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Grant RBAC to read the cluster APIServer config
alebedev87 Sep 16, 2026
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Honor APIServer tlsAdherence and watch for TLS profile changes
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Apply cluster TLS profile to the webhook server
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Enable tls-profiles bundle annotation and drop kube-rbac-proxy
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4 changes: 0 additions & 4 deletions bundle-hack/container_digest.sh
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export OPERATOR_IMAGE_PULLSPEC='registry.redhat.io/albo/aws-load-balancer-rhel9-operator@sha256:369c8c618d251106127fc181a7442726f948d3c9e6b9bef761f4f26936fbb179'
# Controller
export OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC='registry.redhat.io/albo/aws-load-balancer-controller-rhel9@sha256:e416e2d857b3b2481f102611b70f5e2df71463fe7ea03bf3cc57cc9985c41552'
# kube-rbac-proxy
# Latest version of v4.19 tag is used.
# Catalog link (health grade A): https://catalog.redhat.com/en/software/containers/openshift4/ose-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9/652809a5244cb343fb4a4b66?image=6a291e91c7ee40ca259b3f3a
export KUBE_RBAC_PROXY_IMAGE_PULLSPEC='registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9@sha256:32540431240e12c07d35f9f390b196aae5cc2188e9db6365e41e6bbe7070d8c2'

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could we do kube rbac proxy clean up in a separate PR, to keep this one focused? It is a leftover of #313 hence, let's not fixed here.

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This PR is an umbrella for everything we didn't do in #313. I think a separate commit is enough to keep things clean.

8 changes: 1 addition & 7 deletions bundle-hack/update_bundle.sh
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# Check for environment variables pertaining to the bundle
if [ -z "${OPERATOR_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}" ] ||
[ -z "${OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}" ] ||
[ -z "${KUBE_RBAC_PROXY_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}" ] ||
[ -z "${MANIFESTS_DIR}" ] ||
[ -z "${METADATA_DIR}" ] ||
[ -z "${SUPPORTED_OCP_VERSIONS}" ] ||
[ -z "${VERSION}" ]; then
echo "ERROR: Not all required environment variables are set"
echo " OPERATOR_IMAGE_PULLSPEC"
echo " OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC"
echo " KUBE_RBAC_PROXY_IMAGE_PULLSPEC"
echo " MANIFESTS_DIR"
echo " METADATA_DIR"
echo " SUPPORTED_OCP_VERSIONS"
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sed -i -e "s|openshift.io/aws-load-balancer-operator:latest|${OPERATOR_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" \
-e "s|docker.io/amazon/aws-alb-ingress-controller:.*$|${OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" \
-e "s|quay.io/aws-load-balancer-operator/aws-load-balancer-controller:.*$|${OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" \
-e "s|quay.io/aws-load-balancer-operator/aws-load-balancer-controller@.*$|${OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" \
-e "s|gcr.io/kubebuilder/kube-rbac-proxy:.*$|${KUBE_RBAC_PROXY_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" \
-e "s|quay.io/openshift/origin-kube-rbac-proxy:.*$|${KUBE_RBAC_PROXY_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" "${CSV_FILE}"
-e "s|quay.io/aws-load-balancer-operator/aws-load-balancer-controller@.*$|${OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC}|g" "${CSV_FILE}"

export EPOC_TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)
export TARGET_CSV_FILE="${CSV_FILE}"
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replaces = os.getenv('REPLACES_VERSION')
operator_pullspec = os.getenv('OPERATOR_IMAGE_PULLSPEC', '')
operand_pullspec = os.getenv('OPERAND_IMAGE_PULLSPEC', '')
kube_rbac_proxy_pullspec = os.getenv('KUBE_RBAC_PROXY_IMAGE_PULLSPEC', '')
csv = load_manifest(os.getenv('TARGET_CSV_FILE'))

# Update metadata
Expand All @@ -96,7 +91,6 @@ operator_sha = operator_pullspec.split('@sha256:')[1]
annotation_image_name = f'aws-load-balancer-rhel9-operator-{operator_sha}-annotation'
csv['spec']['relatedImages'] = [
{'name': annotation_image_name, 'image': operator_pullspec},
{'name': 'kube-rbac-proxy', 'image': kube_rbac_proxy_pullspec},
{'name': 'manager', 'image': operator_pullspec},
{'name': 'controller', 'image': operand_pullspec}
]
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion bundle/manifests/aws-load-balancer-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml
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Expand Up @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ metadata:
features.operators.openshift.io/disconnected: "false"
features.operators.openshift.io/fips-compliant: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/proxy-aware: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/tls-profiles: "false"
features.operators.openshift.io/tls-profiles: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/token-auth-aws: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/token-auth-azure: "false"
features.operators.openshift.io/token-auth-gcp: "false"
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- apiGroups:
- config.openshift.io
resources:
- apiservers
- infrastructures
verbs:
- get
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion config/manifests/bases/aws-load-balancer-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml
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features.operators.openshift.io/disconnected: "false"
features.operators.openshift.io/fips-compliant: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/proxy-aware: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/tls-profiles: "false"
features.operators.openshift.io/tls-profiles: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/token-auth-aws: "true"
features.operators.openshift.io/token-auth-azure: "false"
features.operators.openshift.io/token-auth-gcp: "false"
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions config/rbac/role.yaml
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Expand Up @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ rules:
- apiGroups:
- config.openshift.io
resources:
- apiservers
- infrastructures
verbs:
- get
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140 changes: 125 additions & 15 deletions main.go
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Expand Up @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
"flag"
"fmt"
"os"
"reflect"
"time"

// Import all Kubernetes client auth plugins (e.g. Azure, GCP, OIDC, etc.)
Expand All @@ -44,10 +45,12 @@ import (
ctrl "sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/cache"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/controller"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/healthz"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/log/zap"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/metrics/filters"
metrics "sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/metrics/server"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/reconcile"
"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/webhook"

networkingolmv1 "github.com/openshift/aws-load-balancer-operator/api/v1"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -117,9 +120,26 @@ func main() {

ctrl.SetLogger(zap.New(zap.UseFlagOptions(&opts)))

// The manager runs with a cancelable context so that the TLS profile watcher
// can trigger a graceful shutdown when the cluster TLS configuration changes,
// letting the Deployment restart the pod to pick up the new profile.
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctrl.SetupSignalHandler())
defer cancel()

restConfig := ctrl.GetConfigOrDie()
profile := getTLSSecurityProfile(ctx, restConfig)

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startup and watcher use different reads. TLS is selected here, but there is another Get later on around line 361, if adherence profile changes, like from Legacy to Strict the process will run with the old config but treat the new values as the baseline and not restart

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Good point, let me try to make setupTLSProfileWatch use the same TLS profile as retrieved here.

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Addressed.

tlsConfig, err := getTLSConfigFromProfile(profile.spec)
if err != nil {
setupLog.Error(err, "unable to get TLS configuration from profile")
os.Exit(1)
}

webhookSrv := webhook.NewServer(webhook.Options{
TLSOpts: []func(config *tls.Config){
func(config *tls.Config) {
config.MinVersion = tlsConfig.MinVersion
config.CipherSuites = tlsConfig.CipherSuites
config.CurvePreferences = tlsConfig.CurvePreferences
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nit: this could a PR on its own - Webhook TLS fix — apply cluster TLS profile to the webhook server

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The PR aims at fixing all remaining gaps in a single PR. The webook change is in a separate commit for the clear separation and easy of reviewing.

if webhookDisableHTTP2 {
config.NextProtos = []string{"http/1.1"}
}
Expand All @@ -128,14 +148,6 @@ func main() {
Port: 9443,
})

restConfig := ctrl.GetConfigOrDie()
profile := getTLSSecurityProfile(context.TODO(), restConfig)
tlsConfig, err := getTLSConfigFromProfile(profile)
if err != nil {
setupLog.Error(err, "unable to get TLS configuration from profile")
os.Exit(1)
}

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moving this code block above is no-op, what is the motivation behind?

mgr, err := ctrl.NewManager(restConfig, ctrl.Options{
Scheme: scheme,
Metrics: metrics.Options{
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}
//+kubebuilder:scaffold:builder

// Watch the cluster APIServer so that runtime changes to the TLS security
// profile or adherence policy trigger a restart to re-apply them.
if err = setupTLSProfileWatch(mgr, cancel, profile); err != nil {
setupLog.Error(err, "unable to set up TLS profile watch")
os.Exit(1)
}

if err := mgr.AddHealthzCheck("healthz", healthz.Ping); err != nil {
setupLog.Error(err, "unable to set up health check")
os.Exit(1)
Expand All @@ -234,7 +253,7 @@ func main() {
}

setupLog.Info("starting manager")
if err := mgr.Start(ctrl.SetupSignalHandler()); err != nil {
if err := mgr.Start(ctx); err != nil {
setupLog.Error(err, "problem running manager")
os.Exit(1)
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -295,19 +314,110 @@ var tlsGroupToCurveID = map[configv1.TLSGroup]tls.CurveID{
configv1.TLSGroupX25519MLKEM768: tls.X25519MLKEM768,
}

func getTLSSecurityProfile(ctx context.Context, config *rest.Config) *configv1.TLSSecurityProfile {
// shouldHonorClusterTLSProfile returns true if the component should honor the
// cluster-wide TLS security profile settings from apiserver.config.openshift.io/cluster.
// Unknown enum values are treated as StrictAllComponents for forward compatibility.
func shouldHonorClusterTLSProfile(adherence configv1.TLSAdherencePolicy) bool {
switch adherence {
case configv1.TLSAdherencePolicyNoOpinion, configv1.TLSAdherencePolicyLegacyAdheringComponentsOnly:
return false
default:
return true
}
}

// tlsProfileWatcher watches the cluster APIServer for changes to the TLS security
// profile or adherence policy. When either changes from the value observed at
// startup, it cancels the manager context so the pod restarts and re-applies the
// new configuration to its TLS servers.
type tlsProfileWatcher struct {

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IMHO, we can do it simpler, given that we do not perform any reconcilation on the watched resource.

we can indtroduce a TLS profile watch — raw informer, no controller

Registered inline in main() after the manager is created, replacing setupTLSProfileWatch:

if profile.found {
    if err := mgr.Add(manager.RunnableFunc(func(ctx context.Context) error {
        inf, err := mgr.GetCache().GetInformer(ctx, &configv1.APIServer{})
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
        if _, err := inf.AddEventHandler(toolscache.ResourceEventHandlerFuncs{
            UpdateFunc: func(oldObj, newObj interface{}) {
                oldAS := oldObj.(*configv1.APIServer)
                newAS := newObj.(*configv1.APIServer)
                if oldAS.Spec.TLSAdherence != newAS.Spec.TLSAdherence ||
                    !reflect.DeepEqual(oldAS.Spec.TLSSecurityProfile, newAS.Spec.TLSSecurityProfile) {
                    setupLog.Info("cluster TLS configuration changed, exiting to re-apply")
                    os.Exit(0)
                }
            },
        }); err != nil {
            return err
        }
        <-ctx.Done()
        return nil
    })); err != nil {
        setupLog.Error(err, "unable to set up TLS profile watch")
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

We need no context wrapping, no code movement

setupLog.Info("starting manager")
if err := mgr.Start(ctrl.SetupSignalHandler()); err != nil {
    setupLog.Error(err, "problem running manager")
    os.Exit(1)
}

client client.Client
cancel context.CancelFunc
initialProfile *configv1.TLSSecurityProfile
initialAdherence configv1.TLSAdherencePolicy
}

func (w *tlsProfileWatcher) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, _ reconcile.Request) (reconcile.Result, error) {
var apiServer configv1.APIServer
if err := w.client.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: "cluster"}, &apiServer); err != nil {
return reconcile.Result{}, client.IgnoreNotFound(err)
}

// An adherence change always requires re-evaluation. A profile change only
// matters when the current adherence policy makes the operator honor the
// profile; in legacy or unset mode the profile does not affect the operator's
// TLS configuration, so a profile-only change must not trigger a restart.
adherenceChanged := apiServer.Spec.TLSAdherence != w.initialAdherence
profileChanged := shouldHonorClusterTLSProfile(apiServer.Spec.TLSAdherence) &&
!reflect.DeepEqual(apiServer.Spec.TLSSecurityProfile, w.initialProfile)

if adherenceChanged || profileChanged {
setupLog.Info("cluster TLS configuration changed, shutting down to re-apply it",
"oldAdherence", w.initialAdherence, "newAdherence", apiServer.Spec.TLSAdherence)
w.cancel()
}

return reconcile.Result{}, nil
}

// setupTLSProfileWatch registers a controller that watches the cluster APIServer
// and cancels the manager context when the TLS profile or adherence policy
// changes. It is a no-op when the APIServer config API is unavailable
// (e.g. on non-OpenShift clusters).
func setupTLSProfileWatch(mgr ctrl.Manager, cancel context.CancelFunc, profile *tlsProfile) error {
if !profile.found {
return nil
}

watcher := &tlsProfileWatcher{
client: mgr.GetClient(),
cancel: cancel,
initialProfile: profile.spec,
initialAdherence: profile.adherence,
}

return ctrl.NewControllerManagedBy(mgr).
Named("tlsprofilewatcher").
WithOptions(controller.Options{NeedLeaderElection: ptr.To(false)}).
For(&configv1.APIServer{}).
Complete(watcher)
}

type tlsProfile struct {
spec *configv1.TLSSecurityProfile
adherence configv1.TLSAdherencePolicy
// found reports whether the APIServer config was read;
// when false the TLS profile watch is not set up.
found bool
}

func getTLSSecurityProfile(ctx context.Context, config *rest.Config) *tlsProfile {
profile := &tlsProfile{}

cl, err := client.New(config, client.Options{Scheme: scheme})
if err != nil {
setupLog.Info("failed to create temporary client to fetch APIServer config, using default intermediate profile")
return nil
setupLog.Info("failed to create temporary client to fetch APIServer config, using default intermediate profile", "error", err)
return profile
}
var apiServer configv1.APIServer
err = cl.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: "cluster"}, &apiServer)
if err != nil {

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This path treats every read failure as “APIServer unavailable”: it silently applies Intermediate and then profile.found == false disables the watcher permanently. I think we should distinguish transient failures so they can retry or fail startup rather than permanently disabling TLS updates.

setupLog.Info("failed to fetch APIServer config, using default intermediate profile")
return nil
setupLog.Info("failed to fetch APIServer config, using default intermediate profile", "error", err)
return profile
}
return apiServer.Spec.TLSSecurityProfile

profile.found = true
profile.adherence = apiServer.Spec.TLSAdherence

// Only honor the cluster TLS profile if tlsAdherence is set to StrictAllComponents
if !shouldHonorClusterTLSProfile(apiServer.Spec.TLSAdherence) {
setupLog.Info("not honoring cluster TLS profile due to tlsAdherence policy", "tlsAdherence", apiServer.Spec.TLSAdherence)
return profile
}

profile.spec = apiServer.Spec.TLSSecurityProfile

return profile
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate non-availability errors from getTLSSecurityProfile. The initial client.New or APIServer Get error currently returns found: false. Startup then skips setupTLSProfileWatch, starts with default TLS settings, and cannot adopt later profile or adherence changes until an external restart. Preserve this fallback only for the documented unavailable-API/NotFound case. Return other errors to the startup path so they are surfaced instead of silently disabling TLS profile management.

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In `@main.go` around lines 394 - 420, Update getTLSSecurityProfile to distinguish
the documented unavailable-API or NotFound cases from other client.New and
APIServer Get errors: retain the default-profile fallback only for those
unavailable cases, and propagate all other errors to the startup caller so
setupTLSProfileWatch is not silently skipped.

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}

func getTLSConfigFromProfile(profile *configv1.TLSSecurityProfile) (*tls.Config, error) {
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//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=configmaps,namespace=system,verbs=get;list;watch
//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="networking.k8s.io",resources=ingressclasses,verbs=get;list;watch;create;update;patch;delete
//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="config.openshift.io",resources=infrastructures,verbs=get;list;watch
//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="config.openshift.io",resources=apiservers,verbs=get;list;watch
//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="apps",resources=deployments,namespace=system,verbs=get;list;watch;create;update;patch;delete
//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="networking.k8s.io",resources=networkpolicies,namespace=system,verbs=get;list;watch;create;update;patch;delete
//+kubebuilder:rbac:groups="",resources=serviceaccounts,namespace=system,verbs=get;list;watch;create;update;patch;delete
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