ci: lint and render every helm chart and the self-managed stack tests - #957
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a CI job that installs pinned Helm tools, validates chart mappings, lints and renders charts, runs self-managed Helmfile tests, and detects generated changes. It also improves offline Cassandra PDB test coverage and adds behavioral tests for checker inputs. ChangesHelm CI validation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR adds automated Helm chart and self-managed render validation without changing runtime behavior. The optional failure-path test coverage does not indicate a current defect or block merge; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@tools/ci/check-helm-charts`:
- Around line 159-163: Update the dependency cleanup around helm dependency
build in tools/ci/check-helm-charts:159-163 to detect and remove newly created
.tgz archives even when charts already exists, while preserving existing
fetched_dirs cleanup. Add a fake-helm regression case in
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103-107: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd coverage for cleanup after a failed dependency build.
The Helm stub always exits with status 0. The tests only verify cleanup after a successful fetch. Add a case where the stub creates
fetched-0.1.0.tgzand then exits nonzero. Assert that the checker fails and removes the archive or the createdchartsdirectory.As per coding guidelines, "Code changes must include tests." The PR objective also requires handling partial failed fetches.
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In `@tools/ci/test-check-helm-charts`:
- Around line 103-107: The Helm dependency stub in test-check-helm-charts should
support a failure mode that creates fetched-0.1.0.tgz before returning nonzero.
Add coverage for this mode in the relevant dependency tests, asserting the
checker fails and removes the archive or generated charts directory.
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No GitHub Actions workflow ran helm lint, helm template, or the self-managed Helmfile render tests, so a chart or Helmfile regression reached main with every check green. The runner for both suites lives in internal GitLab configuration that is not present in this snapshot. Add tools/ci/check-helm-charts, which walks tools/ci/helm-validate-values/*.yaml, resolves each one to its chart through an explicit table, and runs helm lint and helm template. The mapping is not derivable from the file name, so both directions are checked: a values file with no entry fails, and an entry whose chart directory is gone fails. Every chart runs even after one fails so a single run reports all of them. The openbao chart declares openbao 0.28.3 from oci://ghcr.io/openbao/charts with no vendored charts/ directory. helm lint only warns about the absent dependency and exits 0, so helm template fails until the subchart is fetched. The script runs helm dependency build for any chart that declares dependencies, matching what chart-push-manual.yml already does, and removes the fetched charts/ directory on exit so the working tree stays clean. Wire it as the helm-charts job in build-test.yml alongside docs and go-lib codegen. The job installs pinned, checksum-verified helm and helmfile, runs the chart checks, and runs the self-managed Helmfile render tests so those keep coverage after the PR that adds them. tests/pdb-value-wiring.sh could not run offline. Its cassandra cases rendered 01-dependencies without the gateway refs that global.yaml.gotmpl marks required, and its two chart-guard cases went through helmfile template, which pulls the chart from the configured OCI registry. Supply the gateway state values on every render and assert the chart guards against the in-repo chart instead. Closes #954 Signed-off-by: Mike Camp <mcamp@nvidia.com>
helm dependency build adds to an existing charts/ directory rather than replacing it, so tracking only directories the run created left fetched archives behind whenever a chart already had vendored subchart sources. deploy/helm/cert-manager/charts holds exactly that shape today, so the leak was one vendored subchart away from being real, and .gitignore hid it from the workflow cleanliness check. Record the archives present before each fetch and delete only the ones the run added, keeping the whole-directory removal for a charts/ that the run created outright. Record after a failed fetch too, since helm can leave a partial download behind. Add fake-helm regression cases for both shapes: a created charts/ is removed entirely, and an existing one keeps its contents while losing the fetch. Both satisfy the real chart_map so the run reaches helm. Check the archives explicitly in the workflow instead of relying on git status, which .gitignore makes blind to them. Relates to #954 Signed-off-by: Mike Camp <mcamp@nvidia.com>
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TL;DR
No GitHub Actions workflow ran
helm lint,helm template, or the self-managedHelmfile render tests. Both suites exist and are maintained, but nothing public
executed them, so a chart or Helmfile regression reached
mainwith every checkgreen. This adds
tools/ci/check-helm-chartsand ahelm-chartsjob inbuild-test.ymlthat runs it plusmake -C deploy/stacks/self-managed test.Additional Details
The chart check
tools/ci/check-helm-chartswalkstools/ci/helm-validate-values/*.yaml,resolves each one to its chart through an explicit table, and runs
helm lintand
helm templatewith that values file. The mapping is not derivable from thefile name (
ess.yamlisdeploy/helm/encrypted-secret-store/ess-api,cloud-functions.yamlisdeploy/helm/cloud-functions/nvcf-api), so the tableis spelled out in the script and checked in both directions:
nothing validating it
Chart.yamlfailsEvery chart runs even after one fails, so a single run reports all of them
rather than stopping at the first.
tools/ci/test-check-helm-chartsasserts those failures directly, following thetest-check-nested-modulesandtest-check-gazelleconvention. A wiring loopthat never fails is indistinguishable from no loop at all. It builds throwaway
values directories and needs no helm, since the wiring checks run before helm is
invoked.
The openbao dependency decision
deploy/helm/openbao/helm/Chart.yamldeclaresopenbao 0.28.3fromoci://ghcr.io/openbao/chartswith no vendoredcharts/directory.helm lintonly warns about the absent dependency and still exits 0, so lint alone does not
catch this;
helm templatefails until the subchart is fetched.Decision: fetch. The script runs
helm dependency buildfor any chart whoseChart.yamldeclares dependencies, and fails loudly if the fetch fails. This isnot a skip; openbao is linted and rendered like every other chart.
Reasons for fetch over vendoring:
chart-push-manual.ymlalready does exactly this (if grep -qE '^dependencies:' "${CHART_DIR}/Chart.yaml"; then helm dependency build), sothe repo already accepts a ghcr.io fetch on the chart path. A second, divergent
answer for the same chart would be worse than the outage risk.
repo, which pulls in license review and NOTICE obligations for an artifact
that
Chart.lockalready pins by digest.build, not a silently weakened check.
helm dependency buildwritescharts/openbao-0.28.3.tgzinto the working tree.The script tracks any
charts/directory it creates and removes it on exit, sothe tree stays clean whether the run passes or fails.
.gitignoregainsdeploy/helm/*/*/charts/*.tgzas a backstop, and the job ends with agit status --porcelaincheck that fails if anything was left behind. No tracked.tgzfiles exist underdeploy/helm/, so the ignore rule hides nothing.The self-managed render tests
The job also runs
make -C deploy/stacks/self-managed test, which is what givesthe Helmfile render scripts ongoing coverage instead of running once in the PR
that adds them.
Two of those scripts could not run offline, and fixing that was necessary to
wire the target into CI at all:
tests/pdb-value-wiring.shrendered01-dependencies.yaml.gotmplwithout thegateway refs that
global.yaml.gotmplmarksrequired. The throwawayenvironment files replace the operator environment wholesale, and
environments/base.yamlhas noingress.gatewayApi.gatewaysdefaults, soevery cassandra render died with
ingress.gatewayApi.gateways.shared.name is requiredbefore reaching the values under test. The script already passedthose values on its
02-corefallback; they are now shared by every render.helmfile template, which pulls thechart from the configured OCI registry and fails with
invalid repository "YOUR_ORG/YOUR_TEAM/helm-nvcf-cassandra"against the placeholder registry inbase.yaml. They now render the in-repo chart atdeploy/helm/cassandra/helmagainst the same wired values, which keeps the environment-to-chart path under
test and works offline.
The neither-field case also asserted something the stack cannot produce:
base.yamlalways suppliescassandra.podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable: 2, soenabling the PDB never leaves both fields empty through the environment path.
That case now asserts the chart guard directly against the chart defaults, with
a comment recording why.
Version pinning
helm and helmfile are installed by pinned, checksum-verified download rather than
a floating version or a third-party action, matching the actionlint job and the
org actions allowlist. helm is v3.21.4 because
Makefile.diststates Helm 4 isnot supported. helmfile is v1.1.9 because v1.2.0+ processes
helmfile.d/inparallel and breaks the ordering the stack relies on.
For the Reviewer
Worth a close look:
tools/ci/check-helm-charts, specifically thechart_maptable and the twowiring loops.
deploy/stacks/self-managed/tests/pdb-value-wiring.sh. This is a behaviorchange to an existing test, not just CI plumbing.
The
Makefileis deliberately untouched. #951 modifies the sametesttarget toadd
tests/check-llm-pki-issuer.sh, and that script is present in the tree butnot yet wired in. Once #951 merges, this job picks up the fourth script with no
change here.
tests/observability-autoscaler.shalso exists and is not in thetesttarget.Left alone; that is a separate question from wiring up what the target already
declares.
For QA
Run locally with helm v3.21.4 and helmfile v1.1.9, from a clean worktree at
origin/main:actionlint v1.7.12 with
SHELLCHECK_OPTS=--severity=warningpasses on theworkflows. shellcheck v0.11.0 at
-S warningis clean on both new scripts. Itreports one pre-existing SC2034 in
pdb-value-wiring.sh(key_prefixin theunused
pdb_enabled_in_valueshelper) that predates this change and is leftalone.
No QA needed. This is CI-only and adds no runtime behavior.
Issues
Closes #954
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