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The CredentialsRequest this operator makes carries no owner, so it outlives the configuration that asked for it. Deleting the BGPCloudConfiguration leaves the request behind, and with it, on a cluster that mints, the cloud identity the cloud credential operator made to serve it. That is @alebedev87's observation on #122 (r4038418679), raised there as work for a dedicated PR.

Three commits:

  • Build the configuration's owner reference in one place. The FRR path already assembled one by hand; the credentials path needs the same one.
  • Own the CredentialsRequest the operator asks for. Both platforms name the configuration as the request's owner, and reconciling adopts a request that has no owner, so a cluster installed before this change is repaired rather than left as it was.
  • Assert in e2e that the CredentialsRequest goes with the config. E2E-AWS-05 and E2E-AZURE-05 already delete the configuration and check what went with it; the request now belongs on that list.

The configuration is cluster scoped, which is what lets it own an object in openshift-cloud-credential-operator: the ban on crossing namespaces applies to namespaced owners. blockOwnerDeletion is left unset deliberately -- OpenShift enforces ownerReferencesPermissionEnforcement, which would otherwise require this operator to hold delete on bgpcloudconfigurations/finalizers.

Worth stating plainly: an operator uninstall does not delete the BGPCloudConfiguration, so an uninstall on its own still leaves the request behind. What this buys is that deleting the configuration collects it.

The e2e assertion can only fire where the operator actually asked the cluster for credentials. A pod that already holds some -- the identity webhook's, or the profile on a desk running make run -- never asks, so there is no object to own or collect; the specs say so on the way past rather than asserting nothing quietly.

What it does on a cluster

Self-managed AWS, credentialsMode: Manual, driving aws.ResolveCredentials against the live API server. Before:

CredentialsRequest ownerReferences: []
deleted BGPCloudConfiguration
RESULT: CredentialsRequest still present after 90s, refs []

After, on the same cluster:

CredentialsRequest ownerReferences: [BGPCloudConfiguration cluster f37f6d0a-29e2-4f63-8c4c-91db09c73d0c controller=true]
deleted BGPCloudConfiguration
RESULT: CredentialsRequest garbage-collected      (1.35s)

A request seeded by hand with no owner -- what an earlier release leaves -- is adopted on the next resolve and then collected with the configuration. Azure gives the same before and after on a live Azure cluster: survives 90s unowned, collected in 1.58s once owned.

The whole chain, in-cluster, through Reconcile rather than a harness, running the packaged image:

$ oc get credentialsrequest -n openshift-cloud-credential-operator bgp-cloud-connector-azure \
    -o jsonpath='{.metadata.ownerReferences}'
[{"apiVersion":"networking.openshift.io/v1beta1","controller":true,"kind":"BGPCloudConfiguration",
  "name":"cluster","uid":"31624bcd-5e12-46b0-8656-762629fcfa66"}]

$ oc get secret -n openshift-bgp-cloud-connector bgp-cloud-connector-azure-credentials \
    -o go-template='{{range $k,$v := .data}}{{$k}} {{end}}'
azure_client_id azure_client_secret azure_region azure_resource_prefix azure_resourcegroup
azure_subscription_id azure_tenant_id

$ oc delete bgpcloudconfiguration cluster
bgpcloudconfiguration.networking.openshift.io "cluster" deleted

$ oc get credentialsrequest -n openshift-cloud-credential-operator bgp-cloud-connector-azure
Error from server (NotFound): credentialsrequests.cloudcredential.openshift.io "bgp-cloud-connector-azure" not found

$ oc get secret -n openshift-bgp-cloud-connector bgp-cloud-connector-azure-credentials
Error from server (NotFound): secrets "bgp-cloud-connector-azure-credentials" not found

CCO served the request and the operator authenticated with what it wrote -- discovery came back 404 ResourceNotFound for a deliberately fabricated route server name, which only a working token reaches. Deleting the configuration took the request, and CCO's finalizer took the secret with it. That cluster is passthrough, so there is no minted identity to reclaim; the credential material CCO placed on the cluster is the closest thing it has, and it went.

Test plan

  • make test and make lint green.
  • Four new unit tests: the request is owned on create, and an existing unowned request is adopted, for AWS and Azure.
  • Each commit builds, vets and passes its tests on its own.
  • Live AWS and live Azure clusters, before and after, as above.
  • The packaged image deployed with make deploy, driving the full reconcile, as above.

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The controller now creates a shared owner reference for BGPCloudConfiguration and passes it to AWS and Azure credential resolution. Credential requests receive this owner reference when created, and existing requests are adopted or updated when ownership differs. FRR uses the shared helper. Unit and end-to-end tests verify ownership and cleanup after configuration deletion.

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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6a39f

Clusters that later obtain ambient credentials can leave legacy credential requests behind when their configuration is deleted. Fix the adoption path before merging so cleanup works consistently.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 13 | ❌ 2

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Test Structure And Quality ⚠️ Warning The new AWS and Azure Ginkgo checks add cluster assertions without meaningful assertion messages. In both tests, Expect(client.IgnoreNotFound(err)).To(Succeed()) does not identify the CredentialsReq… Add operation-specific messages to each new assertion. For example, identify the configuration and CredentialsRequest in the Get and client.IgnoreNotFound assertions, and state that the CredentialsRequest must be owned by the BGPCloudCo…
Microshift Test Compatibility ⚠️ Warning The changed E2E-AWS-05 and E2E-AZURE-05 Ginkgo specs directly read CredentialsRequest objects through the cloudcredential.openshift.io API group. The custom check explicitly lists `CloudCreden… MicroShift compatibility notice: These tests use the cloudcredential.openshift.io CredentialsRequest API, which is not available on MicroShift. If presubmit CI does not already include MicroShift jobs, verify the tests with `/payloa…
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 83.72% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 43 functions across 9 files.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not introduce a dynamic Ginkgo test title. The changed AWS and Azure E2E titles are static string literals, and the added By labels are also static. The added unit test n…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The pull request does not add a new Ginkgo spec or introduce a SNO-incompatible assumption. It only extends the existing AWS and Azure cleanup specs with CredentialsRequest API reads, owner-reference …
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed changes only add owner references to AWS/Azure CredentialsRequests, centralize owner-reference construction, and add cleanup assertions. The authoritative diff changes nine Go files…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed The pull request introduces no stdout write in OTE process-level code. The only added output calls are GinkgoWriter.Println inside AWS and Azure It blocks, which the check explicitly allows. The a…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS. The PR does not add a Ginkgo declaration; it only extends the existing AWS and Azure cleanup specs. The added code performs Kubernetes API reads, owner-reference checks, deletes, and polling. It…
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce weak cryptography or custom cryptographic code. The changed implementation files add no MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage, and add no crypto packag…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The pull request changes only nine Go files. The reviewed diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest fields such as privileged: true, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, or `allowPr…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed No changed production code logs passwords, tokens, API keys, PII, hostnames, or customer data. The new runtime log fields remain limited to fixed CredentialsRequest and Secret resource names. New test…
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains ownership of AWS and Azure CredentialsRequest objects, garbage collection, adoption, and e2e validation.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: the operator now owns the CredentialsRequest objects it creates.
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Explanation

The new AWS and Azure Ginkgo checks add cluster assertions without meaningful assertion messages. In both tests, Expect(client.IgnoreNotFound(err)).To(Succeed()) does not identify the CredentialsRequest read, and the ownership checks use Expect(e2e.CheckOwnedByConfig(...)).To(Succeed()) without an assertion message. Azure also adds an unannotated configuration Get assertion. The new deletion Eventually calls do have timeouts and messages, and the added code does not create an uncleaned resource.

Resolution

Add operation-specific messages to each new assertion. For example, identify the configuration and CredentialsRequest in the Get and client.IgnoreNotFound assertions, and state that the CredentialsRequest must be owned by the BGPCloudConfiguration when asserting CheckOwnedByConfig. Retain the existing explicit message on the deletion Eventually assertion.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

Explanation

The changed E2E-AWS-05 and E2E-AZURE-05 Ginkgo specs directly read CredentialsRequest objects through the cloudcredential.openshift.io API group. The custom check explicitly lists CloudCredential / CredentialsRequest as unavailable on MicroShift. Neither spec or its enclosing Describe has a [Skipped:MicroShift] label, an unavailable-API [apigroup:...] tag, or an IsMicroShiftCluster() skip guard.

Resolution

MicroShift compatibility notice: These tests use the cloudcredential.openshift.io CredentialsRequest API, which is not available on MicroShift. If presubmit CI does not already include MicroShift jobs, verify the tests with /payload-job periodic-ci-openshift-microshift-release-4.22-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-ocp-conformance (parallel). If the tests are not applicable to MicroShift, add [apigroup:cloudcredential.openshift.io] to the enclosing test name or add [Skipped:MicroShift]; alternatively, add a runtime exutil.IsMicroShiftCluster() check followed by g.Skip().

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/hold

Wait for #122 to merge.

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The FRR path assembles an owner reference naming the singleton by hand.
The credentials path is about to need the same one, so give it a name
rather than a second copy.
The request carries no owner, so it outlives the configuration that
asked for it: deleting the BGPCloudConfiguration leaves the request
behind, and with it, on a cluster that mints, the cloud identity the
cloud credential operator made to serve it.

Name the configuration as the request's owner. It is cluster scoped,
which is what lets it own an object in a namespace that is not its own
-- the ban on crossing namespaces applies to namespaced owners.
Reconciling also adopts a request that has no owner, so a cluster
installed before this change is repaired rather than left as it was.

blockOwnerDeletion stays unset. OpenShift enforces
ownerReferencesPermissionEnforcement, which would otherwise require
this operator to hold delete on bgpcloudconfigurations/finalizers.
The cleanup specs delete the configuration and check what should have
gone with it. The request this operator makes of the cloud credential
operator now belongs on that list: it is collected by the garbage
collector rather than by any code here, so nothing short of a cluster
can show that it works.

An operator whose pod already holds credentials asks the cluster for
none, and on such a run there is no object to own or collect. The specs
say so on the way past rather than asserting nothing quietly, because
an assertion that passes for want of an object reads exactly like one
that passed on its merits.
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frobware force-pushed the credentialsrequest-ownership branch from 2a67dff to 6a39fef Compare September 18, 2026 17:17
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#122 merged as f859727, so there is nothing left to wait for. This is rebased onto main and is three commits, nine files.

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