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Switches the operator-controller ClusterExtension applier to render and apply
a single ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) instead of directly creating and
managing ClusterObjectSet (COS) revisions. The COD controller owns revision
lifecycle (creation, rollout progress, archival, and history pruning), so the
operator-controller only has to render and apply one top-level object per
extension. This is the "use COD" step of delegating revision management to
ClusterObjectDeployment.

All changes are experimental-only (ClusterObjectDeployment is an experimental
API); standard manifests are unaffected.

Changes

  • Render + apply a COD: generate a packed ClusterObjectDeployment from
    bundle content and apply it, replacing direct ClusterObjectSet management.
  • Packed content: revision-independent packed Secret names, and propagation
    of bundle annotations (including olm.properties) from the COD through its
    template.metadata to each revision.
  • Owner labels: set revision owner labels via the COD template metadata.
  • Applyconfiguration builder for ClusterObjectDeployment.
  • RBAC: grant operator-controller the permissions it needs for
    ClusterObjectDeployment.
  • Skip redundant preflights when content is unchanged: fingerprint the
    rendered content (content-addressed packed Secret names) into a content-hash
    annotation on the COD's top-level metadata, and short-circuit the CRD-safety
    preflights when the rendered content matches what is already applied — so they
    do not re-run on every steady-state reconcile.
  • Tests: align the install/uninstall e2e suites with the
    ClusterExtension → COD → ClusterObjectSet ownership model (install asserts
    .status.install.bundle and the rolled-up CE/COD Available/Progressing
    conditions); remove the now-obsolete applier revision-bounds test (revision
    management moved to the COD controller); unit/mock updates.

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  • New Features
    • Installations now use a ClusterObjectDeployment to manage revisions and rollout.
    • Bundle content is stored in referenced Secrets owned by the ClusterExtension.
    • Deployments include bundle properties and ownership information, default progression probes, and support for a positive progress deadline.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Unchanged content skips installation and upgrade preflight checks.
    • Revision numbering and retention are isolated between groups.
    • When bundle content is unavailable, applying succeeds only if a deployment already exists.

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Walkthrough

Boxcutter now generates and applies ClusterObjectDeployment resources with content stored in referenced Secrets. It skips preflights when the content hash matches and checks for an existing deployment when catalog content is unavailable. E2E scenarios cover deployment, object set, and Secret ownership.

Changes: ClusterObjectDeployment apply flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deployment generation and Secret packing
cmd/operator-controller/main.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/boxcutter.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/clusterobjectdeployment.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/secretpacker.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/clusterobjectdeployment_test.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/secretpacker_test.go, internal/shared/labels/labels.go
The revision generator builds deployments from rendered bundle content. It packs phase objects into owner-prefixed Secrets, adds Secret references to deployment phases, and propagates bundle annotations.
Boxcutter apply and preflight handling
internal/operator-controller/applier/boxcutter.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/boxcutter_test.go, internal/operator-controller/applier/boxcutter_revision_bounds_test.go, internal/testutil/mock/applier/mock_applier.go, internal/testutil/mock/generate.go
Boxcutter creates referenced Secrets and applies the deployment. It fingerprints sorted Secret names and skips preflights when content is unchanged. When content is unavailable, it checks for an existing deployment. The generator interface and mocks are updated. The direct COS revision application flow and its revision-bound tests are removed.
Ownership wiring and E2E validation
internal/operator-controller/controllers/clusterextension_controller.go, test/e2e/features/install.feature, test/e2e/features/uninstall.feature, test/e2e/features/group.feature, test/e2e/features/update.feature, test/e2e/steps/steps.go
RBAC grants access to deployments, object sets, and Secrets. E2E scenarios check deployment ownership of object sets and extension ownership of deployments and content Secrets.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Boxcutter
  participant RevisionGenerator
  participant SecretPacker
  participant KubernetesAPI
  Boxcutter->>RevisionGenerator: Generate deployment and referenced Secrets
  RevisionGenerator->>SecretPacker: Pack phase objects
  SecretPacker-->>RevisionGenerator: Return packed Secrets
  RevisionGenerator-->>Boxcutter: Return deployment and Secrets
  Boxcutter->>KubernetesAPI: Create Secrets and apply deployment
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Deployment reconciliation can miss existing ClusterObjectDeployments and rerun preflights, so this should be resolved before merging.

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Major · Add ClusterObjectDeployment to the manager cache ByObject map. · main.go:257-261

cmd/operator-controller/main.go:257-261
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add ClusterObjectDeployment to the manager cache ByObject map.

The manager uses DefaultLabelSelector: k8slabels.Nothing(). The BoxcutterRuntime block exempts only ClusterObjectSet, but Boxcutter reads ClusterObjectDeployment through c.mgr.GetClient().

Without a COD cache entry, these reads can return NotFound for existing CODs. This causes catalog-unavailable reconciles to report catalog content unavailable and no deployment installed. It also prevents the content-hash comparison from reaching StateUnchanged, so CRD-safety preflights run on every reconcile.

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 	if features.OperatorControllerFeatureGate.Enabled(features.BoxcutterRuntime) {
 		cacheOptions.ByObject[&ocv1.ClusterObjectSet{}] = crcache.ByObject{
 			Label: k8slabels.Everything(),
 		}
+		cacheOptions.ByObject[&ocv1.ClusterObjectDeployment{}] = crcache.ByObject{
+			Label: k8slabels.Everything(),
+		}
 	}
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Add ClusterObjectDeployment to the cacheOptions.ByObject map in the
BoxcutterRuntime feature-gate block, using the same unrestricted label selector
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internal/operator-controller/applier/boxcutter_test.go: 1

932-933: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Do not use metadata.generation as the fake-client no-op assertion.

The controller-runtime v0.25.1 fake client does not reliably manage Generation or ResourceVersion, so equal generations can produce a false positive. Compare the rendered Spec and Annotations between the two reads instead.

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-	assert.Equal(t, first.Generation, second.Generation)
+	assert.Equal(t, first.Spec, second.Spec)
+	assert.Equal(t, first.Annotations, second.Annotations)
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Minor · Hash the complete COD template for the unchanged decision. · boxcutter.go:488-494

internal/operator-controller/applier/boxcutter.go:488-494
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Hash the complete COD template for the unchanged decision.

Reordering phases, objects, or probes can preserve the sorted Secret-name set while changing COD template identity. Boxcutter then marks the deployment StateUnchanged and skips enabled CRD-safety preflights. The COD controller still detects the changed template and creates a new revision.

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-	secretNames := make([]string, len(secrets))
-	for i := range secrets {
-		secretNames[i] = secrets[i].Name
-	}
-	sort.Strings(secretNames)
-	contentHash := hashutil.DeepHashObject(secretNames)
+	contentHash := hashutil.DeepHashObject(cod.Spec.Template)

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We may also want to go over the remaining TODO(COD) comments, remove those addressed by this PR, and check which remaining items need to be handled here versus tracked as follow-ups.

WithCollisionProtection(collisionProtection)

if p := ext.Spec.ProgressDeadlineMinutes; p > 0 {
templateSpec.WithProgressDeadlineMinutes(p)

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We may want to read and watch the COD's rollout status when switching the applier over. Since #3055, COD-created revisions no longer receive progressDeadlineMinutes; the deadline is reported on the COD instead. The CE still derives Progressing only from COS Ready, so a rollout that exceeds its deadline leaves the CE at Progressing=True/RollingOut even when the COD reports ProgressDeadlineExceeded.

And ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}" reports Available as True with Reason Available
And ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}" reports Progressing as False with Reason NewClusterObjectSetProgressed
And ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}" is owned by ClusterExtension "${NAME}"
And ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}" owns 1 ClusterObjectSet

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We should update the remaining ownership assertions in group.feature:224 and update.feature:284 to use the new COD step too. They still require the CE to be the direct controller owner of the COS revisions, so both assertions time out with the new ownership chain.

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Addressed in b394b62 (pushed after this comment). Both now use the COD step:

  • group.feature: ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}" owns 6 ClusterObjectSets
  • update.feature: ClusterObjectDeployment "${NAME}-dup" owns 2 ClusterObjectSets

These were the last two CE→COS ownership assertions; install.feature/uninstall.feature already use the COD step, and a grep confirms no ClusterExtension "..." owns N ClusterObjectSets remain in the experimental features.

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return fmt.Errorf("creating new Revision: %w", err)
// Server-side apply the ClusterObjectDeployment. The ClusterObjectDeployment
// controller owns revision (ClusterObjectSet) creation, rollout and retention.
if err := bc.Client.Apply(ctx, cod, client.FieldOwner(bc.FieldOwner), client.ForceOwnership); err != nil {

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[P1] Propagate COD deadline failures into ClusterExtension status

Switching the applier to COD also needs the CE status reader and watch to follow COD rollout conditions. Since #3055, COD-created revisions no longer receive spec.progressDeadlineMinutes: COD reports Progressing=False/ProgressDeadlineExceeded, while COS retains its readiness failure. BoxcutterRevisionStatesGetter and SetupWithManagerForBoxcutter still read/watch only COS, so the CE keeps reporting Progressing=True/RollingOut after its configured deadline.

The experimental CI artifact reproduces this for ce-792 and ce-804: their CODs report ProgressDeadlineExceeded, but their CEs remain RollingOut. Please watch COD updates and incorporate its rollout conditions when setting CE progress status. The timeout E2E assertions also need to follow the COD-owned deadline.

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Addressed in adfd5c8 (pushed after this comment) — the ClusterExtension now reads and watches the ClusterObjectDeployment instead of the ClusterObjectSets:

  • Watch: SetupWithManagerForBoxcutter now Owns(&ClusterObjectDeployment{}) (replacing the COS watch + clusterExtensionRequestsForClusterObjectSet mapper) so the CE re-reconciles on COD status changes.
  • Status mapping (new ReflectClusterObjectDeploymentStatus step + clusterobjectdeployment_status.go): CE Available/Progressing are derived from the COD's conditions. The reason mapping is explicit and status is recomputed per reason (the COD reports a completed rollout as Progressing=False, the CE as True/Succeeded):
    • ProgressDeadlineExceeded → CE Progressing=False/ProgressDeadlineExceeded
    • RevisionObjectCollision/RevisionPreconditionsNotMet → CE Progressing=True/Retrying
    • NewClusterObjectSetProgressed → CE Progressing=True/Succeeded
    • (Revision)InvalidSpecification → CE Progressing=False/Blocked
  • .status.install.bundle is sourced from the COD template and promoted only on rollout completion (ObservedGeneration-guarded), so an in-progress upgrade keeps reporting the prior bundle.
  • BoxcutterRevisionStatesGetter is no longer used for CE status (it only feeds ResolveBundle's resolution gate now).
  • E2E: the timeout scenarios now assert the COD-owned deadline (ClusterObjectDeployment ... reports Progressing as False with Reason ProgressDeadlineExceeded), since COD-created COSes no longer carry progressDeadlineMinutes.

This depends on the COD blocking-reason work in #3071 (collision/preconditions on the COD's Progressing), which is why the PR is held. Validated on a clean experimental cluster: install 16/16 (incl. both deadline scenarios), update 9/9 (incl. the collision/Retrying scenario), group 6/6.

Comment on lines 446 to +462
// If contentFS is nil, we're maintaining the current state without catalog access.
// In this case, we should use the existing installed revision without generating a new one.
// In this case, we rely on the already-installed ClusterObjectDeployment (and its
// ClusterObjectDeployment controller) to keep reconciling the workload.
if contentFS == nil {
if len(existingRevisions) == 0 {
return false, "", fmt.Errorf("catalog content unavailable and no revision installed")
existing := &ocv1.ClusterObjectDeployment{}
err := bc.Client.Get(ctx, client.ObjectKey{Name: ext.Name}, existing)
switch {
case err == nil:
// Maintain current state: the ClusterObjectDeployment controller keeps
// reconciling the workload even without catalog access. The returned bool is
// advisory here — the boxcutter reconcile step derives ClusterExtension status
// from the ClusterObjectSet revision states, not from this value.
return true, "", nil
case apierrors.IsNotFound(err):
return false, "", fmt.Errorf("catalog content unavailable and no deployment installed")
default:
return false, "", fmt.Errorf("getting ClusterObjectDeployment %q: %w", ext.Name, err)

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I know this is pre-existing logic, but this feels like something that should be happening at a different layer, using a more direct signal than a nil contentFS.

@grokspawn and I were looking at this kind of thing needing to be cleaned up because it assumes "catalog access" in an area of the code that has no idea what sourceType was used to resolve the bundle.

For now, WDYT about capturing a TODO comment?

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Agreed it's an indirect signal. Added a TODO at the contentFS==nil branch noting it should move to a higher layer and key off a more direct signal than contentFS==nil (the applier has no knowledge of the resolving source type). Also fixed the adjacent comment, which was stale after the status switch — CE status is now derived from the ClusterObjectDeployment's rollout conditions, not from ClusterObjectSet revision states. Done in 9a6bde7.

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// Fingerprint the rendered content so a later reconcile can tell whether anything
// actually changed. Packed Secret names are content-addressed, so their sorted set
// uniquely identifies the content. Stamp it on the ClusterObjectDeployment's top-level
// metadata (not its template) and compare against the already-applied value below.
secretNames := make([]string, len(secrets))
for i := range secrets {
secretNames[i] = secrets[i].Name
}
sort.Strings(secretNames)
contentHash := hashutil.DeepHashObject(secretNames)
cod.WithAnnotations(map[string]string{contentHashAnnotation: contentHash})

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Do we record the content hash on the COD in order to avoid a no-op Apply call?

I wonder if we shouldn't just use semantic.DeepEqual or a hash of the entire COD object to compare the desired COD to the existing COD. Content isn't the only thing that can change.

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Ah, looking further it seems we look at content specifically to decide whether to run the preflights, which I think makes sense. The preflight input is the plain objects, so there's no need to run preflights over the same object set more than once.

Something still feels a little off here to me, but maybe that's a broader discussion about the preflights in general.

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How should we track this? Is there a Jira epic/strat somewhere where we can dump these issues so we don't lose track?

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state := StateNeedsUpgrade
if ext.Status.Install == nil {
state = StateNeedsInstall
}

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Don't read our own status which might be stale or modified by something other than our controller. Feels like this logic should be:

  1. Does COD already exist?
  2. If not, StateNeedsInstall
  3. If so, StateNeedsUpgrade

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Any maybe we could go further, where we look at "does the COD exist, and does it have a status that suggests it is installed?"

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Done — the Install-vs-Upgrade decision now keys off whether the ClusterObjectDeployment already exists (a direct, controller-owned signal) instead of reading ext.Status.Install:

  • COD Get returns NotFound → StateNeedsInstall
  • COD exists, content hash matches → StateUnchanged (skip preflights)
  • COD exists, content hash differs → StateNeedsUpgrade

No more reading our own (possibly stale/externally-modified) status. The COD Get was already being done for the content-hash short-circuit, so this adds no extra call.

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Good idea for the future, but I think it's YAGNI today: the only preflight is crdupgradesafety, whose Install and Upgrade both just call the same runPreflight (crdupgradesafety.go:55-61), so Install vs Upgrade has no behavioral effect at the moment — and "does the COD have a status that suggests it is installed?" would reintroduce reading a status that's transitional (COD exists but its first revision is still rolling out = install-in-progress), which we'd then have to reason about carefully.

I'd suggest deferring until Install and Upgrade preflights actually diverge, at which point "exists-and-installed" (e.g. COD Available=True) becomes the meaningful signal. Happy to drop a TODO at the state determination capturing that — want me to add it, or leave it to the broader preflight-layer cleanup you and @grokspawn mentioned?

…ion rollouts

Map the head active ClusterObjectSet revision's Ready reason onto the
ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) Progressing condition so a user can tell a
rollout that is merely in progress from one stalled on something they must
fix:

- RevisionObjectCollision (False, hard stall) - objects owned by another
  controller or already exist; resolve ownership.
- RevisionInvalidSpecification (False, hard stall) - the revision's rendered
  objects are invalid; fix the spec. Distinct from the COD's own
  InvalidSpecification (invalid spec.template.metadata).
- RevisionPreconditionsNotMet (True, keeps retrying) - an unmet precondition
  (e.g. RBAC, dependency CRD, referenced Secret); governed by the deadline.

Hard stalls short-circuit the progress deadline (the actionable cause is more
useful than ProgressDeadlineExceeded). The COD reports its own generic message
naming the revision and directs the user to inspect it, rather than echoing the
ClusterObjectSet message.

Updates the status conditions docstring (regenerating CRDs, apply
configurations, and the API reference), adds unit tests for every branch and
the hard-stall-beats-deadline precedence, adds an e2e feature, and documents
the reasons in the ClusterObjectSets concept doc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
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if existing.Annotations[contentHashAnnotation] == contentHash {
state = StateUnchanged
default:
return false, "", fmt.Errorf("patching %s Revision: %w", currentRevision.Name, err)
}

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Is state only used for the preflight determination? If so, maybe we could abstract all this state determination and preflight execution out into a separate function/method to make that association more structural and clear?

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Confirmed — state was used only for the preflight determination (the COD apply afterward is unconditional). Extracted the whole thing into a (bc *Boxcutter) runPreflights(ctx, ext, contentHash, secrets) method, so Apply now just calls bc.runPreflights(...) and state lives entirely inside it. Content-hash computation + stamping it on the COD stays in Apply (it's part of building the object to apply); runPreflights takes the hash as input to decide install/upgrade/unchanged. Done in the latest push.

return 0
}
return prevRevisions[len(prevRevisions)-1].Spec.Revision
obj.SetOwnerReferences(append(obj.GetOwnerReferences(), ref))

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I'd suggest using controller-runtime's SetControllerReference here.

It seems like it has more safety hardening that is useful. For example, disallowing multiple controller: true references, and comparing ownerRefs by group/kind/name, not UID (since an owner's UID might change if it is deleted/recreated)

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Done — switched the ref-Secret owner stamping to controllerutil.SetControllerReference(ext, &secrets[i], bc.Scheme) and removed the hand-rolled ensureOwnerReference (and its now-unused manual OwnerReference / ptr import). We get the single-controller enforcement and group/kind/name comparison for free; the resulting ownerRef is equivalent (CE as controller, BlockOwnerDeletion=true). Applier unit tests (incl. the Secret-ownership assertions) still pass.

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func TestBoxcutterApply_UnchangedIsNoop(t *testing.T) {
scheme := codTestScheme(t)
ext := &ocv1.ClusterExtension{
ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "test-ext", UID: "test-uid"},
}
cl := fake.NewClientBuilder().WithScheme(scheme).Build()
bc := newCODBoxcutter(t, scheme, cl, []client.Object{
&corev1.ConfigMap{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "test-cm", Namespace: "test-ns"}},
})

_, _, err := bc.Apply(t.Context(), dummyBundle, ext, nil, map[string]string{})
require.NoError(t, err)

first := &ocv1.ClusterObjectDeployment{}
require.NoError(t, cl.Get(t.Context(), client.ObjectKey{Name: ext.Name}, first))

_, _, err = bc.Apply(t.Context(), dummyBundle, ext, nil, map[string]string{})
require.NoError(t, err)

second := &ocv1.ClusterObjectDeployment{}
require.NoError(t, cl.Get(t.Context(), client.ObjectKey{Name: ext.Name}, second))

t.Log("by checking applying identical content twice does not bump the COD generation")
assert.Equal(t, first.Generation, second.Generation)
}

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Do we need this test in our code? This seems like a test of controller-runtime and/or kube apiserver.

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Agreed — that assertion (identical apply doesn't bump generation) tests SSA/controller-runtime behavior, not ours. Removed it. The behavior we actually care about — unchanged content skips the preflights — is covered by TestBoxcutterApply_SkipsPreflightWhenContentUnchanged, which uses a mock preflight expecting Install exactly once across two identical applies.

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for _, key := range []string{
labels.OLMPropertiesKey,
} {

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I'm guessing this is pre-existing, so more of a callout (and maybe request for a TODO comment):

This feels too "registry+v1"-ism for a function that generically generates a COD from a bundleFS. I'm wondering if getBundleAnnotations should conceptually be getCODAnnotationsFromBundle and have an interface somewhere that each bundle format could implement to provide whatever subset or translation makes sense.

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Agreed, and yes it's pre-existing. There was already a note about the future bundle interface; I turned it into a proper TODO on getBundleAnnotations (provider.go) capturing your framing — annotation extraction should move behind a bundle-format interface, each format providing the subset/translation that makes sense for the COD (conceptually getCODAnnotationsFromBundle), rather than reaching into the registry+v1 CSV. Left it as a TODO here since it's broader than this PR.

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@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ func (p *SecretPacker) secretNameFromData(data map[string][]byte) string {
h.Write([]byte(k))
h.Write(data[k])
}
return fmt.Sprintf("%s-%x", p.RevisionName, h.Sum(nil)[:8])
return fmt.Sprintf("%s-%x", p.OwnerName, h.Sum(nil)[:8])

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Comment says 16 characters, but code says 8?

Also, do we know for certain that <ownerName>-<hashWith8Chars> will always have length less than the maximum allowed for a secret?

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Good catches — two separate things:

  1. 16 vs 8: not a mismatch — h.Sum(nil)[:8] is 8 bytes, which %x renders as 16 hex characters, matching the doc comment ("first 16 hex characters"). Added an inline comment so it doesn't read as a discrepancy.

  2. Length: the previous scheme used RevisionName (<ext.Name>-<revision>-<hash>), so switching to OwnerName (<ext.Name>-<16hex>, i.e. +17 chars) is strictly shorter — no regression here. It's not hard-bounded at 253 though: ext.Name has no explicit maxLength, and in practice it's only implicitly limited by the ClusterObjectSet revision names (<ext.Name>-<n>) that must also be ≤253, which leaves a narrow window (~236–250) where a pathologically long name could overflow the Secret name while other objects still fit. The robust fix is a maxLength on the ClusterExtension name (which would also protect COS/COD/SA naming), rather than truncating ownerName here (truncation risks cross-extension collisions). Happy to file a follow-up for the CE-name bound — it's broader than this PR.

}

// objectsFromSecrets reconstructs the packed objects stored in the given Secrets.
// It is the inverse of SecretPacker.Pack and is used to recover the rendered

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Should SecretPacker implement Unpack for this instead of a separate function?

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I went back and forth on this. The asymmetry is deliberate: Pack is stateful — it needs OwnerName/SystemNamespace to name and own the Secrets — whereas unpacking is stateless: the packed format is self-describing (gzip magic bytes + JSON), so reversing it needs none of the SecretPacker fields. The only caller (runPreflights in boxcutter.go) also has no SecretPacker in scope — the packing happens earlier in the generator — so making this a method would force callers to construct an empty SecretPacker{} just to call a method that ignores its receiver.

That's why I left it as a standalone function with a doc comment calling out that it's the inverse of SecretPacker.Pack. If you'd still prefer the symmetry, I'm happy to make it (*SecretPacker) Unpack (and have the caller hold a packer) — just let me know.

And min value for ClusterObjectSet .spec.progressDeadlineMinutes is set to 1
# The applier routes progressDeadlineMinutes through the ClusterObjectDeployment template,
# whose CRD enforces a higher minimum; relax it too so the value of 1 propagates CE -> COD -> COS.
And min value for ClusterObjectDeployment .spec.template.spec.progressDeadlineMinutes is set to 1

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COS still has this field? Are we planning to remove that from the COS and have it only on the COD in a future commit?

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yes - once this PR is down, we'll clean up the COS. It's just to maintain compatibility with the current implementation and have e2es gating the changes as we go along with minimal changes.

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/hold until #3071 is merged and this one is rebased

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Switches the operator-controller ClusterExtension applier to render and apply
a single ClusterObjectDeployment (COD) instead of directly creating and
managing ClusterObjectSet (COS) revisions. The COD controller owns revision
lifecycle (creation, rollout progress, archival, and history pruning), so the
operator-controller renders and applies one top-level object per extension.

All changes are experimental-only (ClusterObjectDeployment is an experimental
API); standard manifests are unaffected.

- Render and apply a packed ClusterObjectDeployment generated from bundle
  content, replacing direct ClusterObjectSet creation and management.
- Use revision-independent packed Secret names, and propagate bundle
  annotations (including olm.properties) from the COD through its
  template.metadata to each revision.
- Add a ClusterObjectDeployment applyconfiguration builder.
- Set revision owner labels via the COD template metadata.
- Grant operator-controller the RBAC it needs for ClusterObjectDeployments.
- Align the install/uninstall e2e suites with the ClusterExtension -> COD ->
  ClusterObjectSet ownership model, and remove the now-obsolete applier
  revision-bounds test (revision management moved to the COD controller).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Per G. da Silva <[email protected]>
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