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docs(security): record that node image-verification produces decisions - #3378
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The ImageVerificationConfig STATUS block and the liveness script both stated that it was not established whether a matched rule had ever produced a verification decision, on the reasoning that every first-party image is cached so no rule-matching pull occurs. That is no longer accurate. containerd records a per-image `talos.dev/verified` label for images Talos verified, and the label tracks rule MATCH rather than signedness. Measured across all 7 nodes on 2026-08-26: 755 of 755 cached ghcr.io/devantler-tech/* images carry it, and 0 of 1299 cached images with a resolvable non-first-party repository name do. Flux and CloudNativePG publish cosign-signed images to ghcr.io and never carry the label, which is what rules out signedness as the cause and leaves rule match as the discriminator. What remains unproven is the refusal: every first-party image pulled here has passed, so a failing decision has never been observed to block a pull. That is unchanged and remains #3336's job. Also records the pre-activation enumeration the STATUS block asks for: ksail and provider-upjet-unifi verify against the exact keyless identity their rules require; wedding-app and ascoachingogvaner are private packages whose unauthenticated cosign verify returns DENIED, which is an access result and not evidence a signature is absent. Part of #3101 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughUpdated image-verifier documentation to distinguish rule matching and verification decisions from proven image-pull refusal. Recorded measured labels for cached first-party and non-first-party images. Updated the first-party inventory with verification results for two images and unknown status for two private packages. Added guidance that unsigned matching images should enter 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@talos/cluster/verify-first-party-images.yaml`:
- Line 30: Update the comment near the unsigned-image verification logic to
describe ImagePullBackOff as expected behavior rather than an established
outcome, while explicitly retaining that pull refusal has not been observed or
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24-33: LGTM!talos/cluster/verify-first-party-images.yaml (1)
11-21: LGTM!
The BEFORE ACTIVATING note asserted that a matched-but-failing image is refused and that an unsigned first-party image goes ImagePullBackOff, while the same file records twenty lines earlier that a failing decision has never been observed to block a pull. Stating the refusal as established is the exact defect this change set exists to correct, so the note now reads as expected behaviour and points at the issue that would prove it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The status block said settling the two private images needs a token carrying read:packages. It does not: validate-image-verifier-liveness.yaml already decrypts the cluster's own Flux GHCR pull credential into DOCKER_CONFIG before running the inventory. Record that, while still declining to claim a PASS result no run has produced. The inventory script also still said the rules have never produced a decision, which is the exact claim this PR disproves. Align it with the header's framing: decisions are observed, the refusal is not.
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- Around line 10-12: Update the explanatory comment near the unsigned-image
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28-32: LGTM!Also applies to: 42-51
Enforcement happens at the pull, so an unsigned matching image is refused when that image is next pulled while other cached images keep running. The comment claimed one pull turns every latent violation into a simultaneous ImagePullBackOff, which overstates the blast radius and would mislead the enablement decision. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…order "Surfacing one at a time" claims a serialization the mechanism does not guarantee. Enforcement is per image at the pull, so a violation is scoped to the workloads that need THAT image pulled -- but a tag bump rolls replicas and nodes together, so one failing image can stop several of them concurrently. Comment-only; the 269 code lines are byte-identical.
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Resolution record for the previous CodeRabbit finding (blast-radius wording), fixed in The finding was the mirror of the preceding round's. An earlier revision overstated blast radius by describing a simultaneous fleet-wide pull failure; the replacement wording then understated it by asserting a serialization the mechanism does not guarantee — a tag bump rolls replicas and nodes concurrently. The wording now states the actual behaviour without claiming either bound. The change is comment-only: proven by stripping comment lines from both revisions and comparing (269 == 269 non-comment lines), with a negative control, and the readback was byte-identical. Note for the record: the review request and this resolution record were both posted by a previous run as literal file paths ( @coderabbitai review |
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Green review secured — held as a draft on one named, unmet readiness condition. Status at
What is still missing: the behavioural evaluation. This PR modifies two scripts and a Talos machine-config fragment, so it has a real runtime surface and does not qualify for the no-runtime-surface exemption. Nothing on this PR records the scripts having been run at this head. I am not promoting on an unmet condition, and I deliberately did not manufacture one: exercising these needs a checkout of the platform repository at this head, and this repository's shared checkout has known-broken worktree isolation, so creating one carelessly risks colliding with a parallel session. Next step, for whoever picks this up: run |
Behavioural evaluation recorded — the held condition is now met, and the basis for it has been corrected. The previous run held this draft because it "modifies 2 scripts + a Talos fragment, so the no-runtime-surface exemption does NOT apply". That judgement was made on the file count, not on whether any behaviour changes, and it was wrong. Measured at
So the rules the cluster actually consumes, and the code both scripts actually run, are unchanged by this PR. It has no exercisable runtime surface: the change is prose inside header comments. Exercised anyway, rather than resting on that argument: both unit suites run green at this head — One thing I could NOT do, stated rather than glossed: I did not re-measure the 755/1299 Promoting on that basis. |
Motivation
Two places in this repo state that we do not know whether the clusters node-level image
signature verification actually decides anything — the
ImageVerificationConfigstatus blockand the liveness checker. Anyone assessing our supply-chain posture reads that as "declared but
unproven".
It is proven, and it has been all along. We were looking for the evidence in the wrong place.
What changed
Records the measurement and corrects both statements. Talos marks every image it verifies, and
that mark follows our declared rules rather than merely whether an image is signed — across the
whole fleet, every first-party image carries it and no other image does, with no exceptions.
Other vendors publish signed images to the same registry and never carry it, which is what makes
the result attributable to our rules.
Also records the signature audit the status block asks for before this control is switched to
enforcing. Two of the four first-party images running today are confirmed good. The other two
sit in private repositories that the current credentials cannot read, so their state is
genuinely unknown rather than bad — that gap is called out where the next person will look.
One thing deliberately not claimed: we still have never seen a failing image actually turned
away, because none of ours has ever failed. That proof stays open as #3336.
Documentation only — no behaviour change.
Part of #3101