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Build workflows in workflows-<env> had no NetworkPolicy covering any stage, so a build container could reach every cluster-internal service and the cloud metadata endpoint. Build steps execute code from the repository being built — a RUN line in a Dockerfile, a setup.py, an npm postinstall hook — so that reach belongs to whoever opened the pull request being built.

Outbound internet access is a functional requirement for builds: base images, package registries, and mirrors all need it, and an allowlist of registries would break real builds. So this does not restrict the internet. It closes the private network instead, while re-allowing the three destinations builds genuinely need: cluster DNS, the kube-apiserver (Argo's wait container reports step results there), and the image registry. Anything else on a private address — a self-hosted Git server, an internal mirror, an egress proxy — goes in extraEgress, and enabled=false turns the whole thing off.

Build pods had no stable label to select, so the five untrusted stages (checkout, the three build variants, publish-image) now carry one. generate-workload-cr is deliberately left out: it runs no repository code and it is the step that legitimately calls the OpenChoreo API and Thunder.

Verified on a live k3d cluster rather than by inspection: a full buildpack build succeeded through all four stages with the policy in force, and a probe pod wearing the build labels confirmed GitHub, PyPI, npm, ghcr.io and the Alpine CDN still reachable while Thunder, the registry ClusterIP, the OpenChoreo API and 169.254.169.254 are refused.

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable egress network policies for build workflows, including DNS, internet, API server, registry, and custom access rules.
    • Added automatic build-workflow namespace creation and coverage across configured namespaces.
    • Added consistent labels to build and image-publishing workflow pods for improved identification and management.
    • Improved quick-start setup with automatic cluster network detection and safer workflow provisioning.
  • Documentation

    • Updated installation and environment guides with build-workflow network policy configuration, troubleshooting, and security guidance.

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  • deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/templates/build-workflow-namespace.yaml
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The chart adds build-workflow namespaces, pod labels, and configurable egress NetworkPolicies. Installation scripts pass cluster CIDRs and create required namespaces. Render tests and documentation cover the new behavior. Quick-start provisioning and Gateway Operator documentation also change.

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Build workflow isolation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy configuration and pod targeting
deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/values.yaml, templates/_helpers.tpl, templates/build-workflow-namespace.yaml, templates/cluster-workflow-templates/*
The chart adds build-workflow settings, namespace rendering, stable pod labels, and labels on the selected workflow templates.
Build workflow egress rules
deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/templates/build-workflow-networkpolicy.yaml
The chart renders DNS, internet, API-server, registry, in-cluster registry, and custom egress rules.
Namespace and CIDR installation wiring
deployments/quick-start/install-helpers.sh, deployments/setup/setup-amp-extensions.sh
The scripts create workflows-default, derive the k3d node CIDR, and pass conditional NetworkPolicy settings to Helm.
Rendering validation and operator documentation
deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/tests/build-egress-render.sh, documentation/docs/guides/_partials/_amp-installation.mdx, documentation/docs/guides/on-your-environment.mdx
The render test checks policy rules, namespaces, enablement, and pod-selector alignment. The guides document configuration, exceptions, security guidance, and DNS troubleshooting.

Environment provisioning updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Thunder handle provisioning
deployments/quick-start/install-helpers.sh, documentation/docs/guides/on-your-environment.mdx
Provisioning requests default-idp and retains authoritative handle lookup for reruns. The guides document handle configuration and issuer behavior.
Gateway and AI gateway documentation
documentation/docs/guides/_partials/_amp-installation.mdx, documentation/docs/guides/on-your-environment.mdx
Gateway Operator versions and image pins are updated. Standalone external AI gateway guidance is removed.

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The policy can still allow untrusted build code to contact unintended internal services because the default API and registry ranges are broad and an unconfigured registry selector permits namespace-wide access. This undermines the intended isolation boundary, so the PR should not merge until the defaults and selector requirements are tightened.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant InstallScript
  participant Helm
  participant Kubernetes
  participant BuildWorkflowPod
  InstallScript->>Kubernetes: Create workflows-default
  InstallScript->>Helm: Pass node CIDR and policy settings
  Helm->>Kubernetes: Render namespaces and NetworkPolicies
  BuildWorkflowPod->>Kubernetes: Start with build-workflow labels
  Kubernetes->>BuildWorkflowPod: Enforce configured egress rules
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@AnoshanJ AnoshanJ changed the title Restrict build-workflow egress to the private network Block build-workflow egress to cluster-internal addresses Aug 21, 2026
@AnoshanJ AnoshanJ changed the title Block build-workflow egress to cluster-internal addresses Add network policy for build-workflows Aug 21, 2026
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Inline comments:
In
`@deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/templates/build-workflow-networkpolicy.yaml`:
- Around line 1-7: Update
deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/templates/build-workflow-networkpolicy.yaml:1-7
to accept a list of protected workflow namespaces and render one NetworkPolicy
per namespace, preserving the existing default namespace behavior. Update
documentation/docs/guides/_partials/_amp-installation.mdx:419-419 and
documentation/docs/guides/on-your-environment.mdx:1899-1899 to document the
supported multi-environment configuration and procedure.
- Around line 101-109: Restrict the in-cluster registry egress rule in
build-workflow-networkpolicy.yaml to registry pods by rendering the configured
registry podSelector alongside the namespaceSelector, requiring it when
registry.inCluster.namespace is set. Update tests/render.sh to assert that the
rendered rule includes the expected pod selector.

Apply the same fix in
`@deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/values.yaml`
around lines 302 - 307: The render test must assert that the in-cluster registry
rule includes the expected pod selector.

In `@deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/values.yaml`:
- Around line 286-301: Update the apiServer and registry cidr defaults in the
values configuration to empty lists instead of allowing all RFC1918 ranges.
Preserve the existing ports, and require deployment installers or operators to
explicitly supply the exact API-server and registry CIDRs.

In `@documentation/docs/guides/_partials/_amp-installation.mdx`:
- Around line 423-427: Update the apiServer CIDR comment and example near
networkPolicy.buildWorkflows.apiServer.cidrs to instruct users to convert the
API-server endpoint IP from kubectl output to a host CIDR using /32, or
substitute a verified control-plane subnet; do not imply that the raw endpoints
output is itself a subnet.
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  • deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/templates/build-workflow-networkpolicy.yaml
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  • deployments/helm-charts/wso2-amp-platform-resources-extension/tests/render.sh
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Comment thread documentation/docs/guides/_partials/_amp-installation.mdx
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Argo applies templates[].metadata to the pod, unlike the ClusterWorkflow CR's own
labels. generate-workload-cr is left unlabelled: it calls the OpenChoreo API and
Thunder, and runs no user content.

Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
Build steps run code from the repository being built, and could reach every in-cluster
service and the cloud metadata endpoint. Builds keep unrestricted internet egress on
every port, IPv4 and IPv6 — base images, package registries and mirrors need it — and
lose the private ranges.

Re-allowed because builds cannot work without them: DNS, the API server (Argo's wait
container reports step results there), and the registry, either on the node network or
by Service DNS. All matched post-DNAT, so they name endpoint addresses and container
ports; extraEgress covers anything else on a private address.

The namespace is rendered behind a lookup guard, as the evaluation chart does, so the
chart installs before OpenChoreo has run a workflow in it.

Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
Narrows the API-server and registry CIDRs to the k3d node network, which carries both,
instead of the chart's RFC1918 default. Only passed when the subnet is derived, so a
later --reuse-values upgrade cannot re-enable the policy with both rules emptied. The VM
installer inherits this through install_platform_resources_extension.

Also moves the workflows-default pre-creation ahead of the installs and behind one
helper: two charts now place a NetworkPolicy there, and both rendering the Namespace
would fail the loser with "invalid ownership metadata".

Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
Seventeen assertions, including that the pod labels still match the podSelector the
policy depends on, that the internet rule stays portless and covers IPv6, and that an
emptied CIDR drops its rule rather than rendering cidr: null.

Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
namespaces replaces the single namespace value, rendering one policy and one guarded
Namespace per entry, so an install whose builds run in more than one workflow namespace
does not leave the unnamed ones open. Empty still derives workflows-<environment.name>.

The in-cluster registry rule also takes podLabels: a namespaceSelector on its own reaches
every pod in the registry's namespace on the registry's port.

Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
The API-server endpoint is an address, not a subnet, so the example now shows /32.
Drops the claim that each environment needs its own render, which did not hold: the
workflow namespace tracks the workflow plane.

Signed-off-by: Anoshan Jayahanthan <101160077+AnoshanJ@users.noreply.github.com>
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AnoshanJ force-pushed the netpol/build-workflows branch from 55531ed to e1a7410 Compare August 22, 2026 17:19
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