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feat(kyverno): migrate validate-replica-floor to ValidatingPolicy - #5121
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Fixes #5120 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Issue #5120 requires the extended CLI test to compare identical per-resource outcomes for the legacy ClusterPolicy and the new ValidatingPolicy. The current test defines only the new `ValidatingPo… |
Add CLI coverage that evaluates the same fixtures against a legacy ClusterPolicy representation and the new ValidatingPolicy, then compares the per-resource outcomes. Keep the old production ClusterPolicy deleted and retain the `Audit… |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely states the primary change: migrating validate-replica-floor to ValidatingPolicy. Description check The description explains the migration, preserved behavior, exemptions, expanded test coverage, and linked issue. It is directly related to the changeset. Out of Scope Changes check The policy migration, test fixtures and expectations, Auditbaseline update, exemption documentation, and structural exemption check all support Issue#5120. No unrelated change is established by th…Docstring Coverage No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1… Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
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The policy migration, test fixtures and expectations,
Auditbaseline update, exemption documentation, and structural exemption check all support Issue#5120. No unrelated change is established by the available evidence.
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#5120requires the extended CLI test to compare identical per-resource outcomes for the legacyClusterPolicyand the newValidatingPolicy. The current test defines only the newValidatingPolicyand asserts its results. The test covers unset replicas, zero replicas, StatefulSets, and exemptions. The policy retainsAudit, the requested exemptions, and the new policy kind. The oldClusterPolicyis absent. Production comparison and post-deployment readiness are operational criteria, not coding requirements for this review.Resolution
Add CLI coverage that evaluates the same fixtures against a legacy
ClusterPolicyrepresentation and the newValidatingPolicy, then compares the per-resource outcomes. Keep the old productionClusterPolicydeleted and retain theAuditbaseline entry.
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- Around line 17-21: Move all replica-floor exemptions from the policy’s
matchConditions into the variables.exempt expression and combine that variable
with the replica-count validation so exempt resources receive pass results
during background scans. Update the exemption expectations in the validation
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47-48: LGTM!Also applies to: 56-56, 63-73, 131-143
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43-43: LGTM!
…rts stay current A false matchCondition writes no PolicyReport result, so an exemption added after a failure could leave that failure in place. Exempt workloads now get a current pass, as validate-replica-ceiling already does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Scope read: the whole diff against main, plus every file on main that names this policy or its file (code search for validate-replica-floor and require-replica-floor).
Correctness: the exemptions carry over one for one (workload label, pod-template label, five namespaces, the -primary suffix with at least one leading character, and the named lists). An unset replica count still counts as 1 and an explicit 0 still fails. Audit and background evaluation are preserved. Folding the exemptions into the validation keeps a current pass result for exempt workloads, which matches the documented #2573 requirement.
One P1: a guard elsewhere in the repository stops checking anything after this change (inline).
Security: no trust, execution or egress boundary changes; the policy stays Audit.
Verdict: 1 findings (P0: 0, P1: 1)
…pshotter guard The guard grepped for the old YAML list item, which can no longer match now that the exemptions are CEL string literals. Read the namedExempt expression with yq and fail when it is missing or no longer a name list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Checked: the CEL exemptions against the old preconditions (JMESPath 0 || 1 keeps 0, as orValue(1) does; ?*-primary equals ^.+-primary$), Audit-only action, background evaluation, the folded message string, and every other file that names this policy.
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🟡 Minor · Mark each ValidatingPolicy result explicitly. · kyverno-test.yaml:12
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMark each
ValidatingPolicyresult explicitly.Kyverno v1.19.1 documents
isValidatingPolicy: trueas required forValidatingPolicyresults. The CLI still selects results by policy name, so omitting the field does not cause a no-match failure. Add the field to keep this fixture within the documented result contract.Suggested fix
- policy: validate-replica-floor + isValidatingPolicy: true resources: - normal-singleton - replicas-unset - scaled-to-zero kind: Deployment result: fail - policy: validate-replica-floor + isValidatingPolicy: true resources: - statefulset-singleton kind: StatefulSet result: fail - policy: validate-replica-floor + isValidatingPolicy: true resources: - normal-ha kind: Deployment result: pass - policy: validate-replica-floor + isValidatingPolicy: true resources: - statefulset-ha kind: StatefulSet result: pass - policy: validate-replica-floor + isValidatingPolicy: true resources: - workload-label-exempt - pod-label-exempt - namespace-exempt - keda-operator-metrics-apiserver - demo-primary🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @docs/policy-reports.md:
- Around line 14-16: Update the stale-report proof for the exempt resource to
require a fresh pass result and no retained failure, replacing the outdated
requirement for skip. Also revise any related explanatory text in the same
policy-report documentation to consistently describe the migrated
ValidatingPolicy behavior.
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Learning: In devantler-tech/platform, Kyverno ValidatingPolicy background scans do not write PolicyReport results for false matchConditions. For replica-floor exemptions in k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/validate-replica-floor.yaml, keep exemption predicates in variables.exempt and use variables.exempt || variables.replicas >= 2 so exempt workloads receive a current pass result. CLI skip results do not establish background PolicyReport behavior.
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Scope: the whole pull request. The CEL exemptions match the old preconditions one for one. JMESPath 0 || 1 keeps an explicit 0, as orValue(1) does. ?*-primary equals ^.+-primary$. Each namespace and name list is carried over unchanged. The policy stays Audit-only and keeps background evaluation. Exempt workloads now get a current pass, which the docs and tests describe. Since my earlier round, de3e92e replaced the csi-snapshotter text guard: it now reads the namedExempt expression with yq -e and fails if that variable or its name-list shape is missing, so the check can no longer go blind on a format change. CI is green at this head.
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Why
The next Kyverno release removes the older policy kind. The rule that warns when a workload runs a single copy, and so would go offline during a node drain, still uses that kind and would stop working on upgrade.
What
The same rule is rewritten in the newer policy kind with the same behaviour: it reports, without blocking, workloads running fewer than two copies, and it still leaves alone the workloads that are exempt by label, by namespace or by name. Its test now also covers workloads with no copy count set, workloads scaled to zero and stateful workloads.
Fixes #5120