Validate required env vars before leader election

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
go, kubernetes
Domain
infrastructure

Research direction

Start in main.go, then compare with Initialize in internal/provider/provider.go to understand when configuration is currently checked. Trace the controller-manager startup path and identify where validation can run before leader election. Done means missing OXIDE_HOST, OXIDE_TOKEN, or OXIDE_PROJECT stops the process at startup with one clear message listing the missing variables.

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Description

Bug Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager (CCM)

Context

Initialize (internal/provider/provider.go) calls klog.Fatalf when OXIDE_PROJECT is missing or the Oxide client can't be built — but Initialize runs after winning leader election, so a misconfigured deployment crash-loops while holding/churning the lease.

Scope

Validate OXIDE_HOST, OXIDE_TOKEN, and OXIDE_PROJECT at process start in main.go, before the controller-manager command runs, and fail with a clear message listing what's missing.

Done when

A missing env var fails the process at startup, before leader election, with an actionable error.

Dominant language
Go
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