Use a subchart to install CRDs via helm

.chloggen/move-operator-crd-install-method.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, operator, chart, other)
+component: operator
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Move operator CRD installation to the crds/ folder via a subchart to resolve Helm install ordering issues
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1561]
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:

functional_tests/functional_test.go

@@ -172,41 +172,6 @@ func deployChartsAndApps(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// deploy the operator CRDs
-	stream, err = os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(testDir, manifestsDir, "operator_crds.yaml"))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	for _, resourceYAML := range strings.Split(string(stream), "---") {
-		if len(resourceYAML) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		obj, groupVersionKind, err := decode(
-			[]byte(resourceYAML),
-			nil,
-			nil)
-		require.NoError(t, err)
-		if groupVersionKind.Group == "apiextensions.k8s.io" &&
-			groupVersionKind.Version == "v1" &&
-			groupVersionKind.Kind == "CustomResourceDefinition" {
-			crd := obj.(*appextensionsv1.CustomResourceDefinition)
-			apiExtensions := extensionsClient.ApiextensionsV1().CustomResourceDefinitions()
-			crd, err := apiExtensions.Create(context.Background(), crd, metav1.CreateOptions{})
-			require.NoError(t, err)
-			t.Logf("Deployed CRD %s", crd.Name)
-			for _, version := range crd.Spec.Versions {
-				sch.AddKnownTypeWithName(
-					schema.GroupVersionKind{
-						Group:   crd.Spec.Group,
-						Version: version.Name,
-						Kind:    crd.Spec.Names.Kind,
-					},
-					&unstructured.Unstructured{},
-				)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
 	codecs := serializer.NewCodecFactory(sch)
 	crdDecode := codecs.UniversalDeserializer().Decode
 	// Prometheus pod monitor
@@ -536,29 +501,6 @@ func teardown(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	crdstream, err = os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(testDir, manifestsDir, "operator_crds.yaml"))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	for _, resourceYAML := range strings.Split(string(crdstream), "---") {
-		if len(resourceYAML) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		obj, groupVersionKind, err := decode(
-			[]byte(resourceYAML),
-			nil,
-			nil)
-		require.NoError(t, err)
-		if groupVersionKind.Group == "apiextensions.k8s.io" &&
-			groupVersionKind.Version == "v1" &&
-			groupVersionKind.Kind == "CustomResourceDefinition" {
-			crd := obj.(*appextensionsv1.CustomResourceDefinition)
-			apiExtensions := extensionsClient.ApiextensionsV1().CustomResourceDefinitions()
-			_ = apiExtensions.Delete(context.Background(), crd.Name, metav1.DeleteOptions{
-				GracePeriodSeconds: &waitTime,
-			})
-		}
-	}
-
 	for _, nm := range namespaces {
 		nmClient := client.CoreV1().Namespaces()
 		_ = nmClient.Delete(context.Background(), nm.Name, metav1.DeleteOptions{

functional_tests/testdata/values/aks_test_values.yaml.tmpl

@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ livenessProbe:
 
 operator:
   enabled: true
-  crds:
-    create: false
   admissionWebhooks:
     certManager:
       enabled: false

functional_tests/testdata/values/autopilot_test_values.yaml.tmpl

@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ distribution: gke/autopilot
 
 operator:
   enabled: true
-  crds:
-    create: false
   admissionWebhooks:
     certManager:
       enabled: false

functional_tests/testdata/values/test_values.yaml.tmpl

@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ extraAttributes:
 environment: dev
 operator:
   enabled: true
-  crds:
-    create: false
 targetAllocator:
   enabled: true
 

helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/Chart.yaml

@@ -20,13 +20,18 @@ maintainers:
   - name: atoulme
 dependencies:
   # Subchart Notes:
-  # - Avoid uppercase letters in names/aliases, they cause install failure due to subchart resource naming
-  # - Avoid hyphen characters in names/aliases, they introduce template rendering complications (https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/2192)
+  # - Avoid uppercase letters in aliases, they cause install failure due to subchart resource naming
+  # - Avoid hyphen characters in aliases, they introduce template rendering complications (https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/2192)
   - name: cert-manager
     version: v1.14.4
     alias: certmanager
     repository: https://charts.jetstack.io
     condition: certmanager.enabled
+  - name: opentelemetry-operator-crds
+    version: "0.0.0"
+    alias: operatorcrds
+    # TODO: See if we can improve this conditional more
+    condition: operatorcrds.install
   - name: opentelemetry-operator
     version: 0.71.2
     alias: operator

helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/charts/opentelemetry-operator-crds/Chart.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+apiVersion: v2
+name: opentelemetry-operator-crds
+version: 0.0.0

helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/charts/opentelemetry-operator-crds/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# OpenTelemetry Collector CRDs
+
+This chart contains the CRDs for _*installation*_ only right now for the opentelemetry-operator. This allows the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector chart to work on install. You can see more discussion about this [here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/issues/677) and [here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/pull/1203).
+
+This approach is inspired by the [opentelemetry-kube-stack chart](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/tree/main/charts/opentelemetry-kube-stack) approach.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> The splunk-otel-collector chart only supports and tests functionality related to the auto-instrumentation that requires the Instrumentation CRD.
+> Other CRDs, such as OpenTelemetryCollector and OpAMPBridge, are included solely to allow the Operator to start up and are not currently supported or tested.
+
+# Upgrade Notes
+
+Right now, upgrades are NOT handled by this chart, however that could change in the future. This is what is run to bring in the CRDs today.
+
+```bash
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/main/config/crd/bases/opentelemetry.io_opentelemetrycollectors.yaml
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/main/config/crd/bases/opentelemetry.io_opampbridges.yaml
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/main/config/crd/bases/opentelemetry.io_instrumentations.yaml
+```