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What this PR does

Adds registries.imageOverrides to the platform values: a list of kustomize images entries (name, newName, newTag, digest) that replace any container image by its tag-less name in every HelmRelease the platform installs.

Registry mirrors on the nodes (registries.mirrors) serve an image only under the name it was pinned with: same repository, same tag, same digest, another host. That covers a pull-through cache, but not an image set rebuilt under other names, which is what a distribution's own registry or a corporate registry with its own naming holds. For example, ghcr.io/cozystack/cozystack/kubeovn:v1.15.26@sha256:7412… rebuilt as registry.example.org/os/cozystack-kube-ovn:1.15.26@sha256:f80b… cannot be served by any mirror, because both the path and the digest differ.

registries:
  imageOverrides:
    - name: ghcr.io/cozystack/cozystack/kubeovn
      newName: registry.example.org/os/cozystack-kube-ovn
      newTag: "1.15.26"
      digest: sha256:f80b60d4523dcdecb225c3113bcbd0eedc45b4d2b46f87c0ccf4f14d09a4a35f

How the table reaches the releases:

  • The platform chart validates it and writes it into the cozystack-values Secret as _cluster.image-overrides, the channel the other platform-wide settings already use; tenant namespaces get it through the copy the tenant chart makes.
  • cozystack-operator sets it as a kustomize images post-renderer on every release it generates for a Package and re-reconciles every Package when the Secret changes.
  • cozystack-api sets it on every Application release it writes. The ApplicationDefinition release reconciler in cozystack-controller merges it into releases written before the table changed, keeping post-renderers they already carry.
  • HelmReleases rendered by charts (tenant modules, tenant cluster addons, tenant-root) get it from a new cozy-lib.postRenderers helper, called in all 41 HelmReleases of the 40 templates that render one. csi-proxmox passes its own CSIDriver patch through the helper so that the override comes last. Four packages that render a HelmRelease without cozy-lib now vendor it.
  • hack/helmrelease-postrenderers_test.bats fails on a HelmRelease template that does not call the helper, because nothing else would notice: the release renders fine and installs upstream images.

All Go paths read the table through pkg/imageoverrides, and the chart checks mirror its Validate. A table the Go side cannot read stops the Package or refuses the Application write instead of installing without it, since on an air-gapped cluster that failure would otherwise appear later, as an image pull error. The chart also requires every field to be a string, so an unquoted newTag: 1.20 is refused rather than reaching a release as 1.2.

Limitations, also written into docs/agents/image-refs.md:

  • The kustomize images transformer rewrites image in containers and initContainers of any kind. References in arguments (--image=…), environment variables, ConfigMaps and custom resource fields (CNPG imageName, VictoriaMetrics CRs), and images an operator picks at runtime, are not rewritten.
  • An operator that also passes its own image in an argument or an environment variable, for the pods it starts, is split by an override: the operator runs the overridden image, while the pods it starts use the upstream one (CloudNativePG's OPERATOR_IMAGE_NAME, which every PostgreSQL pod runs as its bootstrap init container; kube-ovn --image; kamaji --migrate-image; Strimzi's entity operator images; mariadb-operator's MARIADB_OPERATOR_IMAGE). On an air-gapped cluster such an override is not enough on its own.
  • An entry matches an image by name alone, so newTag and digest apply to every version of an image a release runs at once: for foundationdb/fdb-kubernetes-monitor, which fdb-operator runs at 7.3.63 and 7.4.1 in one Deployment, either moves both init containers onto one version. For such images only newName is safe, and only if the target registry keeps the upstream tags.
  • Flux and cozystack-operator are deployed by the installer, not through a HelmRelease, so the table does not reach them. The operator image is already set by cozystackOperator.image; the Flux images are a separate change (PR: feat(installer): override Flux images through cozystackOperator.fluxImageOverrides #5137).

Testing: unit tests for pkg/imageoverrides; reconcile tests for the operator (table applied, absent, removed, invalid) and for the ApplicationDefinition reconciler (sync, merge with own renderers, emptied table, load error, fan-out on the Secret); Create/Update tests for the API; helm-unittest for the platform wiring and validation, the cozy-lib helper and the csi-proxmox ordering; all helm-unittest suites of the touched packages pass. The kustomize behaviour (containers and initContainers rewritten in any kind, arguments and env untouched) was checked with kustomize v5.8.1. hack/helmrelease-postrenderers_test.bats passes 4/4 and hack/promote-rewrite-tags_test.bats passes; the rest of make bats-unit-tests fails in the same 18 tests on this branch and on its base, none of them touched here.

On a live cluster (Talos, make prepare-env, operator, API and controller images built from this branch):

  • Without a table, none of the 93 HelmReleases carries postRenderers and cozystack-values has no image-overrides key.
  • With one entry renaming quay.io/jetstack/cert-manager-controller to another registry, repository and digest, set on the cozystack.cozystack-platform Package, all 98 HelmReleases carried the post-renderer within about 2.5 minutes: operator-generated system releases, Application releases written through the API (tenant-root, info, bucket), and chart-rendered ones (vpa-for-vpa, bucket-cozy-backups-system). The cert-manager controller Pod ran from the overridden image, while cainjector and webhook, absent from the table, stayed on quay.io.
  • Removing the table took the post-renderer off all 98 releases within about 5.5 minutes, and cert-manager upgraded back to the upstream image.

Changing the table changes the spec of every HelmRelease, so each one is upgraded once, and chart-rendered releases follow only after their parent release has upgraded. That is expected, but it makes a table change a platform-wide rollout.

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feat(platform): `registries.imageOverrides` in the platform values renames, retags or repins any container image by name in every HelmRelease the platform installs, including tenant cluster addons, for registries that hold images under other names than the ones Cozystack pins. Registry mirrors still cover the case where only the host differs.

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Summary

  • New Features
    • Configure image overrides through platform registry settings for supported platform, tenant, application, and package releases. Overrides update container and init-container images, while preserving existing post-renderers and applying image overrides afterward.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid override entries are rejected. If override data cannot be read, affected releases are not created or updated. When the Secret is missing, existing post-renderers are retained; an empty override list removes previously configured overrides.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on configuring image overrides, their scope, limitations, and image references that are not changed.

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The change adds validated image overrides from a Secret to Package, Application, and chart-rendered HelmReleases. It adds Secret-triggered reconciliation and shared chart post-renderer support.

Changes: Image override flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and load image overrides
packages/core/platform/..., pkg/imageoverrides/*, docs/agents/image-refs.md
The platform chart validates and emits the override table. The imageoverrides package parses, loads, validates, and merges image post-renderers.
Apply overrides to Package releases
internal/operator/*, cmd/cozystack-operator/main.go
PackageReconciler loads the configured or default Secret, reports invalid data, updates HelmReleases, preserves existing renderers when the Secret is absent, and watches Secret changes.
Apply overrides to Application releases
pkg/apiserver/*, pkg/registry/apps/application/*, internal/controller/*, cmd/cozystack-controller/main.go
Application writes and ApplicationDefinition reconciliation load and merge overrides. Changes to the default Secret enqueue application definitions.
Render post-renderers in HelmRelease charts
packages/library/cozy-lib/*, packages/apps/*, packages/extra/*, packages/system/*, packages/tests/*, hack/*
The shared helper combines release-owned renderers with image overrides. HelmRelease templates use the helper, and tests cover ordering, empty tables, and chart coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PlatformChart
  participant CozyValuesSecret
  participant PackageReconciler
  participant ApplicationREST
  participant ApplicationDefinitionHelmReconciler
  participant HelmRelease
  PlatformChart->>CozyValuesSecret: Store validated image override table
  PackageReconciler->>CozyValuesSecret: Load override table
  PackageReconciler->>HelmRelease: Add image post-renderer
  ApplicationREST->>CozyValuesSecret: Load override table for Application writes
  ApplicationREST->>HelmRelease: Merge image post-renderer
  ApplicationDefinitionHelmReconciler->>CozyValuesSecret: Load overrides during reconciliation
  ApplicationDefinitionHelmReconciler->>HelmRelease: Merge image post-renderers
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Possibly related issues

  • cozystack/cozystack#5092: The issue describes upgrades and repeated Jobs when _cluster values change, which may relate to the broad HelmRelease propagation introduced here.
  • cozystack/cozystack#4962: The issue describes management etcd disruption during broad image rollouts, which may relate to this image override path.
  • cozystack/cozystack#4968: The issue describes Cilium post-upgrade hook failures after image override changes, which may relate to this post-renderer behavior.
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Move the sameKindRequests doc comment back to its function.

Lines 93-95 document sameKindRequests. The new allDefinitionsOnOverridesChange now sits directly below them, so Go attaches that comment to the new function. sameKindRequests no longer has a doc comment, and the new function has a misleading one.

Move allDefinitionsOnOverridesChange below sameKindRequests. Give it its own doc comment, for example: "enqueues every ApplicationDefinition when the image override Secret changes."


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Major · Reject present non-list values before applying default list. · _helpers.tpl:296-299

packages/core/platform/templates/_helpers.tpl:296-299
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject present non-list values before applying default list.

Helm treats false and 0 as empty values for default, so line 297 converts them to [] before kindIs "slice" runs. The chart then omits image-overrides from cozystack-values instead of rejecting the invalid value.

When the Secret changes, the operator parses the missing key as no overrides and removes the existing override post-renderer from each HelmRelease. Those releases can then use their original image references.

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-{{- $overrides := (.Values.registries | default dict).imageOverrides | default list }}
+{{- $overrides := (.Values.registries | default dict).imageOverrides }}
+{{- if and (not (kindIs "slice" $overrides)) (not (eq $overrides nil)) }}
+{{-   fail (printf "registries.imageOverrides must be a list, got %s" (kindOf $overrides)) }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- $overrides = $overrides | default list }}
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Update cozystack.platform.imageOverrides to validate registries.imageOverrides
before applying a default, so present false or zero values fail as non-lists
instead of becoming an empty list. Preserve the empty-list fallback when the
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Major · Preserve release-owned image-only post-renderers. · imageoverrides.go:131-143

pkg/imageoverrides/imageoverrides.go:131-143
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve release-owned image-only post-renderers.

isOverrideRenderer identifies ownership only by renderer shape. An independently owned Kustomize renderer with images and no patches matches the same predicate. During ApplicationDefinition reconciliation or an Application update, Merge can therefore remove that renderer when the global table changes or becomes empty. This can discard a release-owned registry rewrite and make the release render or pull the wrong image.

Track managed-renderer ownership explicitly. Remove only a renderer carrying that ownership marker, and preserve unmarked release-owned renderers.

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Review comment at @pkg/imageoverrides/imageoverrides.go around lines 131 - 143:
Update Merge and isOverrideRenderer to identify managed post-renderers by an
explicit ownership marker rather than Kustomize renderer shape alone. Remove
only renderers carrying that marker, preserving unmarked release-owned
image-only renderers.
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pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go: 1

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Log override-load failures as structured errors.

An unreadable table blocks Application writes. klog.Errorf puts the cause only in the message text. Use klog.ErrorS(err, "Loading image overrides") so the cause remains an error field. (pkg.go.dev)

As per coding guidelines, Go code must “Add proper error handling and structured logging.”

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Review comment at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go at line 1401:
Replace the `klog.Errorf` call in the image-override loading failure path with
`klog.ErrorS`, passing `err` as the error field and retaining “Loading image
overrides” as the message.

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- Line 83: Update the chart-path description to distinguish it from the two Go
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- Line 638: In Update, load image overrides after each live HelmRelease read,
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postRenderersFor. Wire the loadImageOverrides loader to mgr.GetAPIReader()
rather than the cache-backed client, and preserve the live post-renderers when
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Review comments at @packages/core/platform/templates/_helpers.tpl:
- Around line 296-299: Update cozystack.platform.imageOverrides to validate
registries.imageOverrides before applying a default, so present false or zero
values fail as non-lists instead of becoming an empty list. Preserve the
empty-list fallback when the value is absent or nil, then continue using the
validated list.

Review comments at @pkg/imageoverrides/imageoverrides.go:
- Around line 131-143: Update Merge and isOverrideRenderer to identify managed
post-renderers by an explicit ownership marker rather than Kustomize renderer
shape alone. Remove only renderers carrying that marker, preserving unmarked
release-owned image-only renderers.

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Review comments at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:
- Line 1401: Replace the `klog.Errorf` call in the image-override loading
failure path with `klog.ErrorS`, passing `err` as the error field and retaining
“Loading image overrides” as the message.

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Reject present non-list values before applying default list. · _helpers.tpl:296-299

Fixed: the type is checked before the default, so false or 0 fails the render as not a list; an absent or null value is still no table.

Preserve release-owned image-only post-renderers. · imageoverrides.go:131-143

Decline: helmv2.PostRenderer has no name or annotation to carry an ownership marker, so the managed renderer is identified by shape, and Merge documents that convention: a renderer with images and nothing else is taken to be the override renderer. No chart or controller in the tree sets an images-only renderer of its own; one that needs its own image rewrite can carry it next to a patch.

Log override-load failures as structured errors.

Decline: Kept as klog.Errorf to match the rest of rest.go, which uses it throughout and has no ErrorS call.

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@fl0pp5 Thanks. I checked the current code.

  • List validation: The type check now runs before default list. It rejects false and 0, while absent or null values remain valid. This addresses the finding.
  • Image-only post-renderers: I accept the documented ownership convention in Merge. Image-only renderers are treated as managed overrides; renderers with patches are preserved. I will not press for an ownership marker.
  • Logging: klog.Errorf matches the existing usage in pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go. I accept keeping that style for this change.

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Registry mirrors on the nodes can only serve an image under the name it
was pinned with, so an air-gapped install cannot run an image set that
was rebuilt under other names, tags or digests, which is what a
distribution's own registry holds.

The table travels in the cozystack-values Secret as
_cluster.image-overrides and becomes a kustomize images post-renderer
on the releases built in Go: cozystack-operator sets it on every
Package release and re-reconciles when the Secret changes,
cozystack-api sets it on every Application write, and the
ApplicationDefinition reconciler merges it into releases written
before it changed, keeping post-renderers they already carry. A table
that cannot be read stops the write instead of installing upstream
images that would only fail later, at pull time.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Ivan Pepelyaev <[email protected]>
…leases

A HelmRelease a chart renders, such as a tenant's module releases or a
tenant cluster's addons, is built by no Go code, so the override table
reaches it only if the chart puts it there. cozy-lib.postRenderers
renders the table after the release's own post-renderers, and every
HelmRelease template calls it. The four packages that render one
without cozy-lib now vendor it.

Nothing fails at render time when a template misses the call, so a
bats test walks every HelmRelease template in the tree.

flux push artifact skips symlinks, so a chart's charts/cozy-lib link
does not reach the packages artifact; a component gets the library only
from the libraries its PackageSource declares, in every PackageSource
that installs the chart. make update of a package that vendors an
upstream chart clears charts/ and now puts the link back. A second bats
test holds each component and each update target to that.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Ivan Pepelyaev <[email protected]>
The platform values take the image override table next to the registry
mirrors it complements and pass it to every release as
_cluster.image-overrides. The chart refuses a table the operator and
the API would refuse, naming the entry, and requires every field to be
a string so that an unquoted tag such as 1.20 cannot reach a release
as 1.2.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Ivan Pepelyaev <[email protected]>
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Resolved the conflict in 2231fe5. Rebased.

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