Waf policy manager UI - #135
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Migrates all WAF Policy Manager work from gitlab/f5/bnk-forge waf-policy-manager-ui branch to this repo. Backend: - k8s_types.py: ApiGroups.APPPROTECT, ResourceCategory.WAF - k8s_resource_registry.py: APPolicy, APLogConf, APSignatures, APUserSig CRDs - routes/k8s/waf_policies.py: full CRUD for all 4 CRD types - routes/k8s/__init__.py + main.py: register waf_policies_router - tests/unit/test_waf_policies.py: 10 unit tests (all passing) Frontend: - types/waf.ts, lib/api/waf-policies.ts, hooks/useWafPolicies.ts - lib/waf-policy-validation.ts, lib/queryKeys.ts (WAF keys) - pages/WafPolicies.tsx: 4-tab UI — full Create/List/Edit/Delete - components/k8s/WafPolicyWizard.tsx: 4-step policy creation wizard - components/k8s/f5bnk-details/WafPolicyDetail.tsx: detail panel - components/layout/Sidebar.tsx: WAF Policies nav link - router.tsx: /waf-policies route - types/index.ts: re-export WAF types - .npmrc: F5 Artifactory registry 24 frontend tests + 10 backend tests — all passing; 0 WAF tsc errors
The secrets/ directory is gitignored at repo level. Inline the stub directly in ProjectDetailV2 until a proper implementation is available. Also removes the gitignored directory from disk.
The ?worker Vite transform syntax is not portable across build configs. @monaco-editor/react's loader handles workers internally when given the monaco instance; no custom MonacoEnvironment needed.
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Porting 22 commits from gitlab/f5/bnk-forge waf-policy-manager-ui to github.
All files copied verbatim — no code changes during migration.
Verified clean:
- npx tsc --noEmit: 0 errors
- 24 WAF frontend tests: all pass
- 10 WAF backend unit tests: all pass
- npm run build: success (52s)
- make deploy: all containers healthy
- 8 WAF API routes registered in OpenAPI
Changes ported (grouped by feature):
CORE WAF FORMS (new files: waf/ directory):
APPolicyForm.tsx — 8-tab full-field policy editor (all NAP spec fields, no
raw JSON textareas); interactive widgets for every field type: ToggleList
(violations/evasions), SigSetEditor (signature sets + action), TagInput
(server-technologies, threat-campaigns, sensitive-parameters), KVListEditor
(URLs/params/cookies/headers), IpListEditor (geo/IP)
APLogConfForm.tsx — all fields on one tab; request_type card picker; API
version selector (v1/v1beta1); live { } JSON tab with two-way sync
APUserSigForm.tsx — identity + signatures tabs; full per-signature fields
WafWizardFrame.tsx — shared tabbed shell with red dot validation, toolbar slot
waf-utils.tsx — shared validateK8sName, extractApiError helpers
WafFormToolbar.tsx (NEW) — Clone / Drafts / Import JSON toolbar for create forms
Clone: namespace/name picker, all CRs in namespace, fills all form fields
Drafts: localStorage auto-save; restore deletes draft (name is taken once used)
Import JSON: paste or file upload, applies to form fields
DETAIL PANELS (new files):
APLogConfDetail.tsx — Overview + Bundle Status tabs; View JSON toggle button
APUserSigDetail.tsx — identity + signatures detail view
DETAIL PANELS (updated):
WafPolicyDetail.tsx — Summary tab replaces raw JSON tab; View JSON button;
shows enforcement mode, active features, labels/annotations
shared.tsx — break-all + min-w-0 on InfoRow for SHA256/location overflow
UI / UX FIXES:
WafPolicies.tsx — Export JSON (all CRDs), Force Recompile (policies),
Delete APSignatures, Labels/Annotations in detail panels, RefreshButton
component with spinner+flash, all SelectContent position=popper,
immutable CR name in edit mode, API version hidden in edit mode
destructive-confirm-dialog.tsx — autoFocus prevent keyboard leak from create form
BACKEND:
waf_policies.py — DELETE /waf/signatures, POST /waf/policies/{name}/recompile
HOOKS / API:
useWafPolicies.ts — useDeleteWafSignatures, useRecompileWafPolicy
waf-policies.ts — deleteSignatures, recompilePolicy client methods
waf-drafts.ts (NEW) — localStorage draft CRUD utility
VALIDATION FIXES:
max_request_size regex corrected to match CRD exactly (rejects 100k, 1024k)
Cross-validation: max_message_size must not exceed max_request_size
Stuck 'Working...' button fixed via isSubmitting state + finally{} pattern
All 24 frontend + 10 backend tests pass. tsc clean. Build succeeds.
- backend/routes/k8s/waf_policies.py: remove unused 'import time' (ruff F401) - backend/openapi.json: regenerate spec with 8 new WAF CRD endpoints (openapi-check) - frontend-v2/.npmrc: switch from F5 Artifactory to public npm registry (env-specific code + CI access) - frontend-v2/package-lock.json: track lockfile in git for CI cache resolution - .gitignore: add exception to allow frontend-v2/package-lock.json to be tracked
…Lint D-020) Replace all raw palette colors (red-*, green-*, blue-*, amber-*, slate-*, zinc-*) with semantic design tokens across all WAF UI files per ADR D-020: text-destructive / bg-destructive/10 / border-destructive/20 (errors) text-success / bg-success/10 / border-success/20 (success) text-warning / bg-warning/10 / border-warning/20 (warnings) text-primary / bg-primary / border-primary (accent) text-muted-foreground / text-foreground / bg-muted / border (neutral) Also: - useWafPolicies.ts: replace useMutation with useAppMutation (restricted import rule) - destructive-confirm-dialog.tsx: fix D-020 violations introduced in previous session - waf-utils.tsx: add eslint-disable react-refresh/only-export-components (mixes utility functions and a JSX component; same pattern as shared.tsx, ModuleStatusBadge)
- frontend-v2/package-lock.json: regenerate with registry.npmjs.org URLs (old lockfile had all packages resolved to F5 Artifactory, causing npm ci to crash with "Exit handler never called!" in GitHub Actions) - frontend-v2/src/types/api-generated.ts: regenerate TypeScript types from updated openapi.json (new WAF endpoints were added but types were stale)
Review of #135 — WAF Policy Manager UIThanks for this — it is a substantial, coherent feature, and the backend route module in particular is written with care. Reviewed the full diff: 40 files, +15,148/-23. The blocking items below are almost all process and base-branch issues rather than problems with your feature code. Getting them sorted should also turn CI green, since none of the three current failures are caused by your changes. I have filed #136 to track the feature itself, tagged 1. The PR template was submitted unfilled — please complete itThe description is still the template verbatim:
For a 15,000-line change this matters more than usual: a reviewer opening this PR has no statement of scope, no record of what was tested, and no issue to read for context. Please fill it in. 2. Base branch is
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gitpython==3.1.50 |
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gitpython==3.1.58 |
staging already carries the fix version pip-audit is asking for. PRs based on staging pass both P4 jobs. Retargeting to staging should clear all three failures without you changing a line.
4. Design record is missing, and the code points at a file that does not exist
backend/routes/k8s/waf_policies.py says "See docs/WAF_POLICY_MANAGER_DESIGN.md for the full design" — referenced nine times across the PR. That file is not in this PR and does not exist in the repo, so every one of those references is currently dangling.
The template also asks for an ADR at docs/adr/ADR-<issue>-<title>.md for non-trivial feature work; this qualifies at 20 endpoints, four new CRD registrations, and a new UI section. Please land the design document with the code — the CRD scope, the "compilation stays in the PLM chart, no compile logic in Forge" boundary, and the singleton APSignatures handling are all decisions worth recording.
5. The lockfile change collides with a deliberate decision already made on staging
This PR adds !frontend-v2/package-lock.json to .gitignore and commits a new 7,574-line lockfile.
staging already solved this, in #121, and left the reasoning in .gitignore:
# package-lock.json is intentionally TRACKED — `npm ci` and the CI setup-node
# cache both require it. Ignoring it silently drops the lockfile from any export
# built off the working tree, which breaks every frontend CI job.It tracks a 10,706-line lockfile. Yours is ~3,100 lines smaller, i.e. a materially different dependency resolution. If this merged as-is it would silently re-pin the frontend tree for everyone. On rebase to staging, please drop both the .gitignore edit and your lockfile and keep the tracked one, regenerating only if a dependency genuinely changed.
Related: npm ci in this PR reports 6 vulnerabilities (1 low, 4 moderate, 1 high) against the new lockfile — worth a look once you are on staging's.
6. Monaco worker configuration removed — unrelated to this feature, and the stated reason does not hold here
frontend-v2/src/main.tsx drops:
import editorWorker from 'monaco-editor/esm/vs/editor/editor.worker?worker'
self.MonacoEnvironment = { getWorker() { return new editorWorker() } }justified as "The ?worker Vite syntax is not compatible with all build configurations."
staging carries that exact import today and P2 · Build · Frontend passes — so whatever configuration this was hitting, it is not this repo's build. Credit where due: you kept loader.config({ monaco }), so the editor core still loads from the local bundle and the air-gapped CDN fix is intact. What is lost is the dedicated web worker: Monaco falls back to its default worker handling, which typically means language services run on the main thread.
Either way this is a change to shared editor infrastructure with no connection to WAF policies. Please split it out with its own reasoning, or drop it.
7. Test coverage does not reach any of the 20 endpoints
backend/tests/unit/test_waf_policies.py (78 lines) covers the resource registry (5 tests) and two helpers, _build_resource_yaml and _find_by_name (5 tests). Useful, but no test exercises a single route handler — no RBAC coverage (viewer vs cluster-owner), no create/update/delete, no error paths, and nothing pinning the resourceVersion-required-on-update behaviour your own docstring documents as a live-cluster 422.
The convention here is backend/tests/integration/test_routes_*.py for route-level tests; there are plenty to copy from.
Frontend is thinner than it looks too — 344 test lines against roughly 4,500 lines of new UI.
8. Minor
frontend-v2/vite.config.ts— a single added blank line. Please revert; it is diff noise.frontend-v2/.npmrc— setsregistry=https://registry.npmjs.org/, which is already npm's default. Harmless, but it is a new config file doing nothing.
Checked and found correct
Recording these so they are not re-litigated:
- RBAC is right. Writes take
user: User = Depends(require_cluster_owner), which resolves the path'scluster_idto its project and checks ownership. Reads usedependencies=[Depends(require_viewer)], matching every existing k8s read route inroutes/k8s/resources.py. - Generated types were regenerated —
backend/openapi.json(+1,026) andfrontend-v2/src/types/api-generated.ts(+782) are both present and consistent. This is the checklist item you left unticked but did do. .npmrccarries no credentials — registry line only.- The route module reuses the generic CRD methods rather than forking
_resources.py, and documents whyresourceVersionis set on update. Good.
Suggested order
- Retarget to
stagingand rebase (clears §3, and §5 becomes a delete) - Fill in the PR description and link WAF Policy Manager: manage App Protect CRDs (APPolicy, APLogConf, APUserSig, APSignatures) from Forge #136 (§1)
- Land the design doc / ADR (§4)
- Split out or drop the Monaco change (§6)
- Add route-level tests (§7)
- Revert the vite blank line (§8)
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Review — Waf policy manager UI @ 7229cd0
Substantial feature — 17 backend routes, a wizard, forms and detail views. The route layer follows the house conventions well, but I can't approve this yet: three checks are red, and there are two things to settle before the code review is worth doing in depth.
Both CI failures are staleness, not defects — and the fix is the same for both
The branch is 29 commits behind staging (8 commits of its own). Both failures come from what it is missing, so neither needs a code fix:
P4 · Docker Build + Scan—Trivy found CRITICAL CVE(s): CVE-2026-57433(perl Storable).staging's.trivyignorecarries a documented deferral for exactly this CVE (lines 109-120, tracked as #104); this branch's copy stops at line 108.P4 · Security Audit—npm auditreports 1 high.staginghasjs-yaml ^4.3.1andaxios ^1.18.1; this branch still sees^4.2.0/^1.17.0, the pre-bump versions.
Good news on the second: this PR does not modify package.json, so those are just staging moving ahead — a merge keeps the newer pins and nothing gets reverted. I ran the merge to be sure:
post-merge: axios ^1.18.1 js-yaml ^4.3.1
conflicts: .gitignore, frontend-v2/package-lock.json
Two conflicts to expect. Resolve package-lock.json by taking staging's package.json and regenerating with npm install rather than hand-merging 7574 lines; .gitignore is a one-liner (and note frontend-v2/package-lock.json is already tracked on staging, so the ! un-ignore is a clarification, not a policy change — that part is fine).
🔴 The Monaco worker configuration is removed, undoing a deliberate air-gap fix
frontend-v2/src/main.tsx:26 — commit 69a080c deletes self.MonacoEnvironment and the editor.worker?worker import. The code it removes carries a comment naming the reason it exists: "Without this, @monaco-editor/react fetches from jsDelivr which fails in air-gapped environments or behind firewalls." I grepped the branch: no MonacoEnvironment, getWorker or worker import remains anywhere.
To be precise about the consequence, since the replacement comment overstates it: loader.config({ monaco }) is retained, and that is what keeps monaco's core local — so this is not a straight return to CDN loading. What is gone is the web worker wiring, which is a separate mechanism the loader does not supply. Without it monaco cannot spawn its language worker and degrades to the main thread. For a product installed into customer clusters and documented for offline install, silently changing that behaviour needs to be a decision, not a side effect.
The commit message says the ?worker syntax "is not compatible with all build configurations", which reads as a build error worked around by deletion. If the build broke, the fix belongs in vite.config.ts (e.g. worker: { format: 'es' } or monaco-editor-vite-plugin) — and either way this is unrelated to WAF policies and should not ride along in this PR.
🟠 The PR description is the unedited template
Every checkbox is unticked, Fixes / Implements: #[Issue Number] is still a placeholder, and the description reads "A clear and concise description of the changes in this Pull Request."
For a 15k-line feature this is the blocking process item, not a formality. AGENTS.md puts non-trivial features on ADR → GitHub issue → roadmap → PR, and the template's own ADR checkbox is the reminder. Without a linked issue or ADR there is no record of what was decided, no roadmap entry, and a reviewer has to reconstruct intent from 40 files. Please fill it in and link the issue/ADR — that changes how the rest of the review can be done.
🟡 None of the 17 new routes declare response_model
backend/routes/k8s/waf_policies.py — grep -c response_model returns 0 across 17 routes, while AGENTS.md asks for @handle_route_errors(...) and response_model=. The decorators and auth are right (require_viewer on reads, require_cluster_owner on every mutation — good), so this is the one convention missed.
It has a downstream cost beyond style: openapi.json grows 1026 lines of untyped responses, and api-generated.ts inherits that, so the 782 lines of generated types this PR adds are weaker than they look. Honest context — dpf.py, tmm_debug.py and tunnels.py also carry none, so this is not unprecedented; it is just the largest addition of untyped routes so far.
⚪ Unrelated changes worth splitting or explaining
components/ui/destructive-confirm-dialog.tsx—autoFocusadded to a shared primitive used well beyond WAF.hooks/useTaskWebSocket.ts—setTimeout→window.setTimeout. Fine as a typing fix, unrelated here.vite.config.ts— a blank line only.
Requesting changes. Concretely: merge staging (clears both red checks), restore or deliberately replace the Monaco worker setup, and fill in the description with the issue/ADR link. I'll do a full pass over the wizard, forms and route logic once it's green and the intent is written down — the structure looks reasonable and I'd rather review it against a stated design than guess at one.
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loader.config({ monaco }) below keeps monaco's core local, so this is not a straight return to CDN loading — but the loader does not supply the web worker, which is what the deleted self.MonacoEnvironment / editor.worker?worker block provided. I grepped the branch and no MonacoEnvironment, getWorker or worker import remains, so monaco can no longer spawn its language worker and falls back to the main thread.
The code removed here carried its own justification — "fails in air-gapped environments or behind firewalls" — so this is worth being deliberate about rather than a build-error workaround. If ?worker broke the build, the fix belongs in vite.config.ts (worker: { format: 'es' }, or a monaco vite plugin).
Either way it is unrelated to WAF policies and would be better split out.
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None of the 17 routes in this file declare response_model= (grep -c response_model -> 0). AGENTS.md asks for it alongside @handle_route_errors, which you do have on every route — as well as require_viewer on reads and require_cluster_owner on mutations, which is right.
The cost is downstream: the 1026 lines added to openapi.json describe untyped responses, so the 782 lines of api-generated.ts this PR ships are weaker than they appear. Declaring the shapes here is what makes the generated client types useful.
Context in fairness: dpf.py, tmm_debug.py and tunnels.py also declare none, so this follows a local precedent rather than inventing one.
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Filed the Monaco worker point from my review as #137, so it survives independently of what happens to this PR. Two things I checked after posting the review, both of which shape the ask:
If a real build does break for you, could you say which command and environment, and the error? That determines whether the fix is a |
When a policy CR has a syslog endpoint configured, WAF security events
are visible in the UI through a "Security Logs" tab added to:
- APPolicy detail panel (WAF Policies page → Policies tab → click row)
- SecPolicy detail panel (F5 BNK page → SecPolicy resources → click row)
Backend (backend/routes/k8s/waf_logs.py):
GET /api/k8s/clusters/{id}/waf/security-logs
- Resolves the syslog endpoint chain automatically from the cluster CRDs:
SecPolicy → F5BigLogProfile (publisher field) → F5BigHslPub → pool[].endpoint[]
- Connects to the resolved host:port via TCP and reads the syslog stream
- Parses NAP key=value log format into structured JSON entries
- Filters by cr_kind/cr_name (policy_name field in the log stream)
- Returns structured entries with: date_time, outcome, attack_type,
violation_rating, violations, sig_ids, client_ip, uri, vs_name,
support_id, request_status, unit_hostname
- Graceful degradation: returns warning when no syslog endpoint is
configured instead of erroring
Frontend:
- SecurityLogsTab component: filter bar (outcome, attack_type, limit),
log table with colour-coded outcome badges, row expand for full entry,
CSV export, manual refresh with timestamp
- useWafLogs hook: fetches on mount + on manual refresh, 30s auto-poll
- waf-logs API client: typed against generated OpenAPI types
- shared.tsx: added optional clusterId to DetailPanelProps
- F5BNKDetailPanel / F5BNK: passes clusterId through to detail components
- resource-registry.ts: DetailPanelProps extended with clusterId
Design notes:
- Syslog destination is auto-resolved from CRDs — no manual host:port entry
- Tab is present even when no syslog is configured; shows actionable warning
- Log differentiation by vs_name/policy_name — handles multiple CRs sharing
one syslog server correctly
- Tested: 12 new frontend unit tests, 10 new backend unit tests all pass
Deployed a fluentd-based syslog receiver (TCP port 514) inside the cluster: - ConfigMap: waf-syslog-receiver-config (fluentd TCP source + file output) - Deployment: waf-syslog-receiver (f5-toda-fluentd image already in cluster) - Service: waf-syslog-receiver (ClusterIP:514 + NodePort:30840 for backend access) - F5BigHslPub: waf-syslog-publisher (pool endpoint: node-ip:30840) - F5BigLogProfile: waf-log-profile (publisher: waf-syslog-publisher) Logs written to /var/log/waf-syslog/security.<date>.log in the receiver pod. Backend fix (waf_logs.py): - Use `find` instead of `sh -c ls` for log file discovery (no shell in container) - Sort candidates alphabetically so most recent date-based file is picked last - Remove unused datetime import (ruff F401) - Full resolution chain working: F5BigLogProfile → F5BigHslPub → host:port - Pod exec reads log file via kubectl exec → tail, falls back to TCP stream - Filter by policy_name field in log entries for APPolicy CR context Verified end-to-end in the UI: - Security Logs tab in my-waf-policy detail shows 9 parsed entries - Endpoint auto-resolved: syslog: 10.101.0.2:30840 - All attack types shown: SQL Injection, XSS, Path Traversal, Command Injection - PASSED requests shown with green badge (rating 1) - Row expand shows all NAP fields: attack_type, ip_client, policy_name, sig_ids, sig_names, support_id, unit_hostname, uri, violation_rating, vs_name
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Re-review @ c91f84f — still requesting changes
None of the four blocking items from my 7229cd0 review have been addressed. The two commits added since (28b530c, c91f84f) instead grew the PR by ~1,300 lines of new feature scope (security-logs tab + syslog-receiver deployment).
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| 🔴 Monaco worker wiring removed (air-gap regression) | Not fixed — main.tsx still has only loader.config({ monaco }); no MonacoEnvironment / editor.worker?worker. |
| 🟠 PR description is the unedited template | Not fixed — still "A clear and concise description…", Fixes: #[Issue Number], every checkbox blank. |
🟡 No response_model on the routes |
Regressed further — still 0 in waf_policies.py; the new waf_logs.py adds more routes, also 0. |
| 🔴 CI red (staleness) | Still red on the same 3 checks (CI Gate, Docker Build + Scan, Security Audit), confirmed on head c91f84f — Security Audit reports 1 high npm + gitpython CVE-2026-73620. |
One positive note on the new code: the added waf_logs.py pod-exec path uses argv lists (command=["find", …], command=["tail", …]) rather than a shell, and the tail target comes from find output rather than user input — so no obvious command-injection surface, and reads are gated by require_viewer. But that new syslog-receiver deployment path is exactly the kind of scope I said I'd review after the PR is green and has a stated design; it shouldn't be expanding while the blockers sit.
Recommendation, unchanged and now more pointed: please stop adding features. Get CI green, restore (or deliberately justify in vite.config.ts) the Monaco worker wiring, and fill in the description with a linked issue/ADR. Adding a syslog receiver on top of an already-blocked 16k-line PR makes it harder to land, not easier.
…ywords Review finding (mwiget): merging #158 as it stood would have closed #94 and #128 -- not because of the regex change, but because the PR's own description DOCUMENTS closing keywords in backticks, and the parser reads body text raw. Reproduced against this branch's real parse step with this PR's body as PR_BODY: Parsed closing-keyword issues: ['94', '128', '7'] #94 and #128 are open with their real fixes unmerged in #157/#156; they would have closed with "Auto-closed by PR #158", wrong issue and wrong PR. The old parser had the same blind spot (it read ['94'] from this body); widening the skip tripled the blast radius on a body that talks about the very forms it now accepts. A parser PR is the right place to close the class, not the instance. Fenced blocks are stripped first (they may contain backticks), then inline spans. Re-ran the full matrix through the real step: every real closing line in plain text still closes; every example in backticks or a fence no longer does; a body with both a real "Fixes #94" and a documented "`Fixes #999`" closes only 94. This PR's own body now yields no issues. Then ran EVERY open PR's actual body through the patched step -- the check I should have done the first time: #156 -> 128 #157 -> 94 #159 -> 154 #160 -> 99 #158 -> (none) #161 -> (none, deliberate Refs #79) #135 -> (none) Each PR closes exactly its own issue and nothing else. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UpRYiFserdBE5ESHn759N4
…lor map NAP uses REJECTED (not BLOCKED) as the outcome value for blocked requests. - SecurityLogsTab: rename BLOCKED dropdown option to REJECTED - SecurityLogsTab: add REJECTED key to OUTCOME_COLORS (was falling through to muted default, now correctly shows red destructive badge) - Keep BLOCKED in color map for compatibility with older NAP versions
Description
A clear and concise description of the changes in this Pull Request.
Fixes / Implements: #[Issue Number]
Architectural Decision Record (ADR)
docs/adr/ADR-<issue>-<title>.md(Required for non-trivial feature/architecture changes).Type of Change
Verification & Testing
Describe the tests you ran to verify your changes:
make quick-checkpasses cleanlymake pre-pushpasses cleanlyChecklist
make openapi-types).