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Aleksei Sviridkin a285a5ef36 feat(kubernetes): add a proxmox substrate for managed clusters and worker pools (#4088)
## What this PR does

**Series behind #3481** — three separable pull requests:

1. #4087 — the Cluster API providers (capmox + in-cluster IPAM)
2. **#4088 — the `substrate` switch** in `kubernetes` and
`kubernetes-nodes`
3. #4089 — the Proxmox CSI driver and cloud-controller-manager

#4087 and #4088 share no files and can be reviewed in parallel. #4089
builds on this one.

---

#4087 adds the Cluster API providers; this PR teaches the two
managed-cluster
charts to point at them.

### The shape

A single value, `substrate: kubevirt | proxmox`, on both charts — not a
parallel
set of charts. The control plane is Kamaji either way; what changes is
the
infrastructure half:

| | `kubevirt` (default) | `proxmox` |
|---|---|---|
| `Cluster.infrastructureRef` | `KubevirtCluster` | `ProxmoxCluster` |
| worker template | `KubevirtMachineTemplate` | `ProxmoxMachineTemplate`
|
| apiserver Service | `ClusterIP` | `LoadBalancer` |
| tenant CCM/CSI | in-cluster (`kccm`, kubevirt-csi) | rendered off; the
Proxmox pair is #4089 |

The KubeVirt path renders byte-for-byte what it rendered before. Checked
by
rendering `kubernetes-nodes` with default values at `main` and at this
head and
diffing the output, not only by the snapshots — the snapshots cover
`nodegroup.yaml` alone, and an earlier revision of this branch changed
the
reconcile Job while they stayed green. The parent chart's default render
differs
only in the random fields of `talos-secrets`, which differ between two
renders of
`main` as well.

`osImage` (#4171) is refused on the proxmox substrate. Only half of it
could be
honoured there — `factory.version` reaches the machineconfig's installer
image
while the worker disk keeps coming from the Proxmox template — and a
field that
half-works is worse than one that says no. `talos.version` and
`talos.schematicID` still set the installer target.

### Three things that only show up once workers are off-cluster

**The apiserver endpoint.** A KubeVirt worker runs inside this cluster
and
reaches the tenant apiserver by ClusterIP. A Proxmox worker does not: it
lives on
the hypervisor's L2 and cannot route to `10.96.0.0/16`. The machine
provisions
fine, `VMProvisioned=True`, `providerID` set — and then never joins,
with no CSR
to show for it. On the proxmox substrate the Kamaji Service is therefore
a
`LoadBalancer`, and the reconcile Job reads
`.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip` instead of `.spec.clusterIP`.

**And DNS, for the same reason.** The worker machineconfig carried
`nameservers: ${COREDNS_IP}` — the management cluster's CoreDNS
ClusterIP,
equally unreachable. The proxmox path takes its own resolvers
(`proxmox.dnsServers`) and the chart refuses to render without them,
rather than
writing an address that cannot answer.

**`externalManagedControlPlane` and the managed-by annotation.**
capmox's
webhook nil-derefs on a `ProxmoxCluster` whose control-plane endpoint is
empty
unless `spec.externalManagedControlPlane` is set, which is correct here
— Kamaji
owns the endpoint. Separately, the `cluster.x-k8s.io/managed-by: kamaji`
annotation that the KubeVirt path carries must **not** be set on the
Proxmox
object: with it, CAPI never sets an ownerRef and capmox stops at
`Waiting for Cluster Controller to set OwnerRef`, leaving the address
pool
uncreated and every worker waiting on infrastructure.

### Linked clones by default

`proxmox.full: false` — worker disks are linked clones of the template
rather
than full copies. Measured on a ZFS-backed store: **8 KiB per worker
instead of
10.2 GiB**. Operators who want independent disks set `full: true`; the
value is
plumbed straight through to `ProxmoxMachineTemplate`.

`proxmox.storage` is a full-clone parameter and is refused with a linked
clone:
a linked clone always lives on the template's storage, and both Proxmox
(`parameter 'storage' not allowed for linked clones`) and capmox's own
CRD
(`Must set full=true when specifying storage`) reject the pair. The
chart says
so at render time, naming both values, instead of failing at apply time
with an
error about a `ProxmoxMachineTemplate` nobody wrote.

### Sizing

`ProxmoxMachineTemplate` takes `numCores` and `memoryMiB`, not
Kubernetes
quantities, so the pool's `resources.cpu`/`memory` are converted
(millicores →
cores, bytes → MiB, both rounded up). The rounding is pinned in
`tests/substrate_branches_test.yaml` with `1500m` and `8G`, where
rounding up and
down disagree; `tests/substrate_proxmox_sizing_test.yaml` covers the
refusal to
size a pool that gives neither.

### Known upstream behaviour this surfaces

`TalosConfigTemplate.spec` is immutable by schema, so the reconcile Job
cannot
rewrite an endpoint it has already published — `kubectl apply` fails
with
`TalosConfigTemplate.Spec is immutable`, and the template has to be
deleted for
the Job to recreate it. A fresh install never meets it; it appears when
the
apiserver address changes on an existing cluster. Handling it changes
the
KubeVirt path too, so it is not in this PR: it is a separate change on
`proxmox/tct-replace`, with its own upgrade note.

### Evidence

```
$ KUBECONFIG=<tenant> kubectl get nodes -o wide
kubernetes-px-md0-jmzds-ndnl6  Ready  <none>  75s  v1.35.6  10.0.0.160  Talos (v1.13.6)

$ KUBECONFIG=<tenant> kubectl get pods -A
cozy-cilium  cilium-…            Running
kube-system  konnectivity-agent  Running
kube-system  coredns-…           Running
```

No management-cluster address remains in the rendered
`TalosConfigTemplate`.

### Testing

`make unit-tests` — exit 0. `apps/kubernetes` 26 suites / 314 tests;
`apps/kubernetes-nodes` 29 suites / 160 tests / 12 snapshots, all
unchanged on
the default path. Each of the ten commits passes both suites on its own.

Every substrate branch is asserted on both sides, and every assert goes
red on
the mutation it exists for: inverting the `SVC_IP` condition, inverting
the
`nameservers` condition, `ceil`→`floor` in the sizing, removing the
proxmox
gate from each of the kccm and csi templates (the two RBAC bindings
included),
pinning the retention lookup back to `KubevirtMachineTemplate`, widening
the
IPv6 class of the `dnsServers` validation, dropping the parent chart's
`dnsServers` validation, the storage-with-linked-clone refusal, and the
`osImage` refusal. Negated `containsDocument` asserts carry `any: true`.

`hack/talos-reconcile-heredoc_test.bats` additionally runs the rendered
heredoc
through a real shell: a `dnsServers` entry with a substitution is
refused and
named, an IPv6-shaped one with a substitution is refused too, and a real
address survives the shell unchanged.

### Screenshots

Not applicable — no UI change.

### Downstream repositories

I walked the trigger map in `docs/agents/contributing.md` against this
diff, file by file. What it matches is below. **No box is ticked**,
because every follow-up it points at depends on a decision that is not
mine to make: #3481 asks whether Proxmox becomes a supported platform at
all, and writing its documentation or its Terraform schema before that
is answered would be work built on an assumption. I have not filed
speculative PRs or issues in those repositories for the same reason. If
the direction is accepted, I open them; a human should decide which.

**cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack — matches, no follow-up yet.**

- `packages/apps/kubernetes/values.schema.json` and
`packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/values.schema.json` both gain fields:
`substrate`, and a `proxmox` object (`allowedNodes`, `dnsServers`,
`ipv4Config`, and on the pool side `templateTags`, `network`, `storage`,
`full`). The provider hand-maintains a schema, a model and an
expand/flatten pair per Kind, with no codegen from these files.
- `values.yaml` gains defaults for those fields (`substrate: kubevirt`,
`proxmox.full: false`, `prefix: 24`). The provider restates defaults it
models and sends its own, so a stale one wins silently rather than
showing as a diff.

**Everything else: no match.** No app added, renamed or removed (website
app lists); no version enum, `kind`, `plural`, `release.prefix` or
output Secret/Service name changed; `packages/core/platform/values.yaml`
untouched; the `*-rd` files are regenerated, not renamed (ccp); no
`hack/` change; no node prerequisites (talm, ansible); no telemetry
metric; no commit-convention change (community).

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
feat(kubernetes): add a `substrate` value to the `kubernetes` and `kubernetes-nodes` applications, selecting whether worker VMs run on KubeVirt in this cluster (`kubevirt`, the default and unchanged) or on an external Proxmox VE cluster through capmox (`proxmox`). On the Proxmox substrate the tenant apiserver is published through a LoadBalancer and worker disks default to linked clones.
```

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added support for choosing KubeVirt or Proxmox for Kubernetes clusters
and node pools.
* Added Proxmox configuration for nodes, networking, storage, DNS,
templates, cloning, and IPv4 allocation.
* Proxmox deployments now use the appropriate cluster, machine,
networking, and control-plane resources.

* **Validation**
* Added checks for supported substrates, required Proxmox settings,
sizing, and incompatible options.

* **Documentation & Tests**
* Documented the new settings and expanded coverage for rendering,
validation, cloning, sizing, and template replacement.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
2026-09-25 22:09:23 +04:00
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