feat(templates)!: place by label, one namespace variable, richer commit messages - #361
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Add "{label:key}" to the placement template language, so a GitTarget can file
new documents by a label on the resource being placed
("{label:app.kubernetes.io/instance}/configmaps.yaml") rather than only by its
API identity.
A resource that does not carry the label, or carries it empty, is still placed:
it renders the built-in "_unlabeled" bucket, a value no real label can hold
because a label value must be alphanumeric at both ends. This is the same trick
"{namespaceOrCluster}" already uses with "_cluster", and it is why the feature
needs no "not placed" state: the mirror never grows a silent, label-shaped hole.
"{label:key|fallback}" declares a different bucket. A fallback is held to the
half of the label-value rules that keeps a string safe as one path segment (at
most 63 characters of [A-Za-z0-9._-], neither "." nor ".."), and deliberately
not to the half that only serves label semantics:
- it may start with "_", which is the only way to name a bucket no real label
value can reach ("{label:team|_none}"), where a label-legal fallback shares
its bucket with the resources genuinely labeled it;
- it may be empty ("{label:team|}"), which renders nothing and collapses the
segment, filing unlabeled resources one directory up. The sentinel protects
the case where nobody chose; an empty fallback is a choice spelled out in
the spec.
Supporting changes:
- the placeholder scanner now matches any "{...}", not only "{word}", so an
unrecognized placeholder is reported instead of pasted into the path as
literal text. This is what makes a prefixed label key safe: its "/" is part
of the variable, not a directory separator;
- the Validated gate rejects a template reading a label the writer strips
(kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/*, kro.run/*, applyset.kubernetes.io/*), which
could never discriminate by it because the value is gone before placement
runs;
- a label never counts toward the identity-completeness a sensitive route
requires, since two resources can share one.
"{annotation:key}" is declined: an annotation value is unbounded text, so it is
not a path segment the way a 63-character label value is.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds label-based placement variables, fallback buckets, static template validation, sanitized-label wiring, stripped-label rejection, unified namespace rendering, commit metadata accessors, tests, and documentation updates. ChangesPlacement and commit metadata
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participant ResourceEvent
participant createNew
participant PlacementEngine
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ResourceEvent->>createNew: provide sanitized resource and labels
createNew->>PlacementEngine: submit PlacementRequest
PlacementEngine->>GitDocument: create document at rendered path
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In `@internal/manifestanalyzer/placement.go`:
- Line 493: The placement template validation and rendering logic around
placementPlaceholderPattern must reject unmatched or nested braces rather than
leaving literal braces in resolved paths. Update ValidPlacementTemplateSyntax
and RenderPlacementTemplate to validate the entire template and ensure every
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…ad kind and labels
Collapse the two namespace-position placement variables into one, and give commit
message templates the same nouns a path already has.
{namespace} now renders the resource's namespace, or "_cluster" when it is
cluster-scoped, and {namespaceOrCluster} is removed. An empty render is the one
thing a path variable must never do: it collapses the segment, so
"{namespace}/{resource}/{name}.yaml" filed a ClusterRole at
"clusterroles/admin.yaml" and scattered cluster-scoped resources into the
directory above the one the template named. {namespaceOrCluster} existed only to
avoid that fold, which made the safe spelling the longer one and the obvious
spelling the trap. A template still naming it is refused at the Validated gate
with a message that names the replacement, rather than the generic
"unknown variable" that would send its author hunting for a typo.
The "_cluster" sentinel is now types.ClusterScopeSegment, one constant shared by
the canonical path, the {namespace} variable and the commit message field,
instead of a literal per renderer.
Commit message templates gain the metadata a path can already read:
- each Resources entry carries Kind and Labels, read with .Label "key" — not
.Labels.key, which fails the render (missingkey=error) for a resource that
does not carry the label, and a failed render fails the whole commit. The
admission validator now renders one sample with labels and one without, so
the dotted form is rejected there rather than at 2am;
- .LabelValues / .LabelValue answer the label question for a SET of resources,
which is the honest shape for a 1:n commit: the sorted distinct values, or
the single value when the whole commit agrees on one;
- .Namespace carries the same "_cluster" sentinel as the path, so the default
template drops its {{if .Namespace}} guard.
A DELETE carries no object, so Kind and Labels are empty for one. The reconcile
template is unchanged: its .Namespace being empty means "every namespace", not
"cluster-scoped", so the sentinel would be a lie there.
BREAKING CHANGE: the {namespaceOrCluster} placement variable is removed; use
{namespace}, which now renders "_cluster" for a cluster-scoped resource. A
GitTarget still naming it goes Validated=False with InvalidConfig. Because
placement is match-first, no file already in Git moves; only newly created
cluster-scoped documents land at the new path. Default commit messages also name
a cluster-scoped resource as "v1/nodes/_cluster/node-1" rather than
"v1/nodes/node-1".
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A placement template's braces were only checked where they already formed a
complete "{...}" run. An unclosed one is not a placeholder at all, so it stayed
in the rendered path as literal text and every later gate accepted the result:
{namespace}/{label:team/{name}.yaml -> app/{label:team/cache.yaml
That is a clean, relative, .yaml path, so ValidPlacementTemplatePath and
ValidateResolvedPlacementPath both pass it and the writer creates a directory
literally named "{label:team". It is the same failure the widened placeholder
pattern was added to prevent, one level up: that change closed the case of a
placeholder that is recognizably shaped but unknown, and left open the case of
braces that never pair.
Every brace must now belong to one complete placeholder, checked by the static
Validated gate and again by the renderer, so a template like the one above is
refused before anything is written rather than writing its own braces into the
repository. docs/UPGRADING.md described this guarantee already; it is now true.
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A reconcile runs per cell — a (type, namespace) pair — not per target, so a
namespace-scoped run covers exactly one namespace by construction. The default
reconcile subject named the type but not that namespace, so a GitTarget watching
one type in two namespaces wrote two byte-identical subjects:
chore: reconcile 4 configmaps (last resourceVersion: 1331)
chore: reconcile 4 configmaps (last resourceVersion: 1338)
The namespace is in the template data already; the default now renders it:
chore: reconcile 4 configmaps in team-a (last resourceVersion: 1331)
It stays behind an {{if}} rather than falling back to a sentinel the way
ResourceRef.Namespace does, and the asymmetry is deliberate: per RESOURCE, an
empty namespace has exactly one meaning (the kind has no namespaces), so
"_cluster" is a true name for it. Per RUN, empty covers two different facts — an
all-namespaces sweep of a namespaced type, and a cluster-scoped type that has no
namespaces at all — so no single word is true of both, and the honest rendering
of "no namespace to name" is to say nothing.
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In `@internal/git/types.go`:
- Around line 728-729: Update LabelValue to validate the label across every
resource instead of relying on LabelValues’ filtered results: return a value
only when all resources have the same non-empty label, otherwise return "". Add
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LabelValue read its answer off LabelValues, which skips resources that do
not set the label. One "team: payments" resource committed next to an
unlabeled one therefore produced a single-element set, and the subject line
read "chore: sync 2 resources for payments" — naming the whole commit after
the only team in it and hiding the resource nobody can attribute. That is
the opposite of what the accessor is for: a subject naming a team is only
honest when the commit is one team's.
It now walks every resource and returns a value only when all of them carry
the label with it. A resource that does not carry the label disagrees; it
does not abstain. The same rule leaves a commit containing a DELETE
unnamed, since a DELETE carries no object and so no labels — what the
deleted resource was labeled is not something the window still knows.
LabelValues is unchanged: a body line ranging over the teams in a commit
wants the set that skips the unlabeled.
Admission already exercises both directions: the validator renders one
sample with a labeled object and later ones with unlabeled resources
alongside it, so a template using LabelValue is checked with a value and
without one.
Also drops NamespaceOrCluster from the Resources field table in
configuration.md. ResourceRef has no such field, so a template reading
{{.NamespaceOrCluster}} fails the render and takes the commit with it.
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The upgrade note that introduces the canonical fallback path still spelled it
`{namespaceOrCluster}/...`, the one variable this release removes and now
refuses at the Validated gate. Two sections of the same document contradicted
each other, and the wrong one was the copy-pasteable line.
A test comment claimed a resource that does not carry the placement label is
"refused later, at write time". It is not: it is mirrored into the built-in
`_unlabeled` bucket, or into the fallback the template declares. Keeping a
missing label from making a resource disappear is the point of that bucket,
so a comment saying the opposite is worth correcting.
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624-624: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the default-template statement.
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Two placement variables can be absent for a resource that is otherwise
perfectly placeable: {label:key} on a resource that does not carry the label,
and {namespace} on a cluster-scoped resource, which has no namespace at all.
Both already answered that the same way — render a built-in bucket so the
resource is still placed — but only one let the author name that bucket.
{label:key|unassigned} was spelled out in the GitTarget; "_cluster" was
hard-coded and unreachable.
{namespace} now takes the same "|fallback": "{namespace|_global}" files
cluster-scoped resources under _global/, and "{namespace|}" collapses the
segment for them. The sharing is structural rather than cosmetic.
parsePlacementLabelVariable became parsePlacementVariable and parses both, and
because labels already live in the vars map under their full "label:key" name,
the render collapsed into one lookup for every variable: value, then declared
fallback, then built-in sentinel. types.ClusterScopeSegment moved out of
placementVars into that shared path, which is what makes it overridable.
They differ in exactly one place, and it is fenced. A label is not identity, so
a fallback colliding with a real label value merely merges two buckets; the
path still separates resources by {namespace} and {name}. The namespace
position IS identity: "{namespace|team-a}/{resource}/{name}.yaml" renders
"team-a/foos/db.yaml" for a cluster-scoped Foo named db — the exact path a
namespaced Foo named db in namespace team-a renders, folding two distinct
objects into one file. That is the collision "_cluster" was chosen to be
incapable of, so a stand-in for it inherits the property: a non-empty namespace
fallback must not be a legal DNS-1123 label. The empty fallback needs no such
rule, since it shortens the path only for cluster-scoped resources and a
namespaced one always fills that segment.
Two smaller consequences. A fallback on a variable that is never absent
({name|orphan}, {groupPath|core}) is now refused with that reason instead of
being accepted as syntax that can never fire. And
IdentityCompletePlacementTemplate parses rather than matching the literal
"{namespace}", so a sensitive byType route using "{namespace|_global}" is not
wrongly rejected as identity-incomplete.
The CRD change is description text only, verified structurally against
controller-gen output with descriptions stripped.
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The previous commit refused a {namespace} fallback that was itself a legal
namespace name, arguing that "{namespace|team-a}" would fold a cluster-scoped
resource onto the path a namespaced resource of the same type and name in
"team-a" already renders. That argument is wrong on a fact: it needs one type
to exist in both scopes, and it cannot. Scope is a property of the TYPE, not the
object, so two resources rendering the same {groupPath}/{resource} are either
both cluster-scoped or both namespaced, while the fallback only ever fires for
the former. An identity-complete template always carries those type variables,
and a byType entry is narrowed to one type, so the colliding pair does not
exist.
What is left is a template that deliberately omits the type variables — a
bundle such as "{namespace|team-a}/all.yaml" — where cluster-scoped resources
join the file that namespace writes. That is bundling, which this design
supports on purpose: documents keep their own identity inside a file, the
write-time co-mingle guards still refuse a sensitive document in a shared one,
and validateSecretSafety already refuses a bundling default outright unless
Secrets have an identity-complete route of their own. Keeping Secrets on a route
that cannot collide is the author's job, as it was before this variable existed.
So a namespace fallback is now fenced by exactly what a label fallback is fenced
by, validPlacementFallback, which protects the path segment and nothing more.
The two are the same feature again, with no special case between them. Beginning
a fallback with "_" is still the way to get a bucket no namespace can reach, but
that is a readability preference now rather than a rule.
The reasoning is recorded where the check used to live, so it is not
reintroduced as a missing safety fence.
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- Around line 39-40: Correct the fallback syntax sentence in the upgrading
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{label:key} itself is the fallback form.
In `@internal/manifestanalyzer/placement.go`:
- Around line 710-713: Update the refusal text near the placement fallback
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The refusal for a fallback on a variable that takes none read "{groupPath}
always has a value, so it takes no "|" fallback". It does not. {groupPath}
renders empty for a core-group resource — verified by execution:
"{groupPath}/{resource}/{name}.yaml" renders "configmaps/app.yaml" — so an
author writing "{groupPath|core}" was told something the very next render
contradicts, by a message two functions away from the code that does it.
The rule was never about having a value. It is about which variables have an
absence worth naming a bucket for. An empty group is not a resource MISSING
something; it is a resource whose identity has no group segment, and
collapseEmptyPathSegments dropping it is the canonical path's intent rather than
a hole to paper over — a bucket there would invent a folder the layout never
asked for. Only {namespace} and {label:key} have an absence a reader would
otherwise have to hunt for, so only they fall back.
The wrong claim had propagated to four places: the error text, absentSentinel's
doc comment, configuration.md, new-file-placement-rules.md and the CRD contract
text. All now state the real rule and name {groupPath} as the counter-example.
The regression test renders the core-group path first and then asserts the
refusal never claims "always has a value", so the message cannot drift back out
of step with the renderer that disproves it.
Also fixes an ungrammatical sentence in the UPGRADING entry.
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Three changes to the two template languages, which now share one vocabulary.
1. Place new files by a label
spec.placement.byTypeandspec.placement.defaultaccept{label:key}:The key may be prefixed;
{label:app.kubernetes.io/instance}is one variable, not a variable and adirectory. Resources sharing a value bundle into one file, which is the point of placing by label.
A missing label never blocks the write. A resource that does not carry the label, or carries it
with the empty value Kubernetes permits, renders the built-in
_unlabeledbucket. A label valuemust be alphanumeric at both ends, so no real one can ever be
_unlabeledand no resource landsthere by accident.
This replaces a first cut that refused the resource instead. Refusing traded a wrong-but-visible
outcome for a worse one: a resource nobody had labeled was never written to Git at all, and the gap
showed up only as a refusal counter rather than in the folder or in GitTarget status. For a mirror
whose job is completeness, a silent hole in the observability tool built to catch holes is the one
failure mode not worth having.
{label:key|fallback}names your own bucket. A fallback is held to the half of the label-valuerules that keeps a string safe as one path segment (at most 63 characters of
[A-Za-z0-9._-],neither
.nor..), and deliberately not to the half that only serves label semantics:_—{label:team|_none}names a bucket no real label value can reach,where a label-legal
{label:team|unassigned}shares one with resources genuinely labeledteam: unassignedand nothing downstream can separate them again;{label:team|}renders nothing, the segment collapses, and unlabeledresources land one directory up. The sentinel protects the case where nobody chose; an empty
fallback is a choice spelled out in the spec, visible in review.
The placeholder scanner now matches any
{…}rather than only{word}, and every brace mustbelong to one complete placeholder, so neither an unrecognized placeholder nor an unclosed one is
pasted into the path as literal text — a label key's
/must beconsumed as part of the variable, never as a separator. The
Validatedgate also rejects atemplate reading a label the writer strips (
kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/*,kro.run/*,applyset.kubernetes.io/*): the value is gone before placement runs, so such a template couldnever discriminate by it.
{annotation:key}is declined rather than deferred: an annotation value is unbounded text, so it isnot a path segment the way a 63-character label value is.
2. One namespace variable (breaking)
{namespaceOrCluster}is removed.{namespace}renders the resource's namespace, or_clusterwhen it is cluster-scoped.An empty render is the one thing a path variable must never do: it collapses the segment, so
{namespace}/{resource}/{name}.yamlfiled a ClusterRole atclusterroles/admin.yamland scatteredcluster-scoped resources into the directory above the one the template named — the same silent
fold
_unlabeledexists to prevent.{namespaceOrCluster}existed only to avoid that fold, whichmade the safe spelling the longer one and the obvious spelling the trap.
A template still naming it is refused at the
Validatedgate by a message that names thereplacement, rather than the generic "unknown variable" that would send its author hunting for a
typo. Placement is match-first, so nothing already in Git moves; only newly created cluster-scoped
files land at the new path. The
_clustersentinel is nowtypes.ClusterScopeSegment, oneconstant shared by the canonical path, the variable and the commit message field.
3. Commit messages read the same nouns
Each
Resourcesentry inliveTemplategainsKindandLabels,.Namespacecarries the same_clustersentinel (so the default template drops its{{if .Namespace}}guard), and the templategains
LabelValues/LabelValue:Read a label with
{{.Label "team"}}, never{{.Labels.team}}: these templates render withmissingkey=error, so indexing a label a resource does not carry fails the render, and a failedrender fails the whole commit. The admission validator now renders one sample with labels and one
without, so the dotted form is rejected there rather than mid-window later.
A commit is 1:n, so a label is a set here where a path reads a single value:
LabelValuesis thesorted distinct list,
LabelValuethe single value when the whole commit agrees on one. The twodiffer on a resource that does not carry the label:
LabelValuesskips it,LabelValuecounts itas a disagreement and renders nothing. A resource nobody labeled does not abstain — naming a commit
after the only team in it would hide the very resource nobody can attribute. A
DELETEcarries noobject, so
KindandLabelsare empty for one, and a commit containing one is unnamed for thesame reason: what the deleted resource was labeled is not something the window still knows.
reconcileTemplategains no fields, but its default now names the namespace of anamespace-scoped reconcile (
chore: reconcile 4 configmaps in team-a (last resourceVersion: 1331)),since a reconcile runs per (type, namespace) cell and such a run covered exactly one namespace.
Without it, a target watching one type in several namespaces wrote identical subjects for each. It
stays behind an
{{if}}rather than taking the_clustersentinel, and the asymmetry is the point:per resource, an empty namespace has exactly one meaning, so the sentinel is true; per run, empty
covers both an all-namespaces sweep and a cluster-scoped type, so no word is true of both and the
subject names none.
The two renderers stay separate on purpose. A path must be statically checkable — that is what
lets the operator prove a Secret route cannot collide two Secrets onto one file — while a commit
message must iterate over n resources, which needs
rangeandif. What they now share is thevocabulary, documented as a table in
configuration.md. The capitals on the commit side are Go's(
text/templatereaches only exported fields), not a style choice.Validation
task fmt→generate→manifests→vet→lint→test(unit coverage 77.8%, withintolerance of the 77.9% baseline) →
test-e2e(85 passed, 0 failed, 23 skipped) all pass on thefinal tree.
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_unlabeledbucket._clusterin rendered paths and commit data.Bug Fixes
Documentation
{namespace}behavior.