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Proof of concept, opened to see what CI says. The nvca-operator chart exists twice: one copy is hand-authored, a script generates the second, and the second is what ships. The two have diverged, so the chart under development is not the
chart customers install. This keeps one chart, moves NVIDIA deployment choices out of the published defaults, and lets one release cover both the service and the chart.

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Three commits, reviewable in order.

  1. Delete the duplicate chart, the generator, its drift test, the vendor Make targets and the CI step that compared the copies, then repoint every reference. Six values stop shipping as published defaults and three move to the compute-plane stack. Rendered output for both publish lanes is unchanged.
  2. Let one release cover a path outside its service directory, so a chart-only change still cuts a release once the duplicate is gone. Adds release levels, an owns_paths declaration, and a follower tag pinned to its leader's commit.
  3. Un-ignore deploy/ for Bazel. The chart's storage-capability catalog is a data dependency of Go tests under src/, and an ignored directory stages nothing into the sandbox.

Two things this deliberately does not fix. The stack pin workflow stages only the self-managed stack, while this chart is pinned solely in the compute-plane stack, so no adoption PR is ever opened for it. And a second publisher is
configured against the same registry coordinate, with its effective setting held outside this repository.

For the Reviewer

Commit 2 cannot be exercised by a pull request: the release workflow runs on pushes to main and on tags, not on PRs. Only its unit tests run here.

Worth a close look: the root BUILD.bazel export and the .bazelignore change, and tools/ci/github-release where semantic-release now runs dry before publishing so a chart-only change cannot be under-released.

For QA

Locally green: the release-engine suite (106 tests, up from 94), lint_helm.sh, check-helm-charts, test-check-helm-charts, transport trust validation, seven chart make targets, and both affected Bazel tests. The version calculation was replayed against the last 15 nvca releases and reproduces what semantic-release actually cut, 15 for 15.

Pre-existing failures, unrelated: the otel collector compatibility test needs registry auth, the storage ModelCache tests need KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS, and one reconcile test patches os.Exit in a way the macOS sandbox denies.

QA needed before any merge, not for this POC.

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  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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  • New Features

    • NVCA Operator chart releases now follow the NVCA service version and can package the corresponding application version.
    • Release tooling supports follower services, multi-path version detection, commit-specific tagging, and packaged chart version overrides.
    • Helm deployments now use consistent nvca-operator resource naming.
  • Bug Fixes

    • The default chart validation policy is now Unrestricted.
    • Placeholder service keys and self-managed connection defaults are now empty; provide values when required.
  • Documentation

    • Updated chart and storage catalog references to the published chart location.
  • Chores

    • Removed legacy chart synchronization and vendoring workflows.

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The change removes the vendored NVCA Operator chart and its synchronization workflow. Consumers and tests use the published chart, Bazel tests access its storage catalog, and release automation handles owned packaged paths and follower services.

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NVCA chart consolidation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Chart removal and consolidation
.claude/skills/*, .codex/skills/*, .cursor/skills/*, ai-tooling/dev/skills/*, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/Makefile, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/scripts/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/*, .github/workflows/build-test.yml
The vendored chart resources, chart-vendoring commands and script, synchronization CI check, and chart-release skill are removed. The chart README describes direct edits to the published chart.
Published chart integration
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/values.yaml, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/*, deploy/stacks/nvcf-compute-plane/helmfile.d/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/scripts/*, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/*, ai-tooling/dev/skills/nvca-values-customization/SKILL.md
Published chart defaults change, including an embedded Unrestricted validation policy and empty deployment-specific values. Chart tests, scripts, stack configuration, and reconciliation tests target the published chart.
Storage catalog and Bazel wiring
.bazelignore, BUILD.bazel, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/BUILD.bazel, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/storage/*, deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator/files/*
A root-level Bazel filegroup exposes the published chart’s storage catalog. Storage tests use that target and search multiple candidate chart paths.

Release automation

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Release version selection
tools/ci/github-release, tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json, tools/ci/test-github-release.py
Release processing evaluates release levels for packaged paths, selects between owned-path and semantic-release versions, and supports tagging selected commits. Tests cover release-level decisions and packaged-path patch floors.
Follower release processing
tools/ci/github-release, tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json, tools/ci/test-github-release.py
Follower services use stable leader versions and commits. App-version-only charts can refresh their release version, and chart packaging accepts an app-version override. Tests cover follower tags, chart app versions, and refresh behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8a07a

No concrete merge-blocking issue remains established. The chart release uses the leader version available at its tag, while direct installations must supply values appropriate to their chosen mode.

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🟡 Minor · Remove the stale source_chart conditional. · pod_disruption_budget_test.sh:29-35

deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/pod_disruption_budget_test.sh:29-35
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale source_chart conditional.

The loop contains only vendored_chart, so it must not expand source_chart. With set -u, that expansion exits the script before the PDB checks. Set chart_name directly and delete the conditional.

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-  if [[ "${chart}" == "${source_chart}" ]]; then
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In `@tools/ci/github-release`:
- Around line 1577-1590: Update the leader-tag selection before the existing
stable-version check to use stable_reachable_versions(root, leader), sort the
returned version/tag pairs with semverish_sort_key, and select the newest stable
tag or an empty value when none exist. Add a regression test covering a
reachable stable tag alongside a newer reachable prerelease, asserting the
follower creates the stable release tag.
- Around line 2049-2058: Handle the "unknown" result from
resolve_release_outcome before calling multi_path_release_version: raise
SystemExit with a contextual error including the service ID and preview exit
code, and do not continue to release processing when the preview decision is
untrustworthy. Preserve the existing stale-checkout handling and released-path
behavior.

In `@tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json`:
- Around line 370-371: Update the NVCA release configuration so packaging keeps
the deployed image tag aligned with the follower release: restore the image.tag
mapping for nvca, or otherwise ensure Chart.appVersion is set to the follower
version before packaging. Preserve the existing version_follows behavior while
preventing an empty image.tag from falling back to the stale Chart.AppVersion.

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In `@deploy/helm/nvca-operator/tests/pod_disruption_budget_test.sh`:
- Around line 29-35: Remove the source_chart conditional inside the loop over
vendored_chart and set chart_name directly to "vendored", avoiding the unset
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…ed defaults

Proof of concept, phase 1 of the chart consolidation work. Not for merge as-is.

Deletes the hand-authored chart under src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments,
the 304-line vendoring script, its drift test, the vendor-chart and
check-vendor-chart Make targets, and the CI step that compared the two copies.
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator becomes the only chart.

Repoints every reference, including several the ticket does not list: the
storage-capability-catalog Bazel filegroup (exported from the root package,
since deploy/ is in .bazelignore and has no package of its own), two Go tests
that resolve the chart by path, the .env-to-chart-values sync scripts, and
eleven sites in lint_helm.sh rather than the three previously assumed.

Moves NVIDIA deployment choices out of the published chart. Six values are
removed: the NGC service key, the nvca version, the shared-storage image tag,
and the three self-managed service URLs. Three move to the compute-plane stack:
the agent merge config and the two name overrides.

Two defects this corrects. The chart shipped a placeholder NGC service key and
built a real dockerconfigjson from it, so a default install failed image pull
with an auth error instead of a clear message; it now fails fast. And it shipped
a permissive cluster validation policy as a customer default; with no policy set
the validator falls back to its restrictive default, and NVIDIA's compute plane
opts in explicitly.

The name overrides are retained by the compute-plane stack rather than dropped.
They neutralise the helm- prefix in the chart name, and both lanes install under
a release name that makes the published artifact resolve identically either way.

Tests that rendered with bare chart defaults now supply the values the chart used
to provide, and two assertions are inverted to match the new contract.

Signed-off-by: rohithb <rohithb@nvidia.com>
…tory

Proof of concept, phase 2 of the chart consolidation work. Not for merge as-is.

semantic-release is scoped to a service directory by semantic-release-monorepo,
so a path outside it is invisible to the version calculation. Once the duplicate
nvca-operator chart is removed, chart-only commits stop appearing under the nvca
directory and would otherwise release nothing.

Adds release_level, higher_release_level and bump_version, and expresses the
existing releases_a_version through release_level so the rules live in one
place. The previous out-of-path machinery was binary and patch-only: it could
say whether a commit released, not at what level.

A service may now declare owns_paths. Before publishing, semantic-release runs
dry, its version is compared against the level those paths demand, and the
higher wins. A packaged path applies a patch floor so bytes entering a published
artifact ship even under a chore or a non-conventional subject.

A service may declare version_follows. Followers are held back until every
leader has run, so the result does not depend on metadata ordering, and their
tag is created on the commit the leader tag points at rather than HEAD.
publish_tag_for_version gains at_commit for this; the default stays HEAD.

Removes the nvca entry from nvca-operator's deploys list. Left in place it does
not terminate: an nvca release makes the bot edit appVersion in the chart, the
chart path then releases again, and so on. Under a shared release version
appVersion is stamped at package time, so the entry is redundant. The
byoo-otel-collector entry stays; it settles after one hop.

Verified by replaying the last 15 nvca releases: the computation reproduces the
version semantic-release actually cut, 15 for 15.

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version_follows drove both the chart's own version and the appVersion stamped
into its package, and nvca declared ownership of the chart path separately.
Clearing the field would therefore stop the stamping too, putting the published
chart back to installing whatever operator its committed Chart.yaml named, and
would leave a dangling ownership declaration behind.

version_source now decides only where the chart's own version comes from.
Ownership is derived from it rather than declared twice, so clearing it also
stops nvca counting chart commits. app_version_source decides what the package
declares it installs and stays set either way. A chart carrying only
app_version_source releases on its own commits, and on a patch when its leader
moved, so a package that installs the new operator still appears without a bot
commit and without a merge in between.

Verified against the release engine in dry-run. The same chart-only feat gives
nvca 3.13.0 with version_source set and 3.12.10 without, and the chart gets the
leader's version or its own 1.29.0.

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In `@ai-tooling/dev/skills/nvca-values-customization/SKILL.md`:
- Line 29: Update the values-flow diagram to show make install using the values
file directly, and show the stack environment flowing through
scripts/render_values_from_stack_env.sh to make install-from-stack. Do not imply
that make install runs the stack-values renderer.

In `@tools/ci/github-release`:
- Around line 2341-2354: Resolve appVersion in the tag-mode path around
leader_release_version using the chart tag’s commit as the history endpoint
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release-tags.yml packages chart files from a worktree detached at the release
tag, while the checkout this resolves history from stays on the branch tip. A
leader release landing between the tag and the publish job would then be stamped
into a package named for an earlier version, putting appVersion ahead of the
chart version and building a different archive on a re-run of an immutable
version. Resolve the leader as of the tag's own commit.

The refresh path still resolves the newest leader release, which is what it is
for: it decides whether a new package is needed at all.

Also separates the two install paths in the values-customization skill. Only
install-from-stack renders stack values; install takes a values file directly,
and conflating them invites an install with required values missing.

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