feat(rbac): implement platform:admin role for global gateway access

[bsquizz]

Summary

Implements a new platform:admin RBAC role that grants platform-wide view and delete permissions for all gateways, regardless of per-gateway ownership bindings.

This PR includes specification, backend implementation, and E2E testing for the four-role RBAC model.

Platform:Admin Role

• Scope: Global (platform-wide)
• Source: Keycloak JWT (synced automatically like gateway:creator)
• Permissions: View all gateways + delete any gateway
• Restrictions: Cannot modify gateways (requires gateway:owner), cannot create gateways (requires gateway:creator), cannot grant role bindings (requires gateway:owner)

Key Design Decisions

1. Limited scope: View + delete only to prevent accidental modifications while allowing operational oversight
2. Orthogonal to gateway:creator: Roles compose—a user can have both platform:admin + gateway:creator for full capabilities
3. Keycloak-driven: No database seeding of users; RoleBindings created dynamically from JWT claims
4. No separate admin UI: Capabilities integrated into existing gateway list, not a separate /admin hierarchy

Specification Changes

specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md

• Expand from 3-role to 4-role RBAC model
• Add platform:admin to built-in roles table and permission matrix
• Add "Platform Admin Global Access" requirement with scenarios
• Add database migration requirement for role seeding
• Add audit logging requirement for platform:admin actions
• Add gRPC authorization scenarios
• Clarify platform:admin scope (iteration 1: gateway view/delete only)

specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md

• Update gateway visibility scoping to include platform:admin users
• Mandate API-backed pagination for gateway list (not optional)
• Align all debounce timings to 300ms (gateway search, placement search)
• Cross-reference UI requirements to avoid duplication

Implementation

Backend (components/api-server/)

Database Migration

• Seed platform:admin role in built-in roles migration
• Role definition: name, display_name, description, built_in flag

Authorization Logic

• JWT role syncing for platform:admin (HTTP & gRPC)
• List all gateways: bypass per-gateway filtering for platform:admin
• Read any gateway: GET /gateways/{id} succeeds for any ID
• Delete any gateway: DELETE /gateways/{id} succeeds for any ID
• Block PATCH/PUT without gateway:owner binding
• Block POST /role_bindings without gateway:owner on target gateway
• Platform:admin cannot be granted via API (Keycloak-only, like gateway:creator)

Audit Logging

• INFO-level logs for platform:admin view/delete actions
• Logged fields: action, user, user_id, gateway_id, gateway_name

gRPC Authorization

• Platform:admin can read/watch/delete via gRPC
• Platform:admin blocked from create/update via gRPC without additional roles
• JWT role syncing in gRPC interceptors

Frontend (UI)

Existing UI Already Supports Platform:Admin

• Delete button exists in gateway row actions dropdown
• Backend enforces authorization; UI is authorization-agnostic per architecture spec
• API returns all gateways for platform:admin users (pagination/search handled)

Testing

Unit Tests (13 new tests, all passing)

• HTTP authorization: 8 tests covering list, read, delete, cannot-modify, cannot-create, role composition
• gRPC authorization: 5 tests covering read, watch, delete, cannot-create, cannot-update

E2E Tests (Kind cluster)

• Platform admin can list all gateways (GET /gateways → 200)
• Platform admin can delete gateways without ownership (DELETE /gateways/{id} → 204)
• Platform admin cannot create gateways without gateway:creator (POST /gateways → 403)
• Realm role assignment infrastructure added to E2E driver

Files Changed

Specification: 2 files

• specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md
• specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md

Implementation: 10 files (+307 lines)

• components/api-server/pkg/rbac/authorization.go
• components/api-server/pkg/rbac/authorization_test.go
• components/api-server/pkg/rbac/grpc_interceptor.go
• components/api-server/pkg/rbac/grpc_interceptor_test.go
• components/api-server/pkg/rbac/user_provisioning.go
• components/api-server/plugins/gateways/handler.go
• components/api-server/plugins/rbac/grpc_init.go
• components/api-server/plugins/roleBindings/service.go
• components/api-server/plugins/roles/migration.go
• components/api-server/plugins/roles/model.go

E2E Tests: 3 files (+201 lines)

• tests/e2e/drivers/kind.sh (added assign_realm_role() function)
• tests/e2e/e2e-openshell.sh (added step 10: platform admin RBAC verification)
• tests/e2e/lib.sh (added platform admin env vars)

Bootstrap

The first platform admin is created by:

1. Keycloak admin assigns platform:admin realm role to a user
2. User authenticates → JWT contains the role
3. Middleware auto-provisions the RoleBinding on first request

Production prerequisite: External SSO must define platform:admin realm role and emit it in JWT claims BEFORE enabling RBAC enforcement.

Test Plan

• ✅ Migration seeds platform:admin role definition
• ✅ Middleware syncs platform:admin from JWT claims (HTTP & gRPC)
• ✅ Platform admin can list all gateways (unit + E2E tests)
• ✅ Platform admin can delete any gateway (unit + E2E tests)
• ✅ Platform admin cannot modify gateways without ownership (unit + E2E tests)
• ✅ Platform admin cannot create gateways without gateway:creator (unit + E2E tests)
• ✅ gRPC authorization matches HTTP authorization (unit tests)
• ✅ Audit logging for platform:admin actions (implementation verified)
• ✅ UI delete button available (existing in gateway row actions)
• ✅ API-backed pagination and search (architecture spec compliance)

Verification

Build: ✅ go build ./... passes
Unit Tests: ✅ All 13 new tests passing
Syntax: ✅ E2E bash scripts validated

Related

• Implements: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md (four-role model)
• Follows: specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md (UI patterns)
• Addresses: All Amber PR review feedback (blocker, critical, minor issues)

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[bsquizz]

Amber Code Review: Platform:Admin Role Specification

Overall Assessment: The core design is excellent—well-scoped, orthogonal, and thoughtfully limited to view + delete. However, found 1 blocker and 1 critical inconsistency that must be fixed before merge.

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🔴 BLOCKER

Outdated Role Model Reference

Location: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md:465

Integration tests SHALL exercise RBAC enforcement with the new three-role model.

❌ Issue: Still says "three-role model" but the PR introduces a four-role model.

Fix: Change to "four-role model"

Why it's a blocker: This directly contradicts the entire PR. Integration test implementers will be confused.

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🟠 CRITICAL: Debounce Timing Inconsistency

Multiple locations — Gateway search debounce values conflict across the specs:

Location	Line	Value
rbac-enforcement.spec.md (new)	356	300ms
web-console/architecture.spec.md WEB-ARCH-02 (new)	92	300ms
web-console/architecture.spec.md WEB-DATA-01 (existing)	281	250ms ⚠️
web-console/architecture.spec.md WEB-UI-03A (new)	365	300ms

Impact:

• API implementers will use one value, UI implementers another
• Tests will fail intermittently
• Inconsistent user experience

Root cause: WEB-DATA-01 predates this PR and specified 250ms. The new platform:admin requirements introduce 300ms without updating the existing requirement.

Recommended fix: Align all gateway search debounce to 300ms (it's in 3/4 locations and is a common UX pattern):

• Update specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md:281 — Change WEB-DATA-01 from 250ms → 300ms
• Consider: placement search (lines 283, 433) may also need alignment

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🟡 MAJOR: Duplicate UI Requirements

Location: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md:349-389

The RBAC spec includes detailed UI requirements for platform:admin (pagination, search, delete actions, etc.) that duplicate requirements in specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md WEB-UI-03A (lines 355-422).

Why this matters:

1. Maintenance burden: Changes require updates in TWO places
2. Drift risk: Specs can become inconsistent over time
3. Unclear authority: Which spec is canonical?

Recommended fix: In the RBAC spec, replace detailed UI requirements with a cross-reference:

### Requirement: Platform Admin UI Experience

The web UI SHALL support platform:admin users as defined in 
`web-console/architecture.spec.md` requirement WEB-UI-03A.

Platform administrators SHALL see all gateways in the gateway list, which SHALL use
API-backed pagination and search as specified in WEB-API-01.

Keep ALL UI implementation details (page sizes, debounce, modals, badges) in the web-console spec only.

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🟢 MINOR Issues

1. OpenShell Access Not Explicit

Location: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md:106

The permission matrix shows -- for platform:admin OpenShell mapping but doesn't explain why.

Suggested addition after line 120:

The `platform:admin` role provides visibility and lifecycle management through the
HyperShell web console but does NOT grant OpenShell CLI access to gateways. Platform
administrators who need to use the `openshell` CLI for a specific gateway must be
granted `gateway:owner` or `gateway:viewer` on that gateway.

2. No Database Migration Mentioned

Location: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md:47-48

The spec says roles are seeded via migration but doesn't explicitly state a new migration is needed.

Suggested addition in "Production Rollout" section:

### Database Migration Requirement

A database migration SHALL seed the `platform:admin` role record with:
- `name: "platform:admin"`
- `display_name: "Platform Administrator"`  
- `description: "Platform-wide view and delete access for all gateways"`
- `built_in: true`

3. No Audit Logging for High-Risk Operations

Platform admin deletions are high-privilege operations that should be audited. Consider referencing audit requirements or adding:

Platform administrator actions SHALL be logged with:
- Action performed (view, delete)
- Actor identity (platform:admin user)  
- Target resource (gateway ID and name)
- Timestamp and correlation ID

4. Scope Beyond Gateways Unclear

Location: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md:276-290

The spec only describes platform:admin permissions for gateways. What about Fleets, GatewayNetworks, ManagedClusters, etc.?

Recommended: Add explicit scoping:

The `platform:admin` role is **gateway-scoped only**. It does NOT grant permissions to:
- View or modify Fleets, GatewayNetworks, GatewayReleases, ManagedClusters, or ManagedDatabases  
- View or modify Users or RoleBindings
- Access platform-level configuration or system administration functions

5. gRPC Authorization Scenarios Missing

Location: specs/security/rbac-enforcement.spec.md:390-397

gRPC enforcement is mentioned but no scenarios show platform:admin via gRPC. Does the control plane need this role, or is it HTTP-only (web console)?

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Summary

Severity	Count	Action Required
🔴 Blocker	1	Must fix before merge
🟠 Critical	1	Must fix before merge
🟡 Major	1	Strongly recommended
🟢 Minor	5	Nice-to-have clarifications

Confidence: High (95%)

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Reviewed by Amber — HyperShell codebase intelligence

[bsquizz]

Amber Re-Review: All Issues Addressed ✅

Reviewed commit fa5ff3f — Excellent work! All previous findings have been resolved.

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Changes Verified ✅

🔴 BLOCKER - FIXED

Line 482 (was 465): Changed "three-role model" → "four-role model" ✅

🟠 CRITICAL - FIXED

Debounce timing now consistent at 300ms across all locations:

• specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md:281 — Gateway search: 250ms → 300ms ✅
• specs/web-console/architecture.spec.md:283 — Placement search: 250ms → 300ms ✅
• All four locations now aligned at 300ms ✅

🟡 MAJOR - FIXED

Duplicate UI requirements consolidated:

• Removed detailed UI requirements from rbac-enforcement.spec.md ✅
• Added proper cross-reference to web-console/architecture.spec.md (WEB-ARCH-02, WEB-UI-03A, WEB-DATA-01) ✅
• Single source of truth established ✅

🟢 MINOR Issues - ALL ADDRESSED

1. OpenShell access clarification — Added after line 118 ✅

   • Clearly explains platform:admin does NOT grant OpenShell CLI access
   • Documents how to get OpenShell access (requires gateway:owner or gateway:viewer)

2. Database migration requirement — New section added ✅

   • Explicitly documents the platform:admin role record migration
   • Specifies all required fields (name, display_name, description, built_in)
   • Notes it runs alongside existing role migrations

3. Audit logging requirement — New section added ✅

   • Documents what must be logged (action, actor, target, timestamp, correlation ID)
   • Specifies INFO level or higher for high-privilege operations
   • Provides security audit trail

4. Resource scope clarification — Added after line 297 ✅

   • Explicitly states platform:admin is gateway-scoped only
   • Lists what it does NOT grant access to (Fleets, Networks, Releases, etc.)
   • Prevents scope creep and misunderstanding

5. gRPC authorization scenarios — Two scenarios added ✅

   • Scenario: Platform admin watches gateways via gRPC
   • Scenario: Platform admin cannot modify via gRPC without ownership
   • Covers gRPC enforcement equivalence to HTTP

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Final Assessment

Category	Status
Blockers	0 ✅
Critical Issues	0 ✅
Major Issues	0 ✅
Minor Issues	0 ✅
Spec Quality	Excellent
Implementation Readiness	Ready

Recommendation: ✅ APPROVE — All issues resolved, spec is complete and consistent.

The specification is now:

• Internally consistent (no conflicting values)
• Properly scoped (clear boundaries)
• Well-documented (scenarios, requirements, rationale)
• Maintainable (single source of truth, proper cross-references)
• Implementation-ready (database migration, audit logging, gRPC coverage)

Confidence: High (95%)

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Re-reviewed by Amber — HyperShell codebase intelligence

[markturansky]

LGTM

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