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Author SHA1 Message Date
Xe Iaso 898695e312
cmd/gitops-pusher: add etag cache file for the three version problem (#5124)
This allows gitops-pusher to detect external ACL changes. I'm not
sure what to call this problem, so I've been calling it the "three
version problem" in my notes. The basic problem is that at any given
time we only have two versions of the ACL file at any given point:
the version in CONTROL and the one in the git repo. In order to
check if there has been tampering of the ACL files in the admin
panel, we need to have a _third_ version to compare against.

In this case I am not storing the old ACL entirely (though that could
be a reasonable thing to add in the future), but only its sha256sum.
This allows us to detect if the shasum in control matches the shasum
we expect, and if that expectation fails, then we can react
accordingly.

This will require additional configuration in CI, but I'm sure that
can be done.

Signed-off-by: Xe <xe@tailscale.com>
2 years ago