service-ca-operator: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

service-ca-operator CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from openshift/service-ca-operator. It costs 1,546 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for OpenShift's service-ca-operator, which manages an internal certificate authority and TLS certificates for services in a Kubernetes cluster.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building the operator, running or selecting Go tests, testing with a cluster, checking generated files, or updating dependencies.
Why use it?
They give the exact build, unit-test, end-to-end test, verification, generation, and dependency commands, plus an overview of the operator's two processes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is openshift/service-ca-operator's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on service-ca-operator itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything service-ca-operator configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to openshift/service-ca-operator. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Service CA Operator — AI Assistant Guidelines

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Build & Test Commands

# Build everything (operator binary + OTE test binary)
make build

# Run unit tests
make test-unit

# Run a single unit test
go test ./pkg/operator/ -run TestSyncName -count 1

# Run e2e tests (requires cluster access)
make test-e2e

# Verify all generated files
make verify

# Update all generated files
make update

# Update vendored dependencies
go mod tidy && go mod vendor

Architecture

This is an OpenShift ClusterOperator with a two-process architecture running from a single binary (service-ca-operator):

Operator Process (service-ca-operator operator)

  • Package: pkg/operator/
  • Has two main responsibilities:
    1. Operand lifecycle: Manages the controller Deployment in the openshift-service-ca namespace, syncing static resources (namespace, service account, RBAC, deployment) from embedded assets
    2. Signing CA management: Creates and rotates the signing CA keypair (Secret) and maintains the CA bundle ConfigMap
  • Reports the "service-ca" ClusterOperator status conditions

Controller Process (service-ca-operator controller)

  • Package: pkg/controller/
  • Started by the operator as a Deployment; runs three controllers:
    1. Serving Cert Signer (pkg/controller/servingcert/): Signs TLS serving certs for Services annotated with service.beta.openshift.io/serving-cert-secret-name
    2. ConfigMap CA Bundle Injector (pkg/controller/cabundleinjector/configmap.go): Injects the CA bundle into ConfigMaps annotated with service.beta.openshift.io/inject-cabundle=true
    3. Generic CA Bundle Injector (pkg/controller/cabundleinjector/): Injects the CA bundle into APIServices, MutatingWebhookConfigurations, ValidatingWebhookConfigurations, and CRDs with the same annotation

Embedded Assets

Static resource manifests are embedded using Go's native embed.FS:

  • Asset location: bindata/assets/*.yaml
  • Embed declaration: bindata/assets.go (uses //go:embed assets/*.yaml)
  • Usage: bindata.MustAsset("assets/<filename>.yaml") to read asset bytes at runtime
  • No code generation step is required — assets are embedded at compile time

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

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service-ca-operator CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository openshift/service-ca-operator (47 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,546 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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