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Why

PersistentVolumeClaims are not officially supported in NVCF helm charts but were previously passing validation silently. The DGXC SBOM rollout removes the default storage class from clusters, which will cause customer functions with PVCs to fail at deploy time with opaque errors rather than a clear validation message.

Adding early validation at helm chart ingest time gives customers a clear, actionable error instead of an opaque deployment failure downstream.

What changed

  • Added RejectPVCs bool to HandlerOptions in reval/run.go
  • When false (default): PVC objects and PVC volume references log a warning and pass validation — no behavior change for existing deployments
  • When true: validation fails with "PersistentVolumeClaims are not supported in NVCF helm charts. Please remove all PVC definitions before deploying."
  • Added RejectPVCs bool with mapstructure:"reject-pvcs" to RevalConfig in pkg/reval/config/config.go
  • Wired cfg.RejectPVCs into HandlerOptions in cmd/reval/cli/server.go
  • Added Test_validateVolumes_RejectPVCs covering both true and false cases

Customer Release Notes

Not customer visible — this is a service-side validation gate. Customers will see a clear error message when enforcement is enabled rather than an opaque deployment failure.

Plan Summary

Not applicable.

Usage

Enable enforcement via environment variable:

REVAL_REJECT_PVCS=true

Or via config file:

reject-pvcs: true

Testing

  • Pre-existing k8s.io/apimachinery build failure in the module is unrelated to these changes (confirmed by verifying it exists on main before any edits)
  • Test_validateVolumes_RejectPVCs covers both true and false modes
  • Existing Test_validateVolumes passes unchanged with rejectPVCs=false

Notes

The flag defaults to false so existing charts are unaffected. Enforcement can be enabled incrementally as needed.

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Related Pull Requests

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an option to enforce PersistentVolumeClaim rejection during validation.
    • PVCs now produce validation errors when enforcement is enabled and warnings by default for backward compatibility.
    • Configure the setting through Helm values, YAML, or the REVAL_REJECT_PVCS environment variable.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved pod volume validation to consistently apply PVC enforcement.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for enabled, disabled, default, file-based, and environment-based configuration behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change adds the reject-pvcs configuration option and propagates it through ReVal. PVC resources and volume references now produce errors when enabled and warnings when disabled.

Changes

ReVal PVC validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
PVC rejection configuration
src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/pkg/reval/config/config.go, src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/pkg/reval/config/files_test.go, deploy/helm/helm-reval/values.yaml, deploy/helm/helm-reval/templates/configmap.yaml
RevalConfig.RejectPVCs maps to reject-pvcs and defaults to false. Helm values and the ConfigMap expose the setting. Tests cover YAML, environment, and default configuration.
PVC validation enforcement
src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/cmd/reval/cli/server.go, src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/reval/run.go, src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/reval/run_test.go
The server passes RejectPVCs to ReVal. PVC resources and volume references return validation errors when enabled and warnings when disabled. Tests cover both modes.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3b800

In warn-only mode, PVC-backed workload volumes can still pass without the intended warning, so affected customers may not receive an actionable migration signal. This bounded validation issue should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Suggested reviewers: sanjay-saxena

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RevalConfig
  participant runServer
  participant HandlerOptions
  participant validatePodSpec
  participant validateVolumes
  RevalConfig->>runServer: Load reject-pvcs
  runServer->>HandlerOptions: Set RejectPVCs
  HandlerOptions->>validatePodSpec: Pass RejectPVCs
  validatePodSpec->>validateVolumes: Validate PVC volume references
  validateVolumes-->>HandlerOptions: Return error or log warning
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deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl (1)

71-82: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add Cassandra image override render coverage. The upstream image feature covers NATS and API only. Add render assertions for the default values and registry, repository, and tag overrides for both cassandra.image and cassandra.dynamicSeedDiscovery.image.

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In `@deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl` around lines 71 - 82, Add
render-test coverage for Cassandra image configuration, asserting default values
plus registry, repository, and tag overrides for both cassandra.image and
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Inline comments:
In `@src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/pkg/reval/config/config.go`:
- Around line 41-45: Add configuration-wiring tests covering the reject-pvcs
config key and REVAL_REJECT_PVCS environment variable, verifying both values
propagate through the loader into HandlerOptions.RejectPVCs. Extend the existing
tests around validateVolumes without changing its boolean-literal validation
cases.

In `@src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/reval/run.go`:
- Around line 1252-1256: Update the PVC handling branch around
PersistentVolumeClaim and rejectPVCs so that when rejectPVCs is false it emits a
structured warning through the request logger before continuing. Include the
workload and volume identifiers in the warning, use the request-handling warn
convention, and preserve the existing rejection error behavior when rejectPVCs
is true.

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In `@deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl`:
- Around line 71-82: Add render-test coverage for Cassandra image configuration,
asserting default values plus registry, repository, and tag overrides for both
cassandra.image and cassandra.dynamicSeedDiscovery.image. Reuse the existing
upstream image test patterns used for NATS and API, and verify the rendered
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In `@src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/pkg/reval/config/files_test.go`:
- Around line 114-121: Register the reject-pvcs configuration key with Viper
before unmarshaling by binding it to REVAL_REJECT_PVCS in the relevant
initialization and TestRejectPVCs_EnvVar setup, then preserve the assertion that
cfg.RejectPVCs is true.

In `@src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/reval/run.go`:
- Around line 858-863: The warn-only branch for PersistentVolumeClaim handling
in the revalidation flow should include the PVC’s stable identity, including its
name and namespace, in the structured log fields while preserving the parent
logger’s required request, function, cluster, and organization context. Update
the logger call in the PVC case without changing the rejection behavior.
- Around line 101-105: Document and expose the RejectPVCs setting through
operator configuration, including reject-pvcs and REVAL_REJECT_PVCS, its false
default, and warn-only versus rejection behavior. Add Helm chart values and
template wiring so the setting reaches the reval service and is rendered. Update
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Comment thread src/control-plane-services/helm-reval/reval/run.go Outdated
PersistentVolumeClaims are not officially supported in NVCF helm charts
but were previously allowed through validation. The DGXC SBOM rollout
removes the default storage class from clusters, causing charts with
PVCs to fail at deploy time with opaque errors.

This adds a reject-pvcs config flag (default: false) to RevalConfig and
HandlerOptions. When false, PVC resources and volume references produce
a warning log. When true, validation fails with a clear error message.

SRE can enable enforcement by setting reject-pvcs: true in the service
config after all clusters have been migrated.
- Thread logger into validateVolumes so PVC volume refs emit a structured
  warning (with volume name) when rejectPVCs=false
- Add config-wiring tests for reject-pvcs config key, REVAL_REJECT_PVCS
  env var, and default-false behavior
- Add BindEnv for reject-pvcs so REVAL_REJECT_PVCS env var propagates
  through Unmarshal reliably
- Include pvc name and namespace in standalone PVC warn-only log
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Need to discuss this further


for _, obj := range objs {
switch t := obj.(type) {
case *corev1.PersistentVolumeClaim:

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There is a much simpler way to do this in checkTypes

Simplifies the PVC handling by placing it in checkTypes where type
validation already happens, rather than duplicating a special case in
validateReleaseObjects.
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