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  • Documentation
    • Updated deployment guides to explain configuring management clusters and availability zones through operator values and release upgrades, including cluster settings and lifecycle controls.
    • Added guidance for choosing ingress classes and configuring PostgreSQL storage, including defaults and constraints.
    • Clarified local availability-zone behavior and management-cluster prerequisites, documented lifecycle defaults and synchronization behavior, and updated links to configuration references.

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The documentation now describes availability-zone and management configuration through operator release values. It updates installation and lifecycle guidance, revises reference links, and adds instructions for management ingress classes and PostgreSQL storage.

Changes: Operator values documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Availability-zone values and references
docs/installation/deployment-guide/index.md, docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-an-az/*, docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-the-os/automated-os-installation.md, docs/reference/crds/cluster.md, docs/reference/helm/index.md
The installation guide now describes availability-zone configuration through clusters entries in operator values. Related references point to system and talos-manager chart documentation.
Management installation and placement
docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-management/*, docs/operations/adding-an-az.md
Management installation guidance now uses the operator values file and describes local and remote placement, local AZ settings, and management defaults.
Applying values and lifecycle settings
docs/operations/applying-configuration-changes.md, docs/reference/helm/superphenix-operator.md
The guide describes applying release values through upgrades and documents lifecycle switches and their effects on application synchronization. The documented default for cleanupOnDeletion changes to false.
Management ingress and PostgreSQL settings
docs/operations/management/changing-the-ingress-class.md, docs/operations/management/configuring-postgres-storage.md, zensical.toml
New guides document ingress-class selection and PostgreSQL storage configuration. The navigation links to both guides.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: gign0766

Merge Risk: Low · up to 09281

This documentation update has no runtime effect. Before relying on it, confirm that the management ingress prerequisites and the PostgreSQL volume resizing guidance match actual cluster behavior.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 09281

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: docs, zensical.toml

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  • observed — docs (service) was modified; 16 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — zensical.toml (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/installation/deployment-guide/index.md: The availability-zone description replaces “Talos Kubernetes clusters” with “Kubernetes clusters.”
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-an-az/configuring-a-cluster.md: Replaces the Cluster resource example and its local-connection note with instructions to add an availability-zone entry under clusters in the operator values and upgrade the release. The new example documents topology, type, region, zone, connection, lifecycle, and application values; accompanying text describes Local versus Remote connections, credential options, version defaults, and system chart location defaults.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-an-az/configuring-a-cluster.md: Replaces the detailed inline talos-manager values configuration with documentation of systemConfiguration, application layout eligibility, lifecycle switches and their defaults, and the three Talos management modes. The new text directs readers to the chart references for accepted values and configuration details.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-an-az/configuring-a-cluster.md: Updates the related links, changing the Installing an AZ description to identify it as the values file’s place in the installation and describing deployment topology as hyperconverged and decoupled layouts.
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Review comments at
@docs/installation/deployment-guide/installing-management/management-outside-az.md:
- Line 15: Update the installation prerequisites to require a default ingress
class, not merely a running ingress controller, or instruct users to configure
an explicit ingress class for the management routes before installation.
Preserve the existing StorageClass prerequisite.

Review comments at @docs/operations/applying-configuration-changes.md:
- Line 43: Verify the effective chart default for
management.lifecycle.cleanupOnDeletion, then align the lifecycle documentation
in this page and the operator reference with that value. Ensure both pages
describe the same behavior when the key is omitted.

Review comments at @docs/operations/management/configuring-postgres-storage.md:
- Line 19: Update the PostgreSQL storage guidance around
`apps.postgres.values.persistence.size` to clarify that it sets the initial
volume size and a release upgrade does not resize an existing
PersistentVolumeClaim. Explain that growing an existing volume requires
increasing its `spec.resources.requests.storage` and that the storage class must
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## Lifecycle {#lifecycle}

`lifecycle` decides whether an upgrade is applied on its own. The same three switches exist for the management plane (`management.lifecycle`) and for each availability zone (`clusters.<code>.lifecycle`). All three default to `false`. [Configure a cluster](../installation/deployment-guide/installing-an-az/configuring-a-cluster.md#lifecycle) is the same list on an availability-zone entry.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Reconcile the default for management.lifecycle.cleanupOnDeletion.

This page says cleanupOnDeletion defaults to false. The operator reference in docs/reference/helm/superphenix-operator.md lists the default as true at lines 387 and 399. If the chart default is true, an operator who omits the key deletes management applications when the stack is removed, and this page does not warn of that behavior.

Confirm the effective chart default. Then align both pages to that value.

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Review comment at @docs/operations/applying-configuration-changes.md at line 43:
Verify the effective chart default for management.lifecycle.cleanupOnDeletion, then align the lifecycle documentation in this page and the operator reference with that value. Ensure both pages describe the same behavior when the key is omitted.

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