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Stacked on #61. Removes the need for platform-repo workaround 5 (render the whole chart per component and filter on the component label).

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  • dashboard.enabled/namespace and backend.split.<management|signal|relay>.enabled/namespace. Disabled components render no objects and skip their validation. namespace falls back to global.namespace, then the release namespace.
  • Management used to read relay-auth-secret from the relay Secret. A Pod cannot read a Secret in another namespace, so management now stores its own copy in <fullname>-management-credentials. With authSecretRef and different namespaces, the referenced Secret must exist in both (documented).
  • ServiceMonitors follow enabled and select the component namespace.
  • Docs: components and namespaces, Secret namespace wording.
  • tests/render.sh: relay-only render in a separate namespace, management relay secret copy.

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  • New Features
    • Dashboard, management, signal, and relay components can be enabled or disabled individually and assigned separate namespaces.
    • Relay-only installations are supported. When management and relay use different namespaces, management can use a copy of the relay authentication Secret.
  • Documentation
    • Updated installation and configuration guidance to clarify component namespace defaults and where referenced Secrets must be available.

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jnfrati added this pull request to stack #59 October 7, 2026 12:42
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📝 Walkthrough

The chart adds per-component enablement and namespace settings. Templates conditionally render dashboard and split backend resources in component-specific namespaces. Management relay-secret handling and related documentation are updated, with render checks for relay-only configuration and separate management and relay namespaces.

Changes: Component configuration and rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Component values and namespace contract
charts/netbird/values.yaml, charts/netbird/templates/_helpers.tpl, charts/netbird/README.md, charts/netbird/docs/*
Dashboard and split backend components gain enablement and namespace values. The namespace helper selects a component namespace or falls back to the chart namespace. Documentation describes component settings and the namespace used for Secret references.
Component resource rendering
charts/netbird/templates/dashboard/*, charts/netbird/templates/split/*, charts/netbird/templates/monitoring/service-monitor.yaml, charts/netbird/tests/render.sh
Dashboard and split backend resources render only when the relevant component is enabled and use its namespace. Monitoring selection also checks component enablement and namespace. Render checks cover a relay-only configuration.
Management relay-secret configuration
charts/netbird/templates/split/management/_config.tpl, charts/netbird/templates/split/management/deployment.yaml, charts/netbird/docs/configuration.md, charts/netbird/tests/render.sh
Management configuration validates and adds the relay authentication secret. The Deployment no longer injects that variable automatically. Documentation and render checks cover the relay Secret in separate management and relay namespaces.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Possibly related PRs

  • netbirdio/helms#58: Introduced netbird.requireSecret and the shared management secret environment flow that this change extends.
  • netbirdio/helms#61: Introduced the typed management configuration and netbird.management.secretEnv flow extended here.
  • netbirdio/helms#60: Changed ServiceMonitor rendering per enabled component; this change also conditions monitors on component enablement and namespace.

Suggested reviewers: mohamed-essam

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The documented relay-only installation can fail, credential guidance is incomplete, and moving management to another namespace can make existing persistent data unavailable.

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A rabbit checks each namespace gate,
Then watches chart resources render straight.
Relay credentials cross the page,
Management gets a copy for its stage.
“Enabled” leaves the rest asleep,
While tests confirm the namespaces keep.

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🟡 Minor · Update the relay Secret description. · README.md:144

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Update the relay Secret description.

With separate component namespaces, management uses its own credential source, not the relay-credentials Secret. The current bullet tells operators that one chart-managed Secret serves both workloads. Update it to describe the management-local copy and the external-reference case.

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Review comment at @charts/netbird/README.md at line 144:
Update the relay-credentials Secret description in the chart README to clarify
that management uses its own namespace-local credential copy, or an external
reference, rather than sharing the relay Secret. Preserve the description of the
relay Secret’s role for the relay workload.

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Review comments at @charts/netbird/docs/installation.md:
- Line 98: Update the referenced Secret namespace rule to use this fallback
order: component.namespace, global.namespace, then the release namespace.
Clarify that the Secret must exist in the namespace selected by the first
configured value.

Review comments at @charts/netbird/templates/split/management/pvc.yaml:
- Line 8: Prevent an existing persistent management installation from silently
changing namespaces in the split management PVC template. Enforce a migration
procedure before allowing the change, or reject the change when an existing
installation’s management PVC would remain in the old namespace; do not treat
the PVC’s keep annotation as data migration.

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Review comments at @charts/netbird/README.md:
- Line 144: Update the relay-credentials Secret description in the chart README
to clarify that management uses its own namespace-local credential copy, or an
external reference, rather than sharing the relay Secret. Preserve the
description of the relay Secret’s role for the relay workload.

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Comment thread charts/netbird/docs/installation.md Resolved
- dashboard and backend.split.<component> get enabled (default true)
  and namespace (default global.namespace, then release namespace).
  Disabled components render nothing and skip their validation.
- Management stores its own copy of the relay auth secret, so it does
  not read the relay Secret across namespaces.
- ServiceMonitors follow enabled and select the component namespace.

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signal:
enabled: false
relay:
namespace: netbird-edge

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the namespace and Secret setup for this example.

If a reader follows the installation commands with this relay-only example, netbird-edge is not created and the referenced Secret remains in netbird. Helm’s --create-namespace creates only the release namespace. State that the reader must create netbird-edge and put netbird-external-credentials there before installation. (docs.helm.sh)

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Review comment at @charts/netbird/docs/configuration.md at line 62:
Update the relay-only example in the configuration documentation to state that
readers must create the netbird-edge namespace and place the
netbird-external-credentials Secret in that namespace before installation;
clarify that Helm’s --create-namespace creates only the release namespace.

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