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When infra-operator rotates a RabbitMQ transport URL (creating a new secret and user), consumer operators must hold a consumer finalizer on the old secret until all their pods have rolled out with the new credentials. Without this, infra-operator cleans up the old RabbitMQ user while pods are still connected with old credentials, causing message bus outages.

Design:

  1. Add consumer finalizer to the current transport URL secret early in reconcile. Set instance.Status.TransportURLSecret for first-time setup only (when empty or unchanged); during rotation the status is updated solely by FinalizeSecretRotation at end of reconcile.

  2. Pass transportURL.Status.SecretName directly to sub-CR creation functions and config generation as a parameter — never read from instance.Status.TransportURLSecret for sub-CR specs.

  3. Use statefulset.IsReady() / deployment.IsReady() from lib-common in all sub-CR controllers for accurate rollout status.

  4. Use object.ManageRotationGracePeriod() to enforce a 60-second grace period before evaluating the rotation guard. This gives sub-CRs time to detect config changes, update their workloads, and roll pods — without relying on informer cache freshness.

  5. Guard: CredentialRotationGuardReady(true, conditions) — evaluates AllSubConditionIsTrue after the grace period expires. Only when all sub-CR conditions are True does FinalizeSecretRotation remove the consumer finalizer from the old secret.

The same pattern applies to notification transport URL secrets and application credential secrets where applicable.

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lmiccini force-pushed the finalize-secret-rotation branch from fa44949 to 10315d6 Compare August 11, 2026 14:14
When infra-operator rotates a RabbitMQ transport URL (creating a new
secret and user), consumer operators must hold a consumer finalizer on
the old secret until all their pods have rolled out with the new
credentials. Without this, infra-operator cleans up the old RabbitMQ
user while pods are still connected with old credentials, causing
message bus outages.

Design:

1. Add consumer finalizer to the current transport URL secret early
   in reconcile. Set instance.Status.TransportURLSecret for first-time
   setup only (when empty or unchanged); during rotation the status
   is updated solely by FinalizeSecretRotation at end of reconcile.

2. Pass transportURL.Status.SecretName directly to sub-CR creation
   functions and config generation as a parameter — never read from
   instance.Status.TransportURLSecret for sub-CR specs.

3. Use statefulset.IsReady() / deployment.IsReady() from lib-common
   in all sub-CR controllers for accurate rollout status.

4. Use object.ManageRotationGracePeriod() to enforce a 60-second
   grace period before evaluating the rotation guard. This gives
   sub-CRs time to detect config changes, update their workloads,
   and roll pods — without relying on informer cache freshness.

5. Guard: CredentialRotationGuardReady(true, conditions) — evaluates
   AllSubConditionIsTrue after the grace period expires. Only when
   all sub-CR conditions are True does FinalizeSecretRotation remove
   the consumer finalizer from the old secret.

The same pattern applies to notification transport URL secrets and
application credential secrets where applicable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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lmiccini force-pushed the finalize-secret-rotation branch from 10315d6 to 24a2d5b Compare August 11, 2026 16:05
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