fix(dockerless): preserve image environment after credential cleanup

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Dockerless credential cleanup currently runs after the built image environment is applied. Cleanup restores the builder PATH and DOCKER_CONFIG, so Kubernetes workspaces can propagate the wrong environment into remote commands and persisted environment files.

Run cleanup once before applying the image environment, retaining deferred cleanup for build panics and preserving errors, cancellation, and disabled credentials. Add unit regressions using the real credentials helper and a registered Kubernetes Dockerless build fixture that verifies bare-name executable lookup, lifecycle commands, persisted environment, and helper removal. The fixture uses the existing Devsy-hosted Ubuntu base with an explicit root remote user.

Credit to Renato Athaydes for the original cleanup-order fix in #1425, commit 7a69169.

Validation at 418b6012bb5d22b9487e2d29b59bace366853ac6, based on main 4398ab2dc96855538dd54015b5f4bc3660eccb99:

• The runtime PATH oracle fails with the unchanged main cleanup sequence in a test-only harness and passes with the fix.
• Fresh unit and race runs pass across all 30 affected packages with tests, without exclusions or cached results; vet passes. All seven Darwin Docker discovery cases pass, including the Rancher Desktop case.
• Go 1.26.8 builds pass for Darwin/Linux amd64/arm64 CLI and agent binaries.
• Both registered Dockerless PATH cases pass from macOS and Linux on Kind Kubernetes 1.36.4 using matched locally built CLI/agent binaries. Default PATH covers create, repeat, recreate, stop, and restart; appended remote PATH covers fresh creation. The fixture retains the existing up-provider-kubernetes CI label.
• The existing Linux Kubernetes private SSH Git clone case passes first creation, repeated up, recreate, authenticated checkout, and agent cleanup. Its Alpine 3.22 fixture uses a temporary official Princeton package-mirror override after the original CDN timed out before TLS. TLS verification, APK signature checks, repository fixture source, assertions, and timeouts remain unchanged.
• CI-parity lint, changed-file pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push hooks pass. Scoped analyzer comparison retains 31 existing findings with no additions. Local CodeRabbit and independent source review cover this head with zero findings.

Closes #1446

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Dockerless builds now preserve the image’s PATH and DOCKER_CONFIG settings after temporary build credentials are cleaned up.
  • Commands available through the image’s PATH can be discovered and run in Kubernetes workspaces.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for image environment settings and workspace behavior across reuse, recreation, and restart.

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The build flow now cleans up temporary Dockerless credentials before applying the built image environment. Unit tests and a Kubernetes end-to-end fixture cover environment precedence, cleanup behavior, and workspace PATH handling.

Changes

Dockerless build environment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cleanup before image environment pkg/agent/dockerless.go	executeBuild delegates to a helper that cleans up credentials after the build attempt and before applying the image environment. Deferred cleanup remains as a panic fallback.
Build and cleanup unit coverage pkg/agent/dockerless_test.go	Tests cover image and builder environment precedence, cleanup ordering, build and image errors, panic handling, and credential setup cases.
Kubernetes Dockerless PATH coverage e2e/tests/up/provider_kubernetes_dockerless_path.go, e2e/tests/up/testdata/kubernetes-dockerless-path/.devcontainer/*	The end-to-end fixture builds an image with defined PATH and DOCKER_CONFIG values. Tests check environment values, Dockerless credential cleanup, and pod reuse or replacement across workspace lifecycle operations.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 418b6

The change corrects credential cleanup ordering without adding a production entrypoint or changing credential authority. Normal execution and failure paths are well bounded. Remaining uncertainty concerns overlapping setup operations and interrupted persistence, rather than a demonstrated security regression.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The directly affected security scope is the Dockerless workspace setup process and its persisted environment. The added namespace deletion, pod inspection, and root lifecycle operations are reachable through the test fixture using the runner's existing Kubernetes authority, not through a new production entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Image-defined PATH and DOCKER_CONFIG now remain effective during the remainder of fresh setup. Image environment was already persisted and loaded for later agent commands at the base. The change preserves an existing image-to-workspace environment relationship rather than creating a new source of configuration authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inspected setup path executes the build transition synchronously and invokes its reporting callback once. This bounds normal in-process ordering, but does not establish serialization between simultaneous setup processes. Environment persistence remains a non-atomic read-modify-write operation, and the PR does not add crash recovery.

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Summary

Moves Dockerless credential cleanup before applying the built image environment. This keeps the image's PATH and DOCKER_CONFIG from being overwritten.

• Dockerless builds keep image settings after credential cleanup.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[Configure build credentials] --> B[Run Dockerless build]
  B --> C{Build panicked?}
  C -->|Yes| D[Deferred credential cleanup]
  C -->|No| E[Clean credentials once]
  E --> F{Build returned an error?}
  F -->|Yes| G[Return build error]
  F -->|No| H[Apply image environment]
  H --> I[Continue workspace setup]

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pkg/agent/dockerless_test.go (1)

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Name the fixture fields in this literal.

dockerlessEnvironmentFixture has five adjacent string fields. A field reorder can silently assign a value to the wrong field and invalidate the environment assertions. Use keyed fields for this literal. As per coding guidelines: “You should almost always specify field names when initializing structs.” (github.com)

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