Description of problem:

I’m attempting to leverage a Policy of kind ConfigurationPolicy to deploy a ConfigMap resource on a cluster managed by ACM. This ConfigMap has a data attribute called ca.crt which contains a PEM encoded CA certificate. ACM is able to propagate the Policy to my managed cluster, but the data attribute (ca.crt) contains an empty string.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Observing this behavior in 2.0.3 and 2.0.4.


How reproducible:

Whenever a PEM encoded certificate (essentially a multi-line string that begins with a hyphen) is used in the ConfigMap, the data attribute ca.crt shows up as an empty string. However, several combinations of other multi-line strings that DO NOT start with a hyphen appear to work and appear in the data attribute ca.crt after the ConfigMap is deployed.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add Policy resource (along with applicable PlacementRule and PlacementBinding CRs) to hub cluster via Subscription/Channel (with local placement).
2. Observe Policy resources being propagated to managed cluster. When querying the Policy resource on the hub cluster, the object-templates attribute under spec which defines the ConfigMap resource will show the data attribute ca.crt as an empty string.
3. Query ConfigMap on managed cluster and observe empty string for data attribute ca.crt


Actual results:

When deployed, ConfigMap contains an empty string for data attribute ca.crt.


Expected results:

When deployed, data attribute ca.crt contains PEM encoded CA certificate as originally defined in Policy CR.


Additional info:

The manifests for the Subscription/Channel that deploys the Policies locally to the hub can be found here: https://github.com/nasx/cluster-configs/tree/master/policy-gitops

The manifests for the Polices containing the ConfigMaps can be found here: https://github.com/nasx/cluster-configs/tree/master/policies

The specific Policy is contained in the file umbrella-acm1-oauth.yaml.

From the hub cluster, running `oc describe` on the Subscription shows the Policy is picked up and successfully placed on managed cluster acm-managed-1:

$ oc describe subscription umbrella-policy-gitops-subscription -n umbrella-policy
...
umbrella-policy-gitops-Policy-umbrella-acm1-oauth:
          Last Update Time:  2020-10-22T23:44:41Z
          Phase:             Subscribed
          Resource Status:
            Placement:
              Placement Binding:  binding-umbrella-acm1
              Placement Rule:     placement-umbrella-acm1
            Status:
              Clustername:       acm-managed-1
              Clusternamespace:  acm-managed-1
              Compliant:         Compliant
...

Querying the Policy on the hub cluster shows the ConfigMap resource with empty data attribute ca.crt:

$ oc get policy umbrella-acm1-oauth -n umbrella-policy -ojson | jq '.spec["policy-templates"][].objectDefinition.spec["object-templates"][1].objectDefinition'
{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "data": {
    "ca.crt": ""
  },
  "kind": "ConfigMap",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "ca-config-map",
    "namespace": "openshift-config"
  }
}

The same can be seen when querying the ConfigMap directly on the managed cluster acm-managed-1:

$ oc get configmap ca-config-map -ojson | jq .data
{
  "ca.crt": ""
}