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Description

Gives the ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) controller its first real behavior, building on the skeleton from #3032. The COD API types were introduced in #3018.

The controller now:

  1. Creates a new ClusterObjectSet (COS) revision when the template changes (or when no active revision exists), owned by the COD.
  2. Reports rollout progress via the COD's single Progressing condition.

It lives in the object-controller binary and is experimental-only (//go:build !standard, experimental-channel CRD).

Design

  • Change detection uses a template-hash label (olm.operatorframework.io/template-hash), not an SSA dry-run diff. A SHA-256 digest of the template is stored on each COS; the latest active revision's label is compared to the current template. This honors the CRD contract "any template change → new revision" — including changes to COS-mutable fields such as progressionProbes, which an SSA-diff approach would silently mutate in place rather than rev.
  • Revision identity is runtime-derived from spec.group (= COD name) + spec.revision; child COS are named <cod>-<revision>.
  • Completion is keyed off the COS status.completedAt (set-once, immutable), so a later availability regression does not un-complete the rollout.
  • New revisions are created with a plain typed Create (revisions are immutable; AlreadyExists is tolerated for requeue races). No finalizer — owned COS cascade via the controller owner reference.

Out of scope (handled by COS or deferred)

Archival/supersession of older revisions (done today by the COS controller), progress deadlines, revision-history pruning, orphan adoption, and object externalization to Secrets.

Progressing states

Condition Status Reason
New revision needed / just created True NewClusterObjectSetProgressing
Latest revision rolling out True NewClusterObjectSetProgressing
Latest revision completed False NewClusterObjectSetProgressed

Testing

  • Unit (internal/object-controller/controllers): pure-function tests for hashing (incl. a progressionProbes-only change producing a new hash), COS build/defaulting, revision numbering, latest-active selection; and reconcile tests for first-revision creation, no-op-when-unchanged (completed → Progressing False; rolling out → True), new-revision-on-change, new-revision-when-latest-archived, deletion no-op, and AlreadyExists tolerance.
  • E2E (test/e2e/features/cod_rollout.feature, @BoxcutterRuntime): initial rollout → Progressing=False; template change → revision 2 Ready → Progressing=False; metadata-only re-apply (unchanged template) → no new revision. Adds a Godog step to assert a condition directly on a ClusterObjectDeployment.
  • make generate / make manifests produce no diff (no API/RBAC changes); golangci-lint, go vet, gofmt clean.

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  • New Features

    • ClusterObjectDeployments now automatically create and manage revisioned ClusterObjectSets.
    • Template changes trigger new revisions, while unchanged or metadata-only updates avoid unnecessary revisions.
    • Revision numbering remains consistent, including when previous revisions are archived.
    • Revisions include template tracking to support reliable change detection.
    • Deployment progress conditions now reflect revision creation and rollout completion.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Deleted deployments are ignored safely during reconciliation.
    • Existing or conflicting revision names are handled without overwriting unrelated objects.
    • Revision creation uses collision protection to preserve existing resources.

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The ClusterObjectDeployment reconciler now creates and selects ClusterObjectSet revisions from deployment templates. It records template hashes, assigns revision numbers, updates Progressing status, and includes unit and end-to-end rollout coverage.

Changes: ClusterObjectDeployment Rollout

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Revision identity and construction
internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectdeployment_controller.go, internal/shared/labels/labels.go, internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectdeployment_controller_internal_test.go
The controller hashes templates, defaults collision protection, numbers revisions, selects active revisions, and builds ClusterObjectSet objects. Tests cover these helpers and the TemplateHashKey label.
Reconciliation and progress conditions
internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectdeployment_controller.go, cmd/object-controller/main.go, internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectdeployment_controller_test.go
The reconciler handles deletion, lists revisions, creates revisions when required, handles creation errors, and updates Progressing status. Manager setup supplies the scheme. Tests cover revision creation, unchanged and archived revisions, deletion, incomplete revisions, and collisions.
Rollout validation
test/e2e/features/cod_rollout.feature, test/e2e/steps/steps.go
End-to-end scenarios check initial rollout, template changes, unchanged templates, revision readiness, and deployment completion conditions. A step polls conditions by type, status, and reason.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: fao89

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RolloutTest as End-to-end rollout test
  participant API as Kubernetes API
  participant Reconciler as ClusterObjectDeploymentReconciler
  RolloutTest->>API: Apply ClusterObjectDeployment template
  Reconciler->>API: Read deployment and list ClusterObjectSet revisions
  Reconciler->>API: Create revision when the template requires one
  Reconciler->>API: Update deployment Progressing condition
  RolloutTest->>API: Check revision readiness and deployment condition
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Rollout validation and operator status reporting remain unreliable, while revision retries can fail unnecessarily; these issues should be resolved before merging.

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155-155: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for reconciliation before asserting that revision 2 is absent.

ResourceIsApplied waits only for kubectl apply to finish. The repeated Progressing=False check can match the condition from before the re-apply, and the not-found check returns while ${NAME}-2 is still absent. Tie the absence assertion to a reconciliation signal from the metadata-only re-apply so this scenario detects an incorrect revision creation.

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Update the revision-2 absence assertion in the rollout scenario to wait for a
reconciliation signal produced by the metadata-only re-apply before checking
that resource "clusterobjectset/${NAME}-2" is absent. Reuse the existing
reconciliation-wait mechanism rather than relying on a stale Progressing=False
condition, and preserve the current not-found assertion afterward.
test/e2e/steps/steps.go: 1

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Require a current-generation condition for COD assertions.

After the template update, waitForCondition checks only the condition type, status, and reason. It can therefore accept the existing Progressing=False condition from revision 1 while the scenario waits for revision 2 to become ready. Require observedGeneration to match the COD resource's current metadata.generation before accepting the condition.

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Update the COD assertion flow around waitForCondition to require the condition’s
observedGeneration to equal the resource’s current metadata.generation before
accepting a matching type, status, and reason. Preserve the existing scenario
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- Around line 128-130: Update the revision creation flow around c.Client.Create
to handle AlreadyExists by identity rather than controller ownership: fetch the
existing ClusterObjectSet using client.ObjectKeyFromObject, then accept it only
when Spec.Group, Spec.Revision, and labels.TemplateHashKey match the requested
cos and hash; return an error for lookup failures, different-group collisions,
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checking that resource "clusterobjectset/${NAME}-2" is absent. Reuse the
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COD is coming! 🚀
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labels.OwnerKindKey: ocv1.ClusterObjectDeploymentKind,
labels.OwnerNameKey: cod.Name,

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Do we need owner kind and owner name here? In the past, I think those were included on managed objects so that we could setup an informer that uses those for server-side filtering.

But we don't need to have object-controller filter COSs. It needs to cache all of them.

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Good catch on owner-kind — it's never read anywhere (the historical server-side-filtering informer use is gone, and object-controller caches all ClusterObjectSets), so I dropped it from the generated revisions.

I kept owner-name though: it's still consumed — the ClusterObjectSet controller copies it from the COS onto every managed object (clusterobjectset_controller.go, in the phase-build loop: objLabels[labels.OwnerNameKey] = cos.Labels[labels.OwnerNameKey]), and the install e2e asserts managed objects carry it. Dropping it from the COD-created COS would propagate an empty owner-name="" onto managed objects unless we also guard that propagation. Happy to do that follow-up (drop it here + only propagate when non-empty) if you'd prefer the COD path not set it at all.

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the ClusterObjectSet controller copies it from the COS onto every managed object

Maybe we should drop that and have COS just directly inject its own label? What if a standalone COS exists without that label?

Does the COS controller even need that label to be there? I thought the COS controller just uses the .spec.group index?

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In orb-operator, it looks like the only label that ends up on managed objects is app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: <revisionEngineOptions.ManagedBy>

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lemme address this off main and not here

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Sounds good. I lgtm/approved #3038. Does that mean we can go ahead and remove owner-name here now? Or do you want to do that separate as well?

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I'll rebase and remove here as well - just waiting on the collisionProtection PR XD

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Then ClusterObjectSet "${NAME}-1" reports Ready as True with Reason AllObjectsReady
And ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}" reports Progressing as False with Reason NewClusterObjectSetProgressed
And resource "clusterobjectset/${NAME}-2" is not found

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Is there a race here between the controller running the reconcile for the annotation patch and our assertions?

How do we know that the COD has actually been reconciled again before we make these assertions?

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You're right, it's racy. An annotation-only re-apply doesn't bump the deployment's .metadata.generation, so there's no happens-after signal that the controller reconciled the unchanged template before the assertion — and in the failure case a buggy controller would renumber revisions such that even a "wait for rev2 Ready, then rev3 not found" barrier can false-pass. Making it genuinely race-free would need a content-based barrier plus a revision-count assertion (a new "COD owns N revisions" step).

Since the no-op-on-unchanged-template behavior is already covered deterministically by the Test_..._NoNewRevisionWhenTemplateUnchanged unit test (it reconciles twice and asserts no second revision), I removed the e2e scenario rather than ship a flaky one.

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/hold for a couple of out-of-band changes this PR will need

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Give the ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) controller its first behavior, in the
object-controller binary (experimental-only, //go:build !standard). It reconciles
ClusterObjectDeployment objects and owns their ClusterObjectSet (COS) revisions.

- Detect template changes via a template-hash label (shared hashutil.DeepHashObject,
  base36 of sha224 — label-safe, no truncation) and create a new Active COS
  revision (named <cod>-<revision>) owned by the COD when the template changes or
  no active revision exists.
- Report rollout progress on the COD's Progressing condition, keyed off the latest
  matching revision's completedAt.
- SetupWithManager: For(COD).Owns(COS).Watches(COS by spec.group); the shared
  .spec.group index setup moves to a dedicated indexes.go.
- Surface AlreadyExists on revision create rather than tolerating it (matches the
  orb-operator reference; stale-cache retries self-heal on requeue).
- Generated revisions carry only the template-hash label; ownership is expressed
  through the controller owner reference and spec.group.
- Add a cod_rollout e2e feature and a Godog step for ClusterObjectDeployment
  conditions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Per G. da Silva <pegoncal@redhat.com>
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