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Summary

Adds the explicit --system-managed-install-namespace migration mode for operator-controller v1.12.0's experimental optional-namespace API.

  • Omits ClusterExtension.spec.namespace while retaining the existing source-namespace default when the flag is absent.
  • Rejects controllers whose ClusterExtension CRD still requires spec.namespace, before mutating OLMv0 resources.
  • Resolves bundle namespace metadata to prepare the target before ClusterObjectSet application, then moves collected resources and removes their source copies after installation.
  • Adds unit coverage, a coverage-enabled fixture E2E scenario, CI execution, and updated migration specifications.

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  • make migration/test-unit
  • go test ./... -count=1
  • make migration/test-e2e-system-managed-namespace
  • make verify

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  • New Features
    • Added an experimental --system-managed-install-namespace option for single-operator migrations. It lets the controller choose the installation namespace using bundle metadata, while migration prepares that namespace and moves the operator’s resources there.
    • The migration checks whether the installed controller supports this mode and rejects unsupported configurations before making changes. The source namespace is retained after migration.
    • Without the new option, migrations continue to use the Subscription namespace.

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  • migration/pkg/migration/migration.go
  • migration/pkg/migration/system_namespace.go
  • migration/pkg/migration/system_namespace_test.go
  • migration/pkg/migration/types.go
  • migration/pkg/migration/unit_test.go
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Walkthrough

The migration command adds an opt-in system-managed install namespace mode. It checks controller support, resolves and prepares a namespace from bundle metadata, relocates resources, and omits ClusterExtension.spec.namespace. A fixture E2E test and migration specifications cover this mode.

Changes

System-managed namespace migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Namespace selection and capability checks
migration/pkg/migration/types.go, migration/pkg/migration/system_namespace.go, migration/pkg/migration/migration.go, migration/pkg/migration/system_namespace_test.go, migration/pkg/migration/unit_test.go, go.mod
Migration options add system-managed namespace mode. Namespace resolution uses bundle metadata or a package-derived default. Capability checks require an established CRD with a served schema where spec.namespace is optional. The controller and indirect dependencies are upgraded.
Conversion and dry-run behavior
migration/examples/cmd/migrate-operators-v0-to-v1/convert.go, migration/examples/cmd/migrate-operators-v0-to-v1/convert_test.go, migration/pkg/migration/migration.go
The conversion command resolves and uses the effective install namespace for preparation, resource relocation, source cleanup, and dry-run output. System-managed mode omits ClusterExtension.spec.namespace.
Fixture validation and migration specification
test/e2e/migration/e2e_test.go, migration.mk, .github/workflows/migration-test.yaml, specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/*
The fixture E2E test checks the omitted field, target namespace deployments, source resource removal, and source namespace retention. The fixture target, workflow, and specifications include the scenario.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ConvertCommand
  participant EffectiveInstallNamespace
  participant PrepareClusterObjectSet
  participant KubernetesAPI
  ConvertCommand->>EffectiveInstallNamespace: Resolve namespace from package name and bundle annotations
  ConvertCommand->>PrepareClusterObjectSet: Check system-managed namespace support
  PrepareClusterObjectSet->>KubernetesAPI: Read ClusterExtension CRD
  KubernetesAPI-->>PrepareClusterObjectSet: Return CRD schema and establishment status
  ConvertCommand->>KubernetesAPI: Prepare resolved namespace and migrate resources
  ConvertCommand->>KubernetesAPI: Create ClusterExtension without spec.namespace
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e33bc

Resolve namespace-selection consistency and API-version-specific capability validation before merging: affected migrations can leave source workloads scaled down or relocate resources outside the controller-selected namespace. Tighten the cleanup assertion so API failures cannot hide remaining source Deployments.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e33bc

The mode is explicitly enabled and retains important collision, identity and recovery safeguards. However, the compatibility check is not tied to the API version being written, and migration’s namespace choice is not checked against the controller’s eventual choice. These gaps can undermine the operator handover under incompatible schemas or changing bundle metadata. Production controller behavior and permissions were not fully established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new capability gate is not bound to the ClusterExtension request version. It returns success on the first served schema declaring an optional namespace, or rejects the first inspected schema requiring it. With divergent served schemas, preflight can therefore pass even though the subsequent namespace-omitting request is rejected after OLMv0 management removal and source scale-down. Recovery deliberately avoids restoring source Deployments when the ClusterObjectSet may be active, making this a failure-containment gap in the ownership handover. No affected live CRD was established.
  • Medium · architecture · inferred: The new mode separates namespace authority: migration prepares resources using installed CSV metadata, but the ClusterExtension omits namespace and delegates selection to the controller’s catalog-resolved bundle. Automatic resolution is not version-pinned, and source cleanup checks Installed=True rather than namespace agreement. If selected bundle metadata or resolution behavior differs, resources and namespace-sensitive controls may be placed under different namespace identities before source copies are removed. Manual-version pinning reduces this exposure; controller-side agreement and the divergent-bundle outcome remain unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected scope includes the operator’s collected resources, source and metadata-selected target namespaces, and the controller namespace containing packed resource Secrets. Updating an existing target namespace’s security labels can also affect other workloads there. Execution depends on Kubernetes write authority; the actual permission ceiling and tenant isolation were not established. The CLI limits this mode to one operator rather than --all.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — CSV namespace annotations become placement inputs when the mode is enabled, and selected catalog metadata becomes relevant to the controller’s independent namespace choice. A party controlling those inputs can influence placement through an authorized migration or reconciliation, but input control alone does not establish authority to execute migration or a verified privilege-escalation path. The supported concern is namespace-contract divergence, not a demonstrated remote attack.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Migration validates namespace syntax, rejects existing target resource names before cutover, and retains UID protection for source cleanup. ClusterObjectSet resource payloads are packed into Secrets in the resolved controller namespace, crossing a migration-to-controller consumption boundary. These migration-side controls do not establish production controller permissions or equivalence of its namespace resolver.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Target-absence checks are separate from asynchronous ClusterObjectSet application, and collision protection is set to None. Source cleanup is sequential and stops on errors, so partial cleanup is possible. The inspected parent comparison shows existing relocation and terminal cleanup paths being reused with effective namespace options; these mechanisms are not retained as newly introduced overwrite or cleanup-bypass findings. Their concurrent and interrupted outcomes remain incompletely covered.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind capability validation to the API version used for ClusterExtension creation. Establish an explicit agreement between migration placement and the controller-selected bundle namespace before destructive source cleanup, including automatic bundle selection and metadata changes. Preserve conservative target-active recovery while providing a documented reconciliation path for partial cleanup.
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Also, there's a merging conflict on this pull request

Comment thread migration/pkg/migration/migration.go Outdated
Comment on lines +134 to +137
// The COS is applied before the CE. Ensure the metadata-derived namespace
// exists now so its namespaced objects can succeed; the CE itself still
// omits spec.namespace and lets OLMv1 manage that namespace thereafter.
if err := m.PrepareInstallNamespace(ctx, resourceOpts); err != nil {

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When the metadata-derived target namespace does not exist, PrepareInstallNamespace creates it after info.CollectedObjects has been populated. The ns itself is therefore absent from the imported COS and has no COS ownerref

labels := securityNamespaceLabels(source.Labels)
var target corev1.Namespace
err := m.Client.Get(ctx, client.ObjectKey{Name: opts.InstallNamespace}, &target)
if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
target = corev1.Namespace{}
target.Name = opts.InstallNamespace
target.Labels = labels
if err := m.Client.Create(ctx, &target); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("create install namespace %q: %w", opts.InstallNamespace, err)
}
m.progress(fmt.Sprintf("Created install namespace %s with copied PSA/SCC labels", opts.InstallNamespace))
return nil

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That might be on purpose, but I'll double-check.

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You were right: the Namespace was missing from the imported COS. The focused fixture test exposed a collision when the catalog COS tried to take over the unowned Namespace. Commit d357557 includes the prepared Namespace in the migration COS from both the library and CLI paths, and the E2E test now verifies that the catalog COS owns it after handoff. The focused E2E passes.

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Comment thread migration/pkg/migration/migration.go Outdated
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Include the prepared Namespace in migration COS revisions from both the library and CLI so the catalog revision can adopt it without collision. Check the served v1 ClusterExtension schema, tighten source-resource E2E lookup errors, and assert Namespace ownership after handoff.

Signed-off-by: Todd Short <tshort@redhat.com>
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