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What this does

Makes a ClusterObjectSet (COS) adopt the Secrets its phases reference by adding a non-controller ownerReference to each, so Kubernetes garbage-collects those Secrets when the COS is deleted. This gives a COS/COD-backed installation a self-contained secret lifecycle that follows the referencing revision(s), including when a COD/COS is used standalone (outside a ClusterExtension).

Why

Referenced content Secrets need a well-defined owner so they don't leak across revision churn, COD deletion, or COS pruning. Anchoring ownership on the COS (short/medium-lived, per-revision) — rather than on a long-lived owner that never drops its reference — means standard k8s GC reclaims each Secret once no live COS references it.

Design principle: own, not manage

The object-controller adds a secret ownerRef purely as a GC anchor:

• non-controller (Controller=false) — so a Secret can have multiple owners (several COSes referencing shared content, plus any existing owner), and only GC-cascade semantics are used;
• additive-only, deduped by owner UID — it never adds a second ref for a UID already present and never modifies/removes an existing ref, so it coexists with the operator-controller applier's current ownerRef patching;
• best-effort — claims on Secret existence (runs before the content-validity gates, so a mutable/malformed referenced Secret is still owned), skips not-yet-readable Secrets and retries on later reconciles, and never preempts the existing PreconditionsNotMet reporting.

The COS does not otherwise manage these Secrets (no watch, no content mutation, no validation-driven lifecycle); the COD gains no secret logic.

Scope

• In scope: the object-controller (COD/COS) side only.
• Deferred / future work: (1) restricting referenceable Secrets to type: olm.operatorframework.io/object-data — today any referenced type is adopted; (2) the operator-controller / ClusterExtension side (secret creation, a transient bridging ownerRef, and converting the applier's existing Controller=true patching).

Testing

• Unit: the claim adds a non-controller ownerRef to each referenced Secret regardless of type; idempotent; UID-dedup no-op against an existing Controller=true ref; skips missing Secrets; dedups multi-referenced Secrets; best-effort on transient read errors (preserves the pre-existing "mutable Secret takes precedence over a read error" invariant).
• envtest: the claim patch is accepted on an immutable Secret and is idempotent across a real Get/Patch roundtrip (envtest has no GC, so cascade is covered by e2e).
• e2e (experimental, @BoxcutterRuntime): three standalone scenarios — deleting a COS GCs its referenced Secret; deleting a COD GCs its revisions' Secrets; a referenced non-object-data (Opaque) Secret is also adopted and GC'd. These compile and all steps resolve; they still need a run against an experimental cluster (make test-experimental-e2e).

Notes

• Draft: the branch is currently based on an older main and should be rebased onto the latest main before review.
• The existing operator-controller applier is intentionally untouched (its Controller=true patching is handled in the deferred CE-side work).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • ClusterObjectSets now record ownership of referenced Secrets, including immutable Opaque Secrets, without changing an existing controller owner.
  • Once ownership is recorded, referenced Secrets can be cleaned up when the owning set is deleted. Object-data Secrets are also cleaned up when a standalone set or deployment is deleted.
  • Repeated references do not create duplicate ownership records, and references in different namespaces are handled separately.

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Walkthrough

ClusterObjectSet reconciliation adds non-controller owner references to readable referenced Secrets before immutability checks. Tests cover claim behavior and cleanup of referenced Secrets after deleting a set or deployment.

Changes: Secret ownership and cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Claim referenced Secrets internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectset_controller.go	Reconciliation deduplicates references by name and namespace, adds a non-controller owner reference to readable Secrets, and returns an error if a patch fails. Secret RBAC adds the update verb.
Validate Secret claims internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectset_controller_internal_test.go, internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectset_controller_test.go	Unit tests and envtest cover claim creation, idempotency, existing controller references, Opaque and missing Secrets, duplicate references, and namespace handling.
Verify end-to-end ownership and cleanup test/e2e/steps/steps.go, test/e2e/steps/group_steps.go, test/e2e/features/cos_secret_ownership.feature	End-to-end steps collect namespace-aware Secret references and check owner references. Scenarios verify cleanup after deleting a set or deployment.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClusterObjectSet
  participant ClusterObjectSetReconciler
  participant KubernetesAPI
  participant GarbageCollector
  ClusterObjectSet->>ClusterObjectSetReconciler: Reconcile
  ClusterObjectSetReconciler->>KubernetesAPI: Read referenced Secret
  KubernetesAPI-->>ClusterObjectSetReconciler: Return readable Secret
  ClusterObjectSetReconciler->>KubernetesAPI: Patch non-controller owner reference
  ClusterObjectSet->>KubernetesAPI: Delete set
  KubernetesAPI->>GarbageCollector: Evaluate owner references
  GarbageCollector->>KubernetesAPI: Delete dependent Secret

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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to efd5d

Secret claiming can fail with Forbidden under a least-privilege role, blocking reconciliation of sets that reference Secrets. A concurrent claim can briefly drop another owner reference, so a Secret may be garbage-collected too early. Fix the RBAC verb and add an optimistic lock to the patch before merging.

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- Around line 1017-1019: Update the patch creation in the owner-reference flow
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