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Jira: ACM-39062

Summary

  • Adds enhancement proposal introducing-hcp-from-hub-cli.md for a new hcp from-hub subcommand in the HCP CLI
  • Defines Dev Preview scope (aws and kubevirt), core CLI argument allow-list, and hosting-cluster correctness requirements via the HCP proxy
  • Documents proxy API extensions, graduation criteria, and test plan for ACM/MCE hub operators managing HostedClusters without hosting-cluster kubeconfig access

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  • New Features
    • Proposed an hcp from-hub CLI for creating, editing, and deleting HostedClusters through the hub.
    • Defined Dev Preview support for AWS and KubeVirt environments.
    • Added validation, proxy workflows, conflict detection, and safe recovery for failed operations.
  • Documentation
    • Documented supported operations, additional-object validation, compatibility, testing, rollout, and operational considerations.
    • Clarified behavior when proxy support is unavailable and how concurrent edits are handled.

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The enhancement defines the proposed hcp from-hub command for proxy-based HostedCluster management. It covers supported platforms, lifecycle workflows, proxy API contracts, strict validation, optimistic concurrency, rollout, compatibility, testing, and failure handling.

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HCP from-hub CLI

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI lifecycle and proxy contracts
enhancements/hypershift/introducing-hcp-from-hub-cli.md
Defines proxy-only create, edit, and delete workflows, restricted flags, hosting-cluster targeting, full-object updates, and resourceVersion conflict handling.
Object validation and compatibility
enhancements/hypershift/introducing-hcp-from-hub-cli.md
Specifies hosting metadata, ExtraObjects GVK and namespace validation, namespace binding, supported hosting targets, finalizer removal, and unsupported-proxy behavior.
Rollout, testing, and failure recovery
enhancements/hypershift/introducing-hcp-from-hub-cli.md
Defines tests, preview and graduation criteria, version-skew behavior, compensating cleanup, retry-safe operations, and surfaced errors.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 49110

The proposal leaves important retry, rollback, deletion-ordering, and failure-reporting behavior unspecified, which could lead to stale HostedCluster resources, unintended cleanup, or users missing a cleanup failure. Merge should wait for these contracts to be defined or explicitly accepted by the owners.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant HCPFromHubCLI
  participant HubProxy
  participant HostingCluster

  User->>HCPFromHubCLI: Request HostedCluster lifecycle operation
  HCPFromHubCLI->>HubProxy: Send validated request
  HubProxy->>HostingCluster: Read metadata or apply changes
  HostingCluster-->>HubProxy: Return state or operation result
  HubProxy-->>HCPFromHubCLI: Return response or HTTP 409
  HCPFromHubCLI-->>User: Report result or error
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Suggested reviewers: sjenning, enxebre, csrwng, bryan-cox

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- Around line 304-307: Update the from-hub edit PUT flow to preserve and require
the live HostedCluster metadata.resourceVersion, and ensure the proxy/API uses
that version for optimistic concurrency. Handle HTTP 409 responses explicitly by
surfacing a conflict to the user rather than overwriting newer controller or
operator changes.
- Around line 342-351: Constrain the proposed CreateRequest.ExtraObjects
contract with server-side validation: allow only an explicit list of supported
GroupVersionKinds, require every namespaced object’s namespace to equal the
request namespace, and reject cluster-scoped or cross-namespace objects before
processing. Do not permit arbitrary RawExtension objects or rely solely on
RBAC-checked apply authorization.
- Around line 650-661: Align the ExtraObjects compatibility rules so an older
hypershift-addon-operator cannot silently ignore the field. Add capability
negotiation or reject requests containing unsupported ExtraObjects, returning a
clear “unsupported by proxy” error; preserve additive wire compatibility for
clients and proxies that both support ExtraObjects.
- Around line 689-694: Define the partial-create failure recovery behavior for
the hypershift-addon-operator flow described in the “ExtraObjects decode/apply
fails” section. Specify compensating cleanup, idempotent reconciliation, or an
explicit operator recovery procedure so previously created Secrets and
ExtraObjects do not leave orphaned resources or make retries fail with
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- Line 176: Update the architecture code fence in the documentation to specify
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- Around line 758-766: Define an immutable, unique request ID and payload
fingerprint for each operation, and require ownership checks to match the
complete request identity before cleanup or reuse. In the proxy’s create/resume
and compensating-cleanup flow, serialize retries and cleanup, accept existing
resources only when ownership and payload match exactly, and return a conflict
for mismatches; update the contract around NodePool, HostedCluster,
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failure are represented, including response fields, HTTP status, CLI exit
status, and user-visible output. Ensure the CLI explicitly reports incomplete
cleanup so retries remain safe and the cleanup failure is not hidden.
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product name, “OCI Kubernetes Engine,” while preserving the existing
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Please update the PR description with the correct information.

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Hi @yiraeChristineKim
I did a first pass through the doc and left some comments.

Also, have we considered whether this command (or the proxy) could be used in a non-interactive way for gitops?

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core design, the main risk is **silent incorrectness**: if from-hub calls
`util.GetClient()` / `util.GetConfig()` without special handling, validation and
defaulting would run against the **hub** while the user believes they are
acting on the **hosting** cluster. That is worse than not shipping the feature

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I agree with this risk. However, I don’t see in the design document how we can prevent from accidentally calling code in the from-hub path that would try to access the current cluster thinking that it is the hosting cluster.

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below line 440 Core-CLI reuse requirements (1–10), I wrote how to prevent.

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I did see the requirements, it's just not clear how they will be enforced. What will stop a future developer from introducing code that breaks them? Will we do that via unit tests? Or a wrapper around the client?

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Plan is allow-list first — only proxy-safe flags are accepted; the rest stay rejected. The requirements table maps each flag/behavior to client vs proxy work. Unit tests lock in the client rules; e2e/integration verify we actually target the hosting cluster end-to-end.

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Tech review scope isn’t “match the full HCP CLI today.” It’s “ship from-hub correctly from the hub”, other flags added gradually via the allow-list.

3. The proxy checks `managedcluster:admin`, impersonates toward the hosting
cluster, reads the hosting cluster's `supported-versions` ConfigMap, and
returns `serverVersion` (and `supportedVersions`, reused by W2) to the CLI.
4. `from-hub` compares the CLI's own commit SHA against the returned hosting

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could you not have hosting clusters at different versions? Do they all need to match your cli version exactly?

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No hosting clusters don’t all have to run the same version, and they don’t all have to match your CLI all the time.

--version-check is optional and per command, per hosting cluster.

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I will make clear this part

4. `from-hub` compares the CLI's own commit SHA against the returned hosting
`serverVersion` and fails fast on mismatch — checking the cluster the user
actually intends to create the HostedCluster on.
5. `from-hub` renders the HostedCluster/NodePool/Secret/Role/ConfigMap

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When creating an AWS hosted cluster, before rendering manifests we create infrastructure and iam roles. I don’t see that part mentioned here. Are we assuming that the hub operator will have the power to perform those operations?

Also, if we don’t allow a separate create infrastructure / render / apply, then certain API configurations that can only be made on creation will not be possible.

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hcp create aws --render creates the infrastructures. Therefore, in the from-hub workflow, I will always use hcp create aws --render first. I will then send the rendered output to hcp-proxy, which will pass the required resources to the hosting cluster.

I will rewrite this section of the documentation to make the workflow and data flow clearer.

#### Delete (target behavior)

1. The hub operator runs `hcp from-hub delete my-cluster --hosting-cluster
<name>` for an AWS HostedCluster.

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During the delete phase, we add the cli finalizer first. I don’t see that mentioned in the doc.

After starting HostedCluster deletion, we wait for all finalizers to go away apart from the one the cli added, and before removing that finalizer, directly destroy AWS resources (in the AWS case)

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Yes, I remove the finalizer after all the infrastructure has been removed. I will mention this again

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Hi @yiraeChristineKim I did a first pass through the doc and left some comments.

Also, have we considered whether this command (or the proxy) could be used in a non-interactive way for gitops?

hcp from-hub create / delete are normal CLI commands <- they can run from CI or a script with hub kubeconfig + managedcluster:admin on the target ManagedCluster, same as other oc/ACM hub workflows.
from-hub edit is not a good fit for automation today <- it’s editor-driven (GET → edit YAML → PUT). GitOps is out of scope for tech review and GA. No customer ask yet. happy to revisit after GA if it’s stable and there’s demand.

Define the initial hcp from-hub subcommand for ACM/MCE hub operators,
including Dev Preview scope (aws and kubevirt), core CLI allow-list,
hosting-cluster correctness via the HCP proxy, and graduation criteria.

Signed-off-by: Yirae Christine Kim <yikim@redhat.com>
Co-Authored-By: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Replace duplicate requirement bullet lists with one authoritative table,
clarify requirement 10 pre-render validation wording, and document that
--namespace defaults to clusters consistent with hcp create cluster.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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