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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Helm chart adds opt-in auto-unseal configuration. Initialization resolves the server seal mode and uses recovery keys for auto-unseal or a Shamir key for Shamir. In auto-unseal mode, the script waits for three pods to report unsealed. Shamir remains the default. ChangesOpenBao auto-unseal
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The auto-unseal path now fails closed on seal-mode mismatches and on failures to store keys. A failed init command may still report a misleading error, and live cluster initialization has not been tested, so owners should be aware before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Around line 228-233: Update the recovery-key handling in the initialization
flow to validate that `.recovery_keys_b64` is present and non-null before using
it. Check the result of `kubectl create secret generic` for the recovery-keys
Secret and, on failure, log an error and return 1 before creating the root-token
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- Around line 68-75: Update is_auto_unseal to distinguish valid sealed-status
exit code 2 from other kubectl failures, require recovery_seal to parse as a
boolean, and fail before initialization when that value differs from the chart’s
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Add an opt-in auto-unseal path to the bundled OpenBao chart next to the default single-share Shamir seal. It works with any OpenBao auto-unseal seal (awskms, azurekeyvault, gcpckms, transit, pkcs11). When server.autoUnseal.enabled is set: - the post-install init hook initializes with recovery keys (-recovery-shares / -recovery-threshold) instead of a Shamir unseal key, and stores them in a <server>-recovery-keys Secret for export to a break-glass store; - the pre-install empty unseal Secret is not created; - the init script reads the seal type from `bao status` and skips the manual unseal and raft join, which the seal and retry_join handle. A deployer completes the setup in a values overlay: add the seal stanza to server.ha.raft.config, set server.extraContainers to [] to drop the auto-unseal sidecar, and clear the unseal volume. See helm/values-autounseal.yaml.example (AWS KMS shown as the example). Default behavior is unchanged: Shamir seal with the auto-unseal sidecar. Verified with helm template for both paths. Revoking the stored root token after bootstrap and migrating an existing Shamir cluster to an auto-unseal seal are follow-ups; this change keeps the root-token Secret and covers fresh installs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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resolve_seal_mode now rejects an unparseable or non-boolean bao status instead of silently treating it as Shamir; a missing recovery_seal field still maps to Shamir (the pre-existing default). Add a unit test that mocks kubectl and covers the mode decision, both mismatch directions, status read errors, and malformed/non-boolean status. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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38-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe
evalon repository-ownedsedoutput is acceptable here.The input is a slice of
deploy.shfrom the same repository. It is not attacker-controlled. Theast-grephint is a false positive for this test harness.One fragility remains. The
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Both init branches now check the exit status of `bao operator init` and stop with a clear message instead of misreporting a missing key or token. A partial init that leaves the server initialized without captured keys is called out as a tear-down-and-reinitialize case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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On the ast-grep flag for resolve-seal-mode-test.sh: agreed, false positive. The eval just loads the resolve_seal_mode function out of deploy.sh (a repo file, not external input) so the test can exercise it without running the script main flow. Keeping it as-is. |
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LGTM overall as this is an opt-in.
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does the reported kind smoke test cover these cases?
I am mentioning coz successful fresh installation alone doesn’t prove those restart and failure paths |
Address PR review on the auto-unseal docs. - values.yaml: note the init hook stores all recovery shares in one Secret, so the shares/threshold protect nothing until an operator splits them to separate custodians and deletes the Secret. Call it a required post-init step next to the threshold. - values-autounseal.yaml.example: spell out that required post-install step with commands, and document that a PKCS#11 HSM needs the vendor PKCS#11 library plus either an HSM-enabled OpenBao build (cgo) or the openbao-plugins PKCS#11 KMS provider plugin, not just a seal-stanza swap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The auto-unseal init path creates <statefulset>-recovery-keys; teardown left it orphaned. Delete it alongside the unseal and root-token Secrets, with --ignore-not-found so Shamir installs are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chart only defaults a server image tag and does not pin registry/repo, and whether a given build includes PKCS#11 is the deployer's to confirm. State the requirement and put it on the deployer instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Done. cleanup.sh now deletes -recovery-keys too, with --ignore-not-found so Shamir installs are unaffected. |
Right, kind only exercised Shamir init. Restart-rejoin and KMS-deny need real KMS, so I will validate both on a dev/test EKS cluster with a KMS key and the Pod Identity role. Our instances run Shamir today, so it goes on a fresh auto-unseal install there. |
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Why
The bundled OpenBao ships only a single-share Shamir seal. The auto-unseal sidecar reads the unseal key from a readable Kubernetes Secret, so the key lives on the cluster. On clusters with a cloud KMS or an HSM, auto-unseal removes the on-cluster unseal key: the server unwraps its root key through the seal on start, and init produces recovery keys instead. This adds that as an opt-in path with no change to the default.
What changed
server.autoUnsealvalues (enabled,recovery.shares,recovery.threshold), default off. Works with any OpenBao auto-unseal seal (awskms, azurekeyvault, gcpckms, transit, pkcs11).helm/scripts/deploy.shdetects the seal type frombao status. Under an auto-unseal seal it initializes with-recovery-shares/-recovery-thresholdinstead of a Shamir unseal key, writes the recovery keys to a<server>-recovery-keysSecret to export to a break-glass store, and skips the manual unseal and raft join (the seal andretry_joinhandle those).autoUnseal.enabledis set.RECOVERY_SHARES/RECOVERY_THRESHOLDfrom the values.helm/values-autounseal.yaml.example: the deployer overlay with the seal stanza (AWS KMS shown as the example),server.extraContainers: []to drop the sidecar, and a cleared unseal volume/volumeMount.Customer Release Notes
Self-managed OpenBao can now auto-unseal through a cloud KMS or HSM seal instead of a Shamir key stored in a Kubernetes Secret. Opt in with
server.autoUnseal.enabledplus the seal overlay; the default stays Shamir.Plan Summary
Chart-only, opt-in. Default render is unchanged.
Usage
Apply an overlay on top of
values.yaml(seehelm/values-autounseal.yaml.example):The server pod needs the provider's unwrap permission on the key, granted out of band (for AWS KMS:
kms:Encrypt,kms:Decrypt,kms:DescribeKey, for example via an EKS Pod Identity or IRSA role).Testing
helm templaterendered for both paths. Default (Shamir) keeps the unseal Secret and the auto-unseal sidecar container with no recovery env. The auto-unseal overlay drops both, injects the seal stanza into the raft config, and setsRECOVERY_SHARES/RECOVERY_THRESHOLDon the init Job.bash -nclean on the init script. A live auto-unseal init on a cluster is QA and was not run here.Notes
Scope is seal and recovery-key handling for fresh installs. Root-token storage is unchanged: revoking the stored root token after bootstrap is a separate hardening (it applies to the Shamir path too) and is out of scope here. Migrating an already-initialized Shamir cluster to an auto-unseal seal is a standard OpenBao operator procedure (
operator unseal -migrate), not a chart change.References
Closes #2309
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Dependencies
None. No new third-party dependencies; uses the
bao operator initrecovery-key flags already available in the pinned OpenBao version.Summary by CodeRabbit