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Jon Chery 1fd37a2843 feat(P23): tagging standard + Wiz adapter + Kyverno adapter
Phase 23 (v1.7) — tagging standards and security adapters.

* schemas/tagging-standard.json (D-054): canonical required-tags schema
  (acdl:owner, acdl:contract, acdl:environment, acdl:cost-center).
* adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/acdl_tagging.py: Checkov custom
  rule (ACDL_TAG_NAMING) loaded via --external-checks-dir; closes D-043
  (synthetic SKIPPED record replaced by real PASS/FAIL records).
* checkov_adapter.py: removed _emit_tag_naming_skipped(), added
  ACDL_TAG_NAMING to RULE_MAP, updated docstring.
* scripts/run_platform.sh: both Checkov invocations pass
  --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/.
* adapters/wiz/ (D-052): Wiz adapter translating issue records to
  PolicyCheckResult (engine: "wiz"); graceful degradation emits
  WIZ_NOT_CONFIGURED SKIPPED when unconfigured; is_configured() gate.
* adapters/kyverno/ (D-053): Kyverno adapter translating PolicyReport
  results to PolicyCheckResult (engine: "kyverno"); ready but inactive
  for Terraform-only stacks; 3 sample ClusterPolicies in policies/.
* schemas/policy_check_result.schema.json: engine enum += "wiz".
* tests: fixtures + test_wiz_adapter.py (8 tests) + test_kyverno_adapter.py
  (13 tests); updated test_checkov_adapter.py to not expect the removed
  synthetic ACDL_TAG_NAMING SKIPPED record.
* scripts/run_ci.sh: lint stage compiles the new adapter modules.

202 tests pass; CI pipeline OK (lint + test + check-only).

Deviations:
- Wiz adapt() had an AttributeError on bare-list top-level input
  (data.get() on a list); fixed to dispatch on isinstance(data, list)
  before calling .get(). No spec change — bare-list handling is implied
  by the original docstring's "data if isinstance(data, list)" branch.
- Kyverno _to_pcr({}) defaults result to "skipped" (entry.get("result",
  "skip") -> "skip"), not "error"; test expectation corrected. Added an
  explicit unknown-result-string test to cover the "error" fallback.

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project: acdl
phase: 23
milestone: v1.7
status: execute
---/ci---
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Kyverno Adapter

The Kyverno adapter translates Kyverno PolicyReport results to the normalized ACDL PolicyCheckResult schema (engine: "kyverno"), mirroring the Checkov/Wiz adapter pattern.

What Kyverno is

Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine. It runs as an admission controller inside a cluster, validates / mutates / generates K8s resources against declarative ClusterPolicy rules, and publishes results to PolicyReport resources.

When to use it

Kyverno is the right engine when the platform emits Kubernetes manifests (a K8s-native stack). The ACDL platform today emits Terraform only (D-053), so this adapter is ready but inactive: it ships now so the schema path, severity/result mapping and sample policies are in place ahead of the GitOps reconciler that will emit K8s manifests (roadmap).

How the adapter translates PolicyReport results

kyverno_adapter.py <policyreport.json> <contract-id> reads a JSON file containing a Kyverno PolicyReport (or just its .results[] array) and emits a list of PolicyCheckResult dicts:

Kyverno PolicyReport result field PolicyCheckResult field
policy ruleId (default KYVERNO_UNKNOWN)
severity severity (lower-cased, mapped)
result result (pass/fail/error as-is, warn/skipskipped)
message message
resource resourceRef + evidence.resource
namespace, kind, name evidence.*

The adapter is read-only against a local JSON fixture; the GitOps reconciler is responsible for fetching the live PolicyReport and writing the file. When there are zero results, the adapter returns an empty list (unlike Wiz it does not synthesize a SKIPPED record — Kyverno not running is a deployment state, not a configuration gap).

Roadmap dependency

This adapter activates when the GitOps reconciler (roadmap) emits K8s manifests. Until then it is documentation-only; the pipeline does not invoke it. The engine: "kyverno" enum value is present in schemas/policy_check_result.schema.json so future records validate.

Sample policies

The policies/ directory holds three valid Kyverno ClusterPolicy manifests (documentation-only today — the platform does not run them):

  • disallow-privileged-containers.yaml — fail pods with securityContext.privileged: true.
  • require-resource-labels.yaml — require acdl:owner and acdl:environment labels on all pods (mirrors the ACDL tagging standard in schemas/tagging-standard.json).
  • require-image-digests.yaml — require container images to reference a digest (image@sha256:...), not a mutable tag.

Schema path

The output records validate against schemas/policy_check_result.schema.json (engine: "kyverno" was already in the enum and is retained in Phase 23).