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📖 Align documentation with the ClusterObjectDeployment runtime - #3159
Bring surrounding documentation into line with the experimental ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) and object-controller runtime. Follow-up to #3152; the existing COD concept page and standalone tutorial remain the primary guides.
Update COS examples to use type with inlineManifest or secretRef, and distinguish COD template rendering from COS revision creation.
Document revision-independent, content-addressed Secret naming, ClusterExtension ownership, content reuse, and standalone caller responsibilities. Explain that pruning COS history does not collect ClusterExtension-owned Secrets.
Preserve the large-bundle proposal as historical material, with a prominent warning and a current-implementation summary.
Explain the privileged nature of direct COD/COS writes and their ability to bypass ClusterExtension-only policies. Restrict the example installer role to ClusterExtension writes and add COD read access to the viewer role.
Clarify experimental API compatibility guarantees, including when experimental APIs use the v1 version.
Update architecture, README, and agent guidance for the standard two-component and experimental three-component deployments.
Replace obsolete developer installation commands and blanket sample application with supported image/chart commands and explicit standard versus experimental sample guidance.
No runtime, API, generated reference, or navigation changes.
Both COS example manifests validate against the generated CRD OpenAPI schema.
Ad hoc checks passed for all eight COS example object unions and referenced Secret names/keys, installer/viewer RBAC permissions, 12 shell snippets, and 16 added local links including rendered anchors.
Rendered the documented standard Helm command and confirmed the custom controller images and absence of COD/COS CRDs and object-controller.
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Existing informational API-reference link messages remain. No live-cluster tests or Go unit/E2E suites were run for these documentation-only changes.
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The documentation describes object-controller and its role in experimental BoxcutterRuntime. It updates ClusterObjectDeployment and ClusterObjectSet concepts, and adds setup, sample, API access, and API stability guidance.
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Controller roles and ownership flow AGENTS.md, README.md, docs/project/olmv1_architecture.md
The documentation distinguishes standard Helm application from the experimental COD rollout flow. It describes object-controller responsibilities and the COD-to-COS-to-managed-objects ownership chain.
Revision, object-source, and Secret lifecycle docs/draft/concepts/clusterobjectsets.md, docs/draft/concepts/large-bundle-support.md
The concepts documentation updates status and phase descriptions, uses typed object-source examples, and describes referenced Secret ownership and retention for ClusterExtension-managed and standalone use.
Development setup and sample workflows docs/contribute/developer.md, config/README.md
The instructions distinguish standard and experimental setup, document prerequisites and image deployment, and describe sample application and cleanup.
API access and stability boundaries docs/howto/how-to-protect-olmv1-api-access.md, docs/project/public-api.md
The access guidance updates COD/COS permissions and direct-write warnings. The public API guidance distinguishes stable API guarantees from experimental APIs and fields.
The documentation is mostly accurate and the earlier concerns are fixed. One gap remains: following the quickstart from make run to make run-experimental silently deletes the developer's existing local KIND cluster. A short warning and a KIND_CLUSTER_NAME example would close it. The impact is limited to a local development cluster.
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- Line 62: Add a short architecture note to step 1 alongside the `make
docker-build` command: state that the build host architecture must match the
cluster nodes, and document a target-platform build only if the existing build
process supports it; otherwise require a matching build host.
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- Line 39: Add a warning near the viewer role guidance in the document: read
access to ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) can expose Secret values stored in
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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Warn that viewer access to COD can expose inline Secret content.
A ClusterObjectDeployment stores object manifests inline in its template. The inline object check accepts any valid Kubernetes resource, including kind: Secret. A user granted the viewer role can read a COD template with read access alone and see that Secret content. The document should state this before administrators grant the role.
Add a warning near the viewer role guidance. Say that COD read access can disclose Secret values in inline templates, and that administrators should grant it only where Secret content is acceptable to expose.
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Add a warning near the viewer role guidance in the document: read access to ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) can expose Secret values stored in inline templates, so administrators should grant the role only where exposing that content is acceptable.
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#!/bin/bashset -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- Relevant API and validation references ---'
rg -n -C 4 --glob '*.go''type ClusterObjectDeployment|InlineManifest|inlineManifest|RawExtension|Validate.*Inline'| head -n 500
printf'%s\n''--- Current viewer-role guidance ---'
cat -n docs/howto/how-to-protect-olmv1-api-access.md | sed -n '1,75p'printf'%s\n''--- Repository instruction files ---'
fd -H -a '^AGENTS\.md$'.| sort
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@fao89 Agreed. COD templates and COS revisions can contain inline Secret manifests. The viewer role can expose those values without granting read access to Secrets.
Add a warning beside the viewer-role guidance.
Keep the RBAC example unchanged.
Validate the documentation change.
Proposed warning:
!!! warning "Inline Secret content"
COD templates and COS revisions can contain inline Secret manifests.Users with read access to CODs or COSs can see the values in thosemanifests, even without read access to Secrets. Grant this access onlyto users who are trusted to see those values.
I’m not marking the finding as addressed until the change is made.
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Addressed in 5c90fa6 with a warning immediately before the viewer role. It explicitly discourages shipping credentials or other sensitive information through COD/COS, explains that inline Secret values are readable through COD/COS permissions without Secret API access, and notes that immutable revisions can retain previous values. The guidance recommends separately managed Secrets referenced by workloads, distinguishes the object-storage secretRef mechanism from a secret-distribution channel, and limits viewer-role delegation to users trusted with all exposed inline content. Strict MkDocs and whitespace checks pass; RBAC and admission examples are unchanged.
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- Around line 50-51: Update the developer guide’s cert-manager setup
instructions to state that `namespaces.certManager.name` must match
cert-manager’s cluster resource namespace, and explain that the chart otherwise
creates the CA Secret in `cert-manager`, preventing the ClusterIssuer from
finding it.
- Around line 69-70: Update the image-push instructions near the
operator-controller and catalogd commands to use the same container runtime
selected by make docker-build, so pushes also work on Podman-only hosts.
Document the equivalent podman push commands or direct readers to reuse the
selected runtime; preserve both image names and their tags.
- Around line 76-77: Update the documented docker push and helm template
commands to use OPCON_IMAGE_REPO and CATD_IMAGE_REPO when set, falling back to
the existing IMAGE_REGISTRY repository names otherwise, so pushed and deployed
image references match the build tags. Clarify that these overrides must be
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Reworked this in 751d34f to avoid maintaining a feature-gate inventory here. The quickstart now describes standard versus experimental configuration generically, links the chart defaults and experimental overrides as the source of current settings, and links the architecture/standalone guides for runtime details. It no longer repeats the Boxcutter-specific component list and ownership flow in the quickstart. Strict MkDocs and local-link checks pass.
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Addressed in 751d34f. The text now explicitly says the experimental configuration enables a collection of features, not just object-controller, and links the actual standard defaults and experimental overrides rather than listing only the runtime-related subset.
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I checked the current target before changing this. make quickstart generates release manifests and install scripts; it does not build, push, or apply local images. Its generated scripts point to release download URLs, and overriding IMAGE_REGISTRY alone does not update the Helm chart's image values (that also needs HELM_SETTINGS). I retained the explicit Helm render/apply path for this remote-cluster/local-build workflow, while making build, push, and deployed image references consistent through exported repository variables. It also now supports an existing cert-manager installation's custom cluster resource namespace. A dedicated build/push/install target would be a useful separate Makefile change, but is outside this documentation-only PR.
This example shows a ClusterObjectSet with objects embedded directly in the spec. This is the simplest approach and works well when the total size of all objects stays within etcd's 1.5 MiB limit.
This example shows a ClusterObjectSet with objects embedded directly in the spec. This is the simplest approach and works well when the total size of all objects stays within etcd's 1.5 MiB limit. Create the `my-app-system` namespace first and replace the illustrative controller image with one available to your cluster.
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Addressed in 751d34f. The inline example now creates my-app-system in its first namespaces phase, before the CRD, RBAC, and deployment phases; the prose no longer asks readers to create it separately. Validated the updated COS against the generated CRD OpenAPI schema and checked that the Namespace precedes all namespaced objects.
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What is this viewer role? I would expect that our installation would never grant any permission to any user for any of our APIs. (i.e. only cluster admins would have permission by default, and all other permissions must be explicitly delegated by cluster admins).
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Applied the suggested wording in 751d34f: "The viewer role below includes read-only access..." This explicitly refers to the example, not a default permission grant. The opening default-deny/delegation guidance, RBAC/admission YAML, and sensitive-content warning are unchanged.
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Another area where we "hardcode" what experimental is at a moment in time. And just a subset of experimental.
Just want to make sure we're all good with the fact that these docs will need more frequent review and editing if we include details about the experimental features.
I'm not opposed, but it is something I just wanted to call out.
Ideally we'd have some sort of auto-generation similar to our CRDs that makes it easy for us to document our feature gates, which channel they're in, and with a nice description/page for each. Then we'd only need to manually update the "main" docs when something graduates.
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Adjusted in 751d34f to make the scope explicit: this is controller/runtime architecture, not an exhaustive inventory of experimental features. The introduction now describes object-controller as optional, links the standard defaults and experimental overrides for current feature-gate settings, and labels the runtime details as current implementation subject to the experimental API stability policy. I retained the COD/COS responsibilities and ownership flow because those are the architecture this PR is documenting. An autogenerated feature-gate/channel reference would avoid maintaining a separate feature inventory; I have left that generator work outside this documentation refresh. Strict MkDocs and local-link checks pass.
Refresh COS examples for the discriminated object schema and document content Secret naming, ownership, reuse, and lifetime in integrated and standalone deployments. Preserve the large-bundle proposal as historical material with a current-behavior summary.
Clarify privileged COD/COS access and experimental compatibility guarantees. Update architecture, contributor and agent guidance, and sample selection to distinguish standard installations from the experimental object-controller runtime.
Signed-off-by: Per G. da Silva <pegoncal@redhat.com>
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- Line 25: Add a warning immediately before the make run-experimental command
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Warn that make run-experimental deletes the existing KIND cluster.
make run and make run-experimental use the same default cluster name, operator-controller. Both targets depend on wait-$(KIND_CLUSTER_NAME), which reaches kind-cluster-%. That target deletes the cluster with that name before it creates a new one. Running make run-experimental after make run therefore destroys the workloads and data in the existing cluster.
Add a warning before the command. The warning must explain how to use a different cluster name.
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--- "a/docs/contribute/developer.md"+++ "b/docs/contribute/developer.md"@@ -19,11 +19,21 @@
This builds the controller images, creates a KIND cluster, and deploys OLMv1 with
cert-manager using the standard configuration.
To develop with the experimental configuration instead, use:
+!!! warning+ `make run-experimental` uses the default KIND cluster name, `operator-controller`, as `make run`.+ Its `kind-cluster-%` target deletes an existing cluster with that name before it creates a new one.+ Running this command destroys the workloads and data in the existing cluster.+ To keep both clusters, set a different `KIND_CLUSTER_NAME`:++ ```sh+ KIND_CLUSTER_NAME=operator-controller-experimental make run-experimental+ ```+
```sh
make run-experimental
```
The experimental configuration enables a collection of features, not just the
object-controller runtime. See the chart's
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Add a warning immediately before the make run-experimental command explaining that it uses the same default KIND cluster name as make run and deletes an existing cluster with that name, including its workloads and data. Explain that users can preserve both clusters by setting a different KIND_CLUSTER_NAME for the experimental command.
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Description
Bring surrounding documentation into line with the experimental ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) and object-controller runtime. Follow-up to #3152; the existing COD concept page and standalone tutorial remain the primary guides.
typewithinlineManifestorsecretRef, and distinguish COD template rendering from COS revision creation.v1version.No runtime, API, generated reference, or navigation changes.
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docs/.venv/bin/mkdocs build --strict --site-dir /tmp/cod-docs-site.git diff --check.Existing informational API-reference link messages remain. No live-cluster tests or Go unit/E2E suites were run for these documentation-only changes.
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