feat(provider): add read-only Kubernetes provider#102
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A WASM provider that projects a Kubernetes cluster as a browsable,
read-only filesystem. Resource types (including CRDs) are discovered live
from the API server, so the tree reflects whatever the cluster serves.
Layout (resource-as-directory):
/namespaces/<ns>/<type>/<name>/{manifest.yaml,manifest.json,status.yaml,events.txt}
/namespaces/<ns>/pods/<name>/logs/<container>.log
/cluster/<type>/<name>/{manifest.yaml,manifest.json,status.yaml}
Transport: the provider is transport-agnostic over the host callout. The
recommended endpoint is a local `kubectl proxy --unix-socket` (the same
`unix:` callout transport the Docker provider uses): kubectl terminates TLS
and injects the active-context credentials, so the provider issues plain
HTTP, never handles a token, and works against any cluster kubectl can
reach (mTLS, EKS/GKE exec plugins, OIDC, custom CA all handled upstream). An
`https://` API server with system-trust TLS + bearer token also works. The
host grants the socket automatically from `config.endpoint`; no host changes.
Design decisions: one mount = one pinned cluster/context (the FS does not
change on `kubectl config use-context`; add a mount per cluster), matching
the per-mount credential model and read-only read model.
Correctness was validated against the upstream kubectl/client-go source and
tests; the contract-derived behaviors:
- Discovery walks /api/v1 + every group, querying each group's versions
preferred-first (matches client-go ServerPreferredResources): a
multi-version resource resolves to its preferred version while a resource
present only in a non-preferred version still surfaces.
- events.txt filters by involvedObject.{name,namespace,kind,uid} (matches
event_expansion.go GetFieldSelector), so a same-named object of another
kind, or a prior incarnation, doesn't leak events.
- manifest.{yaml,json} strip only metadata.managedFields (as `kubectl get`
does by default since v1.21) and preserve the last-applied-configuration
annotation, matching `kubectl get` output.
- Plural collisions across groups disambiguate to <plural>.<group>.
Optional `hide_empty_types` config: list only resource types with at least
one instance (batched limit=1 probes); empty types stay navigable via lookup.
Validated: cargo nextest/test (15 unit tests incl. a route-seal test and
kubectl-parity selector/discovery tests), wasm32-wasip2 clippy -D warnings,
release component build. Live-cluster validation across versions
(omnifs dev + kubectl proxy against kind) remains the integration follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tests & validationUnit tests (15 — inline
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| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Transport to a loopback + admin client-cert API server | ✅ reached via the proxy — the case native HTTPS can't do |
Discovery /api/v1 + /apis + per-group |
✅ parses (39 core resources, 28 groups) |
Real multi-version groups (autoscaling, gateway.networking.k8s.io, monitoring.coreos.com) |
✅ confirms the preferred-first fix is load-bearing, not theoretical |
| Namespace + collection listings | ✅ resolve to names |
Object GET carries managedFields and last-applied |
✅ validates both cleaning decisions on a real object |
StatefulSet manifest + status |
✅ |
Pod logs …/pods/<p>/log?container=…&tailLines=… |
✅ |
hide_empty_types limit=1 probe (empty → 0, non-empty → 1) |
✅ |
| Event selector accepted (cluster had 0 live events; returns cleanly) | ✅ |
The cluster was only ever read; the proxy was torn down afterward.
Not yet covered: the host↔WASM FUSE mount end-to-end (omnifs dev), which needs Kubernetes added to the dev built-ins + the proxy socket bind-mounted into the dev container — tracked as the integration follow-up.
How to actually use it
- Run a read-only proxy against your chosen context. kubectl handles TLS / mTLS / exec plugins / OIDC / context selection, so the provider never sees a token:
kubectl proxy --unix-socket=/run/omnifs/k8s.sock \ --reject-methods='POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE' - Mount config — the host grants the socket automatically from
config.endpoint(no separatecapabilities.unix_socketsentry needed):{ "provider": "omnifs_provider_kubernetes.wasm", "mount": "k8s", "config": { "endpoint": "unix:///run/omnifs/k8s.sock", "hide_empty_types": false } } - Browse with ordinary tools:
cat /omnifs/k8s/namespaces/<ns>/deployments/<name>/manifest.yaml cat /omnifs/k8s/namespaces/<ns>/deployments/<name>/status.yaml tail /omnifs/k8s/namespaces/<ns>/pods/<pod>/logs/<container>.log cat /omnifs/k8s/cluster/nodes/<node>/manifest.yaml grep -rh 'image:' /omnifs/k8s/namespaces/<ns>/deployments
/namespaces/<ns>lists every namespaced type (CRDs included via live discovery);/clusterthe cluster-scoped ones. Sethide_empty_types: trueto list only types that currently have instances.- One mount = one pinned cluster/context; the FS does not change on
kubectl config use-context— add a mount per cluster. - An
https://endpoint also works for clusters reachable with system-trust TLS + a bearer token in mount auth; theunix://+kubectl proxypath is recommended and the only one that reaches local/mTLS/exec-plugin clusters today.
Full details, FS layout, and limitations are in providers/kubernetes/README.md.
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Oh, hey! Thanks for the contribution ❤️ Taking a look |
Findings from an adversarial review plus a full FUSE end-to-end run
against a live k3s cluster (kubectl proxy over a unix socket inside the
dev container):
- Pod logs 406'd through kubectl proxy: the apiserver's content
negotiation rejects `Accept: text/plain` on the log subresource even
though it streams text. Send `Accept: */*` (what curl/kubectl
effectively send). Found only by the live FUSE run; fixed and
re-verified (app/init/sidecar logs, tail, wc).
- Live listings are now `open` (non-exhaustive) instead of `exhaustive`,
so every readdir re-lists from the API instead of freezing the first
enumeration in the host's no-TTL dirent cache. Verified live: a pod
created after the first `ls` appears on the next one. This also keeps
the hide_empty_types contract honest (hidden types stay resolvable).
- Root discovery failures (/api/v1, /apis) now propagate instead of
being swallowed: a transient error there must not be cached for the
session as a half-empty catalog (which could also invert bare-plural
collision naming). Per-group-version failures are still skipped, and
all group-version fetches run in one batched callout round.
- Path segments reject URL metacharacters (`%`, `?`, `#`, control
chars): `cat 'pods/x?watch=true/...'` used to smuggle a query through
the raw URL path (holding a watch open); now ENOENT. `%` is forbidden
by Kubernetes' own ValidatePathSegmentName, so nothing legal is lost;
RBAC names with `:` keep working (verified live).
- Removed the five DirIntent::Lookup existence-check branches: the
router resolves capture-dir lookups statically before handlers run,
so they were dead code (and the only unvalidated URL interpolation).
- Object reads project their siblings: manifest.yaml/manifest.json/
status.yaml render from one GET and preload the other two (<=64 KiB
inline cap); events.txt preloads all three from the object it already
fetches for the uid.
- Event field-selector values escape `\` `,` `=` like kubectl's
fields.EscapeValue; recurring events.k8s.io events read
series{count,lastObservedTime} like kubectl's printer.
- Dropped the dead Rc<RefCell<...>> around the discovery cache in favor
of cx.state_mut.
- README/manifest: corrected the https-transport claim (no bearer-token
injection exists in v1), documented that the proxy socket must be
reachable inside the runtime container, the always-visible pods
scaffolding entry under hide_empty_types, the YAML 1.1 quoting
divergence from kubectl, and unbounded pod-log reads.
Live verification: manifest.json is byte-identical (jq -S) to
kubectl get -o json against k3s v1.34.1; CRDs surface automatically;
grep -r/find/du/wc/stat/md5sum/cp/diff/tar all behave through FUSE;
nonexistent objects/types and metachar names return ENOENT.
Final review pass: live FUSE end-to-end + adversarial review →
|
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
manifest.json vs kubectl get -o json (jq -S both) |
byte-identical |
| managedFields stripped, last-applied kept | ✓ |
CRD created live (widgets.example.io) |
appears automatically, CR readable |
Pod logs: app / terminated init / sidecar, tail, wc |
✓ (after 406 fix) |
events.txt |
real scheduler events, kubectl-style table |
Listing freshness (create/delete between ls) |
mirrors API exactly |
grep -r, find, du, wc, stat, md5sum (stable), cp+diff, tar |
✓ (tar warns "file changed" from the host's learned-size promotion — pre-existing host behavior for Size::Unknown files, all providers) |
system:node ClusterRole (colon name), /cluster/nodes status |
✓ |
Nonexistent object / type / x?watch=true |
ENOENT, ENOENT, ENOENT |
No-socket mount in omnifs dev |
container healthy, clean Network error on browse |
Full check suite is green: cargo fmt, host tests (17 in this provider), wasm check/clippy -D warnings/test --no-run across all omnifs-provider-*/omnifs-tool-*, host workspace clippy + tests, and omnifs dev -y + smoke harness.
One note for maintainers: CI never ran on this PR (fork PR, workflow concluded action_required) — it needs a maintainer to approve the workflow run.
Summary
Adds
omnifs-provider-kubernetes: a read-only WASM provider that projects aKubernetes cluster as a browsable filesystem. Resource types — including CRDs —
are discovered live from the API server, so the tree reflects whatever the
cluster actually serves, at the versions it serves.
Standard tooling works on every leaf:
cat,grep -r,find,diff,tar,tail.Transport & key design decisions
cx.http().get(HttpEndpoint::build_url(...)). The recommended endpoint is alocal
kubectl proxy --unix-socket— the sameunix:callout transport theDocker provider uses. kubectl terminates TLS and injects the active context's
credentials, so the provider issues plain HTTP, never handles a token, and
works against any cluster kubectl can reach (mTLS / EKS-GKE exec plugins /
OIDC / custom CA all handled upstream). An
https://API server withsystem-trust TLS + bearer token also works. No host changes — the host
grants the socket automatically from
config.endpoint(
materialize_runtime_capabilities).kubectl config use-context; to browse another cluster, add another mount.This respects the per-mount credential binding and the read-only read model
(a writable "switch context" control file was rejected as it violates both).
status,events, and podlogshave a homeand the manifest leaf keeps an honest
stat/wc -c.hide_empty_types: list only types that currently have instances(batched
limit=1probes via the SDK'sjoin_all); empty types staynavigable via
lookup.How correctness was ensured (methodology)
This was built grounded-first and verified adversarially, not from memory:
Research + codebase analysis (multi-agent workflow). Fetched current
Kubernetes API/kubeconfig docs and analyzed the omnifs SDK router, host
callout/capability path, caching model, and auth — producing a grounded
design with the genuine open decisions (context handling, transport, resource
representation) surfaced as options.
Independently verified the feasibility crux by reading the host code: the
shared HTTPS client has no custom-CA/mTLS and the capability checker denies
private IPs — which is why the
kubectl proxyunix-socket transport waschosen (it sidesteps both with zero host changes), rather than assuming a
native HTTPS client would work.
Implemented against the real SDK contract — every router/projection/
capture/HTTP API was matched to the actual source (
db/docker/githubproviders as templates), not guessed.
Adversarial correctness review (4 dimensions — routing/listing,
discovery/HTTP, manifest/host-load, SDK-contract — each finding independently
verified): 0 confirmed bugs.
kubectl / client-go parity validation. Cloned
kubernetes/client-goandkubernetes/kubectl(current) and ran an 18-agent match-matrix withper-finding verification against the upstream source and its tests. This
confirmed three real divergences, which are fixed here, and caught one
false positive (an agent claimed
kubectl getdoesn't stripmanagedFields; verified thatNewGetPrintFlagscomposes cli-runtime'sdefault
--show-managed-fields=falsepath — so the strip is correct and waskept).
Fixes derived directly from upstream contracts:
event_expansion.goGetFieldSelector→ name+namespace+kind+uidkubectl getstrips onlymanagedFields, keeps last-appliedServerPreferredResources(all versions, preferred wins)Validated
cargo test— 15 unit tests: a route-seal test (proves the literal-podslogs routes coexist with the
{rtype}capture without ambiguity — otherwiseonly caught at runtime), capture parsing/traversal guards, discovery
scope/subresource/collision/multi-version dedup, the event field selector, and
event rendering.
cargo clippy --target wasm32-wasip2 -- -D warnings— clean.wasm32-wasip2).Out of scope / follow-ups (documented in the README)
catre-fetches. Polling-basedinvalidation (periodic
LISTkeyed byresourceVersion→ cache invalidation,via the runtime
refresh-interval/timer-tick) is the natural follow-up.kubectl logs <pod> -c);follow/
--previous/--timestampsneed the ranged/volatile file path.describe.txtomitted (a faithful per-kind describe renderer is large;manifest/status/eventscover the same data).LIST(returns the full collection —no silent truncation); chunked listing (
limit/continue) is a follow-up forvery large namespaces.
omnifs dev+kubectl proxyagainst kind clusters at several minor versions) is notexpressible as a unit test and remains the integration follow-up.