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Alexey Artamonov ce74fdeea9 docs(backups): describe restored credentials and pre-upgrade residue
Say that a restored copy converges its application passwords shortly
after recovery, that MariaDB backups leave out the grant table, and that
dropping the password field does not rewrite copies made before the
upgrade: old Backup snapshots and Helm revisions still hold the password
that stays live. The credentials projector comment counts only the
engines that still take a password from values.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <aleksei.artamonov@aenix.io>
2026-09-24 18:11:07 +03:00
Andrei Kvapil 54621bc046 feat(migration): tenant self-service VM import from VMware vSphere
Hidora's customers are leaving VMware now, and a tenant has to be able to
import their own machines without a platform administrator. The chart
approach could not express that: a tenant can neither create the Secret
holding vCenter credentials nor name the VDDK image, so both had to come
from somewhere they cannot reach.

Two CRDs in a new `forklift.cozystack.io` group, split by lifecycle. A
VMImportSource is a long-lived connection -- type, endpoint, credentials,
readiness -- and a VMImportTask is the one-shot operation that names
machines and produces VMDisks and VMInstances. The outputs carry no owner
reference back to the task, so deleting a finished import leaves the
machines alone. Konveyor Forklift does the transfer underneath; the
controller renders its objects, mirrors its verdicts, and hands each
finished volume into a VMDisk without copying it.

What a live vCenter migration forced out, and no amount of source reading
would have:

- A guest copied verbatim keeps the drivers it had under VMware and no
  virtio, so on a virtio disk it does not fail the import -- it succeeds
  and then does not boot. Imported disks go on SATA.
- VDDK connects straight to the ESXi host at the address vCenter
  advertises, which is routinely unreachable, and on the first cluster
  collided with the Service CIDR. `spec.hosts` redirects per host.
- Firmware must be carried across or a UEFI guest imports as BIOS and
  never boots (stacked on #3002).
- Deleting a task mid-transfer orphaned its DataVolume; a finalizer now
  removes the engine's volumes and leaves the outputs.

The console gains a Migration section: connections are editable, and the
VM field is a picker built from a machine list the controller publishes,
since the aggregated API cannot reach the inventory and should not hold a
source's credentials to try. Two general mechanisms fall out of that --
an option source may take an argument, and one named in a CRD annotation
may reference a sibling field.

Design: cozystack/community#62. Docs: cozystack/website#673.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
2026-09-07 17:03:44 +02:00