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Nothing enforced that spec.application.kind is unique across ApplicationDefinitions, and every consumer that maps a kind back to a definition resolved a duplicate its own way. The chartRef reconciler selected HelmReleases by the kind label alone and let every definition rewrite every release of its kind; the lineage webhook and the CA projection reconciler took whichever definition came first in an unordered list; cozystack-api registered one resource per definition. A second definition declaring a kind already in use could therefore repoint that kind's tenant releases at its own artifact, whatever the definition was named. Fixes #4361.

This adds one ownership rule, in internal/shared/appdefowner: the definition created first owns the kind, with ties broken by name. Every Go consumer goes through it:

  • the chartRef reconciler rewrites releases only for the owner of their kind, emits a KindClaimed Warning event on a definition that is not the owner, and re-reconciles the next owner when the current one is deleted or changes kind;
  • cozystack-api registers the owner only and logs the definitions it leaves out; its restart hash now moves when ownership moves, while a cluster without duplicate kinds hashes exactly as before, so the upgrade itself does not restart the API;
  • the lineage webhook and the CA projection reconciler resolve the owner, and the CA projection watch now also reacts to a kind change;
  • the lineage webhook gains a validating endpoint that refuses a new ApplicationDefinition whose kind another definition already declares. An update that keeps its kind is allowed, so a duplicate that predates the check keeps upgrading, and so is a second definition from the same Helm release, because a release that renames its definition object creates the new one before it deletes the old one. It is registered with failurePolicy: Ignore, and a failure to read the existing definitions lets the request through with a warning instead of an error answer, which Ignore would not cover: ApplicationDefinitions ship with the platform, so the check must never block an install or upgrade, and the ownership rule holds whatever it lets through.

Two decisions differ from the wording of the issue, deliberately:

  • a duplicate kind is not a fail-stop at cozystack-api start-up. One malformed or duplicate definition taking the API down for every tenant is the problem Tap privileged-confirmation gate races source-watcher on a benign-to-privileged flip #4359's design comment calls out, so the API serves the owner and logs the rest instead;
  • "created first owns" rather than "the platform's definition owns". It needs no notion of provenance, and a definition that arrives later can never take a kind over. The consequence worth knowing: deleting the owner hands its releases to the next definition declaring that kind.

Known gaps left for follow-ups, both pre-existing:

  • the dashboard console (packages/system/dashboard/images/console) still picks the first definition matching a kind or plural in the list it receives. It switches no release, but with a duplicate present it can show the duplicate's form;
  • plural collisions are not checked: a definition with a new kind but an existing plural still takes the plural's endpoint at registration. Existing releases are not reachable through it, since List and Get filter by the kind label.

Tests cover the rule itself, each consumer, the webhook (create, update keeping and changing kind) and the chart; every guard was mutation-checked term by term.

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The change alters ApplicationDefinition semantics (kind uniqueness and ownership), which the trigger map routes to cozystack/website (content/en/docs/next/cozystack-api/application-definitions.md). The follow-up there is not opened yet; it needs the maintainers to settle the behaviour first. No other repository in the map is reached: no CRD, kind, plural, prefix or values change.

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fix(api): an application kind is now owned by one ApplicationDefinition, the one created first. A second definition declaring a kind already in use is refused at admission, and one that predates the check no longer manages that kind's releases or its API registration.

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  • New Features
    • Application kinds now have a consistent owner: the earliest-created definition takes precedence, with name used to break timestamp ties.
    • New definitions that claim a kind already owned by another definition are rejected. Existing duplicates can keep their current kind, and definitions from the same Helm release can be renamed.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Runtime configuration and Helm releases now use the owning definition, preventing duplicates from replacing its configuration.
    • Ownership changes trigger affected definitions to be reconciled.

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ApplicationDefinitions now have a deterministic owner for each non-empty application kind. A validating webhook checks kind claims. The server and controllers use ownership when building resource configuration, selecting definitions, and reconciling HelmReleases.

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Kind ownership and registration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Select kind owners and build registrations
internal/shared/appdefowner/*, pkg/cmd/server/start.go, pkg/cmd/server/start_owner_test.go, internal/lineagecontrollerwebhook/controller.go, internal/lineagecontrollerwebhook/controller_test.go
The shared lookup selects the earliest-created definition for each non-empty kind, with lexicographically smaller names breaking timestamp ties. cozystack-api resource configuration and the lineage controller application map use that owner. Tests cover selection and registration.
Validate kind claims at admission
internal/lineagecontrollerwebhook/appdef_validator.go, internal/lineagecontrollerwebhook/appdef_validator_test.go, cmd/lineage-controller-webhook/main.go, packages/system/lineage-controller-webhook/templates/validatingwebhookconfiguration.yaml, packages/system/lineage-controller-webhook/tests/validatingwebhookconfiguration_test.yaml, internal/marketplace/collision/collision.go
Registers a validating webhook for ApplicationDefinition creates and updates. The validator denies claims held by another definition, with exceptions for same-kind updates and definitions from the same Helm release. List errors allow the request with a warning. The webhook configuration and tests are added; the collision package comment now describes its PackageSource name check.
Restrict HelmRelease reconciliation to owners
internal/controller/applicationdefinition_helmreconciler.go, cmd/cozystack-controller/main.go, internal/controller/applicationdefinition_helmreconciler_test.go
The reconciler skips HelmRelease updates for non-owner definitions and emits a KindClaimed warning when a recorder is available. Its watch mapping enqueues definitions with the same kind. Tests cover skipped rewrites, warning events, and enqueue requests.
Propagate ownership changes to consumers
internal/controller/applicationdefinition_controller.go, internal/controller/applicationdefinition_controller_test.go, internal/controller/cacert/reconciler.go, internal/controller/cacert/reconciler_test.go
The configuration hash includes whether a definition is skipped due to ownership. The CA certificate reconciler resolves the owner and observes kind changes in its update predicate. Tests cover hash changes and owner resolution.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant APIServer as Kubernetes API server
  participant Validator as ApplicationDefinitionKindValidator
  participant Reader as client.Reader
  APIServer->>Validator: Send admission request
  Validator->>Reader: List ApplicationDefinitions
  Reader-->>Validator: Return definitions or list error
  Validator-->>APIServer: Return admission response
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An ownership handoff can leave HelmReleases on the former owner’s configuration until another event occurs, and the reported CA configuration mismatch remains unresolved. These risks should be addressed before merging.

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In `@internal/controller/cacert/reconciler.go`:
- Line 729: Coordinate the owner-based selector change at the
`appdefowner.Owners(list.Items)[app.Kind]` assignment with lineage’s
`runtimeConfig` refresh. Ensure CA admission uses selectors for the current
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if err := r.List(ctx, list); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("list ApplicationDefinitions: %w", err)
}
owner := appdefowner.Owners(list.Items)[app.Kind]

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Serialize owner changes with lineage configuration refresh. The CA reconciler drops managed-by-cozystack when the owner-based selectors digest changes, which triggers lineage admission. The lineage controller refreshes runtimeConfig through a separate ApplicationDefinition reconcile. If CA admission runs first, the webhook can use the previous owner’s selectors and restore tenantresource=true. The new digest is then stored, so later CA reconciliations do not re-admit the projection. Ensure re-admission uses the current owner, or retry it after the lineage configuration reflects the owner change.

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IvanHunters LGTM. Every Go consumer that maps a kind back to a definition now uses the same rule: the oldest creation timestamp wins, and the name breaks a tie. That covers the chartRef reconciler, cozystack-api registration and its restart hash, the lineage webhook map and the CA projection lookup. I also grepped for other readers of spec.application.kind. The backup-form kind options, telemetry and the tap listing only read kind names or map by artifact, so none of them picks a definition.

A cluster that already has two definitions for one kind keeps working on upgrade. The older one becomes the owner and rewrites that kind's releases to its chartRef, so if the newer one had been winning the old race, those releases switch chart once. The webhook lets through an update that keeps its kind, so the Flux release that ships the duplicate does not get stuck. The loser gets a KindClaimed Warning event, cozystack-api logs the skip, and the API restarts once because the config hash now carries the skipped flag. A cluster without duplicates hashes as before.

I ran the six touched Go packages (130 top-level tests, all pass) and the chart suite (8 pass). Then I mutated 14 guards one at a time: both directions of the rule, the owner filter in each consumer, the fan-out to same-kind definitions, the hash flag, the kind clause in the CA predicate, the webhook refusal, its update early return, the Helm release exemption and its namespace clause, and the fail-open on a list error. Each mutation turned red exactly the test I expected.

Non-blocking:

  1. The refusal message names the owner, not the definition that caused the refusal. They differ when the owner comes from the same Helm release as the new object and a third definition from another release declares the kind. Then "delete that definition first" points at the wrong object. Returning the conflicting name from claimedByOther would fix it.
  2. With a duplicate present, deleting the owner hands the kind to the duplicate, as the body says. What it does not say: when the platform package recreates its definition, the webhook refuses it, because it comes from a different release than the duplicate. That package stays failed until someone deletes the duplicate. Upgrades patch definitions in place, so this needs a manual reinstall to happen, but it is worth a line in the docs follow-up.
  3. The CA projection race from the bot comment is real, but not new. The CA reconciler and the lineage webhook refresh from two separate reconciles, so the webhook can re-admit a projection with the previous selectors. A spec.secrets edit opens the same window today; this PR adds an ownership move as one more trigger.
  4. appdefowner.go says Copyright 2025, new files in the tree use 2026.

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if err := r.List(ctx, defs); err != nil {
log.FromContext(ctx).Error(err, "failed to list ApplicationDefinitions for kind fan-out", "kind", appDef.Spec.Application.Kind)
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Retain a retry path when kind fan-out fails.

If r.List fails during an owner's deletion, sameKindRequests enqueues only the deleted definition. Reconcile then ignores its NotFound result. The remaining definition receives no request to take ownership, so its HelmReleases can retain the former owner's configuration until another event occurs. Make this failure retryable through a reconciliation path that can repeat the kind fan-out. The controller-runtime map handler enqueues the requests returned for the delete event; it does not retry this list operation. (github.com)

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IvanHunters LGTM after the rebase. The owner check still runs before the DisableWait sync, so a definition that does not own the kind can't push that annotation to the releases either.

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IvanHunters force-pushed the fix/appdef-kind-uniqueness branch from 3a35532 to c35f46e Compare September 24, 2026 18:27
Nothing enforced that spec.application.kind is unique, and each consumer that
maps a kind back to a definition resolved a duplicate its own way: the
chartRef reconciler let every definition rewrite every release of its kind,
the lineage webhook and the CA projection reconciler took whichever came
first in an unordered list, and cozystack-api registered one resource per
definition. A second definition declaring a kind already in use could
therefore repoint that kind's tenant releases at its own artifact.

Add one ownership rule, the definition created first owns the kind with ties
broken by name, and route every consumer through it. A definition that
arrives later with a kind already in use no longer manages that kind's
releases whatever it is named: the chartRef reconciler skips it with a
Warning event and re-reconciles the next owner when the current one goes,
cozystack-api registers the owner only and logs the rest, its restart hash
moves when ownership moves, and the lineage and CA projection lookups
resolve the owner.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <[email protected]>
A definition declaring an application kind that another definition already
declares now fails when it is applied, instead of sitting next to the first
one where it has no effect. An update that keeps its kind is allowed, so a
duplicate that predates the check keeps upgrading, and so is a second
definition from the same Helm release, since a release that renames its
definition object creates the new one before it deletes the old one.

The webhook is registered with failurePolicy Ignore: ApplicationDefinitions
ship with the platform itself, so an outage of the webhook must never block
a bootstrap or an upgrade, and a failure to read the existing definitions
lets the request through with a warning rather than answering with an error,
which Ignore would not cover. It is the feedback layer; which definition
manages a kind is decided by the ownership rule whatever it lets through.

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