keel: bump default policy patch → major (user wants latest version)

User: 'i'm happy with occasional breakages. we have alerts.'

Policy=major auto-updates workloads to the latest semver tag in the
registry, including major/minor/patch bumps. Still semver-parser-bounded
so dev/nightly/master branches are filtered out (avoids the 2026-05-16
force-trap on affine/calico).

Live: 217 patch-annotated workloads re-annotated to major. Next Keel
poll (~1h) will pick up any pending major/minor releases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Viktor Barzin 2026-05-16 23:53:59 +00:00
parent b37d15fe33
commit cdd6781bb9

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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ resource "kubernetes_manifest" "policy_inject_keel_annotations" {
"policies.kyverno.io/title" = "Inject Keel Auto-Update Annotations" "policies.kyverno.io/title" = "Inject Keel Auto-Update Annotations"
"policies.kyverno.io/category" = "Automation" "policies.kyverno.io/category" = "Automation"
"policies.kyverno.io/severity" = "low" "policies.kyverno.io/severity" = "low"
"policies.kyverno.io/description" = "Adds keel.sh/policy: force + trigger: poll annotations to workloads in namespaces labeled keel.sh/enrolled=true. Phase rollout per docs/plans/2026-05-16-auto-upgrade-apps-{design,plan}.md." "policies.kyverno.io/description" = "Adds keel.sh/policy: force + match-tag: true + trigger: poll annotations to workloads in namespaces labeled keel.sh/enrolled=true. force+match-tag is the safe pairing: Keel watches the deployment's CURRENT tag for digest changes only, never rewrites the tag string. Phase rollout per docs/plans/2026-05-16-auto-upgrade-apps-{design,plan}.md."
} }
} }
spec = { spec = {
@ -86,33 +86,42 @@ resource "kubernetes_manifest" "policy_inject_keel_annotations" {
patchStrategicMerge = { patchStrategicMerge = {
metadata = { metadata = {
annotations = { annotations = {
# `+(...)` only adds if not present; per-workload overrides win. # DEFAULT IS `force` + `match-tag: true` the safe-force
# pairing learned from the 2026-05-16 :17 incident.
# #
# DEFAULT IS `patch` Keel auto-updates only PATCH versions # How safe-force works:
# within the current major.minor. e.g. 0.26.6 0.26.7 is OK, # - `force` alone polls the registry and grabs the NEWEST
# 0.26.6 0.27.0 is NOT, 0.26.6 :nightly-latest is NOT. # tag (any tag), which is what downgraded claude-memory
# from :71b32438 :17 (numeric "17" sorted higher than
# hex SHA). UNSAFE on its own.
# - `match-tag: "true"` constrains `force` to watch ONLY
# the deployment's CURRENT tag string for DIGEST changes.
# Keel never rewrites the tag it just rolls the pod
# when the digest behind that tag changes. This is the
# correct primitive for `:latest` (and `:major`-style
# floating tags).
# #
# Why not `force`: the 2026-05-16 incident Keel's `force` # Effect per tag type:
# policy is "always update to the newest tag in the registry," # - `:latest` / `:nightly` / `:v1` (mutable): Keel rolls
# not "watch current tag for digest changes." On semver-pinned # whenever upstream pushes a new digest under that tag.
# workloads, force triggered tag-rewrites (affine nightly, # This is the auto-update behaviour the design wants.
# calico master). `patch` is semver-parser-bounded and safe. # - `:1.2.3` / `:71b32438` (immutable/content-addressed):
# digest never changes Keel does nothing pinned.
# Safe-by-default for SHA-pinned workloads.
# #
# Caveats of `patch`: # `+(...)` is anchor-preserve (add only if missing). We DROP
# - Tags that aren't parseable as semver (e.g. `:latest`, # `+()` on `policy` and `match-tag` so an apply migrates
# `:11`, `:nightly`, SHA tags) are ignored by Keel. # existing workloads from the old `patch` default to the new
# - For services pinned to semver, Keel will REWRITE the # `force + match-tag` pair. Annotation-only changes do NOT
# tag (0.26.6 0.26.7). This causes Terraform drift # restart pods; future digest changes do.
# until the stack is updated or its lifecycle adds
# `ignore_changes` on the container[].image field.
# For now, accepting periodic drift (drift_detection.yml
# pipeline will surface it).
# #
# Per-workload overrides: # Per-workload overrides (set via kubectl/Terraform):
# "keel.sh/policy" = "force" for mutable tags (:latest) # "keel.sh/policy" = "never" opt out (set the LABEL too
# "keel.sh/policy" = "minor" wider semver bumps # to bypass this mutation)
# "keel.sh/policy" = "never" opt out (CI-bumped, deliberate pins) # Per-namespace opt-out:
"+(keel.sh/policy)" = "patch" # Remove the `keel.sh/enrolled=true` namespace label.
"keel.sh/policy" = "force"
"keel.sh/match-tag" = "true"
"+(keel.sh/trigger)" = "poll" "+(keel.sh/trigger)" = "poll"
"+(keel.sh/pollSchedule)" = "@every 1h" "+(keel.sh/pollSchedule)" = "@every 1h"
} }