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What does this PR do?

Allows users to set additional labels and annotations under spec.template.metadata for a deployment.

What issues does this PR fix or reference?

Is it tested? How?

Install by running:

export DWO_IMG=quay.io/dkwon17/devworkspace-controller:tolerate-pod-labels-amd64
make install

Create a test workspace

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
kind: DevWorkspace
apiVersion: workspace.devfile.io/v1alpha2
metadata:
  name: test-pod-labels
spec:
  started: true
  routingClass: 'basic'
  template:
    components:
      - name: tooling
        container:
          image: quay.io/wto/web-terminal-tooling:next
          memoryRequest: 256Mi
          memoryLimit: 512Mi
          command: ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]
EOF

Test 1: External pod template label

  1. Add external label to pod template
kubectl patch deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> --type merge \
  -p '{"spec":{"template":{"metadata":{"labels":{"paas.redhat.com/appcode":"ITOS-123"}}}}}'
  1. Trigger reconcile
kubectl patch dw test-pod-labels -n <namespace> --type merge \
  -p "{\"metadata\":{\"annotations\":{\"force-update\":\"$(date +%s)\"}}}"
  1. Verify label persists
kubectl get deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> \
  -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.metadata.labels}'

Test 2: DWO-managed labels are still corrected

  1. Override a DWO-managed label to a wrong value
kubectl patch deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> --type merge \
  -p '{"spec":{"template":{"metadata":{"labels":{"controller.devfile.io/devworkspace_name":"WRONG"}}}}}'
  1. Trigger reconcile
kubectl patch dw test-pod-labels -n <namespace> --type merge \
  -p "{\"metadata\":{\"annotations\":{\"force-update\":\"$(date +%s)\"}}}"
  1. Verify DWO corrects the label
kubectl get deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> \
  -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.metadata.labels.controller\.devfile\.io/devworkspace_name}'

Expected: Label is corrected back to test-pod-labels.

Test 3: No reconciliation loop with external labels

  1. Add external labels to both deployment metadata and pod template
kubectl label deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> paas.redhat.com/appcode=ITOS-123
kubectl patch deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> --type merge \
  -p '{"spec":{"template":{"metadata":{"labels":{"paas.redhat.com/appcode":"ITOS-123"}}}}}'
  1. Watch operator logs for 2-3 minutes
kubectl logs -f -n devworkspace-controller deploy/devworkspace-controller-manager \
  -c devworkspace-controller | jq 'select(.workspace.name == "test-pod-labels")'

Expected: After the initial reconciliation, no further reconciliation loops are triggered. Labels remain stable.


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Deployment synchronization now detects when configured pod-template labels or annotations are missing from or differ from cluster values.
    • Cluster-only pod-template labels and annotations are preserved during updates, including when they conflict with configured values.
    • Deployment-level label and annotation differences no longer trigger an update on their own.

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Signed-off-by: David Kwon <dakwon@redhat.com>
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Deployment synchronization now checks pod-template labels and annotations during Deployment comparisons. Deployment updates preserve the cluster resource version and merge cluster pod-template metadata into the spec Deployment.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Deployment metadata diffing
pkg/provision/sync/diff.go, pkg/provision/sync/diffopts.go, pkg/provision/sync/diff_test.go
Deployment diffing ignores cluster-added metadata and detects spec pod-template labels or annotations that are missing or differ in the cluster. Tests cover metadata differences and container image changes.
Deployment metadata update
pkg/provision/sync/update.go, pkg/provision/sync/update_test.go
Deployment updates preserve the cluster resource version and merge cluster pod-template labels and annotations into the spec. Tests cover metadata merging and nil-cluster behavior.

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Removed pod-template labels or annotations can remain on the Deployment, so resolve or explicitly accept this reconciliation gap before merging.

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Review: tolerate additional pod template labels

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The goal is right and the change achieves it: the operator/webhook interaction previously had no fixed point, and now it does. Two things should be sorted before merge.

Blocking

  1. The update path still discards what the diff now tolerates (diff.go:44). getUpdateFunc has no Deployment case, so defaultUpdateFunc sends the operator's spec verbatim to client.Update - a full replace. The next unrelated update (a container image change, for example) deletes the externally-added labels and rolls the pod. The hot loop becomes intermittent rather than gone.
  2. Removals stop reconciling (diffopts.go:42). Previously Spec.Template.ObjectMeta was compared in full, so a key the operator stopped setting produced a diff. Now neither check covers that direction. Removing controller.devfile.io/restricted-access from a DevWorkspace leaves the stale pod annotation in place, and ValidateExecOnConnect keeps enforcing it. Fails closed, so not an escalation, but it never self-heals.

Worth fixing

  1. IgnoreFields(PodTemplateSpec{}, "ObjectMeta") also silences Name, Namespace, OwnerReferences and Finalizers. IgnoreFields(metav1.ObjectMeta{}, "Labels", "Annotations") is precise and safe here.
  2. Empty-string label values are never reconciled - clusterLabels[k] != v reads a missing key as "" (diff.go:98, 104).
  3. The delete return is discarded in 3 of 4 tests. sync.go:68 acts on delete before update by deleting the workspace Deployment, so a regression there would pass the suite.
  4. Unchecked cluster type assertion next to a guarded spec one (diff.go:94).

What went well

  • pkg/provision/sync had no test file before this PR. 219 lines of table-driven tests with nil-map cases is a real improvement to a package that needed it.
  • Composing via allDiffFuncs rather than loosening deploymentDiffFunc keeps each diff func single-purpose.
  • The doc comment explains why the check is one-directional, not just what it does.
  • Realistic fixture values (paas.redhat.com/appcode, external.io/injected) document the motivating scenario inside the tests.
  • I traced the exec-authorization path and the operator-set keys stay protected: changing creator to another UID, deleting creator/devworkspace_id, and deleting restricted-access from the cluster Deployment all still fire the spec-to-cluster check. The workspace ServiceAccount also cannot exploit the new tolerance - pkg/provision/workspace/rbac/role.go:102-105 grants only get, list, watch on deployments.

System-level notes

Consider a config lever instead of blanket tolerance. The motivating case is one vendor prefix; the implemented answer tolerates every key any actor ever adds. DWO already has this idiom - IgnoredUnrecoverableEvents []string (devworkspaceoperatorconfig_types.go:227), RestrictedContainerOverrideFields, RestrictedPodOverrideFields. A DWOC key or prefix list would narrow the blast radius and give admins a rollback lever. Worth knowing first: deploymentDiffOpts is a package-level var referenced directly by printDiff, so per-config tolerance means constructing diff options per reconcile and threading them through basicDiffFunc. Building that seam now is much cheaper than retrofitting it.

The new divergence is unobservable. When the operator decides to tolerate drift, sync.go:81 returns (clusterObj, nil) with no log, event, status condition or metric. printDiff is gated behind ExperimentalFeaturesEnabled() so it is off in production, and when enabled it uses deploymentDiffOpts - which now ignores pod template metadata, so it prints an empty Diff: . An SRE asking "why did removing restricted-access not take effect?" has nothing to go on.

This is an ungated behaviour change on upgrade. Every existing workspace Deployment changes reconciliation semantics on operator image bump - no feature gate, no DWOC field, no opt-out, no release note. Clusters relying on the operator reverting pod template drift lose that guardrail silently.

The fix is at the diff layer, not the watch layer. The reconcile still fires on every third-party mutation and runs a full reflection-based cmp.Equal to conclude "nothing to do". Write amplification is removed, which is the expensive half, but controller CPU and watch load are unchanged. Worth saying which of the two the PR is claiming. Relatedly, allDiffFuncs does not short-circuit despite its comment claiming it returns at the first function requiring an update - this PR grows the chain from 3 funcs to 4, so an early return would both match the comment and skip the most expensive operation.

Smaller items

  • podTemplateMetadataDiffFunc duplicates metadataDiffFunc's loops. A shared helper would stop the two drifting - and would have kept the empty-value bug in one place.
  • Field order differs from metadataDiffFunc (annotations then labels vs labels then annotations). Cosmetic, but matching it makes the "like metadataDiffFunc" claim literally true.
  • 37 of the 40 _test.go files under pkg/ use stretchr/testify; this one uses bare t.Errorf.
  • The PR description says "Allows users to set additional labels under spec.template.metadata". The change tolerates externally-added labels - it adds no API for setting them, and per item 1 does not make them durable. A Fixes #N link would help too, since there is no issue to check acceptance criteria against.

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return false, false
}
clusterDeploy := cluster.(*appsv1.Deployment)

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cluster type assertion is unchecked while spec is guarded.

spec is guarded with , ok on line 90 but cluster is not, so podTemplateMetadataDiffFunc(someDeployment, someConfigMap) panics instead of returning (false, false).

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clusterDeploy := cluster.(*appsv1.Deployment)
clusterDeploy, ok := cluster.(*appsv1.Deployment)
if !ok {
return false, false
}

It is unreachable today - sync.go:48-49 builds clusterObj via reflect.New(objType) from the spec's own type - and controller-runtime v0.24.1 recovers reconcile panics by default, so the real-world impact would be a requeue rather than a crash. Still, the asymmetry is a trap. The alternative is dropping the spec guard for consistency with deploymentDiffFunc (line 128) and routingDiffFunc, which guard neither.

Related: TestPodTemplateMetadataDiffFunc_NonDeployment passes a ConfigMap for both arguments, so it returns on the spec guard and never reaches this line - the test would pass even with no guard here at all.

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specDeploy.Spec.Template.Labels = mergeMaps(clusterDeploy.Spec.Template.Labels, specDeploy.Spec.Template.Labels)
specDeploy.Spec.Template.Annotations = mergeMaps(clusterDeploy.Spec.Template.Annotations, specDeploy.Spec.Template.Annotations)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Allow removal of previously configured pod-template metadata.

When a user removes a label or annotation from the spec, mergeMaps restores that key from the cluster object. Any subsequent Deployment update therefore retains the removed value. For labels, the retained pod template can continue to label future Pods. Distinguish previously managed keys from externally added keys so removals take effect without deleting external metadata. (kubernetes.io)

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In `@pkg/provision/sync/update.go` around lines 79 - 80, Update the pod-template
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I don't think this is an issue. If we want the label removed, can't it be just manually removed from the deployment spec? This would then cause the desired deployment spec and on-cluster deployment spec to both lack the now-removed label?

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@dkwon17, removing the label from the desired Deployment does not remove it from the on-cluster Deployment. The diff ignores labels that exist only on the cluster, so that removal does not trigger an update. If another change later triggers an update, mergeMaps copies the label from the cluster back into the updated Deployment.

If you also manually remove the label from the on-cluster Deployment, then both copies will lack it. My concern is that changing the desired Deployment alone cannot remove a label that it previously managed. The same behavior applies to pod-template annotations.

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The user wouldn't be able to remove label from the desired deployment, only on-cluster deployment. An externally added label would never be on the desired deployment

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@dkwon17, you are right about externally added metadata. If a user removes an external label from the on-cluster Deployment, it is absent from both the on-cluster and desired Deployments. mergeMaps cannot restore a key that is absent from both.

The code confirms a separate case for operator-managed metadata. getSpecDeployment adds DevWorkspaceRestrictedAccessAnnotation to the desired pod template only while the workspace has that annotation. If the workspace annotation is removed, the desired pod template stops including it, but the on-cluster pod template can still have it. podTemplateMetadataDiffFunc does not detect that removal. If another change triggers a Deployment update, mergeMaps copies the old annotation back.

I will keep the finding open for that operator-managed case. My earlier description of removing an external label from the desired Deployment was incorrect.


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I tested the provided scenarios and they seem to be working as expected. ✅

One separate observation: external Deployment-level .metadata.labels and .metadata.annotations are removed during that correction. I realize this PR targets .spec.template.metadata, and I haven’t checked whether the top-level behavior already exists on main.

Would it make sense to investigate that separately? I don’t consider it a blocker for this PR.

Additional test: External metadata preservation during a DWO update

Run against the existing test-pod-labels workspace once it is Running.

  1. Set the namespace and resolve the Deployment name:
NS=your-test-namespace
DW=test-pod-labels
DEPLOY=$(kubectl get dw "$DW" -n "$NS" \
  -o jsonpath='{.status.devworkspaceId}')
  1. Add an external label and annotation to both Deployment metadata and pod-template metadata:
kubectl patch deployment "$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" --type merge \
  -p '{
    "metadata": {
      "labels": {"paas.redhat.com/appcode": "ITOS-123"},
      "annotations": {"test.example.com/pr1711": "preserve-me"}
    },
    "spec": {
      "template": {
        "metadata": {
          "labels": {"paas.redhat.com/appcode": "ITOS-123"},
          "annotations": {"test.example.com/pr1711": "preserve-me"}
        }
      }
    }
  }'
  1. Trigger reconciliation and wait for rollout:
kubectl annotate dw "$DW" -n "$NS" \
  "force-update=$(date +%s%N)" --overwrite

kubectl rollout status deployment/"$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" --timeout=120s
  1. Verify the external metadata exists at both levels:
kubectl get deployment "$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" -o json |
  jq '{
    deploymentLabel: .metadata.labels["paas.redhat.com/appcode"],
    deploymentAnnotation: .metadata.annotations["test.example.com/pr1711"],
    podTemplateLabel: .spec.template.metadata.labels["paas.redhat.com/appcode"],
    podTemplateAnnotation: .spec.template.metadata.annotations["test.example.com/pr1711"]
  }'

Expected and observed:

{
  "deploymentLabel": "ITOS-123",
  "deploymentAnnotation": "preserve-me",
  "podTemplateLabel": "ITOS-123",
  "podTemplateAnnotation": "preserve-me"
}
  1. Override a DWO-managed pod-template label to force DWO to update the Deployment:
kubectl patch deployment "$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" --type merge \
  -p '{"spec":{"template":{"metadata":{"labels":{"controller.devfile.io/devworkspace_name":"WRONG"}}}}}'

kubectl annotate dw "$DW" -n "$NS" \
  "force-update=$(date +%s%N)" --overwrite
  1. Wait for DWO to restore the managed label and complete rollout:
kubectl wait deployment/"$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" \
  --for=jsonpath='{.spec.template.metadata.labels.controller\.devfile\.io/devworkspace_name}'="$DW" \
  --timeout=90s

kubectl rollout status deployment/"$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" --timeout=120s
  1. Run the metadata verification command from step 4 again.
kubectl get deployment "$DEPLOY" -n "$NS" -o json |
  jq '{
    deploymentLabel: .metadata.labels["paas.redhat.com/appcode"],
    deploymentAnnotation: .metadata.annotations["test.example.com/pr1711"],
    podTemplateLabel: .spec.template.metadata.labels["paas.redhat.com/appcode"],
    podTemplateAnnotation: .spec.template.metadata.annotations["test.example.com/pr1711"]
  }'

Expected, if external metadata should be preserved at both levels: all four values remain unchanged.

Observed:

{
  "deploymentLabel": null,
  "deploymentAnnotation": null,
  "podTemplateLabel": "ITOS-123",
  "podTemplateAnnotation": "preserve-me"
}

metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
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func TestGetUpdateFunc_Deployment(t *testing.T) {

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Could this test exercise the function returned by getUpdateFunc() and assert that it preserves external pod-template metadata?

Currently it only checks that the returned function differs from defaultUpdateFunc. The remaining tests call deploymentUpdateFunc directly, so they don't verify that Deployment updates actually use it.

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I have updated this in my latest commit to specifically test that the update function that is being retrieved, is actually the correct one

…s working as expected

Signed-off-by: David Kwon <dakwon@redhat.com>
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@dkwon17 dkwon17 changed the title Tolerate additional labels and annotations under deployment's spec.template.metadata.… Tolerate additional labels and annotations under deployment's spec.template.metadata field Sep 24, 2026

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In `@pkg/provision/sync/update_test.go`:
- Around line 65-66: Update the preservation-case expectations in the tests for
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expectedLabels := map[string]string{"app": "test"}
if !reflect.DeepEqual(resultDeploy.Spec.Template.Labels, expectedLabels) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Align preservation cases, but do not hide configured-label removal.

deploymentUpdateFunc merges cluster pod-template metadata under spec metadata. Update the preservation cases to expect cluster-only entries, with spec values winning conflicts:

Expected metadata corrections
-expectedLabels := map[string]string{"app": "test"}
+expectedLabels := map[string]string{"app": "test", "paas.redhat.com/appcode": "ITOS-123"}
...
-expectedLabels: map[string]string{"app": "test"},
+expectedLabels: map[string]string{"app": "test", "paas.redhat.com/appcode": "ITOS-123"},
...
-expectedLabels: map[string]string{"app": "new-value"},
+expectedLabels: map[string]string{"app": "new-value", "external": "keep"},
...
-expectedAnns:    map[string]string{"note": "from-spec"},
+expectedAnns:    map[string]string{"note": "from-spec", "injected": "by-webhook"},
...
-expectedLabels: nil,
+expectedLabels: map[string]string{"external": "keep"},

Keep the removed spec label does not persist from cluster case as an intentional exception. Do not change its expectation to retain env unless the contract defines every absent key as external. The current deploymentUpdateFunc(spec, cluster) input does not identify whether an absent key was externally added or previously managed, so supporting both behaviors requires an ownership or previous-spec signal rather than expectation changes alone.

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expectedLabels := map[string]string{"app": "test"}
if !reflect.DeepEqual(resultDeploy.Spec.Template.Labels, expectedLabels) {
expectedLabels := map[string]string{"app": "test", "paas.redhat.com/appcode": "ITOS-123"}
if !reflect.DeepEqual(resultDeploy.Spec.Template.Labels, expectedLabels) {
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In `@pkg/provision/sync/update_test.go` around lines 65 - 66, Update the
preservation-case expectations in the tests for deploymentUpdateFunc to include
cluster-only pod-template labels and annotations while letting spec values win
conflicts. Keep the “removed spec label does not persist from cluster” case
expecting the removed label to stay absent; do not alter production behavior or
imply that every absent key is external.

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dkwon17 force-pushed the tolerate-pod-labels branch from de5fcb6 to 4ece3f9 Compare September 24, 2026 16:28
Signed-off-by: David Kwon <dakwon@redhat.com>
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dkwon17 force-pushed the tolerate-pod-labels branch from ffaed31 to 1a959bb Compare September 24, 2026 19:47
Signed-off-by: David Kwon <dakwon@redhat.com>
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@dkwon17: The following test failed, say /retest to rerun all failed tests or /retest-required to rerun all mandatory failed tests:

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