The committed apps/ goldens were a MIX of two render flag sets: 8 services were rendered with `--no-image-automation` (no image CRs) while gitea and nextcloud carried stale ImageRepository/ImagePolicy CRs from a render WITHOUT the flag. Neither single command reproduced all goldens, and the gate did not catch it. Part A — canonical render: python3 catalog/render.py --all catalog -o apps --wave-layout --no-image-automation `--no-image-automation` is canonical: image automation is authored-but-DISABLED (DECISIONS-LOG; image-reflector/-automation controllers not installed), and every app was onboarded via this flag. Re-render drops the ImageRepository + ImagePolicy objects from gitea + nextcloud only (52 line deletions, purely the trailing image-automation blocks). No functional content changed — the nextcloud postStart hardening and gitea OIDC hook are untouched. Part B — enforcement: ci/render-golden.sh renders every onboarded catalog service with the canonical command into a temp dir and FAILS on ANY diff vs committed apps/ (missing golden or content drift), across all 10 services (not just the 3 L1 spot-checks). Not-onboarded catalog entries (keycloak, vm-demo) are excluded per DESIGN-waves. Wired as a required no-cluster stage in ci/gate.sh, ci/Makefile, and both the live (.gitea/workflows/gate.yml) and dormant (merge-gate.yaml) pipelines. Proof: tampering a golden makes the stage exit 1 (blocks merge); reverting restores exit 0. `make -C ci gate` green in the devcontainer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
apps
App-tier manifests, rendered from catalog/*.yaml ServiceDefinitions by catalog/render.py
and split into dependency-ordered waves (wave-<N>/).
- Each
wave-<N>/is reconciled by its own Flux Kustomizationapps-wave-<N>(clusters/base/apps-wave-<N>.yaml), whichdependsOnwave N-1 (wave 0 dependsOnplatform-config) and health-gates (wait: true) ONLY that wave. A crashlooping workload in a later wave can no longer stall an earlier wave or block new revisions. wave-<N>/kustomization.yamlandclusters/base/apps-wave-<N>.yamlare generated — runpython3 catalog/render.py --emit-wavesafter onboarding a service; do not hand-edit them.- Wave assignment = longest dependency-path depth over the catalog
dependencies:graph; a co-located CNPG database<svc>-dbis a leaf and always lands strictly below its consumer.
See ../DESIGN-waves.md for the wave table, Flux topology, and the
cutover runbook.