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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.

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  • New internal/nvca package: an introspection client for SIS's POST /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 own exp, a 2 KiB token size cap, and a 10s default call timeout.
  • Auth middleware tries local OpenBao JWT verification first; only on failure does it retry against SIS introspection. It never routes on the unverified aud claim.
  • A verified NVCA identity is only trusted on Event Ledger's write routes (never as a stand-in for a read scope), and requires the expected NVCA subject and a non-empty cluster identifier.
  • The SIS-verified cluster identifier is authoritative over a request payload's cluster_id: a mismatch is rejected, a missing value is filled in.
  • 401 for missing/inactive tokens, 403 for wrong subject/missing cluster identity, 503 when SIS itself is unreachable. Fails closed in every case.
  • Auth.Introspection is a new runtime config, deliberately separate from stack-level deployment gating (addons.eventLedger.enabled): enabling it without a URL fails startup.
  • Scope: Event Ledger side only. NVCA-operator-side changes (PSAT volume mount into the otel-collector container, config selection) are tracked separately.

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 both extractK8sEvent and extractCloudEvent.

For QA

  • go test ./... and bazel 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).
  • No live SIS or NVCA available yet, and no test currently drives a request through the full real router (auth middleware + route handler + DB) end to end; that's a gap worth closing in a follow-up.

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Closes #1655

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added optional NVCA token introspection with SIS fallback when local verification is unavailable.
    • Applies verified NVCA cluster identity to event processing and rejects mismatched cluster IDs.
    • Added configurable introspection timeouts and result caching with capacity limits.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved authorization handling for invalid, inactive, oversized, or unauthorized tokens.
    • Enforces required configuration when introspection is enabled.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for authentication, cluster binding, caching, and configuration validation.

shelleyshen-0 and others added 2 commits September 16, 2026 22:41
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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The change adds SIS-backed NVCA PSAT introspection, integrates it with authentication, bounds introspection caching, and binds verified NVCA cluster IDs to OTLP and CloudEvent extraction. Configuration validation, startup wiring, middleware behavior, and tests are included.

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NVCA PSAT authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
SIS introspection client
src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/internal/nvca/...
The new client validates NVCA subjects, rejects oversized tokens, calls SIS, caches eligible active results, and bounds the cache at 1024 entries.
Authentication fallback and authorization
src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/internal/middleware/...
Authentication tries local JWT verification before SIS introspection. Valid NVCA identities enter request context. Write routes can use them without scope claims.
Introspection configuration and startup wiring
src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/internal/config/..., src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/startup/...
Configuration adds introspection settings, defaults, and URL validation. Startup creates the optional NVCA client and passes it to policy authentication.
Authoritative cluster binding
src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/service/v3.go, src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/service/v3_test.go
OTLP and CloudEvent extraction receives request context. Missing cluster IDs are filled from verified NVCA identity data. Mismatches fail extraction. Payload values remain unchanged without that identity.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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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 failure
  SIS-->>JWTMiddleware: return NVCA subject and cluster ID
  JWTMiddleware-->>EventLedger: attach NVCA identity to context
  EventLedger->>EventLedger: bind cluster ID during event extraction
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Event Ledger can exhaust memory from an oversized SIS response and can expose projected service-account tokens if introspection is configured with HTTP. Bound responses and require HTTPS before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title follows Conventional Commits format with the required feat scope and accurately describes the primary feature: NVCA write authorization through SIS PSAT introspection.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #1655. The middleware tries local OpenBao JWT verification before SIS introspection and does not use the unverified aud claim for authorization or rout…
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src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/startup/run_service.go (1)

312-313: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Do not log and return the same client-creation error.

runService returns this error through Cobra to main.go, where logger.Sugar().Fatal(err) logs it again. Return the wrapped error and let the service entry point log it once.

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 				if err != nil {
-					logger.Error("failed to create nvca introspection client", zap.Error(err))
 					return fmt.Errorf("failed to create nvca introspection client: %w", err)
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In `@src/control-plane-services/event-ledger/cmd/api/startup/run_service.go`
around lines 312 - 313, In runService, remove the logger.Error call for the NVCA
introspection client creation failure and retain the wrapped error return so the
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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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shelleyshen-0 and others added 2 commits September 17, 2026 18:54
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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- Line 128: Update NewClient to parse and validate the configured introspection
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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.

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