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What this PR does

Break the tenant bootstrap-token-tenant Job out of its helm.sh/hook: post-install,post-upgrade lifecycle and move it into the main install phase, so the bootstrap-token-<id> Secret lands in the tenant kube-system before MachineDeployment can converge.

Why it deadlocks today

  • Job wired as post-install,post-upgrade fires only after Helm's wait phase resolves
  • Wait phase blocks on MachineDeployment Ready
  • MD Ready blocks on nodes registering
  • Node registration blocks on the kubelet CSR path, which needs the very bootstrap-token-<id> Secret this Job produces
  • Result: any fresh install, or any HR reconcile that finds MD in a non-Ready state, sits in a deadlock; HR.status.upgradeFailures climbs without the post-upgrade hook ever getting its turn

pre-install,pre-upgrade is not a fix either — those fire before non-hook templates apply, so <release>-admin-kubeconfig (materialised by Kamaji after KamajiControlPlane is applied) is not yet available.

The shape that works

Same shape talos-reconcile already uses in this chart: main-phase resources. Helm applies the SA and Job together with KamajiControlPlane and talos-secrets. Job's Pod stays pending until Kamaji publishes the admin kubeconfig Secret (backoffLimit covers the retry window). Job completes before MachineDeployment can converge. Helm's wait treats the Job as another resource to reach terminal state — it doesn't gate it on MD.

Verification

  • Reproduced the deadlock on two independent long-running tenant clusters (v1.6.x), documented in Talos worker nodes fail to register: bootstrap-token secret missing from workload cluster kube-system #3875
  • Reproduced the manual unblock (creating the bootstrap-token-<id> Secret by hand in the tenant kube-system) on both — nodes register within seconds, MD converges within minutes, HR clears
  • Extended packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_templates_test.yaml to pin the absence of helm.sh/hook on both rendered documents; helm unittest passes 9/9

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Not a UI change.

Downstream repositories

Walked the trigger map in docs/agents/contributing.md. The diff touches packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/bootstrap-token-tenant-job.yaml and its test — no app add/remove, no values.schema.json, no core/platform values, no hack/, no CRD, no ApplicationDefinition, no telemetry metric.

Release note

fix(kubernetes): tenant `bootstrap-token-<id>` Secret is now created in the main install phase instead of a post-install/post-upgrade hook, unblocking fresh installs and any HR reconcile that finds MachineDeployment in a non-Ready state.

Closes #3875

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved bootstrap-token job scheduling by running it as a standard chart resource instead of a Helm lifecycle hook.
    • Jobs are automatically recreated when relevant configuration changes, ensuring updates are applied reliably.
    • Added startup handling to wait for the admin kubeconfig when needed.
    • Improved retry and cleanup behavior so deployments are not unnecessarily blocked.
    • Ensured related resources are created consistently during chart deployment.
    • Improved job naming stability while respecting Kubernetes naming limits.

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The Talos bootstrap-token Job now renders as a regular resource with a content-hashed name. It waits for the admin kubeconfig, uses the shared kubeconfig path, and recreates when the rendered specification or bootstrap token values change. Tests cover these behaviors.

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Talos bootstrap token reconciliation

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Job lifecycle and execution spec
packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/bootstrap-token-tenant-job.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/talos-reconcile-job.yaml
The Job no longer uses Helm hooks. It waits for the admin kubeconfig and uses the shared kubeconfig path. Job backoff and TTL settings control retries and cleanup.
Hashed Job recreation and validation
packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/bootstrap-token-tenant-job.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_templates_test.yaml
The optional kubeconfig Secret and rendered Job specification produce a six-character content hash in the Job name. Tests verify stable naming, name rotation after image changes, optional volumes, init-container waiting, and absent hook annotations.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fd8d3

The bootstrap-token Job now runs during the main install phase, which unblocks fresh cluster installation, but its fixed name may prevent reruns after token changes and can make some upgrades fail when the Job template changes. Merge should wait for this behavior to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Helm
  participant BootstrapTokenJob
  participant AdminKubeconfigSecret
  participant WorkloadClusterAPI
  Helm->>BootstrapTokenJob: create regular Job resource
  BootstrapTokenJob->>AdminKubeconfigSecret: wait for kubeconfig
  BootstrapTokenJob->>WorkloadClusterAPI: apply bootstrap-token configuration
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Make the regular Job rerunnable when the token Secret changes.

If talos-secrets is recreated, the chart can generate new token values, but this Job's fixed name and Secret key references remain unchanged. The tenant bootstrap Secret can retain the old token. Hash the token inputs into the Job name, or explicitly delete and recreate the Job. Add an upgrade test for token rotation.

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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/bootstrap-token-tenant-job.yaml`
around lines 42 - 43, Update the bootstrap Job resource using the visible
Kubernetes template and kubernetes.labels helper so token input changes produce
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NOT LGTM. The direction is right, the reasoning baked into the template is not.

  1. The deadlock in the new header can't happen on this release. packages/system/kubernetes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes.yaml:28 sets release.cozystack.io/helm-install-disable-wait: "true" and pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go puts it on both Install.DisableWait and Upgrade.DisableWait, so there is no wait phase in front of the hooks. CI agrees: on fix/verify-hostless-refs-main (E2E job 96011321667, 19 Aug), which touches nothing in this chart, the hook Job's pod is created early enough to hit MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "tenant-admin" : secret "<release>-admin-kubeconfig" not found, and all four tenant clusters in that run then log Job completed. The hook fires on main and the Secret lands. talos-reconcile-job.yaml:31-55 and the cozyrd both blame the in-tenant addon HelmReleases for that deadlock, not MachineDeployment. The change is still worth making, just for another reason: a post-upgrade hook never runs on a release whose upgrade keeps failing, and those clusters were at 5726 upgrade failures. Put that in the comment and in the test instead. talos-reconcile-job.yaml:66 says the bootstrap-token Job stays a post-install hook, so that line needs fixing here too.

  2. The comment at lines 44-50 stayed, and it still promises the Job "fails the chart upgrade loudly" instead of letting Helm mark the install successful with no Secret in the tenant. True for a hook. talos-reconcile-job.yaml:219-220 says it plainly for the main-phase sibling: "when disable-wait is in effect Helm does not wait on it". A Job that burns through backoffLimit: 10 now leaves the release green with no Secret, and the TTL takes the evidence away 10 minutes later.

  3. The Job name is static, which is exactly what talos-reconcile carries a content hash to avoid (talos-reconcile-job.yaml:69-80, tests at talos_templates_test.yaml:204-276). helm template with images.kubectl=alpine/k8s:1.33.4 and then 1.34.0 gives a different container image under the same name t-bootstrap-token-tenant, while the sibling moves from t-talos-reconcile-md0-7d0cdc to -30cd0f. A Job's spec.template is immutable and the generated HelmRelease sets no Force, so an upgrade landing while the Job runs, or inside ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 600, fails with spec.template: field is immutable and RetryOnFailure loops on it. images.kubectl is a documented value (README.md:214). Same root cause, other half: the Job reads the token through secretKeyRef, so a rotated bootstrapTokenId never changes the render and Helm no-ops on a live Job.

  4. The tenant-admin volume has no optional: true. Everything else in this chart that mounts that Secret sets it (kccm/manager.yaml:61, csi/deploy.yaml:243, cluster-autoscaler/deployment.yaml:72) and _helpers.tpl:68-75 says why. The FailedMount above is that. It was harmless while the Job ran after Kamaji had finished; now t0 is the point. It also makes the new "backoffLimit covers the retry window" wrong: backoffLimit counts failed pods, and a pod stuck on a mount doesn't fail. optional: true plus the kubernetes.waitForAdminKubeconfig init container fixes both.

The red E2E here isn't yours. The bootstrap-token Job reached Job completed in that run too, and the same node-join failure shows up on branches that don't touch this chart.

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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/bootstrap-token-tenant-job.yaml`:
- Around line 222-227: Update the bootstrap-token Job hash near $jobHash to
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NOT LGTM, three comment lines short of it.

All four points are fixed and I checked them: the rationale now matches disable-wait, the "fails loudly" paragraph is gone, the Job carries a content hash (ddf388 on defaults, 319ae4 with images.kubectl=example.com/kubectl:v9.9.9), and the volume is optional: true behind the shared init container. The round-2 E2E confirms the last one, no FailedMount on the bootstrap-token pods any more, and -88acf7 followed by -bb6149 is the lookup flip you documented.

  1. tests/talos_templates_test.yaml says "Point 4 of the review". Review-round references shouldn't ship in a tracked file, the comment needs to stand on its own.

  2. The same file says the default-image render is e8c6ea. It's ddf388, which is what the case right above pins, and the alternate-image one is 319ae4. While you're in there, the sibling cases pin both exact hashes rather than one exact plus a notMatchRegex, might as well match that.

  3. talos-reconcile-job.yaml:67 picked up 7 spaces of indent instead of 2.

E2E is still red on the node-join family and it isn't yours: the bootstrap-token Jobs reached Job completed in that run, and the same failure shows up on branches that don't touch this chart.

…k fresh installs

The bootstrap-token-tenant Job was wired as a Helm post-install/post-upgrade
hook. post-* hooks fire only after Helm's wait phase resolves, and the tenant
kubernetes release wait blocks on MachineDeployment Ready, which blocks on
nodes registering, which needs the kubelet CSR path — for which the very
bootstrap-token this Job produces has to already exist in the tenant
kube-system. Fresh installs and any HR reconcile that finds MD in a
non-Ready state deadlock; HR.upgradeFailures climbs while post-upgrade
hooks never get their turn to run.

pre-install/pre-upgrade would not help either: they fire before non-hook
templates apply, so <release>-admin-kubeconfig (materialised by Kamaji
after KamajiControlPlane is applied) is not yet available.

Move the ServiceAccount and Job to the main install phase, matching what
talos-reconcile already does in this chart. Helm applies them together
with the KamajiControlPlane and talos-secrets; the Job Pod stays pending
until Kamaji publishes the admin kubeconfig Secret (backoffLimit covers
the retry window) and then completes before MachineDeployment can
converge. Helm's wait treats the Job as another resource to reach
terminal state and does not gate it on MD.

Extend the existing template test to pin the absence of helm.sh/hook
on both the ServiceAccount and the Job, so this cannot regress silently.

Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <[email protected]>
…urn-free

Address review of the main-phase bootstrap-token Job.

The deadlock the header claimed cannot occur on this release: the
kubernetes cozyrd carries helm-install-disable-wait, which cozystack-api
maps to Install.DisableWait and Upgrade.DisableWait, so there is no
main-resource wait phase in front of the hooks. Rewrite the rationale
around the real reason to leave the hook shape: a post-upgrade hook never
runs on a release whose upgrade keeps failing, so the token Secret never
lands. Fix the stale 'stays a post-install hook' note in
talos-reconcile-job.yaml and the 'fails the chart upgrade loudly' comment,
which is untrue once Helm no longer waits on the Job.

Give the immutable Job a content-hash name suffix over its whole rendered
spec, mirroring talos-reconcile: a static name would fail an upgrade that
lands while the Job is live (or inside its TTL) with 'spec.template: field
is immutable'. Fold the looked-up bootstrapTokenId into the hash so a
rotated token also rolls the Job instead of Helm no-oping a completed one.

Make the admin-kubeconfig volume optional and gate the Pod on the shared
wait-for-kubeconfig init container, so it waits in init (uncounted by
backoffLimit) instead of FailedMount at t0.

Extend the template tests for the hashed name, its rotation on an image
change, and the optional volume + init container.

Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <[email protected]>
…iew nits

Fold bootstrapTokenSecret into the Job content hash alongside
bootstrapTokenId. talos-secrets.yaml regenerates the two token halves
independently, so hashing only the id left a rotated secret no-oping a
completed Job and the tenant stuck on the stale bootstrap-token.

Also address review feedback: drop a review-round reference from the
tracked test, correct a stale hash in a test comment, pin the
alternate-image hash case exactly instead of by regex, and fix a comment
indent in talos-reconcile-job.yaml.

Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <[email protected]>

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LGTM. All three nits are fixed, and both hash fixtures match my own renders: fc314f on defaults, dbf53d with images.kubectl=example.com/kubectl:v9.9.9. Chart suite is 246/246. Folding bootstrapTokenSecret in alongside the id is the right call and the reason given in the header holds — talos-secrets.yaml guards the two halves with separate eq $btId "" and eq $btSecret "" checks, so either one can regenerate on its own.

One thing to do before this merges, and it is only the message. 542ab899c's body still says post-* hooks fire only after a wait phase that blocks on MachineDeployment Ready, and that fresh installs deadlock on it. Commit 035bde19 is the one that establishes that this cannot happen on this release. The repo merges with merge commits, so all three bodies land on main and git log ends up carrying the refuted mechanism as the stated reason for the change. Squash the series, or reword that body to the reason commit 2 settled on.

E2E is still running. Nothing else is red apart from the breakpoint check-run, which clears itself on resume.

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…k fresh installs (#3887)

## What this PR does

Break the tenant `bootstrap-token-tenant` Job out of its `helm.sh/hook:
post-install,post-upgrade` lifecycle and move it into the main install
phase, so the `bootstrap-token-<id>` Secret lands in the tenant
`kube-system` before `MachineDeployment` can converge.

### Why it deadlocks today

- Job wired as `post-install,post-upgrade` fires only after Helm's wait
phase resolves
- Wait phase blocks on `MachineDeployment` Ready
- MD Ready blocks on nodes registering
- Node registration blocks on the kubelet CSR path, which needs the very
`bootstrap-token-<id>` Secret this Job produces
- Result: any fresh install, or any HR reconcile that finds MD in a
non-Ready state, sits in a deadlock; `HR.status.upgradeFailures` climbs
without the post-upgrade hook ever getting its turn

`pre-install,pre-upgrade` is not a fix either — those fire before
non-hook templates apply, so `<release>-admin-kubeconfig` (materialised
by Kamaji after `KamajiControlPlane` is applied) is not yet available.

### The shape that works

Same shape `talos-reconcile` already uses in this chart: main-phase
resources. Helm applies the SA and Job together with
`KamajiControlPlane` and `talos-secrets`. Job's Pod stays pending until
Kamaji publishes the admin kubeconfig Secret (`backoffLimit` covers the
retry window). Job completes before MachineDeployment can converge.
Helm's wait treats the Job as another resource to reach terminal state —
it doesn't gate it on MD.

### Verification

- Reproduced the deadlock on two independent long-running tenant
clusters (v1.6.x), documented in #3875
- Reproduced the manual unblock (creating the `bootstrap-token-<id>`
Secret by hand in the tenant `kube-system`) on both — nodes register
within seconds, MD converges within minutes, HR clears
- Extended `packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_templates_test.yaml` to
pin the absence of `helm.sh/hook` on both rendered documents; `helm
unittest` passes 9/9

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

Walked the trigger map in `docs/agents/contributing.md`. The diff
touches
`packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/talos/bootstrap-token-tenant-job.yaml`
and its test — no app add/remove, no `values.schema.json`, no
core/platform values, no `hack/`, no CRD, no `ApplicationDefinition`, no
telemetry metric.

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### Release note

```release-note
fix(kubernetes): tenant `bootstrap-token-<id>` Secret is now created in the main install phase instead of a post-install/post-upgrade hook, unblocking fresh installs and any HR reconcile that finds MachineDeployment in a non-Ready state.
```

Closes #3875


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved bootstrap-token job scheduling by running it as a standard
chart resource instead of a Helm lifecycle hook.
* Jobs are automatically recreated when relevant configuration changes,
ensuring updates are applied reliably.
  * Added startup handling to wait for the admin kubeconfig when needed.
* Improved retry and cleanup behavior so deployments are not
unnecessarily blocked.
* Ensured related resources are created consistently during chart
deployment.
* Improved job naming stability while respecting Kubernetes naming
limits.
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## What this PR does

Backports #3887 to `release-1.6`. The fix reached `main` only: `v1.6.3`
and `v1.6.4` both still ship the bootstrap-token Job as a
`post-install,post-upgrade` Helm hook, and `git tag --contains` on the
merge commit returns `v1.7.0-alpha.1` and nothing from the 1.6 line.
Tracked as #4539.

#3875 describes the deadlock this removes: the chart upgrade waits for
`MachineDeployment` and the child HelmReleases, workers cannot register
without the `bootstrap-token-<id>` Secret in the guest cluster, and the
hook that creates that Secret only runs once the wait has already
succeeded. The wait cannot succeed without nodes, so the upgrade times
out and Flux retries the same cycle indefinitely.

It is deterministic rather than flaky, and it takes out every tenant
Kubernetes cluster on the platform at once. What makes the backport
worth filing separately: anyone hitting this on 1.6.3 finds #3875 closed
in the tracker, upgrades to 1.6.4 expecting the fix, and lands in
exactly the same state.

Observed on a production cluster before the manual workaround: machines
stuck in `Provisioned` with no `NODENAME`, VMIs `Running` with IPs
assigned, guest clusters reporting `No resources found` for nodes, and
no bootstrap-token Secret anywhere in the guest `kube-system`. Creating
the Secret by hand brought nodes up within 90 seconds on each affected
tenant.

`git cherry-pick --mainline 1` of the merge commit applied cleanly with
no conflicts, and nothing was changed on top: the diff here is identical
to what merged on `main`.

Validation, `helm unittest` in `packages/apps/kubernetes` including
`tests/talos_templates_test.yaml` which this change extends:

```
Charts:      1 passed, 1 total
Test Suites: 19 passed, 19 total
Tests:       189 passed, 189 total
```

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```release-note
fix(kubernetes): create the tenant bootstrap-token Secret outside the Helm hook, so Talos workers can register during a chart upgrade instead of deadlocking against the wait that needs them
```
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