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Problem

The control plane's provisioning gate (GatewayReconciler.Handle, reconciler.go:253) skips re-applying manifests for any Gateway in phase Running, Provisioning, or Degraded. The continuous health loop only observes Deployment readiness, never spec conformance. Together this masks drift:

  • A spec change to a Running gateway (new image, route, server_dns_names, oidc, database) emits an update event, but Handle returns early on phase == "Running" — the change never reaches the cluster.
  • The gateway keeps reporting Running/Healthy, so the API server shows the new desired spec and a healthy phase — it looks converged when the live workload is still on the old spec.
  • A Degraded gateway that a re-apply would fix is never re-provisioned.

There is no observedGeneration-style signal, so nothing surfaces the discrepancy.

Change (spec only)

Introduces a desired-state generation primitive and re-keys the gate on convergence instead of phase:

  • data-model.spec.md — add generation (API-server-incremented on any desired-spec change) and observed_generation (control-plane-owned, last successfully applied) to Gateway. Converged ⇔ observed_generation == generation. Both read-only in REST/gRPC contracts.
  • openshell-gateway-health.spec.md — replace "Health Reconciliation Not Suppressed By Phase" with "Provisioning Gate Keyed On Desired State": skip re-apply only when converged; re-provision on generation advance regardless of phase; set observed_generation on success, leave it on failure to retry. Health phase/status updates remain unsuppressed.
  • control-plane.spec.md — Status Synchronization now gates re-application on convergence, not phase, with a spec-change-to-Running scenario.

Scope / follow-up

Closes spec-change drift only. Periodic re-apply to heal out-of-band edits to managed resources (deleted ConfigMap, edited RBAC) — which would turn the health loop into a full reconcile loop — is intentionally left out pending a separate decision.

Downstream (next, via /reconcile — not in this PR)

  • proto + DB migration: generation / observed_generation on Gateway; API server increments generation on spec mutation.
  • reconciler.go:253: gate on observed_generation == generation instead of phase; write observed_generation after successful ReconcileGateway.

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  • New Features

    • Gateway state now tracks desired configuration revisions and whether each revision has been successfully applied.
    • Desired configuration changes trigger re-application regardless of the Gateway’s lifecycle phase.
    • Successful application records the applied revision; failed attempts remain eligible for retry.
    • Health updates continue independently, allowing status transitions such as Running and Degraded during provisioning.
  • Documentation

    • Added platform specifications describing configuration convergence and Gateway state behavior.

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This PR establishes the right architectural foundation for preventing spec-change drift by keying the provisioning gate on desired-state convergence (observed_generation == generation).

To ensure clean downstream implementation across the API server, OpenAPI schemas, and gRPC stubs, here are three recommended spec clarifications and the corresponding implementation blueprint:


Recommended Spec Clarifications

  1. Clarify observed_generation in the gRPC contract (data-model.spec.md:215-216)

    • Current text: "Both fields SHALL be read-only in the REST and gRPC create/update contracts."
    • Issue: The control plane reports observed workload state (phase, status, route_address) back to the API server via the gRPC UpdateGatewayRequest. If observed_generation is read-only in the gRPC update contract, the control plane has no way to write the converged generation back.
    • Recommendation: Clarify that generation is read-only across all client-facing REST/gRPC contracts (managed exclusively by the API server), while observed_generation is read-only in the REST API and create requests, but writable by the control plane in UpdateGatewayRequest.
  2. Specify initial generation values on creation (data-model.spec.md:204-216)

    • Issue: If database column defaults or ORM models default both fields to 0, a newly created Gateway would start with generation = 0, observed_generation = 0. This would evaluate as converged (0 == 0) and cause the reconciler to skip initial provisioning.
    • Recommendation: Explicitly state that a newly created Gateway SHALL initialize with generation = 1 and observed_generation = 0 (or observed_generation unset/0), ensuring observed_generation < generation upon creation.
  3. Include all desired-spec fields in generation advancement examples (data-model.spec.md:208-210)

    • Recommendation: Include supervisor_image, release_id, and database_id alongside image, server_dns_names, oidc, route, database, credential_driver, external_dns, tls_mode, and service_type so all workload-altering fields are accounted for.

Downstream Implementation Blueprint

1. REST API (openapi.gateways.yaml)

  • generation and observed_generation: marked readOnly: true on Gateway.
  • Omitted from GatewayCreateRequest and GatewayPatchRequest.

2. gRPC Protobuf (gateways.proto)

  • Gateway: add int64 generation = 21; and optional int64 observed_generation = 22;.
  • UpdateGatewayRequest: add optional int64 observed_generation = 20; (omit generation).

3. API Server Behavior (components/api-server)

  • On Create: Set generation = 1, observed_generation = 0.
  • On Update / Patch: If any desired-spec field changes (image, supervisor_image, server_dns_names, oidc, route, database_config, credential_driver, external_dns, tls_mode, service_type, release_id, database_id, cluster_id), increment generation = generation + 1. If only observed fields (phase, status, route_address, observed_generation) change, leave generation unchanged.

4. Control Plane Behavior (components/control-plane)

  • Gate (reconciler.go:253): Skip manifest apply only when gw.ObservedGeneration != nil && *gw.ObservedGeneration == gw.Generation.
  • On Apply Success: Call UpdateGateway setting observed_generation = gw.Generation, phase = "Running", and status = "Healthy".
  • On Apply Failure: Do not update observed_generation; set phase = "Failed" so the change will retry.

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Thanks @jhjaggars — all three addressed in 6034dcd (spec-only):

  1. gRPC writability — split the read-only sentence: generation is read-only across all client-facing REST/gRPC contracts (API-server-owned), while observed_generation is read-only in REST/create but control-plane-writable via UpdateGatewayRequest, the same back-channel as phase/status/route_address. This also resolves the self-contradiction with the health spec, which has the control plane write observed_generation back. Added a Control plane writes observed_generation back scenario.

  2. Initial values — spec now pins generation = 1, observed_generation = 0 on creation, so a new Gateway is never spuriously converged (0 == 0) and always undergoes initial provisioning. Added a New gateway starts unconverged scenario.

  3. Field list — extended generation-advancement to include supervisor_image, release_id, database_id, and cluster_id. (Kept the spec's field name database rather than database_config.)

The downstream implementation blueprint matches the intended /reconcile work and is consistent with these clarifications.

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Walkthrough

The specifications add Gateway generation and observed_generation markers. Reconciliation now re-applies manifests when generations differ, records successful observations, retries failures, and continues health updates independently.

Changes

Gateway generation convergence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generation tracking contract
specs/platform/data-model.spec.md
The Gateway model defines generation and observed_generation, initialization values, desired-spec change rules, convergence, ownership, validation, and related scenarios.
Generation-based reconciliation
specs/platform/openshell-gateway-health.spec.md
Provisioning uses generation convergence instead of phase. Non-converged changes trigger re-application, successful applications update observed_generation, failures preserve it, and health updates continue independently.
Control-plane synchronization
specs/platform/control-plane.spec.md
Control-plane synchronization applies manifests when generations differ and records the applied generation after success. The specification adds a re-application scenario after a desired-spec change.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d775f

The specification adds generation-based reprovisioning, but it does not yet define how supervisor_image is persisted, how existing Gateways are backfilled, or how omitted observed_generation is preserved during health-only updates. These gaps could leave live gateways stale or reject valid health updates; the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: bsquizz, juanmabm

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In `@specs/platform/control-plane.spec.md`:
- Line 98: Update GatewayReconciler.Handle to gate re-application on generation
convergence rather than phase: only skip when observed_generation equals
generation, while allowing desired-spec changes through regardless of phase.
After manifest application succeeds, persist the exact applied generation as
observed_generation, while continuing to reconcile health/status updates for all
Gateway phases.

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- Around line 220-252: Update the UpdateGateway handler to process
observed_generation from UpdateGatewayRequest only for authenticated
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markturansky force-pushed the spec/gateway-drift-reprovision branch from 6034dcd to d775fdf Compare August 19, 2026 16:27
The provisioning gate currently skips re-applying manifests for any Gateway in
phase Running/Provisioning/Degraded. This masks drift: a spec change to a
Running gateway (new image, route, DNS SANs, OIDC) is never re-applied, yet the
gateway keeps reporting Running/Healthy so it looks converged when it is not.

Introduce a desired-state generation primitive and re-key the gate on it:

- data-model: add `generation` (API-server-incremented on any desired-spec
  change) and `observed_generation` (control-plane-owned, last successfully
  applied) to Gateway; a Gateway is converged when they are equal. `generation`
  is read-only across all client-facing REST/gRPC contracts; `observed_generation`
  is read-only in REST/create but control-plane-writable via UpdateGatewayRequest.
  New gateways initialize generation=1, observed_generation=0 so they are never
  spuriously converged. observed_generation writes are bounded to a monotonic
  latch (current <= new <= generation), rejecting regressions and overshoot.
- health: replace "Health Reconciliation Not Suppressed By Phase" with
  "Provisioning Gate Keyed On Desired State" -- skip re-apply only when
  converged; re-provision on generation advance regardless of phase; set
  observed_generation on success, leave it on failure to retry. Health
  phase/status updates remain unsuppressed.
- control-plane: Status Synchronization now gates re-application on convergence,
  not phase, with a spec-change-to-Running scenario.

Scope: closes spec-change drift only. Periodic re-apply to heal out-of-band
edits to managed resources is intentionally left out pending a separate decision.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add supervisor_image to the Gateway entity model.

The generation requirement lists supervisor_image as a desired-spec field at Lines 208-213, and the provisioning table defines it at Line 182. The Gateway ER entity does not list it. Add the field or state why it is not persisted. Otherwise, implementers can omit a field that must advance generation.

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In `@specs/platform/data-model.spec.md` around lines 100 - 101, Add
supervisor_image to the Gateway entity model alongside generation and
observed_generation, matching the existing type and naming defined by the
desired-spec and provisioning sections. Ensure the Gateway ER model reflects
that this persisted field participates in generation updates.

user added 6 commits August 19, 2026 12:37
Add the desired-state convergence primitive to the Gateway API surface:

- OpenAPI: `generation` and `observed_generation` (int64, readOnly) on the
  Gateway response schema; omitted from create/patch (client-read-only).
- proto: `int64 generation = 21` and `optional int64 observed_generation = 22`
  on Gateway; `optional int64 observed_generation = 20` on UpdateGatewayRequest
  (control-plane write-back channel). Not on CreateGatewayRequest.

Regenerates pkg/api/openapi and pkg/api/grpc stubs. No behavior wired yet.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire the generation primitive through the backend and gRPC:

- model: add Generation/ObservedGeneration (int64); BeforeCreate initializes
  generation=1, observed_generation=0 so a new Gateway is never spuriously
  converged. Migration adds both columns (default 1 -> existing rows converged).
- service.Replace centralizes ownership: increments generation iff a
  desired-spec field changed (identity/observed fields excluded via
  desiredStateChanged), never trusting a client-supplied generation; and
  enforces observed_generation as a monotonic latch, rejecting a write below
  the current value or above the (possibly advanced) generation with 400.
- gRPC UpdateGateway accepts observed_generation (control-plane write-back);
  REST/gRPC presenters surface both fields.

Unit tests cover BeforeCreate init and desiredStateChanged field selection.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Generation/ObservedGeneration (int64) to the Gateway type from the updated
OpenAPI contract.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds generation/observed_generation to the Gateway type from the updated
OpenAPI contract.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the phase gate in GatewayReconciler.Handle with a convergence gate:
skip re-applying manifests only when the Gateway is converged
(observed_generation == generation). A desired-spec change advances generation
past observed_generation, so it now falls through the gate and re-provisions
regardless of Running/Provisioning/Degraded phase.

After ReconcileGateway succeeds, write observed_generation = generation via the
gRPC back-channel, marking the Gateway converged. On apply failure the write is
skipped so the change is retried. Health phase/status updates are unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record DM-8 (Gateway Generation Tracking) and CP-2j (convergence-gated
re-provisioning) as Present, and add the GEN wave history entry for the
downstream implementation of PR #151.

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