Switch to use Go 1.24+ runtime FIPS support. #783
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Add fips-go.conf systemd drop-in that sets GODEBUG=fips140=only for all services in FIPS variants. This enables Go's native FIPS 140-3 mode at runtime, restricting crypto packages to FIPS-approved algorithms. Signed-off-by: Jingwei Wang <[email protected]>
Remove GOEXPERIMENT=boringcrypto from FIPS builds of kubelet and kube-proxy. FIPS compliance is now handled at runtime via GODEBUG=fips140=only using Go 1.24+ native FIPS 140-3 support. Signed-off-by: Jingwei Wang <[email protected]>
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Jan 7, 2026
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| export KUBE_OUTPUT_SUBPATH="_fips_output/local" | ||
| export GOEXPERIMENT="boringcrypto" | ||
| # Runtime FIPS: use GODEBUG=fips140=only instead of compile-time boringcrypto |
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I don't think these comments are useful. In general, a comment should cover the current code and implementation details, not historical details that can be looked up in Git history.
The Kubernetes builds are complicated and have a lot of moving parts already, so in this case it might be better to just copy the same binaries into the FIPS and non-FIPS subpackages. It will also help compile times quite a lot.
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Description of changes:
Switch Kubernetes to use Go 1.24+ runtime FIPS support.
Packaging the
GODEBUG=fips140=onlyconfig file in fips variantsNote: these are the minimal changes for switching Go 1.24+ runtime FIPS support.
The rest of the changes need to be clean up will go to a separate release with the SDK clean up release
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