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What this PR does

Fixes #3515.

TalosConfigTemplate.spec is immutable — the vtalosconfigtemplate.cluster.x-k8s.io webhook denies any mutation with TalosConfigTemplate.Spec is immutable — but the talos-reconcile Job applied it under a fixed <release>-<group> name on every reconcile. Once the template existed, no change to the rendered worker machine config could ever reach the cluster: the apply was rejected server-side while the HelmRelease stayed Ready. Reported with machine.network.searchDomains after a clusterDomain correction; the same held for certSANs, machine.registries and nameservers.

  • Name the TalosConfigTemplate <release>-<group>-<6-char hash of its spec>, mirroring the KubevirtMachineTemplate content-hash idiom the chart already uses, and point MachineDeployment.spec.template.spec.bootstrap.configRef at that name. A content change now creates a new template instead of attempting a rejected mutation, and CAPI rolls the workers onto it.
  • Extract the machine config into a single named template (_talosconfigtemplate.tpl) shared by the two consumers that have to agree on the name byte-for-byte: the Job, which embeds it in the heredoc it kubectl applys, and the MachineDeployment, which hashes it into configRef.
  • Assemble the node group once, in kubernetes-nodes.group, and read it back at both call sites. Sharing the rendering was not enough: each file also built its own $group dict, so the two names agreed only by coincidence of the keys the spec helper happens to read.
  • The runtime values the Job substitutes (${TALOS_CA_B64}, ${SVC_IP}, ${COREDNS_IP}, tokens) stay shell placeholders and are deliberately not part of the hash: they are facts of an already-provisioned cluster, not chart inputs, so a certificate rotation or a Service re-address does not roll workers.

What the shared spec carries

Worker node pools live in the kubernetes-nodes chart, which owns _talosconfigtemplate.tpl outright: make update copies nothing from the parent chart.

The helper renders everything main puts into the worker machine config, so the hashed spec is the one the cluster gets:

  • The heredoc escaping from E2E: tenant worker bring-up misses the node-Ready budget with zero Nodes registered — survived #3455's fsync fix and the 12m→18m raise #3513: backslash, dollar and backtick escaping on talosVersion, installerRepository and schematicID, the escaped machine.registries.mirrors block, and the INVARIANT comment above data:, which belongs in that file since it is where the next field will be added. The spec is still emitted from an unquoted heredoc in a host-cluster Pod, so an unescaped copy would be command injection.
  • The per-pool install image. _talosconfigtemplate.tpl calls kubernetes-nodes.resolveOsImage itself instead of reading talos.schematicID and talos.version, so a pool on osImage.builtin or osImage.factory reinstalls the schematic and version it actually booted. The install image is part of the hashed spec, so the hash has to be taken over the resolved image, or an osImage change would render a different config under an unchanged name.
  • The Proxmox branches: nameservers from proxmox.dnsServers where a KubeVirt pool points at the cluster's CoreDNS, and the kubelet's cloud-provider: external, without which the Proxmox cloud-controller-manager never initialises the Node.
  • machine.kernel.modules, emitted only when the pool resolves to a non-empty list.

kubernetes-nodes.group carries every key those read, podCpuLimit, podCpuRequest, osImage, proxmox and kernelModules included. A key missing there is the failure this PR exists to prevent: with kernelModules read at one call site only, an explicit module list hashes to two different names and the MachineDeployment points at a template nothing creates.

The kubectl apply stays --server-side --force-conflicts (#4163), so the Job is not OOMKilled on the merge path; with a content-hash name the apply is normally a create or a no-op, and server-side apply keeps the no-op cheap too.

The replace-on-immutable path and the Role

The runtime values stay outside the hash, so one failure is left that the hash cannot absorb: a new apiserver address renders a different spec under an unchanged name, and the webhook rejects it. The replace path from #4089 handles exactly that case and is kept, with its kubectl delete pointed at ${TCT_NAME}.

The talos-reconcile Role pins its TalosConfigTemplate get, patch, update and delete rights to the pool's own template, so it names the hashed template too. A server-side apply of a template that does not exist yet is still a PATCH on its name: a rule left on <release>-<group> would leave the Job Forbidden and the pool with no template to scale onto, with nothing turning red. The name-agreement guard below therefore covers the Role as well.

Upgrade impact — please read

Existing clusters roll their Talos workers once. The configRef moves from <release>-<group> to the hashed name; CAPI creates a new MachineSet for it and rolls machines onto it under the existing RollingUpdate strategy (maxSurge: maxReplicas, maxUnavailable: 1) plus the group's MachineHealthCheck. The rendered machine config itself is byte-identical to main for the same values, so this particular roll delivers no config change — it is the one-time cost of adopting the content-hash name, the same cost KubevirtMachineTemplate already paid. Proxmox pools roll the same way: the ProxmoxMachineTemplate name does not move, but the configRef does.

Until the new template exists, the pool cannot scale. The Helm upgrade points the MachineDeployment's configRef at the hashed name before the talos-reconcile Job has created that template, and there is no render-time ordering fix, since the template needs values Helm does not have. Existing workers are untouched in that window, but the pool is frozen: in CAPI v1.10.1, which this repository ships, getTemplatesAndSetOwner records the missing bootstrap template, and rolloutRolling then fails in getAllMachineSetsAndSyncRevision with cannot create a new MachineSet when templates do not exist and returns before it scales either the new or the old MachineSet. A replica change from the cluster-autoscaler therefore reaches no MachineSet: scale-up and scale-down both wait. On an upgraded cluster the Job's inputs already exist, so the window is normally a few seconds.

A failed talos-reconcile Job now blocks autoscaling, and nothing turns red. After backoffLimit: 30 the Job is not retried until the next Helm upgrade of the pool release, and the HelmRelease stays Ready meanwhile, as it did in #3515. Before this PR the same failure left the pool on its old template and still scaling; with it, the pool cannot scale at all until the template exists. Where to look:

  • the MachineDeployment kubernetes-<cluster>-<group>: its ScalingUp condition under status.v1beta2.conditions reads Scaling up from N to M replicas is blocked because TalosConfigTemplate does not exist (or Scaling up would be blocked because … while no scale-up is pending), and the capi-controller-manager logs carry cannot create a new MachineSet when templates do not exist for it;
  • whether a TalosConfigTemplate named after its spec.template.spec.bootstrap.configRef.name exists in the tenant namespace;
  • the talos-reconcile Job's status and Pod logs — but the Job has ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 600, so a failed Job and its logs are deleted ten minutes after it gives up. Past that, the MachineDeployment condition and the missing template are the only evidence left.

The pre-existing fixed-name template is not deleted — the outgoing MachineSet still references it — and is garbage-collected with the KamajiControlPlane when the cluster is deleted. Hashed templates therefore accumulate, one per distinct machine config. Pruning them safely is filed as #4355 rather than widened into this PR.

The one roll is not the only one. Hashing the whole rendered spec makes anything inside it a roll trigger, including two things that are not edits to this cluster's resource. For a pool sized by instanceType, the kubelet reservations come from a live lookup of the VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype, so a later platform-side edit to that instancetype rotates the name and rolls the pool again — and the KubevirtMachineTemplate hash this mirrors does not have that property, since it embeds the instancetype by name and never its resolved size. And talos.registryMirrors is inside the hashed spec, so setting or changing a mirror now rolls the pool rather than applying only to nodes created later; the field's documentation said nothing about this and now says it. The same holds on Proxmox for proxmox.dnsServers, and on every substrate for kernelModules: both are inside the hashed spec, so changing either rolls the pool, and the kernelModules documentation now says so instead of describing the fixed name as the current state.

The roll is not free on a node group holding a scarce resource. From exercising this same rollout path on a production fleet of 13 tenant clusters, by rotating the KubevirtMachineTemplate hash on a GPU node group. maxSurge: maxReplicas is dangerous when the resource is constrained: with 6 GPUs and 1 free, CAPI created all 5 new machines at once and 3 sat Pending on Insufficient nvidia.com/..., each having already imported a 200 GiB disk. It converges, but it wastes a lot of import. The natural reflex, maxSurge: 0 with maxUnavailable: 1, deadlocks instead: CAPI computes maxScaledDown = available - (desired - maxUnavailable), which was 4 - 4 = 0, so it removed no old machine while the new ones waited for exactly those machines to release their GPUs; nothing moved until maxUnavailable was loosened to 2. And the MachineHealthCheck amplifies both — at maxUnhealthy: 100% and nodeStartupTimeout: 10m, machines queuing for a GPU were declared unhealthy and remediated in a loop, three deleted and recreated while perfectly healthy, each iteration re-importing the disk. The per-node-group nodeStartupTimeout override fixes that, but the default is shorter than a plausible queue wait. Anyone upgrading a fleet with a GPU pool hits all three, and this PR is what starts the roll.

Validation

  • helm unittest packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes passes, snapshots included. Pointing configRef back at the fixed name fails nodegroup_test.yaml, the snapshot and the name-agreement bats; dropping osImage from kubernetes-nodes.group fails the worker_image_* suites; removing the Proxmox nameserver branch fails substrate_branches_test.yaml and the Proxmox heredoc case.
  • hack/check-talosconfigtemplate-name-agreement.bats is new. The unittest suites pin each name against its own literal in its own file, so a divergence shows up as one literal having moved, which reads as a stale fixture and invites re-pasting the value. The guard renders the chart once and compares the Job's TCT_NAME, the Role's TalosConfigTemplate resourceNames and the MachineDeployment's configRef.name against each other, so the failure states the invariant rather than a number. Asserted on a GPU-shaped pool as well as the default one, because the default renders gpus [], kubelet {} and instanceType "" as falsy and a consumer reading a subset of the group is indistinguishable there from one reading all of it; on an explicit kernelModules list, which neither of those shapes sets; and a last case pins that the shapes hash differently, so the others cannot hold vacuously. Verified by injecting each divergence: dropping gpus at one call site, dropping kernelModules at one call site, and pointing the Role back at <release>-<group> each fail it, the last one also failing the Role cases in talos_tct_immutable_test.yaml, as does pointing the delete back at the fixed name.
  • hack/cozytest.sh hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats passes, the Proxmox cases included. This is the execution-level evidence that the escaping survived the move into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl: it renders with a hostile registryMirrors endpoint and a hostile installerRepository, runs the extracted heredoc through a real shell, and asserts the values come out literal rather than command-substituted; hostile schematicID and version values, and proxmox.dnsServers entries that are not addresses, are asserted refused at render; and the Proxmox heredoc is asserted to emit the nameservers it was given. A rendered-string regex cannot catch a heredoc the shell refuses to emit; this does.
  • make generate in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes — no diff.
  • The "byte-identical to main" claim was measured against main on six pool shapes: default, GPU, an explicit kernelModules list, kernelModules: [] on a GPU pool, osImage.factory and Proxmox. For each, the TalosConfigTemplate manifest the Job applies differs only in its name (${RELEASE}-${GROUP_NAME} → ${TCT_NAME}); the spec is unchanged, the Job's TCT_NAME equals the MachineDeployment's configRef.name, and the KubevirtMachineTemplate and ProxmoxMachineTemplate names do not move.
  • Not verified: no live-cluster or e2e run (needs bare-metal nodes). The upgrade sequence above, the scaling freeze included, comes from reading the CAPI v1.10.1 MachineDeployment controller source and the chart's existing KubevirtMachineTemplate precedent, not from watching it end to end.

Downstream repositories

Every box is left empty on purpose, including the first, because I am not confident about one line of the map and would rather a maintainer decided than have me tick it. The change adds no field and changes no default: the only schema movement is the description text of talos.registryMirrors and kernelModules, regenerated from their values.yaml doc comments. Nothing else downstream restates this chart's templates, the hash naming is internal to the chart, and no image reference, CI behaviour or CRD shape moves. The open question is whether terraform-provider-cozystack restates field descriptions as well as field shapes; if it does, those description changes reach it and want a follow-up.

Release note

fix(kubernetes): name the worker TalosConfigTemplate after a hash of its content so machine-config changes (searchDomains, certSANs, registries, nameservers) actually propagate instead of being silently rejected by the immutability webhook. Upgrading rolls existing Talos workers once, on KubeVirt and Proxmox pools alike. Until the talos-reconcile Job has created the new template, the pool cannot scale, so a failed talos-reconcile Job now blocks cluster-autoscaler scale-up and scale-down while the HelmRelease stays Ready; check the MachineDeployment's ScalingUp condition ("blocked because TalosConfigTemplate does not exist") and the Job status, which is deleted ten minutes after it fails. On a node group holding a scarce resource such as GPUs, review the MachineDeployment surge settings and the MachineHealthCheck nodeStartupTimeout first: `maxSurge: 0` can deadlock the roll and the default startup timeout can trigger spurious remediation while machines queue for the resource.

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  • New Features

    • Worker Talos configuration templates now use content-hashed names for consistent reconciliation and bootstrap references.
    • Changes to worker machine configuration, including GPU and registry mirror settings, automatically roll existing workers.
  • Documentation

    • Updated registry mirror documentation to explain that configuration changes roll all workers in the pool.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for hashed template names, configuration-triggered worker rotations, and matching references across worker resources.

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The chart now renders a shared Talos worker specification, names each TalosConfigTemplate with a six-character content hash, and uses that name in worker bootstrap references and reconciliation Jobs. Tests verify matching references and hash changes for GPU configuration.

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TalosConfigTemplate content hashing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared Talos worker specification
packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/_helpers.tpl, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/_talosconfigtemplate.tpl
Shared helpers assemble node-group inputs, render the worker Talos specification, and compute its six-character SHA-256 hash.
Hashed template wiring
packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/README.md, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/values.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/values.schema.json, packages/system/kubernetes-nodes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes-nodes.yaml, api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetesnodes/types.go, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/Makefile
MachineDeployment bootstrap references and reconciliation Jobs use the hash-qualified TalosConfigTemplate name and shared rendered specification. Registry mirror documentation describes hash-triggered worker rollouts.
Hash reference validation
packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/nodegroup_test.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml, hack/check-talosconfigtemplate-name-agreement.bats
Tests verify hashed names, matching Job and MachineDeployment references, rejection of the former fixed-name command, and hash rotation when GPU configuration changes.

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  participant Helm
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  participant TalosReconcileJob
  participant TalosConfigTemplate
  Helm->>MachineDeployment: Set hashed bootstrap configRef
  Helm->>TalosReconcileJob: Provide TCT_NAME and TCT_SPEC
  TalosReconcileJob->>TalosConfigTemplate: Apply the hashed template
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packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml (1)

233-253: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Plan for cleanup of superseded TalosConfigTemplates.

Each machine-config change now creates a new TalosConfigTemplate. The previous object stays, because the old MachineSet still references it, and the ownerReference targets the KamajiControlPlane. Nothing removes it after the rollout completes. Over the cluster lifetime these objects accumulate, one per machine-config change per node group.

Consider a follow-up that prunes templates which no MachineSet or Machine references anymore. Retention during the rollout is correct; unbounded retention is the part to address later.

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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml` around
lines 233 - 253, Plan a follow-up cleanup for superseded TalosConfigTemplates
created by the reconciliation flow around the kubectl apply block. After rollout
completion, identify templates no longer referenced by any MachineSet or Machine
and delete only those unreferenced objects, preserving templates still needed
during an active rollout.
packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml (1)

43-49: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add the negative assertion that the parent chart suite has.

packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_config_template_name_test.yaml pins a notMatchRegex guard against the old fixed name. This suite omits it. Add the same guard so a regression to a fixed name fails in both charts.

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       - matchRegex:
           path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].command[2]
           pattern: 'name: \$\{TCT_NAME\}'
+      - notMatchRegex:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].command[2]
+          pattern: 'name: \$\{RELEASE\}-\$\{GROUP_NAME\}'
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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml` around
lines 43 - 49, Extend the assertions in the Talos reconcile job test alongside
the existing TCT_NAME checks by adding a notMatchRegex assertion for the old
fixed name, matching the guard used in talos_config_template_name_test.yaml.
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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/_talosconfigtemplate.tpl`:
- Around line 41-48: Define the missing cozy-lib.resources.toFloat helper
locally for the kubernetes-nodes chart, or add a valid local cozy-lib dependency
that provides it. Update the existing call sites to use the available helper if
implementing it locally, and ensure Helm rendering no longer depends on an
undefined cozy-lib.resources.toFloat function.

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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml`:
- Around line 233-253: Plan a follow-up cleanup for superseded
TalosConfigTemplates created by the reconciliation flow around the kubectl apply
block. After rollout completion, identify templates no longer referenced by any
MachineSet or Machine and delete only those unreferenced objects, preserving
templates still needed during an active rollout.

In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml`:
- Around line 43-49: Extend the assertions in the Talos reconcile job test
alongside the existing TCT_NAME checks by adding a notMatchRegex assertion for
the old fixed name, matching the guard used in
talos_config_template_name_test.yaml. Keep the current expected dynamic value
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Note for reviewers: overlapping files with a sibling PR

packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/talos-reconcile-job.yaml and
packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_templates_test.yaml are also touched by #3521, which raises that Job's
kubectl container memory limit from 256Mi to 512Mi and exposes it as talos.reconcileJobMemoryLimit.

This PR restructures that Job substantially (the machine config moves into a shared named template), so #3521 will
need a rebase if this one lands first — or this one will, in the other order. No functional interaction: the memory
limit is not part of the hashed spec, so it does not affect the content-hash name. Happy to rebase either way.

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Thanks, but this one is a false positive, and I want to record why so it does not cost a reviewer time.

packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/charts/cozy-lib is not an empty directory, it is a symlink. On this branch:

$ git ls-tree HEAD packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/charts/
120000 blob e18135098...    packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/charts/cozy-lib

Mode 120000 is a symlink, and the target is the real library, where the helper is defined:

$ git grep -n 'define "cozy-lib.resources.toFloat"'
packages/library/cozy-lib/templates/_resources.tpl:42:{{- define "cozy-lib.resources.toFloat" -}}

So Helm resolves it at render time and there is nothing to add. Two further points confirm it: the call sites are not introduced by this PR (resources.toFloat is already used in nodegroup.yaml on main, so a missing definition would have been breaking kubernetes-nodes long before this change), and helm unittest passes on this branch, which it could not if the function were undefined, since the tests render the very templates that call it.

The analysis chain above shows the cause: the shell probes ran fd/rg inside the symlinked path and got no matches, which they reported as "exists only as a directory". Tooling that does not follow symlinks will keep reaching this conclusion on any Cozystack package, because every package vendors cozy-lib this way.

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NOT LGTM. The fix is right and I verified it end to end, but the branch conflicts with main on the exact lines it rewrites, so it can't merge until it's rebased.

Blocker: rebase onto main

This branch is based on a commit that predates fix(kubernetes): render the talos-reconcile Job for the default md0 group on main. That commit switched the Job's group loop from .Values.nodeGroups to the kubernetes.nodeGroups helper, the same drive-by this PR describes, and it landed on the region this PR rewrites. Merging origin/main into the PR head conflicts in one file, packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/talos-reconcile-job.yaml, and the conflicted region is the group loop plus the kubelet-reservation block this PR moves into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl.

Keep this branch's side of the conflict. It already iterates the helper, so the md0 fix is carried rather than reverted, and the rest of the file already references $tctSpec and $tctName. I resolved it that way locally and the chart suite is green with main's md0 regression test included: 195 tests against the 193 this branch has on its own.

Non-blocking

Hashing the whole rendered spec is the right call, but for a group sized by instanceType the kubelet reservations inside that spec come from a live lookup of the VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype (_talosconfigtemplate.tpl:74). The built-in md0 group is exactly that shape, instanceType: u1.medium with empty resources, so its name depends on an object the chart does not own. The upgrade note says workers roll once. A later platform-side change to that instancetype rotates the name and rolls them again. That is the fix working as intended, but it is a second roll trigger and it belongs in the upgrade note. The KubevirtMachineTemplate hash this mirrors does not have the property, since it embeds the instancetype by name and never its resolved size.

Nothing prunes superseded templates, as you say. templates/cluster.yaml:878 already enumerates live MachineSets to decide which KubevirtMachineTemplates to preserve across an upgrade, and the same enumeration gives a safe prune condition for hashed TalosConfigTemplates. Follow-up issue rather than more scope here.

The Job/MachineDeployment name agreement is pinned by two hand-maintained literals in tests/talos_config_template_name_test.yaml plus a comment saying they have to match. The guard is real: I diverged the hash input at one call site and the suite went red. But only one assertion of the pair fails, so the failure output does not say "these two must be equal", and re-pasting the new value is the obvious wrong fix. Comparing the Job's TCT_NAME against the MachineDeployment's configRef inside one render, the way tests/render-parity.sh already compares objects across charts, would make that self-evident.

What I checked

The machine config the Job applies is byte-identical to what main renders for the same values, plain and GPU node group both; only the template name, the new env var and comments differ. All four render sites agree on the name for the same pool shape: parent chart MachineDeployment and Job, split-pool chart MachineDeployment and Job. _talosconfigtemplate.tpl is byte-identical across the two charts and the split chart's update target copies it. helm lint fails on both charts with default values, identically on main, so no signal there.

No end-to-end coverage applies to this change. The split-pool chart is not exercised by the end-to-end suite at all, and the fork-PR path skips that suite anyway. The unit suites and the parity gate are the whole safety net, which argues for the third follow-up rather than against the change.

The bot note about cozy-lib.resources.toFloat being undefined in kubernetes-nodes is a false positive. packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/charts/cozy-lib is a symlink to packages/library/cozy-lib, the helper resolves, and nodegroup.yaml on main already calls it a dozen times.

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Rebased, thanks for the precise pointer. I merged upstream/main rather than rebasing so the review history stays intact and no force-push is needed. mergeable is back to MERGEABLE.

Conflict resolution. Kept this branch's side of the group loop, as you suggested. I checked why before doing it rather than taking it on faith: since the merge base, the only upstream change to talos-reconcile-job.yaml is 4e9c5ce, 8 insertions and 1 deletion in a single hunk, switching .Values.nodeGroups to the kubernetes.nodeGroups helper. This branch already iterates the helper, so keeping our side carries #3535 rather than reverting it. The rest of what upstream still renders inline lives in _talosconfigtemplate.tpl here, $mgmtClusterDomain and the searchDomains/nameservers block included, and $mgmtClusterDomain has no consumer left in the Job outside that region, so nothing is dropped.

Verification matches your local run: 195 tests in packages/apps/kubernetes with main's talos_reconcile_nodegroups_test.yaml included, 9 in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes, and render-parity.sh reports GOLDEN PARITY: all pool objects byte-identical across all cases across the resources, gpu and kubelet cases. make generate clean in both packages.

On your non-blocking point about the lookup-derived hash. You are right and it is worth naming the consequence explicitly, because it follows from my choice to hash the whole rendered spec: for a group sized by instanceType, editing the VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype itself rotates the hash and rolls every worker of every group referencing it. That is a real behaviour change, and unlike a values edit it can happen without anyone touching the cluster's Kubernetes resource.

Two ways out, and I do not have a strong preference:

  • Exclude the kubelet-reservation block from the hash the way the runtime placeholders already are, on the grounds that it is derived state rather than a chart input. The cost is that a genuine reservation change then stops propagating, which is the bug this PR exists to fix, so it would need the reservations to move out of the immutable spec entirely.
  • Keep it in the hash and accept that a reservation change rolls workers, which is arguably correct, and document it.

One data point in favour of the current shape: under helm template without cluster access the parent chart fails loudly rather than computing a divergent hash, cluster.yaml:532 raises nodeGroup <name>: specified instanceType "<type>" not found in cluster. So the dry-run divergence you were worried about surfaces as an error, not as a silent name mismatch. That does not cover the in-cluster instancetype-edit case above.

Live evidence for the "Upgrade impact" section, which I flagged as unverified.

We now have it, from a production fleet of 13 tenant clusters. Last night we exercised the same rollout path this PR triggers, by changing a value that rotates the KubevirtMachineTemplate hash on a GPU node group (4 to 5 replicas plus diskSize 175Gi to 200Gi). Three things came out of it that the section should probably mention:

  1. maxSurge: maxReplicas is dangerous on a constrained resource. The fleet had 6 GPUs with 1 free. CAPI created all 5 new machines at once; 3 sat in Pending on Insufficient nvidia.com/GB202GL_RTX_PRO_6000_BLACKWELL_SERVER_EDITION, each having already pulled a 200 GiB image. It converges, but it is a lot of wasted import for nothing.

  2. maxSurge: 0 with maxUnavailable: 1 deadlocks in that same situation. CAPI computes maxScaledDown = available - (desired - maxUnavailable), which was 4 - 4 = 0, so it removed no old machine, while the new machines were waiting for exactly those machines to release their GPUs. Nothing moved until we loosened maxUnavailable to 2. Worth a sentence, because maxSurge: 0 is the natural reflex when capacity is tight and it is the one setting that cannot make progress.

  3. The MachineHealthCheck amplifies both. With maxUnhealthy: 100% and nodeStartupTimeout: 10m, the machines queuing for a GPU were declared unhealthy and remediated in a loop, three of them deleted and recreated while perfectly healthy, each iteration re-importing the disk. The per-node-group nodeStartupTimeout override fixes it, but the default is shorter than a plausible queue wait.

None of this changes the correctness of this PR, and I am not proposing to widen its scope. It does mean the one-time roll it ships is not free for clusters with a scarce-resource node group, so I would rather say so in the release note than have operators discover it.

Happy to add a paragraph to the upgrade-impact section covering the above if you want it in this PR, or to open it as a follow-up against the MachineDeployment strategy defaults.

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NOT LGTM. The 5 August merge fixed my blocker and I checked it, but main moved and the same two files conflict again. This time picking a side is the wrong resolution.

Blocker: the conflict now carries a security fix

Since your merge base, main landed 3a1292d68 (escape tenant values in the worker reconcile heredoc, #3513) and 58910c0ed (registry mirror passthrough). Both edit the machine-config block this PR moves into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl. main escapes backslash, dollar and backtick on talosVersion, installerRepository and schematicID, adds an escaped machine.registries.mirrors block, and puts an INVARIANT comment above data: saying why anything new there needs escaping or render-time validation.

The helper here has none of that. _talosconfigtemplate.tpl:115 and :195 interpolate raw, and the sink is untouched: talos-reconcile-job.yaml:336 is still cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f - with the spec nindented in at :349, same at :238 and :251 in the split chart. Keep this branch's side and the injection is back, in both charts, with the mirror feature gone too.

So port both commits into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl rather than resolve by picking. The INVARIANT comment belongs there as well, since that file is where the next field gets added and it is the one place that says nothing about the heredoc.

Two things follow from the port. talos.registryMirrors ends up inside the hashed spec, so changing it rolls the workers instead of only affecting nodes created later, and packages/apps/kubernetes/README.md currently tells operators the opposite. And "byte-identical to main" was measured against a main that no longer exists, so it needs rerunning. I expect it still holds on default values: the escapes are no-ops on ordinary version strings and the mirrors block is gated on a non-empty map.

Last round

Blocker cleared. The Job ranges over kubernetes.nodeGroups at talos-reconcile-job.yaml:378, git diff df157da61..HEAD is exactly the eleven files this PR owns, and main's talos_reconcile_nodegroups_test.yaml is green. 195 tests in packages/apps/kubernetes, 9 in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes, parity clean.

I agree with keeping the reservations in the hash. What is still missing is the consequence in "Upgrade impact": an instancetype edit rotates the name later, and the section only describes the one roll. Loud rather than silent, at least. With an instanceType group and no explicit resources, a missed lookup aborts the render at cluster.yaml:532, so a configRef that no Job will ever satisfy cannot be produced.

Pruning and the two literals in tests/talos_config_template_name_test.yaml:37,56 are unchanged. Both were follow-ups.

Hash behaviour

Rendered the chart against changed values to see what the hash tracks. Management cluster-domain rotates the name, 35293f to 4cad8d, which is the #3515 case. Memory rotates it through the reservations, gpus through nodeLabels. diskSize and maxReplicas leave it alone, and diskSize rotates the KubevirtMachineTemplate hash instead. Behaves as described.

Your rollout evidence

It supports the mechanism about as well as anything short of an e2e run can: a KubevirtMachineTemplate rotation and a bootstrap.configRef rotation both sit in MachineDeployment.spec.template.spec and take the same rollout path. Put the scarce-resource part into "Upgrade impact" instead of leaving it in a comment. Anyone upgrading a fleet with a GPU pool hits all three of those, and this PR is what starts the roll.

CI

"Build packages/apps/kubernetes" and "Build Talos" are red on denied: Anonymous users are only allowed read access on public repos at the image push. Fork path, not this change.

Merge order

Sequencing is my call, nothing to fix here. Merging ahead of #3571 switches a MachineDeployment from a hand-written TalosConfigTemplate to a rendered one, and a cluster running GPU workers on such a template loses its schematic when that happens, because the values surface to restore it exists only in #3571. #3571 first, or the two together.

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Blocker addressed. Both commits are ported into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl rather than the conflict being resolved by picking a side.

In the helper, in the parent chart and copied verbatim into kubernetes-nodes so the two stay byte-identical: talosVersion, installerRepository and schematicID take the escape chain for backslash, dollar and backtick; the machine.registries.mirrors block comes across escaped the same way; and the INVARIANT comment moves above data: there. I reworded it for its new home rather than copying it verbatim, on two counts. The spec is rendered in the helper and nindented into the Job's heredoc by the caller, so the comment now says the invariant travels with the text rather than with the Job template. And because the file is shared between the two charts it names both render-time-validated sites, cluster.yaml in kubernetes and nodegroup.yaml in kubernetes-nodes, instead of one. The sink itself is untouched; what moved is where the escaping lives.

The execution-level evidence is that hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats passes unmodified, all five cases, including the hostile registryMirrors endpoint and the hostile image coordinates, in both charts. That suite renders, extracts the heredoc and runs it through a real shell, so it is the check that a rendered-string regex could not do, and it did not need adjusting for the relocation.

You were right on both consequences.

talos.registryMirrors does land inside the hashed spec. Confirmed by rendering: the MachineDeployment configRef goes t-md0-35293f to t-md0-49ef3d on setting a mirror and to t-md0-ef9cc5 on changing it, so a mirror change now rolls the group rather than applying only to nodes created later. packages/apps/kubernetes/README.md claimed the opposite in the Phase 1 Talos rollover bullet and is corrected.

And the byte-identity claim needed rerunning, since it was measured against a main that no longer exists. It still holds: the machine config this branch renders is byte-identical to what current upstream/main renders for the same values on default values (92 lines), on a GPU node group (102) and with registryMirrors set (97). As you expected, the escapes are no-ops on ordinary values and the mirrors block is gated on a non-empty map.

Both "Upgrade impact" gaps are filled. The section now says the one roll is not the only one: an instancetype edit rotates the name later for a group sized by instanceType, which the built-in md0 is, and registryMirrors is a second trigger that did not exist before the merge, with the note that the KubevirtMachineTemplate hash has neither. And the scarce-resource rollout evidence moved out of my comment into the section, all three parts, with the surge and nodeStartupTimeout caveats also added to the release note.

Suites after the merge: 209 in packages/apps/kubernetes, 15 in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes with your registry_mirrors_test.yaml and serial_console_log_test.yaml included, GOLDEN PARITY clean, make generate no drift, api/apps/v1alpha1 builds with every type covered by a deepcopy.

Pruning and the two hand-maintained literals in talos_config_template_name_test.yaml:37,56 are untouched, still follow-ups as agreed. Merge order noted: #3571 is merged with main and out of draft, so it can go first.

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NOT LGTM. The #3513 port is done and I verified it properly this time, so that blocker is closed. What is left is that the new invariant this PR creates, two templates computing the same name, is guarded in the parent chart and not guarded in kubernetes-nodes, and a mutation walks straight through the suite.

Blocker: the hash input is assembled twice in kubernetes-nodes

The description says rendering the spec in one place makes a name divergence structurally impossible. That holds for packages/apps/kubernetes, where cluster.yaml:723 and talos-reconcile-job.yaml:385 both pass the same $group straight out of the kubernetes.nodeGroups helper. It does not hold for kubernetes-nodes. There nodegroup.yaml:34 builds a ten key $group and talos-reconcile-job.yaml:273 builds a separate four key one, and both feed kubernetes.talosConfigTemplateHash. The rendering is shared, the input assembly is not, so the two sites agree by coincidence of the four keys the helper happens to read.

I dropped "gpus" .Values.gpus from the Job's dict, one line, and nothing caught it. helm unittest . in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes stayed at 15 of 15 passing and bash tests/render-parity.sh stayed green, which is expected once you read its header: it compares KubevirtMachineTemplate, MachineDeployment, MachineHealthCheck and WorkloadMonitor, and says so at line 19, never the Job. Rendering kubernetes-nodes-myk8s-md0 with gpus: [{name: nvidia.com/GH200}] on the mutated tree gives TCT_NAME=kubernetes-myk8s-md0-ffdbe1 on the Job and configRef.name=kubernetes-myk8s-md0-0bbd2a on the MachineDeployment. On the clean tree both are 0bbd2a. That divergence is the templates do not exist deadlock this PR exists to make impossible, and no worker is ever created.

The suite is not broken, it just does not cover this. Reverting nodegroup.yaml's configRef to the old fixed name does turn nodegroup_test.yaml red, and perturbing the printf format in the Job's $tctName does turn talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml red, so both suites bite. The gap is the fixture shape: the only pair of literals in kubernetes-nodes is rendered with instanceType: "", gpus: [] and kubelet: {}, and every one of those is falsy, so a divergence in how the Job assembles them is invisible. The parent chart does have the GPU shaped pair, and it works: I injected the same drop into cluster.yaml's hash input and talos_config_template_name_test.yaml went red on a machine-config change rotates the name the MachineDeployment references. So the coverage sits on the chart that cannot drift and is missing from the chart that can.

Two ways to close it and I would take the first. Derive the Job's $group from the same expression nodegroup.yaml uses, which removes the seam instead of watching it. Failing that, add a GPU shaped pair to talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml and nodegroup_test.yaml, which at least makes the next divergence fail.

While you are in that file, talos-reconcile-job.yaml:217 still says the computed locals are read as .group, .groupName, and this PR removed the set $jobContext "group" line. Nothing reads .group any more.

#3571

Merging #3571 into this head conflicts in four files, so it will not slip through unnoticed, but the obvious resolution is wrong in a way worth writing down before either of you does it. Keeping this branch's side of talos-reconcile-job.yaml, which is what you would reach for since this branch deleted that region, drops #3571's machine.kernel.modules out of the machine config entirely. I built that tree: with kernelModules: [nvidia, nvidia_uvm] the #3571 head renders kernel: modules: into the config, the merged tree renders no kernel block at all while the config itself renders fine. The per pool schematic goes half way as well: with schematicID set the merged tree emits the pool schematic on the boot disk from nodegroup.yaml, which auto merged, and the global default on the installer inside the machine config, which came from _talosconfigtemplate.tpl. That is precisely the mismatch #3571's own comment warns about, an in-place upgrade swapping the node's extension set out from under it.

The saving grace is that it is loud: helm unittest on that merged tree is 12 failed of 32, so anyone who runs the suite after resolving finds it. Same shape as the #3513 port, port the fields into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl rather than pick a side. This does not change the merge order, #3571 first or both together still looks right.

What I checked and did not find

The #3513 port is complete. I dedented main's inline machine-config block and diffed it against the helper body after normalising the variable renames the move forces, .talosVersion to $talosVersion and $.Values to $root.Values, plus the nindent depth. Four lines differ and all four are the two Helm comments, reworded to describe the new location. Every escaped interpolation is carried over: talosVersion in the quoted field, installerRepository, schematicID, talosVersion in the image tag, and toYaml . for the mirrors. The INVARIANT comment now names both charts, which is the right call given the file is copied.

Execution level agrees. hack/cozytest.sh hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats exits 0 with five cases OK, and the hostile mirror endpoint comes back out of a real shell literally, in both charts.

The byte-identity claim holds against the main that exists now. I rendered the Job on origin/main and on this head with tests/values/common.yaml, pulled the heredoc out, parsed it as YAML and hashed the machine config object: identical, 469f3f1d. Positive control on the same instrument, the GPU render differs at 2a85738e and the diff is the nodeLabels block, so it does discriminate.

The README correction is accurate. Setting talos.registryMirrors rotates the name from 35293f to d53117, so the group does roll.

Reservations are in the hash: resources.memory from 4Gi to 16Gi rotates 35293f to a235e1. That is the mechanism behind the instancetype roll trigger you now describe in the upgrade note.

Nothing dangles after the move. Every variable the diff removed from $jobContext, kubeletVersion, talosVersion, podCIDR, serviceCIDR, mgmtClusterDomain and the six reservation locals, has zero remaining uses in either Job template; the one .group hit is the stale comment above. No consumer of the old fixed template name anywhere else in the tree either, the Go references are comments and the <cluster>-<group> literals in nodegroup.yaml and dashboard-resourcemap.yaml are MachineDeployment, MachineHealthCheck and WorkloadMonitor names.

The kubernetes-nodes Makefile change is safe: update is declared phony at line 3, so the added cp runs, and there is no file in the package directory that shadows a target.

A failed apply is loud rather than silent, which also covers the truncated hash. The container runs sh -ec and kubectl apply is last in its pipeline, so a webhook rejection aborts the Job instead of logging applied and exiting 0.

Base state on the branch: 209 tests in packages/apps/kubernetes, 15 in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes, render-parity.sh reports GOLDEN PARITY.

Still open from earlier rounds

Pruning superseded templates and the hand maintained literal pairs are both unchanged and both were follow-ups. There are four such pairs now across the two charts. The bot's suggestion to add the notMatchRegex guard to kubernetes-nodes/tests/talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml, which the parent suite has, is still worth taking.

Not verified

No cluster, so everything in the upgrade-impact section about CAPI's rollout, the MachineHealthCheck interaction and your GPU fleet numbers is taken as reported. The instancetype roll trigger I confirmed only through the reservation path, not through an actual instancetype edit.

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One blocker, in the guard rather than in the render.

In kubernetes-nodes the content hash input is assembled twice: nodegroup.yaml builds its dict from ten keys, talos-reconcile-job.yaml builds a separate one from four. Both feed kubernetes.talosConfigTemplateHash. The render is shared, the input assembly is not. In the parent chart this cannot happen, since both sites take the same $group from kubernetes.nodeGroups, so the claim that name divergence is structurally impossible holds for one of the two charts.

Removing "gpus" .Values.gpus from the Job dict, one line, leaves the suite green at 15/15 and render-parity.sh green, while a group with a GPU renders TCT_NAME=kubernetes-myk8s-md0-ffdbe1 against configRef.name=kubernetes-myk8s-md0-0bbd2a. That is the exact templates do not exist deadlock this PR exists to prevent. The cause is fixture shape: the only literal pair in kubernetes-nodes renders with every relevant value falsy, so the divergence has nothing to bite on. The same mutation in the parent chart does go red, because that one has a GPU pair.

Today the two dicts agree and the rendered output is correct, so this is a hole in the guard rather than a live defect. I am still marking it blocking because the PR introduces the invariant and states its structural guarantee, and in half the cases nothing enforces it.

Details, including the interaction with #3571, are in the comment above.

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Blocker closed in 38b13f9, by the first of your two routes: the seam is gone rather than watched. I took the second one as well, for the reason below.

The assembly is now single

_helpers.tpl gains kubernetes-nodes.group, the one place the dict is built, and both nodegroup.yaml and talos-reconcile-job.yaml read it back with include "kubernetes-nodes.group" . | fromYaml — the same shape the parent chart already uses for include "kubernetes.nodeGroups" $ | fromYaml. A Helm template cannot return a dict and a Helm variable cannot cross a file boundary, so the YAML round-trip is what lets one assembly serve two files; it is also what the parent chart's groups already pass through, so if anything it converges the two charts' type handling rather than diverging it.

Your numbers reproduce exactly. On the clean tree the GPU-shaped pool gives TCT_NAME=kubernetes-myk8s-md0-0bbd2a and configRef.name=kubernetes-myk8s-md0-0bbd2a, the 0bbd2a you measured. And I re-ran your mutation against the new tree rather than reasoning about it: reintroducing the four-key dict in the Job without gpus, which previously left helm unittest . at 15 of 15 and render-parity.sh green, now fails — Tests: 1 failed, 16 passed, 17 total, in talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml.

The coverage is added anyway

The seam is removed, but it can be reintroduced by the next person who needs one more key in one of the two files, so your second route is worth having on top of the first. Your diagnosis of the fixture gap is the whole of it: the only literal pair in this chart rendered with instanceType: "", gpus: [] and kubelet: {}, every one falsy, so a dict carrying those keys and a dict omitting them render identically and the pair cannot tell them apart. So talos_reconcile_job_test.yaml and nodegroup_test.yaml each gain a GPU-shaped test, pinning kubernetes-myk8s-md0-0bbd2a as a shared literal the way the parent's suite does — 17 tests in the chart now, and the mutation above is what they catch.

The notMatchRegex guard against the old ${RELEASE}-${GROUP_NAME} name is taken too, so the assertion set on the Job matches the parent suite's.

The stale comment

It is in the parent chart, packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/talos-reconcile-job.yaml:217, not in kubernetes-nodes — that chart's copy of the comment never named .group. Reworded to name the locals that are actually set (.groupName, .dnsDomain, .tctName, .tctSpec, .kubectlImage) and to say why the group is not among them: the machine config it feeds is rendered outside that template, into .tctSpec. The comment sits outside the define, so it is not in the Job's content hash and no golden name moves.

Verification

helm unittest 209 in packages/apps/kubernetes and 17 in packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes, render-parity.sh reports GOLDEN PARITY: all pool objects byte-identical across all cases, hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats still 5 of 5 with the file unmodified, make generate clean in both packages.

Nothing rendered changed. The golden hashes are untouched — ffdbe1 on the kubernetes-nodes pair, 35293f on the parent's — which is the check that matters for the fromYaml round-trip: had it altered a type in a way the spec renders differently, the hash would have moved and this commit would have added a second worker roll on top of the one the PR already costs. It did not.

#3571

Agreed on both the diagnosis and the resolution, and worth having it written down before either of us reaches for the obvious merge. Port machine.kernel.modules and the per-pool schematicID into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl rather than keeping a side, same shape as the #3513 port. The half-applied schematic is the worse of the two failures: the pool value on the boot disk and the global default on the installer inside the machine config is exactly the in-place extension-set swap that PR's own comment warns about. I have not touched the merge order — #3571 first, or both together, still looks right, and I will do the port rather than resolve by picking.

Still open

Pruning superseded templates and the four hand-maintained literal pairs are unchanged and still follow-ups, not part of this PR.

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Rebased onto main at a1b32f2e5, with your blocker resolved the way you asked and the three non-blocking points addressed. The body is rewritten rather than refreshed, because the ground moved under this PR: worker node pools left the parent chart for kubernetes-nodes while it sat, so everything it used to add under packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/ is dropped and kubernetes-nodes is now the only home for the fix.

The blocker. Ported rather than resolved by picking, as you said it had to be. _talosconfigtemplate.tpl now carries the #3513 escaping on talosVersion, installerRepository and schematicID, the escaped machine.registries.mirrors block, and the INVARIANT comment above data:. hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats passes — two cases now rather than five, since the parent chart no longer renders worker pools — which is the execution-level evidence that the escaping survived the move. make update no longer copies the helper from the parent chart: there is nothing to copy from any more, so that target was broken as written.

The name-agreement guard. Your point that the pair is only as good as its failure output was right, and it is the one I most wanted to fix. hack/check-talosconfigtemplate-name-agreement.bats renders the chart once and compares the Job's TCT_NAME against the MachineDeployment's configRef.name, so the failure names the invariant instead of a number. Dropping gpus at one call site now fails with talos-reconcile-job.yaml creates: …-0bbd2a against nodegroup.yaml references: …-ffdbe1, and a line saying to fix the shared input rather than re-pin either literal. It asserts on a GPU-shaped pool as well as the default one, since the default renders gpus [], kubelet {} and instanceType "" as falsy and a subset-reading consumer is indistinguishable there; a third case pins that the two shapes hash differently so the first two cannot pass vacuously.

The prune. Filed as #4355, pointing at the MachineSet enumeration in nodegroup.yaml rather than the cluster.yaml line you cited, which moved with the split. I noted two things worth settling before anyone implements it: whether a draining MachineSet's Machines can outlive it, and whether a suspended pool release can render with an empty lookup and prune everything at once.

The instancetype roll trigger is now in the upgrade note in the commit message as well as the body, alongside the registryMirrors one. The field's own documentation now says that changing a mirror rolls the pool; it said nothing before.

One thing the rebase turned up that is worth your attention: kubernetes-nodes.group was missing podCpuLimit and podCpuRequest, two keys main added after this branch opened. That is a live instance of exactly the failure this PR exists to prevent — the two consumers would have hashed different groups — and it is what the new guard would have caught. Both keys are carried now.

84 tests in kubernetes-nodes, 150 in kubernetes, golden hashes unchanged, make generate a no-op in both.

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mattia-eleuteri NOT LGTM. The fix is right and the blocker from my last review is closed, but the upgrade note calls the missing-template window harmless when it is not, and the body no longer matches the branch.

I rebased the branch onto current main. Main had changed the worker machine config under this PR: the Proxmox substrate added its own nameservers branch, and the per-pool osImage work started resolving the installer schematic and version per pool. Both changes landed in the heredoc block that this PR moves into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl, so I ported them into the helper instead of picking a side. I also added osImage and proxmox to kubernetes-nodes.group, because both now feed the hashed spec. Generated files are regenerated with cozyvalues-gen 1.7.0, which is the CI pin. On the rebased head the machine config is byte-identical to main for the default, GPU, osImage.factory and Proxmox shapes, and the machine template names do not move. #4163 changes the adjacent kubectl apply line and is still waiting to merge, so one more trivial rebase may follow it.

On the upgrade roll: yes, this rolls every existing Talos worker once. The MachineDeployment's configRef.name moves from kubernetes-<cluster>-<group> to the hashed name, that changes its template, and CAPI creates a new MachineSet for the pool. The upgrade impact section and the release note both say so, with the GPU and surge caveats. Old templates are not a Helm concern either. The Job creates every TalosConfigTemplate at runtime, so Helm owns none of them and never deletes one. They live until the KamajiControlPlane goes, and pruning them is #4355. That is fine as a follow-up.

The first blocker is what happens between the Helm upgrade and the Job creating the new template. The MachineDeployment points at the new name first, and the body says existing workers are untouched in that window. That part is true, but the pool also stops scaling. In CAPI v1.10.1, which this repo ships, getTemplatesAndSetOwner records the missing bootstrap template, and rolloutRolling then fails in getAllMachineSetsAndSyncRevision with "cannot create a new MachineSet when templates do not exist" before it reaches scale. A replica change from the cluster-autoscaler never reaches the old MachineSet, so scale-up and scale-down both wait.

Normally that is a few seconds, since the Job's inputs already exist on an upgraded cluster. It gets long when the Job fails. After backoffLimit: 30 it is not retried until the next Helm upgrade of the release, and the HelmRelease stays Ready meanwhile, as it did in #3515. Before this PR a failed apply left the pool on the old template and still scaling. With it, the same failure leaves the pool unable to scale, and nothing turns red. I don't see an ordering fix at render time, since the template needs values Helm doesn't have. What I'm asking for is text: the upgrade note and release note should say the pool can't scale until the new template exists, that a failed talos-reconcile Job now blocks autoscaling, and where to look (the Job status and that MachineDeployment message).

The second blocker is the PR body. This repo merges with merge commits, so the body lands in main as-is, and after the rebase some of it is false. It still says "Rebased onto main at a1b32f2e5", "84 tests, 12 snapshots", and that the heredoc suite passes "both cases". On this head it's 163 tests, and the heredoc suite has six cases, three of them Proxmox. The upgrade section also predates the Proxmox substrate. Proxmox pools roll the same way, and proxmox.dnsServers is now inside the hashed spec, so changing it rolls the pool like talos.registryMirrors does. Please refresh those lines and mention the osImage and Proxmox port, so the history says why the helper resolves the installer image itself.

What I checked. The Job's TCT_NAME and the MachineDeployment's configRef.name agree on every shape above. Pointing configRef back at the fixed name fails nodegroup_test.yaml, the snapshot and the name-agreement bats. Dropping osImage from the group helper fails the worker_image_* suites, and removing the Proxmox nameserver branch fails substrate_branches_test.yaml and the Proxmox heredoc case. The fromYaml round-trip leaves the Proxmox template name alone with an integer vlan. I'm not taking the bot's 12-character hash suggestion: six matches the KubevirtMachineTemplate names, and a collision makes the Job's apply fail loudly. helm unittest is at 163 of 163, and both bats suites pass. Not verified: no live cluster, so the scaling freeze comes from reading the CAPI source, not from watching it.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei) Both blockers are addressed in the body, and the branch is rebased past #4163.

Scaling freeze. I read the CAPI v1.10.1 source and it matches: rolloutRolling returns the getAllMachineSetsAndSyncRevision error before reconcileNewMachineSet and reconcileOldMachineSets, so neither MachineSet scales. The upgrade note now says the pool can't scale until the new template exists, that a failed talos-reconcile Job blocks autoscaling while the HelmRelease stays Ready, and where to look. That section also covers two things your review didn't: the cannot create a new MachineSet… error only reaches the capi-controller-manager logs, so the object itself shows the v1beta2 ScalingUp condition (Scaling up from N to M replicas is blocked because TalosConfigTemplate does not exist), and the Job's ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 600 deletes a failed Job and its logs ten minutes after it gives up, so past that the only evidence left is the MachineDeployment condition and the missing template. The release note says the same in short.

Stale body. The rebase section no longer pins a SHA. It now explains the osImage port (why the helper resolves the install image itself: the hash has to cover the resolved image) and the Proxmox nameservers port. The upgrade section covers Proxmox pools and proxmox.dnsServers as a roll trigger. The validation list is refreshed.

Rebase onto #4163. It was trivial: #4163 and this PR both comment the same kubectl apply line. I kept --server-side --force-conflicts and both comments. On 15019a6a1: helm unittest 165/165 across 31 suites (the new server-side apply suite included), the heredoc bats 6/6, the name-agreement bats 3/3, and make generate shows no diff. I re-ran your checks against 0a2054e22 instead of taking them as given. On the default, GPU, osImage.factory and Proxmox shapes, the Job script differs from main only in the template name and its comment. TCT_NAME equals configRef.name, and the KubeVirt and Proxmox machine template names don't move. The three mutations (fixed-name configRef, no osImage in the group, no Proxmox nameserver branch) fail the suites you listed.

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mattia-eleuteri LGTM. Both blockers from my last review are closed, and the rebase past #4163 kept the server-side apply line with the hashed name.

The upgrade note and the release note now say what I asked for: the pool can't scale until the new template exists, a failed talos-reconcile Job blocks autoscaling while the HelmRelease stays Ready, and where to look. I checked the condition text against CAPI v1.10.1. setScalingUpCondition builds "Scaling up from N to M replicas is blocked because TalosConfigTemplate does not exist", or "Scaling up would be blocked because ..." when no scale-up is pending, so the quoted messages match. The 600-second ttlSecondsAfterFinished on the Job is also real, and pointing people at the MachineDeployment condition for that reason is useful. The body counts, the six heredoc cases and the Proxmox parts are correct on this head.

What I ran on 15019a6. helm unittest on kubernetes-nodes: 165 of 165, 12 snapshots. Both bats suites pass: name agreement (3 cases) and heredoc (6 cases). I rendered the Job against main for the default, GPU, osImage.factory and Proxmox shapes. The script differs only in the template name and the new comment above the apply, TCT_NAME equals configRef.name on all four, and the KubevirtMachineTemplate and ProxmoxMachineTemplate names do not move. Pointing configRef back at the fixed name fails 5 unittests, 3 snapshots and the name-agreement bats.

Two small things, not blocking. The second commit body still says "84 + 150 helm unittests pass", which was the count before the chart split; on this tree it is 165 in one chart. And since the PR body becomes the merge commit message, I'd drop "as flagged in review" and "addresses the review point that" from it, the sentences read fine without them.

CI: everything required is green except E2E Tests, which is still running on the fork lane (run 36589611927, attempt 1, started 15:21Z).

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## What this PR does

Implements gap 1 of #3563: a pool-scoped `kernelModules` field on
`KubernetesNodes`, emitted as Talos `machine.kernel.modules`.

A Talos system extension installs a kernel module but does not load it —
loading is `machine.kernel.modules`' job. The worker machine config had
no such block and no values key could add one, so a GPU pool on Talos
workers was unusable as shipped: the extension supplied the NVIDIA
module, nothing loaded it, and the failure was silent end to end. The VM
held the PCI device, the node advertised no GPU, and no component logged
an error. Found in a production 1.6.0 environment, where the worker
rollover took the 4 GPUs of a tenant cluster out of service with no
error anywhere.

### Design: three states, and no default

The shape was arbitrated in #3563 (option 3 of the three proposed
there).

- **absent** — the chart chooses. A pool holding at least one
`nvidia.com/*` GPU gets `nvidia` (with `NVreg_NvLinkDisable=1`),
`nvidia_uvm`, `nvidia_drm`, `nvidia_modeset`; any other pool gets no
`kernel` block at all.
- **non-empty list** — taken verbatim, replacing the chart's choice
outright.
- **`[]`** — explicit opt-out: no modules even on a GPU pool.

The order is not cosmetic: Talos loads the list in sequence, `nvidia`
has to come first because the other three depend on it, and `nvidia_uvm`
is what CUDA unified memory needs. This is the order validated against a
production GB202 passthrough node. `NVreg_NvLinkDisable=1` is what the
gpu-operator driver container applies on non-Talos workers; on Talos
that container has to be off, so nothing else would carry it, and
without it the driver waits forever for an NVLink fabric that the
passed-through GPU does not have.

The three states are distinguishable only because the field carries no
default — no entry in `values.yaml`, no `default` in
`values.schema.json`. A default of `[]` would collapse "absent" into
"opted out" for every pool and make the automatic set unreachable. The
generated parameter table prints `[]` in the Default column for any
array with no default; the field description says so explicitly. For the
same reason `keysOrder` does not list the field, so the dashboard
renders it at the bottom of the form.

Automatic emission is keyed on the `nvidia.com/` resource prefix, not on
the mere presence of `gpus`, so an AMD pool is not given NVIDIA modules
on a guess.

The field loads modules; it does not put them in the image. Which
extensions the image carries is the pool's schematic, so a GPU pool
points `osImage.factory.schematicID` (or `osImage.builtin.schematicID`)
at a schematic carrying the NVIDIA extensions.

Module names and parameters reach the reconcile Job's unquoted heredoc,
so both are validated at render, and the emitted list is rebuilt from
those two fields alone: the schema does not prune unknown keys, and any
other key passed through `toYaml` would reach the shell unchecked. A
parameter must be printable ASCII with no whitespace, and must not
contain `$`, a backtick, a backslash or quotes. The ASCII half is there
because RE2's `\s` and `[:cntrl:]` are ASCII-only: without it U+2028 and
U+2029 pass, `toYaml` writes them raw, and Helm's YAML parser reads them
as line breaks that end the Job's `command` block scalar early. Inside
ASCII the guard denies what the shell expands rather than allowing a
fixed set, because NVIDIA's documented multi-value parameter is
semicolon-separated.

### Rollout, and #3523

A pool that resolves to no modules renders the machine config it
rendered before, byte for byte: `tests/render_snapshot_test.yaml` and
its committed golden snapshot pass unmodified, including the
`talos-reconcile` Job's content-hash name.

For a pool that does get modules, what happens depends on how its
`TalosConfigTemplate` is named, and the field description states both
cases:

- **On main today** the template has a fixed name and an immutable spec,
so the reconcile Job's apply of a changed machine config is refused
(#3515). Running workers keep what they booted with, and new workers
boot from the old template too. This covers the upgrade itself: every
existing pool holding an `nvidia.com/*` GPU with the field unset gets
the automatic set, and its apply is refused the same way. Only pools
created afterwards pick the modules up.
- **Once #3523 lands** the template is named by its content, so the same
change renames it and CAPI rolls the pool. On the upgrade that brings
both, every existing pool holding an `nvidia.com/*` GPU with the field
unset rolls onto the automatic set. That roll is the intended outcome —
those pools have no working driver without it — but it is a roll, and
the release note says so.

### Tests

- `packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/kernel_modules_test.yaml`, 12
cases: the NVIDIA set and its order for an `nvidia.com/*` pool, no
`kernel` block for a pool with neither GPUs nor modules, an explicit
list taken verbatim including `parameters`, an explicit list replacing
the NVIDIA default, `[]` opting out while leaving the `gpu=on` label
intact, no NVIDIA assumption for another vendor, a semicolon-separated
parameter accepted, a hostile module name and a hostile parameter each
rejected, a parameter carrying U+2028 and one carrying U+2029 each
rejected with the kernelModules message rather than a YAML parse error,
and an unvalidated extra key on an item dropped. The patterns pin
absolute indentation, because `modules:` one level out is still valid
YAML and silently loads nothing.
- `hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats` lists `kernelModules` in its
validated arm and gains two execution-level cases: a hostile name and a
hostile parameter each refused at render, and a semicolon-separated
parameter surviving the real shell literally. Loosening the guards to
`^.+$` makes the refusal case fail.
- `helm unittest packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes`: 31 suites, 174 tests,
12 snapshots, all passing. `hack/cozytest.sh
hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats`: 8 passed.
- `make generate` in the package, and `controller-gen object` for the
`api/apps/v1alpha1` submodule.

### Not in scope

The rest of #3563: the `nvidia-operator-validator` → device-plugin chain
that cannot validate an OS-provided driver, CDI spec generation and the
`nvidia` containerd runtime default, and the `maxSurge` /
`nodeStartupTimeout` defaults.

### Screenshots

No UI changes.

### Downstream repositories

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [x] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up: cozystack/website#643
- [x]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#20
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:

Both follow-ups are issues rather than PRs.
`terraform-provider-cozystack` is hand-written, so the field needs a
schema entry, a model entry and an expand/flatten pair on
`KubernetesNodes`; the undefaulted three-state behaviour is exactly
where that provider's habit of sending its own defaults would break
users silently, since materialising `kernel_modules = []` would disable
the automatic NVIDIA set for every GPU pool managed through Terraform.
`website` needs the three-state behaviour written down, the GPU pool
example pointed at `osImage.factory.schematicID`, and the Blackwell
constraint documented: on GB202 the schematic must carry
`siderolabs/nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules-production`, because with the
proprietary extension the module loads, `/dev/nvidia0` appears, and
`nvidia-smi -L` then reports `No devices found`.

The `hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats` change adds test cases and
does not change node prerequisites, so `ansible-cozystack` and `talm`
are not reached. No other repository in the map is touched: no package,
platform component, bundle, variant or release asset is added, and
`ApplicationDefinition` semantics are unchanged.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(kubernetes): Worker node pools (`KubernetesNodes`) accept a `kernelModules` field, emitted as Talos `machine.kernel.modules`. A Talos system extension installs a kernel module without loading it, so a GPU pool previously came up with no working driver and no way to fix it through values. Left unset, a pool holding at least one `nvidia.com/*` GPU now loads `nvidia` (with `NVreg_NvLinkDisable=1`), `nvidia_uvm`, `nvidia_drm` and `nvidia_modeset` automatically; an explicit list replaces that set, and an explicit `[]` opts out. The modules still have to be in the image: point the GPU pool's `osImage.factory.schematicID` at a schematic carrying the NVIDIA extensions, and on Blackwell (GB202) use the open kernel modules extension, not the proprietary one. Pools without GPUs and without the field render exactly what they rendered before. NOTE: while the worker `TalosConfigTemplate` keeps a fixed name (#3515), a changed module list does not reach a pool that already exists — including the automatic set on existing GPU pools — and only pools created afterwards pick it up. Once that template is named by its content (#3523), the same change rolls the pool, so existing GPU pools that leave the field unset are rolled onto the automatic set.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Worker node pools can now configure Talos kernel modules, including
optional module parameters.
* When no list is specified, NVIDIA GPU pools automatically receive
NVIDIA modules; other pools receive none. A custom list replaces this
selection, while an empty list disables modules.
* Invalid module names or parameters are rejected during configuration
rendering.
* **Documentation**
* Added guidance on module selection, parameters, image-extension
requirements, and pool rollout behavior.

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mattia-eleuteri the approval stands, but the branch now conflicts with main and needs a rebase before it can land. Three things for that rebase:

  1. If feat(kubernetes): storage and cloud-controller integration for Proxmox-backed tenants #4089 lands first (auto-merge is on), it adds a replace path in talos-reconcile-job.yaml whose Role resourceNames and delete target still name the TalosConfigTemplate ${RELEASE}-${GROUP_NAME}. After your rename they have to point at the hashed name, otherwise the server-side apply gets Forbidden and the pool stops getting new templates. No test catches that today, so a unittest on the Role would help.
  2. Please drop "as flagged in review" and "addresses the review point" from the PR body. The body becomes the merge commit.
  3. The second commit body still says "84 + 150 helm unittests". The counts are out of date after the rebases, so I'd drop the number.

I'll check the delta after the push and turn on auto-merge.

TalosConfigTemplate.spec is immutable — vtalosconfigtemplate.cluster.x-k8s.io
denies any mutation with "TalosConfigTemplate.Spec is immutable" — but the
talos-reconcile Job applied it under a fixed <release>-<group> name on every
reconcile. Once the template existed, no change to the rendered worker machine
config could reach the cluster: the apply was rejected server-side while the
HelmRelease stayed Ready. Observed with machine.network.searchDomains after a
clusterDomain correction; the same held for certSANs, machine.registries and
nameservers.

Name the template after a 6-char hash of its rendered spec, the idiom
KubevirtMachineTemplate already uses in the same chart, and point
MachineDeployment.spec.template.spec.bootstrap.configRef at that name. A content
change now creates a new template instead of attempting a rejected mutation, and
CAPI rolls the workers onto it.

The spec is rendered from one named template shared by the Job (which embeds it
in its heredoc) and the MachineDeployment (which hashes it into configRef), so
the two cannot compute different names. The runtime values the Job substitutes
(CA certificates, Service ClusterIP, tokens) stay shell placeholders and are not
hashed, so a certificate rotation does not roll workers.

The talos-reconcile Role pins its TalosConfigTemplate get, patch, update
and delete rights to the pool's own template, so it names the hashed
template too. A server-side apply of a template that does not exist yet
is still a PATCH on that name: a rule left on <release>-<group> would
leave the Job Forbidden and the pool with no template to scale onto. The
replace-on-immutable path is kept and pointed at the same name, because
the runtime values sit outside the hash: a new apiserver address still
renders a different spec under an unchanged name.

Upgrade note: existing clusters roll their Talos workers once, because the
configRef moves from <release>-<group> to the hashed name and CAPI creates a new
MachineSet for it. The rendered machine config itself is unchanged by this
commit. The pre-existing fixed-name template is left in place — the outgoing
MachineSet still references it — and is garbage-collected with the
KamajiControlPlane when the cluster is deleted.

A pool sized by instanceType rather than by explicit resources has a
second roll trigger. Its kubelet reservations are resolved through a live
lookup of the VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype, so that object's size is
part of the hashed spec even though the chart does not own it: a
platform-side change to the instancetype rotates the name and rolls the
pool again. That is the mechanism working as intended - the reservations
really did change - but it is a roll the operator did not initiate, and
the KubevirtMachineTemplate hash this mirrors does not have the property,
since it embeds the instancetype by name and never its resolved size.

Fixes cozystack#3515

Signed-off-by: Mattia Eleuteri <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: LLM
The TalosConfigTemplate name is a hash of the machine-config spec, and two
templates have to agree on it: talos-reconcile-job.yaml creates the object,
nodegroup.yaml points MachineDeployment.bootstrap.configRef at it. Sharing the
rendering was not enough — each file also assembled its own $group dict, one
carrying every pool value and one only the few the spec reads, so the two
names agreed only by coincidence of the keys the spec helper happens to read.
Dropping "gpus" from the Job's dict diverged them on a GPU pool with the whole
suite still green, which is the "templates do not exist" deadlock this fix
exists to make impossible.

Move the assembly into a single kubernetes-nodes.group helper, read back with
fromYaml at both call sites, so there is one input as well as one rendering.

Cover it too, since the seam can be reintroduced. The chart's helm-unittest
suites pin each name against its own literal in its own file, which catches a
divergence but reports it as one literal having moved — indistinguishable from
a stale fixture, so re-pasting the new value is the obvious and wrong repair.
hack/check-talosconfigtemplate-name-agreement.bats renders the chart once and
compares the two values against each other, so the failure states the invariant
instead of a number. It asserts on a GPU-shaped pool as well as the default
one: the default renders gpus [], kubelet {} and instanceType "" as falsy, so a
consumer reading a subset of the group is indistinguishable there from one
reading all of it. kernelModules gets a case of its own, because it has no
default and stays unset on both of those shapes. A last case pins that the
shapes hash differently, so the others cannot hold vacuously.

The same guard compares the talos-reconcile Role's resourceNames on
TalosConfigTemplates against that name. The Job applies server-side, and
that is a PATCH on the name even when it creates the object, so a Role
naming anything else leaves the Job Forbidden and the pool without a
template, with the same silent outcome.

Document that talos.registryMirrors and kernelModules sit inside the hashed
spec, so changing either rolls the pool's existing workers instead of only
affecting nodes created later. The kernelModules text described the
fixed-name template as the present state and the content-hash name as a
future one.

No rendered output changes: the golden render snapshots are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Eleuteri <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: LLM
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Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei) rebased onto main with #4089 in, force-pushed as 9afe7f129.

  1. The Role's TalosConfigTemplate get/patch/update and delete rules now name the hashed template, and the replace path deletes ${TCT_NAME}. The replace path stays: the runtime values are outside the hash, so a new apiserver address still changes the spec under an unchanged name. talos_tct_immutable_test.yaml pinned the fixed name, so it would have stayed green on the broken state; it now asserts the hashed form, and hack/check-talosconfigtemplate-name-agreement.bats compares the Role's resourceNames against configRef.name too. Pointing either rule, or the delete, back at <release>-<group> turns them red.
  2. Both phrases are gone from the body, and the rebase-history section is rewritten as a description of what the shared spec carries.
  3. The count is dropped from the commit body, and from the PR body as well.

The rebase also met the kernel-modules and Proxmox CCM changes on the same heredoc; both are ported into _talosconfigtemplate.tpl. kernelModules was missing from nodegroup.yaml's group dict in the first commit, so an explicit module list hashed to two different names; the guard now has a case for it. The rendered TalosConfigTemplate is byte-identical to main on six pool shapes apart from its name.

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mattia-eleuteri LGTM. The rebase covers everything from my last comment. Pointing either Role rule or the kubectl delete in the replace path back at <release>-<group> fails the new unittest cases, and the Role mutations also fail the name-agreement bats. The red E2E Tests status is the opensearch suite, which this diff does not touch. kubernetes-latest and kubernetes-previous passed in the same run.

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