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Adds per-component resource tracking so that resources removed from a component's Helm chart templates (e.g. a ServiceMonitor deleted in a newer release) are cleaned up automatically during upgrades, instead of being silently orphaned. Mirrors the equivalent fix applied to multiclusterhub-operator#4736.

Related Issue

ACM-40355

Fixes stale ServiceMonitor resources causing TargetDown alerts. The legacy console-mce-monitor ServiceMonitor was removed from the console-mce chart in #3062, but upgrades that kept console-mce enabled never rendered/deleted it, leaving it orphaned in customer clusters.

Changes Made

  • InternalEngineComponentSpec now tracks ManagedResources (APIVersion, Kind, Name, Namespace) for the resources currently rendered by a component's chart. The list is refreshed on every reconcile, but the InternalEngineComponent CR is only patched when it actually changes.
  • Each of the 18 toggleable components that render Helm chart templates (all except local-cluster, which has no chart templates at all) now diffs its previously tracked resource list against the newly rendered list on every reconcile, and deletes anything no longer present via the existing deleteTemplate() ownership-check logic (the backplaneconfig.name label already applied to every rendered template by utils.AddBackplaneConfigLabels), so manually recreated resources are left untouched. maestro's disable path removes its whole namespace directly rather than deleting individual templates, so only its enable path needed instrumenting.
  • A small legacyManagedResources bridge list handles the specific ACM-40355 regression: InternalEngineComponent CRs created before this change have no resource history to diff against, so the console-mce component's legacy console-mce-monitor ServiceMonitor is checked and cleaned up unconditionally until all upgrade paths have passed through a release with resource tracking enabled. This is intended to be removable once that has happened.
  • Updated both CRD copies — config/crd/bases/multicluster.openshift.io_internalenginecomponents.yaml (kubebuilder-generated) and pkg/templates/crds/internal/internal-engine-component.yaml (the copy actually applied to the cluster at runtime) — to include the new managedResources field so it isn't silently pruned by the API server's structural schema validation.

Scope notes

  • local-cluster is intentionally excluded: it doesn't render chart templates or use InternalEngineComponent tracking at all (it manages a ManagedCluster resource directly).
  • Components with resources outside their rendered chart templates (Hive's HiveConfig, ClusterManager's ClusterManager CR/TLS ConfigMaps, HyperShift's addon removal wait, maestro's gRPC ConfigMap/Route) only get tracking for their chart-rendered templates, consistent with the multiclusterhub-operator fix's scope.
  • Out of scope by design, matching the multiclusterhub-operator decision: PrometheusRule/Role/RoleBinding console metrics resources removed alongside the ServiceMonitor in the same PR were intentionally left out of the legacy cleanup list — only the ServiceMonitor from the original report is handled here.

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Additional Notes

  • Full envtest suite (controllers package, 24 specs, ~176s) and all other packages (api/v1, controllers/mcewebhook, pkg/*) pass. Added controllers/managed_resources_test.go covering: orphaned+owned resource deletion, orphaned+unowned resource left alone, still-rendered resource left alone, legacy console-mce ServiceMonitor cleanup (with no tracked history), and legacy cleanup scoped only to the console-mce component.
  • Companion fix: stolostron/multiclusterhub-operator#4736 applies the same mechanism for MCH-owned components (e.g. console's equivalent legacy ServiceMonitor).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Components now track the Kubernetes resources they manage.
    • Resources no longer rendered by updated component templates are automatically cleaned up during upgrades.
    • Resources are also cleaned up when components are disabled or removed.
    • Previously orphaned legacy resources can be removed while preserving manually recreated resources.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevents stale component resources from remaining after configuration or template changes.
    • Cleanup continues for other eligible resources when an individual deletion fails.
    • API version changes no longer incorrectly cause resources to be treated as orphaned.

Adds per-component resource tracking so that resources removed from a
component's Helm chart templates (e.g. a ServiceMonitor deleted in a
newer release) are cleaned up automatically during upgrades, instead of
being silently orphaned. Mirrors the equivalent fix applied to
multiclusterhub-operator.

- InternalEngineComponentSpec now tracks ManagedResources (APIVersion,
  Kind, Name, Namespace) for the resources currently rendered by a
  component's chart. The list is refreshed on every reconcile, but the
  InternalEngineComponent CR is only patched when it actually changes.
- Each of the 18 toggleable components that render Helm chart
  templates (all except local-cluster, which has no chart templates)
  now diffs its previously tracked resource list against the newly
  rendered list on every reconcile, and deletes anything no longer
  present via the existing deleteTemplate() ownership-check logic
  (backplaneconfig.name label applied by utils.AddBackplaneConfigLabels
  to every rendered template), so manually recreated resources are
  left untouched. maestro's disable path removes its whole namespace
  directly rather than deleting individual templates, so only its
  enable path needed instrumenting.
- A small legacyManagedResources bridge list handles the specific
  ACM-40355 regression: InternalEngineComponent CRs created before
  this change have no resource history to diff against, so the
  console-mce component's legacy "console-mce-monitor" ServiceMonitor
  (removed in stolostron#3062) is checked and cleaned up unconditionally until
  all upgrade paths have passed through a release with resource
  tracking enabled.
- Updated both CRD copies (config/crd/bases and
  pkg/templates/crds/internal, the one actually applied at runtime) to
  include the new managedResources field so it isn't pruned by the API
  server's structural schema validation.

Scope notes:
- local-cluster is intentionally excluded: it doesn't render chart
  templates or use InternalEngineComponent tracking at all.
- Components with resources outside their rendered chart templates
  (Hive's HiveConfig, ClusterManager's ClusterManager CR/TLS
  ConfigMaps, HyperShift's addon removal wait, maestro's gRPC
  ConfigMap/Route) only get tracking for their chart-rendered
  templates, consistent with the multiclusterhub-operator fix's scope.

Fixes stale ServiceMonitor resources causing TargetDown alerts after
upgrading with console-mce enabled and PR stolostron#3062 removing the legacy
metrics ServiceMonitor.
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The change adds per-component managed-resource tracking to InternalEngineComponent. Reconciliation compares recorded resources with current templates, deletes obsolete owned resources, preserves manually recreated resources, and handles the legacy console ServiceMonitor.

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Managed Resource Cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resource tracking contract
api/v1/multiclusterengine_types.go, api/v1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go, config/crd/bases/..., pkg/templates/crds/internal/...
InternalEngineComponentSpec stores managed resource identities. CRD schemas and deep-copy methods support the field.
Tracking and orphan cleanup
controllers/managed_resources.go, controllers/managed_resources_test.go
Helpers extract, compare, persist, and delete managed resources. Tests cover ownership, ordering, persistence, orphan cleanup, and legacy console ServiceMonitor cleanup.
Component reconciliation integration
controllers/toggle_components.go
Component enablement records rendered resources. Component removal snapshots tracked resources and deletes obsolete resources across supported components.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the managed-resource cleanup because it changes reconciliation across 18 chart-rendering components and removes obsolete owned resources after upgrades, with medium issue severity.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e5a0a

Components now track chart-rendered resources and remove obsolete owned resources while preserving manually recreated resources. The cleanup and tracking paths are covered by unit and envtest scenarios, with no current merge-blocking risk identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ComponentReconciler
  participant HelmTemplates
  participant InternalEngineComponent
  participant ResourceAPI
  ComponentReconciler->>HelmTemplates: Render component templates
  ComponentReconciler->>InternalEngineComponent: Read previous managed resources
  ComponentReconciler->>ResourceAPI: Delete obsolete owned resources
  ComponentReconciler->>HelmTemplates: Apply current templates
  ComponentReconciler->>InternalEngineComponent: Store current managed resources
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: cleaning up component resources removed from Helm charts.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes all required sections and clearly explains the purpose, issue, implementation, tests, scope, and checklist status. Some optional items remain unchecked, but the description is…
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In `@controllers/managed_resources.go`:
- Around line 97-108: Update getManagedResources to return both the managed
resources and any Client.Get error, preserving NotFound as an empty-history
result while propagating other errors. Modify its callers in the toggle
component disable paths to check and return the error before calling
ensureNoInternalEngineComponent, allowing reconciliation to requeue without
deleting tracked history.

In `@controllers/toggle_components.go`:
- Around line 2230-2233: In every disable handler that invokes
cleanupOrphanedManagedResources, defer ensureNoInternalEngineComponent until
after cleanupOrphanedManagedResources completes successfully; preserve the
tracked-resource snapshot from getManagedResources before deletion, and ensure
early returns or cleanup errors leave the InternalEngineComponent available for
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Comment on lines +97 to +108
func (r *MultiClusterEngineReconciler) getManagedResources(ctx context.Context, mce *backplanev1.MultiClusterEngine,
component string) []backplanev1.ManagedResource {

iec := &backplanev1.InternalEngineComponent{}
if err := r.Client.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: component, Namespace: mce.Spec.TargetNamespace},
iec); err != nil {
if !apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
log.Error(err, "failed to get InternalEngineComponent while reading managed resources",
"Component", component, "Namespace", mce.Spec.TargetNamespace)
}
return nil
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Return the error instead of nil so callers can distinguish "no history" from "read failed".

getManagedResources returns nil for every error other than NotFound. The disable paths call this helper and then call ensureNoInternalEngineComponent, which deletes the InternalEngineComponent CR. If the Get fails transiently (API timeout, cache error), the snapshot is empty, the CR is deleted, and the tracked resource history is lost permanently. No later reconcile can recover the list, so orphaned resources for that component are never cleaned up.

Return the error and let the caller requeue.

🛠️ Proposed change
 func (r *MultiClusterEngineReconciler) getManagedResources(ctx context.Context, mce *backplanev1.MultiClusterEngine,
-	component string) []backplanev1.ManagedResource {
+	component string) ([]backplanev1.ManagedResource, error) {
 
 	iec := &backplanev1.InternalEngineComponent{}
 	if err := r.Client.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: component, Namespace: mce.Spec.TargetNamespace},
 		iec); err != nil {
-		if !apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
-			log.Error(err, "failed to get InternalEngineComponent while reading managed resources",
-				"Component", component, "Namespace", mce.Spec.TargetNamespace)
+		if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
+			return nil, nil
 		}
-		return nil
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get InternalEngineComponent %s/%s: %v",
+			mce.Spec.TargetNamespace, component, err)
 	}
 
-	return iec.Spec.ManagedResources
+	return iec.Spec.ManagedResources, nil
 }

Callers in controllers/toggle_components.go must then propagate the error, for example:

oldManagedResources, err := r.getManagedResources(ctx, mce, backplanev1.ConsoleMCE)
if err != nil {
    return ctrl.Result{}, err
}
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In `@controllers/managed_resources.go` around lines 97 - 108, Update
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error, preserving NotFound as an empty-history result while propagating other
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Comment on lines +2230 to +2233
// Snapshot the resources previously recorded for this component before removing the
// InternalEngineComponent tracking CR below, so orphaned resources can still be identified
// and cleaned up later in this function (see managed_resources.go).
oldManagedResources := r.getManagedResources(ctx, mce, backplanev1.HyperShift)

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

Defer ensureNoInternalEngineComponent until cleanup completes

All disable handlers that call cleanupOrphanedManagedResources delete the InternalEngineComponent first. The cleanup function stops on a non-zero result or error from deleteTemplate, so it can leave tracked orphan candidates unprocessed. Any earlier return has the same effect. The next reconcile then reads no history because getManagedResources returns nil when the CR is absent.

Move ensureNoInternalEngineComponent after the successful cleanup call in every affected disable handler, not only ensureNoHyperShift.

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In `@controllers/toggle_components.go` around lines 2230 - 2233, In every disable
handler that invokes cleanupOrphanedManagedResources, defer
ensureNoInternalEngineComponent until after cleanupOrphanedManagedResources
completes successfully; preserve the tracked-resource snapshot from
getManagedResources before deletion, and ensure early returns or cleanup errors
leave the InternalEngineComponent available for the next reconcile.

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