[itsvishalyadav]

Overview

This PR fixes #484

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SBOMWatch only listed and watched pods when ServiceDiscovery was enabled, which the chart sets only when a backend is configured. Since #379, HandleSBOMEvents refuses an SBOM until a pod event has supplied its Wlid, so without a backend every SBOM was retried and then dropped, and no scan was sent for node SBOMs. Before #379 these scans ran with an empty Wlid.

The pod list and watch now start unconditionally. PodWatch, used when node SBOM generation is off, already watches pods with or without a backend, and the chart's operator ClusterRole grants get/list/watch on pods unconditionally, so this needs no new permissions.

How to Test

go test ./watcher/ -run 'TestSBOMWatch_LearnsWorkloadsWithoutBackend' -count=1 -v

The new test runs SBOMWatch with ServiceDiscovery disabled and a running pod, and waits for the pod's image to be mapped to its Wlid. On main it fails with Condition never satisfied ... the Wlid of image aa0afebb... was never learned from its pod; with the fix it passes.

go test ./watcher/ -skip TestRegistryCommandWatch -count=1 passes (TestRegistryCommandWatch needs Docker and fails on Windows on main too), go build and go vet of ./watcher/... ./mainhandler/... are clean, and golangci-lint reports nothing new. I haven't run it on a live cluster.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Workload discovery now detects running workloads and identifies their images even when service discovery is disabled. This provides workload visibility in configurations where service discovery is turned off.

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Walkthrough

SBOMWatch now lists existing pods and starts the pod watcher regardless of whether ServiceDiscovery is enabled. A new test checks that, with ServiceDiscovery disabled, the watcher learns a non-empty WLID for a running pod’s image.

Changes: SBOM pod watching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unconditional pod listing and watching watcher/sbomwatcher.go, watcher/sbomwatcher_test.go	SBOMWatch lists existing pods and starts the watcher without checking ServiceDiscovery.Enabled. The test checks that a running pod’s image receives a non-empty WLID when ServiceDiscovery is disabled.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested labels: ai-assisted

Suggested reviewers: matthyx

Merge Risk: Low · up to e3a3b

The change appears mergeable, but a test for pods created after watching starts would better protect SBOM handling without a backend.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: learning workloads from pods when no backend is configured.
Linked Issues check		#484 requires SBOMWatch to learn pod workload IDs without a backend so node SBOMs can be scanned. In watcher/sbomwatcher.go, SBOMWatch now lists existing pods and starts the pod watch without checking…
Out of Scope Changes check		The reported changes are limited to unconditional pod listing and watching in SBOMWatch and a regression test for #484. Both changes directly support the issue. No unrelated changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

#484 requires SBOMWatch to learn pod workload IDs without a backend so node SBOMs can be scanned. In watcher/sbomwatcher.go, SBOMWatch now lists existing pods and starts the pod watch without checking ServiceDiscovery.Enabled. The existing pod-event handler maps image IDs to WLIDs, and HandleSBOMEvents sends TypeScanImages commands when that data is present. TestSBOMWatch_LearnsWorkloadsWithoutBackend covers the disabled-ServiceDiscovery case and verifies that the pod's image receives a WLID.

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[coderabbitai]

Nitpick comments: 1

watcher/sbomwatcher_test.go: 1

430-454: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test pod events after the watch starts.

The existing pod can satisfy this assertion through the initial list alone. Add a second pod with a distinct image after the pod watch is established, and assert that its Wlid is learned. This would catch a regression that disables watching without a backend, which can cause later SBOM scans to exhaust their retries.

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Review comment at @watcher/sbomwatcher_test.go around lines 430 - 454:
Update TestSBOMWatch_LearnsWorkloadsWithoutBackend to establish the pod watch
before creating a second pod with a distinct image, then assert that the second
image’s Wlid is learned. Keep the existing initial-pod coverage, and ensure the
new assertion depends on a post-watch pod event rather than the initial list.

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Review comments at @watcher/sbomwatcher_test.go:
- Around line 430-454: Update TestSBOMWatch_LearnsWorkloadsWithoutBackend to
establish the pod watch before creating a second pod with a distinct image, then
assert that the second image’s Wlid is learned. Keep the existing initial-pod
coverage, and ensure the new assertion depends on a post-watch pod event rather
than the initial list.

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[matthyx]

Reviewed head e3a3b84 against main (47e9ae6). Static review; I did not run the tests locally. CI for this commit is green (build, Basic-Test, CodeQL, DCO).

Need: #484 is real. SBOMWatch gated listPods and watchRetry on ServiceDiscovery.Enabled. Pod events are the only source of ImageToContainerData Wlids, and since #379 HandleSBOMEvents drops an SBOM when its Wlid is missing. So with no backend, every node SBOM is dropped after the retries. I found no other ServiceDiscovery gating in watcher/*.go, and no overlapping or superseded PRs. Open PRs #487, #454 and #385 are unrelated, and #379/#82 are the history. Search was by GitHub keyword only.

Soundness: The change fixes the cause by removing the gate. listPods and watchRetry have no other dependency on a backend. Pod RBAC is already granted unconditionally, per the PR description. Cost is one pod list and one watch on the no-backend path, which PodWatch already pays.

Tests: The new test fails on main and passes with the fix, per the PR description. The pod is created before SBOMWatch starts, so the initial list alone satisfies it. CodeRabbit's nitpick about adding a post-watch pod is non-blocking.

Blockers: none.

Verdict: approve.