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Implements the approved proposal kubescape/designs-and-proposals#34: the sbomExport capability. The operator sends the SBOMs that node-agent stores (SBOMSyft, from nodeSbomGeneration) to Dependency-Track, one project per running image and namespace, under collection projects for the cluster and each namespace, and keeps them current as workloads change. It needs neither kubevuln nor registry access, and it is off by default.

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How it works:

  • SBOMWatch now also starts when kubevuln is off and sbomExport is on (with nodeSbomGeneration). It passes its pod and SBOM events to the exporter through the new watcher.SBOMObserver. With kubevuln off it sends no scan commands, does not resolve workloads, and ContainerProfileWatch does not start. With sbomExport off nothing changes.
  • The new sbomexport package keeps an index of which namespaces run each image digest (a namespace stays listed for one resync interval after its last pod ended, so short Jobs are exported), a work queue keyed by digest, and a resync (1h by default) built from one paged list of running pods and one list of SBOMSyft objects, so nothing is lost while Dependency-Track is unreachable or the operator restarts.
  • An image is uploaded only when its SBOMSyft is newer than the project's lastBomImport; otherwise it is only marked isLatest. An image that runs in several namespaces is converted once.
  • The conversion reads .spec.syft as JSON and runs syft's syftjson decoder and cyclonedxjson encoder (CycloneDX 1.6), which is what syft convert does. The storage client asks for protobuf, so this one request asks for JSON.
  • Configuration: the sbomExport capability in capabilities.json, and sbomExport.resyncInterval and sbomExport.dependencyTrack.{url,apiKeyFile,rootProject} in config.json. The API key is read from its file on every request, so a rotated Secret needs no restart. Documented in docs/features/sbom-export.md and the README.

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  • The proposal's open questions, as built: the export lives in the operator binary, projects form the tree from the proposal, and the chart's node-agent gating is left as it is. Happy to change any of them.
  • Dependencies: syft is pinned to kubescape/syft v1.55.0-ks.3, as in node-agent and kubevuln, because the exporter decodes what node-agent's syft wrote. go.mod also gets node-agent's two containerd pins (containerd/v2 v2.2.0, containerd/api v1.10.0): syft v1.55.0 declares a containerd/v2 whose API module no longer compiles with the containerd v1.7 that inspektor-gadget imports. The direct dependencies that moved with it are aws-sdk-go-v2, fsnotify and x/sync.
  • Binary size: the operator binary grows from 158.0 MB to 198.5 MB (linux/arm64), because the syft-json decoder imports the package types of every ecosystem.
  • The chart side (capability, values, Secret mount, egress rule) is feat(operator): add the sbomExport capability for Dependency-Track helm-charts#1016.

How to Test

go test ./sbomexport/ ./watcher/ ./config/ ./mainhandler/
  • TestToCycloneDXMatchesSyftConvert: on the SBOM node-agent v0.3.310 stored for curlimages/curl:8.11.1, the exporter's CycloneDX has the same components and dependencies as syft convert -o cyclonedx-json@1.6.
  • TestStorageSBOMsReadsTheSyftDocumentAsJSONFromAProtobufClient: the JSON read against a fake API server, with the client configured for protobuf as in main.go.
  • The TestExporter* tests run the exporter against a fake Dependency-Track: one project per namespace with one conversion, nothing sent when unchanged, a newer SBOM sent again, the running tag marked latest, waiting for a ready SBOM, a Job that ended before its SBOM was ready, retries after a refused request, a refused API key, and a failed pod list that changes nothing.
  • The watcher tests check that the observer gets the events, once per SBOM while it waits for its Wlid, and that no scan command goes out with kubevuln off.
  • Removing any of six key behaviors on purpose (convert once, send only when newer, the grace period, excluded namespaces, no scans when kubevuln is off, observe once) makes its test fail.

go test ./... passes on Linux (Go 1.26), and the changed packages also pass with -race, except TestRegistryCommandWatch, which needs Docker for a k3s container. golangci-lint reports nothing in the new code.

End to end on kind (Kubernetes 1.35) with Dependency-Track 4.14.6 and the chart change: the first resync sent every running image under the right parents; the same image in two namespaces became two projects from one conversion; later resyncs sent nothing; and an image whose SBOM became ready while Dependency-Track was unreachable was sent by the retry seconds after it came back. Details are in section 7.2 of the proposal.

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  • New Features
    • Added optional export of node-generated SBOMs to Dependency-Track in CycloneDX 1.6 format.
    • Organizes image SBOMs into namespace-based projects, with periodic updates and retry handling.
    • Supports configurable project layouts, namespace-specific overrides, and SBOM size limits.
    • Configure the Dependency-Track URL, API key, root project, and resync interval. Export requires node SBOM generation.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup and configuration guidance, required permissions, namespace exclusions, and export behavior.

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With the new sbomExport capability, the operator sends the SBOMs that
node-agent stores (SBOMSyft, from nodeSbomGeneration) to Dependency-Track,
one project per running image and namespace:

  <root> : current                        collection, adds up its namespaces
  <root>/<namespace> : current            collection, latest version of each image
  <root>/<namespace>/<repository> : <tag>

SBOMWatch now also runs when kubevuln is off and sbomExport is on, and passes
its pod and SBOM events to the exporter. An image is exported when its SBOM
becomes ready, when a pod starts with it, and on a resync (1h by default) that
compares every running image with Dependency-Track. It is sent again only when
its SBOMSyft is newer than the project's last BOM import, and converted to
CycloneDX once even when it runs in several namespaces, with syft's own
syft-json decoder and CycloneDX encoder, as `syft convert` does.

syft is pinned to the kubescape/syft fork node-agent and kubevuln build
against, with node-agent's containerd pins.

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Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>
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  • config/config.go
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Walkthrough

The operator adds an SBOM export capability that tracks pod images and SBOM data, converts ready Syft documents to CycloneDX 1.6, and uploads them to Dependency-Track. The change adds configuration, event wiring, project management, retry and resync handling, tests, and documentation.

Changes: SBOM export to Dependency-Track

Layer / File(s) Summary
Export configuration and operator wiring
config/config.go, config/config_test.go, mainhandler/handlerequests.go, mainhandler/sbomexport.go, mainhandler/sbomexport_test.go, README.md, docs/features/sbom-export.md
Adds the sbomExport capability and configuration defaults. The operator builds and starts the exporter when both required capabilities and a Dependency-Track URL are configured. The README and feature documentation describe settings and export behavior.
Pod and SBOM event observation
watcher/watchhandler.go, watcher/sbomwatcher.go, watcher/sbomobserver_test.go
Adds pod and SBOM observer callbacks. When image scans are disabled, the watcher sends events to the observer without continuing image-scan processing.
Image tracking and project layout
sbomexport/image.go, sbomexport/index.go, sbomexport/store.go, sbomexport/layout.go, sbomexport/image_test.go, sbomexport/index_test.go, sbomexport/store_test.go, sbomexport/layout_test.go
Adds image digest extraction, running-pod tracking with a grace period, SBOM metadata readiness checks, Syft document retrieval, and configurable namespace-based project placement.
Dependency-Track client and BOM conversion
sbomexport/dtrack.go, sbomexport/convert.go, sbomexport/dtrack_test.go, sbomexport/convert_test.go, sbomexport/fakedtrack_test.go, sbomexport/testdata/*, go.mod
Adds project lookup and collection operations, BOM uploads, API-key and response handling, and conversion to CycloneDX 1.6. Updates dependencies and adds test fixtures.
Resync, project management, and export
sbomexport/exporter.go, sbomexport/exporter_test.go, sbomexport/exporter_layout_test.go
Adds resync and queue processing, per-namespace project handling, BOM freshness checks, namespace-driven project moves, retries, size limits, and export logging.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WatchHandler
  participant Exporter
  participant KubernetesAPI
  participant SBOMStore
  participant CycloneDXConverter
  participant DependencyTrackClient
  WatchHandler->>Exporter: Send pod and SBOM events
  Exporter->>KubernetesAPI: List pods during resync
  Exporter->>SBOMStore: List SBOM metadata and fetch Syft document
  Exporter->>CycloneDXConverter: Convert Syft JSON to CycloneDX 1.6
  Exporter->>DependencyTrackClient: Resolve projects and upload BOM
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  • kubescape/operator#485: Removes the backend guard from pod listing and watching, supporting the pod data flow used when export runs without kubevuln.

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Where images go in Dependency-Track is now configurable. The root project,
the image project's parent and the image project are Go templates over
.Cluster, .Namespace, .Repository, .Tag and .Labels (the namespace's labels),
and the defaults keep the tree <cluster>/<namespace>/<repository>:<tag>. A
namespace can override them with kubescape.io/dtrack-root-project,
-root-project-create, -parent, -parent-create and -project-name annotations,
for example to send its images under a project that already exists.

The exporter tags what it creates with managed-by:kubescape and only ever
changes those projects: a root or parent with create false must exist, and a
project it did not create is never given a BOM, a collection logic or a move.
It records each project's image digest in a project property, so two running
images that resolve to the same project and version cannot overwrite each
other; the second is skipped with a log line. When a namespace's labels or
layout annotations change, the exporter moves its projects there with a
PATCH, keeping their history.

SBOMs larger than sbomExport.maxSBOMSize (10 MiB by default) are skipped:
converting takes about nine times the SBOM's size in memory.

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Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>
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Pushed 5219e34 on top: a configurable Dependency-Track layout and an SBOM size limit, from the discussion in kubescape/designs-and-proposals#34.

  • Layout: the root project, the image project's parent and the image project are Go templates over .Cluster, .Namespace, .Repository, .Tag and .Labels, like the node-agent autoscaler's template. The defaults keep today's tree. A namespace can override them with the kubescape.io/dtrack-root-project, -root-project-create, -parent, -parent-create and -project-name annotations.
  • Only its own projects: the exporter tags what it creates managed-by:kubescape and changes only those. A root or parent with create: false must exist, and a project the exporter did not create never gets a BOM, a collection logic or a move.
  • Conflicts: each project records its image digest as a property; a second running image that resolves to the same project and version is skipped with a log line.
  • Moves: when a namespace's labels or layout annotations change, its projects move with a PATCH, keeping their audit history.
  • Size limit: sbomExport.maxSBOMSize, 10 MiB by default, which keeps the conversion around 90 MiB of heap given the measurements in Add suport for running as standalone #34.

Each rule has unit tests, and breaking any of the eight on purpose fails its test. On kind with Dependency-Track 4.14.6, a namespace annotated to an existing "Finance" project had its two projects moved under a new "Team B" collection inside it, with the same UUIDs and no new upload, and an SBOM over the limit was skipped.

Whether the conversion should move to the node-agent/kubevuln sidecars is still open in kubescape/designs-and-proposals#34; until then everything stays in the operator.

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- Around line 613-614: Update the pendingMoves cleanup in move so it does not
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- Around line 451-455: Update the ownership and conflict handling around
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- Around line 602-603: Update the move-skipping condition in the namespace
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when the image name, version, and parent remain equal. In collection, reconcile
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- Around line 535-537: Update the collection cache in the project lookup flow to
key e.projects by the comparable projectRef value instead of
projectRef.String(). Use that value consistently for cache lookups and writes so
distinct name/version pairs cannot collide.
- Around line 626-628: Update the target check in moveProject so a lookup result
with the source project’s UUID proceeds to update the parent for a parent-only
move, while a different UUID is still rejected. Preserve the existing
lookup-error handling and ensure the same-project case does not clear the
pending move before its parent is patched.

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- index: a pod that keeps its images is not reported as started again.
- The exporter records the image digest on a project before it uploads,
  and creates the image's project itself (tagged managed-by:kubescape)
  instead of letting the upload auto-create it, so PROJECT_CREATION_UPLOAD
  is no longer needed.
- The collection cache is keyed by the project reference, not a joined
  string, so "a:b"/"c" and "a"/"b:c" no longer collide.
- An existing managed parent is moved when only the root changes; an
  existing image project is moved when only its parent changes.
- A namespace change that arrives during a move is kept for the next pass.
- Default templates that need a namespace label ({{ .Labels.team }} or
  {{ index .Labels "team" }}) are accepted at startup; only unknown fields
  are rejected there.
- docs: SBOM size section with the measurements and the sizing rule (memory
  limit at least nine times sbomExport.maxSBOMSize plus 64 MiB), and the
  corrected permissions.

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Dependency-Track 4.14 sets a project's collection logic to NONE on a PATCH
that leaves it out. Moving a parent under a new root sent only the parent,
so the collection stopped aggregating until the next pass restored it. The
PATCH now carries the collection logic too, and the fake Dependency-Track
resets it the same way.

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clglavan added a commit to clglavan/helm-charts that referenced this pull request Nov 11, 2026
…Export.maxSBOMSize

Converting an SBOM takes the operator about nine times its size in memory.
The gates now warn in ks-capabilities (and NOTES) when
operator.resources.limits.memory is below nine times sbomExport.maxSBOMSize
plus 64 MiB. The README and values document raising node-agent's
kubevuln.config.maxSBOMSize, sbomExport.maxSBOMSize and the operator's memory
limit together, and that the export needs an operator with
kubescape/operator#492.

sbomExport.dependencyTrack.egressPorts adds ports to the operator's egress
rule, for a Dependency-Track Service whose targetPort differs from the URL's
port. The API key no longer needs PROJECT_CREATION_UPLOAD: the operator
creates each project before it uploads.

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I pushed the sizing changes from kubescape/designs-and-proposals#34 and the CodeRabbit fixes:

  • Sizing: docs/features/sbom-export.md has a new SBOM size section with the pytorch and all-spark measurements and the rule: the operator's memory limit should be at least nine times sbomExport.maxSBOMSize plus 64 MiB. To export SBOMs above node-agent's 20 MiB, raise node-agent's maxSBOMSize, sbomExport.maxSBOMSize and the memory limit together, for example 512Mi for 32 MiB. The chart (feat(operator): add the sbomExport capability for Dependency-Track helm-charts#1016) warns in ks-capabilities when the limit is too low.
  • Upload flow: the operator now creates each image's project itself and records the image digest before it uploads, instead of letting the upload create the project. The API key no longer needs PROJECT_CREATION_UPLOAD. Using existing root and parent projects doesn't remove the need for PORTFOLIO_MANAGEMENT, which corrects what I wrote on Add suport for running as standalone #34.
  • Tested on kind with Dependency-Track 4.14.6: a fresh export, a root-only and a parent-only move (same UUIDs, no re-upload), and the steady state. The run showed that Dependency-Track resets a project's collection logic to NONE on a PATCH that leaves it out, so moving a collection now sends its logic too.
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Major · Enforce the SBOM size limit while reading the document. · store.go:91-94

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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Enforce the SBOM size limit while reading the document.

If the resource-size annotation is absent or invalid, sbomMeta.size is zero. syftDocument then reads the entire response before exportTo checks its length. A large stored SBOM can exhaust operator memory despite MaxSBOMSize. Pass the limit into the retrieval path and bound the response read before decoding it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @sbomexport/store.go around lines 91 - 94:
Update the SBOM retrieval path around the REST request so it receives the MaxSBOMSize limit and bounds the response body while reading, before decoding it. Ensure documents exceeding the limit are rejected without buffering the full response, including when the resource-size annotation is absent or invalid; preserve the existing exportTo size check.
Minor · Preserve events received during resync. · exporter.go:364

sbomexport/exporter.go:364
Minor · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Preserve events received during resync.

If ObserveSBOM receives ready metadata after the SBOM list completes, resync can replace it with older metadata. If the worker then processes the digest, it skips and forgets it until a later event or resync. Pod events can also be overwritten, although their digests remain available during the grace period.

Reconcile events received during the lists before replacing either snapshot.

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Review comment at @sbomexport/exporter.go at line 364:
Update resync so events received while the lists are in progress are reconciled with the fetched data before replacing either snapshot, rather than being overwritten by stale list results. Preserve newer ready metadata from ObserveSBOM and pod events in e.running while retaining the fetched state for entries not changed during the lists.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @sbomexport/exporter.go:
- Around line 695-696: Update the pending move handling around moveProject and
the cur.seq check so a move skipped because its destination parent is
unavailable retains its starting placement instead of deleting pendingMoves[ns].
Retry that move when the destination becomes available, and clear the pending
entry only after the image project has been successfully moved.
- Line 488: Update the upload decision in exportTo so a matching owner and
unchanged creation timestamp do not suppress a changed SBOM document. Track a
document revision or content hash for each successful import, and compare it
with the current document to decide whether to upload.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @sbomexport/exporter.go:
- Line 364: Update resync so events received while the lists are in progress are
reconciled with the fetched data before replacing either snapshot, rather than
being overwritten by stale list results. Preserve newer ready metadata from
ObserveSBOM and pod events in e.running while retaining the fetched state for
entries not changed during the lists.

Review comments at @sbomexport/store.go:
- Around line 91-94: Update the SBOM retrieval path around the REST request so
it receives the MaxSBOMSize limit and bounds the response body while reading,
before decoding it. Ensure documents exceeding the limit are rejected without
buffering the full response, including when the resource-size annotation is
absent or invalid; preserve the existing exportTo size check.

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  • README.md
  • docs/features/sbom-export.md
  • sbomexport/dtrack.go
  • sbomexport/dtrack_test.go
  • sbomexport/exporter.go
  • sbomexport/exporter_layout_test.go
  • sbomexport/exporter_test.go
  • sbomexport/fakedtrack_test.go
  • sbomexport/index.go
  • sbomexport/index_test.go
  • sbomexport/layout.go
  • sbomexport/layout_test.go
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…e SBOM read

- node-agent rebuilds the SBOM of a running image in place when its version
  changes, so the creation time stays. The exporter records the node-agent
  version of each upload in the project property kubescape/sbom-tool-version,
  after the upload, and sends the SBOM again when it differs.
- A move whose destination is missing and may not be created stays pending
  and is tried again at every resync, before the images are exported.
- A root-only change moves the namespace's parent right away, also when none
  of its images can be exported (too large, not ready).
- The SBOMSyft object is read up to sbomExport.maxSBOMSize plus 1 MiB, so an
  object without a size annotation cannot make the operator buffer more.
- Pod and SBOM events that arrive while a resync lists are kept instead of
  being replaced by the older lists.
- Doc comments on the functions this change touches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>
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I pushed fixes for the latest CodeRabbit review and tested them on kind with Dependency-Track 4.14.6. The two findings outside the diff:

  • Bounded read (store.go): the SBOMSyft object is now read up to sbomExport.maxSBOMSize plus 1 MiB, so an object without a size annotation can't make the operator buffer more. On kind, an unannotated 1.97 MB object with a 512 KiB limit stopped reading at 1.5 MiB.
  • Events during a resync (exporter.go): pod and SBOM events that arrive while a resync lists are kept instead of being replaced by the older list.

I also added doc comments to the functions the diff touches. The other findings are answered in their threads.

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Reviewed head 1c2717f against main.

  • Need: implements the approved sbomExport proposal (designs-and-proposals#34), off by default. No duplicate or superseded PRs found in operator (searched open/closed/merged PRs and issues by "sbom export" and "dependency track"); no previously rejected approach.
  • Soundness: CodeRabbit's earlier findings (unchanged-pod start, collection cache key, root/parent-only moves, pending-move races, upload-ownership ordering, label-dependent layouts, tool-version re-export) were each fixed with a regression test in the latest commits.
  • Validation: go build ./..., go vet and go test -race ./sbomexport ./watcher ./config ./mainhandler all pass locally (Go 1.27). The .github workflows are untouched, so I approved the pending run; it finished green (build, cross-platform build, Basic-Test).
  • Not verified: the end-to-end run against a real Dependency-Track on kind. I relied on the author's report.
  • Nonblocking: the operator binary grows by about 40 MB because of syft, and the go.mod churn is large. Both are disclosed in the PR and are the cost of the syft decoder.

No blockers. Approve.

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* feat(operator): add the sbomExport capability for Dependency-Track

capabilities.sbomExport (default disable) has the operator send the SBOMs
from nodeSbomGeneration to Dependency-Track. The chart passes the settings in
sbomExport.* to the operator's config.json and mounts the API key from an
existing Secret (sbomExport.dependencyTrack.apiKeySecret) as a directory at
/etc/sbom-export, so a rotated key reaches the pod.

The render fails without a URL or a Secret name. Without nodeSbomGeneration or
the operator, ks-capabilities reports sbomExport as disabled, with a warning.
With createEgressRules, a Dependency-Track port other than 443 gets an egress
rule; 443 is open already.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>

* feat(operator): configurable sbomExport layout, size limit and effective gating

sbomExport.dependencyTrack gets rootProject and project (with its parent):
names and versions are Go templates the operator renders, with a create flag
for the root and the parent. The defaults keep the tree
<cluster>/<namespace>/<repository>:<tag>. sbomExport.maxSBOMSize bounds the
SBOMs the operator converts.

The operator config, the API key mount and the egress rule now follow the
effective capability, which also needs node-agent to be deployed; when it is
not, ks-capabilities reports sbomExport as disabled with a warning. The
Dependency-Track URL must be http or https with a host.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>

* feat(operator): warn when the operator's memory is too small for sbomExport.maxSBOMSize

Converting an SBOM takes the operator about nine times its size in memory.
The gates now warn in ks-capabilities (and NOTES) when
operator.resources.limits.memory is below nine times sbomExport.maxSBOMSize
plus 64 MiB. The README and values document raising node-agent's
kubevuln.config.maxSBOMSize, sbomExport.maxSBOMSize and the operator's memory
limit together, and that the export needs an operator with
kubescape/operator#492.

sbomExport.dependencyTrack.egressPorts adds ports to the operator's egress
rule, for a Dependency-Track Service whose targetPort differs from the URL's
port. The API key no longer needs PROJECT_CREATION_UPLOAD: the operator
creates each project before it uploads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>

* feat(operator): limit the Dependency-Track egress rule with sbomExport.dependencyTrack.egressTo

The rule for the Dependency-Track ports allows any destination, because a
network policy cannot name Dependency-Track's host. egressTo takes
NetworkPolicy peers (podSelector, namespaceSelector, ipBlock) to limit it,
for example to the Dependency-Track pods of an in-cluster install. Empty
keeps the rule as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>

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Signed-off-by: Cristian Glavan <cristian.glavan@zitec.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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