operator-controller settings not working

[psolomon-services]

I'm trying to scale the AWX controller manager, not the web or task pods. According to the docs,
I can set this in the operator-controller section, as follows (in column 1):

From my values.txt file:

operator-controller:
  spec:
    replicas: 2

This does not work (the controller manager count remains at one instance). Is this a bug, or just not documented properly (meaning I have it improperly formatted in my values.txt file)? I've looked at the helm code and seems like it should work. I would prefer not to patch or scale after the initial creation.

I'm currently running Version 2.19.0 of the awx-operator. I'm using an external Postgres instance (a pod in this POC).

$ kubectl get all,ing -n awx
NAME                                              READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/awx-operator-controller-manager   1/1     1            1           114s
deployment.apps/awx-poc-task                      1/1     1            1           100s
deployment.apps/awx-poc-web                       2/2     2            2           100s

NAME                                                      TYPE        CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
service/awx-operator-controller-manager-metrics-service   ClusterIP   10.96.52.209   <none>        8443/TCP   114s
service/awx-poc-service                                   ClusterIP   10.96.41.62    <none>        80/TCP     101s
service/postgres-service                                  ClusterIP   10.96.180.50   <none>        5432/TCP   2m19s

NAME                                                   READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
pod/awx-operator-controller-manager-76685d6ff4-65lj9   2/2     Running     0          114s
pod/awx-poc-migration-24.6.0-6pht8                     0/1     Completed   0          91s
pod/awx-poc-task-78658dd859-7522x                      4/4     Running     0          100s
pod/awx-poc-web-765598d874-q5kht                       3/3     Running     0          100s
pod/awx-poc-web-765598d874-rzddg                       3/3     Running     0          100s
pod/postgres-awx-0                                     1/1     Running     0          2m19s

NAME                                 STATUS     COMPLETIONS   DURATION   AGE
job.batch/awx-poc-migration-24.6.0   Complete   1/1           58s        91s

NAME                            READY   AGE
statefulset.apps/postgres-awx   1/1     2m19s

NAME                                               CLASS   HOSTS                      ADDRESS     PORTS     AGE
ingress.networking.k8s.io/awx-poc-awxapi-ingress   nginx   awx.myhost.com      localhost   80, 443   101s

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$ helm version
version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.16.2", GitCommit:"13654a52f7c70a143b1dd51416d633e1071faffb", GitTreeState:"dirty", GoVersion:"go1.23.2"}
                                                                                                                               
$ kubectl version                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Client Version: v1.30.5
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3                                                                                                                                                                                                              Server Version: v1.31.0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

$ uname -a
Darwin mypc 24.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0: Fri Dec  6 19:00:33 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.5~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8122 arm64 

[schen1]

Hi @psolomon-services

Thanks for opening this issue. We are still not yet done with the new release process, that's probably why this is not yet available, especially in 2.19.0.

Do you have a specific need to use 2 replicas for the operator controller? Usually 1 replica is enough.

Cheers

[psolomon-services]

We have a requirement from our Architecture team for this. We would also like to use this feature to override other things, like the controller name (which doesn't match our prefixes set by the helm chart).

Something like this (if that will support this feature):

operator-controller:
  metadata:
    name:  my-new-awx-controller-manager

Do you know when this feature will be available?

[miles-w-3]

Releases will be possible as soon as #35 is merged