Reaper UI secret not being rotated without Reaper pod restart

[a-mroz]

What happened?

We use custom secrets refs in our cluster, backed by External Secrets Operator; with secretsProvider set to internal.

When updating secrets' values, they are automatically rotated for Cassandra superuser and Reaper CQL. But not for Reaper UI – this required the pod restart.

Did you expect to see something different?

Updating the secret referenced by spec.reaper.uiUserSecretRef should automatically rotate the secret and not require the pod restart.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

1. Upgrade value of the spec.reaper.uiUserSecretRef secret and try to log in to Reaper UI – new credentials are not picked up; old credentials still work.
2. Restart the pod and try to log in again – new credentials are picked up.

Environment

• K8ssandra Operator version: v1.20.2.

• Kubernetes version information:

• Kubernetes cluster kind: EKS

• Manifests:

• K8ssandra Operator Logs:

Anything else we need to know?:

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Story by Unito
┆Issue Number: K8OP-297