test(tests): add a render smoke check over every app chart - #4018

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In `@hack/check-render-matrix.bats`:
- Around line 125-128: Update the render comparison test around the helm
template commands to include every fixture state, including wildcard.yaml, and
compare the complete rendered manifests rather than only counting kind lines.
Apply the comparison across the appropriate chart set while preserving the
existing fixture rendering setup.
- Around line 75-76: Update the helm template invocation in the render-matrix
test to provide a valid chart-specific release name and cluster value, ensuring
kubernetes-nodes reaches the VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype lookup. Capture
stderr instead of discarding it, and assert the failure output contains
specified instanceType "u1.medium" not found in cluster.

In `@hack/check-render-matrix.sh`:
- Line 105: Update the chart iteration logic around the charts variable to
preserve whitespace-containing chart paths: iterate over supplied arguments as
individually quoted "$@" values, and construct the default chart list only when
no arguments are provided. Ensure each directory reaches helm template
unchanged.

In `@hack/testdata/render-fixtures/README.md`:
- Around line 3-5: Reflow each prose paragraph in the README, including the
referenced ranges, onto a single continuous line while preserving the table and
fenced command line breaks.

NOT LGTM. The one _cluster key with real reach is set to a shape nothing reads, the check meant to catch that cannot, and the commit message says both were fixed.

Blockers

1. hack/testdata/render-fixtures/configured.yaml:17-19 sets scheduling keys no chart reads.

The fixture sets nodeSelector and tolerations. Three charts read _cluster.scheduling, all shaped if .Values._cluster.scheduling then get ... "globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints": packages/apps/postgres/templates/db.yaml:194-196, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml:126-127, packages/apps/vm-instance/templates/_helpers.tpl:100-101. The fixture makes the outer if true over a payload that is always nil, so the branch it opens has an empty body. Rendering postgres under configured.yaml gives 7 documents and zero hits for topologySpreadConstraints. The platform's default for that map is globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints (packages/core/platform/values.yaml:546-547). The key is absent from fresh.yaml and wildcard.yaml as well, which the fixtures README rules out in its own words: "When a chart starts reading a _cluster key none of these set, add it to all three." Diff the _cluster keys app templates read against the keys the fixtures set and scheduling is the only read-but-unset one.

2. hack/check-render-matrix.bats:104-108 does not reject what it says it rejects, and needs PyYAML to not do it.

06bd2707a says the check "now walks _cluster and _namespace and rejects any non-string scalar". The comprehension iterates one level of each map, so a dict value is skipped whole. Fed a fixture carrying scheduling: {globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints: true}, the one-liner exits 0. That is exactly the shape blocker 1 is about, so the guard is blind to the defect standing next to it.

The dependency is the second half. hack/md-no-hardwrap.bats:31-34 states the convention: "Other hack/*.bats deliberately avoid a python3 dependency; a test for a python3 hook cannot", and it guards with have_python3() before every test. This file adds not just python3 but a third-party module, unguarded and declared nowhere. The unit-test job installs only the helm-unittest plugin, and make bats-unit-tests stops at the first red file, so a runner without PyYAML is a lane-wide red for an environment reason.

3. hack/check-render-matrix.bats:75-76, the skip guard cannot fail for kubernetes-nodes.

The test renders each skipped chart and requires it to still fail, so a skip that stopped being necessary turns red instead of dropping a chart from the sweep forever. It calls helm template "$name-render-check" "packages/apps/$name" -f fresh.yaml with no cluster value. That fails on .Values.cluster is required from kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml:37, well before nodegroup.yaml reaches the instancetype lookup skip_reason() records as the reason. hack/check-render-matrix.sh:76-85 says the same thing: for this chart the lookup is the third blocker. Remove it upstream and the chart still fails, the test stays green, the skip lives on. It does bite the right reason for vm-instance. Rendering skipped charts through the script's own release_name() and extra_values(), then matching the failure text against the recorded reason, closes it.

4. Three claims in the permanent text are contradicted by measurement.

06bd2707a says the invented scheduling map "now carries globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints, which is what the platform emits". Its diff for configured.yaml touches only _namespace, and that key appears in no fixture. The same commit's claim about the type check is blocker 2. check-render-matrix.sh:4 and 52d44fd18 both say "helm-unittest covers roughly a fifth of the packages"; 81 of 164 packages have a runnable test target, 16 of 23 under packages/apps. 52d44fd18 also names _cluster.name as one of three values that take the render rate from 10/23 to 21/23, and nothing reads that key and no fixture sets it.

The conclusion the "fifth" number supports still holds, for a reason the comment does not give: helm-unittest only renders the templates a suite names in templates:, so even a covered chart goes unrendered outside its named ones. That is the stronger argument and it is worth having in place of the number. Squash and rebase are both disabled here, so each of these messages lands in main as written.

5. hack/testdata/render-fixtures/README.md hardwraps its prose.

Paragraphs are wrapped at roughly 80 columns. AGENTS.md:82-88 asks for one continuous line per paragraph in new prose the repo owns, and the summary list above it names hardwrapping directly. The repo's own hook agrees: fed the file, .claude/hooks/md-no-hardwrap.py exits 2 and lists seven blocks. Table and fenced block stay as they are.

Non-blocking

1. extra_values() is dead, every arm returns "". Deleting it removes the $(...) splice at line 141. The # shellcheck disable=SC2086 above it names the wrong code anyway, shellcheck reports SC2046 there and still warns. Nothing gates shellcheck in CI, so cosmetic today.
2. 12 of the 21 swept charts render byte-identically under all three fixtures, so the sweep pays three times for the same output on more than half of them. 3.5s total, so not urgent, but worth knowing before a fourth fixture arrives.
3. Tests 1, 4 and 5 each run the full sweep, which is most of the suite's 11s against the sweep's 3.5s.
4. hack/check-render-matrix.bats:118-132 compares fresh against configured on one chart and never looks at wildcard, so that state could collapse into configured without anything turning red. It has not collapsed: tenant renders differently under the two.
5. Seven of the _cluster keys every fixture carries are read by no app template: bundle-name, expose-ingress, expose-services, keycloak-internal-url, oidc-insecure-skip-verify, wildcard-issue, extra-keycloak-redirect-uri-for-dashboard. Defensible as platform fidelity. Noting it only because the fixtures are faithful on seven keys nobody reads and wrong on the one key three charts do.
6. The "_namespace is a namespace, not a boolean" explanation is duplicated verbatim in four places. This branch has already shown how a number drifts.
7. The PR is labelled area/uncategorized because hack is missing from the labeler scope map. Either test(tests) in the title or a hack entry in the mapping lands it on area/testing.
8. The subject of 06bd2707a and the "What an independent review changed" section describe the review round rather than the change. Nothing in docs/agents/contributing.md forbids it, so not a blocker, but with squash off it is what main keeps and it gives a later reader nothing to work with.
9. Any new hack/*.bats widens test selection to the full E2E suite through full_suite_pattern in hack/select-e2e.sh. Pre-existing, worth knowing for a file that will get edited again.

Checked, no finding

The gap this closes is real, and it is bigger than the fifth/half number suggests. Dropping a required-failing template into packages/apps/bucket, which has a suite, leaves helm unittest green at 5 suites and 7 tests, because suites only render the templates they name. The sweep catches it under both fixtures.

The clickhouse test holds up under mutation. Baseline 25 green. Replacing randAlphaNum 24 with "" turns it red on the notEqual assert, breaking the preserve branch turns the second test red. Then delete the notEqual: "" line and re-apply the empty-password mutation: all 25 pass. So exists: stringData.password alone would have been vacuous and that one line is the whole guard, worth remembering if anyone trims it. No other suite renders backup-api-auth-secret.yaml.

hack/check-render-matrix.bats does run. BATS_UNIT_FILES (Makefile:161) feeds bats-unit-tests, unit-tests depends on it (Makefile:109), and .github/workflows/pull-requests.yaml:318 runs make unit-tests. Green under both runners, bats and hack/cozytest.sh. Sweep 3.5s, full bats file about 11s, 21 rendered and 2 skipped.

Also correct as stated: 40 lookup " calls under packages/apps/*/templates/, 23 chart directories, 30 against 45 documents for packages/apps/kubernetes. The Assisted-By: trailer matches what docs/agents/contributing.md:117-125 prescribes.

NOT LGTM, unchanged. This corrects two things I got wrong in my own text, nothing about the findings.

Blocker 1 named three charts and said all three were shaped if .Values._cluster.scheduling then get ... "globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints". The shared shape is right, the key is not. packages/apps/postgres/templates/db.yaml:195-196 and packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml:126-127 read globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints. packages/apps/vm-instance/templates/_helpers.tpl:100-101 reads dedicatedNodesForWindowsVMs. What all three share is the if then get form, not the key they ask for. The postgres range I wrote as 194-196 starts at 195.

Scope, which I left out entirely: three readers under packages/apps/, seven across the tree. The other four are packages/extra/etcd/templates/etcd-cluster.yaml:59-60, packages/system/keycloak/templates/db.yaml:12-13, packages/system/monitoring/templates/alerta/alerta-db.yaml:11-12 and packages/system/monitoring/templates/grafana/db.yaml:12-13.

The blocker stands, because it rests on the measurement rather than on the count: postgres under configured.yaml renders 7 documents and zero topologySpreadConstraints, and the sweep skips vm-instance either way. Same for the fixture being absent from fresh.yaml and wildcard.yaml.

myasnikovdaniil LGTM. Every blocker from my two earlier reviews is closed on this head, and the sweep goes red on the failures it says it catches.

Business context: helm-unittest suites render only the templates they name, so an app chart can keep a green suite while an unnamed template stops rendering (#4057). This PR renders every app chart offline under three platform states.

The five blockers, rechecked on 5dc4489:

1. Scheduling fixture. The configured and wildcard fixtures now set globalAppTopologySpreadConstraints as a YAML string, the same shape as the platform default in packages/core/platform/values.yaml:677. Fresh leaves it empty. The postgres test checks the constraint in both configured states and its absence in fresh.
2. Type check and PyYAML. The python one-liner is gone and the validator chart needs only helm. It types every top-level scalar, requires scheduling and branding to be maps, and types both scheduling leaves. The nested case I fed the old check is rejected now.
3. kubernetes-nodes skip. The sweep passes cluster and matches the error text against the recorded reason. I removed the fail at nodegroup.yaml:582 and all three fixtures reported "chart now renders; remove its skip", exit 1. So the lookup is the only thing keeping that chart out.
4. Commit and comment text. The series was rewritten, and the "fifth" figure, the _cluster.name claim and the review-round subject are gone. The body's claims hold against the diff and a local run: 16 tests, 21 rendered and 2 skipped.
5. README hardwrap. Every prose paragraph is one line now.

The set is packages/apps/*/, and the first test compares rendered plus skipped with the directory count, so a new chart can't fall outside the sweep. Main at 0cb37db has the same 23 chart directories as the PR base. I also broke real charts on the head. A nil pointer in bucket/templates/workloadmonitor.yaml, a template the bucket suite never names, failed under all three fixtures. So did a schema-violating default in postgres/values.yaml. The aggregate test went red under both bats and hack/cozytest.sh. make unit-tests picks the file up through BATS_UNIT_FILES, and the sweep takes about 4s with no network or dependency build. The clickhouse suite passes, 2 of 2.

Two non-blocking notes:

A chart that renders nothing still counts as rendered. I wrapped every vpn template in {{- if false }} and vpn stayed in the rendered count. The README says the check covers rendering only, so this matches the contract. Requiring at least one document per chart under at least one fixture would close it cheaply.

E2E Tests is red on this head. chainsaw/harbor timed out waiting for its HelmRelease while harbor could not reach its redis sentinel ("no route to host"). The diff touches no chart template, only hack/ and a clickhouse unittest file, so it can't affect that deployment. It needs a rerun, not a change.