feat(event-ledger): authorize NVCA writes via SIS PSAT introspection - #1960
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NVCA authenticates to Event Ledger with a Kubernetes projected service-account token (PSAT), not an OpenBao-issued JWT, so it was rejected by the existing OpenBao-only verification path. Add an internal/nvca introspection client (mirrors ReVal's SIS/ICMS introspection authorizer) and wire it into the auth middleware: a JWT-shaped bearer token is verified locally against OpenBao first, and only on failure is it retried against SIS's NVCA introspection endpoint. A verified NVCA identity is trusted only on the write routes it was scoped for, never as a stand-in for an arbitrary read scope. The SIS-resolved clusterId is treated as authoritative over whatever cluster_id a request payload claims, rejecting a mismatch or filling in a missing value before the event context is built. Auth.Introspection is a new, separate runtime config from stack-level deployment gating: enabling it without a URL fails startup rather than silently accepting unverified NVCA callers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
newJWTWithPSATMiddleware still verifies an OpenBao JWT first; it only falls back to SIS for a PSAT. Name it after the token type it accepts, not the one caller (NVCA) that currently sends one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 11 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds SIS-backed NVCA PSAT introspection and integrates it with event-ledger authentication. Configuration and startup support optional introspection. Verified NVCA cluster IDs are applied during OTLP and CloudEvent extraction. ChangesNVCA PSAT authentication
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Collector
participant EventLedger
participant JWTMiddleware
participant SIS
Collector->>EventLedger: submit event with bearer token
EventLedger->>JWTMiddleware: authenticate request
JWTMiddleware->>JWTMiddleware: try local JWT verification
JWTMiddleware->>SIS: introspect token after local verification fails
SIS-->>JWTMiddleware: return introspection result
JWTMiddleware->>EventLedger: attach validated NVCA identity to request context
EventLedger->>EventLedger: bind cluster ID during event extraction
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src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/startup/run_service.go (1)
312-313: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDo not log and return the same client-creation error.
runServicereturns this error through Cobra tomain.go, wherelogger.Sugar().Fatal(err)logs it again. Return the wrapped error and let the service entry point log it once.Proposed fix
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In `@src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/service/v3_test.go`:
- Around line 779-827: Add CloudEvent NVCA cluster-binding tests around
TestExtractCloudEvent_ResourceID and extractCloudEvent, supplying
middleware.WithNVCAIdentity in the context. Cover matching, missing, and
mismatched payload cluster IDs, asserting the established success or rejection
behavior and preserving the existing resourceId mapping coverage.
In `@src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/internal/config/config.go`:
- Around line 175-176: Update ValidateAuthConfig and nvca.NewClient to parse the
configured introspection URL and accept it only when it is absolute and uses the
https scheme; reject empty, malformed, relative, or non-HTTPS URLs while
preserving the existing ReVal ICMSIntrospect client path.
In `@src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/internal/nvca/introspect.go`:
- Line 175: Update the response-reading flow around io.ReadAll in the
introspection request to read through io.LimitReader with a small configured
maximum size, then detect and reject responses that exceed that limit while
preserving the existing error handling for valid responses.
- Line 169: Instrument the outbound request in the introspection flow around
httpClient.Do with an outbound tracing span and SIS-specific RED metrics for
request count, duration, and errors. Use bounded, fixed metric labels derived
from the request outcome rather than dynamic URL or error values, and preserve
the existing cancellation and response/error handling behavior.
- Around line 151-152: Update the result-caching condition in the introspection
flow to require a non-empty result.ClusterID in addition to result.Active and
IsValidNVCASubject(result.Sub), so only identities meeting the complete
authorization contract are passed to cacheStore.
- Around line 245-251: Add a fixed maxCacheEntries bound to the Client cache and
update the insertion logic around cacheMu so a new key at capacity evicts one
existing entry before assignment; remove the full expiry scan while preserving
expiry validation in cacheLookup. Add focused tests covering the entry limit and
eviction behavior.
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In `@src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/startup/run_service.go`:
- Around line 312-313: In runService, remove the logger.Error call for the NVCA
introspection client creation failure and retain the wrapped error return so the
service entry point logs it once.
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Wrap the nvca.Client's HTTP transport with otelhttp, matching the shared-client pattern already used for JWKS fetching, so the SIS introspection call gets a span and OpenTelemetry's standard HTTP client metrics instead of running uninstrumented. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/internal/nvca/introspect.go`:
- Line 128: Update NewClient to parse and validate the configured introspection
URL, requiring the https scheme before constructing the client. Configure the
http.Client’s CheckRedirect callback to return an error so callIntrospect never
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Don't cache an active, subject-valid SIS response that's missing ClusterID: it's a failure outcome (the middleware 403s it same as an inactive token), so caching it same as a success would pin that 403 for the full TTL even after SIS starts returning a complete response. Bound the introspection cache at a fixed entry count with O(1) random eviction on overflow, instead of an unbounded map scanned for expired entries on every write while holding the lock. Add cluster-binding test coverage for extractCloudEvent mirroring the existing extractK8sEvent coverage, since bindNVCAClusterID is wired into both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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There is already substantial overlap between this new Event Ledger client and ReVal's existing SIS/ICMS introspection client, while NATS auth callout uses a different webhook contract and should remain separate. From a KISS/YAGNI perspective, could we extract only the stable RFC 7662/NVCA client primitive into This avoids maintaining two copies of the same security-sensitive transport and validation logic without introducing a generalized NVCA authentication framework. — Mike + Codex collaborative review |
| // An SIS-introspected NVCA identity carries no scopes either. | ||
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| if _, ok := NVCAIdentityFromContext(parentCtx); ok && requiredScopes == WriteScopes { |
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Could we scope this to the intended V3 ingestion routes rather than the shared WriteScopes value? As written, an introspected NVCA identity is accepted by every V1/V2 and future write route, while the authoritative cluster binding exists only in the V3 extractors. Also, an authenticated NVCA identity presented to a non-write route falls through to ErrMissingClaims and returns 401; the issue's definition of done calls for 403 when an authenticated identity lacks route or scope authorization. A route-local marker (or equivalent exact-route check) plus read/legacy-route tests would keep the authorization surface explicit.
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Good catch. Fixed in 078150761: added an allowNVCAIdentity flag to requireScopes, off by default, plus a MaybeRequireScopesAllowNVCA wrapper that only the two V3 write routes (/v3/ledger/k8s-events, /v3/ledger/cloudevents) use — the routes that actually call bindNVCAClusterID. Every other WriteScopes route, including the V1/V2 legacy ones, no longer accepts an NVCA identity at all.
Note V1/V2 are already disabled by default in self-hosted (deprecate-endpoints: true), so this wasn't reachable in practice today, but the route-scoping was still a correctness gap worth closing directly rather than relying on that config flag.
Also fixed the 401/403 issue: an NVCA identity denied for a route now gets 403 Forbidden, matching every other authenticated-but-unauthorized case in this middleware, instead of falling through to the generic 401.
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This cluster-authorization failure is currently handled like an ordinary per-event validation error: the batch loops continue, and sendEventResponse returns 400 when all events fail or 200 partial_success when a mixed batch contains valid events. The definition of done requires 403 for cluster authorization failures. Could this return a typed authorization error that aborts the batch before any DB write, with the handler mapping it to 403? An endpoint-level test should also assert the status and zero writes.
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Fixed in 70c3ce9be: bindNVCAClusterID failures now abort the batch before any DB write and return 403, instead of being folded into the generic per-event validation path. Added endpoint-level tests for both PostK8sEventV3 and PostCloudEventV3 asserting 403 and zero stored events.
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| // no JWT verification configured | ||
| case introspector != nil: | ||
| jwtVerify = newJWTWithPSATMiddleware(*jwtOpts, jwkCache, introspector) |
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Should introspection be rejected unless selfManaged is true? In managed mode, a successfully introspected PSAT continues into apiKeyAuth, but processJWTToken has removed the Authorization header and introspection adds an NVCA identity rather than JWT claims. The PDP therefore receives an empty API key, making an accepted configuration unusable or dependent on surprising policy behavior. If managed mode is intended, it needs an explicit NVCA-identity-to-PDP contract and a test; otherwise startup validation is the simpler fix.
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| // from stack-level deployment gating (addons.eventLedger.enabled): a stack | ||
| // can enable the Event Ledger release without wiring introspection, and that | ||
| // must fail startup rather than silently accept unverified NVCA callers. | ||
| type IntrospectionConfig struct { |
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Can these new settings be wired through CliArgs.SetupAuth and the deployment configuration? At present there are no CLI bindings; environment-only values are not discovered by the current Viper Unmarshal pattern unless the keys are otherwise registered; generated configuration omits them; and the Event Ledger Helm defaults do not include an introspection block. If rollout wiring is intentionally separate, could the dependent PR be linked so this feature has a concrete enablement path?
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Good catch. Fixed the CLI/env/generate-config wiring in 89335842e: auth.introspection.* is now registered in CliArgs.SetupAuth like every other auth field, so it's discoverable via env var, flag, or config file, and shows up in generate-config output. Added a test confirming the EVENT_LEDGER_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_* env vars are picked up.
The Helm chart default (an introspection: block in deploy/helm/event-ledger/values.yaml, mirroring ReVal's SIS URL) is being handled in a separate follow-up PR, since it needs the event-ledger version bump from this PR first.
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writeResponse=false suppresses only the HTTP response; processJWTToken and its JWK key function still log jwk not found as an error and invalid token as a warning. Every valid PSAT takes this expected local-verification failure path before SIS succeeds, including introspection cache hits, so healthy requests will generate false authentication alarms. Could the first verification attempt be quiet/pure, with failure logged only after both authentication paths fail?
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Fixed in ad799a0c2. Downgraded the local-verification-failure logs (in processJWTToken and newJWKKeyFunc) to debug level when writeResponse=false, i.e. when the caller (the PSAT fallback path) has SIS introspection to try next. A real failure still gets logged at warn/error once introspection also rejects the token, since that path already logs on every denial branch. Added a test asserting no warn/error-level logs on a request that succeeds via SIS.
Pulls in the new shared src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/auth/nvcaintrospect package (PR #2070) that this branch's Event Ledger client should adopt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Event Ledger's internal/nvca duplicated ReVal's ICMS introspection client almost line for line, including the cache-policy bugs fixed in the shared github.com/NVIDIA/nvcf/src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/auth/nvcaintrospect package (PR #2070): a missing ClusterID or empty Sub could get pinned in the cache for the full TTL, and an active token with a non-NVCA subject was never cached at all despite being a permanent verdict. internal/nvca.Client now wraps nvcaintrospect.Client, keeping the same Introspector interface and public types so internal/middleware needs no changes. Bump go-lib to v0.0.0-20260923212141-ea12b8777d46, the pseudo-version for the commit that merged the shared package. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…utes requireScopes let an SIS-introspected NVCA identity through any route requiring WriteScopes, but the cluster-binding check that makes that trust meaningful (bindNVCAClusterID) only runs in the two V3 write handlers. Every other WriteScopes route, and any future one, would accept an NVCA PSAT with no cluster check at all. An NVCA identity denied a route also fell through to the generic missing-claims 401, even though it's authenticated, just not authorized for that route. Add an allowNVCAIdentity flag to requireScopes, defaulted off, and a MaybeRequireScopesAllowNVCA wrapper that only the two V3 write routes use. Denied NVCA identities now get 403, matching every other authenticated-but-unauthorized case in this middleware. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bindNVCAClusterID's authorization error was treated like any other per-event validation error: the batch loop just skipped the event and continued, so sendEventResponse returned 400 (all failed) or 200 partial_success (mixed batch) with other events in the batch still written to the DB. Add errClusterAuthorization as a sentinel so processOTLPEvents and processCloudEvents can tell a cluster-binding failure apart from an ordinary validation error, abort the batch immediately on it before any DB write, and have sendEventResponse map it to 403. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AuthConfig.Introspection had no CLI flag or default registered in CliArgs.SetupAuth, unlike every other auth.* field. Viper's Unmarshal only picks up a key from a flag, a config file, or (via AutomaticEnv) an env var if the key is already known to it through a bound flag or default, so introspection settings were silently ignored outside a config file, and generate-config omitted them entirely. Register auth.introspection.enabled/url/timeout-seconds/cache-ttl-seconds as flags in SetupAuth, matching the defaults IntrospectionConfig.WithDefaults already applies. Add a regression test proving the EVENT_LEDGER_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_* env vars are now discovered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
processJWTToken logged every local verification failure at warn/error regardless of caller. The PSAT fallback path always tries SIS introspection next, so a valid NVCA PSAT triggers this expected local failure on every request, generating a false authentication alarm before introspection succeeds. Downgrade these logs to debug when writeResponse is false, since that caller has another verification path to try and already logs a real failure if SIS introspection also rejects the token. Thread the same quiet flag into newJWKKeyFunc, which processJWTToken calls internally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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TL;DR
NVCA's otel collector authenticates to Event Ledger with a Kubernetes projected service-account token (PSAT), not an OpenBao-issued JWT, so it was rejected by the existing OpenBao-only verification path. This adds SIS token introspection as a fallback auth path for PSATs, with cluster-identity binding so a PSAT valid for one cluster can't write events attributed to another.
Additional Details
internal/nvcapackage: an introspection client for SIS'sPOST /v1/nvca/tokens/introspect, mirroring ReVal's existing SIS/ICMS introspection authorizer. Uses a hashed-token cache (never stores the raw token) bounded by the token's ownexp, a 2 KiB token size cap, and a 10s default call timeout.audclaim.cluster_id: a mismatch is rejected, a missing value is filled in.Auth.Introspectionis a new runtime config, deliberately separate from stack-level deployment gating (addons.eventLedger.enabled): enabling it without a URL fails startup.For the Reviewer
internal/middleware/nvca_introspect.go: the new auth-chain middleware (newJWTWithPSATMiddleware).internal/nvca/introspect.go: the SIS introspection client.cmd/api/service/v3.go:bindNVCAClusterID, wired into bothextractK8sEventandextractCloudEvent.For QA
go test ./...andbazel test //src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/...both pass (14/14 Bazel test targets), including unit tests for the introspection client, the auth-chain dispatch (each failure mode: inactive token, wrong subject, SIS unreachable), and cluster-id binding (accept/populate/reject/no-op).Issues
Closes #1655
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