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    • Clarified external OIDC authentication architecture and deployment guidance for HyperShift and standalone clusters.
    • Documented dedicated webhook, service, configuration, and required secret integration.
    • Defined operator responsibilities, validation behavior, feature-gated propagation, and target-version compatibility.
    • Explained configuration error handling and retry behavior.
    • Updated architecture diagrams and confirmed standalone clusters continue using the existing authentication server configuration.

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This PR currently contains a set of open questions; my goal is to resolve these before merging and adjust the PR accordingly. Putting a hold until these are resolved.

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Overall, I think this looks pretty good. A handful of comments on the open questions.

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##### Open Question: Compatibility across multiple Kubernetes API Servers

At the current state of HyperShift and the CPO v2, it seems like the CPO is baked into the payload, which means that the kube-apiserver version should be on par with CPO
within a payload. However, there has been discussion of evidence that this is not always true, and that we might still need to maintain compatibility with multiple
kube-apiserver versions. We need to clarify this before proceeding with decisions on how to manage the API types going forward.

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I think some of the concern here may stem from the validation we added to prevent invalid KAS configurations where possible since HCP kind of eats KAS rollout failures IIRC.

More specifically: https://github.com/openshift/hypershift/blob/2d2b2d0805d36dcf401fdb5f3d913b9f7984ce42/support/validations/authentication.go#L51-L75

Maybe we ought to try to resolve that TODO in there to help have a more consistent validation pattern with the desired OCP installation version rather than always assuming the lowest possible version.

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Right, I see what you mean -- however I'm now thinking that maybe this is out of scope for this EP, as it's pre-existing in HyperShift and not specific to external claims sourcing. The existing approach would still work respectively with any validations we'd do for the new type anyway.

If you also agree, I'd drop this open question; we should definitely revisit that TODO at some point but that's probably orthogonal to the work we'll do in the context of this EP.

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I think the main thing I'd be concerned about here is whether or not we need to have version awareness in how we generate the configuration based on OCP version compatibility so that we never accidentally attempt to deploy an older oauth-apiserver with the newer configuration.

If we are confident that we do not need to be concerned with any potential version skew here, I think it would at least be worth explicitly documenting why we do not need to be concerned with it.

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@everettraven I've rewritten this question to describe better what my current understanding of versioning between CPO and control plane components is, but also our concerns both with version skew and with validations -- my aim is to get feedback from hypershift folks as well on this topic before we finalize it.

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Aside from one comment, this LGTM

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##### Open Question: Compatibility across multiple Kubernetes API Servers

At the current state of HyperShift and the CPO v2, it seems like the CPO is baked into the payload, which means that the kube-apiserver version should be on par with CPO
within a payload. However, there has been discussion of evidence that this is not always true, and that we might still need to maintain compatibility with multiple
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I think the main thing I'd be concerned about here is whether or not we need to have version awareness in how we generate the configuration based on OCP version compatibility so that we never accidentally attempt to deploy an older oauth-apiserver with the newer configuration.

If we are confident that we do not need to be concerned with any potential version skew here, I think it would at least be worth explicitly documenting why we do not need to be concerned with it.

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##### Open Question: Version skew between the CPO and control plane components

Our current understanding is that the CPO is baked into the payload alongside the control plane components it configures (kube-apiserver, oauth-apiserver), meaning there is no version skew between them within a given payload. If this holds, the feature gate alone is sufficient to prevent the CPO from generating a configuration that the deployed component cannot understand, and no version-aware generation logic is needed.

However, it is not clear whether this is always the case. If a newer CPO could end up deploying an older oauth-apiserver that does not support the new configuration format, we would need version-aware generation logic to avoid deploying incompatible configurations.

Additionally, version skew affects admission-time validation: HyperShift currently compiles CEL expressions at admission time using a CEL environment pinned to the minimum supported OCP version, to avoid generating configurations that the target KAS cannot parse. If there is no version skew, validation could use the actual target version instead, reducing false rejections of valid CEL expressions.

We would like HyperShift maintainers to confirm whether version skew between the CPO and the components it deploys is a scenario we need to account for.

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Maybe we can get @sjenning @enxebre or @csrwng to take a look to confirm our understanding here?

I suspect the HyperShift operator validation behavior is going to prove problematic here since there will be different validation based on the fact that the behavior will only be available starting with a specific openshift payload.

i.e We need to make sure we don't perform the new configuration generation and validation for a HostedCluster instance that wouldn't support it anyways.

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At least for now, it is always the case that the CPO minor version corresponds to the OCP minor version that it is operating. The only skew we support is Z release skew when a fix needs to be applied to already-released OCP z releases in managed services.

As you call out, the HyperShift operator validation is tricky because the HO can support HostedClusters of various minor releases at the same time. In these cases where CEL validation is not possible, it should be possible to validate within the operator code and declare a config invalid if it doesn't match an expected OCP minor release.

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The proposal documents HyperShift external OIDC deployment, operator responsibilities, shared configuration generation, aligned validation, and version-gated HostedCluster propagation.

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HyperShift external OIDC integration

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HyperShift webhook deployment and operator responsibilities
enhancements/authentication/external-oidc-additional-identity-information-sources.md
The Control Plane Operator deploys a dedicated external OIDC webhook and Service, generates AuthenticationConfiguration, projects required secrets, configures kube-apiserver, and preserves existing oauth-apiserver teardown behavior. The architecture diagram shows both operators reading the Authentication resource.
Shared configuration and validation
enhancements/authentication/external-oidc-additional-identity-information-sources.md
The proposal identifies shared configuration generation for standalone and HyperShift deployments and reduces duplicated validation by relying on component-provided upstream validation.
Version-gated propagation
enhancements/authentication/external-oidc-additional-identity-information-sources.md
The proposal defines feature-gated version support, blocks invalid or unsupported configurations with ValidConfiguration=False, retries metadata failures with ValidConfiguration=Unknown, and delays propagation until supported components are running.

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- Around line 582-586: The CPO kube-apiserver configuration generation must
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Unlike standalone clusters where the existing oauth-apiserver deployment is reconfigured into the new mode, in HyperShift a **new dedicated component** will be deployed for this purpose. The new component uses the oauth-apiserver binary (with its `external-oidc` subcommand) but runs as a separate deployment with its own Service, independent of the existing `openshift-oauth-apiserver` deployment. The existing oauth-apiserver teardown behavior in External OIDC mode is preserved.

This separation is preferred for HyperShift because:
- Clean separation of concerns: the integrated OAuth functionality and the external OIDC webhook authenticator are fundamentally different functions with different lifecycles.

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seems this all would apply to standalone as well, why is this separate only in hcp?

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We did consider a similar approach for standalone (i.e. a new standalone component for the webhook); you can read more about it and why we rejected that approach for standalone further down in the enhancement: https://github.com/openshift/enhancements/pull/2050/changes#diff-455fc88e41faf3906c26ee0764767487caf1617122b7f4c827fad831a4f4c0c1R821-R838


##### Configuration generation alignment

As part of the CAO implementation of this feature, the CAO uses an [oauth-apiserver generator](https://github.com/openshift/cluster-authentication-operator/blob/28632f237aa003bb191100eabdc46c3e20c1fb49/pkg/controllers/externaloidc/generation/oauthapiserver/generate.go) that produces the oauth-apiserver's `AuthenticationConfiguration` type (including the `externalClaimsSources` fields introduced with this EP). Since both topologies need to generate the same configuration for the new dedicated component, this generator should be extracted to a shared library and reused in HyperShift.

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this produces externaloidc/apis/authentication/v1alpha1?

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Yes -- I've added some text to clarify.

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@enxebre I added more text to clarify the usage of that type further.


The HyperShift Operator (HO) is a different case: it runs on the management cluster and manages `HostedCluster` resources across multiple OCP minor releases simultaneously. Today, HyperShift pins CEL expression compilation at admission time to the minimum supported OCP version, as a conservative approach to ensure CEL expressions are compatible with the CEL libraries available at the target Kubernetes version.

This feature introduces a new dimension to the version-awareness problem: the `externalClaimsSources` configuration fields only exist behind a new feature gate and are not supported by older OCP versions. The HO must therefore validate not just whether CEL expressions compile against a given version's CEL environment, but also whether the target `HostedCluster` version supports the new configuration fields at all. The minimum supported version approach does not cover this -- it would either reject the new fields entirely or accept them for hosted clusters that cannot consume them. The HO will need to version-gate the validation of the authentication configuration based on the target `HostedCluster` version.

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he HO will need to version-gate the validation of the authentication configuration based on the target HostedCluster version.

can we be flesh out how this will be implemented?

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Based on other examples I've seen, it would roughly look like this:

  • HO already knows the target OCP version of each HostedCluster from .spec.release
  • if that version is older than the one introducing the ExternalOIDCExternalClaimsSourcing feature gate, the HO will reject any config that includes externalClaimsSources fields with an error

I'll try to add some code to demonstrate this in the respective POC for reference.

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@enxebre I've pushed some code in my POC to demonstrate how we'd implement this. Basically, the POC adds validation in HO before propagating authentication configuration to the HCP:

  • HO resolves the target control plane version from release metadata, honoring spec.controlPlaneRelease, and requires 5.1+ with the external claims sourcing feature gate enabled.
  • Shared HO/CPO validation checks external source URLs, authentication settings, mappings, and predicates, including CEL compilation with the appropriate variables.
  • Unsupported or invalid configuration is reported through ValidConfiguration and blocks propagation. Release lookup failures leave validation Unknown and trigger a retry.
  • For now, the POC implements the webhook’s validation rules locally because its validator depends on Kubernetes APIs unavailable in HyperShift’s current dependencies.

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I've also done some small text adjustments to explain this a bit better.


The CPO minor version always corresponds to the OCP minor version it operates on. The only supported skew is at the Z-release level (for backported fixes in managed services), which does not affect feature-level configuration changes. This means the feature gate alone is sufficient to prevent the CPO from generating a configuration that the deployed component cannot understand, and no version-aware generation logic is needed within the CPO.

The HyperShift Operator (HO) is a different case: it runs on the management cluster and manages `HostedCluster` resources across multiple OCP minor releases simultaneously. Today, HyperShift pins CEL expression compilation at admission time to the minimum supported OCP version, as a conservative approach to ensure CEL expressions are compatible with the CEL libraries available at the target Kubernetes version.

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fwiw o/hypershift has envtest to validate CEL expressions back to the minimum management cluster supported

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##### Validation alignment

There is currently a difference in how HyperShift and Standalone validate the generated configuration. CAO does inline validation during generation (CEL expression compilation, `email_verified` enforcement, SA issuer URL overlap check, CA cert reachability), while HyperShift defers to upstream `ValidateAuthenticationConfiguration`. Where possible, CAO should be aligned with HyperShift and rely on the upstream validations provided by the components being configured (both the KAS and the oauth-apiserver validate their own configuration). This reduces duplicated validation logic and ensures both topologies are consistent.

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Keep pre-persistence validation.

externalOIDCController.sync applies auth-config only after the generator succeeds. If the shared generator delegates validation to the components, invalid configuration may be persisted before component rejection. Preserve equivalent checks for CEL compilation, email_verified, issuer overlap, and CA reachability.

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around lines 607 - 610, Preserve pre-persistence validation in
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- Line 619: Define an explicit readiness or observed-version gate for
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Before propagating authentication configuration to the `HostedControlPlane`, HO resolves the target control plane version from release metadata, using `spec.controlPlaneRelease.image` when set and otherwise `spec.release.image`. External claims sourcing requires a target release that supports the feature and the `ExternalOIDCExternalClaimsSourcing` feature gate enabled in the feature set passed to CPO. The minimum supported release will be determined before the feature is introduced. Unsupported or invalid configuration sets `ValidConfiguration=False` and blocks propagation. Release metadata lookup or version parsing failures set `ValidConfiguration=Unknown` and cause reconciliation to retry.

Upgrade sequencing also remains to be defined: a supported target release does not mean the running control plane already supports the configuration. Configuration requiring the new feature must only reach the component once the running CPO and webhook support it.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Define upgrade sequencing before propagation.

A supported target release does not prove that the running CPO and dedicated webhook support externalClaimsSources. Define a readiness or observed-version gate that blocks HyperShift Operator propagation until both components support the feature. Otherwise, a rolling upgrade can apply unsupported authentication configuration and cause an authentication outage.

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- Upgrade sequencing also remains to be defined
+ HyperShift Operator propagation must wait until the running CPO and webhook report support for this feature
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at line 619, Define an explicit readiness or observed-version gate for
externalClaimsSources propagation that verifies both the running CPO and
dedicated webhook support the feature before HyperShift Operator applies the
configuration. Block propagation during rolling upgrades until both components
are ready, while preserving propagation once support is confirmed.

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@liouk: This pull request references CNTRLPLANE-3740 which is a valid jira issue.

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The `externaloidc/apis/authentication/v1alpha1` type is an internal
configuration format for `oauth-apiserver`, not a served API or CRD. The Cluster
Authentication Operator in Standalone Openshift and the Control Plane Operator in

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use canonical OpenShift and kube-apiserver names.

Change Standalone Openshift to Standalone OpenShift on Line 415. Change Kube-APIServer to the repository's canonical kube-apiserver spelling in the heading on Line 556.

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