[joryirving]

What

Adds a periodic reaper to foreman-operator that deletes audit-record ConfigMaps older than a configurable retention window (default 7d). Label-scoped to foreman.llmkube.dev/audit=true so non-audit CMs are untouched.

Why

pkg/foreman/audit/writer.go stamps foreman-audit-<task> ConfigMaps WITHOUT ownerReferences by design — the audit record must outlive the AgenticTask to remain a compliance trail after task GC. Reported in this issue: five foreman-audit-dispatch-892-* CMs from repeated dispatches of a single issue, all surviving every AgenticTask deletion and growing unbounded. Without a reaper there is no way to bound the count.

AI assistance disclosure: drafted with opencode using MiniMax M3, per CONTRIBUTING.md.

Fixes #990

How

• pkg/foreman/audit/reaper.go — Sweep(ctx, client, retention) (pure) and Reaper (a manager.LeaderElectionRunnable that ticks Sweep). Retention 0 disables the reaper cleanly (Start blocks on ctx.Done() and returns nil). Uses metadata.creationTimestamp (k8s-immutable) as the age source. The first sweep runs immediately on start so a backlog of stale CMs is cleaned without waiting an hour.
• pkg/foreman/audit/reaper_test.go — 5 unit tests via fake client: prunes old CMs, keeps recent CMs, ignores non-audit CMs by label filter, retention≤0 is a no-op (negative also), empty cluster is a clean 0, the periodic runner ticks and stops on ctx cancellation, Retention=0 runner never deletes.
• cmd/foreman-operator/main.go — --audit-retention (default 7d, 0 disables) and --audit-retention-interval (default 1h) flags; mgr.Add registers the reaper unconditionally. NeedLeaderElection makes it a no-op on standby replicas under --leader-elect, so HA cannot double-sweep.
• charts/foreman/values.yaml — operator.audit.{retention,interval} keys.
• charts/foreman/templates/operator-deployment.yaml — flags plumbed through.
• charts/foreman/templates/operator-rbac.yaml — added delete to configmaps (the reaper's only new RBAC need).

Checklist

• Tests added/updated
• make test passes locally
• make lint passes locally
• Commit messages follow conventional commits
• All commits are signed off (git commit -s) per DCO
• AI assistance (if any) is disclosed above, per CONTRIBUTING.md
• Documentation updated (if user-facing change)

[Defilan]

Approve. This is clean, and it got the parts that usually bite exactly right.

The reaper logic is sound: age cut on the immutable CreationTimestamp against now - retention, label-scoped List so the blast radius is audit CMs only, IsNotFound-on-delete treated as benign for the HA race, and retention <= 0 a genuine no-op in both Sweep and Start so --audit-retention=0s disables cleanly. NeedLeaderElection() = true plus the immediate-first-sweep and log-and-continue loop are the right calls.

Nice catch on the duration handling too: DurationVar won't parse "7d", and you used 7*24*time.Hour for the default and 168h in the values, so the operator won't crash on a bad parse.

The 5 unit tests are real (old deleted / recent kept / non-audit ignored / retention-zero-and-negative no-op / empty cluster / ticker ticks and stops), and the body matches the diff.

Two non-blocking nits, take or leave:

• Sweep's List isn't paginated. Fine given the label filter and self-limiting deletes, but worth a comment if audit volume ever gets large.
• The RBAC grant is full CRUD on configmaps while the reaper only needs list+delete. Standard (RBAC can't label-scope), but a one-line note that the code's label filter is the real guard would be nice.

The failing "Package and Install Test" is a kind-cluster setup flake (connection refused to localhost:8080, missing kind-registry container), not this change. I re-ran it.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 40.27778% with 43 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
cmd/foreman-operator/main.go	0.00%	25 Missing ⚠️
pkg/foreman/audit/reaper.go	61.70%	11 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️

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