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The operator called LoadDefaultConfig and hoped. That works on ROSA, where the pod identity webhook injects a web identity token once the ServiceAccount is annotated, and nowhere else: on an ordinary IPI cluster the chain finds nothing, sts:GetCallerIdentity fails, and the CUDNBgpConfig goes Degraded with CloudCredentialsInvalid on a cluster where nobody has done anything wrong.

ResolveCredentials now asks the SDK first and the cluster second. Where the pod already has credentials they are used and the cluster is left alone, so ROSA behaves exactly as it did. Where it has none, the operator creates a CredentialsRequest for itself carrying the nine EC2 actions it actually uses, and reads the secret the cloud credential operator mints into its own namespace. That is what external-dns-operator does, and its e2e-aws-operator job on the same CI profile shows that minting works there.

Deciding between the two by retrieving from the SDK's own chain, rather than by reading the Infrastructure CR or sniffing AWS_ROLE_ARN, keeps the decision on the thing that matters. LoadDefaultConfig assembles a chain without consulting it, so only a retrieval answers the question of whether anything is actually there.

Minting takes a few seconds, and during them the operator is not broken. platform.ErrCredentialsPending says so, and Phase 3 waits it out the way Phase 2 waits for FRR: Configuring, CloudEndpointsDiscovered=False with reason WaitingForCloudCredentials, requeue in ten seconds. A secret that exists but carries no usable keys is the opposite case -- the cluster has answered and the answer is no good -- so that is an error, and it names the ServiceAccount to annotate in case the cluster turns out to use STS.

The secret permission is a namespaced Role rather than a cluster-wide one, because the operator reads one secret, its own. POD_NAMESPACE comes from the downward API, since OLM installs wherever the administrator asks, and the constant covers running the manager from a desk.

The first commit is the .gitignore fix from #84, needed here because go tool kustomize does not build without it and so neither does make bundle.

Test plan

Five tests written first and confirmed red before the code existed: the ambient chain wins and no CredentialsRequest is created; a request is created and the result is pending; a minted secret's keys are what the SDK gets; a secret with no usable keys is an error and not pending; a second call does not duplicate the request. Plus a controller test pinning that a pending credential is a ten-second requeue in Configuring rather than Degraded.

go test ./internal/... ./api/... ./cmd/... passes, make lint reports no issues, and make bundle regenerates cleanly so the CSV carries the new clusterPermissions entry, the namespaced permissions entry and POD_NAMESPACE.

Not yet exercised on a live cluster: the CCO round trip itself. openshift/release#84073 installs the operator from its bundle onto an IPI AWS cluster, and once that job creates a CUDNBgpConfig it will cover this path end to end.

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AWS authentication now supports existing pod credentials and fallback CredentialsRequest provisioning. The controller reads its namespace from POD_NAMESPACE, resolves credentials, and treats pending credentials as a configuring state with a requeue. Kubernetes RBAC grants access to credential requests and generated Secrets. AWS configuration receives an explicit credentials provider. Tests cover ambient credentials, request creation, minted Secrets, malformed Secrets, idempotency, and pending reconciliation. Documentation describes the authentication paths and status conditions.

Suggested reviewers: alebedev87, daxelrod-rh, gavrielg1

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f8e3e

The credential fallback can fail for deployments running in more than one namespace because they may reuse the same request while expecting separate secrets, leaving one operator without usable AWS credentials. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to make the request name namespace-unique.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: obtaining AWS credentials from the cluster when the pod has no credentials.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the AWS credential-resolution fallback, pending-state handling, RBAC changes, tests, and remaining live-cluster validation.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds only ordinary Go Test... functions. It adds no Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When declarations. The repository’s existing Ginkgo titles are static, and the cha…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds or changes only standard Go tests using testing.T (TestResolveCredentials_* and TestConfigReconcile_CredentialsPendingIsAWait). The changed tests contain no Ginkgo `I…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The check is not applicable. The pull-request diff adds only standard Go unit tests: TestConfigReconcile_CredentialsPendingIsAWait and TestResolveCredentials_*. The changed tests contain no Ginkgo…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds no new Ginkgo e2e tests. The only added test file, internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go, uses Go's testing package and contains unit tests. The diff has no changes…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS. The PR does not introduce topology-sensitive scheduling constraints. The Deployment changes add only the POD_NAMESPACE environment variable. replicas: 1 and strategy: {} remain unchanged, …
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed PASS. The pull-request diff adds no fmt.Print*, direct os.Stdout writes, klog calls, or suite-level OTE output. The new log calls are in controller reconciliation and credential resolution, not …
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds only standard Go unit tests using testing.T; it adds no Ginkgo constructs and changes no test/e2e paths. Existing IPv4 literals are in pre-existing controller test code…
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed PASS — The pull-request diff adds no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage, and it adds no custom cryptographic implementation. The credential code only checks whether credential fields ar…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed No privileged container setting was introduced. The changed manifests contain no privileged: true, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, or SYS_ADMIN. Existing security settings remain restrictive:…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed No changed production log statement records secret values. The new logs record only fixed resource names such as CredentialsSecretName and CredentialsRequestName. Credential IDs, secret access key…
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PASS: The pull request adds or changes only standard Go tests using testing.T (TestResolveCredentials_* and TestConfigReconcile_CredentialsPendingIsAWait). The changed tests contain no Ginkgo It blocks, Eventually/Consistently calls, or cluster resource operations; they use controller-runtime fake clients and t.Cleanup for ambient credential state. The repository’s Ginkgo tests are under test/e2e, and the pull-request diff does not change those files. Therefore, this Ginkgo-specific check is not applicable.

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The check is not applicable. The pull-request diff adds only standard Go unit tests: TestConfigReconcile_CredentialsPendingIsAWait and TestResolveCredentials_*. The changed tests contain no Ginkgo Describe, Context, When, or It declarations. Existing Ginkgo tests under test/e2e were not changed, so no new MicroShift-incompatible e2e test was introduced.

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PASS: The pull request adds no new Ginkgo e2e tests. The only added test file, internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go, uses Go's testing package and contains unit tests. The diff has no changes under test/e2e, and the added tests contain no multi-node or HA assumptions.

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PASS. The PR does not introduce topology-sensitive scheduling constraints. The Deployment changes add only the POD_NAMESPACE environment variable. replicas: 1 and strategy: {} remain unchanged, and the diff adds no affinity, anti-affinity, topology spread, node selector, toleration, scheduler, or PDB settings. The controller and AWS credential changes manage credentials and status only. The control-plane entries are unchanged application labels, not node selectors.

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PASS. The pull-request diff adds no fmt.Print*, direct os.Stdout writes, klog calls, or suite-level OTE output. The new log calls are in controller reconciliation and credential resolution, not process-level setup. cmd/main.go and the existing Ginkgo suite files are unchanged, and the repository has no OTE binary wiring.

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PASS: The pull request adds only standard Go unit tests using testing.T; it adds no Ginkgo constructs and changes no test/e2e paths. Existing IPv4 literals are in pre-existing controller test code, not in newly added Ginkgo e2e tests. No added test performs external network access.

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PASS — The pull-request diff adds no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage, and it adds no custom cryptographic implementation. The credential code only checks whether credential fields are empty; it does not compare secrets or tokens for authentication. No changed production code uses non-constant-time secret or token comparison.

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No privileged container setting was introduced. The changed manifests contain no privileged: true, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, or SYS_ADMIN. Existing security settings remain restrictive: runAsNonRoot: true, allowPrivilegeEscalation: false, and all capabilities dropped.

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No changed production log statement records secret values. The new logs record only fixed resource names such as CredentialsSecretName and CredentialsRequestName. Credential IDs, secret access keys, and tokens are read into variables and passed to the AWS credentials provider without logging. New error and status messages contain resource names and key names, not credential contents. The added test literals are not production logging.

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In `@bundle/manifests/bgp-cloud-connector.clusterserviceversion.yaml`:
- Around line 243-247: Update the manager container’s securityContext in the
ClusterServiceVersion manifest to set readOnlyRootFilesystem: true, alongside
the required runAsNonRoot and allowPrivilegeEscalation: false settings. If the
manager requires writable storage, add an emptyDir mount only at that specific
path.

In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 503-507: Update the test around the CUDNBgpConfig status retrieval
to handle and assert the c.Get error instead of discarding it, then require
updated.Status.Phase to equal networkingv1alpha1.PhaseConfiguring rather than
only rejecting PhaseDegraded.

In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go`:
- Line 62: Restrict Secret RBAC to the fixed credential Secret used by
ResolveCredentials: update the RBAC marker in
internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go to grant only get with
resourceNames set to cudn-bgp-routing-aws-credentials, removing list and watch;
regenerate config/rbac/role.yaml so its corresponding rule reflects the same
restriction.
- Line 61: Scope the CredentialsRequest RBAC used by ensureCredentialsRequest to
openshift-cloud-credential-operator with only get and create permissions:
replace the cluster-wide marker in
internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go (line 61) with generated
namespaced Role and RoleBinding configuration, then update config/rbac/role.yaml
(lines 17-25) and the corresponding
bundle/manifests/bgp-cloud-connector.clusterserviceversion.yaml RBAC
declarations to remove list/watch and cluster-wide access.

In `@internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go`:
- Line 41: Handle the ignored test errors in
internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go:41-41 by propagating or failing on
clientgoscheme.AddToScheme failure, using the existing test setup convention
such as utilruntime.Must; at internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go:118-120,
check both the error and found result from unstructured.NestedString before
comparing spec.secretRef fields, failing immediately when either indicates an
invalid or missing value. Anchor the changes around AddToScheme and the
NestedString assertions.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 84-90: Update the AWS credential descriptions at the referenced
README sections to consistently explain that the AWS SDK credential chain is
checked first, with the operator’s CredentialsRequest-created Secret used as the
fallback. Remove wording that implies credentials come exclusively from IRSA,
while preserving the distinctions described in the AWS authentication section.
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Comment on lines +243 to +247
env:
- name: POD_NAMESPACE
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.namespace

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Make the manager root filesystem read-only.

Set readOnlyRootFilesystem: true in the manager container securityContext. If the manager needs a writable path, mount an emptyDir only for that path. The container modified here otherwise retains a writable root filesystem.

As per path instructions, **/*.{yaml,yml} requires securityContext: runAsNonRoot, readOnlyRootFilesystem, allowPrivilegeEscalation: false.

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In `@bundle/manifests/bgp-cloud-connector.clusterserviceversion.yaml` around lines
243 - 247, Update the manager container’s securityContext in the
ClusterServiceVersion manifest to set readOnlyRootFilesystem: true, alongside
the required runAsNonRoot and allowPrivilegeEscalation: false settings. If the
manager requires writable storage, add an emptyDir mount only at that specific
path.

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Comment on lines +503 to +507
updated := &networkingv1alpha1.CUDNBgpConfig{}
_ = c.Get(context.Background(), types.NamespacedName{Name: "cluster"}, updated)
if updated.Status.Phase == networkingv1alpha1.PhaseDegraded {
t.Errorf("expected %s, got Degraded", networkingv1alpha1.PhaseConfiguring)
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Assert the required pending phase.

Check the c.Get error. Then assert that updated.Status.Phase equals networkingv1alpha1.PhaseConfiguring. The current assertion passes for Pending or an empty phase, so it does not enforce the pending-credential contract.

As per path instructions, **/*.go: “Never ignore error returns”.

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In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller_test.go` around lines 503 - 507,
Update the test around the CUDNBgpConfig status retrieval to handle and assert
the c.Get error instead of discarding it, then require updated.Status.Phase to
equal networkingv1alpha1.PhaseConfiguring rather than only rejecting
PhaseDegraded.

Source: Path instructions

// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=pods,verbs=get;list;watch
// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=nodes,verbs=get;list;watch
// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups=config.openshift.io,resources=infrastructures,verbs=get
// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups=cloudcredential.openshift.io,resources=credentialsrequests,verbs=get;list;watch;create

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OpenShift cloud-credential-operator CredentialsRequest namespace RBAC permissions create get list watch security policy documentation

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The OpenShift Cloud Credential Operator (CCO) utilizes RBAC permissions to manage CredentialsRequest resources and provision cloud credentials [1][2][3]. ### RBAC Permissions for the Cloud Credential Operator The CCO controller requires cluster-wide permissions to monitor, reconcile, and act upon CredentialsRequest custom resources [1][4]. According to the operator's source code, the controller is granted the following RBAC verbs for credentialsrequests and its related status/finalizer resources: - get [1] - list [1] - watch [1] - create [1] - update [1] - patch [1] - delete [1] Additionally, the controller requires permissions to manage supporting cluster resources, including: - Core resources: secrets, configmaps, and events (get, list, watch, create, update, patch, delete) [1]. - Namespaces: get, list, watch [1]. - Config.openshift.io resources: clusterversions, infrastructures, dnses, clusteroperators (with varying verbs including get, list, watch, create, and update) [1]. ### CredentialsRequest Namespace Permissions CredentialsRequest resources are namespace-scoped [5][6]. Components (such as Operators) that need to request cloud credentials must have the appropriate RBAC permissions within their specific namespace to: - Create CredentialsRequest objects [7]. - Read or mount the resulting Secret object generated by the CCO [7][2]. The CCO itself watches for these requests across the cluster [4][2]. When a request is created in a namespace, the CCO reconciles the object and manages the corresponding cloud provider resources, storing the resulting credentials in the secret specified in the secretRef field of the CredentialsRequest [2][8]. ### Security and Policy The CCO operates in specific modes—mint, passthrough, or manual—which dictate how it handles cloud credentials and security requirements [3]. To enforce security policies, such as egress control, the CCO may also utilize NetworkPolicies to restrict traffic, ensuring that communication between the operator and cloud provider APIs or the Kubernetes API is explicitly permitted [9]. The operator adheres to the principle of least privilege by using dedicated ServiceAccounts for its components, such as pod identity webhooks, with scoped RBAC permissions [4].

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The CredentialsRequest resource is a primary component of the OpenShift Cloud Credential Operator (CCO), designed to enable cluster components to request fine-grained cloud credentials [1][2]. Key aspects of the CredentialsRequest architecture include: 1. ProviderSpec and StatementEntries: The CredentialsRequest specification includes a providerSpec field, which is an object containing cloud-specific configuration [3][4]. For supported cloud providers like AWS, this often includes statementEntries, which define the granular policy permissions requested by the workload [5]. The operator uses these definitions to ensure the requested permissions match the cloud resources [5]. 2. Mint Mode: In Mint mode, the CCO uses an admin-level cloud credential (typically stored in the kube-system namespace) to dynamically create new, restricted cloud users or roles for each CredentialsRequest [1][2]. This allows the operator to provision fine-grained, least-privilege credentials for specific workloads [1]. 3. Admission Validation: The CCO performs validation to ensure that CredentialsRequests are correctly formed [6]. If the providerSpec is empty or misconfigured, the operator will reject the request or encounter errors during reconciliation [6]. The operator also reconciles the desired permissions defined in the CredentialsRequest against the actual cloud environment, ensuring that the necessary policies are attached or created [5][2]. 4. Namespace Scope: While the Cloud Credential Operator itself may monitor a central namespace for its own status tracking, CredentialsRequest objects are namespaced resources [3][4]. This allows components across different namespaces to request their own specific credentials [1][2]. 5. Arbitrary Permissions: The use of statementEntries allows for the expression of arbitrary (yet structured) cloud provider policies [5]. By defining these within the CredentialsRequest, users can request the exact scope of access required for a workload, which the operator then enforces in the underlying cloud infrastructure (in Mint mode) [1][2]. The system is designed to maintain a valid state even if root admin credentials are removed after installation, provided that existing CredentialsRequests remain fulfilled [1][2].

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site:github.com/openshift/cloud-credential-operator CredentialsRequest namespace openshift-cloud-credential-operator controller source

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The CredentialsRequest custom resource in OpenShift is managed by the cloud-credential-operator [1][2]. Within the operator's source code, the primary reconciliation logic for these objects is located in the pkg/operator/credentialsrequest/credentialsrequest_controller.go file [3][4]. Key details regarding the source and management of CredentialsRequest include: 1. Controller Source: The reconciliation logic is implemented in the ReconcileCredentialsRequest struct defined in pkg/operator/credentialsrequest/credentialsrequest_controller.go [4]. This controller is added to the manager via the AddWithActuator function, which initializes the reconciler with a platform-specific actuator [4]. 2. Actuator Pattern: The controller delegates cloud-provider-specific operations (such as creating, deleting, or updating credentials) to an Actuator interface defined in pkg/operator/credentialsrequest/actuator/actuator.go [5]. Different cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) implement this interface to interact with the underlying cloud APIs [6]. 3. Namespaces: - The cloud-credential-operator itself runs in the openshift-cloud-credential-operator namespace [7][1]. - While CredentialsRequests can be created in various namespaces, the operator often monitors them centrally [1][8]. Official documentation and best practices recommend that cluster components create their CredentialsRequests within the openshift-cloud-credential-operator namespace [1][2]. 4. Reconciliation Logic: The controller watches for changes to CredentialsRequest objects [4]. It also watches Secret objects that have specific annotations (e.g., credentialsrequest.cloudcredential.openshift.io) to trigger reconciliations when relevant credentials change [3].

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Scope CredentialsRequest RBAC to openshift-cloud-credential-operator. ensureCredentialsRequest only reads and creates the fixed request in that namespace, but the controller ServiceAccount receives get, list, watch, and create through a ClusterRoleBinding. In mint mode, this permits requests in every namespace and allows a compromised identity to submit broader providerSpec permissions. Generate a namespaced Role and RoleBinding, remove the unnecessary verbs, and update config/rbac/role.yaml and bundle/manifests/bgp-cloud-connector.clusterserviceversion.yaml.

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In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go` at line 61, Scope the
CredentialsRequest RBAC used by ensureCredentialsRequest to
openshift-cloud-credential-operator with only get and create permissions:
replace the cluster-wide marker in
internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go (line 61) with generated
namespaced Role and RoleBinding configuration, then update config/rbac/role.yaml
(lines 17-25) and the corresponding
bundle/manifests/bgp-cloud-connector.clusterserviceversion.yaml RBAC
declarations to remove list/watch and cluster-wide access.

Source: Path instructions

// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=nodes,verbs=get;list;watch
// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups=config.openshift.io,resources=infrastructures,verbs=get
// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups=cloudcredential.openshift.io,resources=credentialsrequests,verbs=get;list;watch;create
// +kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=secrets,verbs=get;list;watch,namespace=openshift-cudn-bgp-routing

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Restrict Secret access to cudn-bgp-routing-aws-credentials. ResolveCredentials reads only this fixed Secret, but the RBAC marker and generated Role allow get, list, and watch for every Secret in the namespace. Remove list and watch, add the matching resourceNames restriction for get, and regenerate the Role.

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  • config/rbac/role.yaml#L111-L118
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In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go` at line 62, Restrict Secret
RBAC to the fixed credential Secret used by ResolveCredentials: update the RBAC
marker in internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go to grant only get with
resourceNames set to cudn-bgp-routing-aws-credentials, removing list and watch;
regenerate config/rbac/role.yaml so its corresponding rule reflects the same
restriction.

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func credentialsTestScheme() *runtime.Scheme {
s := runtime.NewScheme()
_ = clientgoscheme.AddToScheme(s)

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Check errors from test setup and unstructured reads.

Discarded errors can make these tests fail later with an unrelated message. Fail immediately when scheme registration fails. Check both err and found before comparing spec.secretRef fields.

  • internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go#L41-L41: handle the clientgoscheme.AddToScheme error, for example with utilruntime.Must.
  • internal/platform/aws/credentials_test.go#L118-L120: fail the test when unstructured.NestedString returns an error or reports a missing field.

As per path instructions, **/*.go: “Never ignore error returns”.

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failing on clientgoscheme.AddToScheme failure, using the existing test setup
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Anchor the changes around AddToScheme and the NestedString assertions.

Source: Path instructions

Comment thread README.md
frobware added a commit to frobware/release that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
To be dropped before this merges.

openshift/bgp-cloud-connector#91 has the operator ask the cloud
credential operator for AWS credentials when the pod has none, which is
the case on an ordinary IPI cluster. Two things have to be true for that
to work and neither can be established from a laptop: CCO must be in a
mode where it mints, and the minted key must reach the route server API
in this account.

Rehearsals build bgp-cloud-connector at main, so the operator under test
does not carry openshift#91 and cannot answer this itself. Applying the same
CredentialsRequest by hand and calling EC2 with what comes back answers
it now, and separately from whether that PR is any good.
The operator called LoadDefaultConfig and hoped. That works on ROSA,
where the pod identity webhook injects a web identity token once the
ServiceAccount is annotated, and nowhere else: on an ordinary IPI
cluster the chain finds nothing, sts:GetCallerIdentity fails, and the
CUDNBgpConfig goes Degraded with CloudCredentialsInvalid on a cluster
where nobody has done anything wrong.

ResolveCredentials now asks the SDK first and the cluster second. If the
pod already has credentials they are used and the cluster is left alone,
which keeps ROSA exactly as it was. If it has none, the operator creates
a CredentialsRequest for itself carrying the nine EC2 actions it
actually uses, and reads the secret the cloud credential operator mints
into its own namespace.

Deciding between the two by retrieving from the SDK's chain, rather than
by reading the Infrastructure CR or sniffing AWS_ROLE_ARN, keeps the
decision on the thing that matters. LoadDefaultConfig assembles a chain
without consulting it, so only a retrieval answers the question.

Minting takes a few seconds, and during them the operator is not broken.
platform.ErrCredentialsPending says so, and Phase 3 waits it out the way
Phase 2 waits for FRR: Configuring, CloudEndpointsDiscovered=False with
reason WaitingForCloudCredentials, requeue in ten seconds. A secret that
exists but carries no usable keys is the opposite -- the cluster has
answered and the answer is no good -- so that is an error, and it names
the ServiceAccount to annotate in case the cluster turns out to use STS.

The secret permission is a namespaced Role rather than a cluster-wide
one: the operator reads one secret, its own. POD_NAMESPACE comes from
the downward API because OLM installs wherever the administrator asks,
and the constant covers running the manager from a desk.
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internal/platform/aws/credentials.go (1)

183-205: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Pin a compatible CCO API revision before using typed request construction.

This repository has no CCO dependency. Add a pinned revision, then build a typed v1.CredentialsRequest and v1.AWSProviderSpec. Encode the provider with v1.Codec.EncodeProviderSpec, because CredentialsRequestSpec.ProviderSpec is a *runtime.RawExtension. Use []v1.StatementEntry instead of unchecked map fields.

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In `@internal/platform/aws/credentials.go` around lines 183 - 205, Add a pinned
Cloud Credential Operator API dependency, then update the credentials request
construction to use typed v1.CredentialsRequest and v1.AWSProviderSpec values.
Encode the provider spec through v1.Codec.EncodeProviderSpec before assigning it
to the *runtime.RawExtension ProviderSpec field, and represent permissions with
[]v1.StatementEntry rather than untyped maps while preserving the existing
secret reference, service account, and GVK values.
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In `@internal/platform/aws/credentials.go`:
- Around line 154-160: Update ensureCredentialsRequest to derive a
namespace-specific CredentialsRequest name from namespace, and use that derived
name consistently in both the Get lookup and Create path instead of the shared
CredentialsRequestName. Add coverage verifying separate operator namespaces
produce and manage distinct requests.

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In `@internal/platform/aws/credentials.go`:
- Around line 183-205: Add a pinned Cloud Credential Operator API dependency,
then update the credentials request construction to use typed
v1.CredentialsRequest and v1.AWSProviderSpec values. Encode the provider spec
through v1.Codec.EncodeProviderSpec before assigning it to the
*runtime.RawExtension ProviderSpec field, and represent permissions with
[]v1.StatementEntry rather than untyped maps while preserving the existing
secret reference, service account, and GVK values.
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Comment on lines +154 to +160
err := c.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{
Name: CredentialsRequestName,
Namespace: CredentialsRequestNamespace,
}, existing)
switch {
case err == nil:
return nil

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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OpenShift Cloud Credential Operator CredentialsRequest spec.secretRef namespace existing request reconciliation

💡 Result:

In OpenShift, the Cloud Credential Operator (CCO) uses the spec.secretRef field in a CredentialsRequest custom resource to define where the generated credentials should be stored [1][2]. The secretRef contains both the name and namespace of the target Secret [3][4]. Regarding the reconciliation process and namespace handling: 1. Cross-Namespace Support: The Secret referenced by secretRef does not need to be in the same namespace as the CredentialsRequest resource [1][2]. It is common practice for CredentialsRequest objects to reside in the openshift-cloud-credential-operator namespace for centralized management, while the target Secrets are placed in the specific component namespaces where they are needed (e.g., openshift-image-registry) [1][2]. 2. Namespace Reconciliation: If the namespace specified in spec.secretRef.namespace does not exist when a CredentialsRequest is created, the CCO controller will not fail [1][2]. Instead, the controller tolerates the missing namespace and will reconcile (i.e., create the Secret) immediately once that namespace is created [5][1][2]. 3. Component Expectations: Cluster components are expected to tolerate the temporary absence of the credentials secret (i.e., until the CCO has successfully reconciled the CredentialsRequest and created the secret) [1][2][6]. The reconciliation loop is automatic and continuous, ensuring that secrets are created or updated to reflect the desired state defined in the CredentialsRequest [7][8]. This behavior allows the CCO to effectively manage credentials across different namespaces while maintaining decoupling between the request for credentials and the lifecycle of the target namespace itself [2][8].

Citations:


Make the CredentialsRequest name unique per operator namespace.

When two deployments use different namespaces, ensureCredentialsRequest finds the same existing request and does not update its spec.secretRef.namespace. The second deployment then reads its own namespace, but CCO maintains the Secret in the first deployment's namespace. Derive the request name from namespace for both Get and Create, and add a test for two namespaces.

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In `@internal/platform/aws/credentials.go` around lines 154 - 160, Update
ensureCredentialsRequest to derive a namespace-specific CredentialsRequest name
from namespace, and use that derived name consistently in both the Get lookup
and Create path instead of the shared CredentialsRequestName. Add coverage
verifying separate operator namespaces produce and manage distinct requests.

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Superseded by #84, which carries this commit and builds the STS handling on top of it. Closing so the work has one home.

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