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Why

The next Kyverno release removes the old policy format, and the rule that keeps every Flux deployment configured for safe retries, cleanup and health checks still uses it. Five of the ten policies in this migration are already done; this moves the sixth so the upgrade is not blocked on it.

What

The rule is rewritten in the new format with the same blocking behaviour, the same scope and the same two exemptions (the bootstrap deployment, and the UniFi deployment in production only). A new test pins the rule's behaviour for both kinds of Flux object, and it passed unchanged before and after the rewrite. Checked against every Flux object running in production today: all pass, and only the two exempt deployments are left out.

Fixes #5128

devantler and others added 2 commits October 20, 2026 16:49
…olicy rewrite

Part of #5128.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrites the Flux reliability policy as a ValidatingPolicy with the same
Deny action, kinds, background evaluation and exclusions, and deletes the
ClusterPolicy in the same change. The Hetzner UniFi exemption becomes an
appended matchCondition and the EKS CI validator pins that new shape.

Fixes #5128

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/flux/enforce-flux-best-practices.yaml
  • k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure/kustomization.yaml
  • scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go
  • scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main_test.go
  • tests/enforce-flux-best-practices/kyverno-test.yaml
  • tests/enforce-flux-best-practices/resources.yaml
  • tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating/kyverno-test.yaml
  • tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating/missing-reliability/kyverno-test.yaml
  • tests/policy-failure-actions.json
📝 Walkthrough

The Flux best-practices policy now uses Kyverno ValidatingPolicy with CEL validations for Kustomizations and HelmReleases. The policy matches specified Flux API versions, evaluates in background mode, and excludes the bootstrap Kustomization. The UniFi exclusion patch and its validator now use match conditions. New policy tests cover valid and invalid resources, and existing test expectations and failure-action configuration use the consolidated policy name.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ee12e

The required Go lint check may block this change, and the policy validator can miss a narrowed enforcement scope. Fix those issues and complete the required HelmRelease test coverage before merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Error Issue #5128 requires the existing tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating CLI test to gain compliant and noncompliant HelmRelease cases. The reviewed changes add coverage in the separate `tests/enforce… Extend tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating with the required HelmRelease pass and fail cases, including retries: -1, while preserving the expected results across the policy migration. Run and pass kyverno test ./tests and the fixture…
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed
Check name Status Explanation
Description check Passed The description clearly explains the migration to Kyverno ValidatingPolicy, the preserved behavior and exemptions, the added tests, and the validation results.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the migration of enforce-flux-best-practices to ValidatingPolicy.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed policy, migration-specific test fixtures, failure-action baseline, Hetzner exemption patch, and validator updates all support the ValidatingPolicy migration in issue #5128. The associated …
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files. (5 skipped: 5 …
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Explanation

The changed policy, migration-specific test fixtures, failure-action baseline, Hetzner exemption patch, and validator updates all support the ValidatingPolicy migration in issue #5128. The associated validator tests verify the new exemption representation. No unrelated change is established by the supplied evidence.

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Issue #5128 requires the existing tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating CLI test to gain compliant and noncompliant HelmRelease cases. The reviewed changes add coverage in the separate tests/enforce-flux-best-practices test and only remove old rule-name fields from tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating. The new policy, Deny action, Flux kinds, background evaluation, bootstrap exclusion, bounded github-config alternative, old-policy replacement, and Enforce baseline entry are present. The supplied evidence does not establish kyverno test ./tests or the fixture-evaluation check result.

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Extend tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating with the required HelmRelease pass and fail cases, including retries: -1, while preserving the expected results across the policy migration. Run and pass kyverno test ./tests and the fixture-evaluation check.

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🟡 Minor · Add HelmRelease cases to tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating. · kyverno-test.yaml:11-23

tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating/kyverno-test.yaml:11-23
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add HelmRelease cases to tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating.

Issue #5128 requires this named suite to cover compliant and noncompliant HelmRelease objects, including retries: -1. The suite currently loads only Kustomization fixtures. Its HelmRelease cases exist in the separate tests/enforce-flux-best-practices suite. This leaves the named test suite without the required HelmRelease coverage.

Suggested fix
 resources:
   - resources.yaml
+  - helmrelease-resources.yaml
 results:
@@
   - policy: enforce-flux-best-practices
     resources:
       - flux-system/flux-system
     kind: Kustomization
     result: skip
+  - policy: enforce-flux-best-practices
+    resources:
+      - tenant/hr-unlimited-retries
+    kind: HelmRelease
+    result: pass
+  - policy: enforce-flux-best-practices
+    resources:
+      - tenant/hr-zero-install-retries
+    kind: HelmRelease
+    result: fail

Add helmrelease-resources.yaml with compliant and noncompliant HelmRelease fixtures, including a compliant fixture with install.remediation.retries: -1 and upgrade.remediation.retries: -1.

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Review comment at @tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating/kyverno-test.yaml around
lines 11 - 23:
Extend the flux-bootstrap-health-gating test suite to load
helmrelease-resources.yaml and add enforce-flux-best-practices results for
compliant tenant/hr-unlimited-retries and noncompliant
tenant/hr-zero-install-retries HelmRelease fixtures. Create the HelmRelease
fixtures, including unlimited install.remediation.retries and
upgrade.remediation.retries values of -1.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go:
- Around line 227-231: Update the matchConstraints validation in the validator
around constraints to pin resourceRules to the exact expected Flux Kustomization
and HelmRelease rules, including apiGroups, apiVersions, CREATE/UPDATE
operations, and resources, while rejecting resourceNames, scope, missing rules,
or altered rules. Preserve rejection of other narrowing fields and update
TestValidateUnifiPruneExemption fixtures to use the real resourceRules.
- Around line 189-191: Rename the package-level error variable
unifiPruneExemptionError to errUnifiPruneExemption and update all seven
references in validateUnifiPruneExemption, preserving the existing error value
and return behavior.

Review comments at @tests/enforce-flux-best-practices/kyverno-test.yaml:
- Around line 16-53: Add a Kustomization regression fixture for the
github-config/github-config exception with wait omitted, and include it in the
expected fail resources alongside the existing wait: false fixture. Preserve the
current wait: false fixture and result.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating/kyverno-test.yaml:
- Around line 11-23: Extend the flux-bootstrap-health-gating test suite to load
helmrelease-resources.yaml and add enforce-flux-best-practices results for
compliant tenant/hr-unlimited-retries and noncompliant
tenant/hr-zero-install-retries HelmRelease fixtures. Create the HelmRelease
fixtures, including unlimited install.remediation.retries and
upgrade.remediation.retries values of -1.

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  • k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/flux/enforce-flux-best-practices.yaml
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  • scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main_test.go
  • tests/enforce-flux-best-practices/kyverno-test.yaml
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[error] 189-189: ST1012: error var unifiPruneExemptionError should have name of the form errFoo

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Compare matchConstraints with the reviewed shape so added resourceNames,
dropped operations or dropped rules cannot narrow the policy, name the
error variable per Go convention, and pin that the github-config
alternative still needs wait set to false.

Part of #5128

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolution of the outside-diff finding (review at ee12eb5, "Add HelmRelease cases to tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating"): refuted, no change. #5128 asks for the policy's behaviour to be pinned, not for a particular suite to hold it. The HelmRelease cases — compliant, retries: -1, and each missing or zero remediation field — live in the dedicated tests/enforce-flux-best-practices suite added by this PR, which loads the same policy file. tests/flux-bootstrap-health-gating keeps its narrower purpose (the bootstrap and github-config health-gating exceptions). Copying the HelmRelease fixtures there would duplicate coverage without adding a case.

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