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fix(flux): prevent automatic replacement of persistent resources - #4471

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Why

Automatic replacement can discard persistent data during an otherwise routine deployment. The existing protection settings do not prevent it.

What

Make platform and tenant deployments stop on changes that require replacement, while preserving deliberate setup-job recreation. Add a required check to prevent unsafe replacement settings from returning.

Fixes #4448

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Validation at 6664b3b29589c24e964f47bd92f56151230a04e2:

  • Compared all 198 selected authorization objects against protected main af6cc58f458be40b0526d1588b31460805e72b07; the identity sets are equal in both directions. Exactly ten objects change.
  • A separate comparison restored only the intended force settings and removed inert force annotations, then required semantic equality. Both tenant templates change force from true to false. The embedded database patch preserves its remaining settings. AWS policy documents and Kubernetes permission rules remain unchanged.
  • Updated only those ten ledger lines and matching object fingerprints. The validator's selection, rejection paths, trust-policy hashes, and permissions hashes are unchanged. The frozen approval history remains unchanged.
  • The complete authorization regression suite passes. The real validation command passes with checksum-verified official kubectl v1.36.2 / Kustomize v5.8.1, after correctly refusing the newer host renderer.
  • Integrated protected main through the already merged lease regression fix without rewriting history. Both new commits have verified good signatures; the remote branch equals the named head.

CI is rerunning. This is validation evidence, not a readiness verdict or a claim that deployment has completed.

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CI repair validation at 499140e1fa16de125bb7f6f39ef27facb0e6a941:

The pinned Trivy v0.74.0 scan reproduced the template change and failed the former ratchet. Exactly five rows change: the tenant graph's content digest and the two existing low-severity finding-cause digests for each safer Kustomization template. Finding IDs, severities, counts, remaining graph evidence, and committed-instance evidence are unchanged.

After updating only those measured hashes, the real scan passes for 16 templates from two graphs and two committed instances. The complete scanner regression suite passes, including changed causes under the same finding ID, default-deny conditions, privileged workloads, invalid namespaces and registries, resource constraints, and altered instance substitutions. No rules or exclusions change.

Integrated current protected main, including the Bash guard. The force-safety and Bash guard tests pass; its actual repository scan reports examined=286 findings=0. Both new commits have verified good signatures.

CI is rerunning; this comment does not claim review, merge, or production deployment completion.

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The final head also rejects persistent-resource replacement settings that cannot be inspected safely: template expressions, typed annotation values, and expressions replacing the metadata or annotation map. The added table has 20 cases across both persistent resource kinds; 14 unsafe cases failed against the previous guard and pass after the repair. Ordinary missing annotations, the literal disabled value, and unrelated annotations remain accepted.

The complete Go guard suite and the real rendered configuration pass after integrating protected main. Source and merge commits are signed. Earlier review evidence is superseded by this head; current-head CI and review are required before queue admission.

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Reviewed commit: 729e13c

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  • The complete diff was reviewed for force-replacement semantics, persistent-resource safety, renderer and nested-template coverage, authorization conservation, workflow failure propagation, and documentation consistency.
  • Exact-head validation passed the Go replacement-safety suite, rendered source/overlay guard, PVC retirement suite, Talos reconciliation tests, and the authorization suite with checksum-verified kubectl v1.36.2 / Kustomize v5.8.1. The installed v1.37.1 renderer was independently confirmed to fail closed.

Verdict: no P0/P1 findings

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Exact-head local review at 18328a8b7fdbff3376ba912fea537736aa03bb9a: no P0/P1 findings. Re-reviewed the refreshed diff after merging current main; layer-wide replacement remains disabled, persistent-resource opt-ins and uninspectable expressions fail closed, and authorization-surface conservation remains enforced. Exact-head verification passed 41 force-safety tests, the real render guard, 82 kernel-argument tests, the persistence guard, and 308 EKS policy-validator tests.

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Reviewed commit: 18328a8b7fdbff3376ba912fea537736aa03bb9a

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Re-reviewed the refreshed diff after merging current main. Layer-wide replacement remains disabled, persistent-resource opt-ins and uninspectable expressions fail closed, and authorization-surface conservation remains enforced. Exact-head evidence: all 25 hosted checks passed (8 expected skips), 41 force-safety tests passed, the real render guard passed, 82 kernel-argument tests passed, the persistence guard passed, and all 308 EKS policy-validator tests passed.

Verdict: no P0/P1 findings

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Exact-head readiness at 18328a8b7fdbff3376ba912fea537736aa03bb9a: current base 574b5436e8fcef2798a72fdf90676d4b26010a28, all 25 hosted checks passed (8 expected skips), zero unresolved threads, and the exact-head fallback review is green after current lane-health verification. Promoting for the protected merge queue and production-deploy gate.

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Flux Kustomizations now set force: false for platform and generated tenant layers. Resource-level force opt-outs and the PVC force transformer are removed, while prune protections remain. A Go validator checks source and rendered YAML for unsafe force settings and malformed input. Shell tests render cluster overlays and run the validator, and CI runs the guard. Guidance and rendered authorization fingerprints are updated.

Severity of issue fixed: High

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 6 files. (19 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: preventing Flux from automatically replacing persistent resources.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the risk of data loss, the deployment behavior change, and the safety check. It aligns with the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For #4448, the platform Flux layers and both tenant-template variants now set spec.force: false. The new replacement-safety validator and CI check reject forcing layers and force opt-ins on PVCs and…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The manifest, documentation, validator, CI, and test changes support #4448. The authorization approval hashes track the changed rendered Flux and policy documents; the summaries report unchanged ident…
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Review comments at @docs/deletion-and-data-retention.md:
- Around line 79-85: Update Decision item 5 to describe the current force-safety
configuration instead of claiming all four layers force: distinguish the three
setup Job opt-ins from layer-wide forcing, and state that this PR includes the
#4448 safeguard. Keep the force-safety work clearly separate from the ADR’s
storage-retention rollout.

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- Around line 90-93: Update the error message in the force validation branch of
the relevant function to begin with a lowercase letter, preserving the existing
“literal boolean” wording so `main_test.go` continues to match it.

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📚 Learning: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
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File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/coroot/cron-job-cnpg-degraded-alert.yaml:113-120
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k8s/bases/apps/ascoachingogvaner/flux-kustomization.yaml (1)

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k8s/bases/apps/github-config/flux-kustomization.yaml (1)

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Assessed the ancillary Docstring Coverage warning on current head 10232f2446b9900831ae2e17195b139346267516. Its report skips 19 functions as unsupported and identifies no specific undocumented public API. The new validator is an internal command with unexported helpers; the force-safety contract, Job opt-ins, persistent-resource restrictions and failure behavior are documented in the tenant guide, agent instructions and retention decision. The coverage number does not establish a missing documentation contract, so I refute that defect on the reported evidence.

The two concrete inline findings were independently fixed at 8d6b9d2eb27f5bc7d09ada85b0c017ea9ac1f1e6, and CodeRabbit acknowledged both resolutions. Required CI and review checks remain in force for the updated head.

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Reviewed commit: 10232f2446b9900831ae2e17195b139346267516

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Re-reviewed the complete diff and the four conflict resolutions against the production merge of #4472. The shared Flux resource intentionally combines wait: false with force: false; CI retains both safety guards; and both authorization fingerprints were regenerated from the combined v1.36.2 render. Exact-head local verification passed 41 force-safety tests, both shell guards and ShellCheck, 82 kernel-argument tests, 308 authorization tests plus the rendered contract, the authorization diagnostics contract, 385 Kyverno cases, and the persistence-safety guard.

Verdict: no P0/P1 findings

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Reviewed commit: 5273ce9c65a8860663c6afeab4638cb38741f1d6

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Re-reviewed the complete diff after merging current main at 7a90f24d44c4d55cc5ee5d77d4b07f214875d8e5. The mainline delta was the protected KSail dependency update and merged without conflict; the combined wait: false / force: false resolution and both safety guards remain intact. Exact-head local verification passed 41 force-safety tests, both shell guards and ShellCheck, 89 kernel-argument tests, 308 authorization tests plus the rendered contract, and the persistence-safety guard.

Verdict: no P0/P1 findings

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Exact-head readiness at 5273ce9c65a8860663c6afeab4638cb38741f1d6: current base 7a90f24d44c4d55cc5ee5d77d4b07f214875d8e5, all 25 hosted checks passed (8 expected skips), zero unresolved threads, and the exact-head fallback review is green. Local evidence also passed 41 force-safety, 89 kernel-argument, 308 authorization, and 385 policy cases plus both shell guards. Queuing for the protected merge-group and production-deploy gate.

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Delivered: this PR merged at 5273ce9c65a8860663c6afeab4638cb38741f1d6 through protected merge-group commit 3f2764d78b0c5cad91354d21be12baaca28a14d7; #4448 is closed.

The winning CI run and its production deployment succeeded. Production authorization, signed publication verification, Flux reconciliation, API stability, and tenant release proof passed. The release proof covered three deployments, six pods, three routes, and nine public checks.

Fresh read-only production readback confirms all eleven Flux Kustomizations are Ready and none has force=true. The six platform layers explicitly have force=false, and both active tenant Kustomization templates also have force=false. GitHub bootstrap retains wait=false, while the parent apps reconciliation retains wait=true.

All thirty pre-deployment persistent-volume claims remain Bound with the same UIDs and volume bindings. The normal and historical ownership-phase repairs from #4474 and #4478 remain deployed. Raw inventory and deployment logs stay private. This closes the unsafe automatic-replacement path; the separate runtime latency, kernel-audit, and Kubescape consistency issues retain their own acceptance criteria.

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