## Summary
The weekly Prowler IaC scan reported 6 critical findings against `argocd/manifests/`. They split cleanly into two patterns:
- **Legitimate-by-design RBAC → mute with new compensating controls**
- `external-secrets-controller`, `external-secrets-cert-controller` manage `secrets` (KSV-0041) and the cert-controller mutates its own webhook configurations (KSV-0114). This is what the operator is *for*. New CC: `operator-purpose-bound-rbac`.
- `kube-state-metrics` (both `minikube-indri` and `k3s-ringtail`) holds `list/watch` on secrets to expose `kube_secret_info` and `kube_secret_labels` metrics. KSM's metric schema only reads metadata, never the `data:` field. New CC: `kube-state-metrics-metadata-only`.
- **Over-broad RBAC → fix**
- `grafana-clusterrole` had `get/watch/list` on `secrets` because the dashboard-sidecar config used `RESOURCE=both` (ConfigMaps + Secrets). Nothing in the cluster labels Secrets with `grafana_dashboard=1`, so this was unused power. Switched both sidecar instances to `RESOURCE=configmap` and removed `secrets` from the ClusterRole.
The IaC cronjob also did not previously pass `--mutelist-file`, which is why every IaC finding reported as unmuted regardless of mutelist configuration. The new `mutelist/iac.yaml` is bundled into the existing `prowler-mutelist` ConfigMap and mounted via `items:` selector.
## Test plan
- [ ] `kubectl --context=minikube-indri kustomize argocd/manifests/prowler/` — already passes locally
- [ ] `kubectl --context=minikube-indri kustomize argocd/manifests/grafana/` — already passes locally
- [ ] Deploy from this branch via `argocd app set prowler --revision prowler-iac-mutelist && argocd app sync prowler` and same for `grafana`
- [ ] Manually trigger the IaC cronjob and verify `MUTED=True` on the 6 critical findings (`kubectl --context=minikube-indri -n prowler create job --from=cronjob/prowler-iac-scan prowler-iac-test`)
- [ ] Restart grafana pod and confirm dashboards still render (sidecar still finds them via ConfigMap watch)
- [ ] After verify, `argocd app set <app> --revision main && argocd app sync <app>` post-merge
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Reviewed-on: #340
Erich Blume
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