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Summary

Components that solely own the CRDs they ship now get spec.upgrade.crds: CreateReplace on their generated Flux HelmRelease, via a new registry field ownsCRDs. Everything else keeps helm-controller's Skip default.

Motivation / Context

Helm installs a chart's crds/ directory on first install and never touches it again on upgrade. helm-controller inherits that through its spec.upgrade.crds default of Skip, so a chart bump whose CRDs changed runs a new controller against the previous schema while the API server prunes writes to fields the old schema does not know about.

Fixes: #2264

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)

History

An earlier revision of this branch defaulted CreateReplace on for every component, justified by an audit reporting "11 of 33" CRD-bearing charts. Review found that audit was wrong, and it was wrong because my script failed open. It passed registry chart names in repo-alias form (nvidia/gpu-operator) to helm show crds ... --repo <url>, where the chart argument must be a bare name. That errors; 2>/dev/null swallowed it and grep -c recorded 0.

The corrected audit changes the design, not just the number. Branch rewritten from main rather than patched.

The audit, redone

15 of 33 components ship CRDs under crds/, and 11 of those share at least one CRD with another component:

Sole owner gatekeeper, k8s-aibom, kubeflow-trainer, nvsentinel
Shares CRDs dynamo-platform, gpu-operator, grove, k8s-nim-operator(+-ocp), kai-scheduler, network-operator, nfd, nvidia-dra-driver-gpu(+-ocp)

nfd, gpu-operator, and network-operator all ship the NodeFeature CRDs, and nfd, gpu-operator, and kai-scheduler all appear together in base.yaml — the root of every stock recipe. An unconditional policy would have two or three HelmRelease objects rewrite the same CRD on every reconcile, each with the schema its own chart pins, flapping indefinitely. Skip is what prevents that today.

Two qualifying rules, both load-bearing:

  1. Sole ownership, checked against templates/-based CRDs too. helm show crds reports only crds/, and prometheus-operator-crds ships through templates/ the same ten CRDs kube-prometheus-stack ships under crds/. So kube-prometheus-stack looks like a sole owner and is not — it is excluded despite appearing in the safe column above.
  2. No spec.conversion.strategy: Webhook. Replace discards a caBundle injected at runtime. kubeflow-trainer's leaderworkersets CRD converts through lws-webhook-service with no caBundle in the chart, so it is excluded too.

Leaving gatekeeper, k8s-aibom, nvsentinel.

Implementation Notes

ownsCRDs is resolved once per Generate and applied at all four HelmRelease population sites, covering both the sourceRef and chartRef template shapes. A registry resolution failure is fatal rather than defaulting everything to false, since silently treating every component as "does not own" would quietly restore the behavior this fixes.

The test asserts both directions — an owner emits the policy, a sharer must not. Verified that a positive-only test is insufficient: reverting the template to unconditional makes both sharer cases fail, which is precisely the defect being replaced.

No golden churn. The three opted-in components appear in no golden fixture. The prior revision moved all 45 stock leaf hashes, which I had attributed to Flux; it was actually the helm README template, which every bundle includes.

The generated-README CRD instructions from the prior revision are not here. Review found them unexecutable: no --repo for HTTP charts, no chart source at all in the helmfile template, and the section rendered into manifest-only bundles that have no charts. Since .Repository/.ChartName are available but the template funcmap has no hasPrefix, doing this properly needs a precomputed field. Guidance stays in docs/user/component-catalog.md, which is correct and now describes the opt-in behavior. Worth a follow-up; a wrong command shipping inside every bundle is worse than a right one in the docs.

Scope claim: this does not restore cross-deployer parity and is not described as doing so. helm and helmfile still skip crds/ because that is Helm's own behavior, not something the bundle controls.

Testing

make qualify

Codebase qualification completed, no failures.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
  • Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
  • High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Low rather than the prior revision's medium: behavior changes for three components rather than all of them, each audited as sole owner with no webhook conversion, and every other component keeps today's exact output. No golden moved.

Rollout notes: Flux users of gatekeeper, k8s-aibom, or nvsentinel get correct CRD upgrades on next reconcile. All other components are byte-identical to before.

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
  • Linter passes (make lint)
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

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Recipe evidence check

Registry change: scoped to recipes that reference a changed component
entry in recipes/registry.yaml (not every leaf).

Protected recipes

Recipes with committed evidence (recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<digest>.yaml) that this PR affects: 6

Recipe Source Pointer Verify Digest match
gb200-eks-ubuntu-training 7c4c0edc8c765a95a0f3afdb3bbb8e91 sha256-93fac974407a873d5b6a52a72bafcaa18b019190545a23d03031680d6aabd2bc ❌ invalid — registry-forbidden (HTTP 401): registry not accessible (make the fork's aicr-evidence package public, or provide registry credentials) ⚠️ skipped (no signed digest)
h100-aks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-b7d3b1c672568329cae994ed4c831af5e569b23209fb81e789d2e2288b44100d ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (b0081437bf6d… vs current 77765156f24a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-ca96cea68b11cd3b5f0dbad677d40365287fce8e0a5412b32861888d335c5bdc ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (35e1d989567a… vs current 77765156f24a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-edc042d2e32d58bde9bb0e7cfdaa14568a13c144fdf0869958a4d582f3fc8cfc ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (ea8757f630ce… vs current 77765156f24a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-f8d2a0188274d179f37dfe39a257aeaa3fbb97273162586853e0986bfa5d3c05 ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (8e88ca57dea5… vs current 77765156f24a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-7bfed65fb09c14c6e6cbe87a68e0810a7d24178e0e83d1691c020556c92dbbd8 ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (7726976735b7… vs current 43f3341fc43a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-7e7c4680bab4c44bb68fab53fc85a7f8d8065ca6b796458a2bc7cb4f4a49bfa9 ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (748b0a7f5852… vs current 43f3341fc43a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-dc1670c23bbe6711a6ffd86a49160b06d992c8ff84e8f3303facc54dd7aecb61 ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (fac7033fea5c… vs current 43f3341fc43a…)
h100-aks-ubuntu-training 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-c51d0f2dd75b9f397ddc9713150159553f4a8d15982095ea52a28872d7eef479 ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (0f210b23045c… vs current 322f70d764e1…)
h100-gke-cos-training 7c4c0edc8c765a95a0f3afdb3bbb8e91 sha256-be4680f26ad9ebeb57145f1953f18311ca00e81a4edb37773e0ec1060c6bd261 ❌ invalid — registry-forbidden (HTTP 401): registry not accessible (make the fork's aicr-evidence package public, or provide registry credentials) ⚠️ skipped (no signed digest)
h100-gke-cos-training 7c4c0edc8c765a95a0f3afdb3bbb8e91 sha256-f2573e7f2496cc895e6a780604645f7c24ed4d7e0edf4c4845c0d341a3a6326e ❌ invalid — registry-forbidden (HTTP 401): registry not accessible (make the fork's aicr-evidence package public, or provide registry credentials) ⚠️ skipped (no signed digest)
rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo 5bf9e82f0e90a11528ac85f4bcb866c8 sha256-3ec33498d3df68b688ae96280634c1a4403b7502a49016be54aecc70b0d2549e ✅ passed ⚠️ stale (348eada47742… vs current 731ba011510e…)
Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 64

These recipes are affected by this PR but carry no committed evidence pointer, so there is
nothing to verify. This is expected — evidence is hardware-gated and added over time.

  • a100-aks-training
  • a100-aks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • a100-aks-ubuntu-training
  • a100-eks-training
  • a100-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • a100-eks-ubuntu-training
  • a100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow
  • a100-gke-cos-training
  • a100-oke-training
  • a100-oke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • a100-oke-ubuntu-training
  • b200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo
  • b200-gke-cos-inference
  • b200-gke-cos-training-kubeflow
  • b200-gke-cos-training
  • gb200-eks-inference
  • gb200-eks-training
  • gb200-eks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo
  • gb200-eks-ubuntu-inference
  • gb200-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • gb200-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • gb200-oke-inference
  • gb200-oke-training
  • gb200-oke-ubuntu-inference-dynamo
  • gb200-oke-ubuntu-inference
  • gb200-oke-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • gb200-oke-ubuntu-training
  • h100-aks-inference
  • h100-aks-training
  • h100-aks-ubuntu-inference
  • h100-aks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • h100-bcm-training
  • h100-bcm-ubuntu-training
  • h100-eks-inference
  • h100-eks-training
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-inference-nim
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-inference
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm
  • h100-eks-ubuntu-training
  • h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo
  • h100-gke-cos-inference
  • h100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow
  • h100-gke-cos-training-slurm
  • h100-kind-inference-dynamo
  • h100-kind-inference
  • h100-kind-training-kubeflow
  • h100-kind-training-slurm
  • h100-kind-training
  • h200-eks-inference
  • h200-eks-training
  • l40s-oke-inference
  • l40s-oke-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-inference-nim
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
  • rtx-pro-6000-eks-ubuntu-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-training
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-ubuntu-inference
  • rtx-pro-6000-lke-ubuntu-training

How to refresh evidence

Run on a cluster matching the recipe's criteria:

aicr snapshot -o snapshot.yaml
# Profiled families (AKS/GKE gpuStack): hydrate the recipe with the
# pointer's recorded 'profile:' selection first — validating the raw
# overlay resolves only the declaration default, and 'aicr validate'
# has no --profile flag. AKS additionally needs the pool projection
# (GKE uses the plain snapshot above):
#   az aks nodepool list -g <rg> --cluster-name <cluster> -o json > pools.json
#   aicr snapshot --aks-gpu-pools pools.json -o snapshot.yaml
#   aicr recipe -s snapshot.yaml --intent <intent> [--platform <platform>] \
#     --profile <name>=<value> -o recipe.yaml
# State the target leaf's intent/platform explicitly (the snapshot
# fingerprint supplies service/accelerator/OS but intent and platform
# default to 'any') and pass -r recipe.yaml below instead of the raw
# overlay.
aicr validate \
  -r recipes/overlays/<slug>.yaml \
  -s snapshot.yaml \
  --emit-attestation ./out \
  --push ghcr.io/<your-fork>/aicr-evidence
# Copy to the per-source path printed in the emit 'copyTo' hint:
#   recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<bundle-digest>.yaml

This gate is warning-only and never blocks merge. See ADR-007 for the trust model.

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The change adds opt-in CRD ownership to component configuration and marks three registry components as owners. Flux resolves ownership during generation and passes it to HelmRelease templates across supported chart paths. Templates emit spec.upgrade.crds: CreateReplace only for eligible owning components. Tests cover owning, shared, and overridden chart references. Documentation defines ownership restrictions and deployer-specific CRD handling.

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github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/bundler/deployer/flux 85.71% (-0.33%) 👎
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/recipe 89.14% (ø)

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github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/bundler/deployer/flux/flux.go 86.62% (-0.62%) 314 (+24) 272 (+19) 42 (+5) 👎
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/bundler/deployer/flux/helm.go 82.53% (ø) 166 137 29
github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/pkg/recipe/components.go 88.10% (ø) 126 111 15

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Moved to draft: the audit this PR rests on was wrong

Review feedback identified that the "11 of 33" CRD audit in the PR description omitted four charts. Verified, and it is worse than a miscount: the correct number is 15 of 33, and the omissions are exactly the four named.

Component CRDs under crds/
gpu-operator 5
network-operator 20
kube-prometheus-stack 10
gatekeeper 17

Root cause was my audit script, not the registry

The registry stores chart names in repo-alias form (nvidia/gpu-operator). I passed that directly to helm show crds <chart> --repo <url>, where the chart argument must be a bare name. It errors:

Error: chart "nvidia/gpu-operator" version "v26.3.3" not found in https://helm.ngc.nvidia.com/nvidia repository

The script redirected stderr to /dev/null and piped stdout to grep -c, so an error became a count of 0. A fail-open in the verification itself, which is the same class of defect this repo's conventions exist to prevent. Re-running with bare chart names and with errors failing loud gives 15, with zero errors.

What that invalidates

Not just the number. The argument for shipping without the per-component opt-out was that the audit found no affected component carrying out-of-band CRD fields. That reasoning covered 11 of 15 components, so it is unsupported and the decision built on it has to be re-made against correct data.

One case that needs specific attention: kube-prometheus-stack ships 10 CRDs under crds/, while AICR deliberately runs it with crds.enabled: false and installs those CRDs through a separate prometheus-operator-crds release (#914). A chart's crds/ directory is not values-gated, so spec.upgrade.crds: CreateReplace would have this release destructively replace CRDs another release owns. Not yet proven end to end, but it is precisely what the audit was meant to surface.

Second finding: the README commands are not executable

Also confirmed, on all three sub-points:

  • HTTP-repo charts fail. The generated command has no --repo, so every non-OCI chart hits the same error as the audit bug above.
  • The helmfile README exposes no chart source at all. Nothing in that template renders a repository or chart name, so CHART cannot be filled in even in principle.
  • Manifest-only bundles receive the step regardless. manifest_only/README.md carries "Apply CRDs first" while its only component is skyhook-customizations | local, with no charts at all.

The helm README template already has .Repository and .ChartName in scope — it renders both in the components table — so source-aware commands were always available.

Plan

  1. Re-audit all 15 CRD-bearing paths, failing loud on errors, assessing each for CreateReplace safety: conversion webhooks with injected caBundle, and cross-release CRD ownership.
  2. Re-decide the opt-out on that data. If at-risk components exist, the registry field skipped here comes back, with tests.
  3. Make the README commands source-aware and conditional: --repo for HTTP charts, vendored paths for air-gap bundles, section omitted when a bundle has no charts.

Nothing from this PR reached main. Moving to draft rather than appending fixes, so the branch can be rewritten cleanly.

Thanks for catching this — a blanket destructive CRD policy justified by a silently broken audit is a bad combination, and it would have been much more expensive to find after merge.

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@mchmarny mchmarny changed the title fix(bundler): set CRD upgrade policy on generated Flux HelmRelease objects fix(bundler): let CRD-owning components replace their CRDs on Flux upgrade Aug 20, 2026
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In `@pkg/bundler/deployer/flux/flux_test.go`:
- Around line 3130-3136: Update the chartRef test cases for k8s-aibom and nfd to
use a manifest-only or vendored owner path with OCISourceName set, exercising
the OCI chartRef template rather than generateHelmComponent’s sourceRef
template. Assert both spec.chartRef and spec.upgrade.crds, preserving the
expected CreateReplace behavior for the owner and empty result for the sharer.

In `@pkg/bundler/deployer/flux/flux.go`:
- Around line 977-990: Update Generator.resolveCRDOwners to accept a
context.Context parameter, check ctx.Err() before resolving the registry and
during each refs loop iteration, and return the cancellation error immediately
when present. Update all callers to pass their existing context while preserving
the current registry and CRD-owner resolution behavior.
- Around line 264-268: Update the error return in Generate after
resolveCRDOwners to use errors.PropagateOrWrap with the appropriate
Generate-boundary error code and contextual message, preserving existing
structured codes while wrapping unclassified errors.
- Around line 977-989: Update resolveCRDOwners and the HelmRelease generation
path so CreateReplace is enabled only when each component’s explicit Source,
Chart, and Version matches the audited registry defaults; otherwise retain Skip
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In `@docs/user/component-catalog.md`:
- Around line 341-346: Update the Flux exception documentation for k8s-aibom to
limit automatic CreateReplace CRD handling to the audited registry coordinates.
Clarify that overridden version, chart, or source references retain Skip and
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Helm installs a chart's crds/ directory on first install and never touches it
again on upgrade. helm-controller inherits that through its
spec.upgrade.crds default of Skip, so a chart bump whose CRDs changed runs a
new controller against the previous schema while the API server prunes writes
to fields the old schema does not know.

Fixed opt-in, via a new registry field ownsCRDs, rather than by defaulting
CreateReplace on for everything.

An audit of every Helm component found 15 ship CRDs under crds/, and 11 of
those share at least one CRD with another component. nfd, gpu-operator and
network-operator all ship the NodeFeature CRDs, and nfd, gpu-operator and
kai-scheduler all appear together in base.yaml, so an unconditional policy
would have two or three HelmReleases rewrite the same CRD on every reconcile,
each with the schema its own chart pins. Flux reconciles on an interval, so
they would flap indefinitely. The Skip default is what prevents that today,
which is why it stays the default.

A component qualifies only if it solely owns every CRD it ships and ships none
using spec.conversion.strategy: Webhook, because replace discards a caBundle
injected at runtime. kubeflow-trainer is excluded for the second reason: its
leaderworkersets CRD converts through lws-webhook-service with no caBundle in
the chart. gatekeeper, k8s-aibom and nvsentinel qualify.

Ownership was checked against templates/-based CRDs too, not only crds/.
helm show crds does not report those, and prometheus-operator-crds ships the
same ten CRDs through templates/ that kube-prometheus-stack ships under crds/,
so kube-prometheus-stack looks like a sole owner and is not.

A registry resolution failure is fatal rather than defaulting every component
to false, since silently treating everything as "does not own" would quietly
restore the behavior this fixes.

The test asserts both directions. An owner emits the policy and a sharer must
not; a positive-only test would pass against an unconditional template, which
is the defect this replaces.

No golden churn: the three opted-in components appear in no golden fixture.

Fixes: #2264
Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
Three review fixes on the opt-in CRD upgrade policy.

The ownsCRDs flag now applies only when a ref still points at the exact chart
the registry pins. ownsCRDs records an audit of that chart: sole ownership of
every CRD it ships, and no webhook conversion strategy. A recipe may override
source, chart, or version on the componentRef, bypassing registry defaulting
entirely, and the audit says nothing about the chart those overrides point at.
Replacing CRDs from an unaudited chart is the destructive case the opt-in
design exists to avoid. Any mismatch now keeps helm-controller's Skip default.

resolveCRDOwners takes a context and checks cancellation before registry
resolution and on each iteration, matching the convention for loops and long
operations.

The test previously claimed to cover both HelmRelease shapes and did not. Its
chartRef cases set OCISourceName on a normal Helm ref, which renders
spec.chart.spec.sourceRef, so both cases exercised the same template. Verified
by rendering: chartRef=false, sourceRef=true, for OCISourceName set and unset
alike. The chartRef template is reached only by local, vendored and
manifest-backed components, which carry no registry chart coordinates and
therefore cannot satisfy the new guard, so it cannot emit the policy today.
That limitation is now stated in the test rather than papered over with a case
that tests nothing.

The cases also used invented coordinates, which the new guard correctly
rejects. They now build refs at real registry coordinates, and three negative
cases cover overridden version, chart and source.

Left as-is after review: Generate returns resolveCRDOwners' error directly
rather than wrapping it. That error is already a structured error from
PropagateOrWrap, and the repo convention is not to re-wrap errors that already
carry a correct code.

Related: #2264
Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
Two statements in the component catalog contradicted the opt-in policy this
branch adds.

The health-and-readiness section still said the HelmRelease AICR generates for
Flux leaves spec.upgrade.crds unset. That is now false for exactly the
component that section describes: k8s-aibom is marked ownsCRDs, so its
generated HelmRelease sets CreateReplace and Flux applies the CRDs itself. The
paragraph now says so, and explains why the storage-version assertion is still
worth making on every deployer: it proves the deployed CRDs match the pinned
chart, not merely that some deployer was expected to update them.

The pre-upgrade CRD instruction was written as applying to every bundle
upgrade. It is now scoped to helm and helmfile, with a pointer to the deployer
table for the three that need no manual step.

Related: #2264
Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
The negative cases decoded spec.upgrade.crds into a string field, so an absent
key and a key explicitly rendered as "" both produced "". Every want: "" case
would therefore have passed against a template that emits an empty value,
which is the ambiguous-condition shape this repo's conventions call out.

Decoded as a map instead, so presence is the assertion: non-owners must not
carry spec.upgrade at all, and owners must carry an explicit crds value.

Verified by rendering crds: "" for non-owners, which now fails four cases and
previously failed none.

Related: #2264
Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
The rebase auto-merged without conflict markers, but the two changes did not
compose cleanly in prose: #2312 scoped the pre-upgrade CRD step to helm and
helmfile, while #2316 rewrote the command inside that step and added a third
explanatory bullet. The lead-in still read "fails on both counts" above three
bullets, only two of which are failure modes.

Reworded to name the shorter form explicitly and scope the claim to the two
bullets that describe failures.

Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
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Rebased onto main after #2316 merged, which was required because the repo enforces up-to-date branches and both PRs edited the same region of docs/user/component-catalog.md.

Force-pushed: 09e75aae9c458baa. Inline comment anchors may be outdated as a result; all threads were resolved before the rebase.

The rebase auto-merged with no conflict markers, and that was not sufficient. The two changes overlapped semantically rather than textually: this PR scoped the pre-upgrade CRD step to helm and helmfile, while #2316 rewrote the command inside that step and added a third explanatory bullet. Git composed them without complaint, leaving a lead-in that read "fails on both counts" above three bullets, only two of which describe failures.

Fixed in 9c458baa. The section now reads as one coherent block: scoped heading, the flux/argocd exception, the corrected command, and three bullets whose lead-in matches what follows.

make lint clean and flux deployer tests pass on the rebased tree.

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🔎 Multi-Persona Review

Method: four independent persona reviewers (correctness, test-coverage, docs, security/operability) fanned out in parallel, then every finding was re-derived from the resolved code by an adversarial senior meta-reviewer. The crux (gatekeeper) was independently reproduced 3×.

Tier legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick

Overall assessment

A careful, well-reasoned narrowing of the earlier over-broad revision — the opt-in gate, the fail-closed posture, and the "sole owner + no webhook conversion" audit are sound, and the security surface checks out (no overlay can set the flag; a registry-resolution failure is fatal; CreateReplace never deletes CRDs). But the fix is silently inert for one of its three advertised components, and the test that should catch that structurally cannot. Root cause is a chart-name form mismatch:

gatekeeper  defaultChart="gatekeeper/gatekeeper"  → ref.Chart="gatekeeper"  → MATCH=false ❌
k8s-aibom   defaultChart="k8s-aibom"              → ref.Chart="k8s-aibom"    → MATCH=true  ✅
nvsentinel  defaultChart="nvsentinel"             → ref.Chart="nvsentinel"   → MATCH=true  ✅

Recommendation: Approve with comments. No surviving 🔴, so formally comment-level — but the two 🟠 (inline below) are worth fixing before merge: the PR ships a fix that does nothing for gatekeeper, guarded by a test that can't detect it. Both fixes are small.

Additional finding (not inline — target file isn't in this diff)

  • 🟡 New ownsCRDs registry field missing from the contributor field reference. OwnsCRDs is added to ComponentConfig but not documented where its siblings hasSelfRefCRDs / manifestsUseChartCRDs live: the field table in docs/contributor/recipe.md:103-104 and the flag lists in docs/contributor/component.md:93,147. CLAUDE.md requires documenting new registry fields in the same PR.

Confirmed non-issues (examined & cleared)

  • Fail-closed posture is correct — registry-resolution failure is fatal (PropagateOrWrapGenerate aborts); usesRegistryChart mismatches fall back to Skip.
  • CreateReplace does not delete CRDs (never cascade-deletes CRs); residual risk is a dropped served/stored apiVersion or overwritten caBundle, which the audit criteria target.
  • ownsCRDs is untamperable via recipe — registry-only ComponentConfig field, absent from overlays/mixins.
  • Map keys are consistent across all four HelmRelease population sites; -pre/-post/local wrappers never enter the map.
  • spec.upgrade.crds: CreateReplace is a valid HelmRelease v2 enum; resolveCRDOwners context handling is adequate; the negative test assertion (absence of spec.upgrade) is appropriately strict.
  • nvsentinel & k8s-aibom DO correctly emit the policy — the fix genuinely works for 2 of 3.
  • Docs internal consistency (CodeRabbit's earlier flag) is genuinely resolved.

Summary

🔴 Blocker 🟠 Major 🟡 Minor 🔵 Nitpick
0 2 2 2

Reviewed with a multi-persona panel + adversarial meta-review. mchmarny's inline notes are the author's own annotations, not an independent review.

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Comment thread pkg/recipe/components.go
Comment thread pkg/bundler/deployer/flux/templates/helmrelease-chartref.yaml.tmpl
Review found gatekeeper never emitted CreateReplace despite being enrolled in
ownsCRDs, and reproduced it on all three enrolled components.

ApplyRegistryDefaults strips a defaultChart to the segment after its last "/"
when defaulting ref.Chart. gatekeeper's registry entry is
"gatekeeper/gatekeeper", so a stock recipe resolves ref.Chart="gatekeeper"
while usesRegistryChart compared against the unstripped value. One of the
three headline components was silently inert, and the PR body, the registry
comment, and the component catalog all claimed otherwise. It failed into the
safe direction -- Skip, no destructive replace -- but it did not do what was
documented.

usesRegistryChart now normalizes the registry value the same way, and version
comparison runs both sides through deployer.NormalizeVersion so an overlay
re-pinning "v1.3.0" against a registry "1.3.0" does not silently disable the
policy for an audited chart.

The test could not have caught this. It built refs by copying registry fields
directly, which produces a shape the resolver never emits, and its comment
claimed that shape was "what a stock recipe resolves to". Refs are now built by
running ApplyRegistryDefaults over an empty ref, and the owner cases are
discovered from the registry rather than hardcoded, so gatekeeper and
nvsentinel are covered and a future enrollment is covered without editing the
test. Only k8s-aibom had been exercised.

The chartRef render assertion was replaced by a direct usesRegistryChart test.
Attempting the render route produced a sourceRef HelmRelease, so a render test
would have passed without exercising the path -- the ambiguous-condition shape
this suite avoids elsewhere. The property test asserts refs without registry
coordinates are rejected, with a resolved ref as the control so the negative
cases cannot pass vacuously.

Adds TestOwnsCRDsPinsMatchAuditedVersions, which pins the chart versions the
CRD-ownership audit actually ran against. usesRegistryChart covers a recipe
overriding coordinates; nothing covered the other direction, where bumping
defaultVersion in the registry carries ownsCRDs forward to a chart nobody
re-checked, which may by then share a CRD or use webhook conversion. The guard
caught two wrong versions on its first run.

Related: #2264
Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
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mchmarny enabled auto-merge (squash) August 20, 2026 22:08
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mchmarny requested a review from njhensley August 20, 2026 22:20
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mchmarny merged commit 3d76752 into main Aug 20, 2026
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