feat(controller): own Component lifecycle in a per-Component reconciler

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What

• adds a ComponentReconciler (pkg/controller/component_controller.go) that owns the Component lifecycle: keeps componentRefFinalizer in sync with live ComponentVersions and garbage-collects the Component once the last live CV is gone

Why

Component finalize-and-delete is currently split across two writers: the CV controller manages the protection finalizer, the apiwriter infers the GC trigger out-of-band -> "count CVs, act on the Component" is not atomic and re-creation races can orphan or flap the Component. A per-Component reconciler serializes the count-then-act decision per object and gives the lifecycle a single owner. Full background in the issue.

Deletion protection from #621 stays user-visible identical: kubectl delete component X is still blocked while live CVs exist.

Closes #646

Testing

Whole controller suite (envtest, incl. the 5 new specs for protection, GC, re-creation race, no-CV preservation):

$ make test testargs="pkg/controller"
Ran 140 of 140 Specs in 141.098 seconds
SUCCESS! -- 140 Passed | 0 Failed | 0 Pending | 0 Skipped

Focused new specs re-ran clean multiple times, go build ./... && go vet ./... clean, make manifests regenerated charts/solar/files/role.yaml (components gains delete).

Checklist

• Tests added/updated (5 envtest specs for the new reconciler)
• No breaking changes
• Readable commit history (squashed and cleaned up as desired)
• AI code review considered and comments resolved

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automatic cleanup of unreferenced Components.
  • Components remain protected while active ComponentVersions reference them.
  • Added support for watching Component and ComponentVersion changes.

• Bug Fixes

  • Deleting a ComponentVersion no longer removes its parent Component.
  • Improved handling of concurrent deletion and recreation scenarios.
  • Preserved manually created, unreferenced Components.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds a per-Component reconciler that manages protection finalizers and garbage collection. ComponentVersion reconciliation retains self-finalizer handling. APIWriter no longer deletes parent Components. RBAC, manager registration, tests, and informer-synchronization checks are updated.

Changes

Component lifecycle ownership

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Component reconciliation and RBAC charts/solar/files/role.yaml, pkg/controller/component_controller.go	ComponentReconciler watches Components and ComponentVersions, counts live references, manages componentRefFinalizer, and performs guarded garbage collection. RBAC grants the required Component deletion and Solar API permissions.
Manager registration and test harness cmd/solar-controller-manager/main.go, pkg/controller/suite_test.go, pkg/controller/target_controller_test.go	The manager registers ComponentReconciler. The test suite configures its namespace watch and waits for informer-cache visibility in component-source tests.
Component lifecycle tests pkg/controller/component_controller_test.go	Tests cover protection, deletion after the last live reference, recreation churn, orphan finalizers, and unreferenced Components.
Removal of duplicate lifecycle handling pkg/controller/componentversion_controller.go, pkg/controller/componentversion_controller_test.go, pkg/discovery/apiwriter/apiwriter.go, pkg/discovery/apiwriter/apiwriter_test.go	ComponentVersionReconciler manages only its own finalizer. APIWriter deletes only ComponentVersions, and tests verify that parent Components remain until the Component reconciler handles them.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 21a8a

A delete-and-recreate race can leave a Component permanently stuck in Terminating while a new ComponentVersion references an unusable parent. This is a concrete lifecycle correctness issue that should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ComponentVersion
  participant ComponentReconciler
  participant API server
  ComponentVersion->>ComponentReconciler: event for referenced Component
  ComponentReconciler->>API server: list live ComponentVersions
  API server-->>ComponentReconciler: live reference count
  ComponentReconciler->>API server: update finalizer or delete Component

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Possibly related PRs

• opendefensecloud/solution-arsenal#642: Both changes modify ComponentVersion deletion and parent Component garbage collection in pkg/discovery/apiwriter.

Suggested labels: ok-to-e2e

Suggested reviewers: dermorz

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	Most changes are in scope, but the unrelated target-controller cache-wait test updates are not tied to the linked lifecycle objective.	Remove the unrelated target-controller test changes or document a separate issue and rationale for including them.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement the linked issue objectives, including reconciler ownership, finalizer management, GC, event mapping, RBAC, race coverage, and apiwriter cleanup.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the change, motivation, testing, linked issue, checklist, and key reviewer-relevant details; only the optional Notes section is omitted.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: a per-Component reconciler owns the Component lifecycle.

✨ Finishing Touches

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• Commit unit tests in branch feature/646-component-reconciler

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Coverage Report for CI Build 31788264251

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Build has drifted: This PR's base is out of sync with its target branch, so coverage data may include unrelated changes.
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Coverage increased (+0.04%) to 80.338%

Details

• Coverage increased (+0.04%) from the base build.
• Patch coverage: 37 uncovered changes across 1 file (101 of 138 lines covered, 73.19%).
• 4 coverage regressions across 2 files.

Uncovered Changes

File	Changed	Covered	%
pkg/controller/component_controller.go	138	101	73.19%

Coverage Regressions

4 previously-covered lines in 2 files lost coverage.

File	Lines Losing Coverage	Coverage
pkg/controller/target_controller.go	2	78.44%
pkg/discovery/runner.go	2	89.09%

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Coverage Stats

Relevant Lines:	6871
Covered Lines:	5520
Line Coverage:	80.34%
Coverage Strength:	31.24 hits per line

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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/controller/component_controller.go`:
- Around line 120-133: Update the liveAfterDelete handling around
countLiveCVsDirect so a newly appearing ComponentVersion does not leave the
Component stuck Terminating with componentRefFinalizer. When liveAfterDelete is
positive, complete the pending Component deletion and reliably invoke or trigger
the existing ensureComponent recreation path once deletion finishes, preserving
the parent reference for the new ComponentVersion.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (10)

• charts/solar/files/role.yaml
• cmd/solar-controller-manager/main.go
• pkg/controller/component_controller.go
• pkg/controller/component_controller_test.go
• pkg/controller/componentversion_controller.go
• pkg/controller/componentversion_controller_test.go
• pkg/controller/suite_test.go
• pkg/controller/target_controller_test.go
• pkg/discovery/apiwriter/apiwriter.go
• pkg/discovery/apiwriter/apiwriter_test.go

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• pkg/discovery/apiwriter/apiwriter.go