fix(kubernetes)!: remove the talos block and other leftovers of the worker pool split - #5191

Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 2

hack/check-worker-image-catalog-defaults.bats: 1

185-185: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Ignore Go template comments in the unread-key grep.

The grep at hack/check-worker-image-catalog-defaults.bats:185 matches .Values.talos.<key> anywhere under templates/, including inside Go template comments. A comment that names a key can therefore satisfy the check after the key has no executable read. The check still passes correctly for the current chart, because every current match is executable. The gap matters only if a future change leaves such a comment behind.

Match only text outside Go template comments. Comment blocks can span several lines and can use the trim forms {{- /* */ -}}, so a single-line pattern does not cover them. Plain YAML # lines are not template comments and still match.

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Review comment at @hack/check-worker-image-catalog-defaults.bats at line 185:
Update the unread-key grep in the worker image catalog check to ignore Go
template comment blocks before searching, including multiline blocks and trim
forms, while continuing to match references on plain YAML `#` lines. Ensure only
`.Values.talos.<key>` text outside Go template comments can satisfy the check.

packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_k8s_support_matrix_test.yaml: 1

74-76: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that the legacy talos values do not reach the rendered output.

The case keeps rendering a stored spec that still carries the talos fields the chart no longer reads checks only hasDocuments: count: 4. That assertion confirms that the stored spec renders. It does not confirm that the removed keys stay unused. If a template later reads talos.imageFactoryURL or talos.installerRepository, the output content changes but the document count does not, so this case still passes. This is a coverage gap, not a current failure.

Add an assertion on the rendered manifests that the values set for these legacy keys do not appear in the output, for example with a notContains check on the relevant document.

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Review comment at
@packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_k8s_support_matrix_test.yaml around lines
74 - 76:
Extend the “keeps rendering a stored spec that still carries the talos fields
the chart no longer reads” test beyond its document-count assertion: inspect the
rendered manifest content and assert that the values supplied for legacy
talos.imageFactoryURL and talos.installerRepository are absent, while preserving
the existing document-count check.

Additional comments: 1

packages/system/kubernetes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes.yaml-35-35: 1

35-35: Minor · Potential issue · Heavy lift

Unverified finding
We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

The published spec.talos schema now types only version. Although the chart's open values schema can render stored specs with the removed keys, a kubernetes_manifest client may reject a previously valid manifest containing spec.talos.imageFactoryURL or another removed key before sending it.

The Terraform plan or apply fails until the manifest is changed, even though the existing resource continues to render.

This can occur when: A Terraform-managed Kubernetes resource still declares a former parent Talos field during an upgrade.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/apps/kubernetes/README.md:
- Line 90: Update the air-gapped tenant workers guidance to replace the Phase 2
claim with the existing pool-level `talos.registryMirrors` setting, explaining
that it renders to `machine.registries.mirrors` for in-guest pulls. Note that
Talos falls back to the upstream registry unless a mirrored host sets
`skipFallback: true`.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @hack/check-worker-image-catalog-defaults.bats:
- Line 185: Update the unread-key grep in the worker image catalog check to
ignore Go template comment blocks before searching, including multiline blocks
and trim forms, while continuing to match references on plain YAML `#` lines.
Ensure only `.Values.talos.<key>` text outside Go template comments can satisfy
the check.

Review comments at
@packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_k8s_support_matrix_test.yaml:
- Around line 74-76: Extend the “keeps rendering a stored spec that still
carries the talos fields the chart no longer reads” test beyond its
document-count assertion: inspect the rendered manifest content and assert that
the values supplied for legacy talos.imageFactoryURL and
talos.installerRepository are absent, while preserving the existing
document-count check.

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• api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetes/types.go
• api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetes/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
• docs/release.md
• hack/check-worker-image-catalog-defaults.bats
• hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh
• hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats
• hack/e2e-talos-image-cache.yaml
• hack/run-kubernetes-talos-spec_test.bats
• packages/apps/kubernetes/README.md
• packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/talos_k8s_support_matrix_test.yaml
• packages/apps/kubernetes/values.schema.json
• packages/apps/kubernetes/values.yaml
• packages/system/kubernetes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes.yaml
• pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_nullstrip_admission_test.go
• pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_nullstrip_test.go

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The change itself is clean. The four removed keys have no reader left outside the pool chart (grep across the tree), a stored spec that still carries them keeps rendering (the new unittest covers it, and the values schema does not close the object), and the generated schema, cozyrds and types.go all agree with values.yaml. The e2e image-cache seed now reads the pool chart and resolves to the same values.

What blocks the merge is mechanical, not the code: the branch currently conflicts with main in docs/release.md and needs a rebase. I could not run the unit suite against current main until that is resolved.

Two non-blocking notes:

• [MINOR] A stored spec that still carries spec.talos.schematicID or registryMirrors gets a silent 200 on update with no admission warning, while the sibling nodeGroups keys already warn for this case (removedKubernetesFields in pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go). The fields were inert before this PR, so it is not a regression, but a talos.* entry there would surface the breakage at apply time instead of only in the schema.
• [NIT] The new guard in hack/check-worker-image-catalog-defaults.bats greps for .Values.talos.<key> with a regex that also matches a commented-out read. It fails safe, so only worth a mention.

Minimal change otherwise, reads well.

Actionable comments posted: 3

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Review comments at @docs/release/changelogs.md:
- Line 63: Update the changelog verification loop to inspect the full diff for
each pool values path instead of truncating it to the first 40 lines, so later
Talos version or schematic changes are included. Preserve the existing path list
and surrounding verification behavior.

Review comments at @packages/apps/kubernetes/README.md:
- Line 90: Update the Air-gapped tenant workers documentation to explain that an
existing osImage.factory.imageFactoryURL override can take precedence over
talos.imageFactoryURL; instruct operators to remove the override or point it to
the internal mirror so downloads use the intended source.
- Line 90: Update the Talos configuration documentation in the Kubernetes README
to state that Kubernetes resources no longer accept talos.schematicID,
talos.imageFactoryURL, talos.installerRepository, or talos.registryMirrors;
instruct operators to remove these fields from existing Kubernetes manifests and
configure any desired worker settings on each KubernetesNodes pool.

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• docs/release/changelogs.md
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Approve. I checked the load-bearing claim against the tree and it holds: the parent kubernetes chart reads only .Values.talos.version (the support-matrix guard in templates/cluster.yaml), and the four removed fields are read exclusively by the kubernetes-nodes pool chart (_helpers.tpl for imageFactoryURL/schematicID, _talosconfigtemplate.tpl for installerRepository/registryMirrors). Removing them from the parent is genuinely inert.

Upgrade safety checked as well:

• No Go consumer reads .Talos.SchematicID/ImageFactoryURL/InstallerRepository/RegistryMirrors anywhere in pkg/cmd/internal, so nothing fails to compile and no controller or conversion depends on them.
• No lookup in the parent chart keys on these fields, and the parent neither creates nor propagates talos into KubernetesNodes. Pools carry their own talos, untouched here.
• Stored specs that still carry the keys are accepted and preserved (no pruning in the application REST path), and the open values schema plus the new helm unittest confirm they keep rendering.

Two non-blocking notes:

1. No admission warning for the removed nested fields. removedKubernetesFields warns operators about the top-level Phase 2 fields, but the four talos.* fields get nothing. The affected users are exactly the air-gapped operators who set imageFactoryURL/registryMirrors/installerRepository/schematicID on the cluster expecting them to configure workers. They already got the public factory silently (the bug this fixes), but without a warning on upgrade nothing nudges them to move the setting onto each KubernetesNodes pool. warnRemovedKubernetesFields only iterates top-level keys, so reaching into talos needs a small extension. You flagged this as not done; worth a follow-up.

2. Please add an operator-facing release note. The label is breaking but the runtime blast radius is zero for kubectl/GitOps. The one client-side edge is the one you called out and did not test: terraform kubernetes_manifest builds a typed plan from the server OpenAPI and will reject talos.schematicID and the others as unexpected attributes at plan time after upgrade. A note telling Terraform users to drop the four keys, and telling everyone else no action is needed, covers it.

Surgical change, and the new "every declared talos field is read by a template" guard is a good tripwire against this class regressing.

packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/README.md:28
This line in the readme states what a storage class, is, where it applies, how it interacts with linstor (a separate component that may or may not be installed), how it relates to proxmox (if it happens to be in use at all). How do you intend to keep the documentation consistent when the platform's contracts are described across multiple fields of separate applications?

packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml
Roughly 95% of edits to this file seem to misunderstand the purpose of code comments. A readme file exists to present free-form prose to the reader describing behavior.

Overall, the ratio of comments-to-code is so high that I'm unable to find where the code changes are at a glance and give a meaningful code review. I will not accept this PR until the ratio of added comment lines to total added lines is under 50%. If you want the pre-existing comments not to count against this score, consider not modifying these lines at all, so they don't show up in the diff. The only prose I'm willing to discount is in NOTES.txt and README.md files and even there only in the sections for prose, not in the chart's field reference.

Re-approve. I went through the round-2 changes as a fresh changeset, since this grew from the original field removal into dropping the whole talos block and moving the support matrix to the pool chart. Verified the load-bearing parts directly:

• The support-matrix check moved to kubernetes-nodes and is now wired at both the talos.version path and the osImage.*.version override path (assertTalosSupportsKubernetes, called from nodegroup.yaml). That is more complete than the old parent check, which only saw talos.version. The new assertParentVersion lookup is inert offline and fail-open, so it does not block template/unittest rendering.
• Nothing in Go reads ConfigSpec.Talos anymore, stored specs that still carry the whole block render (the new stored-spec test), and unknown fields are still accepted and stored.
• _resources.tpl and the storageClass fallback are genuinely dead (0 references, and the fallback returns the value it falls back from), and the byte-identical-render claim is backed by the green snapshot and TalosConfigTemplate-hash tests.
• The new CIDR agreement check is a static CI guard that renders both charts and compares them, not a render-time fail, so it is upgrade-safe.
• The OIDC / ingress-nginx / bootstrap-token template edits are comment-only.

Two non-blocking notes:

1. removedKubernetesFields still does not list talos. A stored or hand-edited spec that keeps the block renders fine but gets no admission warning that it is ignored now. Since talos is a top-level key and warnRemovedKubernetesFields iterates top-level keys, adding "talos" is a one-line change that closes the gap. I raised this last round too.

2. The PR grew from the field removal into a broad comment and history cleanup plus refactors across both charts. Each refactor is test-gated, so the blast radius is contained, but the comment cleanup could have ridden a separate non-breaking PR and kept this one easy to bisect later. Not blocking.

One thing I cannot check from here: the Breaking Changes section moved out of the README into the per-release upgrade notes on the website. That page needs to land with this change so operators do not lose the migration guidance.

Approving on the code. The breaking API gate still needs an API owner's sign-off, which this does not clear.

myasnikovdaniil Following our discussions I'll remove my blocking review by approving, but I disagree with the premise that "the whole codebase is bad, so more bad edits are admissible". Even in automated reviews a rule that we used is "if the PR touches this line, it owns it, pre-existing is not a thing". I'm not asking anyone to refactor the entire prose this repo contains, but if you're editing some comments, why not bring them up to a standard? When we get round to writing down the rules for acceptable PRs, I will be insisting that prose is also scrutinized and we'll be debating this all over again.