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#1213 handles chart release to stack pin, because the released tag names its own chart. The reverse direction has no such data: when a service releases, nothing in the repo says which chart deploys it, so nothing can bump that chart's appVersion or image pin.

The edge has to be declared because it cannot be derived. Three derivations, all wrong:

derivation result
image repository charts leave registry/repository empty for the operator, so most name no image
directory name 12 of 22 chart dirs match a service path leaf, and 2 match the wrong one: deploy/helm/cassandra -> cassandra-migrations (migrations/cassandra), deploy/helm/openbao -> openbao-migrations
chart name deploy/helm/icms publishes as helm-nvcf-sis and carries instance-cluster-management: three different strings

What changed

Chart entries in tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json may carry "deploys": ["<service id>", ...]. tools/chart-service-edge (Go) audits them.

Absent and empty are distinct states and must stay so:

  • absent: outstanding work
  • []: a decision that the chart ships no first-party image

Both look like "no service" to a len() test. Decoding into []string preserves it, since an absent key leaves the slice nil where [] does not.

Current state

22 charts: 15 declared, 7 undeclared, 0 naming an unknown service

11 declare a service. 4 declare [], each with evidence:

chart evidence
gateway-routes 27 templates: 11 HTTPRoute, 7 ReferenceGrant, 4 TCPRoute, 2 GRPCRoute, 2 PodMonitor, 1 UDPRoute. No image spec.
nvcf-pki one ClusterIssuer. No image spec.
cert-manager every image defaults to quay.io/jetstack/cert-manager-*
nats nats, nats-server-config-reloader, prometheus-nats-exporter, all from nats-io/k8s

7 remain undeclared rather than guessed, in two groups:

  • admin-token-issuer-proxy, api-keys-colocated, cassandra, openbao: reference an image whose registry and repository are deliberately empty, so the chart does not say which service it is.
  • icms-helm, llm-request-router, container-cache: name a service with no entry in the release metadata.

Both groups need someone with the intent. The audit names them.

Report mode, not strict

--strict exists but is not wired into CI. Turning it on before the declarations exist would fail every build and teach people to route around it.

An unknown service id is an error either way, strict or not: it means a service was renamed and the edge left dangling.

Testing

11 tests, mutation tested; 7 mutants die:

mutant killed by
undeclared treated as declared 4
empty deploys treated as a gap 3
unknown service ids never flagged 2
unknown id reported but does not fail 2
strict never fails 3
charts counted as services (chart may point at chart) 1
chart prefix ignored, every entry a chart 3

One test asserts against the checked-in metadata, so a service renamed without updating its edges fails here.

Implementation notes

Go, not Python, per tools/AGENTS.md. tools/ci/chart-service-edge builds the binary rather than go run: go run -C leaves the process in the tool's directory, where it cannot find the metadata.

References

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Related Merge Requests/Pull Requests

#1213 (chart to stack), #1222 (consumes these edges). #1224 makes these tests run on a PR.

Dependencies

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Github commit:
feat(ci): declare which service each chart deploys

Co-authored-by: Balaji Ganesan bganesan@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added chart-to-service validation with report and strict modes.
    • Added release metadata links between Helm subprojects and services.
    • Added a CI command for running validation from any repository location.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing, empty, invalid, and unknown deployment declarations.
    • Added clear errors for unsupported chart-to-chart references.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for chart auditing, metadata validation, and error reporting.

What the seven undeclared edges cost

An undeclared edge is not inert, it is a hole in the cascade: a release of that service bumps no chart, so the version never reaches the stack and the run still goes green. Of the eleven services with a declared edge, ten bump cleanly and one (ratelimiter) refuses on drift. Everything behind the seven undeclared charts stays a manual edit.

That is why the audit prints them rather than staying silent, and why --strict exists but is not yet wired into CI. Declaring the remaining seven is what makes --strict safe to turn on, and it needs no code change.

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Adds a Go CLI and wrapper to audit Helm chart-to-service declarations. Updates release metadata with deployment mappings and adds tests for declaration states, invalid references, reporting, and repository metadata validation.

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Chart service audit

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release metadata model
tools/chart-service-edge/metadata.go
Defines metadata types, loads JSON metadata, and separates chart entries from service IDs.
Audit CLI and executable wiring
tools/chart-service-edge/*, tools/ci/chart-service-edge
Adds report and strict audit modes, classification and exit rules, Go module setup, ignored build output, and a repository-root wrapper.
Release mappings and audit validation
tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json, tools/chart-service-edge/main_test.go
Adds chart-to-service mappings and tests declaration handling, invalid references, report completeness, and checked-in metadata.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ff379

The new audit command can ignore failures while writing its report, so a partial report may be emitted even though the command exits successfully. This is a localized correctness issue with bounded impact; merge is reasonable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to propagate write errors.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant chart_service_edge_wrapper
  participant chart_service_edge
  participant ReleaseMetadata
  participant AuditOutput
  Operator->>chart_service_edge_wrapper: Run audit options
  chart_service_edge_wrapper->>chart_service_edge: Set --root and forward arguments
  chart_service_edge->>ReleaseMetadata: Load release metadata
  ReleaseMetadata-->>chart_service_edge: Return charts and service IDs
  chart_service_edge->>AuditOutput: Report audit classifications
  AuditOutput-->>Operator: Return audit status
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30-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the chart-to-service release edge.

tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json now carries deploys, and tools/chart-service-edge audits this mapping. If a release-flow architecture or sequence diagram exists, update it. docs/dev/architecture.md currently documents runtime request flow, not this CI flow.

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In `@tools/chart-service-edge/main.go` around lines 30 - 40, Update the relevant
release-flow architecture or sequence documentation to describe the CI
chart-to-service release edge: chart entries in github-release-subprojects.json
use deploys to identify shipped service release-metadata IDs, while an empty
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66-69: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Check release-flow diagrams for the new edges.

These deploys entries change the chart-to-service release graph. Confirm whether the repository has architecture or sequence diagrams for this flow, and update them if the new edges are not shown.

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A chart release moves a stack pin, and stack-pin-resolver handles that
because the released tag names its own chart. The reverse does not work
that way: when a service releases, nothing in the repository says which
chart deploys it, so nothing can bump that chart's appVersion or image
pin. The service to chart to stack cascade needs that edge.

It cannot be derived. Three attempts fail:

Image repository. Charts deliberately leave registry and repository empty
so an operator supplies them, so most charts name no image at all.

Directory name. Only 12 of 22 chart directories share a name with a
service, and two of those matches are wrong: deploy/helm/cassandra and
deploy/helm/openbao resolve to the migrations service rather than the
service itself, because infra/cassandra and migrations/cassandra share a
leaf name. A derivation that is confidently wrong is worse than one that
is missing.

Chart name. The chart at deploy/helm/icms publishes as helm-nvcf-sis and
carries the instance-cluster-management service. Directory, published
name, and service are three different strings.

So chart entries in the release metadata may carry a deploys list naming
the service ids whose images they ship, and a chart that ships no
first-party image declares an empty list to say so deliberately. Those
two states must stay distinguishable: one is outstanding work, the other
is a decision, and both look like "no service" if you only test whether
the list is empty. Decoding into a []string preserves it, since an absent
key leaves the slice nil where an empty list does not.

Fifteen of the twenty-two edges are declared here. Eleven name a service,
each backed by a chart template naming that service's image or by a
directory matching exactly one service with no ambiguity. Four declare an
empty list, each because the chart ships no first-party image at all:

  gateway-routes  27 templates, all HTTPRoute, GRPCRoute, TCPRoute,
                  UDPRoute, ReferenceGrant and PodMonitor. No image spec.
  nvcf-pki        one ClusterIssuer. No image spec.
  cert-manager    every image defaults to quay.io/jetstack/cert-manager-*.
  nats            nats, nats-server-config-reloader and
                  prometheus-nats-exporter, all from nats-io/k8s.

The remaining seven are left undeclared rather than guessed, and the
audit names them. Four of those reference an image whose registry and
repository are deliberately empty for an operator to supply, so the chart
alone does not say which service it is; three name a service that does
not exist in the release metadata at all.

The check reports rather than fails, for now. Turning it strict before
the declarations exist would fail every build and teach people to route
around it. An id that resolves to nothing is already an error either way,
since that means a service was renamed and the edge left dangling.

Go rather than Python, per tools/AGENTS.md: this is structured parsing
that benefits from unit tests, and some CI environments here do not
guarantee Python. tools/ci/chart-service-edge remains the entrypoint
because `go run -C` leaves the process in the tool's own directory, where
it can find neither the release metadata nor the charts.

Eleven tests, mutation tested: treating undeclared as declared, treating
an empty list as a gap, never flagging unknown ids, reporting an unknown
id without failing, a strict mode that never fails, counting charts as
services, and treating every entry as a chart are each caught.

Co-authored-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Confirm diagram impact.

This change adds a metadata-to-audit reporting flow. Confirm whether the architecture or sequence diagrams need an update.

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Propagate report write errors (main.go:146) — skipping, with a reason.

Audit writes a human-readable report to stdout and returns the exit code. CI acts on the exit code, not on the report text; a stdout write failure cannot be recovered from or usefully reported (there is nowhere left to report it). Threading an error return through purely for fmt.Fprintf to a buffer or a pipe adds a failure path with no handler. Ignoring writes to stdout in a CLI is idiomatic Go.

If the concern is a truncated report being mistaken for a clean one, the exit code is unaffected by a partial write, and the audit's summary line is the last thing printed, so truncation is visible.

Diagram nitpicks (three comments) — legitimate under the AGENTS.md rule, and there is a genuine gap: this is a three-hop CI cascade (service release -> chart bump -> chart release -> stack pin) with no document describing it. docs/dev/architecture.md covers runtime request flow, not CI, so there is no existing diagram to update.

Rather than amend three PRs with partial pictures, I will add one page covering the whole cascade once the pieces land, since a diagram of one third of it would be misleading. Tracking separately.

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Tracking the cascade documentation as #1239, blocked on #1213, #1215 and #1222 merging. A page describing workflows that are not yet on main would link to files that do not exist there.

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