feat: add Valkey CRD for standalone instances

[deepakpunjabi]

This PR closes #388.

Summary

Adds the Valkey CRD, the first top-level API for running Valkey outside cluster mode. This PR is API types and validation only. The controller lands in a follow-up, so creating a Valkey today has no runtime effect. Not adding user facing docs for the same reason.

Design context is in discussion #387. This is the first slice of that plan, scoped deliberately so it avoids every decision still open in the discussion (selector versus ref linkage, per-node config, quorum-aware PDBs, monitor registration ownership).

Features / Behaviour Changes

• spec.replicas matches ValkeyCluster.spec.replicas semantics, so 0 means a lone primary and N means one primary plus N replicas. Only 0 is admitted for now.
• spec.config rejects cluster- keys, case-insensitively.
• Status reports state, reason, message, primary, replicas, readyReplicas, observedGeneration and conditions.
• kubectl get valkey prints State, Reason, Primary and Age.
• No existing behaviour changes. ValkeyCluster and ValkeyNode are untouched.

Implementation

New files:

• api/v1alpha1/valkey_types.go: the Valkey, ValkeySpec, ValkeyStatus and ValkeyState types.
• internal/controller/valkey_validation_test.go: 20 envtest specs covering the CEL rules.
• config/samples/v1alpha1_valkey.yaml: minimal sample.

Generated or wired:

• config/crd/bases/valkey.io_valkeys.yaml and the zz_generated.deepcopy.go additions, both from make manifests generate.
• config/crd/kustomization.yaml gains the new CRD.

Three things worth reviewer attention:

1. Check for replicas using has()
   Because spec.replicas is optional, leaving it out causes a "key not found" error if you check self.replicas directly. Using has() prevents this error so valid standalone instances aren't rejected.

Result:

• Missing field = allowed
• replicas: 0 = allowed
• replicas: 2 = blocked

2. Limit name length and block reserved suffixes
   Names in metadata.name are capped at 47 characters and cannot end in -primary, -replicas, or numbers (e.g., -1).

• Length: Child resources add text (like valkey-<name>-replicas), which must fit inside Kubernetes' 63-character limit.
• Suffixes: Prevents two instances from accidentally creating child resources with the same name.
• Timing: Setting these rules now prevents breaking existing deployments if validation is added later.

3. spec.podDisruptionBudget is out of scope for now
   Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs) don't make sense for a single pod. A budget either lets the pod get deleted immediately or blocks all maintenance entirely. Additionally, the only available mode (Cluster) doesn't apply to single pods. This field will be added later when multi-pod replication is supported.

Limitations

• No controller. A Valkey object is accepted and validated but nothing reconciles it, so no pods are created. That is the next PR.
• Standalone only. spec.replicas > 0 is rejected by a CEL rule until replication support lands. Relaxing that bound later is backwards compatible, whereas adding it later would not be.
• No Sentinel. No spec.sentinel block, since the linkage direction is still under discussion in [Design] Valkey and ValkeySentinel CRD Proposal #387.

Testing

• internal/controller/valkey_validation_test.go adds 9 envtest.
• make test passes with no regressions.
• make lint passes.
• pre-commit run --all-files passes.

Checklist

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• This Pull Request is related to one issue.
• Commit message explains what changed and why
• Tests are added or updated.
• Documentation files are updated.
• I have run pre-commit locally (pre-commit run --all-files or hooks on commit)

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Walkthrough

Adds the Valkey v1alpha1 API for standalone instances. It defines configuration and status fields, Kubernetes validation and defaulting markers, deep-copy and scheme support, CRD wiring, a sample resource, and validation tests.

Changes

Standalone Valkey CRD

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Valkey API contract api/v1alpha1/valkey_types.go	Defines lifecycle states, ValkeySpec, ValkeyStatus, Valkey, and ValkeyList. Adds validation, defaulting, printer columns, and scheme registration.
Kubernetes runtime support api/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go	Adds deep-copy and runtime.Object methods for Valkey resources and nested API types.
CRD wiring and validation config/crd/kustomization.yaml, config/samples/v1alpha1_valkey.yaml, internal/controller/valkey_validation_test.go	Registers the CRD manifest, adds a standalone sample, and tests replica, configuration, name, and immutable workloadType validation.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement issue #388 by adding a standalone Valkey CRD while preserving existing ValkeyCluster behavior.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within the stated scope of API types, validation, manifests, samples, and tests.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of a Valkey CRD for standalone instances, which is the primary change.
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In `@api/v1alpha1/valkey_types.go`:
- Around line 121-124: Update the ValkeySpec Config field validation to reject
keys beginning with “cluster-” using field-level CEL expression self.all(key,
!key.startsWith('cluster-')). Regenerate the Valkey CRD and add admission tests
covering accepted non-cluster keys and rejected cluster configuration keys.

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Greptile Summary

This change introduces the standalone Valkey custom resource API, generated CRD assets, a sample manifest, and admission rules that constrain standalone configuration.

Confidence Score: 5/5

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T-Rex Logs

What T-Rex did

• Compiled a focused Go dynamic-client probe that loads either the parent or current Valkey CRD and attempts create and update requests for replica, cluster- configuration, and persistence-transition scenarios.
• Ran the probe against both CRD revisions to exercise creation and update paths.
• Observed that kube-apiserver exited before CRD installation because it could not select an address from the runner's default routes, so no admission response was observed.
• Verified that the kube-apiserver executable runs and reports Kubernetes v1.35.0.
• Noted that before capture the envtest using the parent CRD exited 1 before any API response, and after capture the envtest using the PR CRD exited 1 for the same infrastructural reason; the exact probe source is included as an artifact and prints full HTTP status codes when a usable route is provided.

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