nvca-chart-release

name	nvca-chart-release
description	Release NVCA Operator chart changes from the native monorepo source to the vendored Helm chart. Use when updating the vendored NVCA Operator chart, changing NVCA image refs, publishing helm-nvca-operator, or validating the chart against a self-managed control plane.
license	Apache-2.0
compatibility	Requires a local checkout of the NVCF monorepo with deploy/helm/nvca-operator/ and src/compute-plane-services/nvca/ present, plus helm and yq.
author	nvcf-core-eng <[e-mail]>
version	1.0.0
tags	["nvcf","nvca","helm","chart-release","self-managed"]
tools	["Read","Grep","Glob","Shell"]
metadata	{"internal":false,"author":"nvcf-core-eng <[e-mail]>","version":"1.0","tags":["nvcf","nvca","helm","chart-release"],"languages":["bash"],"frameworks":["helm"],"domain":"cloud-infrastructure"}

NVCA Operator Chart Release Workflow

Propagates Helm chart changes through the native monorepo paths:

Component	Path	Purpose
NVCA source	src/compute-plane-services/nvca	Operator and agent source plus source chart at deployments/nvca-operator/
Vendored chart	deploy/helm/nvca-operator	Vendors the source chart, applies self-managed defaults, publishes helm-nvca-operator
Self-managed stack	deploy/stacks/self-managed	Control-plane Helmfile deployment and environment defaults

Workflow

1. Make source changes in src/compute-plane-services/nvca when operator, agent, or source chart behavior changes. Test them there.

2. Vendor from the monorepo source chart at src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/.

3. Set the version inputs, either in the environment or in deploy/helm/nvca-operator/.env:

   NVCA_OPERATOR_VERSION=<operator-image-tag>
   NVCA_VERSION=<agent-image-tag>
   NVCA_SHARED_STORAGE_IMAGE_TAG=<shared-storage-tag>
   

4. Vendor and validate from deploy/helm/nvca-operator:

   make vendor-chart
   make lint
   make template
   make validate
   

5. If the chart is tested against a local self-managed control plane, render stack-aware values and install from this chart subtree:

   make render-values-from-stack stack_repo=../../../deploy/stacks/self-managed stack_env=local
   make install-from-stack stack_repo=../../../deploy/stacks/self-managed stack_env=local
   

   Use additional_values=override.yml for one-off validation. Do not edit the stack just to test this chart.

CI and Release

Umbrella CI is declared in tools/ci/subproject-validations.yaml with subproject id nvca-operator. Do not add a chart-local .gitlab-ci.yml.

Validate the same chart path CI uses:

tools/ci/validate-helm-chart deploy/helm/nvca-operator/nvca-operator \
  -f tools/ci/helm-validate-values/nvca-operator.yaml