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Why

NVCF API stores registry credential secrets in the External Secret Store (ESS), but it also fetched them back and returned the secret values inline in the internal account details response consumed by Cloud Tasks. Sending secrets inline in a service to service response is unnecessary now that the value already lives in ESS. Telemetry secrets already follow the pattern where NVCF populates ESS and the downstream reads directly from ESS. This change applies the same pattern to registry credentials.

What changed

  • NVCF: the account details registry credentials now carry registryCredentialId and omit the secret value. A dedicated mapper builds the response DTO without the secret. The request and function deployment paths are unchanged.
  • Cloud Tasks: added an ESS registry-credential fetch (stub method, client method) and a cached RegistryCredentialEssService. RegistryCredentialService now resolves the secret at task launch by id instead of reading it from the account response.
  • Rollout safeguard: if an older NVCF still returns the inline secret and no id, Cloud Tasks uses the inline value. This makes NVCF and Cloud Tasks deploy order independent.
  • Shared DTOs gained a nullable registryCredentialId; the secret is nullable on the account response.

No database schema change is required.

Customer Release Notes

Not customer visible. Internal control-plane secret handling only.

Plan Summary

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Usage

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Testing

  • bazel test //src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core:tests: PASSED
  • bazel test //src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core:tests: PASSED
  • Added unit tests: RegistryCredentialEssServiceTest (ESS fetch mapping, empty result, caching) and RegistryCredentialServiceTest (resolve from ESS, inline fallback without calling ESS, not-found path). Updated RevalClientIntegrationTest for the new constructor.

Notes

Deployment note: NVCF and Cloud Tasks can ship in either order. Cloud Tasks keeps using the inline secret until NVCF stops sending it and provides the id, after which Cloud Tasks reads from ESS.

References

Fixes #889

Related Pull Requests

None. No change needed for src/clis/nvcf-cli: the affected account details response is an internal service to service contract, not a public API surface.

Dependencies

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Registry credentials can reference secrets securely by credential ID.
    • Secrets can be retrieved on demand from the secure secret store for container, Helm, model, and resource workflows.
    • Registry credential details can be returned without exposing secret values.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Existing inline secrets remain supported as a fallback.
    • Missing credential secrets now produce a clear not-found response.
    • Secret lookups are cached briefly to reduce repeated retrievals.

…in cloud tasks

NVCF API stored registry credential secrets in ESS but also returned the
secret values inline in the internal account details response consumed by
Cloud Tasks. This removes the inline secret and lets Cloud Tasks read the
secret directly from ESS by registry credential id, mirroring how telemetry
secrets are handled.

NVCF: account details registry credentials now carry registryCredentialId
and omit the secret value. Cloud Tasks: adds an ESS registry-credential fetch
(stub, client, and a cached RegistryCredentialEssService) and resolves the
secret at task launch instead of reading it from the account response.

Rollout is order independent: if an older NVCF still returns the inline
secret and no id, Cloud Tasks uses the inline value.

No database schema change is required.

Fixes #889
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Cloud Functions now returns registry credential IDs without secrets. Cloud Tasks retrieves missing registry secrets from ESS, caches results, preserves inline-secret fallback, and applies the resolver across registry secret flows.

Changes

Registry credential contracts and mapping

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential contracts and secret-free mapping
src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/..., src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/account/dto/RegistryCredentialDto.java
Registry credential DTOs now include an optional registryCredentialId. Account-details mapping omits the secret, while Cloud Tasks accepts nullable secrets.

ESS retrieval and credential resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
ESS retrieval and caching
src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/ess/*, src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialEssService.java, src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/test/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialEssServiceTest.java
Cloud Tasks calls the ESS registry-credential endpoint, converts the first secret entry to SecretDto, returns empty results when absent, and caches lookups for five minutes with a 3,072-entry limit.
Account-aware registry secret resolution
src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialService.java, src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/test/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialServiceTest.java, src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/test/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/reval/RevalClientIntegrationTest.java
Registry operations use inline secrets when available and otherwise retrieve them from ESS by account ID and credential ID. Missing secrets raise NotFoundException. Tests cover fallback, precedence, caching, and constructor wiring.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c0462

Cloud Tasks now resolves registry credentials through ESS, but a missing credential identifier may still cause a runtime failure instead of controlled missing-secret handling; this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RegistryCredentialService
  participant RegistryCredentialEssService
  participant EssClient
  participant EssStubService
  RegistryCredentialService->>RegistryCredentialEssService: Resolve missing secret
  RegistryCredentialEssService->>EssClient: Fetch by account ID and credential ID
  EssClient->>EssStubService: GET registry credential secret
  EssStubService-->>EssClient: Return secret response
  EssClient-->>RegistryCredentialEssService: Return secret map
  RegistryCredentialEssService-->>RegistryCredentialService: Return SecretDto
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In
`@src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/rest/registry/dto/RegistryCredentialDto.java`:
- Around line 43-46: Update the secret field in RegistryCredentialDto to use
`@Nullable` instead of `@NotNull`, and document that account-details responses may
omit the secret while preserving its existing purpose for responses that include
it.

In
`@src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/service/registry/RegistryFunctionMapperService.java`:
- Around line 87-101: Update shouldGetAccountDetails to inspect each returned
registry credential, asserting registryCredentialId is populated and serialized
credential data does not contain secret, while retaining the existing list-size
assertion.

In
`@src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialService.java`:
- Around line 181-195: Update getRegistryCredentialSecretValue to detect when
both secret and registryCredentialId are null, log the existing missing-secret
message, and throw NotFoundException before calling
registryCredentialEssService; retain the inline-secret and ESS lookup behavior
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  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/rest/registry/dto/RegistryCredentialDto.java
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  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/service/registry/RegistryFunctionMapperService.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/account/dto/RegistryCredentialDto.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/ess/EssClient.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/ess/EssStubService.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialEssService.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialService.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/test/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialEssServiceTest.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/test/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialServiceTest.java
  • src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/test/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/reval/RevalClientIntegrationTest.java

Comment on lines +43 to +46
@Nullable
@Schema(description = "Registry credential id. Populated on the internal account "
+ "details response so downstream services can read the secret from ESS.")
UUID registryCredentialId,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make secret nullable in the NVCF DTO.

RegistryFunctionMapperService.toRegistryCredentialDtoWithoutSecret builds this DTO without secret. The existing @NotNull annotation still declares the field required. Response validation and generated API clients can reject the intended account-details response.

Change secret to @Nullable and document that account-details responses omit it.

Proposed fix
-        `@NotNull` SecretDto secret,
+        `@Nullable`
+        `@Schema`(description = "Registry credential secret. Not populated on the internal account "
+                + "details response.")
+        SecretDto secret,
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In
`@src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/rest/registry/dto/RegistryCredentialDto.java`
around lines 43 - 46, Update the secret field in RegistryCredentialDto to use
`@Nullable` instead of `@NotNull`, and document that account-details responses may
omit the secret while preserving its existing purpose for responses that include
it.

Comment on lines +181 to +195
private String getRegistryCredentialSecretValue(
String ncaId,
RegistryCredentialDto registryCredential) {
if (registryCredential.secret() != null) {
return registryCredential.secret().value().asString();
}
return registryCredentialEssService
.getRegistryCredentialSecret(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId())
.map(secret -> secret.value().asString())
.orElseThrow(() -> {
var mesg = MESG_MISSING_REGISTRY_SECRET
.formatted(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId());
log.error(mesg);
return new NotFoundException(mesg);
});

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject a credential that has neither an inline secret nor an ID.

When secret and registryCredentialId are both null, Line 188 calls the ESS service with a null ID. EssClient then calls registryCredentialId.toString() and throws NullPointerException. Return the intended NotFoundException before the ESS call.

Proposed fix
         if (registryCredential.secret() != null) {
             return registryCredential.secret().value().asString();
         }
+        if (registryCredential.registryCredentialId() == null) {
+            var mesg = MESG_MISSING_REGISTRY_SECRET.formatted(ncaId, null);
+            log.error(mesg);
+            throw new NotFoundException(mesg);
+        }
         return registryCredentialEssService
                 .getRegistryCredentialSecret(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId())
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private String getRegistryCredentialSecretValue(
String ncaId,
RegistryCredentialDto registryCredential) {
if (registryCredential.secret() != null) {
return registryCredential.secret().value().asString();
}
return registryCredentialEssService
.getRegistryCredentialSecret(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId())
.map(secret -> secret.value().asString())
.orElseThrow(() -> {
var mesg = MESG_MISSING_REGISTRY_SECRET
.formatted(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId());
log.error(mesg);
return new NotFoundException(mesg);
});
private String getRegistryCredentialSecretValue(
String ncaId,
RegistryCredentialDto registryCredential) {
if (registryCredential.secret() != null) {
return registryCredential.secret().value().asString();
}
if (registryCredential.registryCredentialId() == null) {
var mesg = MESG_MISSING_REGISTRY_SECRET.formatted(ncaId, null);
log.error(mesg);
throw new NotFoundException(mesg);
}
return registryCredentialEssService
.getRegistryCredentialSecret(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId())
.map(secret -> secret.value().asString())
.orElseThrow(() -> {
var mesg = MESG_MISSING_REGISTRY_SECRET
.formatted(ncaId, registryCredential.registryCredentialId());
log.error(mesg);
return new NotFoundException(mesg);
});
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In
`@src/control-plane-services/cloud-tasks/nvct-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvct/service/registry/RegistryCredentialService.java`
around lines 181 - 195, Update getRegistryCredentialSecretValue to detect when
both secret and registryCredentialId are null, log the existing missing-secret
message, and throw NotFoundException before calling
registryCredentialEssService; retain the inline-secret and ESS lookup behavior
when either value is available.

…als-ess-secret

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#	src/control-plane-services/cloud-functions/nvcf-core/src/main/java/com/nvidia/nvcf/service/registry/RegistryFunctionMapperService.java
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…tails response

The secret is required on inbound requests but omitted from the internal
account details response, where Cloud Tasks reads the value from ESS by
registry credential id. Document this on the schema without changing the
request-side @NotNull validation.
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