feat(deployments): support arbitrary secret env vars with k8s managed Secret - #1378
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Added commit `fix(deployments): grant controller get/list on secrets`. Root cause (found via kind + Helm manual test): the managed-Secret create/delete helpers read the Secret (`read_namespaced_secret`) to enforce the ownership-label guard before create (on 409) and before delete, but the core-controller Role only granted secrets `create`/`delete`. `delete_deployment` hit `403 ... cannot get resource "secrets"`, so the Deployment got stuck in `DELETING` and the Secret was orphaned. Fix: add `get`/`list` to the secrets verbs in `controller-role.yaml` (mirroring the configmaps verb set, which uses the same read-guard pattern). Verified end-to-end on a fresh kind + Helm deploy using the fixed chart (no manual RBAC): a deployment with a `secretRef` env var creates the managed Secret + `envFrom`, and on DELETE both the entity (404) and the Secret finalize within one reconcile cycle — controller logs `Deleted deployment entity` with no 403s. |
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Generalize per-deployment secret injection in the nemo-deployments plugin
so container env vars can reference any Platform secret via secretRef, not
just NGC_API_KEY.
- RequestEnvVar now accepts secretRef (was controller-only); enforces
exactly one of value/valueFrom/secretRef.
- secrets.py: generalize resolution. resolve_deployment_config_secrets
resolves any secret_ref to plaintext (docker/openshell). New
resolve_deployment_secret_env collects {env_name: value} for the k8s
managed-Secret path, keeping NGC best-effort omission.
- k8s: materialize a single per-deployment Opaque Secret holding all
resolved secret env values, mounted via envFrom secretRef so plaintext
never lands in the pod manifest. Lifecycle mirrors the ConfigMap
(label-guarded create-if-absent + delete on teardown/rollback, for both
Deployments and Jobs). Auth-proxy sidecar deliberately excluded.
Docker/openshell backends keep resolving to plaintext env (all Docker
supports). Stale-secret refresh on UpdateDeployment is intentionally
deferred (no update route exists yet).
Signed-off-by: Ben McCown <bmccown@nvidia.com>
…cret The k8s deployments backend reads its per-deployment managed Secret to enforce the ownership-label guard before create (on 409 conflict) and before delete. The controller Role only granted secrets create/delete, so read_namespaced_secret returned 403 and delete_deployment failed, leaving the Deployment stuck in DELETING and the Secret orphaned. Add get/list to the secrets verbs (mirroring the configmaps verb set), which the ConfigMap path already relies on for the same read-guard pattern. Root-caused in a kind + Helm deploy: before the fix the controller logged repeated "Backend delete not complete ... cannot get resource secrets" 403s; after granting get, the deployment entity and Secret finalize. Signed-off-by: Ben McCown <bmccown@nvidia.com>
- test_secrets.py: use the initContainers alias (not init_containers) when constructing DeploymentConfig so ty type-checks the new secret-env test (runtime accepted it via populate_by_name, but lint-python-types requires the declared alias). - Regenerate plugins/nemo-deployments/openapi/openapi.yaml so RequestEnvVar reflects the added secretRef field and updated docstrings (fixes lint-openapi drift). Signed-off-by: Ben McCown <bmccown@nvidia.com>
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant KubernetesBackend
participant SecretResolver
participant DeploymentOrJob
participant KubernetesAPI
KubernetesBackend->>SecretResolver: resolve secretRef environment variables
SecretResolver-->>KubernetesBackend: return secret_env
KubernetesBackend->>DeploymentOrJob: create workload with secret_env
DeploymentOrJob->>KubernetesAPI: create managed Secret
DeploymentOrJob->>KubernetesAPI: create Deployment or Job with envFrom
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change can cause one workload container to receive another container’s secret when environment names overlap, while also broadening secret access and permitting invalid secret-source combinations. These security and correctness risks should be fixed before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@k8s/helm/templates/core/controller-role.yaml`:
- Around line 41-45: Remove the list verb from the Secret RBAC rule, leaving
only get, create, and delete for the deployments Kubernetes backend operations.
Update the adjacent comment if needed so it no longer claims list access is
required.
In `@plugins/nemo-deployments/src/nemo_deployments_plugin/schema.py`:
- Around line 55-68: Update validate_single_source in
plugins/nemo-deployments/src/nemo_deployments_plugin/schema.py#L55-L68 to
require exactly one non-None source, rejecting both zero sources and multiple
sources, and replace the JSON schema constraint with an equivalent oneOf rule.
Regenerate the constraint in
plugins/nemo-deployments/openapi/openapi.yaml#L1370-L1391. Extend
plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/test_deployment_config_secret_refs.py#L28-L36
to cover zero sources and the valueFrom plus secretRef combination.
In `@plugins/nemo-deployments/src/nemo_deployments_plugin/secrets.py`:
- Around line 77-85: The secret collection in compile_workload must preserve
each source container’s identity instead of merging values into one shared
secret_env map. Update the flow around _resolve_secret_value so each container
receives only the secret keys requested by its own env entries, including
distinct secretRef values for duplicate variable names; alternatively reject
configurations that cannot safely preserve this isolation. Add coverage for
multiple containers with duplicate names and different secret references.
In `@plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/backends/k8s/test_deployments.py`:
- Around line 268-273: Add the DeploymentConfig return annotation to both
_config_with_secret_env helpers in
plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/backends/k8s/test_deployments.py lines
268-273 and plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/backends/k8s/test_jobs.py lines
215-218, and import DeploymentConfig normally in each test file.
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Looks good, just a couple very tiny nits
- deployments.py: rename the _rollback_partial_create bool flags to should_delete_configmap/should_delete_secret so they no longer shadow the imported delete_configmap/delete_secret helpers. - secrets.py: replace the assert on item.secret_ref with an explicit guard that raises SecretResolutionError, so the invariant holds under python -O and ordering is not load-bearing. - test_deployments.py/test_jobs.py: add the -> DeploymentConfig return annotation to the _config_with_secret_env helpers and import DeploymentConfig directly. Signed-off-by: Ben McCown <bmccown@nvidia.com>
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64-85: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPreserve per-container secret isolation.
resolve_deployment_secret_envmerges all secret-backed variables into one name-to-value map. The Kubernetes path mounts that map through one deployment Secret withenvFrom, so every container can receive another container’s secret. Duplicate names also overwrite distinct references.Return container-scoped secret data and inject only each container’s requested keys, or reject unsafe duplicate-name configurations. This remains the issue raised in the previous review.
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In `@plugins/nemo-deployments/src/nemo_deployments_plugin/secrets.py`:
- Around line 64-85: Update resolve_deployment_secret_env to preserve
per-container secret isolation instead of returning one deployment-wide
name-to-value map. Return or propagate container-scoped secret data, and update
the Kubernetes Secret/envFrom materialization to inject only each container’s
requested keys; alternatively, reject duplicate secret-backed names when
isolation cannot be preserved. Ensure distinct references are not overwritten or
exposed to other containers.
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…_value Move the ngc_secret_ref/is_ngc computation below the early return so it is only evaluated on the fallback path (when the Secrets service returns no value), rather than eagerly on every resolve. Readability/cognitive-load follow-up to the review nits. Signed-off-by: Ben McCown <bmccown@nvidia.com>
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Summary
Generalize per-deployment secret env-var injection in the nemo-deployments plugin so a container env var can reference any Platform secret via
secretRef, not justNGC_API_KEY. Before,RequestEnvVarforbadesecretRefand the resolver hard-failed on any non-NGC ref. After, docker/openshell resolve secret refs to plaintext env (all Docker supports), and k8s materializes a single per-deploymentSecretmounted viaenvFromso plaintext never lands in the pod manifest.This is PR 1 of a stack. It is the foundation for the follow-up that adds AgentEnvironment/EnvironmentSpec/ComputeSpec to the nemo-agents plugin (stacked PR targets this branch).
Changes
RequestEnvVarnow acceptssecretRef; enforces exactly one ofvalue/valueFrom/secretRef.resolve_deployment_config_secretsresolves anysecret_refto plaintext (docker/openshell). NGC stays best-effort (omitted when unresolved); other missing secrets are a hard error.resolve_deployment_secret_envcollects{env_name: value}for the k8s managed-Secret path, leaving the config'ssecret_refenv vars intact.compiler.py,deployments.py,jobs.py,labels.py): a single per-deployment OpaqueSecretholds all resolved secret env values, mounted viaenvFrom: secretRef. Lifecycle mirrors the ConfigMap exactly — label-guarded create-if-absent + delete on teardown/rollback, for both Deployments and Jobs. The auth-proxy sidecar is deliberately excluded from the secretenvFrom. No reconciler changes: teardown and orphan cleanup already route throughdelete_deployment.Deferred (documented in code): refreshing a stale k8s Secret on
UpdateDeployment— there is no update route today, so it is unreachable.Type of Change
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Verification
Signed-off-by:trailerTargeted validation:
uv run ruff check plugins/nemo-deployments/→ All checks passeduv run --frozen ty check plugins/nemo-deployments/src/nemo_deployments_plugin/→ All checks passeduv run --frozen pytest plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit --import-mode=importlib→ 411 passed, 17 skippedNote: running plain
pyteston the raw plugin path from repo root hits a pre-existing duplicate-test_backend.py-basename collision (prepend import mode);--import-mode=importliband the CI-m unitpath both collect cleanly. Unrelated to this change.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
secretRef.Tests