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What

Closes #665
Reworks solar-agent PoC / Design around render-time delivery and a SolAr-owned OIDC
issuer, and finishes the status collector against both Flux objects.

Why

The architecture is designed around an agent delivered by SolAr's own render pipeline, so the Target always exists
first and the credential can be rendered alongside the workload

Testing

  • make test testargs="./pkg/agent/..."
  • make test testargs="./pkg/controller/..."
  • Manual, end to end on the solar-dev kind cluster: discovery transfer →
    release render → bootstrap render → Flux installs the bootstrap chart →
    agent reports the resulting pair

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  • Tests added/updated
  • No breaking changes (or upgrade path documented above)
  • Readable commit history (squashed and cleaned up as desired)
  • AI code review considered and comments resolved

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the Solar Agent command, which monitors cluster capacity and release health and periodically reports updates.
    • Added support for resolving the agent’s assigned Target and handling graceful shutdown.
    • Added release lifecycle reporting, including pending, progressing, ready, degraded, and failed states.
    • Added Kubernetes permissions and setup tooling for local and cross-namespace deployments.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the Solar Agent architecture and development-cluster setup process, including configuration and monitoring guidance.

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Walkthrough

Adds a Solar Agent that collects Kubernetes capacity and Flux release status, publishes changed or stale Target reports, resolves Targets through the Solar API, and includes command wiring, tests, RBAC fixtures, setup tooling, and architecture documentation.

Changes

Solar Agent

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collection contracts and Flux status evaluation
pkg/agent/types.go, pkg/agent/collector.go, pkg/agent/collector_test.go
Defines Target report and release status types. Collects node, pod, OCIRepository, and HelmRelease data. Derives release phases and validates condition, retry, namespace, and revision handling.
Report loop and publisher
pkg/agent/agent.go, pkg/agent/reporter.go, pkg/agent/agent_test.go
Runs periodic collection, suppresses unchanged reports, publishes heartbeat reports after MaxReportAge, and logs published report data.
Target resolution and command wiring
pkg/agent/resolver.go, pkg/agent/resolver_test.go, pkg/agent/suite_test.go, cmd/solar-agent/main.go
Resolves a configured Target, loads Kubernetes clients, configures logging and signals, constructs the agent, and runs it until cancellation.
Deployment fixtures and architecture documentation
test/fixtures/e2e/*.yaml, test/fixtures/setup-agent.sh, docs/developer-guide/dev-cluster-with-kind.md, docs/developer-guide/adrs/018-Solar-Agent-Architecture.md
Adds agent RBAC fixtures and setup automation. Documents local-cluster execution, cross-namespace registry setup, report behavior, and the accepted architecture.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c0dc0

This change adds agent-side cluster capacity and Flux release reporting plus deployment fixtures. Incorrect terminal-state and capacity reporting can misrepresent target health, while fixture credential handling and invalid polling input can affect local security and availability; these issues should be addressed before merge.

Suggested reviewers: yocaba

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 12 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive The PR adds an accepted ADR that defines the Solar-agent architecture and documents the relevant design decisions. It also adds the agent proof of concept and completes collection from both Flux objec… Provide evidence that the sub-issues of issue #61 were reviewed and adjusted, including any missing sub-issues that were added, or update the linked issue with the completed review results. [#665]
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title identifies the Solar-agent architecture ADR and deployment proof-of-concepts. It is concise and related to the main changes, although it does not mention the completed status collector or su…
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required What, Why, Testing, and Checklist sections. It provides the linked issue, motivation, test commands, end-to-end validation, and completed checklist items. The opt…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, tests, documentation, RBAC fixtures, and setup script all support the Solar-agent architecture proof of concept, deployment flow, status collection, and end-to-end validation described by th…
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The PR adds an accepted ADR that defines the Solar-agent architecture and documents the relevant design decisions. It also adds the agent proof of concept and completes collection from both Flux object types. The provided context does not show that the sub-issues of #61 were reviewed, adjusted, or supplemented as required by #665.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/developer-guide/adrs/018-Solar-Agent-Architecture.md`:
- Line 69: Update the Pending definition in the ADR’s status table to mean that
one or both objects in the OCIRepository/HelmRelease pair are missing, matching
releaseStatus and the developer guide; retain the distinction from Failed via
Target.status.bootstrapVersion.
- Line 2: Update the ADR front matter status from draft to accepted, leaving the
objective and remaining document content unchanged.

In `@docs/developer-guide/dev-cluster-with-kind.md`:
- Line 232: Update the new Markdown examples near the affected code blocks to
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blocks, including all occurrences referenced by the review. Preserve each
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In `@pkg/agent/agent.go`:
- Line 40: Validate Agent’s Interval before time.NewTicker is called in
Agent.Run, rejecting zero or negative durations with an error or equivalent
startup validation. Preserve normal ticker creation for positive intervals and
avoid allowing invalid values to reach the ticker.

In `@pkg/agent/collector.go`:
- Around line 74-75: Update the Pod request calculation in the collector around
the container iteration so Capacity.Used matches Kubernetes scheduling: honor
Spec.Resources when present; otherwise include Spec.Overhead plus the maximum of
summed application/native-sidecar requests and the maximum regular
init-container request. Add regression coverage for Spec.Resources, overhead,
native sidecars, and regular init-container maxima.
- Around line 260-261: Update the retry handling around the !found condition so
an omitted retries value defaults to a zero retry budget, while preserving
negative retries as unlimited. Ensure remediationExhausted and phaseFromPair
produce ReleaseFailed when remediationLastFailure is enabled without retries,
and add a test covering the omitted-field case.

In `@pkg/agent/reporter.go`:
- Around line 21-26: Update the target report logging in the reporter method to
include the TargetReport freshness field by adding the LastReportTime value
under the “lastReportTime” key alongside the existing nodeCount, allocatable,
used, and releases fields.

In `@test/fixtures/e2e/agent-local-rbac.yaml`:
- Around line 33-35: Update the RBAC fixture to use distinct ServiceAccounts for
the local and solar clusters, and ensure each binding and generated kubeconfig
references the appropriate account so credentials retain access only to their
intended Target resources.

In `@test/fixtures/e2e/agent-rbac.yaml`:
- Line 16: Update the agent Target permission in agent-rbac.yaml to allow only
the get verb by removing list, leaving permissions for other resources
unchanged.

In `@test/fixtures/setup-agent.sh`:
- Line 30: Update the registry fixture setup around RENDER_REGISTRY and
registry.yaml so the created Registry metadata.name matches the configured
fixture name, including override values; alternatively validate and reject any
RENDER_REGISTRY value other than deploy-registry before applying the fixture.
- Line 58: Update the kubeconfig generation in the setup script to create
OUT_KUBECONFIG with explicit 0600 permissions, ensuring the ServiceAccount token
is not readable by other users; also add guidance for users to remove the
generated file after the agent exits.
- Around line 80-84: Update the generated agent run command to prefix it with
KUBECONFIG="$OUT_KUBECONFIG", ensuring collector clients use the local RBAC
kubeconfig while retaining the existing --apiserver-kubeconfig argument and
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Coverage decreased (-0.4%) to 79.674%

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  • Patch coverage: 77 uncovered changes across 3 files (167 of 244 lines covered, 68.44%).
  • 6 coverage regressions across 3 files.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
test/registry/registry.go (1)

35-35: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Revert this header-casing-only edit.

http.Header.Set canonicalizes both "Www-Authenticate" and "WWW-Authenticate" to "Www-Authenticate". The handler therefore stores the same header as before. Retain this edit only if an explicit exact-byte contract requires it.

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The ADR looks reasonable to me. I've posted a few meta questions.

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The ADR looks reasonable to me. I've posted a few meta questions.

I've written a ticket for the one remaining open question here: #794
The other points are updated / fixed

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