feat(upgrade): make the install image resolution visible and guarded - #243
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The --image flag is inherited from upstream, whose help advertises a factory image as the default. That default only applies to a bare `talm upgrade`: with -f and no explicit --image the target is values.yaml::image at the project root. The flag list and the synopsis above it disagreed, and the flag list is what an operator reads first. Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la> Assisted-by: LLM
The upgrade target is values.yaml::image, so a body carrying something else is ignored and then overwritten by the post-upgrade write-back. Neither was announced, so an operator who bumped a node file instead of values.yaml upgraded to a version they had not read anywhere. This already surprised one operator and then a second, publicly. Report every -f body whose machine.install.image differs from the resolved target, naming both refs and what happens to the file. Files that carry no install image, or that do not parse, stay silent: side-patches and orphans in the -f list legitimately have neither, and a parse error surfaces from the write-back with a better message than a pre-flight warning could give. Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la> Assisted-by: LLM
talm sent every upgrade to the node and found out afterwards whether it was allowed. Two shapes fail that way. A jump from too far back is rejected inside the installer, once the image has already been pulled. A downgrade past what Talos supports is worse: the post-upgrade verify sees running == target once it took, so the gate passes and the write-back then pins the node body to the older image. Ask Talos before the RPC. pkg/machinery/compatibility carries the matrix and the installer runs it as its own pre-flight, so the answer comes from the authority rather than from a version comparison of our own. That distinction is not academic: Talos supports downgrading one minor, which a hand-rolled "target older than running" rule refuses, while it rejects upgrades from too far back, which the same rule waves through. The usual way in is a values.yaml nobody bumped, so the refusal carries Talos's own verdict and names both ways out. --skip-upgrade-path-check covers the rest. Unreadable versions surrender rather than block, on either side: a node that is briefly unreachable is a worse reason to stop an upgrade than the move this prevents. So does a target newer than any minor this binary's matrix knows, which means talm is too old to have an opinion. Every node is consulted and the refusals are joined, so upgrading a set surfaces them all at once. Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la> Assisted-by: LLM
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe upgrade flow now reports node-body image divergence and adds a pre-upgrade compatibility check. The check can refuse unsupported moves, skip unreadable or unsuitable inputs, or be bypassed with ChangesUpgrade safety and reporting
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant UpgradeCommand
participant TargetNode
participant TalosCompatibility
participant TalosRPC
UpgradeCommand->>TargetNode: read running version
UpgradeCommand->>TalosCompatibility: validate upgrade path
TalosCompatibility-->>UpgradeCommand: return verdict
UpgradeCommand->>TalosRPC: execute upgrade when allowed
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Explicit-image upgrades can rewrite a node file whose install image differs from the selected target without the newly documented warning. Preserve that visibility before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Full details: Out of Scope Changes checkExplanation Issue Resolution Remove the divergence-reporting and upgrade-path-check implementation, documentation, dependency, and related tests from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request with a directly linked issue. Keep the
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In `@pkg/commands/upgrade_handler.go`:
- Line 226: Move the warnNodeBodyImageDivergence call out of the non-explicit
image branch and invoke it after targetImage is captured, guarded by
len(filesToProcess) > 0, so explicit --image targets are also reported. Remove
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| fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Warning: failed to set --image flag: %v\n", err) | ||
| } else { | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Using image from values.yaml: %s\n", image) | ||
| warnNodeBodyImageDivergence(os.Stderr, filesToProcess, image) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Report divergence for explicit --image targets.
This call runs only when --image is not explicit. Therefore, talm upgrade -f node.yaml --image <ref> can rewrite a different body image without the report promised by the command help and PR objective.
Move the report after targetImage is captured. Guard it with len(filesToProcess) > 0. Remove the current call to prevent duplicate output.
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} else {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Using image from values.yaml: %s\n", image)
- warnNodeBodyImageDivergence(os.Stderr, filesToProcess, image)
}
}
targetImage, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("image")
+ if len(filesToProcess) > 0 {
+ warnNodeBodyImageDivergence(os.Stderr, filesToProcess, targetImage)
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In `@pkg/commands/upgrade_handler.go` at line 226, Move the
warnNodeBodyImageDivergence call out of the non-explicit image branch and invoke
it after targetImage is captured, guarded by len(filesToProcess) > 0, so
explicit --image targets are also reported. Remove the existing call to avoid
duplicate output.
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Closes #238, #218, #219. Three symptoms of one thing: the upgrade target moved to
values.yaml::image, and nothing told the operator.The
--imageflag is inherited from upstream, whose help advertises a factory image as the default. That default only applies to a baretalm upgrade; with-fthe target isvalues.yaml::image. The flag list and the synopsis above it disagreed.A node body pointing at a different image is ignored, then overwritten by the post-upgrade write-back. Neither was announced. This surprised one operator in June and another this week, so the divergence is now reported, with the message split by direction: a body trailing the target is the canonical shape after a values.yaml bump and gets a plain line, while a body the upgrade will not go to gets a warning and the way out.
A move Talos will not make is refused before the RPC. The check asks
pkg/machinery/compatibility, the same matrix the Talos installer runs as its own pre-flight, rather than comparing versions itself — that distinction matters in both directions, since Talos supports downgrading one minor and rejects upgrades from too far back. The post-upgrade verify cannot cover either: a downgrade that took leaves running equal to target, and a rejected upgrade fails inside the installer after the image is pulled.--skip-upgrade-path-checkis the way past it.Unreadable versions surrender rather than block, and so does a target newer than any minor this binary's matrix knows. On a mixed-version set the refusal is all-or-nothing, so upgrading a compatible subset means turning the guard off for the whole set.
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docs/manual-test-plan.mdgains E5 and E6,docs/operations/safety-gates.mdgains gate 5.Summary by CodeRabbit
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--skip-upgrade-path-checkto bypass this validation when needed.Documentation