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Phase 3 of the GitBranch/KubeProvider plan, gitops-api ask #30. Stacked on #431; retarget to main once that merges.

A GitHub App has one webhook endpoint, and until now every GitProvider carried its own receiver with its own token. The push receiver is now a namespaced kind of its own, GitReceiver, and nothing references it: a delivery wakes every GitProvider, in any namespace, whose spec.url names the repository the delivery reports.

kind: GitReceiver
metadata: {name: github-app, namespace: platform}
spec:
  type: github
  secretRef: {name: github-app-webhook-token}   # in this namespace, key "token"
status:
  webhookPath: /git-push/<hmac of platform/github-app, keyed by the token>

What a delivery does

1. The route is a GitReceiver's status.webhookPath, found through a cache index. The token Secret is read from the receiver's own namespace, and the path is re-derived from it, so a rotated token stops the old path at once. The signature is checked over the raw body before anything in it is read. Every way of not reaching a verified receiver is the same 404.
2. The handler reads the branch, plus every repository URL the host puts in the payload. GitHub and Gitea fill repository.clone_url, ssh_url and html_url (GitHub also git_url). GitLab fills project.git_http_url, git_ssh_url and web_url. API URLs and homepages are not read.
3. It lists every GitProvider from the cache and wakes the branch worker writing that branch for each provider whose spec.url matches one of those URLs, as internal/repourl normalizes them. NotifyPush answers only for the provider whose GitBranch holds the branch, so a branch is woken once, however many spellings or providers name it.
4. A delivery only wakes. The worker reads the remote with its own provider's credential, and a URL from the payload is only compared, never fetched.
5. A verified delivery is answered 202 with no body.

Checked against the running e2e Gitea (1.27). A real git push carries clone_url/html_url built from ROOT_URL, which match the in-cluster provider URLs, plus an ssh_url on a different host (gitea-ssh…). Reading every spelling is what lets an SSH provider match too. Gitea's "Test delivery" button builds its URLs from the request's own host instead, so it counts as unknown_repository. That is harmless: it still gets a 202.

Why no reference

The first version of this PR had GitProvider.spec.gitReceiverRef, GitReceiver.spec.accessFrom and a GitReceiverReady condition. Once the receiver routes by the payload's repository, the reference only narrowed a set the URL already narrows. It cost a line of wiring per provider, plus an admission in every namespace for a GitHub App. The condition also reported the wrong thing: that a reference resolves, not that deliveries arrive or that the URLs match, and a URL mismatch is the failure users will hit. Argo CD's webhook routes the same way: one endpoint, matched against every Application's repoURL.

Two things the reference was quietly protecting are now handled where they belong:

• Cost. Any namespace's GitReceiver can now wake any matching worker. A branch worker therefore holds at most one pending push notice: a report that arrives while one waits is folded into it (pendingPushNotice), and the slot is taken before the remote is read. A run of deliveries costs one ref advertisement at a time and never crowds writes out of the queue. The folded notice keeps after only while all reports agree, and otherwise reads as a push not yet seen, the safe side for noteBusyPushNotice.
  Accepted tradeoff: folding bounds the queue, not the rate. A token holder who keeps delivering can keep a matching worker reading its remote continuously. That availability cost is accepted for now, with no per-worker cooldown, and the security model, UPGRADING, configuration and the plan doc say so. A cooldown with a deferred follow-up would bound it later without bringing the reference back.
• Disclosure. The old {"matched": N} reply would tell a token holder in one namespace whether another namespace tracks a repository and branch. The 202 now has no body. What a delivery did is on the metric and on the branch.

What replaces the condition: GitBranch.status.lastPushNoticeAt, the time a delivery last reached the branch. It records receipt, apart from status.remote, so it is set even when the look the delivery caused cannot read the remote. A status.remote stanza with no look would have needed an empty commit, which already means "branch absent". NotifyPush wakes the GitBranch. The first notice is published at once, and later ones at most once a minute, using status.remote's interval measured from the published notice. The field is kept across a restart, and cleared when the GitProvider is recreated for another repository. If it is absent after a push, the host does not reach the receiver, or names the repository by a URL other than spec.url.

Decisions

1. Path: unchanged scheme, per receiver. It is /git-push/<hex HMAC-SHA256 of "namespace/name", keyed by the token>, published on GitReceiver.status.webhookPath. A GitReceiver that takes the old provider's name and token Secret gets the same path, so the host's webhook survives the migration untouched. UPGRADING says so.
2. GitReceiver.Ready reports SecretNotFound, SecretMalformed, or ListenerDisabled, which means the operator runs with --receiver-bind-address=0, so nothing serves the path it still publishes. While the token is missing it re-checks every 30s (RequeueReceiverTokenInterval), because Secrets are not watched and no delivery can reach a receiver until its path is published.
3. Metric: gitopsreverser_receiver_deliveries_total{receiver_namespace, receiver_name, type, outcome}. unmatched splits into unknown_repository (no provider has that repository; routine on an org or App hook) and unknown_branch (the repository matches, but no worker writes that branch). Both still answer 202.
4. spec.receiver stays in the schema only so admission refuses it, with a message naming the replacement. The CEL rule sits on spec, as in phases 1 and 2, so ratcheting can't wave a stored value through. GitProvider.status.webhookPath is removed.
5. A generic-hmac body must name its repository (400 otherwise): a shared receiver can't route one that does not.

Known gap (documented)

A provider that reaches the host under another name, such as ssh.github.com:443 or a vanity domain, is not matched: the normalizer can't prove those names equal. Its foreign pushes are still found by the next rejected push or the refresh. This is the plan's "repository aliases" item. The old receiver didn't compare repositories for host types at all, so this is a real narrowing, and UPGRADING says so.

Validation

• task lint: green.
• task test: green, coverage 79.9% against a baseline of 80.2%, inside the 0.5% tolerance. The unit tests cover:
  • the handler: URL routing across namespaces, every repository spelling, the empty 202, and 503s on unreadable configuration;
  • push-notice folding (agreeing and disagreeing reports, a refused queue frees the slot, a non-folded notice keeps its commit);
  • lastPushNoticeAt: published under the floor, published with no remote observation at all, cleared on a repoint (also while the old repository's worker is still live, via WorkerForGitBranchAt), and NotifyPush waking the GitBranch;
  • the GitReceiver controller.
• envtest: the CEL refusal of spec.receiver and the GitReceiver schema, against the real CRDs.
• e2e: registerOperatorReceiver creates a GitReceiver and waits for its Ready=True before registering the Gitea hook. No provider names it. The Flux applier spec then also asserts the GitBranch's lastPushNoticeAt is set.
  • task test-e2e: 106 passed, 0 failed, and task test-e2e-bi-directional: 34 passed, 0 failed, both at 4feb95d8. Rerunning at a4928dcf, the review fixes: task test-e2e 106 passed, 0 failed

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• New Features

  • Added standalone, namespaced GitReceiver resources for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and generic HMAC webhooks.
  • Push deliveries now notify branch workers for every provider matching the repository URL; branch status can show when a push notice was received.
  • Receiver status reports readiness and provides the webhook path for Git-host configuration.

• Migration

  • Webhook configuration on GitProvider is no longer accepted. Create a GitReceiver and configure your Git host to use its webhook path. See the upgrading guide for migration details.

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The pull request adds a namespaced GitReceiver resource and moves webhook configuration from GitProvider to that resource. Verified deliveries match providers by repository URL and branch, notify their workers, and can update GitBranch.status.lastPushNoticeAt.

Changes: GitReceiver Webhook Routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GitReceiver API and provider migration api/v1alpha3/*, config/crd/*, config/rbac/role.yaml, config/samples/gitreceiver.yaml, internal/controller/superseded_fields_admission_test.go	Adds GitReceiver types, validation, status, CRD, and RBAC. Rejects configured GitProvider.spec.receiver values and removes GitProvider.status.webhookPath.
Receiver reconciliation and registration internal/controller/gitreceiver_controller.go, internal/controller/gitreceiver_controller_test.go, cmd/main.go, cmd/receiver.go, internal/controller/resource_condition_metrics.go	Registers a reconciler that reads the receiver’s namespace-local token Secret and publishes a webhook path. Missing Secrets or empty tokens clear the path; a disabled listener reports ListenerDisabled.
Webhook authentication and routing internal/webhook/receiver.go, internal/webhook/receiver_test.go, internal/telemetry/receiver.go	Resolves routes through GitReceiver resources, authenticates deliveries, and matches payload repository URLs against providers across namespaces. Verified deliveries receive an empty 202; delivery metrics are labeled by receiver.
Push-notice handling and branch status internal/git/*, internal/controller/gitbranch_*, api/v1alpha3/gitbranch_types.go, config/crd/bases/configbutler.ai_gitbranches.yaml	Folds pending push notices in branch workers and tracks the latest notice time. Branch status publishes advancing notice times subject to its publication interval.
Examples, guidance, and integration coverage docs/*, charts/gitops-reverser/*, README.md, hack/crdfields/fields.yaml, internal/applier/*_guide_test.go, test/e2e/*	Updates configuration guides and chart notes for standalone GitReceiver resources and URL-based routing. Updates example validation and end-to-end tests for receiver setup and notice status.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHost
  participant ReceiverHandler
  participant GitReceiver
  participant TokenSecret
  participant GitProvider
  participant BranchWorker
  GitHost->>ReceiverHandler: Send push delivery to webhook path
  ReceiverHandler->>GitReceiver: Resolve receiver by webhook path
  ReceiverHandler->>TokenSecret: Read token from receiver namespace
  ReceiverHandler->>GitProvider: Match delivery repository URL to provider URL
  ReceiverHandler->>BranchWorker: Notify matching provider branch worker
  ReceiverHandler->>GitHost: Return empty 202 for verified delivery

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the primary change: introducing one GitReceiver that can serve many repositories. The breaking-change marker is appropriate because the PR removes the previous GitProvider…
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🟡 Minor · Include GitReceiver token Secrets in the access inventory. · security-model.md:36-39

docs/security-model.md:36-39
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Include GitReceiver token Secrets in the access inventory.

Line 117 adds a token Secret in each GitReceiver namespace, but this inventory lists only provider and target Secrets. If an operator scopes Secret get permissions using this inventory, a receiver in another namespace cannot read its token. Add GitReceiver and its namespace-local token Secret here, as in docs/rbac.md.

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Review comment at @docs/security-model.md around lines 36 - 39:
Update the “Read referenced Secrets” inventory to include the token Secret
referenced by each GitReceiver in its own namespace, preserving the stated
get-by-name access scope and aligning the description with the GitReceiver
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🟡 Minor · Add GitReceiver to the CRD documentation and cleanup commands. · README.md:283-291

charts/gitops-reverser/README.md:283-291
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Add GitReceiver to the CRD documentation and cleanup commands.

The release distributes gitreceivers.configbutler.ai in its CRD bundle, but the README omits it from the CRD inventory and both manual deletion commands. Following either command after helm uninstall can leave the GitReceiver CRD and its resources in the cluster.

The project guidance also requires README updates for user-facing changes and API documentation updates when modifying CRDs.

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Addressed the two outside-diff findings from the review of 4feb95d in a3532e8:

• charts/gitops-reverser/README.md: gitreceivers.configbutler.ai added to the CRD inventory and to both manual kubectl delete crd commands. Without it, following them after an uninstall left the CRD and its objects behind.
• docs/security-model.md: the list of Secrets read by name now includes the webhook token Secret a GitReceiver names in its own namespace, matching docs/rbac.md.

The two inline findings on a4928dc were fixed in 691cba1, and their threads are resolved.