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hack/runner-release-watch.sh compared upstream's Kubernetes executor toml keys against ours as a flat, one-directional set of key names with no exclusion list. All three defects from #63 come from that one shape.

Per-struct pairs. The awk extractor now emits Struct.key rather than a bare name, so a name being exposed on one struct no longer counts as exposed on every struct. Against the real files that is 253 upstream pairs versus 241 here, where the flat name count was 200.

Exclusions as data. hack/runner-release-watch.suppress holds the thirteen autoscaler pairs #58 decided against, parsed and shape-validated at startup so a typo stops the run instead of silently excluding nothing. The issue body reports how many were applied and names any entry that matched nothing, so a stale line surfaces rather than quietly widening the blind spot. An absent file is stated, not treated as empty. Only the two exposure directions are filtered: they recompute the whole backlog every release, whereas the upstream-against-itself delta reports a key added to a skipped subtree once, which is still a real change worth seeing.

Both directions. Ours-minus-upstream gets its own heading. On live data it flags exactly one pair, KubernetesConfig.terminationGracePeriodSeconds, which is #62 and which the watcher has never mentioned in its life.

The body also states which comparison it performed, with both counts. "Nothing unexposed" is worth very little without that, and the flat-name version read as a completeness proof it was not.

Dry run against the current upstream release:

Upstream executor toml keys, v19.1.0 to v19.2.2. Compared as (struct, key) pairs rather
than bare key names: 253 upstream, 241 here. The exposure check runs in both directions,
with 13 of them excluded by `hack/runner-release-watch.suppress`.

### No keys added upstream
### Every upstream key is exposed
### Exposed by `api/v1beta2/gitlab_types.go` but gone from upstream v19.2.2
- `KubernetesConfig.terminationGracePeriodSeconds`

Six new cases (3b to 3f) cover the per-struct gap a flat set cannot see, exclusion in both directions, an exclusion that matched nothing, a malformed entry refusing before it files, and an absent file. 97 pass. Audited by reverting only the script against the new tests: 17 failures, all in the new cases plus the four existing assertions retightened to the qualified form.

Closes #63

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for suppressing intentionally omitted configuration fields during release checks.
    • Reports now identify configuration changes using fully qualified struct and key names.
    • Added detection for both upstream changes and locally missing exposed settings.
    • Reports highlight unused suppression entries and provide clearer comparison details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or missing suppression files are now reported instead of being silently ignored.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for nested configuration fields, suppression handling, and release reporting.

kube_keys flattened every toml key reachable from a Kubernetes* root into one
set of names, so a name counted as exposed everywhere once it was exposed
anywhere. That produced a wrong answer during #58: the watcher reported zero
unexposed keys while selinux_type, seccomp_profile and app_armor_profile were
missing from the container security context and mount_propagation was missing
from empty_dir and pvc. All four names existed elsewhere in the file. Keys are
now emitted as Struct.key, which puts the count at 253 upstream pairs against
241 here, where the flat name count was 200.

The comparison also ran one way only, so a key we carry that upstream deleted
was invisible. terminationGracePeriodSeconds has had no effect since
gitlab-runner v17.0.0 and the watcher never mentioned it; it now appears under
its own heading. #62 tracks the field itself.

Both of those directions recompute the whole backlog on every release, so
deliberate omissions would repeat forever. hack/runner-release-watch.suppress
carries them as data the script reads rather than prose in a Go comment: the
thirteen autoscaler pairs #58 decided against. The body reports how many were
excluded and names any entry that matched nothing, so the exclusion stays
visible and a stale line surfaces rather than quietly widening. The
upstream-against-itself delta is deliberately not filtered; a key added to a
skipped subtree is still a real change, and it is reported once rather than
every release.

The body also states which comparison it performed. "Nothing unexposed" is
worth very little without that, and the flat-name version read as a proof it
was not.

Refs: #63
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
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The release watcher now accepts and validates suppression files, traverses nested configuration structs using qualified Struct.key pairs, compares upstream and local keys in both directions, and reports detailed gaps, exclusions, removals, and unused suppressions. Tests cover these behaviors and failure cases.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Suppression input and validation
hack/runner-release-watch.sh, hack/runner-release-watch.suppress, hack/runner-release-watch_test.sh
The script loads a configurable suppression file, validates Struct.key entries, and fails on malformed or unreadable files. Tests isolate and reset the suppression fixture.
Qualified configuration comparison
hack/runner-release-watch.sh, hack/runner-release-watch_test.sh
Nested Kubernetes structs now produce qualified pairs. The comparison reports upstream additions and removals, missing local pairs, and stale local pairs. Tests verify nested traversal and qualified names.
Report output and regression coverage
hack/runner-release-watch.sh, hack/runner-release-watch_test.sh
The report includes key counts, comparison details, suppression status, and unused exclusions. Tests verify exclusion effects, upstream-only changes, and report sections.

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A configured suppression directory can be treated as an empty exclusion file, causing the release-watch report to miss intentionally excluded differences or misstate applied exclusions. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but this path-validation issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  participant UpstreamConfig
  participant RunnerReleaseWatch
  participant LocalConfig
  UpstreamConfig->>RunnerReleaseWatch: provide qualified Struct.key pairs
  LocalConfig->>RunnerReleaseWatch: provide qualified Struct.key pairs
  RunnerReleaseWatch->>RunnerReleaseWatch: apply validated suppressions
  RunnerReleaseWatch->>RunnerReleaseWatch: generate comparison report
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In `@hack/runner-release-watch.sh`:
- Around line 41-46: Update the suppression-path validation in the runner
release-watch script to require SUPPRESS_FILE to be a regular readable file
before invoking sed, rejecting directories and other non-regular paths with the
existing failure behavior. Add a test setting RUNNER_WATCH_SUPPRESS_FILE to a
directory and verify the command fails instead of reporting an empty suppression
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A directory is readable, so it passed the -r check and fell through to the
parse. The failure was quieter than a plain read error: BSD sed exits 0 when
handed a directory, so the parse yielded an empty list and the issue body
stated that an exclusion file exists with zero exclusions. GNU sed exits 4
there, which the `|| true` on the pipeline swallowed to the same effect.

Require a regular readable file, which is the part that holds on both
platforms, and stop discarding sed's exit status so a genuine read error on a
regular file is not read as "no exclusions" either.

Found in review on #70.

Refs: #63
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
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* docs(api): document that terminationGracePeriodSeconds does nothing

Upstream removed the key at the v17.0.0 major boundary. The runner decodes with
toml.DecodeFile and never inspects MetaData.Undecoded(), so a value set here is
accepted by admission, rendered into config.toml, and then dropped with no
error, no warning and no log line.

The mitigation the issue credits does not exist on any user-facing surface.
controller-gen only turns Go doc comments into the CRD description; the go-flags
`description:` tag is invisible, so the deprecation text this field has carried
since v16.11.0 never reached kubectl explain. Same finding as #71. All three
fields here gain their first real description.

Both replacements carried the same fossil, "Ignored if
KUBERNETES_TERMINATIONGRACEPERIODSECONDS is specified", pointing at a key that
no longer exists. Dropped from the tags rather than contradicted in a comment
next to them.

The v17.0.0 removal also moved a default. At v16.11.0
GetPodTerminationGracePeriodSeconds returned 0 when both keys were unset, which
upstream commented as deliberate ("terminate immediately"). That getter went
with the field, so the executor now passes the raw pointer to the pod spec and
unset means Kubernetes' 30s. A runner upgraded across the boundary waits 30s
where it used to exit at once, which is the fact a reader of
pod_termination_grace_period_seconds most needs.

Not removing the field. kubectl has defaulted to fieldValidation=Strict since
1.25, so dropping it from the CRD fails `kubectl apply` for any manifest that
still sets it. That belongs in a release documenting the break, so the key is
excluded from the release watcher's stale report instead, which #70 made
bidirectional. The exclusion is counted in every release issue body and the
watcher flags it as unused once the field goes, so it cannot rot silently.

Refs: #62
Refs: #70
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>

* docs(api): add the missing space before DEPRECATED in the tag

The description read "kill signal.DEPRECATED:", running two sentences together. Tidied while the
neighbouring tags are being edited in this branch anyway.

Note this is cosmetic only. CodeRabbit flagged it as breaking generated help text, which does not
apply here: nothing in the operator parses go-flags tags and controller-gen ignores them, so the
string never reaches a user. Regenerating the CRDs after this change produces no diff, which is
the same point the rest of the branch makes.

Refs: #62
Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>

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Signed-off-by: Alexander Chernov <alexander@chernov.it>
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