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fix(helm): verify existing NGC Helm charts before reusing versions - #98

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This will add ngc-duplicate: verify to the shared Helm publishing actions so retries can reuse a published version after checking its downloaded contents.

The existing publisher treats a failed NGC version lookup as absence and attempts an upload that can then fail with already exists. That lookup behavior and the separate status check came from shared-action PR #5, were adopted by NICo PR #393, and remained in the pin selected by NICo PR #865. The recent failures occurred with unchanged action code; what triggered the increase in NGC conflicts remains unknown.

With verify, the publisher requires a fresh exact-version lookup and compares the downloaded chart before reusing it. A failed upload can recover through bounded readback only when the contents match; lookup errors, mismatches, and invalid charts fail. Live NGC recovery still needs validation with CI credentials because local authentication failed. NICo adoption follows separately by updating its action pin and selecting verify together.

Key Deliverables

  • Add verified reuse to both Helm publishing actions while preserving the default skip policy and existing valid policy choices.
  • Compare all packaged files, ignoring archive metadata and Chart.lock.generated timestamps while retaining dependency and lock-content checks.
  • Return publication failures directly from the publisher so the composite action reports the current invocation's result.
  • Document the verification prerequisites, retry behavior, and push-skipped output.

This supports #97

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  • New Features

    • Added a verify policy for duplicate chart versions. It reuses an existing version only when its contents match the chart being published; mismatches and verification errors prevent reuse.
    • Documented the policy’s retry behavior and status reporting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Failed chart publications now correctly return a failure status in the current step.

This will add `ngc-duplicate: verify` to the shared Helm publishing actions so retries can reuse a published version after checking its downloaded contents.

The existing publisher treats a failed NGC version lookup as absence and attempts an upload that can then fail with `already exists`. That lookup behavior and the separate status check came from [shared-action PR dsx-ai-factory#5](dsx-ai-factory#5), were adopted by [NICo PR #393](dsx-ai-factory/infra-controller#393), and remained in the pin selected by [NICo PR #865](dsx-ai-factory/infra-controller#865). The recent failures occurred with unchanged action code; what triggered the increase in NGC conflicts remains unknown.

With `verify`, the publisher requires a fresh exact-version lookup and compares the downloaded chart before reusing it. A failed upload can recover through bounded readback only when the contents match; lookup errors, mismatches, and invalid charts fail. Live NGC recovery still needs validation with CI credentials because local authentication failed. NICo adoption follows separately by updating its action pin and selecting `verify` together.

### Key Deliverables

- Add verified reuse to both Helm publishing actions while preserving the default `skip` policy and existing valid policy choices.
- Compare all packaged files, ignoring archive metadata and `Chart.lock.generated` timestamps while retaining dependency and lock-content checks.
- Return publication failures directly from the publisher so the composite action reports the current invocation's result.
- Document the verification prerequisites, retry behavior, and `push-skipped` output.

This supports dsx-ai-factory#97

Signed-off-by: Chet Nichols III <chetn@nvidia.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Adds a verify duplicate-version policy for Helm chart publishing. The policy compares local and published chart contents before reuse. After an upload failure, it checks for a matching published version through bounded retries.

Changes: Verified Helm chart publishing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Chart archive comparison
.github/actions/helm-shared/scripts/compare-charts.py, .github/actions/helm-shared/tests/test_compare_charts.py
Compares chart archive paths and contents while ignoring archive metadata and dependency lock generation timestamps. Rejects invalid archives and malformed dependency locks. Tests cover matching, differences, and failure cases.
Verified publication flow
.github/actions/helm-shared/scripts/push-verified.sh, .github/actions/helm-shared/scripts/utils.sh, .github/actions/helm-shared/tests/test_push.py, .github/actions/helm-package-push/action.yml, .github/actions/helm-push-ngc/action.yml, .github/workflows/validate.yml, .github/actions/helm-package-push/README.md, .github/actions/helm-push-ngc/README.md
Routes the verify policy through exact-version lookup, chart comparison, upload, and retries after upload failure. Updates push status reporting and action inputs. Adds publisher tests, validation workflow steps, and policy documentation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HelmAction
  participant helm_ngc_push
  participant push_verified
  participant HelmCLI
  participant compare_charts
  HelmAction->>helm_ngc_push: invoke with verify policy
  helm_ngc_push->>push_verified: run verified publication
  push_verified->>HelmCLI: refresh index and search exact chart version
  alt Version exists
    push_verified->>HelmCLI: pull published chart
    push_verified->>compare_charts: compare local and downloaded archives
    compare_charts-->>push_verified: comparison result
  else Version is absent
    push_verified->>HelmCLI: upload chart
    HelmCLI-->>push_verified: upload result
    opt Upload fails
      push_verified->>HelmCLI: retry index lookup and pull
      push_verified->>compare_charts: compare downloaded archive
      compare_charts-->>push_verified: comparison result
    end
  end
  push_verified-->>helm_ngc_push: exit status and push status
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Rebuilt dependencies can make an unchanged chart fail verification. Resolve that comparison issue before merging unless this limitation is explicitly accepted.

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Model Findings Overview

All four sources reviewed the same frozen pre-fix tree; coordinator closure checked the subsequent corrections. Across sources, 6 confirmed defects, 13 distinct test-proof gaps, and 4 documentation corrections were addressed; no actionable candidate remains unresolved.

Reviewer Received Adopted Declined Deferred Needs evidence
Codex CLI review team 11 11 0 0 0
Claude CLI review team 24 16 8 0 0
CodeRabbit CLI 0 0 0 0 0
common-nits-reviewer 0 0 0 0 0
Total 35 27 8 0 0
Model Findings Details

Codex CLI review team

  1. F01, adopted, correctness: Corrupt later tar headers could compare equal. Both archives must load in Helm.
  2. F02, adopted, correctness/requirements/style: Inherited failure status could reject a later successful publication. Removed stale checker calls.
  3. F03, adopted, correctness: --devel excludes 0.0.0-0. Use an inclusive constraint.
  4. F04, adopted, correctness: Unrelated repository caches could block NGC lookup. Isolate its configuration/cache.
  5. F05, adopted, style: Status-write failure could prevent cleanup. Cleanup now still runs.
  6. T01, adopted, tests: Assert one exact persisted status.
  7. T02, adopted, tests: Cover silent nonzero refresh/search commands.
  8. T03, adopted, tests: Reject changes to nested dependency locks.
  9. T04, adopted, tests: Prove sixth-attempt recovery after transient read failures.
  10. T05, adopted, tests: Assert temporary-directory cleanup.
  11. T06, adopted, tests: Accept equivalent lock YAML formatting.

Claude CLI review team

  1. D01, declined: Normal Helm dependencies are packaged as directories; actual packages disprove the claimed nested-archive defect.
  2. F01, adopted: Benign kubeconfig warnings blocked lookup. Isolate Kubernetes/plugin configuration for these built-in commands.
  3. F03, declined: Unsupported policy spellings have no promised behavior; extra input validation is optional.
  4. F04, declined: Public actions initialize the policy variable; the alleged failure bypasses initialization.
  5. F08, declined: Actual NGC-style pulls satisfy the supported package filename convention; arbitrary repository filenames are outside this contract.
  6. F09, adopted: Explain suppressed diagnostics that may contain authenticated URLs; retain operation-specific errors.
  7. F10, declined: requirements.lock remains byte-exact as documented; normalizing its timestamp is optional.
  8. F11, adopted: Remove stale checker calls; overlaps Codex F02.
  9. F17, adopted: Document direct failure reporting and omitted outputs after failure.
  10. DOC01, adopted: Clarify when push-skipped is true.
  11. DOC02, adopted: Distinguish retryable download-command failure from invalid downloaded content.
  12. TG01, adopted: Cover denied downloads before any registry write.
  13. TG02, declined: Retained real Helm/package proofs already establish the requested compatibility.
  14. TG03, adopted: Validate invalid remote archives against clean local archives.
  15. TG04, adopted: Cover failed searches and non-array JSON; overlaps Codex T02.
  16. TG05, adopted: Assert specific failure reasons.
  17. TG06, adopted: Assert exact status; overlaps Codex T01.
  18. TG07, adopted: Record unexpected stub commands even when diagnostics are redirected.
  19. TG08, adopted: Prove legacy skip uploads an absent version.
  20. TG09-pull, adopted: Check exact pull/search arguments.
  21. TG09-description, declined: Description propagation is unchanged; the suggested assertion adds no distinct required proof.
  22. TG11, adopted: Strengthen the application-file Chart.lock negative case.
  23. TG12-cleanup, adopted: Observe cleanup; overlaps Codex T05.
  24. TG12-corrupt-flow, declined: Comparator invalid-input tests and publisher terminal-comparison tests already protect that contract.

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Optional suggestions and general questions

Codex supplied 4 optional suggestions and 3 questions; Claude supplied 23 optional groups and 4 questions, with one overlapping Claude topic. Useful comment/argument refinements were incorporated; broader refactors, extra retry/normalization modes, and speculative hardening remain optional. Questions about legacy-policy scope, prerequisites, archive checks, CLI behavior, and PR history are resolved in the implementation, documentation, and retained evidence.

Hosted review

One additional candidate was declined: recursive dependency-archive normalization. Real Helm packages expand dependencies into directories; retained package comparisons accept rebuilt contents and reject changed values. This repeats the disproved local D01 premise and is outside the four-source counts above.

Coordinator closure

Targeted tests, lint, and real Helm checks passed. Closure additionally found and fixed acceptance of an invalid lock timestamp by requiring Helm to load both archives. No independent reviewer rerun is claimed. Live NGC recovery remains unverified because local authentication failed; NICo adoption is separate.

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@chet chet changed the title fix: verify existing NGC Helm charts before reusing versions fix(helm): verify existing NGC Helm charts before reusing versions Oct 20, 2026
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Looks good to me, thanks! The comparison and publisher tests pass. NICo still needs the action update and a live NGC run.

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Just adding an extra note, this is confirmed example where verify fixes the issue: https://github.com/dsx-ai-factory/infra-controller/actions/runs/40978248588/job/123837506764 . Instead of failing when version already exists, it would have checked the contents and passed the job.

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