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Why the changes were made

When testing to unknown vendor S3-"compatibles" like Spectrum Protect and Hitachi S3 these are commonly on-prem and use custom CAs. Velero 1.18 introduced CaCertRef in the BackupStorageLocation that takes priority over the inline CA. Velero may also deprecate the inline CA in the future as very long CA chains can exceed the 1Mi default object limit when placed inline.

Without handling CaCertRef a custom BSL has to be made with inline CA to perform these tests as otherwise the certificate validation fails.

buildTLSConfig was rewritten to always load the default system certificates and append additional CAs. This is the correct behavior for a mix of known-certificates and custom CAs. The previous implementation only loaded the custom CAs and thus could not handle a mix without appending the well-known CAs to the BSL which increased the CA chain length needed in the BSL.

How to test the changes made

Deploy Minio with the changes and setup a custom CA using the Openshift Serive-CA injection via Service.
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.22/html/security_and_compliance/configuring-certificates#add-service-certificate-configmap_service-serving-certificate

Setup a BSL pointing to Minio with the custom CA attached as either inline CA or via CaCertRef.

Create DPT object with a reference to the Minio BSL. The DPT controller will now retrieve the CACertRef secret value and use the Secret data as a CA.

Questions for Maintainers

Layering

Module tls_config.go does not have a controller-runtime client to query the Secret reference. The Secret was queried from the dpt controller and passed into tls_config.go layer.

This does create an awkward situation that both the BSL can have an inline CACert as well as the CaCert from the Secret reference. I could have appended the CACertRef data to the BSL object to avoid the parameter pass in, but this would break if the inline CACert is deprecated from Velero in the future.

On the other hand, once deprecated, this makes removal of the inline CACert considerably easier because it must come from another source.

Should error if both CACert and CACertRef is set?

Velero uses either inline CACert or CACertRef, not both. https://github.com/velero-io/velero/blob/v1.18.2-rc.2/pkg/cmd/util/cacert/bsl_cacert.go#L58

The PR prioritizes CaCertRef over CACert if both are set like Velero.

Should DPT set to error if both are set? Velero does not and silently uses the CACertRef.

Object Storage

Velero plugin for Azure and GCP do not have a CA parameter (though both Azure and GCP clients can be setup this way). Because of this the CA Cert parameter was not passed on to the Azure and GCP client builders. If this is ever turned into an interface, this will need to be address or the parameter will be ignored.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for custom CA certificates configured inline or through a referenced Secret.
    • Custom CA certificates are now used when connecting to backup storage providers.
    • System certificates remain available alongside configured CA certificates, improving TLS compatibility.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing or invalid CA certificate configuration, with reconciliation errors reported clearly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Fruchtman <msfrucht@us.ibm.com>
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Why the changes were made

When testing to unknown vendor S3-"compatibles" like Spectrum Protect and Hitachi S3 these are commonly on-prem and use custom CAs. Velero 1.18 introduced CaCertRef in the BackupStorageLocation that takes priority over the inline CA. Velero may also deprecate the inline CA in the future as very long CA chains can exceed the 1Mi default object limit when placed inline.

Without handling CaCertRef a custom BSL has to be made with inline CA to perform these tests as otherwise the certificate validation fails.

How to test the changes made

Deploy Minio with the changes and setup a custom CA using the Openshift Serive-CA injection via Service.
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.22/html/security_and_compliance/configuring-certificates#add-service-certificate-configmap_service-serving-certificate

Setup a BSL pointing to Minio with the custom CA attached as either inline CA or via CaCertRef.

Create DPT object with a reference to the Minio BSL. The DPT controller will now retrieve the CACertRef secret value and use the Secret data as a CA.

buildTLSConfig was rewritten to always load the default system certificates and append additional CAs. This is the correct behavior for a mix of known-certificates and custom CAs. The previous implementation only loaded the custom CAs and thus could not handle a mix without appending the well-known CAs to the BSL which increased the CA chain length needed in the BSL.

Questions for Maintainers

Layering

Module tls_config.go does not have a controller-runtime client to query the Secret reference. The Secret was queried from the dpt controller and passed into tls_config.go layer.

This does create an awkward situation that both the BSL can have an inline CACert as well as the CaCert from the Secret reference. I could have appended the CACertRef data to the BSL object to avoid the parameter pass in, but this would break if the inline CACert is deprecated from Velero in the future.

On the other hand, once deprecated, this makes removal of the inline CACert considerably easier because it must come from another source.

Should error if both CACert and CACertRef is set?

Velero uses either inline CACert or CACertRef, not both. https://github.com/velero-io/velero/blob/v1.18.2-rc.2/pkg/cmd/util/cacert/bsl_cacert.go#L58

The PR prioritizes CaCertRef over CACert if both are set like Velero.

Should DPT set to error if both are set? Velero does not and silently uses the CACertRef.

Object Storage

Velero plugin for Azure and GCP do not have a CA parameter (though both Azure and GCP clients can be setup this way). Because of this the CA Cert parameter was not passed on to the Azure and GCP client builders. If this is ever turned into an interface, this will need to be address or the parameter will be ignored.

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The controller retrieves CA certificates from Secret references or inline BackupStorageLocation data. It passes the certificates through vendor detection and AWS provider initialization. TLS configuration appends custom certificates to the system pool, with expanded test coverage.

Changes

CA certificate support

Layer / File(s) Summary
CA retrieval and controller wiring
internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller.go, internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go
The controller retrieves CA data from CACertRef or inline CACert values and passes it to vendor detection and AWS provider initialization. Tests cover Secret lookup, missing data, and certificate-based vendor detection.
TLS certificate pool and client configuration
internal/controller/tls_config.go, internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go
TLS configuration starts with the system certificate pool and appends CA data from parameters or the BackupStorageLocation. Tests cover HTTP clients, AWS sessions, invalid certificates, and trusted custom certificates.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bba35

This change enables custom CA handling for S3-compatible storage, but a missing referenced Secret can leave a DataProtectionTest indefinitely InProgress without an actionable status. A narrow SkipTLSVerify regression and missing end-to-end TLS coverage should also be addressed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Reconcile
  participant retrieveCAData
  participant KubernetesSecret
  participant determineVendor
  participant initializeAWSProvider
  Reconcile->>retrieveCAData: resolve CA certificate data
  retrieveCAData->>KubernetesSecret: read CACertRef Secret
  retrieveCAData-->>Reconcile: return CA PEM data
  Reconcile->>determineVendor: pass caCertData
  Reconcile->>initializeAWSProvider: pass caCertData
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The pull request adds only stable, literal Go subtest names such as with CA Cert from param, valid generated CA cert, and ca cert ref points to wrong key. The changed test file uses testing.T
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internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go (3)

126-137: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

These two cases do not exercise the custom CA.

The test server at Line 143 is httptest.NewServer, which serves plain HTTP. No TLS handshake occurs, so caPEM never affects the result. Both cases pass whether or not the CA is trusted.

To cover the new behavior, use httptest.NewTLSServer and pass the server certificate's issuing CA as caCertData. Then add a negative case with an unrelated CA and assert that determineVendor returns a certificate error.

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In `@internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go` around lines 126 -
137, Update the determineVendor test cases for custom CA handling to use
httptest.NewTLSServer and supply that server’s issuing CA as caCertData. Add a
negative case using an unrelated CA and assert that determineVendor returns a
certificate error, while preserving the existing vendor expectations for the
trusted cases.

705-708: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

This block asserts nothing new.

Line 699 already asserts require.Equal(t, tt.expectInsecure, tlsConfig.InsecureSkipVerify). This block repeats that same check for the insecure cases. The comment states that RootCAs is ignored when insecure, but the code does not check RootCAs.

The argument order is also inverted. require.Equal takes expected first, then actual.

Assert the stated invariant instead, or remove the block.

♻️ Proposed change: assert the documented invariant
 			if tt.expectInsecure {
-				// RootCAs field is ignored when set to insecure
-				require.Equal(t, tlsConfig.InsecureSkipVerify, true)
+				// buildTLSConfig returns early on skipTLSVerify and never populates RootCAs.
+				require.Nil(t, tlsConfig.RootCAs)
 			}
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In `@internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go` around lines 705 -
708, Remove the redundant InsecureSkipVerify assertion inside the
tt.expectInsecure branch, or replace it with an assertion that verifies RootCAs
is ignored when TLS is configured as insecure. Keep the existing
tt.expectInsecure comparison unchanged and use require.Equal with expected
before actual.

44-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the self-signed CA helper out of the unit-test dependency path.

tests/e2e/lib compiles all package files and imports Kubernetes clients, Velero, OpenShift APIs, and Ginkgo/Gomega for one standard-library-only helper. Move GenerateSelfSignedCA to a shared test-helper package or keep a local implementation.

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In `@internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go` at line 44, Remove
the dataprotection controller unit test’s dependency on tests/e2e/lib by
relocating or locally implementing GenerateSelfSignedCA in a
standard-library-only test helper. Update the test to use that helper while
preserving the existing self-signed CA behavior.
internal/controller/tls_config.go (1)

63-68: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

This BSL fallback duplicates the precedence rule in retrieveCAData.

Both controller callers pass the result of retrieveCAData, which already falls back to ObjectStorage.CACert when CACertRef is absent (internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller.go Lines 737-750). So this branch is unreachable from production code and runs only in tests.

The precedence rule now exists in two files. A later change in one place will not be reflected in the other. Consider removing this branch and letting caCertData be the single source, or keeping it and documenting that it exists only for callers that do not resolve the CA first.

The error text at Line 59 says "from param". Operators read this message. Prefer wording that names the configuration field, for example "failed to parse CA certificates from the BackupStorageLocation CA data".

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In `@internal/controller/tls_config.go` around lines 63 - 68, Remove the redundant
BSL ObjectStorage.CACert fallback branch from the CA configuration flow so
retrieveCAData remains the single source of CA precedence. Update the nearby
parse-error message to identify the source as BackupStorageLocation CA data
instead of “from param,” while preserving the existing caCertData handling.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go`:
- Line 790: Remove the caCertData fixture from the test case named “valid
generated CA cert from bsl” so buildTLSConfig must use bsl.ObjectStorage.CACert;
leave the BSL certificate setup and expected assertions unchanged.

In `@internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller.go`:
- Around line 146-149: Update the CA retrieval error branch in Reconcile after
retrieveCAData to call r.updateDPTErrorStatus before returning, then return an
error with a lowercase contextual message, proper spacing, and %w wrapping the
original error.

In `@internal/controller/tls_config.go`:
- Around line 41-44: Update buildTLSConfig so the dpt.Spec.SkipTLSVerify early
return occurs before calling x509.SystemCertPool(), preserving successful
configuration when verification is skipped. Keep certificate-pool loading only
on the path that uses it, and wrap its error with %w for unwrapping.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/controller/dataprotectiontest_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 126-137: Update the determineVendor test cases for custom CA
handling to use httptest.NewTLSServer and supply that server’s issuing CA as
caCertData. Add a negative case using an unrelated CA and assert that
determineVendor returns a certificate error, while preserving the existing
vendor expectations for the trusted cases.
- Around line 705-708: Remove the redundant InsecureSkipVerify assertion inside
the tt.expectInsecure branch, or replace it with an assertion that verifies
RootCAs is ignored when TLS is configured as insecure. Keep the existing
tt.expectInsecure comparison unchanged and use require.Equal with expected
before actual.
- Line 44: Remove the dataprotection controller unit test’s dependency on
tests/e2e/lib by relocating or locally implementing GenerateSelfSignedCA in a
standard-library-only test helper. Update the test to use that helper while
preserving the existing self-signed CA behavior.

In `@internal/controller/tls_config.go`:
- Around line 63-68: Remove the redundant BSL ObjectStorage.CACert fallback
branch from the CA configuration flow so retrieveCAData remains the single
source of CA precedence. Update the nearby parse-error message to identify the
source as BackupStorageLocation CA data instead of “from param,” while
preserving the existing caCertData handling.

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