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fix(nvcf-cli): report OpenBao PKI HTTP failures - #1416

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TL;DR

Report actionable HTTP status, content type, and bounded response context when the nvcf-cli OpenBao PKI certificate request fails. Transient HTTP failures retain the existing bounded retry behavior.

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Why

A self-managed control-plane installation can receive a non-JSON error from the OpenBao PKI certificate endpoint. After the existing retries, nvcf-cli reports only a JSON syntax error, which hides whether OpenBao returned a transient server error, a client error, or an unexpected status.

What changed

  • Add curl response markers for HTTP status and content type to the OpenBao CA request.
  • Classify 408, 429, and 5xx responses as retryable within the existing three-attempt policy.
  • Report non-success status, content type, and a single-line response summary capped at 512 bytes.
  • Preserve optional-PKI handling for structured missing-mount responses.
  • Omit certificate payloads from error details.
  • Add coverage for server retries, exhausted retries, client errors, unexpected success statuses, optional PKI, response parsing, body bounds, and certificate omission.

Customer Release Notes

NVCF CLI now reports actionable HTTP details when OpenBao PKI certificate retrieval fails during self-managed control-plane installation.

Plan Summary

No Kubernetes resource, chart, deployment topology, or infrastructure plan changes.

Usage

No command or configuration changes are required.

Testing

  • go test ./... in src/clis/nvcf-cli: passed.
  • go vet ./internal/openbao in src/clis/nvcf-cli: passed.
  • git diff --check: passed.

QA is not required beyond automated CLI coverage.

Notes

This follows the malformed-response retry added in #1262 and makes exhausted HTTP failures diagnosable without exposing certificate contents.

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Dependencies

None. No third-party dependency, license review, or NOTICE update is required.

For the Reviewer

Review the curl metadata framing, kubectl output filtering, retry classification, and bounded diagnostic handling in internal/openbao.

For QA

No separate QA environment is required. The behavior is covered with unit and full CLI tests.

Issues

Fixes #1415

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  • I have signed off my commits for Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) compliance.
  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved OpenBao certificate retrieval by retrying temporary server, timeout, and rate-limit failures.
    • Preserved clear handling for certificate-not-found and other non-retryable errors.
    • Improved detection of unexpected responses and missing PKI configurations.
    • Error messages now provide bounded, sanitized response details without exposing certificate contents.
    • Improved kubectl-based certificate operations by correctly interpreting HTTP response metadata.

Capture status and content type for CA certificate reads so transient server failures use the bounded retry policy and final errors retain bounded response context.

Preserve optional PKI handling and omit certificate payloads from diagnostics.

Refs: #1415
Signed-off-by: Stephanie Baum <sbaum@nvidia.com>
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The CLI captures OpenBao PKI HTTP metadata, classifies HTTP failures, retries transient responses, preserves missing-PKI behavior, bounds and sanitizes error bodies, and retains curl metadata in kubectl output.

Changes

OpenBao PKI HTTP handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Structured PKI retrieval and retry handling
src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/openbao/client.go
PKI reads now return HTTP status, content type, and body. Retry logic handles connection failures, timeouts, throttling, and server errors while preserving non-retryable certificate-not-found responses. Error bodies are bounded and certificate contents are redacted.
Kubectl metadata preservation
src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/openbao/client.go
Kubectl filtering separates curl metadata from response content and preserves the metadata for PEM, JSON, plain, and empty responses.
HTTP response and kubectl test coverage
src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/openbao/client_test.go
Tests cover structured responses, retryable and non-retryable statuses, missing PKI handling, bounded errors, redaction, metadata parsing, and --write-out usage.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a9f45

The CLI now reports bounded HTTP failure details and preserves retry behavior for OpenBao PKI requests; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: dmikhaylovnv

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sequenceDiagram
  participant nvcf_cli
  participant curl
  participant OpenBao
  nvcf_cli->>curl: Request PKI certificate with HTTP metadata
  curl->>OpenBao: Send PKI request
  OpenBao-->>curl: Return status, content type, and body
  curl-->>nvcf_cli: Return structured response
  nvcf_cli->>nvcf_cli: Classify status and retry selected failures
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The changes satisfy issue #1415 by retaining HTTP status and content type, reporting bounded response context, retrying transient failures, preserving missing-PKI handling, protecting certificate contents, and adding automated coverage.

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In `@src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/openbao/client_test.go`:
- Line 113: Update the readPKICertificatePEM test call to pass
context.Background() instead of nil, preserving the existing arguments and
assertions.

In `@src/clis/nvcf-cli/internal/openbao/client.go`:
- Line 418: Add bounded telemetry around the PKI request and retry flow used by
readPKICertificatePEM, covering request count, failures, duration, and retries
with structured request, function, cluster, and organization context. Keep
response bodies and certificate data out of telemetry, and preserve Go error
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