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jcoffey-dev 823f5d48d1 Unify the Tenant CRD with enterprise-api -provision-tenant (lightweight)
Closes a gap named across CLAUDE.md/docs/architecture.md/deploy/README.md
since early Phase 4: the operator's Tenant CRD and -provision-tenant
were two disconnected mechanisms. The operator's reconciler generated a
K8s Secret with a locally-generated random password that authenticated
against nothing (nothing ever called ClickHouse to create a matching
user), and unconditionally claimed status.phase=Active the moment a
Tenant object existed -- actively misleading, not just incomplete.

Two unification shapes were considered (surfaced to the user via
AskUserQuestion, given the real difference in blast radius): the
operator's reconcile loop becoming a second real actor (new Postgres +
ClickHouse admin credentials flowing into the K8s controller, plus real
reconcile-loop idempotency/retry design for an inherently one-shot
external side effect), or keeping -provision-tenant as the sole real
actor and having it also sync its result into the CRD. Went with the
lighter option.

enterprise/internal/tenantcrd (new): a Syncer using the K8s dynamic
client (unstructured.Unstructured + a GroupVersionResource, not
deploy/operator's typed Tenant struct -- avoids a cross-module Go
dependency between two independently-versioned modules for one type).
Upserts the Tenant object, creates/updates a Secret with the *real*
ClickHouse credentials owned by that Tenant via an OwnerReference, then
patches status.{clickHouseDatabaseName,clickHouseSecretRef,
tantivyIndexPath}. Idempotent and safe to retry: never rotates a
credential across a re-sync, never overwrites a pre-existing
spec.displayName a human/GitOps process set.

cmd/enterprise-api/main.go's runProvisionTenant calls Sync when
TENANT_CRD_NAMESPACE is set (empty = no-op, same shape as every other
optional dependency in this codebase). Its "already active" refusal is
now split: ClickHouse re-provisioning is still refused (rotating a live
credential would break every open connection for no benefit), but CR
sync alone is now retryable using the credentials already on file in
rbacstore -- needed for retrying a previously-failed sync, or
backfilling CR sync for a tenant provisioned before this existed.

deploy/operator's reconciler rewritten to match: it never claims
PhaseActive on its own initiative anymore, only once
status.ClickHouseDatabaseName is non-empty (the field -provision-tenant,
and only -provision-tenant, sets). Phase is now a pure function of
{spec.suspended, status.ClickHouseDatabaseName != ""} recomputed every
reconcile, not toggled in place -- fixes a related bug the old code
would have hit once suspension was involved: un-suspending an
already-provisioned tenant needs to return straight to Active, which
isn't derivable from "last observed phase was Suspended" alone. The
reconciler no longer creates or manages any Secret, dropped its
`secrets` RBAC grant entirely, and gained zero new dependencies.

Helm chart: enterprise-api gets its own ServiceAccount/Role/RoleBinding
(get/list/create tenants, get/update/patch tenants/status, get/create/
update secrets -- least-privilege, scoped to the release namespace, not
a ClusterRole) and a TENANT_CRD_NAMESPACE env var, both gated on
tenantOperator.enabled. tenant-operator's ClusterRole loses the
secrets grant it no longer needs.

Verified in this environment: enterprise/internal/tenantcrd's tests run
against k8s.io/client-go's fake dynamic + typed clientsets (real client
library, fake transport, no cluster needed); deploy/operator's rewritten
tenant_controller_test.go runs against controller-runtime's fake
client, including new regression tests for the "must not claim Active
without confirmation" and "un-suspending returns to Active, not
Provisioning" properties; helm template + parsing the rendered YAML
confirms the RBAC split renders exactly as designed under both
tenantOperator.enabled=true/false. Not verified: an actual
-provision-tenant run against a real cluster with the operator watching
(no live cluster in this environment, same disclosed limitation as the
rest of /deploy). Docs updated in lockstep: CLAUDE.md, docs/architecture.md,
deploy/README.md, deploy/helm/sentry/README.md (including a corrected
"Trying the two-tenant example" walkthrough), phase-4-runbook.md (new
§11), enterprise/README.md. Also fixed two unrelated stale claims found
along the way: docs/architecture.md still said docker-compose.yml ran
plain api unconditionally (fixed in an earlier commit, doc not updated
then), and enterprise-api's own main.go doc comment still said Helm/
docker-compose wiring wasn't built yet.
2026-08-14 09:07:10 -07:00
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deploy

Kubernetes deployment for Sentry, added in Phase 4 (/deploy was deliberately stubbed through Phase 3 -- see /CLAUDE.md's Phase 3 non-goals). Two pieces:

  • operator/ -- a small Go controller-runtime Operator managing one CRD (Tenant). See operator/README.md.
  • helm/sentry/ -- a Helm chart covering every docker-compose.yml service, plus the operator and Tenant CRs when enterprise.enabled=true. See helm/sentry/README.md.

What "multi-tenant-aware" means here, precisely

Per /docs/phase-4-isolation-design.md, tenant isolation itself lives at the application layer inside enterprise/ (enterprise-api holds a map of per-tenant ClickHouse connection pools via internal/chrunner; search holds a map of per-tenant Tantivy indices via src/registry.rs) -- not at the Kubernetes layer. This directory is not "one Deployment per tenant" or a general multi-cluster system; that's an explicit Phase 4 non-goal (see /CLAUDE.md). What it does add:

  • A Tenant CRD + controller (operator/internal/controller) that reflects real provisioning state onto status.phase/a Ready condition, derived from whether enterprise-api -provision-tenant has reported real ClickHouse provisioning.
  • A Helm chart that can install zero-or-more Tenant CRs (values.tenants) alongside the rest of the stack, and swaps api's Deployment for enterprise-api's whenever enterprise.enabled is true, so which query binary actually serves traffic is no longer a separately-forgettable decision (see helm/sentry/README.md's "api vs enterprise-api" section).

Now unified, in a deliberately lightweight way: enterprise-api -provision-tenant=<id> stays the sole real actor — it's the only thing that calls ClickHouse (CREATE DATABASE/CREATE USER/GRANT, via enterprise/internal/tenantprovision) and writes rbacstore. What changed: once it succeeds, it also syncs the result into the Tenant CRD (enterprise/internal/tenantcrd) — creating the Secret with real credentials (the controller no longer generates a placeholder one that authenticated against nothing) and setting the status fields the controller reads to compute Phase/Ready. The controller itself gained no new credentials and still never touches ClickHouse/Postgres -- it's a pure function of spec.suspended and whatever -provision-tenant has reported, never an independent second guess at "is this tenant really provisioned." A Tenant reaching status.phase: Active now means the same thing rbacstore.tenants. status='active' does, not two different claims — see enterprise/internal/tenantcrd's and operator/internal/controller/ tenant_controller.go's doc comments for the full split, and enterprise-api -provision-tenant's TENANT_CRD_NAMESPACE env var (set automatically by the Helm chart when tenantOperator.enabled) to turn this on. Deliberately not built: the operator's reconcile loop itself calling ClickHouse/rbacstore directly (a "full unification" option considered and set aside — it would give the operator two new credential sets and require real reconcile-loop idempotency design for an inherently one-shot external side effect, a bigger and riskier change than this repo's provisioning story needed to close the actual gap, which was two disconnected sources of truth, not two actors).

Verification status -- read before trusting this against a real cluster

Not verified against a live Kubernetes cluster. This environment has no kubectl/kind/minikube/kubebuilder/cluster reachable, so nothing here has been kubectl apply'd or helm install'd for real. Same disclosed-limitation shape as /agent/README.md's "Windows-specific agent code remains unverified on real Windows" from Phase 1 -- a real gap to close before shipping, not swept under the rug.

What was actually verified, offline, in this environment (network access was available to fetch these tools, but no cluster):

  • deploy/operator: go build/go vet/go test ./... all pass, including reconciler tests against controller-runtime's fake client (internal/controller/tenant_controller_test.go) -- real reconcile logic exercised, but not against a real apiserver (no envtest binaries available; see that test file's doc comment).
  • enterprise/internal/tenantcrd (the "lightweight unification" half -provision-tenant runs): go test passes against k8s.io/client-go's fake dynamic and typed clientsets -- real client library, fake transport, same shape as enterprise/internal/ searchclient's in-process gRPC tests. What this doesn't prove: that sentry.io/v1alpha1.Tenant's real CRD schema (a real apiserver's OpenAPI validation) accepts exactly what this package writes -- the helm template/kubeconform check below covers the schema shape, not a live write against it.
  • deploy/operator/config/crd/sentry.io_tenants.yaml: parsed with sigs.k8s.io/yaml + strict-unmarshaled into the real k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver CustomResourceDefinition Go type -- catches YAML syntax errors and structural mistakes, not a live-cluster admission check.
  • deploy/helm/sentry: helm lint passes; helm template renders cleanly under both default values and a enterprise.enabled: true + two-tenant override; the rendered output was checked with kubeconform -strict against the real Kubernetes 1.31 OpenAPI schema for every built-in resource kind (22-31 resources depending on values, 0 invalid) -- this catches schema mistakes (wrong field names, wrong types) but not whether the resources actually reconcile correctly together on a live cluster (Job/StatefulSet startup ordering, PVC provisioning, actual pod scheduling). Specifically confirmed by parsing the rendered YAML (not just eyeballing it): exactly one Deployment/Service named sentry-api renders in each mode, with the enterprise.enabled: true render using the enterprise-api image and the default render using plain api's. Also confirmed for the tenantOperator.enabled: true case: enterprise-api gets its own ServiceAccount/Role/RoleBinding (exactly tenants/tenants/status/ secrets, no more), tenant-operator's own ClusterRole no longer grants secrets at all, and TENANT_CRD_NAMESPACE is set on enterprise-api's container only when tenantOperator.enabled is true.
  • Docker image builds (operator/Dockerfile and every other Dockerfile this chart references) were not verified in this session -- Docker's daemon wasn't reachable here either (see the Phase 4 task 5 conversation for why). Build and push every image this chart's values.yaml references before installing it.

Before relying on this in production: kind create cluster, helm install with --include-crds, and walk through helm/sentry/README.md's two-tenant example end to end.