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Summary

Freezes the per-deployer bundle tree. Closes scope items 1, 2, 8 and the layout half of 5 of #2113 — which completes that issue and the last of the four surfaces ROADMAP §1 freezes at v1.

Motivation / Context

Integrator automation reads paths out of a bundle: a GitOps pipeline commits argocd/app-of-apps.yaml, an operator runs helm/deploy.sh, a script walks NNN-<component>/values.yaml. None of that was gated. The golden trees under pkg/bundler/deployer/*/testdata cover one deployer's rendering; nothing asserted the shape of a whole bundle, so a renamed root file or a changed directory convention would ship silently.

Fixes: N/A
Related: #2113, #2370

Type of Change

  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Documentation update

Component(s) Affected

  • Bundler (pkg/bundler)
  • Docs/examples (docs/)

Implementation Notes

The fixture matters more than it looks

Some emitted names are recipe-derived rather than layout: flux writes one helmrepo-<host>.yaml per chart repository, helmfile one level-N.yaml per dependency depth. A baseline taken against the live catalog would churn on unrelated recipe edits — and a baseline that churns is one people regenerate without reading, which is the failure this gate exists to prevent.

testdata/layout/recipe.yaml is frozen, two components, trimmed to the fields that can influence the tree: 221 lines → 38, with all five trees byte-identical after trimming. Determinism verified by generating twice per deployer.

Coverage cannot silently shrink

TestBundleLayoutCoversEveryDeployer ties the frozen set to the BundleDeployer enum in the OpenAPI spec, in both directions. Without it, adding a deployer would ship an entirely ungated layout while every existing check stayed green — the gate would look complete and cover less than it claims.

Additive drift is allowed, deliberately

A removed or renamed path fails. An added one does not — a new file breaks nobody, so the manifest may lag until make bundle-layout-baseline, the same way the OpenAPI baseline may lag on additive change. Additions are logged so the drift is visible.

One deliberate divergence from the other three gates

No exceptions file here. The manifests are 7–12 lines, so a removal is a deleted line in a tiny file and glaring in review; the baseline refresh is the acknowledgement. An exceptions file would add machinery for a signal the diff already carries. Flagging it explicitly so it reads as a decision rather than an oversight — happy to add one if you'd rather have the uniformity.

Testing

go test -race ./pkg/... ./cmd/... ./tools/...   # 0 failures
golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./...       # 0 issues
make check-docs-mdx check-docs-mdx-parse lint-yaml  # OK

Mutation-verified, each restored afterward:

Mutation Expected Result
Manifest promises a path the bundle no longer emits fail helm no longer emits "deploy.sh.REMOVED"
Bundle emits a path the manifest lacks pass logged as additive, subtest PASS
Drop a deployer from the frozen set fail the API accepts deployer "helmfile" but its bundle layout is not frozen

make bundle-layout-baseline is idempotent — regeneration from an unchanged fixture is byte-identical.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested

Test, fixtures, a make target and docs. No production code changes.

Note: a separate bug found while building this

Trimming the fixture to two components produced:

[INVALID_REQUEST] cannot determine deployment levels: circular dependencies exist

There is no cycle — gpu-operator has dependencyRefs: [nfd, cert-manager, ...] and dropping those leaves a dangling edge. The comment at pkg/recipe/metadata.go:1581 says the branch surfaces "cycle/missing-dependency", but the message names only the cycle, sending anyone who trims a recipe hunting for a loop that does not exist. Not fixed here — it belongs in its own issue rather than smuggled into a layout PR. Happy to file it.

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
  • Linter passes (make lint)
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)
Closes scope items 1, 2, 8 and the layout half of 5 of #2113, which completes
the issue and the last of the four surfaces ROADMAP section 1 freezes at v1.

Integrator automation reads paths out of a bundle: a GitOps pipeline commits
argocd/app-of-apps.yaml, an operator runs helm/deploy.sh, a script walks
NNN-<component>/values.yaml. None of that was gated. The golden trees under
pkg/bundler/deployer/*/testdata cover one deployer's rendering; nothing
asserted the shape of a whole bundle, so a renamed root file or a changed
directory convention shipped silently.

TestBundleLayoutMatchesManifest renders a fixture recipe through all five
deployers and compares each tree to a committed manifest. A removed or renamed
path fails. An added one does not: a new file breaks nobody, so the manifest
may lag until someone runs make bundle-layout-baseline, the same way the
OpenAPI baseline may lag on additive change.

The fixture matters more than it looks. Some emitted names are recipe-derived
rather than layout -- flux writes one helmrepo-<host>.yaml per chart repository
and helmfile one level-N.yaml per dependency depth -- so a baseline taken
against the live catalog would churn on unrelated recipe edits, and a baseline
that churns is one people regenerate without reading. testdata/layout/recipe.yaml
is frozen, two components, trimmed to the fields that can influence the tree:
221 lines to 38, with all five trees byte-identical after trimming.

TestBundleLayoutCoversEveryDeployer ties the frozen set to the deployer enum in
the OpenAPI spec, in both directions. Without it a new deployer would ship an
entirely ungated layout while every existing check stayed green -- the gate
would look complete and cover less than it claims.

No exceptions file here, unlike the other three frozen surfaces. The manifests
are 7 to 12 lines, so a removal is a deleted line in a tiny file and glaring in
review; the baseline refresh is the acknowledgement. An exceptions file would
add machinery for a signal the diff already carries. That is a deliberate
divergence, not an oversight.

docs/user/bundling.md gains the canonical layout reference (item 8), including
the distinction the trees do not show on their own: fixed names are contract,
derived names are not, and callers should list the directory rather than
hardcode a helmrepo-<host>.yaml.

Verified by mutation: a manifest promising a path the bundle no longer emits
fails; a bundle emitting a path the manifest lacks passes and logs; dropping a
deployer from the frozen set reports it against the API enum. Regeneration is
byte-identical.

Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
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Recipe evidence check

No leaf overlays affected by this PR.

This gate is warning-only and never blocks merge.

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Adds a frozen bundle recipe and committed file manifests for five deployers. Adds tests that compare generated paths with manifests, verify deployer parity with the OpenAPI enum, and enforce required structure and fixture components. Adds a Make target that regenerates manifests only after all renders succeed. Documents the layout contract and validation gate.

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In `@docs/user/bundling.md`:
- Around line 62-65: Update the Helmfile layout description to document its
actual Helmfile-specific tree, including per-component install.sh files and
excluding Helm’s root deploy.sh and recipe.yaml; remove the claim that Helmfile
matches the Helm layout while preserving the existing dependency-depth file
details.

In `@Makefile`:
- Line 376: Update the manifest-generation loop in the Makefile to write every
generated manifest into the temporary directory first, preserving the existing
filenames and content. After the loop completes successfully, replace the
committed manifests from that staged set; add an exit trap that removes the
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Two review findings.

The layout reference claimed helmfile matches the helm layout. It does not:
they share the per-component files, but helmfile writes helmfile.yaml where
helm writes deploy.sh, and emits no recipe.yaml. An integrator following that
sentence would hardcode two paths helmfile never produces. Replaced with the
actual tree.

While correcting it, worth being explicit about what the fixture does and does
not freeze: level-N.yaml appears only for a recipe with dependencies, and the
committed fixture is two dependency-free components, so those files are not in
any manifest. The doc now says so rather than implying they are contract.

make bundle-layout-baseline wrote each manifest in place as the loop ran, so a
failure partway left a mixed old/new set -- worse than no refresh, because the
manifests would then disagree with each other and with the bundler. All five
are rendered under a temporary directory and copied over the committed files
only after every deployer succeeds, with a trap to clean up.

Verified by injecting a bogus deployer into the loop: the target exits non-zero
and the committed manifests are byte-identical afterward.

Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
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…umeration

A shell pipeline exits with the status of its LAST stage, so
`find . -type f | sed | sort` reports success even when find fails, and set -e
never fires. Reproduced:

  $ /bin/sh -e -c '(find /nonexistent | sed ... | sort) > out'
  find: /nonexistent: No such file or directory
  pipeline exit=0
  file size: 0 bytes

The target would have committed a truncated manifest, and that fails open in
the worst direction. Paths missing from a manifest read as ADDITIONS, which
this gate allows by design, so every omitted path silently loses its removal
protection -- the gate keeps reporting success while protecting less.

pipefail would fix it but is not portable to /bin/sh, since dash lacks it and
SHELL is not overridden here. Each stage is now a separate simple command that
set -e can catch. Verified by pointing find at a missing directory: the target
exits non-zero and the committed manifests are untouched.

Generation is only one way a bad manifest arrives; a hand edit or a bad merge
is another, and TestBundleLayoutMatchesManifest only rejects a manifest that is
entirely empty. TestBundleLayoutManifestsAreComplete asserts a structural floor
per deployer -- the root files, the entry point, and a per-component file the
fixture always produces.

The demonstration is the point: with helm.txt truncated to four lines, the
removal check reports zero failures because truncation is invisible to it,
while the new guard names the missing paths.

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In `@pkg/bundler/layout_test.go`:
- Around line 274-286: The requiredPaths fixture must include stable NFD entries
for every applicable layout floor, not only helm. Update the argocd, flux, and
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requiredPaths listed a second-component path for helm and forgot the other four
deployers, so a manifest that dropped every nfd entry still passed everywhere
but helm. Those paths then read as allowed additions and lost removal
protection -- the exact fail-open the floor exists to prevent, reintroduced by
maintaining the floor by hand.

Adding four lines would have fixed today's instance and left the next one
available, so the per-component half is now derived: every component the
fixture declares must appear somewhere in each manifest. Which file it appears
as differs by deployer (application.yaml, helmrelease.yaml, values.yaml), so
the match is on the component name rather than a per-deployer filename that
would need the same hand-maintenance that just failed.

Root entries stay explicit, because they genuinely differ per deployer and are
the paths integrator automation invokes.

Verified by dropping every nfd entry from all five manifests: five failures,
one per deployer. Under the previous version that reported one.

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- Line 331: Update the path check in the layout completeness test to match whole
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strings.Contains let one component stand in for another whose name it
contains. With components foo and foobar, dropping every foo path still matched
foobar/values.yaml, so the completeness floor reported coverage it did not
have -- the same fail-open it was added to close, one level down.

Latent with today's fixture, which has no overlapping pair, and it would have
arrived silently with the first one. Deriving the floor from the fixture is
what makes that a real risk rather than a theoretical one: the set of names
being matched is no longer fixed.

Comparison is now per path segment, after stripping the NNN- ordering prefix
four of the five deployers use and any file extension. That matches
002-nfd/values.yaml, nfd/helmrelease.yaml and templates/nfd.yaml without
matching 002-nfd-extras/values.yaml.

TestPathMentionsComponent pins the rule with the overlapping cases in both
directions. Reverting the helper to strings.Contains fails three of them.

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