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Prepare the OLMv1 Helm chart for deploying object-controller as a separate component when ClusterObjectSet reconciliation moves out of operator-controller.

  • Add a Deployment with leader election, health probes, shared pod/container settings, and optional profiling and E2E coverage support.
  • Add the metrics Service, cert-manager Certificate, OpenShift serving-certificate integration and ServiceMonitor, NetworkPolicy, and optional PodDisruptionBudget.
  • Add object-controller values for the image, replica count, extra arguments, and disruption budget.

All new resources use the existing objectController.enabled activation guard. It prevents rendering these resources and rejects explicit enablement until the deployment and reconciliation cutover, so this PR leaves generated installations unchanged and avoids starting a second ClusterObjectSet reconciler.

Refs: OPRUN-4775

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    • Added Helm chart support for the object controller’s deployment, service, network policy, and pod disruption budget.
    • Added optional certificate provisioning and secure metrics monitoring for supported environments.
    • Added configuration for the controller image, replica count, extra arguments, and deployment settings. The object controller remains disabled by default.

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@fao89 fao89 changed the title 🌱 refactor(helm): prepare object-controller deployment resources 🌱 Prepare Helm deployment and supporting resources for object-controller Oct 2, 2026
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The Helm chart adds conditional values and templates for the OLM v1 object controller. The templates define its Deployment, certificate, metrics Service and monitor, NetworkPolicy, and PodDisruptionBudget.

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Object Controller

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and run the object controller
helm/olmv1/values.yaml, helm/olmv1/templates/deployment-olmv1-system-object-controller-controller-manager.yml, helm/olmv1/templates/cert-manager/certificate-olmv1-system-object-controller-cert.yml
Adds controller defaults and a conditional Deployment. The Deployment configures manager arguments and optional Tilt, profiling, TLS, OpenShift, and e2e behavior. The certificate uses the olmv1-ca ClusterIssuer and stores its key in object-controller-cert.
Expose and monitor metrics
helm/olmv1/templates/service-olmv1-system-object-controller-service.yml, helm/olmv1/templates/servicemonitor-olmv1-system-object-controller-metrics-monitor.yml
Adds a metrics Service on TCP port 8443. On OpenShift, adds a ServiceMonitor that scrapes /metrics over HTTPS every 30 seconds.
Set pod availability and network policy
helm/olmv1/templates/poddisruptionbudget-olmv1-system-object-controller.yml, helm/olmv1/templates/networkpolicy/networkpolicy-olmv1-system-object-controller-controller-manager.yml
Adds a conditional PodDisruptionBudget and NetworkPolicy. The policy permits ingress on TCP port 8443 and allows all egress.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d29aa

The chart currently prevents the object-controller Deployment from rendering, so the OpenShift startup issue cannot affect a deployment from this change. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d29aa

The existing activation guard prevents these resources from being installed and rejects explicit enablement. This PR therefore introduces no reachable controller, privilege expansion, or metrics exposure. Certificate ownership and controller handover still need resolution before future activation.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — No new attacker-accessible listener or executable controller is created through the reviewed chart. Consequently, the dormant workload's cluster-admin identity does not expand effective attack scope in this PR.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The centralized activation guard is the decisive current control: it prevents workload execution, identity creation, secret provisioning, and metrics exposure together. The dormant NetworkPolicy allows all egress and, when TLS metrics are configured, ingress on 8443 without a source restriction; it is not itself a client-authentication control.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before future activation, select one owner for object-controller-cert or reject simultaneous cert-manager and OpenShift certificate provisioning. The current templates would otherwise direct two certificate controllers to the same secret, while OpenShift monitoring expects service-CA trust. This is a future-cutover safeguard, not a reachable finding in this PR.
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/cc @perdasilva @fgiudici @dtfranz

- name: GOCOVERDIR
value: /e2e-coverage
{{- end }}
livenessProbe:

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we may also want a tilt guard here as with operator-controller [ref]

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Done. Added the Tilt guard around both liveness and readiness probes, matching operator-controller so debugging does not trigger probe failures. Helm lint, manifest generation, rendering checks with Tilt enabled and disabled, and make verify passed.


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- --pprof-bind-address=:6060
{{- end }}
{{- if or .Values.options.certManager.enabled .Values.options.openshift.enabled }}
- --metrics-bind-address=:8443

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we always seem to pass the metrics bind address in operator-controller [ref] - should we do the same here as well? Otherwise, should we also guard the NetworkPolicy 8443 rule on certs being enabled?

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The conditional metrics argument is intentional: cmd/object-controller/main.go rejects an explicit metrics-bind-address unless tls-cert and tls-key are also supplied, and disables the metrics server when neither certificate is provided. Passing :8443 unconditionally would therefore prevent startup without cert-manager or OpenShift serving certificates.

The NetworkPolicy rule permits connections to 8443 but does not create a listener; without certificates there is no metrics endpoint to access. Guarding that rule would make the policy more precise, but is not required to keep metrics disabled. I have retained the conditional argument and the existing policy for now.


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but is it problematic to keep an NP that doesn't do anything - shouldn't we follow some kind of principle of least configuration/resources or something like that? Feels like we're creating cruft.

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Agreed—the unused metrics ingress rule should be conditional. I’ve guarded it on cert-manager or OpenShift certificates being enabled. The NetworkPolicy remains because its egress allowance lets object-controller reach the Kubernetes API despite the namespace’s default-deny policy.

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Prepare the deployment, certificates, service, network policy, disruption
budget, metrics monitor, and values. The activation guard keeps generated
installations unchanged until the reconciliation cutover.

Refs: OPRUN-4775
Signed-off-by: Fabricio Aguiar <fabricio.aguiar@gmail.com>

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we have a networkpolicy-override label now: #2982

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/approve

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