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Raj Singh 3209957578 k8s-operator: add nullable markers to CRD schemas for server-side apply compatibility
ProxyClass and other Tailscale CRDs embed corev1 types (e.g. corev1.Affinity)
whose sibling fields are declared as type: object in the generated OpenAPI
schema. Under server-side apply (ArgoCD, Flux), unset sibling fields are sent
as null, but the API server rejects null for type: object without nullable: true.
This does not affect native Kubernetes types because the API server handles
those with built-in logic rather than OpenAPI schema validation.

Fix this with a two-layer approach:

1. Add // +nullable markers to optional object/array/map fields in our own Go
   types (ProxyClass, Recorder, DNSConfig). controller-gen honours these
   markers and they survive schemapatch regeneration.

2. Add a post-processing step (crdnullable) that runs after controller-gen to
   add nullable: true to optional object/array sub-fields inside embedded
   corev1 type subtrees. These sub-fields are defined in Kubernetes core and
   cannot be annotated by us. The post-processor identifies corev1 type
   schemas by their field signatures (e.g. nodeAffinity + podAffinity +
   podAntiAffinity = corev1.Affinity) and only marks optional fields that
   don't already have nullable: true.

The post-processor is wired into the go:generate pipeline between
controller-gen and staticmanifests generation.
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Tailscale Kubernetes operator deployment manifests

./cmd/k8s-operator/deploy contain various Tailscale Kubernetes operator deployment manifests.

Helm chart

./cmd/k8s-operator/deploy/chart contains Tailscale operator Helm chart templates. The chart templates are also used to generate the static manifest, so developers must ensure that any changes applied to the chart have been propagated to the static manifest by running go generate tailscale.com/cmd/k8s-operator

Static manifests

./cmd/k8s-operator/deploy/manifests/operator.yaml is a static manifest for the operator generated from the Helm chart templates for the operator.