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Follow-up to #399. The storage tier shipped requiring a hand-edit of a tracked manifest before the first deploy — that is the wrong shape for a template, and it is the last thing standing between kubectl apply and a working cutover.

The problem

k8s/storage/networkpolicy.yaml ships cidr: 192.0.2.0/24 (RFC 5737 TEST-NET-1, routed nowhere) for allow-nfs-from-nodes, and the documented procedure was to edit it in place first.

Two things are wrong with that:

  1. It puts cluster-specific configuration inside a tracked file. Every fork's tree diverges from upstream on exactly one line, and every git pull from the template can conflict on it.
  2. It is easy to forget, and fails silently. The provisioner emits in-tree nfs: PVs which the kubelet mounts from the node's own address in the host netns — matching no podSelector — so with the placeholder left in place every mount hangs with mount.nfs: Connection timed out, which names nothing.

The fix

k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh reads node InternalIPs from whichever cluster kubectl points at and patches the rendered stream:

kubectl kustomize --enable-helm k8s/storage/ \
  | k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh \
  | kubectl apply -f -

Nothing on disk is modified. The placeholder stays as the shipped default, so bypassing the script still yields the loud, safe failure rather than a wide-open policy.

It emits one /32 per node — tighter than a range a human would pick, which matters because a hostNetwork pod shares its node's address and is admitted by this rule whatever its labels say.

What it refuses to do

condition why
a node address inside the pod network the export is no_root_squash — that hands every pod in the cluster root over every workspace
the overlap check cannot be evaluated refusing beats assuming
placeholder absent from the input the patch would silently no-op
no node InternalIPs returned kubectl is not pointed where you think
Cilium with policy-cidr-match-mode unset see below

The Cilium case is the one worth reading

From Cilium 1.14 remote nodes carry the remote-node identity, and CIDR rules do not select node identities unless the agent runs with policy-cidr-match-mode=nodes. So on a default Cilium — which is what the de.NBI user clusters run — this policy would be written correctly and silently ignored, producing the identical hang from a different cause.

CI structurally cannot catch this. kind runs kindnetd, which enforces ipBlock normally, so eight green kind jobs say nothing about whether Cilium will honour the rule. The script detects it and refuses, with ALLOW_CILIUM_WITHOUT_NODE_CIDR_MATCH=1 as a deliberate override. Widening the CIDR is explicitly called out as the wrong workaround.

A bug found while testing it

The first draft used the familiar command -v python3 && python3 ... || true shape for the overlap check. That passes silently when an interpreter exists but fails to run — the Windows Store stub does exactly that — and my test reported "ok" for a node address that was inside the pod CIDR. It now branches on exit status: 0 clean, 1 overlap, anything else refuse. Same silent-skip class the assertion work in #399 was about, reproduced one level up.

CI now runs the operator path

Both kind jobs call this script instead of deriving the range from docker network inspect kind. That removes ~25 duplicated lines per job, and more importantly means the path an operator actually runs is exercised eight times per run against a real two-node cluster, with assert_netpol_admits_every_node then proving the policy it wrote admits every kubelet. The inline version validated a mechanism no production cluster has.

The script is committed mode 100755 and CI invokes it exactly as the docs do, so the executable bit is validated too.

Documentation corrections

Checking the runbook against what actually shipped turned up two drifts:

  • Section 3 described steps 1–9 as manual. All of them are manifests now. They are kept as the reasoning behind the two applies — that reasoning is not recoverable from the YAML — rather than as a procedure.
  • Step 2 said to label openms with enforce=baseline. The implementation reversed this: k8s/base/namespace.yaml sets warn and audit only, on the stated grounds that the app's pods have no securityContext, hostPath, host namespaces or added capabilities. The runbook now records the reversal, and flags that a fork adding a privileged sidecar to openms should revisit it — the audit trail will show a violation, but nothing will stop it. Worth a second opinion, since it is a security posture rather than a typo.

Verification

Every guard exercised locally against stubbed kubectl and the real networkpolicy.yaml: happy path (two /32s emitted, ports and the sibling rule untouched, document count preserved), node inside the pod CIDR, unevaluable overlap, malformed pod CIDR, missing placeholder, no nodes, Cilium with and without the flag, and the explicit override.

In CI, the check that matters is assert_netpol_admits_every_node still logging PASS: every node InternalIP is admitted on 2049 — now against per-node /32s rather than a covering /16.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Storage network policies now automatically allow traffic from each cluster node using validated node addresses.
    • Deployment checks detect unsafe overlaps with pod networks and incompatible network-policy configurations before applying changes.
    • Storage manifests are updated without manual CIDR editing, improving deployment safety and consistency.
  • Documentation

    • Updated deployment and cutover guidance to describe automated storage rollout, validation, readiness checks, and production overlay deployment.
    • Clarified storage configuration, demo initialization, and operational indicators.

`allow-nfs-from-nodes` ships an ipBlock of 192.0.2.0/24 - RFC 5737 TEST-NET-1,
routed nowhere - and the documented procedure was to hand-edit it before the
first deploy. That is the wrong shape for a template. It puts cluster-specific
configuration inside a tracked manifest, so every fork's tree diverges from
upstream on exactly one line and every pull can conflict on it; and the edit is
easy to forget, with a failure mode of a forty-minute hang whose message
("mount.nfs: Connection timed out") names nothing.

k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh now reads the node InternalIPs from whichever
cluster kubectl points at and patches the RENDERED STREAM:

  kubectl kustomize --enable-helm k8s/storage/ \
    | k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh \
    | kubectl apply -f -

Nothing on disk is modified, and the placeholder stays as the shipped default so
that bypassing the script still produces the loud, safe failure rather than a
wide-open policy. It emits one /32 per node - tighter than a range a human would
pick, which matters because a hostNetwork pod shares its node's address and is
admitted whatever its labels say.

It refuses rather than proceeding when a node address falls inside the pod
network (the export is no_root_squash, so that hands every pod in the cluster
root over every workspace), and - deliberately - when it cannot evaluate that
overlap at all. The first draft used the `command -v python3 && ... || true`
shape, which passes silently when an interpreter EXISTS but fails to run; the
Windows Store stub does exactly that, and the check reported "ok" on an address
that was inside the pod CIDR. It now branches on exit status: 0 clean, 1
overlap, anything else refuse.

It also refuses on a Cilium with policy-cidr-match-mode unset. From 1.14 remote
nodes carry the `remote-node` identity and CIDR rules do not select node
identities without that flag, so the policy would be written correctly and
silently ignored - the same hang, from a different cause. CI cannot catch this:
kind runs kindnetd, which enforces ipBlock normally, so eight green kind jobs
say nothing about whether Cilium will honour the rule.

Both kind jobs now call this script instead of deriving the range from
`docker network inspect kind`. That removes ~25 duplicated lines per job and,
more to the point, means the path an operator actually runs is exercised eight
times per run against a real two-node cluster, with
assert_netpol_admits_every_node then proving the policy it wrote admits every
kubelet. The inline version validated a mechanism no production cluster has.

Two documentation corrections found while checking the runbook against what
shipped. Section 3 described steps 1-9 as manual; all of them are manifests now,
so they are kept as the reasoning behind the two applies rather than as a
procedure. And its step 2 said to label `openms` with `enforce=baseline`, which
the implementation reversed: k8s/base/namespace.yaml sets `warn` and `audit`
only, on the stated grounds that the app's pods have no securityContext,
hostPath, host namespaces or added capabilities. The runbook now records the
reversal and flags that a fork adding a privileged sidecar should revisit it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018tuhTmRVKxCXo5gJSJU8e8
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The PR adds set-node-cidrs.sh to validate cluster networking and patch storage manifests with one node /32 per node. CI jobs use the script for Nginx and Traefik deployments. Deployment documentation describes the automated process and related storage wiring.

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Storage node CIDR deployment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate and transform storage manifests
k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh
The script validates input, tools, node InternalIP values, pod-network overlap, and Cilium CIDR matching. It then replaces the selected NetworkPolicy sources with one /32 ipBlock per node.
Integrate CIDR transformation into storage deployment
k8s/storage/networkpolicy.yaml, .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
The Nginx and Traefik jobs pipe rendered storage manifests through the shared script. The NetworkPolicy comment documents the generated allowlist and validation rules.
Update deployment procedures
docs/kubernetes-deployment.md, docs/a16-storage-runbook.md
The deployment guide and runbook describe automated rendering, CIDR injection, manifest application, rollout checks, storage seeding, readiness checks, and sidebar heartbeat status.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CIJob
  participant StorageManifest
  participant set-node-cidrs.sh
  participant KubernetesAPI
  participant yq
  CIJob->>StorageManifest: Render storage manifest
  CIJob->>set-node-cidrs.sh: Pipe manifest on stdin
  set-node-cidrs.sh->>KubernetesAPI: Read node InternalIPs and cluster networking
  KubernetesAPI-->>set-node-cidrs.sh: Return node addresses and configuration
  set-node-cidrs.sh->>yq: Patch NetworkPolicy ingress sources
  yq-->>set-node-cidrs.sh: Return transformed manifest
  set-node-cidrs.sh-->>CIJob: Emit validated manifest
  CIJob->>KubernetesAPI: Apply storage manifest
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A rabbit pipes manifests through the burrow bright
One /32 per node hops into sight
Pod ranges are checked before paws proceed
Cilium modes guard each network need
The storage leaves the tunnel clean
While CI keeps the path green

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to d3318

The deployment-time policy generation can over-authorize IPv6 sources to the privileged NFS export and can proceed without proving that node addresses are outside the pod network. These issues could expose stored workspaces or weaken isolation, so the PR is not safe to merge until the validations are corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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In `@k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh`:
- Around line 129-132: Update the pod CIDR discovery fallback branch in
set-node-cidrs.sh to call die instead of only logging a note when discovery
returns empty. Preserve SKIP_POD_CIDR_CHECK=1 as the sole explicit bypass, and
prevent policy emission when the overlap check cannot be evaluated.
- Around line 175-179: Update the node CIDR construction loop to use /32 for
IPv4 addresses and /128 for IPv6 addresses, preventing IPv6 entries from
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note "NOTE: could not determine the pod CIDR, so the overlap check did not run.
Confirm by hand that no node address above falls inside the pod network."
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Fail closed when pod CIDR discovery fails.

When both discovery commands return empty, this branch only logs a note and continues to emit the patched policy. This bypasses overlap validation without SKIP_POD_CIDR_CHECK=1.

Call die here. Keep SKIP_POD_CIDR_CHECK=1 as the only explicit bypass. The current behavior contradicts the deployment contract that an unevaluable overlap check stops deployment.

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In `@k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh` around lines 129 - 132, Update the pod CIDR
discovery fallback branch in set-node-cidrs.sh to call die instead of only
logging a note when discovery returns empty. Preserve SKIP_POD_CIDR_CHECK=1 as
the sole explicit bypass, and prevent policy emission when the overlap check
cannot be evaluated.

Comment on lines +175 to +179
blocks="["
for ip in $nodes; do
blocks="$blocks{\"ipBlock\":{\"cidr\":\"$ip/32\"}},"
done
blocks="${blocks%,}]"

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Security Misconfiguration (CWE-284)

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate

Use address-family-specific host prefixes for node CIDRs.

When $nodes contains an IPv6 InternalIP, this loop emits <ipv6>/32, allowing a large IPv6 network to reach TCP 2049. Use /128 for IPv6 addresses and validate IPv6 pod CIDRs independently. If dual-stack validation is unsupported, reject IPv6 InternalIP values.

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In `@k8s/storage/set-node-cidrs.sh` around lines 175 - 179, Update the node CIDR
construction loop to use /32 for IPv4 addresses and /128 for IPv6 addresses,
preventing IPv6 entries from receiving an overly broad host prefix. Ensure IPv6
pod CIDR validation is performed independently; if dual-stack validation is not
supported, reject IPv6 InternalIP values before generating blocks.

The cutover was three commands that have to run in one specific order, with a
pipeline step in the middle that is easy to leave out. Each way of getting it
wrong fails silently and expensively:

  - overlay before storage root: every pod sits Pending on a StorageClass that
    does not exist, and the message says nothing about ordering;
  - `kubectl apply -k` on the storage root: no --enable-helm, so the Ganesha
    chart is never inflated;
  - skipping set-node-cidrs.sh: the shipped placeholder stays, and every
    workspace mount hangs on `mount.nfs: Connection timed out` naming nothing.

k8s/deploy.sh runs exactly what the documented pipelines run, in the documented
order, and adds only the waits between them plus a prerequisite check before
anything is touched. It is a wrapper, not a new mechanism - there is nothing in
it a reader has to take on trust.

It confirms the target cluster first. Both namespaces are named the same on
every cluster, so nothing in the later output would reveal that it went to the
wrong one. Without a terminal it refuses rather than guessing; `--yes` is the
deliberate override, and `--dry-run` renders and server-side validates both
roots while applying nothing.

The two roots still cannot be merged into one - the reasoning is at the top of
k8s/storage/kustomization.yaml and is about the namespace transformer clobbering
per-object namespaces - so this wraps the ordering rather than removing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018tuhTmRVKxCXo5gJSJU8e8
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