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After a Helm MiniService install completed, the rendered chart (ReVal /v1/render output) lived only in an emptyDir-backed file cache on the agent pod. When that cache was lost (agent restart, reschedule, or LRU eviction on ENOSPC), status checks and values updates called ReVal again, and a valid=false answer was a terminal error that moved a Running instance to Failed and cleaned it up. This PR stores the render durably in a per-instance Secret, the way Helm stores release records, and makes status checks never fail a running instance because of a re-render.

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Why: the local cache was the only copy of content that is not safely re-fetchable. ReVal can be temporarily unavailable or return a different or invalid result for a chart republished under the same URL, so a healthy running instance could be torn down by an upstream problem. Helm never re-renders after install (it reads the stored release Secret), and Flux helm-controller marks a release not ready rather than failing it when the chart cannot be fetched. This change follows the same model.

What changed:

  • New internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go. After a successful render, the output is stored gzipped in the nvcf-miniservice-rendered Secret in the instance namespace, owned by the cluster-scoped MiniService (garbage collected with it or with the namespace). The Secret carries a render-input hash (chart URL, service name and port, values, namespace) and a render-output hash (status.renderedDetails.hash). Reads verify both plus the content digest, so a stored render is never reused for different inputs. A small in-memory copy bridges informer lag.
  • The Secret is written right after the instance namespace exists and before any workload objects are applied, matching Helm's ordering. On values updates it is overwritten for the new revision. A failed Secret write is retried on later reconciles, and a render already stored for identical inputs is reused when status has no hash (for example after a crash before the status patch landed).
  • collectObjectStatuses only re-renders as a last resort (for example an oversize render that exceeds the Secret size guard). Terminal render errors there are downgraded to retryable errors and the install condition is left untouched, so a Running instance can no longer transition to Failed because of ReVal.
  • Removed the chartcache package, the agent's reval-rendered-helmcharts emptyDir volume in the operator, and the now-unused github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2 dependency from the nvca module. The NVCFBackend cacheDirSize field is kept as a deprecated no-op to avoid a breaking CRD change. The nvca AGENTS.md gotcha about the chart cache key was rewritten.

Values-update failure handling that was reviewed and is covered by tests: render failure keeps the previous revision's Secret and running workload; apply failure after a Secret write keeps the Secret at revision N with no revision ConfigMap until the apply succeeds; reverting values to the last recorded revision re-renders because the input hash differs; a failed revision-history save is retried with the stored render.

Known limits and pre-existing behavior left for follow-up:

  • Renders larger than about 900 KiB gzipped are not stored (etcd object limit, same constraint Helm has) and fall back to render-on-demand with the new non-fatal status behavior.
  • failedWorkloadUpdateRevisionCache still caches transient render errors per values hash until the values change.
  • helmValuesChanged compares only values, so a chart URL change alone does not start an update.

For the Reviewer

  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go: Secret format, hash validation, create/update/replace semantics.
  • internal/miniservice/reconcile.go (doInstall, prepareUpdateWorkload, prepareUpdateIfNeeded, doCleanup) and internal/miniservice/status.go (collectObjectStatuses): where persistence and the non-fatal re-render live.
  • pkg/operator/reconcile/nvcaagent_reconcile.go: emptyDir removal. The agent ClusterRole already grants CRUD on secrets.
  • The golang-lru removal was done by hand (go.mod, go.sum, vendor, vendor/modules.txt, root NOTICE) because go mod vendor on a local toolchain rewrote the whole vendor tree; go mod tidy -diff is clean and a vendored build passes. Running scripts/go_update before merge is welcome if a tool-generated vendor tree is preferred.

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Ran locally:

  • go test ./internal/miniservice/... with envtest: full suite passes, including new tests for persist and reload across reconcilers, stale inputs and hash mismatches, revision overwrite, oversize skip, Secret write failure retry, lost status hash reuse, apply failure followed by a values revert, both status modes not calling ReVal, and render failures staying non-terminal.
  • go test ./pkg/operator/reconcile -run 'TestSetupNVCADeployment.*' and go test ./pkg/apis/... pass. The rest of pkg/operator/reconcile fails identically on main on this machine because a test monkey-patches os.Exit.
  • go build, go vet, go mod tidy -diff, vendored build, and Gazelle (no BUILD changes beyond this PR) are clean. golangci-lint with the repo config reports only a pre-existing goimports issue in translate_workload.go, untouched here.

QA is needed on a cluster: deploy a Helm function, confirm kubectl -n <instance-ns> get secret nvcf-miniservice-rendered exists, restart the agent pod and confirm no reval.Render log lines during status reconciles, then point the agent at a broken ReVal endpoint and confirm the instance stays Running. Also update helm values on a running instance and confirm the Secret revision label and the miniservice-revision-v<N> ConfigMap advance together.

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Fixes #1956

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  • New Features

    • Rendered Helm charts are now persisted for reuse, improving reconciliation efficiency across restarts.
    • Stored renders are validated against inputs and content before reuse, with automatic fallback to re-rendering when invalid or outdated.
    • Large rendered outputs remain available for on-demand rendering without being persisted.
    • Status checks can reuse persisted renders while preserving existing health conditions during rendering issues.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration guidance to reflect Secret-based rendered chart persistence and the ignored cache-size setting.
  • Changes

    • Removed the local ReVal cache volume and related deployment configuration.

… a local cache

After a Helm MiniService install completed, the ReVal render output lived only in
an emptyDir-backed file cache on the agent pod. When the cache was lost (agent
restart or LRU eviction) status checks and values updates called ReVal again, and
a valid=false answer was treated as a terminal error that moved a Running instance
to Failed and cleaned it up.

Store the render in a per-instance Secret (nvcf-miniservice-rendered) in the
instance namespace, owned by the MiniService, the way Helm stores release records.
The Secret is written before workload objects are applied, verified on read by a
render-input hash and a render-output hash, overwritten on values updates, and
retried when a write fails. A small in-memory copy bridges informer lag. Status
checks only re-render as a last resort and never fail a running instance on a
render error.

Remove the chartcache package, the agent's reval-rendered-helmcharts emptyDir in
the operator, and the now-unused github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2 dependency
from the nvca module and NOTICE. The NVCFBackend cacheDirSize field is kept as a
deprecated no-op to avoid a breaking CRD change.

Fixes #1956

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Stroczynski <estroczynski@nvidia.com>
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The change replaces the local Helm chart cache with Secret-backed rendered-data persistence. Reconciliation and status checks validate and reuse persisted renders. The chart-cache implementation, cache volume, dependency, and related wiring are removed.

Changes

MiniService render persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rendered Secret storage contract
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/rendered_secret_test.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/AGENTS.md
Rendered Helm data is hashed, gzip-compressed, validated, and stored in a namespaced Secret when it fits the 900 KiB limit. Tests cover persistence, invalidation, recovery, metadata, and hash inputs.
Reconciliation and status integration
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/reconcile.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/status.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/*_test.go
Reconciliation persists rendered data before applying objects. Status checks reuse persisted renders and preserve running conditions when re-rendering fails. Tests cover retries, revision history, status behavior, and render reuse.
Local chart cache removal
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/chartcache/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/controller.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/go.mod, NOTICE
The disk-backed chart cache, cache volume, controller wiring, dependency, build targets, and related deployment expectations are removed. CacheDirSize is documented as deprecated and ignored.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MiniServiceReconciler
  participant RenderedSecret
  participant ReVal
  participant KubernetesWorkload
  MiniServiceReconciler->>RenderedSecret: load and validate persisted render
  alt no matching render
    MiniServiceReconciler->>ReVal: render Helm input
    ReVal-->>MiniServiceReconciler: rendered chart data
    MiniServiceReconciler->>RenderedSecret: persist rendered chart data
  end
  MiniServiceReconciler->>KubernetesWorkload: apply rendered objects
  MiniServiceReconciler->>RenderedSecret: reuse render during status checks
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A workload can make the agent consume excessive memory through a crafted rendered Secret, while status errors also lack required context. These localized issues should be fixed before merge.

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🟡 Minor · Add cluster and organization context before storing the logger. · reconcile.go:192-195

src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/reconcile.go:192-195
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Add cluster and organization context before storing the logger.

The controller-runtime callback does not add these NVCA fields. Reconcile adds only ICMS request, function, and task fields before collectObjectStatuses uses logf.FromContext(ctx). Add the configured cluster identifier and icmsReq.Spec.NCAId with the canonical cluster_id and nca_id keys.

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+		fields := nvcalogging.MakeICMSRequestFields(icmsReq)
+		fields = append(fields,
+			"cluster_id", r.ClusterName,
+			"nca_id", icmsReq.Spec.NCAId,
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/AGENTS.md`:
- Line 333: Update the MiniService rendered-chart documentation to replace the
absolute “never re-render” claim with reuse of valid Secret or in-memory data,
while documenting that unpersistable oversized renders may trigger ReVal
fallback and retry failures without failing a running MiniService.

In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go`:
- Around line 377-387: Update gunzipBytes to bound decompression output using
the repository-supported size limit, rejecting data that exceeds that limit
before returning it. Preserve existing empty-input and gzip-reader error
handling, and ensure loadRenderedSecret cannot receive oversized decompressed
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/reconcile.go`:
- Around line 192-195: Update the srerr == nil logger setup in Reconcile to
include cluster_id from r.ClusterName and nca_id from icmsReq.Spec.NCAId
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6. **Queue message idempotency** - handlers may receive duplicate messages
7. **Storage controller timing** - PVC operations are async, handle races carefully
8. **MiniService chartcache key must include namespace** - The `chartcache.ChartCacheInput` struct (in `internal/miniservice/chartcache/`) is used to generate cache keys for rendered Helm charts. Any field that affects the Helm template output (e.g., `.Release.Namespace`) MUST be included in this struct. If namespace is missing from the cache key, cached output from namespace A can be incorrectly returned for namespace B. When adding new fields to `HelmReValRenderInput` that affect rendering, also add them to `ChartCacheInput` and update `getCacheKey()` in `reconcile.go`.
8. **MiniService rendered charts are persisted in a Secret** - After a successful ReVal render, the controller stores the output in the `nvcf-miniservice-rendered` Secret in the instance namespace (`internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go`), like a Helm release record. Status checks, updates, and cleanup read from that Secret (and an in-memory copy) and never re-render while the inputs are unchanged. The Secret is validated by a render-input hash and a render-output hash (`status.renderedDetails.hash`). Any new `HelmReValRenderInput` field that affects template output MUST be added to `renderInput` so a stored render is not reused for different inputs.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the oversized-render fallback.

An oversized render is not stored in the Secret. After an agent restart, status checks can call ReVal even when inputs are unchanged. Replace the absolute “never re-render” statement with the persisted-data fallback behavior.

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- Status checks, updates, and cleanup read from that Secret (and an in-memory copy) and never re-render while the inputs are unchanged.
+ Status checks, updates, and cleanup reuse valid data from that Secret or the in-memory copy while inputs are unchanged. If rendered data cannot be persisted, status checks can fall back to ReVal and retry failures without failing a running MiniService.
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8. **MiniService rendered charts are persisted in a Secret** - After a successful ReVal render, the controller stores the output in the `nvcf-miniservice-rendered` Secret in the instance namespace (`internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go`), like a Helm release record. Status checks, updates, and cleanup read from that Secret (and an in-memory copy) and never re-render while the inputs are unchanged. The Secret is validated by a render-input hash and a render-output hash (`status.renderedDetails.hash`). Any new `HelmReValRenderInput` field that affects template output MUST be added to `renderInput` so a stored render is not reused for different inputs.
8. **MiniService rendered charts are persisted in a Secret** - After a successful ReVal render, the controller stores the output in the `nvcf-miniservice-rendered` Secret in the instance namespace (`internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go`), like a Helm release record. Status checks, updates, and cleanup reuse valid data from that Secret or the in-memory copy while inputs are unchanged. If rendered data cannot be persisted, status checks can fall back to ReVal and retry failures without failing a running MiniService. The Secret is validated by a render-input hash and a render-output hash (`status.renderedDetails.hash`). Any new `HelmReValRenderInput` field that affects template output MUST be added to `renderInput` so a stored render is not reused for different inputs.
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MiniService rendered-chart documentation to replace the absolute “never
re-render” claim with reuse of valid Secret or in-memory data, while documenting
that unpersistable oversized renders may trigger ReVal fallback and retry
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}
gzr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer gzr.Close()
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sed -n '190,225p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/cli.go
sed -n '1140,1170p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent.go
printf '%s\n' '--- instance RBAC creation and binding ---'
sed -n '105,165p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/prereqs.go
sed -n '1540,1600p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/reconcile.go
printf '%s\n' '--- controller setup and watches ---'
rg -n -A12 -B12 'SetupWithManager|Owns\\(|For\\(|Watches\\(|MiniServiceReconciler|func \\(.*Reconcile' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- reconcile entry and status dispatch ---'
rg -n -A35 -B15 'func \\(r \\*Reconciler\\) Reconcile|collectObjectStatuses|MiniServiceCondition|MiniServiceRunning|doInstall|doUpdate' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- supported configuration references ---'
rg -n -A4 -B4 'HelmRBACEnforcement(Enabled|:|\\b)' src --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.go' | head -240

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printf '%s\n' '--- controller registration and watches ---'
rg -n -A18 -B8 'SetupWithManager|Owns|Watches|Reconcile' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- periodic status wiring ---'
rg -n -A14 -B14 'PeriodicInstanceStatusUpdate|status update|StatusUpdate|RequeueAfter|collectObjectStatuses' src/compute-plane-services/nvca --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- reconcile entry and status path ---'
rg -n -A45 -B12 'func \\(r \\*Reconciler\\) Reconcile' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
rg -n -A18 -B12 'collectObjectStatuses' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- instance RBAC source and production generation ---'
rg -n -A12 -B12 'instanceRoleName|requiredRBACVerbs|secrets|RoleBinding|instanceRBAC' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go' --glob '*.yaml'

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printf '%s\n' '--- files using periodic status option ---'
rg -l 'WithPeriodicInstanceStatus|PeriodicInstanceStatusInterval|PeriodicInstanceStatusUpdate' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- RBAC construction ---'
sed -n '160,225p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/prereqs.go
printf '%s\n' '--- rendered Secret loader ---'
sed -n '321,390p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go
printf '%s\n' '--- status caller ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- exact periodic status references ---'
rg -n 'WithPeriodicInstanceStatus|PeriodicInstanceStatusInterval|PeriodicInstanceStatusUpdate' src/compute-plane-services/nvca --glob '*.go' | head -160
printf '%s\n' '--- MiniService reconcile entry candidates ---'
rg -n 'Reconcile\\(ctx context.Context|collectObjectStatuses\\(|getRenderedData\\(' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go' | head -160
printf '%s\n' '--- RBAC construction ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- rendered Secret loader ---'
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sed -n '2995,3055p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/backendk8scache.go
printf '%s\n' '--- exact MiniService status/reconcile references ---'
rg -n -F 'collectObjectStatuses' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
rg -n -F 'getRenderedData(' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
rg -n -F 'Reconcile(ctx context.Context' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice --glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- embedded production Role rules ---'
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rg -n -F 'SetupWithManager' src/compute-plane-services/nvca --glob '*.go' || true
rg -n -F 'NewControllerManagedBy' src/compute-plane-services/nvca --glob '*.go' || true
rg -n -F 'Watches(' src/compute-plane-services/nvca --glob '*.go' || true
rg -n -F 'Owns(' src/compute-plane-services/nvca --glob '*.go' || true
printf '%s\n' '--- MiniService Reconcile and status dispatch ---'
sed -n '145,250p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/reconcile.go
sed -n '270,315p' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/status.go
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rg -n -A45 -B12 -F 'func miniserviceLabelEventHandler' src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/controller.go
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Denial of Service

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-409

Bound decompression when reading the rendered Secret.

HelmRBACEnforcement and PeriodicInstanceStatusUpdate are enabled by default. The generated instance Role lets the workload ServiceAccount create and update Secrets. The MiniService controller watches Secrets and enqueues the labeled owning MiniService. Its status path can then reach loadRenderedSecret when the in-memory cache misses.

loadRenderedSecret calls gunzipBytes before validating the decompressed content hash. gunzipBytes reads the complete gzip stream, so a workload can submit a highly compressed payload that consumes excessive agent memory.

Limit the uncompressed output and reject oversized data. Use a repository-supported bound; do not hard-code an unsupported numeric limit.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/rendered_secret.go`
around lines 377 - 387, Update gunzipBytes to bound decompression output using
the repository-supported size limit, rejecting data that exceeds that limit
before returning it. Preserve existing empty-input and gzip-reader error
handling, and ensure loadRenderedSecret cannot receive oversized decompressed
content.

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nvca: MiniService re-renders chart via ReVal after install and fails running instances on invalid render

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