OCPBUGS-95087: reload client CA after kubelet-ca.crt is replaced

[arpitbhagat]

What type of PR is this?

/kind bug

What this PR does / why we need it:

OpenShift scrapes CRI-O metrics through the kube-rbac-proxy-crio static pod on :9637 (job=crio). That process authenticates Prometheus with --client-ca-file=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-ca.crt. Machine Config Operator writes that file atomically whenever the cluster client CA is updated.

Today kube-rbac-proxy loads the CA at start (and on filesystem events for the original inode) and then keeps it in memory. After MCO replaces the file, TLS to :9637 still succeeds, but client-certificate authentication returns HTTP 401 (x509: certificate signed by unknown authority). Cluster Monitoring then fires TargetDown for job=crio. Restarting the static pod reloads the CA from disk and clears the alert until the next CA rewrite.

This change reloads the client CA on a one-minute timer as well as on filesystem events, so an MCO rewrite is picked up without restarting the proxy. The same reload is applied to the serving cert/key watcher so those files cannot stick on a stale inode either.

Which issue(s) this PR is related to:

Related: OCPBUGS-95087

Special notes for your reviewer:

• Reload interval stays 1 minute.
• Authentication and authorization wiring is unchanged (--client-ca-file, static auth for prometheus-k8s).

Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?

kube-rbac-proxy now reloads the client CA file on a timer, so replacing kubelet-ca.crt no longer leaves CRI-O metrics scrapes failing with HTTP 401.

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@arpitbhagat: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-95087, which is invalid:

• expected the bug to target either version "5.1.0." or "openshift-5.1.0.", but it targets "4.19.z" instead

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What type of PR is this?

/kind bug

What this PR does / why we need it:

OpenShift scrapes CRI-O metrics through the kube-rbac-proxy-crio static pod on :9637 (job=crio). That process authenticates Prometheus with --client-ca-file=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-ca.crt. Machine Config Operator writes that file atomically whenever the cluster client CA is updated.

Today kube-rbac-proxy loads the CA at start (and on filesystem events for the original inode) and then keeps it in memory. After MCO replaces the file, TLS to :9637 still succeeds, but client-certificate authentication returns HTTP 401 (x509: certificate signed by unknown authority). Cluster Monitoring then fires TargetDown for job=crio. Restarting the static pod reloads the CA from disk and clears the alert until the next CA rewrite.

This change reloads the client CA on a one-minute timer as well as on filesystem events, so an MCO rewrite is picked up without restarting the proxy. The same reload is applied to the serving cert/key watcher so those files cannot stick on a stale inode either.

Which issue(s) this PR is related to:

Related: OCPBUGS-95087

Special notes for your reviewer:

• Reload interval stays 1 minute.
• Authentication and authorization wiring is unchanged (--client-ca-file, static auth for prometheus-k8s).

Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?

kube-rbac-proxy now reloads the client CA file on a timer, so replacing kubelet-ca.crt no longer leaves CRI-O metrics scrapes failing with HTTP 401.

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