File Integrity Operator release notes

You can install and use the File Integrity Operator in an OKD cluster running in FIPS mode.

Previously, some FIO pods with private default mount propagation in combination with hostPath: path: / volume mounts would break the CSI driver relying on multipath. This problem has been fixed and the CSI driver works correctly. (Some OpenShift Operator pods blocking unmounting of CSI volumes when multipath is in use)

This update resolves CVE-2023-39325. (CVE-2023-39325)

FIO now includes kubelet certificates as default files, excluding them from issuing warnings when they’re managed by OKD. (OCPBUGS-14348)

FIO now correctly directs email to the address for Red Hat Technical Support. (OCPBUGS-5023)

Previously, FIO would not clean up FileIntegrityNodeStatus CRDs when nodes are removed from the cluster. FIO has been updated to correctly clean up node status CRDs on node removal. (OCPBUGS-4321)

Previously, FIO would also erroneously indicate that new nodes failed integrity checks. FIO has been updated to correctly show node status CRDs when adding new nodes to the cluster. This provides correct node status notifications. (OCPBUGS-8502)

Previously, when FIO was reconciling FileIntegrity CRDs, it would pause scanning until the reconciliation was done. This caused an overly aggressive re-initiatization process on nodes not impacted by the reconciliation. This problem also resulted in unnecessary daemonsets for machine config pools which are unrelated to the FileIntegrity being changed. FIO correctly handles these cases and only pauses AIDE scanning for nodes that are affected by file integrity changes. (CMP-1097)

The File Integrity Operator Custom Resource (CR) now contains an initialDelay feature that specifies the number of seconds to wait before starting the first AIDE integrity check. For more information, see Creating the FileIntegrity custom resource.

The File Integrity Operator is now stable and the release channel is upgraded to stable. Future releases will follow Semantic Versioning. To access the latest release, see Updating the File Integrity Operator.

Previously, alerts issued by the File Integrity Operator did not set a namespace, making it difficult to understand from which namespace the alert originated. Now, the Operator sets the appropriate namespace, providing more information about the alert. (BZ#2112394)

Previously, The File Integrity Operator did not update the metrics service on Operator startup, causing the metrics targets to be unreachable. With this release, the File Integrity Operator now ensures the metrics service is updated on Operator startup. (BZ#2115821)

The File Integrity Operator is now supported on the following architectures:

Previously, alerts issued by the File Integrity Operator did not set a namespace, making it difficult to understand where the alert originated. Now, the Operator sets the appropriate namespace, increasing understanding of the alert. (BZ#2101393)

You can now configure the maximum number of backups stored in the FileIntegrity Custom Resource (CR) with the config.maxBackups attribute. This attribute specifies the number of AIDE database and log backups left over from the re-init process to keep on the node. Older backups beyond the configured number are automatically pruned. The default is set to five backups.

Previously, upgrading the Operator from versions older than 0.1.21 to 0.1.22 could cause the re-init feature to fail. This was a result of the Operator failing to update configmap resource labels. Now, upgrading to the latest version fixes the resource labels. (BZ#2049206)

Previously, when enforcing the default configmap script contents, the wrong data keys were compared. This resulted in the aide-reinit script not being updated properly after an Operator upgrade, and caused the re-init process to fail. Now,daemonSets run to completion and the AIDE database re-init process executes successfully. (BZ#2072058)

Previously, a system with a File Integrity Operator installed might interrupt the OKD update, due to the /etc/kubernetes/aide.reinit file. This occurred if the /etc/kubernetes/aide.reinit file was present, but later removed prior to the ostree validation. With this update, /etc/kubernetes/aide.reinit is moved to the /run directory so that it does not conflict with the OKD update. (BZ#2033311)

The metrics related to FileIntegrity scan results and processing metrics are displayed on the monitoring dashboard on the web console. The results are labeled with the prefix of file_integrity_operator_.

If a node has an integrity failure for more than 1 second, the default PrometheusRule provided in the operator namespace alerts with a warning.

The following dynamic Machine Config Operator and Cluster Version Operator related filepaths are excluded from the default AIDE policy to help prevent false positives during node updates:

The AIDE daemon process has stability improvements over v0.1.16, and is more resilient to errors that might occur when the AIDE database is initialized.

Previously, when the Operator automatically upgraded, outdated daemon sets were not removed. With this release, outdated daemon sets are removed during the automatic upgrade.