feat(mongodb): support the system-bucket backup flow (useSystemBucket) - #3967

NOT LGTM. Four blockers: the snapshot fallback also fires on legacy apps and records the platform bucket for an archive that is not there, the injected storage is written once and then never updated, the backup-classes doc now says the opposite of what the driver does, and one commit trailer names a model.

Business context: MongoDB was the last cozy-default app with no useSystemBucket route, so a tenant could not back up to the platform system bucket without supplying their own S3 keys. This adds the flag, moves the bucket coordinates onto the shared strategy, and has the driver inject them onto the live PerconaServerMongoDB at BackupJob time.

Blockers

B1: the snapshot fallback rewrites legacy backups to the platform bucket

File: internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:1001

The fallback is gated on snap.S3 == nil && rendered.S3 != nil. After this change rendered.S3 is non-nil for every app bound to cozy-default, legacy ones included, because the coordinates moved onto the shared cozy-default-mongodb strategy. The condition never asks whether the driver actually injected anything.

Evidence: I ran marshalMongoDBBackupSnapshot with a legacy-shaped input (Status.Destination = s3://tenant-own-bucket/mongodb-src/..., Status.S3 nil, rendered.S3 set to platform coordinates) and read the snapshot back:

LEGACY app snapshot S3 = bucket="cozy-backups-PLATFORM" endpoint="https://platform-s3.example" creds="cozy-backups-creds"

Before this change snap.S3 stayed nil, resolveMongoDBBackupSource left backupSource.s3 unset (:870-881), and the psmdb operator resolved the archive through storageName against the target cluster's own storage, which is the tenant bucket. Now backupSource.s3 points at a bucket the archive was never written to, and the credential re-point at :758 swaps cozy-backups-creds for the target's <release>-s3-creds on top of that. A legacy restore reads the wrong bucket with the wrong credentials and fails. SKIP_RESTORE=1 in the chainsaw suite means the restore half never runs in CI.

Fix: gate the fallback on the injection having happened, not on the strategy carrying coordinates. reconcileMongoDB already knows at :237 via shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage; thread that boolean through createMongoDBBackupArtifact. Then add the legacy case to TestMarshalMongoDBBackupSnapshot_SystemBucketFallback, which today pins only the system-bucket half. That is why the gate reads as correct.

B2: the injected storage never catches up with the strategy

File: internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:398-410

shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage returns false as soon as the named storage key exists, so applyMongoDBSystemStorage (its only caller, :237) runs once per cluster, on the first BackupJob. Every later change to the strategy s3 block is a no-op against clusters that already ran one.

Evidence: the CNPG driver this PR mirrors does the opposite. applyClusterPluginBackup (cnpgstrategy_controller.go:454) SSA-applies the ObjectStore and patches spec.plugins on every BackupJob, unconditionally, and freezes only serverName, with the reason at :446-453: flipping the archive prefix mid-stream splits the WAL. Coordinates get re-applied, the path prefix does not. The MongoDB gate freezes the coordinates instead. Helm cannot repair the drift either, because on useSystemBucket: true the chart renders no spec.backup.storages at all, so the key is in neither the old nor the new rendered manifest and Helm's merge patch never touches it. A stale entry is permanent short of a hand edit.

The platform endpoint is derived at reconcile time from the COSI system-credentials Secret, and backupStorage.region, endpoint and forcePathStyle are documented as admin-tunable in the chart values. Change any of them, or re-provision the bucket, and every MongoDB app that has run one backup keeps writing to the old coordinates with no signal.

Fix: key the decision off the application, not off the live cluster. The driver already fetches the app CR at :182. Add UseSystemBucket to mongodbapp.MongoDBSpec, whose doc comment reserves it for exactly this, and inject unconditionally when the flag is set, never when it is not. A legacy app is then protected by the flag rather than by whatever happens to be on the cluster, and the shape matches CNPG.

B3: the backup-classes doc states the opposite of what the driver now does

File: docs/operations/backup-classes.md:73

The section reads "Unlike CNPG / MariaDB / Altinity, the MongoDB driver cannot inject its S3 target per-backup", under the heading "MongoDB: the application owns the backup storage". This PR is the change that makes both false.

Evidence: same claim at four more sites. :38, the endpoint table row, still reads "n/a — storage lives on the app (backup.endpointURL) ... configured on the MongoDB application, not the strategy", while strategy-mongodb-default.yaml now renders s3.endpointUrl from the endpoint helper. :243 says "The S3 target itself is tuned via backup.* values on the MongoDB release". packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/rbac.yaml:161 says "the driver only ever Creates/Lists/Gets these objects, it never patches or deletes them", two lines above the rule this PR extends with patch and update. examples/backups/mongodb/05-mongodb-src.yaml says "it does NOT inject storage into the cluster". So the page an operator reads to decide whether MongoDB can use the system bucket tells them it cannot.

Fix: a "MongoDB: opt-in to the system bucket" section next to the ClickHouse one, plus the four sites above. The ClickHouse section also has the shape for the thing missing here: it names which values stop being read and tells the reader to move scheduled backups to a Plan against cozy-default. That matters more for MongoDB. Flipping the flag on a running app drops spec.backup.tasks and spec.backup.pitr from the cluster along with the storage, so the daily backup and PITR the app had before the flip stop, while backup.schedule and backup.retentionPolicy stay in the schema with their defaults and do nothing. The chart, the schema description and the README are all silent on that, and no condition surfaces it.

B4: a commit trailer names a model and a vendor

File: commit 725f50f6e64a2e4be2e74cae2a0ac4014acac43a

The message ends with Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>.

Evidence: AGENTS.md, under "What NOT to Do", forbids crediting an AI model or its vendor by name in a commit trailer. This repository merges with a merge commit, so the trailer lands on main verbatim and renders as a co-author.

Fix: reword to one Assisted-by: LLM trailer and force-push. Separately, docs/agents/contributing.md:117-125 still shows the older model-naming form and contradicts AGENTS.md. That is not this PR's to carry.

Non-blocking follow-ups

1. psmdbstrategy_controller.go:422 and :1004 both hard-code "cozy-backups-creds" as the credentials default. One const next to psmdbDefaultStorageName keeps them from diverging.
2. applyMongoDBSystemStorage and the re-Get after it (:237-244) have no test, though the package has fake-client reconcile tests in backupjob_controller_test.go and credentials_projector_test.go. The two extracted helpers are covered, the wiring between them and the precondition check is not.
3. packages/apps/mongodb/tests/mongodb_test.yaml asserts notExists on spec.backup.storages and spec.backup.tasks but not spec.backup.pitr, which the same template block also drops.
4. The header comment on strategy-mongodb-default.yaml still gives "a storage declared" as the precondition the driver gates on. On the new flow the storage is absent by design until the driver puts it there.
5. internal/template/template.go swallows a template execute error and returns the input unchanged, so a prefix that fails to render would land in the S3 path verbatim instead of failing the BackupJob. This PR adds the first templated S3 coordinate on the MongoDB path, so it inherits that rather than causing it.
6. Nothing in CI reaches the new route. The chainsaw suite drives examples/backups/mongodb/run-all.sh, whose source app is the legacy shape, so shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage returns false throughout and the injection, the strategy's new s3 block and the restore fallback all go untraversed. The PR body says as much and the suite header claims nothing it does not do, but it does mean B1 and B2 would ship green.

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In `@internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go`:
- Line 420: The storage injection gate around the existing system-bucket check
must also verify that the requested storageName is absent from the fetched
cluster’s spec.backup.storages map. Update the gate and its callers to pass the
cluster and storageName, preserving injection only for missing entries so an
existing static or manually managed storage cannot be replaced; add a regression
case covering useSystemBucket=true with an existing storage entry.

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NOT LGTM. Three things left: prose the diff touched now says the opposite of what the code does, nothing asserts the new strategy rendering, and the restore credential swap breaks when source and target sit on different flows.

The four from last round are closed. I reverted the snapshot gate to snap.S3 == nil && rendered.S3 != nil to check the new pin actually bites, and TestMarshalMongoDBBackupSnapshot_LegacyNoFallback goes red with the platform bucket and cozy-backups-creds in a legacy snapshot. It bites.

Both red checks are not yours. hack/check-rd-presets.sh:39 pipes printf into grep -Fqx under set -o pipefail: grep exits on the first match, printf takes EPIPE, pipefail turns that into the pipeline's status, and the if ! records a preset as missing that is present. The log prints printf: write error: Broken pipe right before each FAIL, the three files it names are ones this branch never touches, and the script passes at your head locally. That then cascades, since finalize wants needs.checks.result == 'success' and e2e needs finalize, so e2e was skipped and the E2E gate reports the skip as a failure. Nothing for you to fix, but it does mean no e2e ran against this.

Blockers

B1: prose the diff touched is now false

packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-mongodb-default.yaml:12 says the $bucketName gate is "NOT because it needs the value", and :29 closes with "The seven sibling strategies got this for free by needing the bucket name. This one has to ask for it". Line 55 renders bucket: {{ $bucketName | quote }}. The paragraph right above it was rewritten by this diff, so the two sit one screen apart. Same file :33 still gives the precondition as backup.enabled=true so "the s3-storage entry exists", which on the new flow it does not.

packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/tests/rendering_test.yaml:54 explains its assertion with "Its Strategy needs no bucket coordinates (the S3 target lives on the MongoDB application's spec.backup, the driver only names the storage), so the gate is there purely for ordering". That is the stated reason the test exists.

The field description is wrong twice, and this is the one that ships to tenants. "at first BackupJob time" is the contract 501bc4fc1 replaced, while docs/operations/backup-classes.md says "On every BackupJob ... rather than frozen at the first", so the PR disagrees with itself. The same sentence says backups scope to <namespace>/<release>, but the template renders prefix: {{ .Application.metadata.namespace }}/{{ .Application.metadata.name }}, which is the app CR name, and mongodbAppPrefix = "mongodb-" makes the release mongodb-<appname>. So the prefix is <namespace>/<appname>. Both errors live in packages/apps/mongodb/values.yaml:158 and regenerate into values.schema.json, README.md, api/apps/v1alpha1/mongodb/types.go:87 and mongodb-rd/cozyrds/mongodb.yaml, so they land in every tenant's CRD. One line plus make generate. internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:248 carries the same <release> slip.

B2: nothing asserts the new strategy rendering

tests/endpoint_form_test.yaml is there to pin each driver's endpoint form, and it lists etcd, cnpg, mariadb, foundationdb and velero-bsl. strategy-mongodb-default.yaml is not in it, though this diff adds s3.endpointUrl as a new consumer and a row to the endpoint table claiming "full URL (scheme preserved)". tests/rendering_test.yaml only counts documents for MongoDB, so bucket, endpointUrl, region, credentialsSecret, forcePathStyle and prefix have nothing on them. prefix is the one I would want covered: it is a literal {{ … }} string that has to survive Helm un-evaluated so the driver can template it later, and one stray brace would empty it with every other test still green.

B3: the restore credential swap breaks across flows

internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:769 replaces source.S3.CredentialsSecret with whatever psmdbTargetCredentialsSecret finds on the target, and that function reads .s3.credentialsSecret while comparing no buckets. Before this PR backup.enabled=true always meant a chart-rendered storage on the tenant's own bucket, so the assumption held. It now has a counterexample each way. A system-bucket backup restored into a legacy target keeps the platform bucket and repoints it at the tenant's -s3-creds. A legacy backup restored into a system-bucket target that already ran one BackupJob gets cozy-backups-creds against the tenant's bucket. The first is the ordinary disaster-recovery shape. The swap also exists for a problem the new flow does not have, because cozy-backups-creds is platform-projected and outlives the source app. Either skip the swap when the source already names the projected secret, or make it bucket-aware: psmdbStorageS3CredentialsSecret would need to read .s3.bucket too, and TestPsmdbTargetCredentialsSecret is already shaped to take the case.

Non-blocking

1. The re-Get at psmdbstrategy_controller.go:254 hits the informer cache, since cmd/backupstrategy-controller/main.go:175 disables caching for Secrets only. Right after the apply it usually returns the pre-patch cluster, so psmdbBackupPrecondition reports spec.backup.storages does not declare storage "s3-storage" and the tenant briefly sees Ready=False with reason PerconaServerMongoDBBackupsDisabled, on a flow where declaring no storage is the point. It clears on the next tick. The read is redundant anyway: the typed Patch decodes the server's response into the object you passed it.
2. Injection runs before the spec.backup.enabled gate, so useSystemBucket: true with backup.enabled: false writes a storage onto a cluster that cannot back up. Nothing in the chart rejects that combination either.
3. A transient apiserver error on the apply goes to markBackupJobFailed, which is terminal, while every other read error in that function requeues. It matches the CNPG driver, so consistency is a fair argument, but the cost is a lost backup window on one hiccup.
4. ForcePathStyle is *bool and InsecureSkipTLSVerify is a plain bool, and the test justifies the pointer as keeping out "a forcePathStyle:false the app never chose". On this flow the driver owns the whole subtree and the app chooses neither, and insecureSkipTLSVerify: false goes out unconditionally.
5. The "keyed off the app flag, not the live cluster's storage set" rationale is restated in six places: mongodbapp/types.go, the injection site, shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage, the strategy template header, its inline s3 comment, and packages/apps/mongodb/templates/mongodb.yaml.
6. The field description runs about 700 characters of implementation detail (server-side apply, field managers, which Secret the chart skips) into the CRD. backup-classes.md already carries the long form.
7. applyMongoDBSystemStorage and the re-Get have no test. Separately, psmdbBackupPrecondition appends "(set backup.enabled=true on the MongoDB application)" to a storage-missing failure where enabled is already true, which predates this PR but gets much easier to hit.
8. hack/e2e-chainsaw/mongodb drives the example against the shipped cozy-default BackupClass, but its source app is legacy-shaped, so injection never fires and the new route has no coverage. SKIP_RESTORE=1 drops the restore half too.

NOT LGTM. The branch no longer merges into main, and three text-level defects are still open.

The rendering pins landed and they hold. I mutated the template to check: changing the prefix separator reddens the prefix assertion, and swapping the endpoint helper for a fixed value reddens both scheme tests in endpoint_form_test.yaml. The credential swap now compares buckets, the field description matches what the template renders, and the post-apply re-Get is gone.

Blockers

1. The branch conflicts with main

git merge-tree --write-tree origin/main HEAD reports CONFLICT (content) in packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-mongodb-default.yaml and auto-merges everything else cleanly. Rebase and re-push. Re-read the header prose afterwards, since that file is the one both sides touched.

2. Commit body opens with review-iteration vocabulary

94eca755b starts with "Second review round on the useSystemBucket flow." 501bc4fc1 opens the same way with "Review of the useSystemBucket flow surfaced three defects". The Commit Format section in docs/agents/contributing.md asks for a body written "for a reader who has only git log, so no review-iteration or planning vocabulary", and lists it under Review Blockers as decided by the text alone. A reader six months out has no rounds to count. Both bodies already explain the defect properly one sentence later, so this is just the opening line in each.

3. "like the seven siblings do" is false for three of the seven

strategy-mongodb-default.yaml:12 now says this Strategy "needs the bucket name like the seven siblings do — and, like them, the $bucketName gate is what keeps this chart installable on a fresh cluster." Three siblings gate on $bucketName without ever rendering it: strategy-altinity-default.yaml, strategy-velero-vmdisk-default.yaml and strategy-velero-vminstance-default.yaml reference it only on their if line. The four that consume the value are cnpg, mariadb, etcd and foundationdb.

So for those three the gate really is only the install-ordering guard, and the old "not because it needs the value" was accurate about them. The correction over-reached from "MongoDB does not need the value" to "everyone needs the value", which is the same kind of sentence the code next to it falsifies. Either name the four that render it, or drop the comparison and describe only this file. The second version cannot rot.

4. The PR body describes the gate this PR replaced

Two claims in the body no longer match the code. It says injection is "gated on the storage being absent, so a legacy app that ships its own static storage is left untouched", but shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage is now return useSystemBucket && rendered.S3 != nil. Removing that condition is what 501bc4fc1 is for.

It also describes the strategy as carrying prefix: <ns>/<release>. The template renders {{ .Application.metadata.namespace }}/{{ .Application.metadata.name }}, and mongodbAppPrefix = "mongodb-" makes the release mongodb-<appname>, so <release> is the wrong token. That is the same slip the head commit fixed in the field description, the driver comment and the docs. The body is what a maintainer reads before the diff.

Non-blocking

1. Opting back out is unhandled. When backup.useSystemBucket flips from true to false on a live app, the driver stops injecting, but nothing removes the entry it already applied or releases field ownership; psmdbFieldManager appears at the apply site and nowhere else. The legacy chart render sets bucket, prefix, endpointUrl, credentialsSecret, insecureSkipTLSVerify and forcePathStyle, never region, while buildMongoDBSystemStorageEntry always sets it, so the platform region would survive next to the tenant's own bucket. I have not run this on a cluster so I am not claiming a guaranteed failure, but there is no code path and no test for the transition, and the docs only describe the move in.

2. applyMongoDBSystemStorage still has no test of its own. The two extracted helpers are covered, which is the useful half, but the apply itself (field manager, ForceOwnership, decoding the merged object back) is only reached through them.

3. The system-bucket route still is not exercised end to end. examples/backups/mongodb/05-mongodb-src.yaml mentions useSystemBucket in a comment, but the app stays legacy-shaped with destinationPath and explicit keys, and the chainsaw test still runs run-all.sh with SKIP_RESTORE=1. The body is upfront that this is a follow-up, which reads fair to me given the system bucket is not wired in CI.

4. d528a8d902 is the only commit in the series without an Assisted-by: LLM trailer while the other three carry it, and its body still describes the gate as "S3 coordinates present AND the named storage absent", which 501bc4fc1 replaced. A missing trailer passes the automated check on its own, so this is consistency rather than a rule break. Worth a reword during the rebase.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go`:
- Line 519: Replace the deprecated client.Apply argument in the r.Patch call
with a small non-deprecated client.Patch implementation that returns
types.ApplyPatchType and JSON-marshals the *psmdbtypes.PerconaServerMongoDB
patch object. Preserve client.FieldOwner(psmdbFieldManager) and
client.ForceOwnership.

In `@packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/rbac.yaml`:
- Line 169: Update the RBAC rule for PerconaServerMongoDB to remove only the
update verb, while retaining patch and the other existing verbs; the
controller’s Status().Update calls target BackupJob and RestoreJob resources,
not PerconaServerMongoDB.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The render is right and the Go reads right. But the one line that makes the injection take effect is held by no test, and the flow ships with nothing that ever prunes the shared platform bucket.

Findings

• [MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:256, nothing holds the line that makes the injection take effect
• [MAJOR] packages/apps/mongodb/templates/mongodb.yaml:233, nothing prunes the system bucket on this flow
• [MINOR] packages/apps/mongodb/templates/mongodb.yaml:224, this comment and the one on psmdbBackupPrecondition contradict each other
• [MINOR] packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-mongodb-default.yaml:75, insecureSkipTLSVerify is plumbed end to end and then never set
• [MINOR] packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/rbac.yaml:169, update is granted but never used
• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:815, "unit-tested across the four flow combinations" is half true
• [MINOR] packages/apps/mongodb/values.yaml:158, the angle brackets disappear in every renderer this prose reaches

Checked and clean

The typed SSA patch can't clobber spec.backup.enabled: the bool carries omitempty, so the apply payload is storages-only. The strategy prefix survives Helm as a literal Go template, and mapAtStrings recurses into nested maps, so the s3.* leaves do get templated at BackupJob time. The strategy stays gated on $bucketName, so no empty-bucket strategy renders.

render-diff against e3ab40eb8 came back 0 regressions on both charts, legacy corners unchanged. The bootstrap.enabled + useSystemBucket corner fails deliberately at restore.yaml:3.

Restore into a never-backed-up target does work, which is not obvious given how the two paths differ on storage naming. The driver leaves spec.storageName unset, so upstream resolves the storage out of backupSource.s3 and never reads the target's spec.backup.storages, and the pbm agent sidecar is gated on Backup.Enabled alone.

Still open

E2E (in-tree) is red on be7523a89 and it isn't this change. The sandbox container vanished between two steps (container ... is not running, then RWLayer ... is unexpectedly nil, then No such container at teardown) after the step before it passed clean. Still worth knowing, because select-e2e escalated this PR to the full suite and then neither the OpenAPI suite nor the e2e suite ran at all. There is no end-to-end evidence on this revision.

SSA field ownership, the pbm config push racing the injection, and the flip-back residue are all invisible to a render. A first system-bucket backup plus a restore into a fresh target on a live cluster would close them.

NOT LGTM. The restore path never reads the coordinates the new snapshot fallback records, a doc claim this diff falsified ships into the CRD, and the one line that keeps two tenants apart inside the shared bucket is held by no test.

What landed since my last round: the branch merges into main again (git merge-tree --write-tree origin/main be7523a89 against origin/main at 5b91c6b7c returns a tree and no conflict), the review-round openings are gone from every commit body on the branch, the false "like the seven siblings do" sentence was dropped from the strategy header instead of being rewritten, and the PR body now describes the flag-keyed gate rather than the storage-absent one it replaced. I re-ran the rendering ladder and it still holds. Changing the prefix separator reddens the prefix assertion, swapping the endpoint helper for a fixed value reddens both scheme rows in endpoint_form_test.yaml, and editing credentialsSecret or forcePathStyle reddens the rendering suite. The same-bucket credential guard holds too: dropping the bucket == wantBucket comparison reddens three cases across TestPsmdbTargetCredentialsSecret and TestMongoDBRestoreCredentialsSecret.

Both blockers already raised on this head reproduce for me. Neutralising cluster = injected leaves go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ green, and there is no retention anywhere on this flow (grep -n etention api/backups/v1alpha1/plan_types.go api/backups/strategy/v1alpha1/mongodb_types.go returns nothing, and the chart's keep: went out together with tasks). Treat both as still open; I am not restating them below.

Blockers

1. Restore ignores the snapshot fallback while the operator Backup CR still exists

resolveMongoDBBackupSource returns early off the live PerconaServerMongoDBBackup as soon as its status.destination is non-empty, copying status.s3 as it finds it (internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:904-911). The case the new fallback exists for is precisely destination set with status.s3 nil, so in that case the restore gets source.S3 == nil and the strategy coordinates the snapshot holds are never read.

Everything downstream then degrades without saying anything. The credential swap is skipped, because it is guarded by source.S3 != nil at :817, and ensureMongoDBRestore hands the psmdb operator a backupSource carrying a destination and no s3 block. On the system-bucket flow the target has no s3-storage entry to resolve it from either: injection only runs on the BackupJob path, so a fresh restore target has never been injected.

The snapshot is reached only once the operator CR has been reaped, which is not the normal restore window. Either the read path has to fill a live source's missing s3 from the snapshot, or, if the operator always echoes status.s3 on this flow, then the fallback and TestMarshalMongoDBBackupSnapshot_SystemBucketFallback cover a case that cannot happen and should say so. Both existing tests miss the combination: TestResolveMongoDBBackupSource_LivePreferred seeds a live CR with S3 set, and TestResolveMongoDBBackupSource_SnapshotFallback seeds no live CR at all.

2. The strategy godoc that ships into the CRD denies what this diff adds

api/backups/strategy/v1alpha1/mongodb_types.go:40 still reads "Unlike the MariaDB strategy, the storage config is NOT inlined here ... and the strategy only names the storage to use". This PR inlines it, as MongoDBTemplate.S3. That sentence is not only a comment: controller-gen copies it into packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/definitions/strategy.backups.cozystack.io_mongodbs.yaml:30, a file this same diff edits to add the s3 property at :79 of the very same document. So kubectl explain mongodbs.strategy.backups.cozystack.io serves an operator the new field and the denial of it out of one object.

In the same file, MongoDBTemplate.StorageName at :79 says the mongodb chart declares s3-storage when backup.enabled=true, which after this PR is true of the default flow only.

3. Nothing pins that the strategy prefix resolves per application

prefix reaches the Strategy CR as the literal string {{ .Application.metadata.namespace }}/{{ .Application.metadata.name }}, and renderMongoDBTemplate is what turns it into a per-tenant path at BackupJob time. That resolution is the only thing separating two tenants' dumps inside one shared cozy-backups bucket, and it is unpinned: I made renderMongoDBTemplate return its S3 block untemplated and go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1 stayed green.

renderMongoDBTemplate appears in no test in the package. The sibling drivers already have exactly this test, TestRenderCNPGTemplate_TemplatingApplicationName and renderFoundationDBTemplate at foundationdbstrategy_controller_test.go:91. One case rendering the shipped template against an app in a named namespace, asserting s3.prefix == "<ns>/<app>", closes it.

Non-blocking

1. 21f49adb opens with "the PR-visible prose had drifted from what the code does". It reads fine, but a PR is not something git log knows about. Worth a reword if you touch that commit for anything else.

E2E (in-tree) on be7523a89 died with the sandbox container disappearing mid-run (No such container: cozy-e2e-sandbox-cce58895f0 at teardown), so no chainsaw suite produced a verdict. Not attributable to this diff, and not something I am gating on.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go`:
- Line 290: The artifact creation flow should use the persisted backup mode from
mdbBackup.Finalizers, specifically the presence of psmdbDeleteBackupFinalizer,
rather than the current useSystemBucket flag. Pass this effective mode to
createMongoDBBackupArtifact and marshalMongoDBBackupSnapshot so metadata and
snapshot fallback remain consistent with the existing
PerconaServerMongoDBBackup.

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NOT LGTM. The three blockers from my last review are closed, but this round added a path where deleting a Cozystack Backup prunes an archive in the tenant's own bucket, a retry budget that cannot reach its limit, and two pieces of text that land in main as written.

My earlier three hold up. The finalizer-prune clauses are gone from the comment and from both rewritten commit bodies, and what replaced them matches the pinned operator: BackupFromTask stamps percona.com/delete-backup only on cron-minted backups, and checkFinalizers prunes storage only when the state is ready. The pre-read CR argument is pinned now, and passing nil in its place reddens exactly one subtest and nothing else. The retention sentence is gone from all five generated artifacts, and PlanSpec still carries only applicationRef, backupClassName and schedule.

The design converged rather than patching the previous round's edge. Deciding a backup's flow from its own CR instead of from the app flag is the right move and holds at the pinned version, and putting the deadline back on a legacy running dump matches what main does today.

Blockers

B1: a dump can land in the tenant's bucket carrying the platform's prune finalizer

With useSystemBucket: true and a strategy that carries no s3, injection is skipped, but the MongoDBStrategyHasNoS3 branch only runs when psmdbBackupPrecondition returns a message, and that precondition checks that the storage key exists, not where it points. A cluster still holding its legacy s3-storage entry passes it, and ensureMongoDBBackup stamps the finalizer on the app flag.

I ran this against the driver: one CR minted, storageName=s3-storage, finalizers=[percona.com/delete-backup], while the live entry pointed at a tenant bucket. The snapshot then records useSystemBucket: true, so deleting that Backup deletes the operator CR, and at v1.22.0 deleteBackupFinalizer runs pbm delete-backup against the storage the CR used. That is a bucket the platform never owned, and the cleanup path was built to never touch it. Gate the mint on the coordinates being present, not on the flag alone.

B2: the storage-race retry budget cannot reach its limit

countMongoDBBackupsForJob counts surviving CRs, and the comment above the call states that every retry leaves the previous one Terminating. A CR that errors on storage resolution never reaches ensureReleaseLockFinalizer, so it carries only delete-backup, and checkFinalizers drops that without pruning whenever the state is not ready. The CR is then reaped promptly, the count falls back to one, and the job churns a fresh CR per poll until the deadline instead of stopping at three and surfacing the operator's error.

The test passes only because the fake client has no operator to reap the two CRs it seeds as Terminating, so it pins the premise rather than the behaviour. Carrying the attempt count on the BackupJob would survive the reap.

B3: the PR body describes the snapshot fallback as gated on the app flag

It is gated on the CR's finalizer, and has been since the artifact commit. createMongoDBBackupArtifact is handed flowSystemBucket, and the test that pins it is named for that distinction. Squash and rebase merges are off here, so the body becomes the merge commit message.

B4: a commit body refers to a review round

The artifact commit says a change reached the state switch "last round". That phrase lands in main verbatim and means nothing to someone reading git log later.

Non-blocking follow-ups

The timed-out cancel deletes without a resourceVersion precondition, so a CR that moves between the live read and the delete is still deleted, which is the case the live read exists to rule out.

Every fixture in the cleanup test has an empty snapshot, so the new legacy-snapshot gate is pinned in one direction only. Inverting it reddens a single test, and a system-bucket Backup released without pruning would go uncaught.

The artifact-window failure message always names 30m, but on the branch with no recorded completion time the window is the deadline plus the grace.

The body still says the driver's finalizer is not what holds a namespace in Terminating. A Get that fails with anything other than NotFound or NoMatchError still returns before the terminating check. The godoc was corrected this round; the body was not.

Nothing sets useSystemBucket: true in any chainsaw suite or example, so the injected path has still never run against a live cluster. Same status as the other apps, and the body says so.

docs/operations/backup-classes.md:300 makes the same retention claim for etcd that B3 fixed for MongoDB. It predates this branch, so it is not this PR's to fix.

CI is green on this head: 45 successful checks, 3 skipped, every run a first attempt against 29b0149. The full suite escalated and 56 chainsaw tests passed. All 22 commits carry a sign-off and exactly one Assisted-by: LLM.

Verdict

NOT LGTM

The system-bucket flow decides "is this the platform's archive?" from the app's desired values in three
places and from the operator CR's finalizer in a fourth. Where those disagree the driver writes a tenant's
backups into the shared bucket, or deletes a tenant's archive out of their own one. Neither corner has a test.

Findings

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:740: injection keys on desired values, so it can redirect a tenant's own backups into the shared bucket

shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage reads the app CR's backup.useSystemBucket and nothing about the live
cluster. The comment above it calls that "the load-bearing guarantee: a legacy app leaves the flag false and
is never touched, so injection never clobbers a manually configured bucket". The flag is not a statement
about the live cluster: the app CR is projected from the HelmRelease's desired values, so it reads true the
moment the tenant writes it, whether or not helm-controller ever rendered that revision.

$ grep -n 'hr.Spec.Values' pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go
1375:	filteredSpec := filterInternalKeys(hr.Spec.Values)

A legacy release puts the tenant's storage, a cron task and a PITR stream on the same storage key:

$ helm template test packages/apps/mongodb --namespace tenant-x --set backup.enabled=true \
    --set backup.useSystemBucket=false --set backup.s3AccessKey=ak --set backup.s3SecretKey=sk
  backup:
    storages:
      s3-storage:
        s3:
          bucket: bucket
          credentialsSecret: test-s3-creds
    tasks:
      - name: daily-backup
        keep: 30
        storageName: s3-storage
    pitr:
      enabled: true

applyMongoDBSystemStorage rewrites only storages["s3-storage"], with ForceOwnership. tasks[0] and
pitr still name that key, so from the next BackupJob on, the tenant's own nightly dump and their oplog
stream write into cozy-backups under <ns>/<app>, with platform credentials, as objects no Cozystack
Backup represents and no cleanup path can reach. Their own bucket goes quiet. Nothing emits an Event.

Normally that window closes on the next successful render. This PR makes it permanent: the new guard refuses
useSystemBucket=true with backup.enabled=false at render time, and nothing refuses it at admission, so
the release wedges at the legacy revision while every BackupJob keeps injecting.

$ grep -c 'x-kubernetes-validations' packages/system/mongodb-rd/cozyrds/mongodb.yaml
1
$ grep -o 'x-kubernetes-validations[^]]*]' packages/system/mongodb-rd/cozyrds/mongodb.yaml
x-kubernetes-validations":[{"rule":"self == oldSelf","message":"storageClass is immutable"}]

The one CEL rule on this type is storageClass. backup carries none.

Two halves to fix: refuse the pair where it is written (a CEL rule on backup, the mechanism storageClass
already uses), and make injection skip a cluster that still declares spec.backup.tasks, which needs a
Tasks field on the psmdb shim, since it currently carries only Enabled and Storages.

What would change my mind: the app CR reflecting the applied release rather than desired values.

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:908: the archive-ownership finalizer is stamped from the flag, not from where the storage points

ensureMongoDBBackup adds percona.com/delete-backup whenever useSystemBucket is true. Downstream that
finalizer means "the platform owns this archive": cleanupMongoDBBackup:1128 reads it as the ownership
marker and deletes the operator CR so the operator prunes the object from storage. Nothing between the two
checks that the storage the CR will use is the platform's.

The precondition it passes through checks presence, not destination:

$ sed -n '603,611p' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
func psmdbBackupPrecondition(cluster *psmdbtypes.PerconaServerMongoDB, storageName string) string {
	if !cluster.Spec.Backup.Enabled {
		return "spec.backup.enabled is false; ..."
	}
	if _, ok := cluster.Spec.Backup.Storages[storageName]; !ok {
		return fmt.Sprintf("spec.backup.storages does not declare storage %q", storageName)
	}
	return ""
}

The symmetric guard that refuses a mint against a stale entry runs only in the other direction
(existing == nil && !useSystemBucket, :369).

Reachable path: the strategy's s3 block is optional in the CRD, so a BackupClass whose MongoDB strategy
carries no s3 is schema-valid.

$ python3 -c "import yaml;d=yaml.safe_load(open('packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/definitions/strategy.backups.cozystack.io_mongodbs.yaml'));print(d['spec']['versions'][0]['schema']['openAPIV3Schema']['properties']['spec']['properties']['template'].get('required'))"
None

With that strategy and useSystemBucket: true, shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage returns false, so nothing
is injected. If the cluster still carries its legacy s3-storage entry, the state the finding above makes
easy to reach, the precondition returns "", the MongoDBStrategyHasNoS3 hint at :340 never fires
because it is inside the msg != "" branch, and the CR is minted with the prune finalizer against the
tenant's own bucket. Deleting that Cozystack Backup then deletes the tenant's archive.

The ClusterRole this rides on gained cluster-wide delete and patch on perconaservermongodbbackups
(packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/rbac.yaml:166-174), so the blast radius is every
tenant's backup CRs, bounded only by this predicate.

Gate the mint on the resolved storage's coordinates, not on the flag.

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:450: the storage-race retry budget cannot be reached

countMongoDBBackupsForJob lists CRs that still exist, and the comment beside the call says every retry
leaves the previous one Terminating. At the pinned operator version it does not: an errored CR's
percona.com/delete-backup is dropped without pruning whenever the state is not ready, and release-lock
is released, so the CR is reaped and the count falls back to one.

$ gh api "repos/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator/contents/pkg/controller/perconaservermongodbbackup/psmdb_backup_controller.go?ref=v1.22.0" \
    --jq .content | base64 -d | sed -n '512,534p'
	for _, f := range cr.GetFinalizers() {
		switch f {
		case "delete-backup":
			fallthrough
		case naming.FinalizerDeleteBackup:
			if cr.Status.State == psmdbv1.BackupStateReady {
				if err := r.deleteBackupFinalizer(ctx, cr, cluster, b); err != nil {
					finalizers = append(finalizers, f)
				}
			}
		case naming.FinalizerReleaseLock:
			err = r.runReleaseLockFinalizer(ctx, cr)
			if err != nil {
				finalizers = append(finalizers, f)
			}
		}
	}
	cr.SetFinalizers(finalizers)
	err = r.client.Update(ctx, cr)

Neither finalizer is re-appended on an errored CR, and checkFinalizers is reached on every reconcile once
the deletion timestamp is set. So minted stays at 1, minted < 3 never goes false, and the job mints a
fresh operator CR every psmdbPollInterval (5s) for the whole 30-minute deadline, of the order of hundreds
of CRs, instead of stopping at three and surfacing the operator's error.

TestReconcileMongoDB_StorageRaceRetryBudgetExhausted:2909 passes because clientfake has no operator to
reap the two CRs it seeds as Terminating, so it pins the premise rather than the behaviour. Carrying the
attempt count on the BackupJob would survive the reap.

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:1110: the guards protecting the shared bucket are unpinned

Dropping && !snap.UseSystemBucket from the cleanup short-circuit leaves the whole package green, so no
fixture carries a system-bucket snapshot into cleanupMongoDBBackup at all. Under that mutation a
system-bucket Backup releases without deleting the operator CR and the archive is never pruned, the one
thing the path exists to do.

$ sed -i '' 's/snap.Kind == psmdbBackupSnapshotKind \&\& !snap.UseSystemBucket {/snap.Kind == psmdbBackupSnapshotKind {/' \
    internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	4.680s
$ git checkout -- internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go && git status --short

The term is exercised, but only in the direction that does not matter here. Forcing the same conjunct
to false reddens exactly one case, the legacy one:

$ # replace the conjunct `&& !snap.UseSystemBucket` with `&& false`
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
    psmdbstrategy_controller_test.go:3078: a legacy Backup must release without depending on the
        operator CR read, got res={Requeue:false RequeueAfter:0s} err=apiserver throttled
FAIL	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	1.395s

So the suite holds "a legacy Backup must not read the CR" and holds nothing at all about a
system-bucket Backup reaching the prune.

Two more on the same path stay green when broken: replacing buildMongoDBSystemStorageEntry(s3) at :780
with {"type":"s3"}, so nothing asserts the per-tenant prefix reaches the cluster, and that prefix is the
only separation between two tenants inside one bucket; and return "", nil in place of the
r.Interface == nil guard at :865, which turns an unanswerable read into "not started" and blind-deletes a
finalized CR, exactly what the helper's doc comment says it prevents.

[MINOR] api/backups/v1alpha1/plan_types.go:66: nothing bounds the shared bucket

Still open from an earlier round. PlanSpec carries applicationRef, backupClassName and schedule, no
retention, and the chart gates out the psmdb tasks[].keep, so a nightly useSystemBucket Plan grows
cozy-backups without limit. The docs and the release note say so and point at #4192 and #3966. Nothing
configures or checks the S3 lifecycle policy the release note calls a prerequisite, and this is the only such
flow with no engine-side trim.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:826: a system-bucket dump in running has no ceiling at all

psmdbBackupTimedOut returns false unconditionally for state == running on this flow, so the
markBackupJobFailed branch below it is unreachable there. The rationale, that failing a streaming dump would
strand an archive nothing represents, is sound for a slow dump and says nothing about one that will never
finish. A wedged pbm agent leaves the BackupJob Running forever, and since the Plan controller does not
serialise on an in-flight job, a nightly Plan stacks a new never-terminating BackupJob and a new operator CR
every night. The comment at :96 justifies the deadline by a Plan-controller queue that does not exist.

[MINOR] the PR description states the snapshot gate wrongly, and it lands in main

The description says the snapshot fallback is "gated on the same flag". It is gated on the CR's own
finalizer: flowSystemBucket := controllerutil.ContainsFinalizer(mdbBackup, psmdbDeleteBackupFinalizer) at
:389 is what createMongoDBBackupArtifact receives at :406. That distinction is the whole point of the
commit that introduced it. Squash and rebase are disabled on this repository and merge_commit_message is
PR_BODY, so the description becomes the merge commit message verbatim.

[NIT] a commit body refers to a review round

19276702a says a change "reached the state switch last round". Merge commits preserve every commit, so that
phrase lands in git log on main, where it means nothing.

Caveats

• The restore path now adopts a target credential only for a storage on the same bucket as the archive
  (:673); before this change it adopted unconditionally (psmdbTargetCredentialsSecret took no bucket at
  the merge base). A cross-bucket legacy restore that relied on one key pair covering both now keeps the
  source reference. It is deliberate, covered by TestMongoDBRestoreCredentialsSecret, disclosed in the
  release note, and fails loudly as Ready=False RestoreCredentialsMissing naming the Secret, so it reads
  as a narrowing rather than a silent break, but it is a behaviour change on an existing path.
• Nothing sets useSystemBucket: true in any chainsaw suite or example, so the injected path has never run
  against a live cluster. The SSA apply, the operator cache settling inside the driver's single requeue, and
  the injection window all need a cozystack-pr-test run to settle.

Verdict

NOT LGTM

Every blocker I raised last round is closed, and the two that mattered most are closed by
real design changes rather than by another guard. What blocks now is narrower and it is the
same class the last round was blocked on: each of those two fixes has one conjunct that no
test holds, so reverting half of either leaves go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ green.
I re-ran both mutations myself against 198643a.

Findings

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:356: the !legacyRender term in the injection gate is held by no test

The legacy-render hold has two halves. The one at :315 only runs under existing == nil,
so it refuses before a CR exists and is well covered by
TestReconcileMongoDB_LegacyRenderIsNotInjectedOver. The half at :356 is what protects the
other case: a job that already minted a CR, on a release the tenant flips to useSystemBucket
mid-flight. Nothing between findMongoDBBackupForJob and this line returns when existing != nil,
so this term is the only thing standing between the SSA apply and a cluster whose tasks and
pitr still name s3-storage. Drop it and the nightly dump plus the oplog go to cozy-backups.

Forcing the whole legacyRender variable false does redden the suite, which is what makes this
easy to miss. Removing only this term does not:

$ perl -pi -e 's/cluster\.Spec\.Backup\.Enabled && !legacyRender && shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage/cluster.Spec.Backup.Enabled && shouldInjectMongoDBSystemStorage/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	1.290s
$ git checkout -- internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go

The missing case is existing != nil plus useSystemBucket plus a cluster still carrying
tasks, asserting the cluster's storage was not rewritten.

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:413: the credentialsSecret conjunct of platformStorage is untested

platformStorage is what decides whether the prune finalizer is stamped, so it is the predicate
that decides whether deleting a Cozystack Backup deletes somebody's archive. It compares two
things against the post-apply cluster, and only one of them is pinned. The single foreign-storage
fixture, psmdbstrategy_controller_test.go:3128, varies the bucket (somebody-elses) while
keeping credentialsSecret: cozy-backups-creds, so the credential half is exercised in no
direction at all:

$ perl -pi -e 's/bucket == rendered\.S3\.Bucket && cred == psmdbInjectedCredentialsSecret\(rendered\.S3\)/bucket == rendered.S3.Bucket/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	1.282s
$ git checkout -- internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go

This is the conjunct that carries the weight, because the chart hardcodes
credentialsSecret: {{ .Release.Name }}-s3-creds and that is precisely what separates a tenant's
entry from the platform's when a bucket name collides. A fixture differing from the passing one
only in credentialsSecret closes it.

[MINOR] api/apps/v1alpha1/mongodb/types.go:87: "the schema rejects the combination" is not true, and it ships to every tenant

The sentence added this round says the schema rejects useSystemBucket: true with
enabled: false, and docs/operations/backup-classes.md:119 goes further with "so a release
cannot wedge on that combination". The PR body is honest about this and says the opposite:
the aggregated apiserver does not evaluate CEL yet (#2657), so the rule is a marker and the
render-time fail is the real refusal. The honest version exists on one surface out of seven.

$ grep -rn 'cel.NewValidator|apiserver/schema/cel' --include='*.go' . | grep -v vendor | grep -v _test.go
(no output)
$ gh api repos/cozystack/cozystack/issues/2657 --jq '"\(.state) \(.title)"'
open Enforce x-kubernetes-validations CEL rules in the aggregated apiserver

Helm does not cover it either: x-kubernetes-validations is not a JSON Schema keyword, so the
copy in values.schema.json is ignored by the values validator. The godoc regenerates into
values.yaml, values.schema.json, README.md and mongodb-rd/cozyrds/mongodb.yaml, which is
the CRD description a tenant reads. Say it refuses at render time and that the rule is a schema
marker until #2657.

[MINOR] docs/operations/backup-classes.md:101: the restore paragraph describes behaviour this PR removed

It still says a to-copy restore "authenticates with the target cluster's own S3 credentials" and
that a different-bucket target "fails loudly with AccessDenied". psmdbTargetCredentialsSecret
(:716) now adopts a target credential only for a storage on the archive's own bucket, so the
cross-bucket case keeps the source reference and is held at RestoreCredentialsMissing (:1541).
The release note carries the change; the runbook paragraph directly above the restore procedure
does not, and it is the one an operator follows in a DR.

[MINOR] docs/operations/backup-classes.md:125: the MariaDB exemption is new and wrong

The sentence added this round reads "unlike CNPG and MariaDB, which prune engine-side on their own
schedule". CNPG is right: strategy-cnpg-default.yaml:13 sets retentionPolicy: "30d". The
shipped cozy-default-mariadb strategy sets no maxRetention at all, and that field's own
doc comment says empty means unbounded. As written the paragraph exempts MariaDB from exactly
the warning it applies to MongoDB.

$ grep -rn 'maxRetention|retentionPolicy' packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/*.yaml
packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-cnpg-default.yaml:13:      retentionPolicy: "30d"

[MINOR] examples/backups/mongodb/README.md:29: "the strategy does not inject the storage into the cluster"

The PR edited the same claim in the sibling file examples/backups/mongodb/05-mongodb-src.yaml
and rewrote it in the doc, and left the README copy standing. It now says the driver never
injects and that the application "must opt into backups with the bucket coordinates in its
backup.* values", which is the opposite of the flow this PR adds. The preceding sentence,
that the operator services backups only "when the cluster has a storage declared, which is what
backup.enabled: true wires up", is the same compound the doc split this round.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller_test.go:277: the comment asserts the inverse of the code under it

The godoc on TestBackupCleanup_MongoDB_DoesNotFallThroughToVelero says the dispatcher routes
MongoDB to "a no-op cleanup", that the driver "does not own" the operator CR or the archive,
and that "rbac.yaml grants no delete verb on perconaservermongodbbackups for that reason". This
PR replaced the identical prose in backup_controller.go with "the driver OWNS it", and
rbac.yaml:168 now grants delete and patch. The test name is still accurate; the paragraph
explaining it is wrong on all three counts and is the surviving copy of a claim the PR deleted.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:347: the apply runs per reconcile, not per BackupJob

The comment says the apply "runs on every BackupJob so a later change to the strategy coordinates
catches up". With a CR already minted nothing returns before :356, so it is an SSA PATCH every
psmdbPollInterval (5s) for the life of the job, which on this flow is bounded by
psmdbRunningCeiling (24h). Either gate it on the first pass plus a coordinate change, or say
what it does.

Still open from my earlier rounds

api/backups/v1alpha1/plan_types.go:66 and packages/apps/mongodb/templates/mongodb.yaml:233,
open since round 2, non-blocking: nothing bounds the shared bucket. PlanSpec still carries
applicationRef, backupClassName and schedule and nothing else; the useSystemBucket render
emits no tasks[].keep, confirmed by helm template and by the chart's own unit test named
"ignores retentionPolicy and schedule on useSystemBucket". Unchanged, and the PR now documents it
as a tracked gap with owners, so it stays non-blocking rather than reopening.

Closed since my last round

• :740 injection keyed on desired values. The new legacyRender gate (:314, :942) holds the
  job at Ready=False PerconaServerMongoDBLegacyRender while the cluster still carries tasks or
  pitr, and the chart renders storages, tasks and pitr inside one conditional in every
  version of the template, so no chart-rendered legacy cluster can be injected over. Both terms of
  the predicate redden independently. Admission still does not refuse the flag, but the redirect
  is gone.
• :908 ownership stamped from the flag. It now comes from the resolved coordinates read back off
  the apply response, and the reachable path from last round (a strategy with no s3 over a
  legacy tenant storage) is refused twice, by MongoDBStrategyHasNoS3 and again by
  PerconaServerMongoDBStorageForeign.
• :450 the retry budget. Moved onto the BackupJob as
  backups.cozystack.io/mongodb-storage-race-retries, so it survives the reap; the fixture now
  simulates the operator actually removing the deleted CR between polls. --leader-elect with
  controller-runtime's per-key serialisation makes the read-modify-write safe.
• :1110 the unpinned shared-bucket guards. TestCleanupMongoDBBackup_SystemBucketSnapshotReachesThePrune
  (:3425, new in 198643ac7) reddens under last round's exact sed. The per-tenant prefix and
  the live-client guard are pinned too.
• :826 no ceiling on a running system-bucket dump. psmdbRunningCeiling (24h) is reachable off a
  StartedAt that is guaranteed non-nil before the state machine runs, and it surfaces as
  Failed plus Ready=False plus a BackupAbandoned warning.
• The PR body's description of the snapshot gate now matches :456.
• The commit body referring to a review round is gone with the rebase.

On lexfrei's non-blocking follow-ups

• The timed-out cancel now deletes with client.Preconditions{ResourceVersion: &liveRV} taken
  from the uncached live read, and a 409 requeues for a fresh read rather than re-deleting blind.
  Closed and pinned.
• The artifact-window message formats the window psmdbArtifactWindow returns, so the
  no-completion-time branch names 1h rather than 30m. Both branches have assertions. Closed.
• The body no longer claims the driver's finalizer cannot hold a namespace in Terminating; it
  names the non-NotFound Get requeue explicitly, and the code returns at :1237 before the
  terminating check, so body, godoc and code agree. Closed.
• docs/operations/backup-classes.md:303 still says Plan.spec.retentionPolicy, which exists on
  no type. Byte-identical to the merge base and moved only by lines this PR added above it, so it
  is inherited. Worth one line anyway, because this PR is what made the file contradict itself:
  :125 now states a Plan has no retention field and :303 tells the reader to use one, 178
  lines apart. The same phantom mechanism is named at
  api/backups/strategy/v1alpha1/mariadb_types.go:89 ("tenants rely on Cozystack Plan-level
  retention only"), also inherited.

Caveats

• Field ownership on the live PerconaServerMongoDB is render-blind. Whether helm-controller's
  apply and cozystack-psmdb-backup-driver coexist across the legacy to useSystemBucket flip
  needs a cluster run. Nothing sets useSystemBucket: true in any chainsaw suite, so the injected
  path has still never executed against a real apiserver.
• CI on 198643ac7: E2E (in-tree) failed on chainsaw/opensearch only, with an issuer waiting
  on opensearch-test.http-ca. chainsaw/mongodb and chainsaw/mongodb-2-backup-roundtrip both
  passed. Unrelated to this change. The API-owner gate is governance, not a defect: the added
  spec.backup validation rule needs an approving review from lllamnyp or kvaps.
• reconcileMongoDB has been touched by 18 of the 23 commits on this branch, and seven other
  functions by four or more. Reading the final state, the guards are now in the right component:
  ownership is decided from the apply response rather than from the app flag, and the retry budget
  from the BackupJob rather than from surviving CRs. That is convergence rather than stacking. The
  two findings above are what is left of the stack: each round added a conjunct and the tests
  followed the round's headline, not the conjunct.

Verdict

NOT LGTM

Round 3, head 1c69a40. Both blockers from my last round are closed, and I confirmed each by re-running the exact mutation I published rather than by reading the new code. What holds this back is that the gating the commit introduces stops one check short of where it is needed, and the test that was supposed to pin it is one line away from catching that.

Findings

[MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:405 a streaming dump is failed at the 30-minute deadline, bypassing the 24h ceiling

psmdbBackupPrecondition runs on every poll, ahead of the state switch and regardless of whether the job already has its operator CR. The injection gate at :362 and the ownership switch at :421 are both now gated on existing == nil; this one is not. So a tenant setting backup.enabled: false while a system-bucket dump streams re-renders the cluster with backups off, and thirty minutes after the job started the BackupJob is Failed.

psmdbBackupTimedOut exempts a running system-bucket dump from that deadline up to psmdbRunningCeiling (24h) precisely so a shared-bucket archive is never stranded, and the ceiling path pairs its failure with a BackupAbandoned Warning naming the CR and saying it is left in place. This path does neither: the CR keeps its percona.com/delete-backup finalizer, no Backup object ever references it, the message names the PerconaServerMongoDB rather than the CR, and because the job terminated the next Plan run mints a second dump beside the one still streaming.

Two lines on the test you added this round reproduce it, and its own last assertion is already the right one:

$ # TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver
$ #   StartedAt: time.Now()  ->  time.Now().Add(-31 * time.Minute)
$ #   add:       cluster.Spec.Backup.Enabled = false
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1 -run TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver
    psmdbstrategy_controller_test.go:3229: a job with a running CR must keep polling it, got {Requeue:false RequeueAfter:0s Priority:<nil>}
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver (0.11s)
FAIL

A separate probe with a control says the same thing and names what is left behind. Same fixture, 31 minutes in, CR in running:

OBSERVED (backup.enabled flipped false mid-dump): phase="Failed" operator_CRs=1 cozystack_Backups=0 events=0
CONTROL  (backups still enabled, same 31m-old CR):  phase="Running" operator_CRs=1 cozystack_Backups=0

cozystack_Backups=0 is the stranding: the CR with the prune finalizer outlives the job and no Backup object was ever created to reach it, because createMongoDBBackupArtifact runs only from the StateReady branch the job never gets to. events=0 is the second half: the ceiling path's BackupAbandoned Warning is not emitted on this route, so nothing names what was left behind.

Gate the precondition on existing == nil like its two neighbours, or route a CR already in running through the ceiling path so the failure carries the Event and names the CR.

What would change my mind: if the psmdb operator aborts an in-flight backup when the flag flips, the leftover is a partial object rather than a complete one. Unsignalled either way, and I did not check the operator's behaviour on that flip.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:315 the term that keeps a mid-dump edit from failing a streaming job is held by no test

The comment at :295 states the contract: "a CR already streaming is handled by the state switch ... so a flag flipped or a strategy edited mid-dump cannot fail it here." Nothing but existing == nil at :315 delivers it, and removing it leaves the suite green:

$ perl -pi -e 's/if existing == nil && useSystemBucket \{/if useSystemBucket \{/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	20.465s
$ git checkout -- internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go

Without it, a job whose dump is streaming re-enters the rendered.S3 == nil and legacyRender holds on every poll, and past the deadline that is markBackupJobFailed with the running CR left in place (:656 only cancels a CR that has not started). Same class of leftover as the finding above.

TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver is one line short of catching it. It sets StartedAt to now, so the hold answers with a requeue and every assertion still passes. Age it past the deadline and the mutation is caught immediately:

$ # StartedAt: time.Now() -> time.Now().Add(-2 * psmdbDefaultBackupDeadline)
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1 -run TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	1.670s

$ # same aged test, with 'existing == nil' dropped from the hold at :315
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver (0.13s)
    psmdbstrategy_controller_test.go:3228: a job with a running CR must keep polling it, got {Requeue:false RequeueAfter:0s Priority:<nil>}

The commit message says the terms that decide ownership are now pinned. These two are the terms that decide whether a streaming dump survives, and they are the ones the round left behind: one untested, one absent.

On grading: the code here is right and only the coverage is missing, so this is a MINOR rather than a blocker. It is still worth doing alongside the finding above, which needs exactly the assertion that closes this one, so the two are a single piece of work.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:419 the useSystemBucket term of platformStorage cannot be pinned as written

The other two terms of that predicate are now held, this one is not:

$ perl -pi -e 's/platformStorage := useSystemBucket && rendered\.S3 != nil &&/platformStorage := rendered.S3 != nil \&\&/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	7.142s

No fixture can redden it. To make the term change what reaches ensureMongoDBBackup you need useSystemBucket == false together with cred == psmdbInjectedCredentialsSecret(rendered.S3), and that is exactly the second clause of psmdbCredentialsSecretIsInjected (:825), while psmdbInjectedCredentialsSecret never returns "" (:808). So case !useSystemBucket && cred != "" && psmdbCredentialsSecretIsInjected(cred, rendered) at :423 matches and returns first, every time. Shadowed, not untested by omission. Fine as defence in depth if :423 is ever narrowed, but say so in the comment: the claim that the ownership terms are pinned does not reach this one.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:363 a coordinate change skips the cache-settle wait the first injection gets

storageDeclared is read before the apply, so when the strategy's bucket or endpoint changes the key already exists, the !storageDeclared requeue that lets the operator's cluster cache observe the apply is skipped, and the CR is minted in the same pass that rewrote the coordinates. That is the scenario the gate's own comment names. Seeding a cluster whose s3-storage carries the previous bucket:

OBSERVED: after the next job's reconcile the live storage is bucket="cozy-backups"
          cred="cozy-backups-creds"; operator CRs minted=1

The first injection, by contrast, requeues and mints nothing. Whether the operator then resolves the stale entry and writes to the previous bucket is reasoned, not executed. Keying the requeue on the entry's content rather than on the key's presence closes it and costs a poll only when something changed.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:521 the term separating our own race from a real backup failure is untested

psmdbErrorIsUnresolvedStorage(message, storageName) is what stops the delete-and-re-mint retry from swallowing a genuine operator failure. The budget term beside it is covered; this one is not:

$ perl -pi -e 's/if flowSystemBucket && psmdbErrorIsUnresolvedStorage\(message, storageName\) && !psmdbBackupDeadlineExceeded\(j\.Status\.StartedAt\) \{/if flowSystemBucket \&\& !psmdbBackupDeadlineExceeded(j.Status.StartedAt) \{/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/cozystack/internal/backupcontroller	14.293s

Without it a CR that failed for any reason at all is deleted and re-minted three times before the job reports, and the operator's own error text is what the tenant needed to see.

Running every conjunct this branch adds: 99 guards, 68 answered, 26 of them gaps. Most of the gaps are nil-guards and r.Recorder != nil and are not worth a test. Besides this one, the two worth naming are snap.S3 == nil and rendered.S3 != nil in the snapshot fallback at :1827, and cred != "" at :729.

The 31 the sweep could not answer are worth saying out loud, because three of them are the ones you would most want answered: legacyRender, !storageDeclared and bucket == wantBucket all fail to compile once mutated, so nothing in this round measured them either way. The other 23 have anchor text that occurs more than once and were skipped rather than applied.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:1823 the comment names a source of truth the caller stopped passing

"Gated on the app's flag, not on rendered.S3 alone" describes the parameter as the tenant's flag. The call site at :479 passes flowSystemBucket, which :462 derives from the CR's own percona.com/delete-backup finalizer, precisely so a flag flipped mid-dump cannot change the artifact. The behaviour is right; the comment is a revision behind.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:283 the injection decides from the manager's cache, while a sibling decision in the same file deliberately does not

psmdbClusterHasLegacyRender reads the cluster fetched at :283 through the cached client (cmd/backupstrategy-controller/main.go:178 disables the cache for corev1.Secret only, and the RBAC at packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/rbac.yaml:166 grants watch). Fifteen hundred lines down, psmdbBackupLiveState exists specifically so a delete is never decided on a lagging read, using the dynamic.Interface the reconciler already holds.

A cache lagging behind a re-render back to the legacy flow reads flag true and tasks absent together, which is a consistent pre-flip view, and the apply then force-owns s3-storage while the tenant's restored daily-backup task and oplog stream name that same entry. The opt-out refusal at :423 reads the same stale object for the mirror-image reason. The window is one reconcile wide and the next pass refuses correctly, but the entry left behind is the one docs/operations/backup-classes.md:129 says has to be deleted by hand. I could not demonstrate the lag with a command, which is why this is not graded higher; the remedy is the live read the file already uses.

[MINOR] docs/operations/backup-classes.md:294 the file still summarises the defaults as 30-day retention

This commit removed the MariaDB exemption at :125 and the Plan.spec.retentionPolicy advice at :303 for the same reason, so the third instance deserves the same line. Of eleven shipped strategies, cozy-default-cnpg sets retentionPolicy: "30d" and the two Velero ones set ttl: 720h0m0s. The other eight, MongoDB included, set nothing:

$ cd packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates
$ for f in strategy-*.yaml; do printf "%-45s " "$f"; grep -oE "retentionPolicy|maxRetention|ttl:" $f | tr '\n' ' '; echo; done
strategy-altinity-default.yaml
strategy-cnpg-default.yaml                    retentionPolicy
strategy-etcd-default.yaml
strategy-foundationdb-default.yaml
strategy-kafka-default.yaml
strategy-mariadb-default.yaml
strategy-mongodb-default.yaml
strategy-rabbitmq-default.yaml
strategy-redis-default.yaml
strategy-velero-vmdisk-default.yaml           ttl:
strategy-velero-vminstance-default.yaml       ttl:

Inherited from main rather than introduced here, but :125 and :303 now say the opposite two hundred lines away.

[NIT] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:347 "once per BackupJob" is once per mint, which is not the same thing

The storage-race retry at :531 deletes the errored CR, and findMongoDBBackupForJob skips a CR carrying a deletion timestamp (:1089), so existing reads nil again and the apply block runs for that job once more, up to psmdbStorageRaceRetryBudget = 3 further times. That is the behaviour you want on that path; the sentence just claims something narrower than the code does.

Still open from my earlier rounds

[MAJOR] packages/apps/mongodb/templates/mongodb.yaml:233, nothing prunes the system bucket on this flow. Open since round 2, third round now. The render still emits no keep, tasks or pitr, and PlanSpec (api/backups/v1alpha1/plan_types.go:66) still carries only applicationRef, backupClassName and schedule. I am not blocking on it: the runbook states it plainly, points at #4192 and #3966, and tells operators to bound the bucket with a lifecycle policy. Recorded so the count stays honest rather than quietly dropped.

Closed since round 2

Verified by mutation or against the current text, not carried on trust.

• psmdbstrategy_controller.go:356, the injection gate. !legacyRender is gone and the gate is keyed on existing == nil, so my published mutation no longer matches any text at this head. Dropping the term that replaced it goes red on TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver, which asserts exactly the case I asked for: an existing CR, useSystemBucket, a cluster carrying tasks, the cluster's own storage left alone.
• psmdbstrategy_controller.go:413, the credentialsSecret conjunct of platformStorage. My mutation, run verbatim, is now red on TestReconcileMongoDB_ForeignStorageIsNotOwned/platform_bucket,_foreign_credential.
• api/apps/v1alpha1/mongodb/types.go:87, the schema-rejects claim. The description now says the chart refuses at render time and the CEL rule is a marker until #2657 lands, and that wording is byte-identical across values.yaml, values.schema.json, README.md and cozyrds/mongodb.yaml. templates/mongodb.yaml:2 carries the fail; tests/mongodb_test.yaml:924 pins it.
• docs/operations/backup-classes.md:101, the restore-credential paragraph. It describes the same-bucket swap the code implements, and RestoreCredentialsMissing at :1547 names the Secret as the paragraph says.
• docs/operations/backup-classes.md:125, the MariaDB exemption. Narrowed to CNPG, which is the one shipped strategy that sets retentionPolicy.
• examples/backups/mongodb/README.md:29. The "does not inject" sentence is gone, and the phrase now appears nowhere in the tree.
• internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller_test.go:277. The godoc matches the code.
• psmdbstrategy_controller.go:347, the per-reconcile apply. Once per mint now, and pinned. The property the old placement bought survives, which I checked rather than assumed: a later job whose cluster still carries the previous coordinates re-applies the current ones and mints in the same pass.

On the other reviewer's open item

docs/operations/backup-classes.md:303 no longer advises Plan.spec.retentionPolicy. It says a Plan carries no retention field and links #4192, which agrees with :125 and with the type. Closed.

One to settle elsewhere

cozy-backups-creds is projected into the tenant namespace here as it is for the other system-bucket drivers, so this PR is not where it changes. tenantsecrets does not expose it, but a workload in that namespace can mount it. Worth settling platform-wide rather than per driver.

Checked and clean

helm unittest packages/apps/mongodb is 143/143, go build ./... and go vet ./internal/backupcontroller/ are clean, and the package suite is green at this head. Generated artifacts reproduce byte-for-byte and the legacy-flow render is identical base against head. The one red check on 1c69a40 is the API-owner gate: ##[error]This PR makes a sizeable API change ... and needs an approving review from one of: lllamnyp kvaps. A policy gate, not a test, and it says nothing about the change itself.

Andrey Kolkov (@androndo) NOT LGTM. The code is where I wanted it. What holds this back is one sentence the latest commit added to the runbook: it tells operators that a Plan bounds the MongoDB archives on the shared bucket, and no Plan ever deletes a Backup.

My four blockers from the last round are closed. I re-ran the data-loss case on this head: a strategy with no s3 block and a cluster still holding the legacy tenant-private-bucket entry. Zero operator CRs are minted, and the job waits at MongoDBStrategyHasNoS3. Two guards now stand in the way. If I remove the hold alone, still nothing is minted and the job waits at PerconaServerMongoDBStorageForeign. The original bug comes back only when I also restore the flag-only stamp: one CR with finalizers=[percona.com/delete-backup], which TestReconcileMongoDB_StrategyWithoutS3NamesTheCause and both ForeignStorageIsNotOwned subtests catch. The retry count lives on the BackupJob now, the body describes the snapshot fallback by the CR's finalizer, and the only change to f004b35 is its message: "last round" is gone.

The latest commit closes the case where disabling backups mid-dump failed a streaming job at 30 minutes. If the existing == nil gate is dropped, all three aged subtests of TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver go red. The coordinate-change wait, the live cluster read and the unresolved-storage term each have a test that goes red when I mutate them. IvanHunters' findings from his last review hold as fixed on this head. The only one left is the unpruned bucket, and the runbook documents it. The window where a cached list misses a fresh CR and a second one is minted is the same as on main. The new live read runs between the two list calls, so it narrows that window rather than widening it.

Blocker

B1: the runbook says a Plan bounds the archives

docs/operations/backup-classes.md:294 now says MongoDB archives are "bounded only by a Plan deleting Backup objects or an S3 lifecycle policy". Nothing does that. plan_controller.go only creates BackupJobs, and PlanSpec has no retention field. The MongoDB Backup artifact also carries no owner reference, so deleting a Plan does not cascade to it. The same page at :303 says a Plan carries no retention field. An operator who reads :294 first can skip the lifecycle policy that the release note calls a prerequisite.

The same claim appears in three code comments: psmdbstrategy_controller.go:78-81 ("Plan retention", "a retention-pruned Plan"), :1132 and :1262. It is also in the body's retention bullet, "a retention-pruned Plan, or a manual delete", and the body becomes the merge commit message. Dropping the Plan clause in all five places is enough.

Non-blocking

1. psmdbStorageEntrySettled only checks keys that the desired entry carries. If the strategy drops forcePathStyle after the entry was written with forcePathStyle: true, the entry counts as settled, but the apply removes the field. That mint then goes out in the same pass. The bucket stays the same, so the risk is narrow.
2. The body of 198643a says "the schema rejects useSystemBucket without backup.enabled". 1c69a40 corrects this, but both messages land in main as written.
3. The body still says the storage is "re-injected once per BackupJob". The code comment now says once per mint.
4. No chainsaw suite sets useSystemBucket: true for MongoDB yet. The only mention is a comment in examples/backups/mongodb/05-mongodb-src.yaml. The body declares this.

Checked: go test ./internal/backupcontroller/... is green, with 389 top-level tests (732 counting subtests), and helm unittest packages/apps/mongodb passes 143/143. I also mutated the finalizer stamp; the legacy assertion in TestEnsureMongoDBBackup_IdempotentByLabel goes red. All 25 commits carry a sign-off and exactly one Assisted-by: LLM. On 3fc4b34, pre-commit and the unit tests are green and E2E is still running. The only red check is the API-owner gate, which is policy.

Verdict

LGTM with non-blocking notes.

Every blocker I raised last round is closed on 3fc4b346 and each one is pinned by a test that reddens when the fix is reverted. Nothing I found this round names data loss, a cross-tenant reach, a broken upgrade for an existing install, or a state with no operator path out, so none of it holds the merge under the grading I apply.

I disagree with the other reviewer's blocker, and only on grade, not on fact. The sentence he names is wrong and should be fixed. I could not construct a path from it to a harm that blocks. Detail in the section on his review below.

Findings

[MINOR] docs/operations/backup-classes.md:294, a Plan does not delete Backup objects

The new parenthetical says the zero-retention strategies' archives are "bounded only by a Plan deleting Backup objects or an S3 lifecycle policy". The lifecycle half is real. The Plan half is not:

$ grep -nE 'Delete|Create|Update' internal/backupcontroller/plan_controller.go
59:		if err := r.Status().Update(ctx, p); err != nil {
73:		if err := r.Status().Update(ctx, p); err != nil {
89:	if err := r.Create(ctx, job); err != nil {

$ sed -n '66,79p' api/backups/v1alpha1/plan_types.go | grep -c 'json:"'
3

The reconciler only creates BackupJobs, PlanSpec carries three fields and none is retention, and the Backup artifact takes no owner reference to the Plan, so deleting the Plan cascades to nothing either.

The enumeration in the same sentence is exact, so the fix is one clause:

$ grep -rn -E 'retentionPolicy|maxRetention|^\s+ttl:' packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/
packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-cnpg-default.yaml:13:      retentionPolicy: "30d"
packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-velero-vminstance-default.yaml:54:      ttl: 720h0m0s
packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-velero-vmdisk-default.yaml:41:      ttl: 720h0m0s

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:995, a key the live entry lacks counts as agreeing

The loop refuses only on ok && got != want, so a field present in the desired entry and absent from the live one is skipped and the entry reads settled. The apply that follows then changes the entry and the CR is minted in the same pass, which is the case the wait exists for. Calling the function directly with a desired entry that sets forcePathStyle: true, against these live entries, gives:

{"type":"s3","s3":{bucket,endpointUrl,region,prefix,credentialsSecret,
                   insecureSkipTLSVerify all matching, no forcePathStyle}}   settled=true
{"type":"s3","s3":{}}                                                        settled=true
{}                                                                           settled=true
{"type":"s3","s3":{...everything matching..., "bucket":"other"}}             settled=false

Only the last one, where a key both sides carry disagrees, comes back unsettled. To reproduce, call psmdbStorageEntrySettled(runtime.RawExtension{Raw: []byte(<one of the above>)}, s3) from a scratch test in the package.

The reachable trigger is narrow, since the driver writes all six keys and forcePathStyle is the only one it omits conditionally: an admin adding forcePathStyle to the shared strategy after an entry exists gets one backup that skips the settle poll. It is self-healing on the next job.

The doc comment above the function states the opposite of what the code does. "Agreeing on every field the driver writes" is not what the loop asks, and "an entry that lacks a driver field was not written by the driver" is false for an entry this driver wrote while the strategy carried no forcePathStyle.

Tightening it is a trade rather than a free fix, which is worth knowing before you take it:

$ perl -0pi -e 's/if got, ok := live\.S3\[k\]; ok && got != want \{/if got, ok := live.S3[k]; !ok || got != want {/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_StorageRaceReMintsPastLingeringCR (0.01s)
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ForeignStorageIsNotOwned (0.02s)
    --- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ForeignStorageIsNotOwned/foreign_bucket,_platform_credential
    --- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ForeignStorageIsNotOwned/platform_bucket,_foreign_credential
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_StorageRaceRetryBudgetExhausted (0.02s)

All three seed a two-key entry that the driver would never write, so the fixtures are what needs moving to the six-key shape, not the mechanism.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:415, the settle wait's stated reason does not survive the live read added beside it

The comment says the wait is worth a poll because "on the next reconcile this driver's own read reflects the entry as applied, which is a good proxy that the operator's does too". That held while the read came from the manager's cache. psmdbClusterLive at :321 replaces cluster with an uncached read before storageSettled is computed, so the next poll always reflects the apply, whatever the operator's cache holds. The wait is now a fixed one-poll delay and the three-retry storage-race budget is what actually covers the miss. The mechanism is fine; the sentence explaining it is not.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:321, the shipped branch of the mint path is exercised once

r.Interface is always set in production (backupjob_controller.go:223 fails controller startup otherwise), so the live read is the only branch that ever runs there. Of the thirty reconciler constructions in the MongoDB test file, two set Interface, and only TestReconcileMongoDB_MintTimeReadsTheClusterLive drives the mint path with it, asserting the legacy-render hold alone. The settle gate, the precondition, the ownership switch and the mint are all exercised on the r.Interface == nil fallback, which by its own comment exists for the tests. Seeding a dynamic client in the shared fixture and deleting the fallback would close the gap between the tested branch and the shipped one.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:1013, the new live read drops the error distinction its twin makes

psmdbClusterLive returns a bare error to the caller, which returns it to controller-runtime. Compare the two neighbours it is modelled on. The cached Get of the same object thirty-eight lines above separates IsNotFound into a bounded wait with a named Ready=False and a terminal failure at the deadline. The twin psmdbBackupLiveState guards a nil client inside itself and its call site gives an unreadable CR a grace window and then fails the job, explicitly so that an unanswerable read cannot pin a job Running forever. The new read has neither half: a persistent failure (a 403 after an RBAC edit, sustained throttling) leaves the BackupJob Running with no condition, no deadline and nothing in kubectl describe to act on. A transient one is bounded only by the informer catching up.

Related, and the reason throttling is not hypothetical: the read sits inside the existing == nil block, so every pre-mint hold pays an uncached GET per poll. At psmdbPollInterval = 5s against psmdbDefaultBackupDeadline = 30m that is up to 360 direct apiserver reads per held BackupJob, fleet-wide, where the old code read only through the cache.

[NIT] internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:448, the dead term is still there

Carried from my last round and unchanged in substance: psmdbCredentialsSecretIsInjected at :851 accepts a superset of the credential the fourth term compares, so the opt-out case at :451 always refuses first when the flag is off, and the useSystemBucket term can never decide anything. Removing it keeps the suite green. The new comment beside it says as much, which is honest but is not the fix. Delete the term.

[NIT] two commit messages contradict each other and both land verbatim

198643ac7 says "the schema rejects useSystemBucket without backup.enabled"; 1c69a4015 corrects it to say the aggregated apiserver does not evaluate CEL yet, so the render-time refusal is what holds. This repository merges without squashing, so both survive:

$ gh api repos/cozystack/cozystack --jq '{allow_squash_merge, allow_merge_commit, merge_commit_message}'
{"allow_squash_merge":false,"allow_merge_commit":true,"merge_commit_message":"PR_BODY"}

The same setting is why the PR body becomes the merge commit message, which matters for the next note.

[NIT] the PR body's injection sentence is now behind the code

The body says the storage is "re-injected once per BackupJob, before its operator CR is minted". The comment at :369 now says the apply runs before each mint, which with psmdbStorageRaceRetryBudget = 3 is up to four times for one job. The code is right and the body is stale.

Still open from my earlier rounds

Nothing here blocks, and two of the three already have an answer I accept.

• packages/apps/mongodb/templates/mongodb.yaml, nothing prunes the shared bucket on this flow, open since my round of 2 Sep, three rounds. Still true: a useSystemBucket render carries no tasks, keep, pitr or storages, and no engine-side retention exists to inherit. What changed is that the answer I asked for is now written down: the release note calls an S3 lifecycle policy "a prerequisite for enabling it, not a suggestion", and the follow-ups are named (#4192, #3966). That is the "a follow-up owns it, here is the issue" answer, so I am not carrying it as a blocker.
• api/backups/v1alpha1/plan_types.go:66, PlanSpec still carries only applicationRef, backupClassName and schedule. Same answer, same disposition. It is also the fact that makes the runbook sentence above wrong.
• internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go:448, the dead useSystemBucket term, filed above.

Closed since my last round

Each verified against the code, most by reverting the fix and watching the suite:

• The precondition running past the mint (my only blocker last round). The precondition, both pre-mint holds and the ownership switch are now inside one existing == nil gate and a job that has its CR goes straight to the state switch. Reverting the gate reddens four tests:

$ perl -0pi -e 's/\tif existing == nil \{\n\t\t\/\/ The mint-time decisions below read/\tif existing == nil || existing != nil {\n\t\t\/\/ The mint-time decisions below read/' internal/backupcontroller/psmdbstrategy_controller.go
$ go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_TimedOutCancelUsesLiveState (0.05s)
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_OptOutRefusesStalePlatformStorage (0.03s)
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ArtifactRecordsTheCRsFlowNotTheFlag (0.01s)
--- FAIL: TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver (0.02s)
FAIL

• The mid-dump edit term held by no test. TestReconcileMongoDB_ExistingCRIsNotInjectedOver is now three subtests (tasks re-acquired, backups disabled, strategy lost its s3), each aged to twice the deadline, each asserting the job is not failed, the tenant's storage is not rewritten and the CR is not deleted. The apply-count assertion the old single case carried is still there, so the rewrite added coverage without losing any.
• A coordinate change skipping the settle wait. psmdbStorageEntrySettled replaced the presence-only key check; reverting it to presence-only reddens TestReconcileMongoDB_CoordinateChangeRequeuesBeforeMinting. The residue is the absent-key case filed above.
• The term separating the storage race from a real backup failure. Inverting psmdbErrorIsUnresolvedStorage reddens StorageRaceErrorRetried, NonStorageErrorIsTerminal and StorageRaceRetryBudgetExhausted.
• The mint-time reads coming from the manager's cache. Now psmdbClusterLive; removing it reddens TestReconcileMongoDB_MintTimeReadsTheClusterLive.
• The snapshot comment naming a source of truth the caller stopped passing. Rewritten to name the CR's own finalizer, which is what :509 actually passes.
• The runbook's blanket "30-day retention". Gone, and the replacement's enumeration is exact. Its other clause is the finding above.
• "Once per BackupJob" in the injection comment. Now says once per mint plus once per storage-race re-mint.

On the other reviewer's review

His blocker, B1, is factually right and I reproduced all of it independently: plan_controller.go never deletes a Backup, PlanSpec has no retention field, and the artifact carries no owner reference to the Plan, so the sentence at :294 offers an operator a bound that does not exist. The three code comments he names (:78, :1132, :1262) do carry the same words, and the PR body does become the merge commit message.

Where I land differently is grade, and here is the reasoning rather than just the verdict. The three code comments are subjunctive ("without it a retention-pruned Plan would grow cozy-backups unboundedly") and they are the repository's existing idiom, not this branch's invention: the same phrasing sits on main today in backup_controller.go three times and in the redis, kafka, rabbitmq and mariadb files. Dropping the clause in the five places he lists would leave seven identical ones behind. The doc line is the one indicative statement, and it is the one to fix.

For the harm, I could not get from that sentence to a blocking consequence. Following it costs an omission, not a destructive action, and its own page contradicts it twice: the MongoDB section this PR adds says in bold that a Plan has no retention field yet and that a lifecycle policy is the stopgap, and the etcd bullet nine lines below :294 says the same. The release note, which is what lands in the changelog, calls the policy a prerequisite. An unbounded shared bucket is cost and eventually a refused write; no archive already taken becomes unrestorable. So I grade it MINOR and would rather it were fixed before merge than hold the branch for it, which is a difference of one clause and costs nothing to settle either way.

His four non-blocking points, each run here:

1. psmdbStorageEntrySettled and a dropped forcePathStyle: confirmed, and it is the same defect as my finding above, reached from the other direction. He describes the field being removed from the strategy, I probed it being added; both land on the same branch, because the loop asks nothing about a key only one side carries. The probe output is in that finding.
2. The two commit bodies contradicting each other: confirmed, and the repository setting above is why both reach main unedited. Filed as a NIT.
3. The body still saying "re-injected once per BackupJob": confirmed. Filed as a NIT with the actual bound, which is four.
4. No chainsaw suite setting useSystemBucket: true for MongoDB: confirmed. grep -rn useSystemBucket hack/ examples/ returns one useSystemBucket: false under the clickhouse suite and two prose mentions in the MongoDB example; nothing sets it true. The PR body declares this as a follow-up, which I accept for an opt-in flag, but it does mean the injection, the settle wait and the prune finalizer have never run against a real apiserver or a real psmdb operator.

One correction, in his favour and against his own text: he wrote that E2E was still running. It has since passed. The only red check on this head is the API-owner gate.

Checks I ran

• Merged 3fc4b346 with current origin/main (101d1d986, 26 Sep) and ran make unit-tests against the merge, with the same target on unmodified origin/main as a control. Result: green on both, with one identical environmental failure that is not this branch's.

$ git merge --no-edit origin/main          # 3fc4b346 + 101d1d986 -> 847fc6b5d, no conflicts
$ make unit-tests
...
All Helm unit tests passed.
...
╰[00:00] ❌ Test failed: the pull step maps the base branch to a published artifact tag (exit 1)
+ git init --quiet --initial-branch=main /var/folders/.../repo
error: unknown option `initial-branch=main'
make: *** [bats-unit-overlay-main-images_test] Error 1

The same target fails at the same test, on the same line, on unmodified origin/main: the workstation's git is 2.23.0 and does not carry that option, while CI runs 2.55.0, so it is my machine and not the code. Past that point both trees ran the rest of the suite clean and identically (960 helm and bats cases OK on each, go-unit-tests, go-module-tests, rd-presets-check, test-check-readiness and migrations-target-check all green, migrations.targetVersion=59 >= 59 after the merge). make unit-tests does not reach internal/..., so I ran the package this branch actually changes by hand on the merged tree: go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1 is ok in 3.4s.

• go build ./... and go vet ./internal/backupcontroller/ clean; go test ./internal/backupcontroller/ -count=1 green on the head; helm unittest packages/apps/mongodb 143 of 143.
• The one red check, "Require API owner review for sizeable API changes", fails at step "Check for an API owner approval" and its log says the PR needs an approving review from one of the two named API owners. It is a governance gate over the new validation rule, not a code failure, and the PR body already says so.
• I checked fourteen claims the branch makes about itself, in the commit messages, the code comments, the PR body and the runbook. Six did not hold and are the findings above; the rest did, including the retention enumeration, the RBAC bullet, the test-coverage claims in the newest commit message and the "once per mint plus once per re-mint" comment.
• The gate change was checked in the other direction too, for a hole rather than a fix. Nothing that ran on the poll path before stopped being covered: ensureMongoDBBackup opens with the same lookup, so skipping it when the CR exists changes no behaviour; cluster is not read after the gate; and every CR state stays bounded, by the running ceiling at 24h on this flow and by the start deadline at 30m otherwise.

Caveats

• This branch is now around 4700 added lines across 28 files, well past what one round can hold. Four rounds is the only reason I am willing to sign it, and my confidence in the parts untouched since round three rests on those rounds rather than on this one.
• Nothing here ran against a cluster. The psmdb operator's cache behaviour behind the settle wait, server-side-apply ownership of the injected entry, and the operator accepting backup.enabled: true with empty storages are all still unproven. With no chainsaw suite setting the flag, a cozystack-pr-test run on a disposable cluster is what would close them.
• reconcileMongoDB has been edited by twenty commits on this branch. This increment is the consolidation that signal asks for, folding five repetitions of existing == nil into one gate, so I am not raising it again. It is worth saying that the function is now 496 lines with a nested mint block, and the next change to it would be a good moment to split the mint out.

Andrey Kolkov (@androndo) LGTM. The claim that a Plan bounds the MongoDB archives is gone from all five places, and nothing in the two new commits blocks.

The runbook at :294 now says a Plan only creates BackupJobs and never deletes a Backup. The three driver comments and the body say "by hand today; by platform retention once it lands". The other Plan + retention sentence in the MongoDB section (:125) states that a Plan has no retention field yet, so it holds. My three earlier non-blocking points are closed as well. The settle check reads a missing field as its zero value and catches a dropped forcePathStyle. Only the message of a6bb055 changed among the older commits, so the "schema rejects" wording no longer lands. The body says "once per mint".

The new PBM wait matches what the operator does at v1.22.0. updateStatus stamps observedGeneration only when the reconcile returned no error. reconcilePBMConfig sets PBMReady=False before GetNSetConfig and flips it back to True only after the push. The apply response already carries the bumped generation, so a mint in the same pass as a coordinate change cannot pass observedGeneration >= generation. That makes the settle check a second guard, not the only one.

I mutated each term of psmdbPBMConfigApplied, the zero-value branch of the settle check, the forcePathStyle removal check, both existing != nil branches and the running ceiling in requeueMongoDBBackupBehindCR. Every one of them turns TestReconcileMongoDB_MintWaitsForPBMConfig, TestPsmdbStorageEntrySettled or TestReconcileMongoDB_ReadsBehindExistingCRDoNotFailAtDeadline red. Comparing the type outright (live.Type != want) survives mutation, but the PBM wait covers that case anyway.

The data-loss case still holds on this head. A legacy cluster with a tenant-bucket s3-storage entry and useSystemBucket: false mints a CR without the percona.com/delete-backup finalizer. Forcing platformStorage = true brings the finalizer back.

Non-blocking:

1. The PBM wait protects only the job that mints. Say job A has a CR the operator has not started yet, and the strategy coordinates change before job B applies them. At v1.22.0 Backup.Start records status.s3 from the spec as it is when A starts, while pbm writes wherever its own config points. A can then record the new bucket and dump into the old one. Only the restore of that one Backup breaks and the object stays in a platform bucket, so I don't block on it. Holding a coordinate-changing apply while another CR for the same cluster is still new or waiting would close it.
2. While a restore is running, reconcilePBMConfig returns early without an error. That reconcile still stamps observedGeneration and leaves PBMReady=True from the previous config. It needs a restore and a coordinate change at the same moment, so this is only a note.
3. The legacy reconcile test mints a CR but never checks its finalizers. Forcing platformStorage = true is caught only by ForeignStorageIsNotOwned, which runs with the flag on. One finalizer assertion in TestReconcileMongoDB_LegacyClusterNotPatched would pin the tenant-bucket case directly.
4. No chainsaw suite sets useSystemBucket: true for MongoDB yet. The body says so.

Checked: go test ./internal/backupcontroller/... passes, helm unittest packages/apps/mongodb passes 143/143, and the merge with current main is clean. The five new or changed commits carry a sign-off and exactly one Assisted-by: LLM. On 6555ae1 pre-commit and the unit tests are green. E2E Tests is red only because the in-tree run was skipped after the lineage-controller-webhook build failed to download the flux 2.8.6 binary (curl exit 22), which this PR does not touch. E2E passed on 3fc4b34.