.go:121. Ensure gets all declared accounts. The design proposal and the PR description say an account that exists without a Secret is left alone and only added ones get seeded. Any update, a resize for example, writes a NotIssued Secret with a random discarded verifier for each such account, and after conversion the chart reads it and swaps the working password for one nobody has. It hits releases the migration skipped, apps created before the block appeared, and apps whose Secret B1 deleted.

Fix: resolve the accounts from cur.Spec.Values and pass only new minus old to Ensure, keep the full set for valuesFrom and prune.

B4: a leftover Secret is reused and never gets an owner (medium)

pkg/credentials/store/store.go:105. A Secret with the marker, the same username and no ownerReference counts as ours on create. It keeps the old verifier, and since it isn't in written, ownSeeded skips it, so it has no owner: hidden from the Credential view, not collected with the release. The design says a leftover is replaced, and the comment in store_test.go:104-105 says the opposite is intended. Whoever holds the password issued to the old app and can reach the engine of a new app with the same name can log in until the first mint or update.

Fix: on create replace any existing Secret under that name, or return the kept names from Ensure and pass them to SetOwner. B1 and B4 sit in the same function, so one change.

B5: fluent-bit.extraOutputs renders with the wrong indent (medium)

packages/system/monitoring-agents/values.yaml:442. {{ . | nindent 6 }} runs after the YAML block is already dedented, so the added section lands 6 spaces deeper than the existing ones. The unit test passes because \s+ and [\s\S]* match any indent. Fix is {{ . }} and a test anchored on the real indent, details inline.

B6: tests of the new packages don't run in CI (medium)

Makefile:136-199, not in this diff. go-unit-tests covers ./pkg/registry/... ./pkg/config/... ./pkg/cmd/server/... and test-controllers covers ./internal/.... pkg/credentials/{format,account,store} and pkg/specschema are in neither, so the format tests (SCRAM canonical value, MariaDB PASSWORD(), SHA-256) and the account and store tests (seed, keep, replace stale, prune, valuesFrom) never run there. They pass locally and nothing stops them from rotting.

Fix: add ./pkg/credentials/... ./pkg/specschema/... to go-unit-tests. #4922 needs ./cmd/credentials-migrate/... in the same place.

Follow-ups

These don't block the merge.

1. Mint on an existing Secret skips the declaration check (pkg/registry/core/credential/subresources.go:110, declared is called only when the Secret is missing). A removed user whose prune failed still gets a mint (test result: err=<nil>, 32 chars, want NotFound), same for a name collision put straight into the HelmRelease values. The design asks for NotFound and Conflict there. Cheap to do together with B1 to B4.
2. Tests that survive mutation. Dropping the account-label term in store.List (store.go:169-174) keeps them green, and then Prune would delete <release>-credentials and TLS Secrets, because the lineage webhook puts the same three app labels on any Secret. Same for sec.ResourceVersion = "" in the mint write (subresources.go:115-122): the existing conflict test returns before the write, so add one where an interceptor changes the Secret between resolve and Update and expect 409. UID comparisons in the Credential view and in Theirs pass vacuously because the fake client gives no UID. Also no test that a captured log never sees the plaintext, the design Testing asks for it.
3. Question: pkg/apiserver/apiserver.go:205,223,250 give both registries the cached mgr.GetClient(). Fine for the view. For Get then Create in Ensure, SetOwner right after create and mint right after create, a stale read can give a false 500 or 409 and an unowned Secret (which feeds B4). I couldn't reproduce it, the fake client is strictly consistent. mgr.GetAPIReader() on the write paths would remove the question.
4. Question: account Secrets have no managed-by-cozystack, so the lineage webhook may stamp tenantresource on the SetOwner patch. If a definition selects such a Secret through secrets.include, tenantsecrets would return the verifier (the plaintext with format: plaintext). I didn't check on a stand with the webhook from #4920.

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Major · Delete failed-create Secrets with their original UID. · rest.go:255-271

pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:255-271
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Delete failed-create Secrets with their original UID.

Two credential-enabled creates can pass the HelmRelease absence check. The second request can replace and own the Secret, while the first request loses HelmRelease creation and deletes that live Secret by name.

Return each created Secret's UID from store.Ensure, then pass it as client.Preconditions{UID: ...} during cleanup. Do not re-read the Secret by name before deleting it.

Suggested fix

diff --git a/pkg/credentials/store/store.go b/pkg/credentials/store/store.go
@@
+type SeededSecret struct {
+	Name string
+	UID  types.UID
+}
+
-func Ensure(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, app App, accounts []account.Account, owner *metav1.OwnerReference, now metav1.Time, by string) ([]string, error) {
-	var written []string
+func Ensure(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, app App, accounts []account.Account, owner *metav1.OwnerReference, now metav1.Time, by string) ([]SeededSecret, error) {
+	var written []SeededSecret
@@
-		written = append(written, name)
+		written = append(written, SeededSecret{Name: name, UID: sec.UID})

diff --git a/pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_credentials.go b/pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_credentials.go
@@
-func (r *REST) unseed(ctx context.Context, namespace string, names []string) {
-	for _, name := range names {
+func (r *REST) unseed(ctx context.Context, namespace string, seeded []store.SeededSecret) {
+	for _, item := range seeded {
+		name := item.Name
+		uid := item.UID
 		sec := &corev1.Secret{}
 		sec.Namespace, sec.Name = namespace, name
-		if err := r.direct().Delete(ctx, sec); err != nil && !apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
+		if err := r.direct().Delete(ctx, sec, client.Preconditions{UID: &uid}); err != nil && !apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
 			klog.Warningf("failed to remove account Secret %s/%s after a failed create: %v", namespace, name, err)
 		}
 	}
 }

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Review comment at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go around lines 255 - 271:
Update the seeded-secret tracking used by `seedBeforeCreate` and `unseed` to
retain each created Secret’s UID from `store.Ensure`. During failed HelmRelease
cleanup, have `unseed` delete using that original UID as a client precondition;
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Review comments at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_credentials.go:
- Around line 125-137: Update ownSeeded to retry store.SetOwner after a failure
before logging or adding a warning, so transient ownership failures can recover
and the account Secrets are owned by the HelmRelease. Keep the existing warning
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Review comments at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:
- Around line 255-271: Update the seeded-secret tracking used by
`seedBeforeCreate` and `unseed` to retain each created Secret’s UID from
`store.Ensure`. During failed HelmRelease cleanup, have `unseed` delete using
that original UID as a client precondition; do not re-read the Secret by name
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APPROVE. B1 to B6 from my earlier review are fixed. I checked each fix on the new head and reverted it on a copy, and the test for it goes red. The follow-ups below don't block the merge.

Checked

• B1: the HelmRelease is read before any Secret is written (rest_credentials.go:92-99), and a Secret owned by a live release stops the create with AlreadyExists (store.go:147-156). Two creates in a row leave the live Secrets alone.
• B2: DryRunAll writes no account Secret on create, update, mint or revoke, and a dry-run mint returns no password.
• B3: an update seeds only the accounts it adds (store.Added).
• B4: a leftover Secret is replaced on create and gets its owner.
• B5: with the example from audit-log.md the added [OUTPUT] section renders at 4 spaces and its keys at 8, like the existing ones, and the unit test fails with nindent 6 put back.
• B6: go-unit-tests lists ./pkg/credentials/... and ./pkg/specschema/... now (Makefile:146-147). I ran the target and it passes. pkg/specschema has no test files, so listing it runs nothing.
• Mint checks the declaration when the Secret already exists, a test captures the log and looks for the plaintext, and audit-log.md:57 says user_username.

Follow-ups

1. Two requests on one application at the same time can still lose account Secrets. I reproduced three interleavings on the fake client with an interceptor. The first one gives the same result at the old head, so the fixes didn't add it. A mint puts the Secret back, which is why I don't block on them.
   • Two creates: the one that loses with AlreadyExists runs unseed (rest_credentials.go:120), which deletes by name with no UID precondition, so it removes the Secrets the winner seeded and now owns. Deleting with Preconditions{UID} from what Ensure wrote closes it.
   • Two updates: update A removes api, update B puts it back, then A prunes from its own account list (rest_credentials.go:172) and deletes api's Secret while the HelmRelease still references it.
   • Mint and removal: the declaration check reads the HelmRelease at the start of the request (subresources.go:86), so a user removed before the Secret write still gets a 32 character password.
2. A failed update can leave a Secret for another username. Renaming web to Web maps both to the same account name, so Ensure replaces the Secret before the HelmRelease write. If that write fails, the release still declares web and the Secret holds Web. The mint error says to write the application to reseed it, but Added is empty on a rewrite, so nothing is reseeded. Reproduced with an injected write failure.
3. seedBeforeUpdate (rest_credentials.go:152-158). When the stored values were written around the API and don't resolve, a name collision for example, no added account gets a Secret and a klog line is the only trace, while valuesFrom still lists every account's Secret as non-optional. The release can't reconcile until someone mints. A warning that names the accounts left without a Secret would at least tell the caller.
4. Three changes no test pins. Dropping the HelmRelease Get in seedBeforeCreate keeps TestCreateDuplicateLeavesLiveSecretsAlone green, because the live-owner check catches the same sequence, but the Get is the only guard when the live Secret has no owner yet. Making any owner reference pass Theirs (store.go:100-104) keeps every store and application test green. And both fixtures hand the same client in as the cached and the direct one, so putting direct() back to the cached client leaves both package suites green. Two clients over the same objects, with a cached one that lags, would pin it.
5. The comment on extraOutputs (monitoring-agents/values.yaml:367) says the value is rendered through tpl. A {{ ... }} inside it is inserted as is: with Host siem.{{ .Values.global.target }}.svc the rendered ConfigMap keeps the expression verbatim. Either fix the comment or run tpl on the value.
6. Question: Update reads cur through the cached client (rest.go:606) and store.Added compares against it. If two updates land inside the informer lag, can a user the first one removed still count as declared in the second and get no Secret? I couldn't reproduce it.
7. Still open from my earlier review: account Secrets have no managed-by-cozystack, so does the lineage webhook stamp tenantresource on them, and would tenantsecrets then return the verifier?

The PR conflicts with main now (internal/controller/applicationdefinition_helmreconciler_test.go), and the pull request CI doesn't start on a conflicting PR. I haven't seen CI on this head, a rebase should bring it back.

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- Line 448: Update the extraOutputs block in the fluent-bit.conf template to
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Review comments at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:
- Line 611: Update the application update flow around seedBeforeUpdate so a
failed HelmRelease write cannot leave a replacement account Secret in place
while losing the previous password. Establish a safe way to keep and restore the
prior Secret until the update commits, or reject a username change before
seeding when its mapped name matches an existing Secret; preserve intended
replacement behavior for other username changes.
- Line 676: Update pruneAfterUpdate so pruning cannot delete a Secret that a
concurrent update has reused and referenced in the live HelmRelease. Establish a
shared concurrency-safe guard for seeding and pruning that closes the race
between checking references and deleting, and ensure the Secret is reseeded
after the relevant write; choose a mechanism that fits the existing update path
rather than relying on a one-time reread or the request’s stale account list.

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