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The nvca-operator Helm chart exists twice: a hand-authored copy under the nvca
service tree and a generated copy under deploy/helm that is what actually
ships. Every change has to be made in one and generated into the other, and
several CI checks exist only to keep the two in step.

This keeps the published copy as the only chart, stops shipping one deployment's
settings as the chart's defaults, and makes the chart declare which nvca release
it installs.

Release versioning is deliberately unchanged. The chart keeps its own version
line and the NGC lane keeps its own. Whether they should match is a separate
question, raised as a stacked follow-up.

Additional Details

One chart. Deletes the hand-authored copy (35 files), the 304-line vendoring
script, its drift test, the vendor Make targets, and the CI step that compared
the copies. Everything that referenced the deleted copy is repointed:
lint_helm.sh, a Bazel filegroup, two Go tests, the chart test suite, the
transport trust test, README, AGENTS.md, one dev doc, and one retired skill.

Neutral defaults. Nine values differed between the two copies because the
vendoring script rewrote them. Six are emptied; nameOverride and
fullnameOverride move to the compute-plane helmfile, which already supplies
the rest of that stack's values. agentConfig.mergeConfig stays a chart default:
CI caught that relocating it would silently override a customer's per-cluster
registration setting, because the stack applies its values second.

appVersion. The chart ships image.tag empty, so the operator image comes
from appVersion. The bot meant to move appVersion refuses this chart, tripped
by an unrelated image: line under storage.sharedStorage.server, so the
committed value has gone stale: Chart.yaml says 3.12.7 while nvca has
released well past it. appVersion is now stamped from the nvca release at
packaging time, resolved as of the chart tag's own commit so a release landing
between tagging and publishing cannot be stamped into a package named for an
earlier version.

Limitations. The byoc NGC chart only updates when nvca releases, so a
chart-only fix still does not reach it automatically. That is unchanged by this
PR and is discussed in the follow-up.

For the Reviewer

Closest attention to:

  • deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.yaml for the nine values and
    where each one went.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/scripts/lint_helm.sh, which had eleven
    references to the deleted copy, not the three the original plan assumed.
  • deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/cluster_source_defaults_test.sh and
    otel_collector_compatibility_test.sh. Both broke on this change and neither
    runs in CI: the first has no caller at all, and test-otel-collector-compatibility
    is not in build-test.yml. Worth deciding separately whether they should be
    wired up.

For QA

Verified on this branch, rebased onto current main:

  • release engine suite, 125 tests
  • make test-default-ownership, test-resource-quantity-schema,
    test-nvca-default-ownership
  • lint_helm.sh, zero failures
  • ./tools/ci/check-helm-charts and the chart mapping guard
  • every chart test script individually: 15 of 16 pass. The one failure is
    otel_collector_compatibility_test.sh failing on a docker pull of an image
    that is not resolvable locally; unmodified main fails identically.
  • self-managed and compute-plane stack render tests
  • the internal NGC packaging hooks run against the chart this branch produces,
    including the guard that asserts no values keys were added or dropped
  • release engine dry-run across chart-only, nvca-only and both-changed, each
    with a control run, confirming the chart stays on its own version line and a
    chart-only commit does not promote nvca

No QA needed beyond CI.

Issues

NO-REF

Checklist

  • I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
  • I have signed off my commits for Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) compliance.
  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Chart Updates
    • The NVCA Operator is maintained and published from a single Helm chart. Deployment-specific settings are supplied during installation rather than shipped as chart defaults.
    • Service keys, self-managed service URLs, shared-storage image tags, and chart name overrides default to empty values. Self-managed installs must provide the required service URLs. Installs that generate an image pull secret must provide a service key; alternatively, they can use an existing secret.
  • Release Updates
    • Chart releases can follow a related service’s version and release history while retaining their own chart versioning where configured. App versions align with the related service’s stable release when available.

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The NVCA Operator chart is consolidated under deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator. References to the separate chart are removed or updated. Release automation adds owned-path version decisions, deferred follower releases, and chart app-version resolution from stable leader tags.

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NVCA Operator chart consolidation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Consolidate chart source and defaults
.bazelignore, BUILD.bazel, .github/workflows/build-test.yml, AGENTS.md, .claude/skills/*, .codex/skills/*, .cursor/skills/*, ai-tooling/dev/skills/*, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/Makefile, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/README.md, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.yaml, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.schema.json, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/README.md, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/*
The published chart is documented as the chart to edit. Vendoring commands, their CI check, and the chart-release skill are removed. Several chart defaults are empty, and affected render tests pass explicit values. The root Bazel package exposes the catalog files.
Remove the separate source chart
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/**, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/BUILD.bazel
The chart metadata, values, schema, templates, README, and storage-capability catalog are removed from the NVCA source tree. Its catalog filegroup is removed.
Update chart consumers and validation
deploy/stacks/nvcf-compute-plane/helmfile.d/02-nvca.yaml.gotmpl, docs/dev/sdd-storage-agnostic-cache-architecture.md, src/clis/nvcf-cli/cmd/cluster_registration.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/AGENTS.md, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/README.md, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/scripts/*
Chart paths in deployment configuration, documentation, scripts, and tests now point to the published chart. Storage tests use the root catalog filegroup and search direct and runfiles paths.

Release automation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Calculate releases across owned paths
tools/ci/github-release, tools/ci/test-github-release.py
Tag reachability can be evaluated at a supplied commit. New helpers classify release levels, find packaged chart paths, and combine their version requirements with semantic-release results.
Publish linked chart versions
tools/ci/github-release, tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json, tools/ci/test-github-release.py
Services with version sources are deferred. Follower tags can point to a leader tag’s commit, and chart packaging can receive an app version resolved at the chart tag’s commit.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor

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  participant LeaderGitTags
  participant HelmPackaging
  AutoRelease->>ReleaseScript: Defer services with version sources
  ReleaseScript->>LeaderGitTags: Find stable leader tag reachable at chart tag commit
  LeaderGitTags-->>ReleaseScript: Return version and commit
  ReleaseScript->>HelmPackaging: Package chart with resolved app version
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🟡 Minor · Update the stale vendoring reference in Gotchas. · SKILL.md:84-85

ai-tooling/dev/skills/nvca-values-customization/SKILL.md:84-85
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Update the stale vendoring reference in Gotchas.

The Gotchas section still tells readers to keep Chart.yaml name/version changes in the vendoring script. This PR removes the vendoring script and the "no vendoring step" text above says the same. The line is stale and can send readers to a script that no longer exists.

Remove the line or rewrite it to describe how packaging sets the chart name and version.

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Remove the stale Gotchas reference to keeping Chart.yaml name/version changes in
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Review comments at @deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.yaml:
- Line 350: Document in the values.yaml comments that direct installs must set
ngcConfig.serviceKey when generateImagePullSecret is true, and that using an
existing ngc-service-key Secret requires generateImagePullSecret=false. Note
that the self-managed stack is exempt because it sets the key to "not-used" and
disables secret generation.

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- Around line 1659-1664: Update publish_app_version_refresh to select last_tag
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- Around line 84-85: Remove the stale Gotchas reference to keeping Chart.yaml
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Review findings from CodeRabbit on #2202.

publish_app_version_refresh took its baseline from latest_service_tag, which
orders a prerelease above the stable release it leads to and ignores
reachability. With 1.29.0-rc.1 tagged above 1.28.5, it would return the rc, the
stable check below would then abandon the refresh outright rather than fall
back, and the chart would stop shipping new operator versions. Select from
stable_reachable_versions instead, exactly as leader_release_tag already does.

Also documents the service key. The chart ships no default, so a direct install
must set it while generateImagePullSecret is true, or disable generation and use
a pre-existing Secret. Self-managed installs are exempt. The README values table
is generated from those comments, so it moves with them.

And drops a Gotchas line in the values-customization skill that still pointed at
the vendoring script this change removes.

Signed-off-by: rohithb <rohithb@nvidia.com>

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Review comments at @deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.yaml:
- Line 340: Update the ngcConfig.serviceKey description in
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.yaml at line 340 and
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/README.md at line 144 to clarify that
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Follow-up review finding on #2202. The previous wording said self-managed
installs are exempt, but clusterSource is never read by the pull-secret
template; what exempts an install is generateImagePullSecret=false, which the
compute-plane stack supplies and a direct self-managed install does not. It also
pointed at ngcConfig.serviceKeySecretName for the pre-existing Secret, which is a
different Secret the Deployment mounts for the agent rather than the image-pull
one.

States the real contract instead: disabling generation requires a non-empty
imagePullSecretName or the chart fails the render, and imagePullSecrets is the
list alternative. The README values table is generated from these comments and
moves with them.

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…shed defaults

The chart existed twice: a hand-authored copy under the nvca service tree and a
generated copy under deploy/helm that is what actually ships. Every change had
to be made in one and generated into the other, and several CI checks existed
only to keep the two in step.

Keep the published copy as the only chart and delete the generator along with
the checks that policed the pair. Values that suit one deployment rather than
every consumer stop being published defaults: six are emptied, and nameOverride
and fullnameOverride move to the compute-plane helmfile, which already supplies
the rest of that stack's values. agentConfig.mergeConfig stays a chart default,
because the stack applies its values after per-cluster registration values and
relocating it would silently override a customer's own setting.

Everything that referenced the deleted copy is repointed: lint_helm.sh, a Bazel
filegroup, two Go tests, the chart test suite, the transport trust test, the
README, AGENTS.md, a dev doc, and one retired skill. Chart tests now pass the
values the chart used to supply for them. A lint assertion that placeholder
endpoints had been silently satisfying now fires, and a new one covers the chart
refusing to render without an NGC service key.

Release versioning is deliberately unchanged here: the chart keeps its own
version line and the NGC lane keeps its own. Unifying them is a separate
discussion and a separate change.

Signed-off-by: rohithb <rohithb@nvidia.com>
The chart ships image.tag empty, so the operator image comes from appVersion.
The bot meant to move appVersion after each nvca release refuses this chart,
tripped by an unrelated image: line under storage.sharedStorage.server, so
appVersion has stayed put across several nvca releases and the published chart
installs an older operator than the one it was built alongside.

Stamp appVersion from the nvca release at packaging time instead of maintaining
it as a committed value. app_version_source names which service's release the
chart installs, resolved as of the chart tag's own commit so a leader release
landing between the tag and the publish job cannot be stamped into a package
named for an earlier version.

Because nothing then triggers a chart release when only nvca moves, a chart
carrying app_version_source releases on its own commits with a patch floor when
its leader has moved since the chart last shipped. That needs no stored state:
the leader version reachable from the chart's own last tag is what that package
was stamped with, which also makes it idempotent.

The chart keeps its own version line. Whether it should instead take the nvca
version is a separate question and a separate change; the declaration that
decides it is deliberately absent here.

The nvca entry in the chart's deploys list goes with this: its only job was to
have the bot move appVersion, which it has been refusing to do, and packaging
now owns that value.

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cluster_source_defaults_test.sh and otel_collector_compatibility_test.sh render the
chart bare and then look up workloads by name. Emptying ngcConfig.serviceKey makes
the bare render fail outright, and dropping fullnameOverride renames every
workload, so the lookups returned nothing.

Neither script runs in CI: cluster_source_defaults_test.sh has no caller at all,
and test-otel-collector-compatibility is not in build-test.yml. That is why this
did not show up alongside the six scripts already repointed.

Signed-off-by: rohithb <rohithb@nvidia.com>
… path

The drain loop chose between following a leader and refreshing appVersion with an
inline conditional that no test reached: every test calls the two publish
functions directly, so the loop body ran zero times across the suite. A mutation
routing app_version_source through publish_follower_release survived all of it.

Name the choice so it can be asserted, and assert it both ways, plus once against
the shipped metadata so the configuration is covered and not only the code that
reads it. The same mutation now fails.

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…does

Review findings from CodeRabbit on #2202.

publish_app_version_refresh took its baseline from latest_service_tag, which
orders a prerelease above the stable release it leads to and ignores
reachability. With 1.29.0-rc.1 tagged above 1.28.5, it would return the rc, the
stable check below would then abandon the refresh outright rather than fall
back, and the chart would stop shipping new operator versions. Select from
stable_reachable_versions instead, exactly as leader_release_tag already does.

Also documents the service key. The chart ships no default, so a direct install
must set it while generateImagePullSecret is true, or disable generation and use
a pre-existing Secret. Self-managed installs are exempt. The README values table
is generated from those comments, so it moves with them.

And drops a Gotchas line in the values-customization skill that still pointed at
the vendoring script this change removes.

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…eneration

Follow-up review finding on #2202. The previous wording said self-managed
installs are exempt, but clusterSource is never read by the pull-secret
template; what exempts an install is generateImagePullSecret=false, which the
compute-plane stack supplies and a direct self-managed install does not. It also
pointed at ngcConfig.serviceKeySecretName for the pre-existing Secret, which is a
different Secret the Deployment mounts for the agent rather than the image-pull
one.

States the real contract instead: disabling generation requires a non-empty
imagePullSecretName or the chart fails the render, and imagePullSecrets is the
list alternative. The README values table is generated from these comments and
moves with them.

Signed-off-by: rohithb <rohithb@nvidia.com>
Review comment on #2202. "Falsy" is Go-template vocabulary and this text ships in
the chart README that customers read. The mechanism it described is not something
a reader of a values table needs; what they need is that the value is empty by
default and has to be set.

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🟡 Minor · Document the required self-managed URL inputs. · README.md:193-197

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Document the required self-managed URL inputs.

The README lists example.invalid URLs as values without labeling them as examples. The chart defaults are now empty. In self-managed mode, the schema requires all three URLs to be nonempty. An install that follows the README without providing overrides can therefore fail schema validation.

Update the schema metadata and README values:

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--- a/deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.schema.json
+++ b/deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.schema.json
@@
-                    "default": "http://icms.example.invalid:8080"
+                    "default": ""
@@
-                    "default": "http://reval.example.invalid:8080"
+                    "default": ""
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-                    "default": "nats://nats.example.invalid:4222"
+                    "default": ""
--- a/deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/README.md
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@@
-| `selfManaged.icmsServiceURL`                  | URL of the ICMS service for self-managed clusters. Override with the endpoint generated during cluster registration.                                                                 | `http://icms.example.invalid:8080`        |
+| `selfManaged.icmsServiceURL`                  | (REQUIRED for self-managed clusters) URL of the ICMS service. Set the endpoint generated during cluster registration.                                                                | `""`                                      |
@@
-| `selfManaged.revalServiceURL`                 | URL of the ReVal service for self-managed clusters. Override with the endpoint generated during cluster registration.                                                                | `http://reval.example.invalid:8080`       |
+| `selfManaged.revalServiceURL`                 | (REQUIRED for self-managed clusters) URL of the ReVal service. Set the endpoint generated during cluster registration.                                                                | `""`                                      |
@@
-| `selfManaged.natsURL`                         | URL of the NATS service for self-managed clusters. Override with the endpoint generated during cluster registration.                                                                 | `nats://nats.example.invalid:4222`        |
+| `selfManaged.natsURL`                         | (REQUIRED for self-managed clusters) URL of the NATS service. Set the endpoint generated during cluster registration.                                                                 | `""`                                      |
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Review finding on #2202. values.yaml empties the three self-managed endpoints, but
values.schema.json still declared example.invalid defaults and the README table
still printed them, so both advertised values the chart no longer ships.

They are not optional either: a top-level allOf in the schema requires all three
to be non-empty once clusterSource is self-managed, so an install following the
README without overrides fails validation rather than falling back to the
example values it was shown. Mark them required and show the real default.

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🟡 Minor · Require disabling generation when using existing pull secrets. · README.md:144

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Require disabling generation when using existing pull secrets.

When imagePullSecrets supplies existing Secrets, users must also set generateImagePullSecret=false and keep imagePullSecretName non-empty. Otherwise, the default enables generated-secret creation, and an empty ngcConfig.serviceKey causes rendering to fail. The deployment also rejects an empty imagePullSecretName when generation is disabled, even when imagePullSecrets is non-empty.

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Review finding on #2202, plus one the review did not reach.

imagePullSecrets is not an alternative to disabling generation: with generation
on and no service key the render fails, and with generation off but an empty
imagePullSecretName it fails too, whichever way imagePullSecrets is set.

Rendering the chart also showed the previous wording would have left someone with
no pull secret at all. All three workloads emit imagePullSecretName only while
generation is on, so with it off and imagePullSecrets empty the pods get no
imagePullSecrets block, and the chart renders clean. The name is still validated
non-empty in that mode even though nothing reads it.

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🟡 Minor · Restore a non-empty Samba image tag. · values.yaml:439-440

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Restore a non-empty Samba image tag.

The base value was 1.0.5, but the head changes it to empty. Self-managed compute-plane values still provide a Samba repository. The ConfigMap then renders release-artifact-samba-image as .../samba:, which is not a valid container image reference.

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Clarify that Chart.yaml name remains checked in.

When a chart or service is renamed, this wording can cause contributors to leave the old Chart.yaml name unchanged. tools/ci/github-release validates the checked-in chart name against service_name and only overrides version and appVersion during packaging. The release can therefore be rejected.

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-  published name and version come from the release that packages the chart, and
-  `appVersion` is stamped from the nvca release it installs.
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+  the NVCA release that the chart installs.
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Review finding on #2202. Emptying selfManaged.sharedStorage.imageTag left the
compute-plane stack with no tag for that image. It sets imageRepository
unconditionally but imageTag only when its own values carry one, and base.yaml
did not, so the NVCFBackend ConfigMap would render
release-artifact-samba-image as ".../samba:", which is not a valid reference.

The reason this passed CI is worth recording: the stack renders the published
chart it pins, not the chart in this tree, so its golden comparison exercises the
old values and is blind to this change until the pin moves. The break would have
surfaced after publication rather than in review.

Supply the tag from the stack, alongside the repository it already sets, which
is the same split the other relocated values follow.

Also corrects the values-customization skill: Chart.yaml's name stays in git and
must match the subproject's service_name, which release_chart_directory enforces
with a hard failure. Only the version is set at packaging time.

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