feat(kubernetes): storage and cloud-controller integration for Proxmox-backed tenants - #4089

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetes/types.go`:
- Line 289: Update the Insecure field in the Kubernetes API type and the
corresponding packaged values to default to false, preserving certificate
verification unless a deployment explicitly sets insecure: true.

In `@api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetesnodes/types.go`:
- Line 83: Update the Substrate field validation on the KubernetesNodes API type
to restrict values to kubevirt and proxmox and require immutability with self ==
oldSelf; then regenerate the derived values/schema artifacts so the generated
schema enforces the same enum and immutability constraints.

In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml`:
- Line 296: Update the DNS server rendering in the Talos reconcile job to apply
the same shell-metacharacter escaping used for registryMirrors before the values
enter the heredoc, while retaining YAML quoting and the existing output format.

In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/values.schema.json`:
- Around line 36-40: Restrict the substrate property in the schema to the
supported values by adding an enum containing only kubevirt and proxmox,
matching the options handled by the cluster.yaml template while preserving the
existing default.
- Around line 138-141: Change the proxmox.insecure default in values.yaml to
false, then regenerate values.schema.json so its corresponding default matches.
Preserve the existing description and schema structure.

In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/values.yaml`:
- Line 120: Update the proxmox.insecure configuration in values.yaml from true
to false, so certificate verification remains enabled by default while operators
with self-signed certificates must explicitly opt in.

In `@packages/system/kubernetes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes.yaml`:
- Line 35: Update the proxmox.insecure schema property to default to false,
preserving its boolean type and existing behavior when operators explicitly opt
in by setting it true; ensure the default propagated to the Proxmox CCM and CSI
clients no longer disables certificate verification.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/talos-reconcile-job.yaml`:
- Line 252: Update the rendered kubectl container configuration in the Talos
reconcile Job to mount a writable temporary volume at /tmp before the heredoc
writes /tmp/tct.yaml. Add the corresponding emptyDir volume and volumeMount,
while preserving the existing readOnlyRootFilesystem setting and
TalosConfigTemplate apply/replace flow.

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In `@packages/system/proxmox-ccm/tests/values_regression_test.yaml`:
- Around line 39-42: Update the notContains assertion for
spec.template.spec.tolerations to match any toleration containing operator:
Exists, regardless of additional fields, by enabling the matcher’s partial-map
behavior with any: true. Preserve the existing assertion intent and structure.

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Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) NOT LGTM. What decides this PR is what one tenant can reach with the Proxmox token, and the answer is everything that token can reach, because the token ends up in plaintext inside a cluster the tenant administers.

Business context: part 3 of the Proxmox series behind #3481. It gives tenant clusters on the proxmox substrate a CSI driver and a cloud-controller-manager, so their nodes get initialised and their PVCs get Proxmox disks. Whether Cozystack takes on Proxmox is the decision #3481 asks for, and this review does not judge it. Everything below holds either way.

I reviewed only this PR's own delta over #4088 (a860df1c7..52ed11f20): 9 commits, 62 files, +3554/-13. 39 of those files (+2249) are the two vendored charts, and both reproduce byte-for-byte from helm pull of proxmox-csi-plugin 0.5.12 and proxmox-cloud-controller-manager 0.2.30. 4 files are generated, which leaves 19 hand-written files, +1151/-1. I did not re-review anything from #4088.

Blockers

B1: every tenant holds a hypervisor token, and nothing scopes it to that tenant

The token ends up in the tenant cluster. proxmox.{ccm,csi}.credentialsSecretName names a Secret in the tenant namespace, and the tenant roles (cozy:tenant:*, bound by RoleBinding) have no verbs on core secrets, so a tenant can neither create nor read it there. helm-controller reads it and injects the four keys into the csi and ccm releases. Their charts render the keys into Secrets in csi-proxmox and kube-system inside the tenant cluster, and Helm keeps them again in its release Secrets. The tenant downloads kubernetes-<name>-admin-kubeconfig (the RD lists it in secrets.include), so it is cluster-admin there and reads the token in plaintext. "The token is never written into a rendered manifest" (values.yaml:105, types.go:302) is true of the HelmRelease object only. It does not keep the token from the tenant.

The privileges the pinned versions document reach every tenant on the hypervisor. The driver's docs/install.md at v0.20.0 grants VM.Audit VM.Config.Disk Datastore.Allocate Datastore.AllocateSpace Datastore.Audit on /, and the CCM's at v0.15.0 grants VM.Audit VM.GuestAgent.Audit Sys.Audit on /. With the CSI token one tenant can read the config of every VM on the Proxmox cluster, detach disks from other tenants' VMs, delete volumes on those storages, and attach any volume there to its own worker and read it. The attach works because PVE::Storage::check_volume_access returns early for anyone holding Datastore.Allocate on the storage.

A narrower ACL does not fix this on shared storage. The driver deletes volumes through DELETE /nodes/{node}/storage/{storage}/content/{volume}, which needs Datastore.Allocate on the storage, and that one privilege already opens every volume on it. All tenants' volumes also share one owner VMID, 9999 (vm-9999-pvc-…). That is the driver's default controllerVmID, which this PR does not set, so VM-level ACLs cannot tell tenants' volumes apart. The e2e fixture, the only credential example in the PR, uses one Secret for both components.

This chart's KubeVirt path already has the shape that works. The kubevirt-csi controller runs in the management cluster under a Role in the tenant namespace, and the tenant cluster only gets the node plugin. The proxmox-csi node DaemonSet mounts no credentials, so the same split is available here: CSI controller and CCM in the tenant namespace of the management cluster, pointed at the tenant apiserver. That keeps the token away from the tenant but not the reach, because a tenant can still create a static PV whose volumeHandle names another tenant's volume, and the controller will attach it. So the fix needs both halves. Keep the token out of the tenant cluster, and require (or at least document) a per-tenant Proxmox scope, meaning a dedicated storage and a VM ACL per tenant, together with what that scope still exposes. The PR body's "so an operator can scope them" is about CCM versus CSI, not tenant versus tenant.

A smaller point in the same area: a tenant can use either credentialsSecretName field to name any Secret in its namespace that has the keys url, token_id, token_secret and region, and helm-controller copies it into the tenant cluster. Only Proxmox credentials have that shape today, but a name the operator fixes would close it.

B2: deleting a tenant cluster leaves all its PVC volumes on the hypervisor

Cluster teardown removes the driver before anything frees the volumes. The new HelmReleases carry cozystack.io/target-cluster-name, so the pre-delete hook in templates/delete.yaml uninstalls csi in Step 2, before the control plane goes, and no step deletes the tenant's PVCs while the driver still runs. capmox then destroys the worker VMs, and Proxmox destroy_vm frees only volumes owned by that VMID. PVC volumes are owned by 9999, so they stay on storage with the tenant's data in them. The KubeVirt path cleans up its equivalent in Step 5 (DataVolumes). The Proxmox path has nothing, and tenant deletion goes through the same hook. All the volumes are named vm-9999-pvc-<uuid> and the PV objects are gone with the control plane, so an operator cannot tell whose leftovers they are, and with B1 any tenant can attach them.

PVC deletion does call DeleteVolume, but nothing checks it. pvc-round-trip waits for the PVC object to go (run-proxmox.sh:134) and never looks for the disk afterwards. Fix: on this substrate, delete the tenant's PVCs and wait for their PVs before Step 2, or document the leak and a cleanup procedure.

B3: the Proxmox e2e suite cannot pass as written

The first assert looks for an object that is never created. chainsaw-test.yaml.disabled:55 asserts ProxmoxCluster k8s-e2e with no namespace, so chainsaw looks in tenant-test (.chainsaw.yaml). The chart names it kubernetes-k8s-e2e (.Release.Name with the RD prefix) in tenant-e2eproxmox, so this assert times out after 10m on a healthy stand. The next step has the same problem: run-proxmox.sh:62 reads k8s-e2e-admin-kubeconfig, and the Secret is kubernetes-k8s-e2e-admin-kubeconfig, the name run-kubernetes.sh uses.

The fixture also fits one stand only. tenant.yaml:43 says "The workflow overrides this per stand", but the workflow applies the file unchanged. vmbr50, main-pool, vm-disks1, the address range and the template tags are all hardcoded, and setting PROXMOX_STORAGE changes what run-proxmox.sh greps for, not the StorageClass.

CI does not run this suite. It ships .disabled, and the fork e2e run on this head (34065264460, attempt 1) ran the KubeVirt suites only. The substrate this PR adds has no automated coverage, and everything that exercised it was a manual run.

B4: tests that stay green when the behaviour they guard breaks

I changed one thing at a time and wrote down the expected red set before each run:

The first row is the exact toleration the test's own comment describes, and it passes. notContains without any: true only rejects an element equal to {operator: Exists}, and comparing the whole list with equal would catch it. The kubelet flag is untested in both directions, although talos_worker_config_test.yaml already renders that Job. The last row is B5.

B5: features.provider: proxmox does nothing in the pinned CSI driver

The pinned driver ignores this value. v0.20.0 knows default and capmox (pkg/config/config.go:37-41) and branches only on capmox (pkg/csi/controller.go:1103), so proxmox is not validated and falls through to the default path. The driver works anyway because that path finds the VM by node-name prefix and SMBIOS UUID. It never reads CAPI Machines. The upstream chart's own values comment ("specify provider: proxmox if you are using capmox") is wrong about its binary.

That makes several claims in this PR false: the comment at csi-proxmox.yaml:79-88, proxmox-csi/values.yaml:15-18, proxmox-ccm/values.yaml:51-52 ("The CSI chart spells the same mode proxmox"), the test name in the last table row, and the paragraph in the PR body. Either set capmox and keep the test, or drop the key and the claims. One more comment went stale when the CCM was added: kubernetes-application.yaml:43-44 still says "only this component differs".

B6: commit messages

The last commit's message describes how the defects were found, not what changed. 52ed11f is "correct two things the first real run of the Proxmox suite found": the subject names no change, the body says "Running it against a cluster found what linting could not" and "The template tags were guessed", and it corrects three things. In 88c2035, "which the comment overstated" logs a change to a comment from an earlier commit in this PR, and the claim that replaced it is the false one from B5.

This repository merges with merge commits, so fixups of this PR's own earlier commits would land on main as broken-then-fixed pairs. 791a249 fixes the blanket toleration from 6e8368f. 666c1e2 fixes the providerID mode that 88c2035 deployed the CCM with. 42c267d and 52ed11f both fix 7ea4d8d. Please fold each fix into the commit it corrects and reword.

B7: the PR body becomes the merge commit message, and it does not match the diff

• "carries its six commits … The two that belong to this PR are the last two". #4088 has nine commits, this PR has nine of its own, and its last two are the CI pin and the e2e fix.
• The evidence block shows proxmox://prox-home/106. That is the CCM default mode, which 666c1e2 replaced, and the current code writes proxmox://<SMBIOS UUID>.
• The provider: proxmox paragraph (B5).
• The scheduled self-hosted workflow, the e2e suite and the docs/agents/e2e-testing.md section go unmentioned, and "no hack/ change" is wrong: the PR adds hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-proxmox.sh and a suite directory.
• "Review after #4088 lands", "you are here", and a bot summary that covers #4088's changes do not belong in git log.

Rebase

The branch conflicts with main in one generated file. A trial merge against main at 92d2eed conflicts only in packages/system/kubernetes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes.yaml, which is generated from the values schema. Regenerate it after rebasing onto #4088's rebased head, since #4088 conflicts on the same file.

Non-blocking

1. The CCM can delete a Node whose VM its token cannot see. The lifecycle controller only checks NotReady nodes, an API error is skipped, and a VM on an offline host maps to "inaccessible", so none of those deletes a Node. A permissions gap does. /cluster/resources silently leaves out VMs the token lacks VM.Audit on (pve-manager PVE/API2/Cluster.pm), and go-proxmox v0.4.0 then returns "VM machine not found". The CCM's getInstanceInfo maps any error containing "not found" to InstanceNotFound, so a NotReady node whose VM the token cannot see gets deleted. A narrower per-tenant CCM token makes exactly that more likely, so it belongs next to the B1 fix.
2. CodeRabbit's point about insecure: true by default stands, and after B1 it matters more, because the token crosses the network from tenant workers.
3. The nightly schedule depends on a runner that may not exist. It targets [self-hosted, proxmox], no other workflow here uses that label, and #3481 describes the runner as an offer. Without it, each nightly job sits in the queue until GitHub cancels it at 24h. COZY_PVE_SSH falls back to [email protected], and an unset variable should fail the job instead of sending the key to whatever answers at that address. run-proxmox.sh leaves the tenant super-admin kubeconfig at a fixed /tmp path with default permissions, and keep_tenant does not stop the suite's own finally from deleting the tenant.
4. The Proxmox path marks no default StorageClass, while KubeVirt's csi.yaml marks exactly one. storageClasses[] has no field for it, so PVCs without storageClassName stay Pending.

Locally at 52ed11f: apps/kubernetes 21 suites / 168 tests, apps/kubernetes-nodes 21 / 99 plus 12 snapshots, system/proxmox-ccm 1 / 2, all green, and every mutation above reverted.

Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) NOT LGTM. Most of the last round is fixed. Three things are left: the README now asks for an ACL scope the charts cannot produce, a unit check this diff trips is red, and some text still describes earlier versions of this PR.

I reviewed only the delta over #4088 (8722462066..9b2a9b9af, 5 commits) at 9b2a9b9af.

Fixed

• proxmox.csi.enabled: false renders no CSI controller and needs no token. I removed the gate, and runs no CSI controller and needs no CSI token when the driver is switched off went red as I predicted.
• The kubelet flag and Step 1b are pinned now. Rendering cloud-provider: external on every substrate reds the kubevirt case. Replacing the /readyz check with if false reds releases Proxmox volumes before the driver goes, on proxmox only. Dropping the admin-kubeconfig resourceName reds the Role test. Each red was the test I predicted, and I reverted every mutation.
• e2e: the fixture carries bare variables, and render-tenant fills in the defaults and refuses any leftover ${. hack/proxmox-e2e-fixture_test.bats passes locally with GNU envsubst. The runner reads super-admin.conf. The StorageClass and the probe read the same COZY_PROXMOX_STORAGE. The probe checks the disk is gone. keep_tenant is honoured in finally, and the workflow has no address fallback.
• The README states the isolation limit and the per-component privileges. The three values.yaml descriptions are corrected, and provider: proxmox and controller.replicaCount are gone from the system chart.

Blockers

B1: the documented tenant scope cannot be set up with these charts

The README limits the CSI token to "the tenant's own VMs only (a pool per tenant, or each VM)" at README.md:128, and the CCM row asks for VM.Audit on every tenant VM. I re-checked proxmox-csi-plugin v0.20.0. DeleteVolume and ControllerPublishVolume still do no owner check, so this ACL is the only thing that stops one tenant from reaching another.

Neither option works as shipped:

• A pool per tenant needs capmox to put each VM into the pool. capmox supports this (pool in the ProxmoxMachine clone spec), but the ProxmoxMachineTemplate that kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml renders sets no pool, and no value reaches it. So an ACL on /pool/<tenant> covers none of the VMs.
• A per-VM ACL has to be granted again for every VMID capmox allocates: each scale-up, each rolling update, each Machine replacement. Until then the CSI controller cannot attach to the new worker, and the CCM cannot initialise it. The suite's own replacement-converges-unattended step creates such a VM, so it can only pass on a stand whose token has the / scope that the README says leaks across tenants.

Fix: expose capmox's pool in the pool chart (settable, or derived per tenant), and write the README row as one ACL on that pool.

B2: Unit & controller tests is red because of this diff

The repo check for hook request timeouts fails on the new /readyz probe (delete.yaml:165, --request-timeout=30s), and I reproduced it locally with hack/check-hook-request-timeout.bats. The check skips only files that mention KUBECONFIG, and this hook passes --kubeconfig in lowercase, so the check flags it. The call itself is safe, because an explicit kubeconfig does not take the in-cluster path the check guards against. Either bound the probe some other way or teach the check about --kubeconfig. As it stands the run is red.

B3: text that does not match the code

• Commit 9b2a9b9: "Asserted with the names the fixture used to carry, the first step simply spent its ten minutes and failed on a healthy stand." Commit 2758fda: "Step 1b now asks /readyz first". Both describe versions of this PR that never reach main, and main uses merge commits.
• Comments that narrate earlier versions of this PR: ccm-proxmox/controller.yaml:11 ("the tenant-side RBAC the upstream chart used to install"), csi-proxmox/controller.yaml:66 ("the tenant-side release used to receive"), and tests/substrate_proxmox_addons_test.yaml:47 ("valuesFrom is how the token used to travel"). system/proxmox-csi/values.yaml:12 says "Until a CCM runs in the tenant", but in this design the CCM never runs there.
• The PR body becomes the merge commit message. "The CSI release dependsOn the CCM" is wrong: helmreleases/csi-proxmox.yaml:108 depends on -cilium only, and the CCM is not a HelmRelease. "chart 0.2.30's HA features": no CCM chart is shipped, the image is proxmox-cloud-controller-manager:v0.15.0. "The plan called these two separate steps" is planning context.
• The new README section is hardwrapped. AGENTS.md asks for one line per paragraph in markdown the repo owns.

Non-blocking

1. Step 1b deletes the Pods before the claims. A Pod owned by a StatefulSet or Deployment comes back and mounts the claim again before the PVC delete arrives. The claim then stays Terminating until the 300s backstop. Deleting the PVCs first (--wait=false) and the Pods second avoids this, because the scheduler will not place a Pod on a claim that is being deleted. No unit test pins the order either: replacing the Pod delete with true keeps 331/331 green.
2. The nightly workflow still targets [self-hosted, proxmox], a label no other workflow here uses. Its comment at e2e-proxmox.yaml:79 still says the tenant's CCM and CSI read the Secret; the management-side controllers read it now.

Locally at 9b2a9b9af: apps/kubernetes 27 suites / 331 tests and apps/kubernetes-nodes 29 suites / 162 tests plus 12 snapshots, all green. The new fixture bats is 3/3. Fork CI on this head (attempt 1, 15:16Z): Pre-Commit green, Pull Request red on Unit & controller tests (B2), and E2E (in-tree) skipped.

Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) NOT LGTM. B1, B2 and the last round's text points are fixed, and so are both non-blocking items. What is left is text: the PR body says the KubeVirt path is unchanged at upgrade, and the new last commit makes that false. A few comments are also wrong.

I reviewed c9661c233 against 9b2a9b9af. It is a rebase of d0149f9ce onto main 101d1d986, and the rebase changes nothing in this PR's files. The five commits I reviewed last time are rewritten, and three are new: 3062b12d3 (proxmox.pool), aa2a78538 (README, token user) and c9661c233 (TalosConfigTemplate replace).

Fixed

• B1: proxmox.pool reaches ProxmoxMachineTemplate.spec.template.spec.pool, next to storage and full. The README row is now one ACL on /pool/<proxmox.pool>. I dropped the with block and adds the workers to the pool the tenant's tokens are scoped to went red, as I predicted.
• B2: the probe is timeout 30 kubectl --kubeconfig … get --raw /readyz. hack/check-hook-request-timeout.bats passes locally, and Unit & controller tests is green on this head.
• B3: the comments and commit messages I quoted last time are rewritten. Until a CCM runs in the tenant is gone, the README section is one line per paragraph, and the body no longer says the CSI release depends on the CCM or mentions chart 0.2.30.
• Step 1b deletes the claims before the Pods, and the workflow only runs on dispatch or with vars.PROXMOX_NIGHTLY.
• c9661c233 belongs in this PR. The kubelet flag from 981806d0f changes the rendered TalosConfigTemplate on proxmox, so a pool created from main hits the immutable-spec error on its next reconcile. The RBAC is right: get/patch/update/delete are named kubernetes-<cluster>-<group>, which is the ${RELEASE}-${GROUP_NAME} the script deletes, and kubectl apply on a missing object still does its GET by name before the unnamed create. When I removed the kubectl delete line, replaces the template when the apiserver reports it immutable went red.

Blocker

B4: the KubeVirt upgrade effect is described wrongly, and a few comments are false

• The PR body becomes the merge commit message. It says: "On the KubeVirt path the rendered charts are unchanged except for one line of that hook … nothing changes for an existing cluster at upgrade." I rendered kubernetes-nodes with default values (kubevirt) on main and on this head. The Role's TalosConfigTemplate rule is split into three and gains delete. The Job script changes, so the content-hash name moves (…-talos-reconcile-md0-467bfc → …-4e592a). Every existing KubeVirt pool therefore gets a new reconcile Job on upgrade, and on a pool whose live template has drifted from the render, that Job now deletes and recreates it where it used to fail. The UPGRADE NOTE in c9661c233 already says this. The body should too, and the sentence above should go.
• talos-reconcile-job.yaml:223-227 (from main): "Keeping the kubevirt line exactly as it was also keeps this Job's content hash — and so its name — unchanged for every pool that is not on proxmox." That stopped being true with c9661c233, so it needs rewriting or removing.
• The body's live-stand section says "What that run pinned: … and Pods deleted before their claims." Step 1b now does the opposite, and so does the paragraph above it in the same body.
• The TalosConfigTemplate spec is immutable because of CABPT's validating webhook, not the CRD. bootstrap-components-talos.yaml registers /validate-bootstrap-cluster-x-k8s-io-v1alpha3-talosconfigtemplate, and in v0.6.12 ValidateUpdate returns TalosConfigTemplate.Spec is immutable. That is still caught by *"is immutable"*, so the code works, but the commit subject, the two comments (talos-reconcile-job.yaml:87 and :440) and "immutable by schema" in the body are wrong.
• Two comments still describe versions of this PR that never reach main. ccm-proxmox/controller.yaml:49: "milder than it was in the tenant" (the CCM never ran in the tenant on main). csi-proxmox/controller.yaml:92: "Every tenant's volumes used to be owned by the driver's default VMID 9999". State the driver default instead.

Non-blocking

1. Nothing tests that delete stays named. I added delete to the unnamed create rule and all 168 kubernetes-nodes tests stayed green. The notContains in may read and write only this pool's own template only matches the old four-verb rule. A notContains for an unnamed rule carrying delete would cover it.

Local results at c9661c233: apps/kubernetes 27 suites / 332 tests, apps/kubernetes-nodes 31 / 168 plus 12 snapshots, talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats 6/6, check-hook-request-timeout.bats 1/1, proxmox-e2e-fixture_test.bats 4/4. I reverted every mutation. On this head (attempt 1, 2026-09-27T13:42Z) Pre-Commit, API Review Gate and Codegen Drift are green, and Pull Request is still queued. On d0149f9ce Pull Request was green, and E2E Tests was red with "image/artifact publish did not succeed". That lane is broken for every fork PR right now, which #4514 fixes, so it is not caused by this diff.

Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) NOT LGTM. B4 is closed. One new blocker, in the Step 1b code from 3cb014038, which I missed last round.

I reviewed c1cc0c246 against c9661c233 with git range-diff. The new base is main 9b56e70ca. Five commits are identical. The CSI and CCM commits change only the two comments I asked about. c1cc0c246 changes its subject, the webhook comments and the new notContains pair, and moves both applies to --server-side --force-conflicts, which main adopted in the meantime.

Fixed

• B4, KubeVirt at upgrade: I rendered kubernetes-nodes with the snapshot values on main and on this head. The only differences are the Role (named get/patch/update, unnamed create, named delete) and the Job name (…-631002 → …-8eb958). For kubernetes with values-ci.yaml, the only differences are the Step 5 DataVolume CRD check and the Role comment. The body now says this.
• The talos-reconcile-job.yaml:223 comment no longer claims the hash is unchanged. "Pods deleted before their claims" is gone. The subject, both comments, the test header and the body now name CABPT's webhook. The CSI and CCM comments are fixed.
• Last round's non-blocking item: I folded delete into the unnamed create rule and may delete only this pool's own template went red.

Blocker

B5: Step 1b deletes no Pod in a namespace where any Pod mounts two claims

Step 1b finds the Pods that hold a claim with a JSONPath filter, and that filter breaks on a Pod with two PVC volumes. The filter at delete.yaml:195-196 is .items[?(@.spec.volumes[*].persistentVolumeClaim.claimName=='$pname')], and its left side returns one value per PVC volume. client-go's evalFilter in util/jsonpath/jsonpath.go returns can only compare one element at a time as soon as it gets more than one, which fails the whole expression. kubectl prints nothing, 2>/dev/null || true swallows the error, and the loop deletes no Pod in that namespace for any claim.

The claims then keep kubernetes.io/pvc-protection, the PV wait runs its 300 s into the backstop, Step 2 removes the driver, and the disks stay on the storage. That is the leak Step 1b exists to prevent. It hits any namespace with a Pod mounting two claims, for example a data volume plus a WAL volume. The live run used a single-claim Pod, so it could not see this.

Fix: list each Pod with its claims and match in the shell, for example -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{range .spec.volumes[*]}{" "}{.persistentVolumeClaim.claimName}{end}{"\n"}{end}', then keep the lines where a whole word equals $pname. A render test can't run the JSONPath, so a matchRegex that fails on the filter form is the most the helm suite can pin. A bats case that runs the extracted loop against a stub kubectl returning a two-claim Pod would test the behaviour itself.

How this composes with #3523

The two PRs fix different drifts, and both are needed. #3523 names the TalosConfigTemplate <release>-<group>-<hash of the rendered spec> and points configRef at that name. Its hash deliberately leaves out the values the Job fills in at runtime (${SVC_IP}, the CAs, CoreDNS), and on proxmox the apiserver address, which is the motivating case of c1cc0c246, is one of them. After #3523, an address change keeps the name, the webhook rejects the apply, and this PR's replace is still the only thing that recovers. A chart-input change renames the template and rolls the pool, so the replace never fires for it.

They conflict textually in both orders. git merge-tree gives a content conflict in talos-reconcile-job.yaml and in the generated kubernetes-nodes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes-nodes.yaml, and nodegroup.yaml merges cleanly. Whichever PR lands second has to change two things:

1. The Role's resourceNames for get/patch/update/delete must name the hashed template, which the chart already computes at render time. If they keep kubernetes-<cluster>-<group>, the server-side apply PATCH to …-<hash> is forbidden on every pool, and under #3523 a pool whose template does not exist cannot scale at all. No existing test catches this: this PR's test pins the unhashed name, and #3523's bats compares only the Job's TCT_NAME with configRef.name.
2. The kubectl delete target must become ${TCT_NAME}. If it keeps ${RELEASE}-${GROUP_NAME}, the replace deletes the pre-#3523 template, which the outgoing MachineSet still references, and then fails again on the hashed one.

A replace is cheap for CAPI today. I checked v1.10.1, internal/controllers/machineset/machineset_controller.go. Running Machines keep their cloned TalosConfig. The MachineDeployment does not roll, because the reference is by name and the name does not change. Between the delete and the re-apply, reconcileExternalTemplateReference returns NotFound as an error for the current MachineSet, so that MachineSet neither scales nor creates Machines until the template is back. A MachineSet that is not the current revision tolerates NotFound. The window is one API round trip, and a Job killed inside it recreates the template on its next attempt.

Non-blocking

1. Nothing tests that the replace fires only on the immutable error. I replaced *"is immutable"*|*"Spec is immutable"*) with *), so every apply error deletes the template, and all 170 kubernetes-nodes tests stayed green. replaces the template when the apiserver reports it immutable matches is immutable anywhere in the script, and the shell comment and the echo both contain it. Anchor it to the case label the way the *) branch test is anchored. *"Spec is immutable"* is redundant next to *"is immutable"*.
2. The comments and the commit say that deleting on another error would cause "worker churn". It would not, because a replace does not roll the pool. The real risk is a delete that succeeds followed by a create that fails. An apply rejected for its content (a schema error, say) fails the re-create the same way, and the pool then has no template and cannot scale until the render is fixed.
3. The volume owner id hashes only the release name. Two tenants that each create a cluster named prod both get kubernetes-prod and the same id from kubernetes.proxmoxControllerVmID, so "each cluster now derives its own" is not true across tenants. Hashing .Release.Namespace together with the name fixes it.
4. The e2e disk check reports success when the listing fails. At run-proxmox.sh:166, while pve "pvesm list $STORAGE" | grep -qF "$volid" exits the loop when ssh or pvesm fails, and then logs that the disk is gone. Check the listing's exit status separately (docs/agents/e2e-testing.md §4). The suite is parked, so this doesn't block.

Local results at c1cc0c246: apps/kubernetes 28 suites / 335 tests, apps/kubernetes-nodes 32 / 170 plus 12 snapshots, talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats 6/6, proxmox-e2e-fixture_test.bats 4/4, run-kubernetes-install-wait_test.bats 47/47, check-hook-request-timeout.bats 1/1. Dropping resourceNames from the get/patch/update rule goes red. I reverted every mutation. CI on this head (attempt 1, 2026-09-29T15:25Z): Pre-Commit, DCO, Commit trailers, Codegen Drift, API Review Gate, Unit & controller tests and Pull Request are green. The fork E2E Tests run 36591794228 was still in progress when I wrote this.