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Summary

Dispatch TestGrid publishing directly from the verified evidence-ingest stage using the digest-pinned bundle reference, matching the existing dashboard refresh path. Replace the unreliable workflow_run listener and derive each TestGrid source class from verified signer policy rather than caller input.

Motivation / Context

Nightly UAT runs are dispatched by github-actions[bot] with GITHUB_TOKEN. GitHub suppresses the downstream workflow_run chain, so those runs generated and ingested evidence successfully but never launched TestGrid Publish. Explicit workflow_dispatch is a supported recursion exception and is already used by evidence ingest to refresh the static evidence dashboard.

Fixes: N/A
Related: #1271

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
  • Other: GitHub Actions evidence publishing

Implementation Notes

  • Evidence ingest dispatches testgrid-publish.yml only after verification and GCS persistence succeed.
  • The same digest-pinned bundle_ref passed into evidence ingest is forwarded directly to TestGrid.
  • TestGrid independently verifies every bundle before exchanging GCP credentials.
  • First-party bundles without a checked-in pointer are pinned to NVIDIA UAT workflow identities on main or release/* and derive source_class=uat.
  • Community and partner backfills must match a reviewed pointer on main; its exact signer claim is cross-checked against the verified Fulcio certificate and checked-in signer allowlist, then derives source_class=community.
  • There is no caller-controlled source-class input, so external evidence cannot promote itself to UAT.
  • Dispatch retries three times and warns without turning an otherwise successful multi-hour UAT run red. Bundle refs remain manually backfillable.
  • Durable duplicate rejection comes from the publish service account's create-only IAM grant; partial three-object uploads are not claimed to be retry-idempotent.

Testing

env -u GITLAB_TOKEN PATH="/tmp/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" make qualify
/tmp/actionlint -shellcheck= .github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml .github/workflows/evidence-ingest.yaml
yamllint -c .yamllint.yaml .github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml .github/workflows/evidence-ingest.yaml
git diff --check

All commands passed. make qualify completed the full unit/race, lint, tuning, E2E, vulnerability, license, and API compatibility gates.

The signer-policy flow was also exercised against two real immutable bundles:

  • Azure UAT run 32458074857 → verified first-party, allowlisted, derived uat.
  • Checked-in ghcr.io/yuanchen8911 VR200 evidence → exact pointer signer verified, allowlisted community, derived community.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
  • Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
  • High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Rollout notes: The first post-merge evidence ingest should create a top-level TestGrid Publish run. The new workflow/WIF path remains unproven end to end until that run; existing immutable bundle refs can be manually backfilled afterward.

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
  • Linter passes (make lint)
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S) — GPG signing info
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The evidence ingest workflow now dispatches dashboard publication and conditionally dispatches TestGrid publication. TestGrid accepts a required digest-pinned bundle reference, verifies signer policy, provenance, and source classification, then publishes after cloud authentication. Contributor and user documentation describe the updated publication and classification behavior.

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This change routes verified evidence directly to TestGrid publishing and derives source classification from signer policy; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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.github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml (1)

156-182: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require provenance verification before publishing.

tools/testgrid-publish only materializes the OCI bundle. It does not call VerifySignature, and it permits missing signatures before writing to GCS. Even signature verification without ExpectedIssuer and ExpectedIdentityRegexp accepts any Fulcio identity. Enforce the trusted issuer and workflow identity, or restrict manual backfills to references from the verified ingest workflow.

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In @.github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml around lines 156 - 182, Update the
Resolve bundle ref and publishing flow to require provenance verification before
materializing or writing the OCI bundle to GCS. Invoke the existing
VerifySignature path with the trusted Fulcio issuer and workflow identity regexp
configured, and reject missing or invalid signatures. For manual backfills,
permit only references originating from the verified ingest workflow rather than
bypassing these checks.
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In @.github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml:
- Around line 156-182: Update the Resolve bundle ref and publishing flow to
require provenance verification before materializing or writing the OCI bundle
to GCS. Invoke the existing VerifySignature path with the trusted Fulcio issuer
and workflow identity regexp configured, and reject missing or invalid
signatures. For manual backfills, permit only references originating from the
verified ingest workflow rather than bypassing these checks.

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- docs/contributor/evidence-ingest.md, evidence-dashboard-publish.md:
  rename trigger-dashboard -> trigger-publishes to match the renamed
  job, and document the new TestGrid dispatch alongside the dashboard
  refresh.
- testgrid-publish.yml: remove the vestigial skip=false output and the
  now-always-true "if: steps.bundle.outputs.skip != 'true'" guards on
  five downstream steps. The removed pointer-discovery logic was the
  only code path that ever set skip=true; Resolve bundle ref now
  either succeeds or exits 1, so the guards were dead weight left over
  from the old workflow_run/pointer.yaml flow.

Found via cross-review of PR #2330 (Claude Code + Codex + CodeRabbit,
consensus 2-3/3).
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Addressed CodeRabbit’s provenance finding in 0f3255e0:

  • TestGrid now re-verifies every bundle with tools/evidence-project before exchanging GCP credentials.
  • Verification requires the GitHub Actions issuer and the NVIDIA uat-{aws,gcp,azure,kind} workflow identity on main or release/*.
  • The production workflow accepts only digest-pinned ghcr.io/nvidia/...@sha256:... references and hard-codes source_class=uat.
  • Manual UAT backfills go through the identical provenance gate; unsigned or unexpected-signer bundles fail closed.

Validated against the real Azure UAT bundle from run 32458074857; full make qualify, actionlint, yamllint, and git diff --check pass.

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The dispatch fix is sound. The old listener watched top-level UAT Run, and workflow_run events are suppressed for runs the nightly controller dispatches with GITHUB_TOKEN, so it never fired; workflow_dispatch is explicitly exempt from that suppression and is the right escape. Separately, evidence-ingest reached as a nested workflow_call emits no top-level run of its own, which is why the dispatch has to originate there rather than from a listener.

Verified: --ref main keeps release/* bundles running main's copy of the file, so the WIF workflow_ref principalSet holds; the verifier flags all exist in tools/evidence-project/main.go:70-81; the identity regexp is evidence-ingest.yaml:81's pin narrowed to main|release/*; yq is genuinely unused after the setup-build-tools removal; actions: write is present in all four UAT callers and all four uat-run call sites. Azure run 32458074857 confirms a real bundle ref, signer identity, and branch that satisfy the proposed gates — it does not exercise this PR's TestGrid workflow or the WIF path end to end, so the new path is still unproven in practice.

One blocker, not in the code: commit 8c87f9b has no Signed-off-by trailer. The other two commits on the branch do, and all three are cryptographically verified. Nothing in CI catches this — there is no DCO check among the 40 checks here — so it needs a manual fix. The same commit's body names the reviewing agents, which is against the no-attribution policy. The squash configuration limits how far that travels, but the branch still violates policy today. The branch is 3 ahead and 4 behind main, so the required rebase can carry both corrections.

Beyond that: one scope decision on community bundles and one comment correction, inline.

Comment thread .github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml Outdated
Comment thread .github/workflows/testgrid-publish.yml Outdated
Signed-off-by: Sujan Rao <sujan@nvidia.com>
Rename the downstream publish job in contributor docs and remove dead TestGrid skip guards left by the retired workflow_run pointer path.

Signed-off-by: Sujan Rao <sujan@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujan Rao <sujan@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujan Rao <sujan@nvidia.com>
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Addressed the requested changes and force-pushed the required rebase/policy cleanup: old head 0f3255e0, new head ba1de1b1.

  • Rebased onto current main.
  • Rewrote the former 8c87f9b8 commit as ceccbe90: removed agent attribution, added the DCO trailer, and signed it.
  • All four branch commits are now GitHub-verified and carry Signed-off-by: Sujan Rao <sujan@nvidia.com>.
  • Implemented verified community/partner publication with source class derived from exact pointer-pinned certificate claims plus the checked-in allowlist.
  • Corrected the create-only IAM/concurrency comment.
  • Updated user docs, contributor docs, and the PR description.

Validation: full make qualify, actionlint, yamllint, diff check, real Azure UAT bundle, and real allowlisted community bundle all pass.

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Approving. Both review comments are addressed in the current head.

Classification is now derived from the verified Fulcio certificate rather than caller input: first-party is re-pinned to the NVIDIA UAT main/release/* identity before it earns uat, community/partner map to community, and an unrecognized class fails closed. The community path is preserved through a checked-in pointer whose claimed issuer and identity are escaped into an exact-match policy and cross-checked against the certificate, so a pointer cannot widen its own trust. docs/user/testgrid.md:75 no longer contradicts the workflow.

The concurrency comment now attributes durable overwrite rejection to the publish SA's create-only IAM grant and states that this does not make a partially completed upload safely retryable. No publisher-level idempotency is claimed.

One non-blocking follow-up: docs/user/testgrid.md explains what source_class means but never tells a community submitter how to get published — the backfill mechanics live only in docs/contributor/evidence-ingest.md. Since removing the input closed the previously obvious manual path, surfacing that pointer in the user-facing doc would close the loop. Fine as a separate change.

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