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feat(postgres)!: mint tenant passwords through the credentials API - #4922
Chart. Tenant accounts, the per-database <db>_admin and <db>_readonly roles and the cozystack:managed marker become CloudNativePG managed roles on the Cluster, each account with passwordSecret naming the account Secret the API seeds (<release>.<account>.account, where <account> is the user name lowercased with every character outside [a-z0-9-] replaced by -; two users mapping to one name fail the render as the API refuses them). The operator creates the role with the SCRAM verifier in the Secret, applies a changed Secret live through the cnpg.io/reload label the definition puts on every account Secret, and reverts drift, so a password set inside PostgreSQL is reverted. The init-script no longer renders <release>-credentials, creates no account, sets no password and no membership; it keeps databases, ownership, privileges, extensions and the removal of undeclared users and roles, and after each run re-grants the marker WITH INHERIT FALSE, SET FALSE and sets createrole_self_grant, the two things the operator has no field for, once the role exists. The refusal to adopt a role the chart did not mark moves into a pre-upgrade hook Job, since the operator adopts a managed role within seconds of the spec reaching it. The Job first reads the live Cluster through a ServiceAccount that may get only that Cluster, not through a template lookup, and connects to the database only when the upgrade adds a role the Cluster does not manage yet or newly grants createRole, so a database that is down blocks no other upgrade; a Cluster it cannot read counts as managing nothing. It reads the createRole flag first and sets it after, so the upgrade that first grants createRole still adopts. The dashboard Role no longer grants the credentials Secret, the init-job no longer mounts it, and the restore note says where passwords come from now.
Definition.postgres-rd declares spec.credentials (scram-sha-256, cnpg.io/reload: "true", accounts from users) and stops selecting postgres-<name>-credentials for the tenantsecrets projection.
Migration 60. The pre-upgrade hook runs credentials-migrate seed, a CLI built from this repository into the migrations image so it shares the API's format functions: for every Postgres release it records the chart version in the credentials-migration-60 ConfigMap in cozy-system and writes each account Secret with the verifier of the password in <release>-credentials, origin Migrated, so clients keep logging in while the charts switch. A release whose users map to one account name is left out with a CredentialsMigrationSkipped Event on its HelmRelease and keeps working as before; one whose Secret is gone is recorded and its accounts get a Secret at their first mint. The migrations image is now built with the repository root as context, so the Makefile and the Dockerfile's COPY paths change with it.
Post-switch Job.cozystack-credentials-migration-60, a Job rather than a hook, created by the platform release where migrations.enabled is set, runs credentials-migrate finish: per recorded release it seeds again what is still missing, waits until the HelmRelease is Ready on a chart version other than the recorded one, removes any users.*.password left in the values, deletes <release>-credentials (no platform account of postgres shares it), and marks the release done. It exits non-zero while a release is left out, so the failed Job is the one place that shows what remains; to run it again, delete the Job and reconcile the platform HelmRelease.
Examples and e2e. The backup walkthrough's application login mints the user's password once through the API and caches it for the run. The postgres chainsaw suite gains a step that mints, logs in over TCP with the password, checks the Credential shows Minted and that neither the Credential, the account Secret nor the Events carry the password, then mints again and sees the first password stop logging in.
Tests. Chart unit tests cover the managed roles render (marker, database roles, accounts with inRoles and the account Secret name, the collision refusal), the pre-upgrade hook, that no object carries a tenant password and nothing grants or mounts the credentials Secret, and the rewritten createRole, delete-users, username and NOTES suites. The CLI has unit tests over a fake client for seeding and idempotence, leaving out a release, recording one whose Secret is gone, waiting for the switch, stripping passwords, and retiring the source Secret while keeping platform keys. The platform chart test pins the Job's gate, image, command and ServiceAccount.
Not run here: the live checks the design puts before wave 1. I have no cluster in this session. Before this merges, the checks under Testing in the design need a run on the pinned versions: CNPG 1.30.0 reconciling a managed role whose Secret carries a verifier written by the API (login works, a mint applies live, a role planted by a createRole holder fails the pre-upgrade hook, a dropped user and database go with their roles, the marker keeps INHERIT FALSE, SET FALSE after a mint), and the hook and Job on an upgrade with existing releases (clients keep logging in throughout, origin Migrated, no users.*.password remains, no tenant route reads <release>-credentials). The chainsaw step covers the fresh-install path in CI once the API from #4921 serves the kind.
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No UI change. The dashboard's credential view and the Regenerate and Revoke actions from the design are not in this PR.
Downstream repositories
Walked the trigger map against the diff. The PostgreSQL chart's users value and README change, and the managed application page on the website is regenerated from the README on a stable tag; the credentials API itself is covered by cozystack/website#753, to which this PR adds the per-application note. The terraform provider derives <prefix>-<name>-credentials as a literal Secret name for its credentials output: that Secret no longer exists for Postgres after the conversion, so its postgres resource's credentials attribute goes empty. Noted on its open credentials issue, since modelling a mint is a product decision. No hack/, variant, namespace or node prerequisite changes; packages/core/platform/values.yaml changes only migrations.targetVersion, which the website's platform-package table does not list.
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feat(postgres)!: PostgreSQL user passwords are issued through the Cozystack credentials API and are no longer readable from the `<release>-credentials` Secret. A password is returned once by a mint on the account's `Credential` (`core.cozystack.io/v1alpha1`, `credentials/<release>.<user>/mint`) and replaced by the next mint; a revoke retires it. Existing passwords keep working through the upgrade: migration 60 converts every Postgres release in the pre-upgrade hook, and the `cozystack-credentials-migration-60` Job in `cozy-system` finishes the conversion once the charts have switched, exiting non-zero while any release is left out (delete the Job and reconcile the platform HelmRelease to run it again). The conversion runs only on a platform variant with `migrations.enabled`; hold mints, revokes and new Postgres applications until the Job reports done. Deleting a Postgres application whose HelmRelease is suspended is now refused. `use` members no longer see passwords; an administrator mints for them.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
PostgreSQL account passwords can now be issued and replaced through the credentials API. Account Secrets store password verifiers rather than readable passwords.
Existing PostgreSQL accounts are migrated to the new credential system, and backup and restore workflows support minting credentials for restored accounts.
Changes
PostgreSQL rejects invalid, reserved, or conflicting account names and reports certain role conflicts during pre-upgrade checks.
Password values supplied in PostgreSQL settings are ignored with an admission warning; password changes made directly in PostgreSQL are reverted.
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Walkthrough
The PostgreSQL chart now uses CNPG-managed roles and account Secrets. A new command migrates existing credentials and tracks release upgrades. Platform migration resources run the command, while backup examples and tests use the credentials API to mint and verify passwords.
Changes: PostgreSQL role management and pre-upgrade checks
The chart maps usernames to account Secret names and renders managed roles with password Secret references. The init script no longer creates user roles or manages their passwords. The templates and tests cover account-name validation, role attributes, memberships, restore notes, and removal of the legacy credentials Secret flow.
Pre-upgrade role checks packages/apps/postgres/templates/hooks/preflight-job.yaml, packages/apps/postgres/tests/preflight_test.yaml
The pre-upgrade hook compares configured roles and create-role grants with the live Cluster. It checks selected existing PostgreSQL roles before an upgrade.
The command seeds account Secrets, records release versions and migration outcomes, waits for a Ready release with a changed chart version, removes passwords from values, and retires source Secret keys. Tests cover seeding, finish behavior, and failure cases.
Migration image and platform rollout packages/core/platform/Makefile, packages/core/platform/images/migrations/*, packages/core/platform/templates/credentials-migration-job.yaml, packages/core/platform/tests/credentials_migration_job_test.yaml, packages/core/platform/values.yaml
The migrations image builds credentials-migrate. Migration 60→61 seeds credentials, and the platform Job runs finish mode when migrations are enabled.
Credential issuance and restore validation examples/backups/postgres/*, docs/operations/backup-classes.md, hack/e2e-chainsaw/postgres/chainsaw-test.yaml, hack/postgres-backup-app-login_test.bats
Backup helpers request and cache minted passwords through the credentials API. Documentation describes credential behavior during restores. Tests check password authentication, replacement, and absence of plaintext from tenant-visible resources.
sequenceDiagram
participant MigrationJob
participant credentials-migrate
participant HelmRelease
participant KubernetesAPI
participant MigrationConfigMap
MigrationJob->>credentials-migrate: run seed or finish
credentials-migrate->>HelmRelease: list releases and read chart versions
credentials-migrate->>KubernetesAPI: read source passwords and create account Secrets
credentials-migrate->>MigrationConfigMap: save release versions and migration state
credentials-migrate->>HelmRelease: wait for Ready release with changed chart version
credentials-migrate->>KubernetesAPI: remove passwords from values and retire source Secret keys
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Possibly related issues
Issue 5165 concerns migration 60 and upgrade migration ordering, which is also involved in this change.
Issue 5035 concerns a suspended HelmRelease deletion race. This change does not address that behavior.
cozystack/cozystack#5085: Uses migration 60→61 and target version 61 for separate application image and version changes.
cozystack/cozystack#4920: Preserves a label on the legacy PostgreSQL credentials Secret involved in this conversion.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9c6df
The pre-upgrade role check does not allow command injection through user or database names, because the chart already rejects unsafe names when it renders. Before merging, the open migration Job upgrade issue and the e2e and helper script issues from earlier reviews should be addressed or explicitly accepted.
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Line 357 still says that passwords are auto-generated and stored in the <release>-credentials Secret. It also tells users to read a password from that Secret. This PR removes that Secret, and the migration Job deletes it after a release switches charts. The users table row above already describes the correct flow: mint on the account's Credential. Replace the note so that users do not follow a command that returns nothing.
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-Passwords cannot be set here — they are auto-generated and stored in the `<release>-credentials` Secret. Read a user's password with `kubectl get secret <release>-credentials -o json | jq -r '.data["user1"]' | base64 -d` (a username may contain a `.`, which `jsonpath` would treat as a path step and return nothing).+Passwords cannot be set here. Obtain a password with a mint on the account's `Credential` (`core.cozystack.io`), named `<release>.<account>`. The mint returns the password once. A later mint replaces it, and a revoke retires it.
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Review comment at @packages/apps/postgres/README.md at line 357:
Update the stale password note in the users documentation: remove the reference
to the deleted credentials Secret and its retrieval command, and describe
obtaining the password by minting the account’s Credential (`core.cozystack.io`)
named `<release>.<account>`. State that minting returns the password once, a
later mint replaces it, and revoking retires it.
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Review comments at @examples/backups/postgres/00-helpers.sh:
- Line 97: Update the cache setup for `cache` to create a private, run-scoped
directory and ensure the cache file has 0600 permissions before writing the
minted password. Add cleanup so the cache is removed when the run ends.
- Line 98: Make the password cache used by app_password run-scoped, or remove it
after each run, so a nonempty cache cannot cause reuse of a stale password; keep
psql_app_exec using the current run’s password.
Review comments at @hack/e2e-chainsaw/postgres/chainsaw-test.yaml:
- Line 153: Set the script shell to Bash in the Chainsaw `script` block so the
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- Around line 35-50: Make the credentials migration Job template safe to upgrade
by preventing changes to an existing Job’s immutable pod template. Use a
release-specific Job name based on the migrations image digest or template hash,
or gate rendering until the migration is complete; update the template comment
to describe the chosen behavior. Locate the Job through its
`cozystack-credentials-migration-60` name and `migrations.image` field.
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Review comments at @packages/apps/postgres/README.md:
- Line 357: Update the stale password note in the users documentation: remove
the reference to the deleted credentials Secret and its retrieval command, and
describe obtaining the password by minting the account’s Credential
(`core.cozystack.io`) named `<release>.<account>`. State that minting returns
the password once, a later mint replaces it, and revoking retires it.
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Protect the minted password cache.
When the shell uses a typical umask of 022, Line 101 creates this predictable /tmp file with permissions that allow other local users to read the minted database password. Create a private, run-scoped directory and a 0600 cache file before writing the password. Remove the cache when the run ends.
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Update the cache setup for `cache` to create a private, run-scoped directory and
ensure the cache file has 0600 permissions before writing the minted password.
Add cleanup so the cache is removed when the run ends.
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app_password reuses a fixed cache path. If another client mints a replacement password, this file remains nonempty, so the helper returns the stale password and psql_app_exec can no longer authenticate. Use a run-scoped cache or remove this cache after each run.
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Make the password cache used by app_password run-scoped, or remove it after each
run, so a nonempty cache cannot cause reuse of a stale password; keep
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Run the mint script with Bash.
Chainsaw v0.2.15 runs script content with sh by default. Line 159 uses Bash process substitution (<(...)), so the new test fails before the first mint. Set shell: bash on this script, or pass the JSON request through a POSIX-compatible input file. (kyverno.github.io)
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Make the Job's pod template stable across releases, or add a delete policy.
The template comment says "The spec never changes". This is not true. image: {{ .Values.migrations.image }} changes in every release, because make image-migrations restamps the digest. Kubernetes does not allow updates to spec.template of a Job. Consider the next platform release with a new migrations digest, when cozystack-credentials-migration-60 still exists. The platform HelmRelease upgrade then fails with a field is immutable error. The Job stays in place in both cases: when it completed, and when it failed because a release was left out. No ttlSecondsAfterFinished value or delete policy removes it. The platform release then blocks until an operator deletes the Job by hand.
Do one of these:
Render the Job only while the migration is pending. For example, gate it on the credentials-migration-60 state ConfigMap, using lookup, until every release is done.
Include the image digest, or a hash of the template, in the Job name. Each release then creates a new Job instead of patching the old one.
Make the Job a Helm hook with before-hook-creation, and accept that it reruns on each upgrade. finish is idempotent, so a rerun is safe.
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changes to an existing Job’s immutable pod template. Use a release-specific Job
name based on the migrations image digest or template hash, or gate rendering
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REQUEST CHANGES. The migration Job and the seed step can break the next platform upgrade or lose passwords, and CI is red on two tests of this PR.
The blockers of #4921 (B1 to B4 there) start to bite as soon as postgres is the first converted kind, so they apply here too.
Blockers
B1: the migration Job breaks the next platform upgrade (high)
packages/core/platform/templates/credentials-migration-job.yaml:32. Pod template of a Job is immutable, but image is restamped on every build and the Job name is fixed, so the first platform release after conversion can't patch it and the platform HelmRelease retries forever (CodeRabbit has this on line 46). helm-controller also waits for Jobs by default, and this one runs up to 30 minutes and exits non-zero while any release is skipped, so one skipped or suspended postgres release keeps the platform HelmRelease in error.
Fix: let migration 60 create the Job (it already runs as cluster-admin) instead of the release manifest. If it stays in the chart, put the image in the Job name, add a TTL and set upgrade.disableWaitForJobs. A chart test that upgrades between two images would catch it.
B2: seed turns a transient API error into a skip and exits 0 (high)
cmd/credentials-migrate/main.go:196. Any error from Get, Delete or Create is recorded as a skip, the hook exits 0 and the chart switches. Helm then deletes <release>-credentials, finish sees the source gone and marks the release done, so no account Secret and no plaintext is left. The comments at main.go:287-289 and migrations/60:15-16 promise fail-closed.
Fix: skip only on account resolve errors (wrap them in a sentinel) and return the rest, so the hook fails and the upgrade retries.
B3: finish retires a release whose recorded chart version is empty (medium)
cmd/credentials-migrate/main.go:193 and :270. For a HelmRelease without history seed records an empty version, so the check in finish is true as soon as the release renders, even on the old chart. The Job then deletes the source and strips users.*.password while the old chart still renders <release>-credentials. The design says a missing version counts as not switched.
Fix: hold and report such a release, add a test next to TestFinishWaitsForTheSwitchThenStripsAndRetires.
B4: the chart accepts reserved, colliding and non-DNS names (medium)
packages/apps/postgres/templates/_accounts.tpl:8. None of the render-time refusals from the design is there (CNPG reserved names streaming_replica, pg_*, cnpg_*, derived database roles, a collision with a derived role, app), and the helper has no DNS-1123 check that account.MapName has, so a bad name makes seed skip the whole release. Renders inline. users.app renders and gets seeded too while the design sections disagree about it, please say which one you followed.
Fix: extend postgres.accountsGuard, add negative tests and a table test that the helper equals account.MapName for every valid name, the design Testing asks for it.
B5: the pre-upgrade hook blocks every upgrade while the database is down (medium)
packages/apps/postgres/templates/preflight-job.yaml:31. The design asks for the hook, but it takes away something that worked. Before, an upgrade with the DB down still applied the manifests (bigger size, more resources) and only the post-upgrade init job failed. Now the hook waits 250 seconds on pg_isready, exits 1 with backoffLimit: 0, and Helm aborts before applying anything. A retry fails the same way (rest.go:1853-1861), so a crash-looping DB can't be fixed through the Application API. The comment in the script says it fails the hook "rather than blocking the upgrade", it does the opposite.
Fix: lookup the live Cluster, check only names missing in spec.managed.roles, and don't render the hook when nothing is new. Test with hasDocuments: 0.
B6: tests are red or not run (medium)
CI is red on this head with two tests. hack/postgres-backup-app-login_test.bats fails 4 of 4 (not ok 1387 to 1390) because it stubs kubectl get secret ...-credentials and psql_app_exec doesn't call it anymore, stub kubectl create --raw .../mint instead. hack/promote-rewrite-tags_test.bats (not ok 1448) wants packages/core/platform/tests/credentials_migration_job_test.yaml in IMAGE_REF_EXTRA_FILES or in its allowlist.
The chainsaw step has <(...), which fails under the /bin/sh of the sandbox (dash). CodeRabbit flagged it on line 150, shell: bash fixes it. What I'd add is a check that passes when it shouldn't, see inline on line 176.
Makefile, not in this diff, doesn't list ./cmd/credentials-migrate/... in go-unit-tests or test-controllers, so the four tests that are the only protection of the migration don't run in CI.
B7: docs still describe the removed model (low)
packages/apps/postgres/README.md:357 tells to read a password from <release>-credentials, that Secret doesn't exist anymore (CodeRabbit has it too, outside the diff).
packages/apps/postgres/values.yaml:262 and its generated copies (values.schema.json:305, README.md:276, api/apps/v1alpha1/postgresql/types.go:225, postgres-rd) say a planted role fails the init job, now the pre-upgrade hook does it.
docs/operations/backup-classes.md:63,67,69 still say the chart generates passwords into <release>-credentials and the init job runs ALTER ROLE ... WITH PASSWORD after restore, with a credentials-pending flag.
Nothing about an unsupported platform downgrade or a manual helm rollback of the release.
Edit the sources and run make generate, not the generated files.
B8: restore on PostgreSQL 13 to 15 gets CREATEROLE past the version guard (medium)
packages/apps/postgres/templates/db.yaml:299. createRole needs PostgreSQL 16 or newer, otherwise the owner can grant itself pg_execute_server_program and run commands on the instance. The guard sits in init-script.yaml:157-158, which isn't rendered with bootstrap.enabled: true, while the managed roles always render. So a tenant app admin sets version: v15, bootstrap.enabled and users.<u>.createRole: true, mints a password and holds CREATEROLE after the restore. Only versions older than the default v18 and only the recovery path, so medium. Renders inline.
Fix: move the version check out of the init-script so it runs before the managed roles render, and add "recovery + PG13/15 is refused" cases to user_createrole_test.yaml.
B9: a built binary in the last commit
credentials-migrate in the repo root, 42547801 bytes, ELF with debug info, added in 23b3d40bb (the "cut comments" commit). .gitignore lists the other root binaries and not this one, and the Dockerfile builds the command from source. Please drop it from the commit that added it, a later git rm keeps 42 MB in history, and add /credentials-migrate to .gitignore.
Follow-ups
These don't block the merge. The merge itself I'd hold for the live checks from the Testing section of the design, you wrote they weren't run: CNPG 1.30.0 with a role whose Secret carries the API verifier (login, mint applied live), a role planted by a createRole holder failing the preflight, delete of a user and database taking the roles, the marker keeping INHERIT FALSE, SET FALSE after a mint, hook and Job on an upgrade with existing releases.
Tests that survive mutations of cmd/credentials-migrate/main.go: the Ready gate in finish removed (the Job strips and closes the source while the upgrade still fails), the Theirs check removed (a foreign Secret stays and CNPG applies its verifier), a HelmRelease deleted between hook and Job (counted as an error, the Job fails forever), the recorded version overwritten when the hook retries, a missing plaintext key still seeded. One test for each.
credentials-migration-job.yaml:12-29: the ServiceAccount and the cluster-admin binding stay as long as migrations.enabled and render on fresh installs too. The design says for the run only, like migration-hook.yaml:62-77.
Question: init-script.yaml:145-172 skips each statement when the role doesn't exist yet and the comment says the next run completes it, but the next run is the next Helm upgrade. If the init job gets ahead of CNPG creating the role, the marker keeps the default grant (SET and INHERIT on) and a createRole user has no createrole_self_grant. I didn't test the timing. A bounded wait on pg_roles before that pass would settle it.
Questions that need a live CNPG. A createRole holder becomes a member of every role it creates, does CNPG revoke that (parents not in inRoles) or fail with "dependent privileges exist" and stall mint. users.app is also written by CNPG from <release>-app, does a restart bring the old password back. The e2e and the backup helper pass the minted password to kubectl exec as an argument, does the audit policy record the exec URI.
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Rendering both image versions of this template gives the same Job name and a changed pod template (Job same name True template changed True), which the API rejects as immutable. Force isn't set in buildHelmReleaseSpec (internal/operator/package_reconciler.go:105-138) and RetryOnFailure retries forever.
Also buildHelmReleaseSpec sets neither DisableWait nor DisableWaitForJobs. Default upgrade timeout of helm-controller is 10 minutes, the Job runs with --timeout=30m and exits non-zero while any release is skipped, with backoffLimit: 6 it ends Failed and the wait fails. That contradicts the comment above this Job, "not a hook so a long wait doesn't hold the upgrade". I took the helm-controller default from its docs and didn't run a real upgrade. Re-running by deleting the Job doesn't work either, without drift detection a reconcile with no change doesn't recreate it, it needs --force or a values change. See B1.
For app_, _svc and x. the helper has no DNS-1123 check, account.MapName (pkg/credentials/account/account.go:67-73) has one, so seed skips the whole release including the users with good names, and the bad user can't mint. See B4.
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This file carries a first-party image ref and isn't enumerated. hack/promote-rewrite-tags_test.bats (not ok 1448) wants it in IMAGE_REF_EXTRA_FILES in hack/lib/image-refs.sh or in the allowlist with a reason.
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kubectl get secret ... -o json | grep -q "$first" looks for the plaintext in raw JSON where .data is base64, so it passes also when the plaintext is stored (a Secret with the plaintext in data gave grep exit 1). Decode .data.password and check the SCRAM-SHA-256$... form instead. The design Testing ("No second disclosure") also asks for tenantsecrets, the application object, the audit log and the Helm history, and for a refused tenant read, none is in this step.
## @field {bool} [createRole] - Whether the user can create and manage roles (CREATEROLE). Requires PostgreSQL 16 or newer. Setting it back to `false` withdraws the attribute only: the roles the user created, and its ADMIN and SET memberships in them, stay. Once any user has held it, the chart no longer adopts an existing role it did not create, so a user or database declared later under the name of such a role fails the init job until a platform administrator drops that role.
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Planted roles are refused by the pre-upgrade hook now, not by the init job. This text is copied into values.schema.json, the README, types.go and postgres-rd, so change it here and run make generate. See B7.
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- Around line 268-280: Update the finishRelease polling loop to check
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Skip suspended HelmReleases immediately. Do not wait out the full timeout.
A suspended HelmRelease does not reconcile, so it never becomes Ready on the switched chart. finishRelease still sleeps until the deadline for it, which is 30 minutes in the Job. With several suspended releases, one finish run takes that long for each of them. Pod restarts can repeat the run up to backoffLimit times. Return a skip error at once when hr.Spec.Suspend is true. The reason then appears in the state ConfigMap without the delay.
Proposed fix
--- "a/cmd/credentials-migrate/main.go"+++ "b/cmd/credentials-migrate/main.go"@@ -265,9 +265,12 @@
if err := m.seedRelease(ctx, hr); err != nil {
return err
}
deadline := m.now().Add(m.o.timeout)
for {
+ if hr.Spec.Suspend {+ return errors.New("HelmRelease is suspended; resume it so the switched chart can reconcile")+ }
if apimeta.IsStatusConditionTrue(hr.Status.Conditions, "Ready") && chartVersion(hr) != "" && chartVersion(hr) != rec.ChartVersion {
break
}
if m.now().After(deadline) {
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The chart generated every user's password at render time into
<release>-credentials, which tenants could read again at any time and
which Helm history kept for MaxHistory revisions, so a deployment whose
policy requires a credential shown once could not run PostgreSQL here.
The accounts move under CloudNativePG's managed roles, each pointing at
the account Secret the Cozystack API seeds, so the operator creates the
role with the SCRAM verifier the Secret holds and applies a changed
Secret live, and a password set inside PostgreSQL is reverted. Every
role is rendered as the init-script created it, because the operator
reverts an attribute that differs, revokes a parent role missing from
inRoles and clears a comment the spec leaves unset, while the
init-script still finds the roles to drop by that comment and by
membership in the marker. The init-script stops creating, passwording
and altering accounts, where it would be a second writer, and keeps the
two things the operator has no field for: the marker membership
narrowed to a record, and createrole_self_grant.
The refusal to adopt a role the chart did not mark moves into a
pre-upgrade hook, because the operator adopts a managed role within
seconds of the spec reaching it and the post-upgrade init-job would
find it adopted already. The definition declares the credentials block,
so the API seeds, serves and mints for the kind, and no longer selects
the credentials Secret, which the chart no longer renders or grants.
BREAKING CHANGE: PostgreSQL passwords are no longer readable from
<release>-credentials. A password is issued once, by a mint on the
account's Credential in core.cozystack.io, and replaced by the next
mint; deleting a Postgres application whose release is suspended is
refused. The conversion needs a platform variant with migrations
enabled.
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Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
The converted postgres chart reads each account's verifier from an
account Secret the API writes, and nothing seeds those Secrets for the
applications that exist before the chart switches: the API seeds only
on a write of the application, and the old chart keeps serving the old
passwords from <release>-credentials until the switch. Without a
migration every existing account would stop logging in at the switch,
since the operator leaves a role whose Secret is missing as it is but
the chart no longer applies the old password either.
Migration 60 runs in the pre-upgrade hook, before any component chart
changes version, and writes the account Secrets with the verifiers of
the chart-generated passwords, origin Migrated, so clients keep logging
in at every point, and records the chart version of each release. A
Job the platform release creates, not a hook so a long wait does not
hold the upgrade and so it can be run again by hand, waits per release
until the converted chart is Ready, removes any users.*.password left
in the values and deletes <release>-credentials, which no platform
account of postgres shares. It exits non-zero while a release is left
out. The verifier is computed by the API's own format function, built
into a CLI the migrations image carries, so a migrated release and a
mint store the same form; the image is built from the repository root
for that reason.
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Comments carry the mechanism, not the rationale; every argument removed
here is in the design proposal, the migration's own template or the PR.
Where one claim appeared at several sites, the copy at the site that
constrains the code stays and the others point at it.
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Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
seed recorded any error as a skipped release and exited 0, so a
transient API error let the chart switch: Helm then deleted
<release>-credentials, finish found the source gone and marked the
release done, and neither an account Secret nor the plaintext was left.
Only a release whose accounts cannot be resolved is left out now; any
other error fails the hook and the upgrade retries.
finish also retired a release recorded without a chart version as soon
as it rendered, old chart included, since an empty version differs from
any other. Such a release is now held and reported. The command's tests
join the unit-test target, so they run in CI.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
The managed roles render on every path, while the refusals lived in
the init-script, which recovery does not render. A restore with an
older PostgreSQL could therefore hand CREATEROLE to a tenant user past
the version check, and nothing refused a user CloudNativePG or
PostgreSQL reserves, one named as a database's own role, or one whose
account name is no valid object name, which made the migration leave
the whole release out. The checks now render with the managed roles,
and the chart's account naming is pinned to the API's on one table of
names.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
The init job may start before CloudNativePG has created the roles from
the spec, and the marking pass skipped any role that did not exist yet.
Such a role then kept the marker with CNPG's default options, SET and
INHERIT on, and a createRole user had no createrole_self_grant, until
the next upgrade ran the job again. The pass now waits up to a minute
for every declared role.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
The e2e step looked for the plaintext in the account Secret's raw JSON,
where data is base64, so it passed even with the plaintext stored, and
it ran process substitution under the sandbox's dash. It now runs
under bash, decodes the stored value and requires a SCRAM verifier,
and also checks the application, every Helm revision, what the
tenant's super-admins read through tenantsecrets, and that they cannot
read the account Secret.
Both the step and the backup helper passed the minted password to
kubectl exec as an argument, which travels in the request URI the
audit log records at any level; it now goes to psql on stdin. The
helper's tests stub the mint instead of the removed Secret read, and
the platform Job test names a neutral image, since a first-party one
there counts as an unenumerated image ref.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
The README told users to read a password from <release>-credentials,
which the chart no longer renders, the createRole text named the init
job as the place a planted role is refused, and the restore notes
described the init job applying chart-generated passwords. They now
describe the mint, the pre-upgrade check, how a restored copy gets its
passwords, and why a downgrade past the conversion is unsupported.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
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Review comments at @docs/operations/backup-classes.md:
- Line 61: Update the restore heading to distinguish that Postgres requires a
target mint before application login, while MariaDB converges managed
application passwords after recovery for backups created with ignoreGlobalPriv.
Review comments at @examples/backups/postgres/00-helpers.sh:
- Around line 97-98: Update app_password to read the Credential before minting
and refuse to rotate an account with an issued password unless the operator
explicitly opts in. When minting, include the resourceVersion from that read as
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Distinguish the Postgres mint requirement in the restore heading.
A restored Postgres copy requires a target mint before application login. MariaDB still converges managed application passwords after recovery for backups created with ignoreGlobalPriv.
Suggested heading
--- "a/docs/operations/backup-classes.md"+++ "b/docs/operations/backup-classes.md"@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
**Cleanup gotcha (zombie backup_agent).** Unlike CNPG/MariaDB/Altinity (one-shot operator-side Backup CRs), the FoundationDB driver creates an `apps.foundationdb.org/FoundationDBBackup` CR that drives a **long-lived** `backup_agent` Deployment streaming continuously to S3. Deleting a Cozystack `Backup` (e.g. via retention sweeping) does NOT stop that Deployment — the agent keeps writing until the next BackupJob's `stopOtherFoundationDBBackups` call swaps it out, until an admin invokes `examples/backups/foundationdb/cleanup.sh`, or until the operator-side CR is deleted by hand. If a tenant deletes their last Cozystack Backup and never submits another BackupJob, the agent pods will continue running indefinitely and accumulate S3 PUTs. This is intentional today (the driver has no RBAC verb to stop the operator-side CR on Cozystack-Backup deletion) but admins should be aware of it.
-## Postgres and MariaDB: a restored copy converges its application passwords shortly after recovery+## Restores: Postgres requires a target mint; MariaDB converges application passwords shortly after recovery
Managed Postgres no longer accepts a plaintext `users[].password`; every application-user password is issued by a mint on the account's `Credential` (`core.cozystack.io`), and only its SCRAM verifier is kept, in an account Secret named `<release>.<user>.account` that no tenant role can read. The CNPG backup snapshot therefore carries no passwords — deliberate, since a snapshot that did was the one place a tenant password sat in cleartext.
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## Postgres and MariaDB: a restored copy converges its application passwords shortly after recovery
## Restores: Postgres requires a target mint; MariaDB converges application passwords shortly after recovery
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Update the restore heading to distinguish that Postgres requires a target mint
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '75,135p' examples/backups/postgres/00-helpers.sh
rg -n 'app_password|psql_app_exec' examples hack docs | head -40
rg -n 'resourceVersion|ResourceVersion|precondition' pkg/credentials pkg/registry 2>/dev/null | head -30
Repository: cozystack/cozystack
Length of output: 7447
Script executed:
# Locate the mint handler and any precondition or resourceVersion handling it uses.
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'CredentialRequest' -e 'mint' -- .| head -60 ||test"$?" -eq 1
echo'--- candidate files with resourceVersion near credentials ---'
rg -l -F --glob '*.go' -e 'credentials' -- .| xargs -r rg -n -F -e 'ResourceVersion' -e 'Precondition' -e 'precondition'| head -60 ||test"$?" -eq 1
echo'--- run-all.sh header and PG_TARGET usage ---'
sed -n '1,40p' examples/backups/postgres/run-all.sh
echo'--- run-all.sh 180-205 ---'
sed -n '180,205p' examples/backups/postgres/run-all.sh
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Length of output: 19886
Guard the implicit mint against rotating an issued password.
app_password mints whenever the cache file is empty. The request sends no precondition, so it can replace a password that another client already holds. In the documented flow, the helper runs against a freshly restored copy that has no other consumer, so the impact is narrower than a production outage. The helper still lacks the guard the API provides. Read the Credential first. Refuse to mint when the account already has an issued password, unless the operator opts in to rotation. When minting, pass the resourceVersion from that read as the mint request's precondition, so a concurrent change makes the mint fail with a conflict.
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Update app_password to read the Credential before minting and refuse to rotate
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The secrecy checks pass when nothing is read.
The refuse calls get their text from command substitutions in arguments. Under set -e, the exit status of refuse "..." "$(cmd)" is the status of refuse, not of cmd. A failed kubectl get, a failed base64 -d or a failed gunzip therefore gives refuse an empty text, and the check passes. The Helm loop has a second gap: if the selector owner=helm,name=postgres-test matches no Secret, the loop runs zero times and the step still passes. In both cases the test reports "no second disclosure" without reading the object.
Capture each text in an assignment first. With pipefail, a failing pipeline then stops the script. Also require at least one Helm release Secret.
Proposed fix
--- "a/hack/e2e-chainsaw/postgres/chainsaw-test.yaml"+++ "b/hack/e2e-chainsaw/postgres/chainsaw-test.yaml"@@ -198,13 +198,18 @@
esac
refuse "the account Secret" "$stored"
- refuse "an Event" "$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get events -o json)"- refuse "the application" "$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get postgreses.apps.cozystack.io test -o json)"+ events=$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get events -o json)+ refuse "an Event" "$events"+ app=$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get postgreses.apps.cozystack.io test -o json)+ refuse "the application" "$app"
# Every revision of the release, decoded: Helm stores each as base64
# of gzipped JSON inside the Secret's base64.
- for rel in $(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get secret -l owner=helm,name=postgres-test -o name); do- refuse "Helm release $rel" "$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get "$rel" -o jsonpath='{.data.release}' | base64 -d | base64 -d | gunzip)"+ rels=$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get secret -l owner=helm,name=postgres-test -o name)+ [ -n "$rels" ] || { echo "no Helm release Secret of postgres-test found" >&2; exit 1; }+ for rel in $rels; do+ text=$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get "$rel" -o jsonpath='{.data.release}' | base64 -d | base64 -d | gunzip)+ refuse "Helm release $rel" "$text"
done
# Everything the tenant's own super-admins can read through
# tenantsecrets, decoded; the account Secret is not among it.
visible=$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get tenantsecrets.core.cozystack.io $as -o json)
The tenantsecrets check at line 214 has the same gap. Assign its decoded text to a variable before calling refuse.
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refuse "an Event" "$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get events -o json)"
refuse "the application" "$(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get postgreses.apps.cozystack.io test -o json)"
# Every revision of the release, decoded: Helm stores each as base64
# of gzipped JSON inside the Secret's base64.
for rel in $(kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get secret -l owner=helm,name=postgres-test -o name); do
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Update the event and application checks to capture each kubectl result before
passing it to refuse, and capture the decoded Helm release pipeline output
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REQUEST CHANGES. Most of my earlier blockers are fixed, see Checked. The Job and the pre-upgrade hook are untouched, the docs have two leftovers, and two more blockers come from reading the CNPG source and the migration encoder. The blockers below are numbered anew, the earlier number is in brackets.
Checked
seed (earlier B2) returns any API error that isn't an unresolvable account, so the hook fails and the upgrade retries (main.go:202-209). TestSeedFailsClosedOnAnAPIError goes red with the old fail-open branch put back.
finish (earlier B3) holds a release with no recorded chart version, and the test goes red without the check.
The chart (earlier B4) refuses postgres, streaming_replica, pg_owner, cnpg_x, app_, a 64 character name, Web next to web, and shop_admin next to database shop, each with a negative test that goes red when its guard is disabled.
The red tests (earlier B6): hack/postgres-backup-app-login_test.bats passes 5 of 5 and hack/promote-rewrite-tags_test.bats 17 of 17 on my machine, the chainsaw step has shell: bash, and ./cmd/credentials-migrate/... is in go-unit-tests.
A recovery on PostgreSQL 13 to 15 with createRole (earlier B8) fails at db.yaml:279 and v16 renders.
The built binary (earlier B9) is in none of the commits of the new stack and /credentials-migrate is in .gitignore.
helm unittest passes for packages/apps/postgres and packages/core/platform.
Blockers
B1: the migration Job still breaks the next platform upgrade (high, earlier B1)
packages/core/platform/templates/credentials-migration-job.yaml:32, unchanged since my first review. Two renders of the platform chart with two migrations images give the same Job name, cozystack-credentials-migration-60, and differ only in image. There is no hook annotation and no TTL, so the second apply patches the pod template of an existing Job and the apiserver refuses it. The generated platform HelmRelease sets no DisableWaitForJobs either (internal/operator/package_reconciler.go:105-138), so helm-controller also waits for this Job, which can run 30 minutes per release. The fix options are the same as before: let migration 60 create the Job, or put the image into the name, add ttlSecondsAfterFinished and set upgrade.disableWaitForJobs.
B2: users.app loses its password when the primary restarts (medium)
app is the role CNPG creates itself at initdb, and its instance manager sets the password of that role from <release>-app again on every start of the primary (internal/management/controller/instance_controller.go:1388 in 1.30.0). The chart renders users: {app: {}} as a managed role with an account Secret, so a password migrated or minted for app is replaced at the next restart. Nothing puts it back and the Credential view keeps showing it as valid. I read this in the CNPG source and didn't restart a primary on a cluster, but it is a known symptom in production, see the section on users.app below.
The design contradicts itself here. README:299, README:337 and example.md:472 say to refuse app and README:348 says it adopts the role. The PR follows 348, which the design allowed, so this is a miss in the design as much as in the PR and the text needs fixing on our side too.
I'd refuse app, as README:337 says, but not on its own. A plain refusal sends tenants to delete the user, and that deletes the role, see below. Existing releases need a safe way out first.
B3: the pre-upgrade hook still blocks an upgrade while the database is down (medium, earlier B5)
packages/apps/postgres/templates/preflight-job.yaml:31, unchanged. helm template --is-upgrade with one user renders the hook with backoffLimit: 0 and the loop that runs exit 1 after 250 seconds. The base chart has no pre-upgrade hook, so an upgrade of a release with a crash-looping database fails before any manifest is applied, and a retry fails the same way. The fix from my first review stands: lookup the live Cluster, check only names missing in spec.managed.roles, and don't render the hook when nothing is new.
B4: a legacy password that SASLprep changes stops working after the migration (low)
cmd/credentials-migrate/main.go:352 hands the legacy password to format.Encode, which uses it as is because the comment at format.go:107-109 assumes the generated ASCII alphabet. The migration feeds it passwords a tenant chose, and PostgreSQL normalizes the password with SASLprep during login. With the legacy password I + soft hyphen + X the seeded verifier rejects the normalized form (probe through seed, migrated verifier rejects the PostgreSQL SASLprep form of the old password). CodeRabbit has the general point on format.go:111 in #4921, here it is a password that worked before the upgrade and doesn't after. Fix: apply SASLprep before PBKDF2, or treat such a password like a missing one, the path at main.go:346-349 that the code already has.
B5: docs, two leftovers (low, earlier B7)
See the inline comments on docs/operations/backup-classes.md.
Follow-ups
seed now fails the hook on any API error that isn't an unresolvable account (main.go:203), and the design says the migration degrades per release, never per fleet (README:299). Is a persistent refusal for one release, a namespace that is terminating for example, meant to stop the whole platform upgrade? That is the fix I asked for in B2, so this is on me. Failing the hook on transient errors only (unavailable, timeout, too many requests, internal) and skipping the release with an Event on the rest would keep it per release. I'm not sure which you want, so I'm asking.
The guard checks users but not the roles derived from databases. databases: {pg_x: {}} and {cnpg_x: {}} render pg_x_admin and cnpg_x_admin into spec.managed.roles (_accounts.tpl:26), and the CNPG webhook rejects reserved managed roles (IsRoleReserved, cluster_webhook.go:2590 in 1.30.0), so the whole Cluster is refused. pg_ names already failed on the base chart at CREATE ROLE, cnpg_ names worked.
Two test gaps. The stdin change in examples/backups/postgres/00-helpers.sh (the password is out of the exec argv) isn't pinned: putting env PGPASSWORD="$pw" psql ... back keeps the bats suite 5 of 5 green, and the stub's exec branch could fail when its arguments contain the password. And the Helm history check in the chainsaw step looks for the plaintext, but a password in a rendered Secret sits base64 encoded in the manifest, so it isn't found (chainsaw-test.yaml:205).
Still open from my earlier review: the ServiceAccount and the cluster-admin binding of the Job stay as long as migrations.enabled, the live CNPG question about the parent role membership of a createRole holder, and holding the merge for the live checks of the design Testing section.
About users.app
I'm writing this out so it can be read without the CNPG source open.
What app is. When CNPG bootstraps a cluster with initdb, which is the default and what the chart uses, it creates the database app and the role app that owns it. The role gets a random password in the Secret <release>-app. Every Postgres app has it, declared or not. If a tenant declares users.app, the chart adopts the existing role instead of creating one (the comment in init-script.yaml on main says so). That is the easy way to get a known password for the owner of the app database.
Why the password is lost. Two things write it. The CNPG instance manager applies <release>-app and remembers the applied version only in memory (instance_controller.go:1434), so it applies it again after every restart of the primary. The other writer is the init-job on main and the CNPG managed role with the account Secret after this PR. The managed role reconciler applies a password only when the Secret version changes and keeps that state in the Cluster status (roles.go:175), so it doesn't repair what the instance manager overwrote.
On main:
create CNPG sets app = P0 (from <release>-app)
init-job sets app = P1 (from <release>-credentials) works with P1
restart CNPG sets app = P0 again P1 stops working
upgrade init-job sets app = P1 again works again
After this PR:
migrate P1 goes into the account Secret, CNPG sets app = P1
restart instance manager sets app = P0
managed role reconciler sees the same Secret version and does nothing
upgrade init-job no longer writes passwords stays P0
mint Secret changes, app = P2 until the next restart
On main an upgrade heals it, after this PR nothing does.
Somebody uses this in production. #4984 reports four apps on one cluster that declare users.app, and the pod restart of a platform upgrade broke two of them. The other two survived because <release>-app and <release>-credentials held the same value. It fixes the old logic by rendering a <release>-app-owner Secret with the <release>-credentials password and setting it as the bootstrap secret. The design didn't count on that case. That PR touches the same db.yaml and init-script.yaml and relies on <release>-credentials, so the two have to be aligned, and its author can't know what we change before it is in main. Someone uses app, so we can't just stop accepting it.
Why a plain refusal is dangerous. A release with users.app would stop rendering with the converted chart, and the natural fix for that message is to remove the user from values. The init-job then sees a managed role (comment user managed by helm and membership of the marker role, init-script.yaml:210), runs REASSIGN OWNED BY app TO "cozystack:orphaned" in every database and DROP USER app (:223-233). The database app and its tables end up owned by a role that can't log in, and the application loses access. CNPG's instance manager also keeps running ALTER ROLE app ... on every reconcile, and it fails without the role (instance_controller.go:329), which stops the rest of its reconcile.
One idea to discuss. Refuse app and give existing releases a way to move what it owns to an explicit user declared through the new mechanism, leaving app as CNPG's own role that nobody uses. Open points:
The migration only talks to the Kubernetes API. Moving ownership (REASSIGN OWNED BY app TO <new> in every database and ALTER DATABASE app OWNER TO <new>) needs SQL on the primary, so it belongs in the init-job or a Job like it, before the delete-users step.
The chart must never drop app. The same step has to remove the helm comment and the marker membership so the delete-users step skips it.
Someone has to name the new user, and everything that connects as app has to switch to that name. Seeding the new account with the old password makes it a change of the username only.
REASSIGN moves ownership and not grants. Grants made to app on objects it doesn't own need to be copied, or the new user can become a member of app.
The refusal message has to say what to do, and must not say to remove the user.
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app isn't refused here and gets an account Secret, see B2 and the section on users.app. The CNPG instance manager writes the password of this role too, from <release>-app, and does it again after every restart of the primary.
fmt.Printf("%s/%s: no password for %q in %s%s; the account gets a Secret at its first mint\n", hr.Namespace, hr.Name, acc.Username, hr.Name, m.o.sourceSuffix)
## Postgres and MariaDB: a restored copy converges its application passwords shortly after recovery
Managed Postgres no longer accepts a plaintext `users[].password`; every application-user password is chart-generated into `<release>-credentials` and read only from there. The CNPG backup snapshot therefore carries no passwords — deliberate, since a snapshot that did was the one place a tenant password sat in cleartext.
Managed Postgres no longer accepts a plaintext `users[].password`; every application-user password is issued by a mint on the account's `Credential` (`core.cozystack.io`), and only its SCRAM verifier is kept, in an account Secret named `<release>.<user>.account` that no tenant role can read. The CNPG backup snapshot therefore carries no passwords — deliberate, since a snapshot that did was the one place a tenant password sat in cleartext.
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The account Secret is named <release>.<account>.account with the mapped account name, web_user becomes web-user. packages/apps/postgres/README.md:357 has it right.
Managed Postgres no longer accepts a plaintext `users[].password`; every application-user password is issued by a mint on the account's `Credential` (`core.cozystack.io`), and only its SCRAM verifier is kept, in an account Secret named `<release>.<user>.account` that no tenant role can read. The CNPG backup snapshot therefore carries no passwords — deliberate, since a snapshot that did was the one place a tenant password sat in cleartext.
**Residue from before the upgrade — this is forward-looking, not retroactive.** The removal scrubs new renders and new snapshots; it does not rewrite copies made earlier, and upgrading preserves the live password (the chart reads the existing `<release>-credentials` through `lookup`), so those older copies still expose the *current* credential. Two sinks retained it: a Postgres `Backup` object created before this release snapshotted `app.spec.users` while that spec still carried a plaintext `password`, so its `status.underlyingResources` held that password in cleartext — a field any tenant with `get backups` in the namespace can read (see the `underlyingResources` caution below); and every pre-upgrade Helm revision of `<release>-init-script` rendered `ALTER ROLE … WITH PASSWORD '<literal>'` into its manifest, retained for `MaxHistory` revisions. There is no in-band rotation to invalidate the exposed value (chart-based rotation was intentionally not added — a chart-rendered Secret cannot revoke a leaked credential; rotation is being reworked as a controller, cozystack/community#72). The backup strategy controller removes `users.*.password` from every CNPG `Backup` snapshot each time its leader starts, so the first sink is cleaned in-cluster after the upgrade, including a `Backup` written by a pre-upgrade replica during the rollout; the start-up log line `legacy snapshot password scrub finished` reports how many it changed. That does not reach copies made outside the cluster — apiserver audit logs, etcd backups, or object-level exports of the `Backup` resources — and the old init-script Secret persists in Helm history until those revisions age out of `MaxHistory`. So after upgrading, treat any password that was ever set through `users[].password` as exposed until it is rotated.
**Residue from before the upgrade — this is forward-looking, not retroactive.** The removal scrubs new renders and new snapshots; it does not rewrite copies made earlier, and upgrading preserves the live password (the chart reads the existing `<release>-credentials` through `lookup`), so those older copies still expose the *current* credential. Two sinks retained it: a Postgres `Backup` object created before this release snapshotted `app.spec.users` while that spec still carried a plaintext `password`, so its `status.underlyingResources` held that password in cleartext — a field any tenant with `get backups` in the namespace can read (see the `underlyingResources` caution below); and every pre-upgrade Helm revision of `<release>-init-script` rendered `ALTER ROLE … WITH PASSWORD '<literal>'` into its manifest, retained for `MaxHistory` revisions. The conversion to minted passwords carries each existing password over as the account's verifier, with origin `Migrated` on its `Credential`, so that password keeps working until a mint on the account replaces it. The backup strategy controller removes `users.*.password` from every CNPG `Backup` snapshot each time its leader starts, so the first sink is cleaned in-cluster after the upgrade, including a `Backup` written by a pre-upgrade replica during the rollout; the start-up log line `legacy snapshot password scrub finished` reports how many it changed. That does not reach copies made outside the cluster — apiserver audit logs, etcd backups, or object-level exports of the `Backup` resources — and the old init-script Secret persists in Helm history until those revisions age out of `MaxHistory`. So after upgrading, treat any password that was ever set through `users[].password` as exposed until a mint replaces it.
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The chart doesn't read <release>-credentials through lookup anymore. The only lookups left in the chart are the CNPG Cluster reads in _versions.tpl:48,55. The migration carries the live password over.
The pre-upgrade refusal connected to the database on every upgrade, so
a database that was down blocked every upgrade, the resize that might
have fixed it included: the hook failed after its wait and Helm applied
nothing. Only a name CNPG does not manage yet can be planted before its
adoption, so the hook now reads the live Cluster first and connects to
the database only when the upgrade adds such a name or newly grants
createRole.
It reads the Cluster at run time with a ServiceAccount that may get
only that Cluster, rather than through a template lookup: nothing
re-renders a release when a looked-up object changes, and the render
stays free of cluster state. A Cluster that cannot be read counts as
managing nothing, so the check still fails closed. The hook moves under
templates/hooks, where the kubectl image pin is kept current.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
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What this PR does
Wave 1 of the accepted user secrets API proposal, PostgreSQL. Stacked on #4921, which adds the API; #4920 is step 2.
Chart. Tenant accounts, the per-database
<db>_adminand<db>_readonlyroles and thecozystack:managedmarker become CloudNativePG managed roles on the Cluster, each account withpasswordSecretnaming the account Secret the API seeds (<release>.<account>.account, where<account>is the user name lowercased with every character outside[a-z0-9-]replaced by-; two users mapping to one name fail the render as the API refuses them). The operator creates the role with the SCRAM verifier in the Secret, applies a changed Secret live through thecnpg.io/reloadlabel the definition puts on every account Secret, and reverts drift, so a password set inside PostgreSQL is reverted. The init-script no longer renders<release>-credentials, creates no account, sets no password and no membership; it keeps databases, ownership, privileges, extensions and the removal of undeclared users and roles, and after each run re-grants the markerWITH INHERIT FALSE, SET FALSEand setscreaterole_self_grant, the two things the operator has no field for, once the role exists. The refusal to adopt a role the chart did not mark moves into a pre-upgrade hook Job, since the operator adopts a managed role within seconds of the spec reaching it. The Job first reads the live Cluster through a ServiceAccount that may get only that Cluster, not through a template lookup, and connects to the database only when the upgrade adds a role the Cluster does not manage yet or newly grants createRole, so a database that is down blocks no other upgrade; a Cluster it cannot read counts as managing nothing. It reads the createRole flag first and sets it after, so the upgrade that first grants createRole still adopts. The dashboard Role no longer grants the credentials Secret, the init-job no longer mounts it, and the restore note says where passwords come from now.Definition.
postgres-rddeclaresspec.credentials(scram-sha-256,cnpg.io/reload: "true", accounts fromusers) and stops selectingpostgres-<name>-credentialsfor the tenantsecrets projection.Migration 60. The pre-upgrade hook runs
credentials-migrate seed, a CLI built from this repository into the migrations image so it shares the API's format functions: for every Postgres release it records the chart version in thecredentials-migration-60ConfigMap incozy-systemand writes each account Secret with the verifier of the password in<release>-credentials, originMigrated, so clients keep logging in while the charts switch. A release whose users map to one account name is left out with aCredentialsMigrationSkippedEvent on its HelmRelease and keeps working as before; one whose Secret is gone is recorded and its accounts get a Secret at their first mint. The migrations image is now built with the repository root as context, so the Makefile and the Dockerfile'sCOPYpaths change with it.Post-switch Job.
cozystack-credentials-migration-60, a Job rather than a hook, created by the platform release wheremigrations.enabledis set, runscredentials-migrate finish: per recorded release it seeds again what is still missing, waits until the HelmRelease is Ready on a chart version other than the recorded one, removes anyusers.*.passwordleft in the values, deletes<release>-credentials(no platform account of postgres shares it), and marks the release done. It exits non-zero while a release is left out, so the failed Job is the one place that shows what remains; to run it again, delete the Job and reconcile the platform HelmRelease.Examples and e2e. The backup walkthrough's application login mints the user's password once through the API and caches it for the run. The postgres chainsaw suite gains a step that mints, logs in over TCP with the password, checks the Credential shows
Mintedand that neither the Credential, the account Secret nor the Events carry the password, then mints again and sees the first password stop logging in.Tests. Chart unit tests cover the managed roles render (marker, database roles, accounts with inRoles and the account Secret name, the collision refusal), the pre-upgrade hook, that no object carries a tenant password and nothing grants or mounts the credentials Secret, and the rewritten createRole, delete-users, username and NOTES suites. The CLI has unit tests over a fake client for seeding and idempotence, leaving out a release, recording one whose Secret is gone, waiting for the switch, stripping passwords, and retiring the source Secret while keeping platform keys. The platform chart test pins the Job's gate, image, command and ServiceAccount.
Not run here: the live checks the design puts before wave 1. I have no cluster in this session. Before this merges, the checks under Testing in the design need a run on the pinned versions: CNPG 1.30.0 reconciling a managed role whose Secret carries a verifier written by the API (login works, a mint applies live, a role planted by a createRole holder fails the pre-upgrade hook, a dropped user and database go with their roles, the marker keeps
INHERIT FALSE, SET FALSEafter a mint), and the hook and Job on an upgrade with existing releases (clients keep logging in throughout, originMigrated, nousers.*.passwordremains, no tenant route reads<release>-credentials). The chainsaw step covers the fresh-install path in CI once the API from #4921 serves the kind.Screenshots
No UI change. The dashboard's credential view and the Regenerate and Revoke actions from the design are not in this PR.
Downstream repositories
Walked the trigger map against the diff. The PostgreSQL chart's
usersvalue and README change, and the managed application page on the website is regenerated from the README on a stable tag; the credentials API itself is covered by cozystack/website#753, to which this PR adds the per-application note. The terraform provider derives<prefix>-<name>-credentialsas a literal Secret name for its credentials output: that Secret no longer exists for Postgres after the conversion, so itspostgresresource's credentials attribute goes empty. Noted on its open credentials issue, since modelling a mint is a product decision. Nohack/, variant, namespace or node prerequisite changes;packages/core/platform/values.yamlchanges onlymigrations.targetVersion, which the website's platform-package table does not list.Release note
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