Reduce memory consumption of pinniped-concierge-kube-cert-agent binary

Co-authored-by: Joshua Casey <joshuatcasey@gmail.com>
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Ryan Richard
2023-01-13 11:07:42 -08:00
co-authored by Joshua Casey
parent f691baec74
commit bc7ffd37a6
4 changed files with 39 additions and 7 deletions
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// Copyright 2021-2022 the Pinniped contributors. All Rights Reserved.
// Copyright 2021-2023 the Pinniped contributors. All Rights Reserved.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Package main is the combined entrypoint for the Pinniped "kube-cert-agent" component.
@@ -13,8 +13,23 @@ import (
"os"
"time"
// this side effect import ensures that we use fipsonly crypto in fips_strict mode.
_ "go.pinniped.dev/internal/crypto/ptls"
// This side effect import ensures that we use fipsonly crypto during TLS in fips_strict mode.
//
// Commenting this out because it causes the runtime memory consumption of this binary to increase
// from ~1 MB to ~8 MB (as measured when running the sleep subcommand). This binary does not use TLS,
// so it should not be needed. If this binary is ever changed to make use of TLS client and/or server
// code, then we should bring this import back to support the use of the ptls library for client and
// server code, and we should also increase the memory limits on the kube cert agent deployment (as
// decided by the kube cert agent controller in the Concierge).
//
//nolint:godot // This is not sentence, it is a commented out line of import code.
// _ "go.pinniped.dev/internal/crypto/ptls"
// This side effect imports cgo so that runtime/cgo gets linked, when in fips_strict mode.
// Without this line, the binary will exit 133 upon startup in fips_strict mode.
// It also enables fipsonly tls mode, just to be absolutely sure that the fips code is enabled,
// even though it shouldn't be used currently by this binary.
_ "go.pinniped.dev/internal/crypto/fips"
)
//nolint:gochecknoglobals // these are swapped during unit tests.