fix(mongodb): fill the dashboard credentials on a first install - #4014

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/apps/mongodb/README.md`:
- Around line 109-113: Reformat the two prose paragraphs in the MongoDB README
so each paragraph occupies one continuous source line, preserving their wording
and the blank line separating them.

In `@packages/apps/mongodb/templates/credentials.yaml`:
- Line 49: Update the MongoDB URI construction in both replica-set and sharded
branches to URI-escape both adminUser and adminPassword as userinfo components,
converting any query-escaped plus signs representing spaces to %20 before
interpolation; preserve the existing host, port, database, and replica-set
parameters.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/apps/mongodb/README.md`:
- Around line 165-171: Update the legacy-upgrade documentation to state that
existing system-user passwords are preserved by copying values from
internal-<release>-users into the release-scoped users Secret, rather than
rotated. Remove the password-rotation details and any client-restart instruction
that depends on rotation.

LGTM with non-blocking notes (independent cozy-review pass).

The mechanism is correct: the chart now generates the operator users secret (spec.secrets.users) with random passwords for all five system users and derives <rel>-credentials from them immediately, instead of only reading an operator secret that does not exist yet on first install (the old empty-password-forever bug). Idempotency is via lookup + reuse, and the $chartOwnsUsers ownership guard prevents overwriting the operator secret on existing clusters (no helm annotations -> guard false -> chart does not render the secret -> no adoption conflict). No checksum annotations, so no reconcile-amplifier. The dashboard Role stays name-scoped to <rel>-credentials; the new users secret is not exposed. helm unittest 132/132.

Notes: the dangerous lookup branches (ownership guard, reuse-existing, operator-copy fallback) have zero regression coverage because helm-unittest lookup is always nil — worth an e2e assert. A transient lookup miss on a live cluster would regenerate/rotate the five system passwords (larger blast radius than the app-user secret). README lines 110-117 are hardwrapped — AGENTS.md wants one line per paragraph. Rebase hygiene recommended (515 behind), though packages/apps/mongodb has not changed on main since the merge-base.

NOT LGTM. The template does the right thing and I traced every branch, but neither property the description promises is pinned by a test. I can delete either one and the suite stays green at 132.

Business context: <release>-credentials shipped with an empty password and uri for the life of the database, because the chart read the password with lookup from a Secret the Percona operator only creates after Helm has already rendered.

Can this rotate a live password

That is what the change turns on, so here is every render where lookup comes back empty and what the template does in each.

First install: both Secrets absent, randAlphaNum 24 for all five system users. Intended, and the only path that generates.

helm template and any client-side dry run: lookup is always empty, so each render mints fresh passwords and two consecutive renders disagree. Nothing applies that output, and no golden-render check in this repo covers this chart.

A server-side reconcile: lookup resolves. One local quirk matters here, because the description leans on it: lookup is invisible to the digest the helm-controller hashes to decide whether to upgrade, so a plain reconcile does not re-render. That is why an older database gets filled on its next upgrade rather than on the next reconcile, and the description has that right.

Users Secret present, operator's internal copy absent: reused per key from the users Secret. Internal copy present, users Secret absent: reused from the internal copy, so a deleted users Secret gets rebuilt instead of rotated.

Generating against a live database therefore needs both Secrets gone at the same moment, and I could not construct a path that rotates. The other direction is clean too: the operator's reconcileUsersSecret fills only keys that are missing and never overwrites a value that is already there.

Adoption works by not adopting. With no meta.helm.sh/release-name for this release on the users Secret, the Secret drops out of the manifest, so Helm never applies it and no ownership conflict can surface either way, neither a failed release nor a silent overwrite. The old chart never rendered that Secret, so leaving it out now is not a removal and nothing gets deleted. I confirmed reuse, non-adoption and the internal-copy fallback by mocking lookup, and all three behave as described.

Blocker: the suite cannot fail on either promised property

Every test in tests/credentials_test.yaml renders with an empty lookup. No case has either Secret present, so the reuse branch, the internal-copy fallback and the ownership decision never run at all.

Evidence: three mutations, each applied alone, each leaving 132/132 green. {{- if hasKey $fromChart $user.passwordKey }} to {{- if false }}, which forces generation over a live users Secret. {{- else if hasKey $fromOperator ... }} to {{- else if false }}, which drops the fallback. ne to eq in the ownership test, which inverts which releases the chart claims. The instrument is sound: randAlphaNum 24 to 12 turns 4 tests red, suppressing the users Secret document turns 3 red, and renaming the credentials Secret turns 9 red, so the documentSelector asserts do find their target. helm-unittest mocks lookup through kubernetesProvider, so green here is evidence about the generation path only.

The first mutation is the one that matters. Drop that branch and every existing MongoDB rotates its system-user passwords on the next upgrade, with CI green the whole way.

Three cases close it. This one passes against the branch as written:

  - it: reuses a helm-owned users Secret instead of rotating it
    kubernetesProvider:
      scheme:
        "v1/Secret":
          gvr: { version: v1, resource: secrets }
          namespaced: true
      objects:
        - apiVersion: v1
          kind: Secret
          metadata:
            name: test-mongodb-percona-server-mongodb-users
            namespace: tenant-test
            annotations:
              meta.helm.sh/release-name: test-mongodb
              meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: tenant-test
          data:
            MONGODB_DATABASE_ADMIN_USER: ZGF0YWJhc2VBZG1pbg==
            MONGODB_DATABASE_ADMIN_PASSWORD: cmV1c2VkLXB3LTE=
    asserts:
      - hasDocuments:
          count: 2
      - equal:
          path: stringData.password
          value: reused-pw-1
        documentSelector:
          path: metadata.name
          value: test-mongodb-credentials
      - equal:
          path: stringData.MONGODB_DATABASE_ADMIN_PASSWORD
          value: reused-pw-1
        documentSelector:
          path: metadata.name
          value: test-mongodb-percona-server-mongodb-users

The other two are the same shape. Drop the annotations block and assert hasDocuments: count: 1 with the password still reaching <release>-credentials, then one case with only internal-test-mongodb-users present. Give each test its own kubernetesProvider instead of a suite-level block: the objects add up rather than replacing, and a duplicate fails the render with already exists.

Non-blocking

On the not-owned path a missing password key produces a generated password that lands in <release>-credentials but not in the users Secret, so the dashboard would advertise a password MongoDB never had (templates/credentials.yaml:40). The operator fills missing keys itself, so reaching this needs a hand-made partial Secret. A fail() on "not owned and nothing to read" would close it. That same branch also resets the username to the built-in default when the existing Secret carries a custom one.

type: Opaque was asserted for this template before and is asserted nowhere now. The isKind coverage did survive, as containsDocument.

On the urlquery question left open above: at the crVersion: 1.22.0 this chart pins, the operator's GeneratePassword draws from A-Za-z0-9 at 16 to 20 characters and its usernames are the role literals, so an inherited value cannot hold a space and the +-for-space behaviour cannot bite.

One last thing, not about the code. None of this PR's CI has run. Every workflow on this head sits at action_required because the PR comes from a fork, so the green rollup is size, label, DCO and the bot. The unit suite, pre-commit and CodeQL have never executed on this code, on this head or the one before it, and mergeStateStatus is BLOCKED as a result. The 132 I quote above comes from running the suite locally.

LGTM. The mutation that mattered goes red now.

Ran the same three at 9fac0ad, each alone, tree restored after each. {{- if hasKey $fromChart ... }} to {{- if false }} breaks "reuses a helm-owned users Secret instead of rotating it" and "leaves a users Secret it does not own out of the manifest and still fills the credentials". Killing the operator-copy fallback breaks "rebuilds the users Secret from the operator copy when the per-release Secret is gone". ne to eq breaks all three ownership cases, the refusal included. 137/137 green with the tree clean, and CI ran the same 137 on this head, so the count is no longer only local.

Three more rungs for the rest: retyping the users Secret breaks the Opaque case, disabling the new fail() breaks the refusal case, and dropping urlquery on the password breaks the not-owned case, which is the only fixture carrying URI-reserved characters. Every new case has a mutation of its own line that reddens it.

The fail() sits behind not $chartOwnsUsers, and that is true whenever the lookup finds no users Secret, so a first install cannot hit it. It needs a Secret this release does not own, with a password key missing from both it and internal-<release>-users.

Leftovers from last round, neither blocking. The username reset is gone on the not-owned path since that path fails now; on the owned path a Secret with a custom *_USER and no matching password key still falls back to the built-in name, which takes a hand-edited Secret to reach. Opaque is asserted again for both documents.