fix(mongodb): add arbiter support

[mberlofa]

Summary

• add a dedicated single-replica MongoDB arbiter StatefulSet and headless Service
• reconcile arbiter membership during install and upgrade without assuming ordinal zero is primary
• preserve the effective default write concern before topology changes required by MongoDB
• add schema, examples, unit tests, runtime CI values, and operator documentation

Type Of Change

• Existing chart change

PR Governance

• Fixes arbiter.enabled documented on helmforge.dev is not implemented in the mongodb chart (v1.7.17) #1075
• Branch created from updated main
• PR targets main
• Conventional Commit title and commit
• Chart.yaml version was not edited manually

Site Sync (GR-007)

• Corresponding MongoDB documentation and playground configuration updated in the companion site PR

Companion site PR: helmforgedev/site#541

Validation

• make validate-chart CHART=mongodb passed all 20 layers
• helm unittest charts/mongodb passed 36 tests
• default and all ci/*.yaml scenarios rendered successfully
• arbiter scenario passed behavioral validation on k3d-helmforge-tests-wsl
• upgrade lifecycle validated with arbiter enabled, disabled, and re-enabled
• PSA scale-up validated from 2 to 4 data-bearing members with write concern preservation
• reconciliation validated while ordinal 1 was primary
• post-reconfiguration write and read validated
• make standards-check CHART=mongodb passed
• make preflight passed
• security scan score remained 72.73%

Notes

MongoDB recommends three data-bearing members when capacity permits. This option targets deployments where a third data copy is impractical and an election-only member is an accepted tradeoff.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added optional MongoDB replica-set arbiter support.
  • Arbiters run as a dedicated, non-data-bearing member with configurable resources.
  • Added validation, deployment examples, and Helm output for arbiter membership.
  • Replica-set reconciliation now supports arbiter additions and removals during installation and upgrades.

• Documentation

  • Documented arbiter configuration, topology, scaling behavior, upgrade handling, and write-concern considerations.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for arbiter rendering, validation, and replica-set reconciliation.

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Standards Check (GR-079) — PASS

Every changed chart fully passes standards-check.

[github-actions]

Security Scan: mongodb

Framework	Score
MITRE + NSA + SOC2	72.72727%

Security posture acceptable.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The MongoDB chart adds optional arbiter configuration, dedicated Kubernetes resources, install and upgrade reconciliation, validation, tests, examples, and operational documentation.

Changes

MongoDB arbiter support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Arbiter values and validation charts/mongodb/values.yaml, charts/mongodb/values.schema.json, charts/mongodb/templates/_helpers.tpl, charts/mongodb/tests/validate_test.yaml	The chart adds arbiter.enabled and arbiter.resources. Validation requires replica-set architecture and an even data-member count from 2 through 6.
Arbiter Kubernetes resources charts/mongodb/templates/arbiter-service.yaml, charts/mongodb/templates/arbiter-statefulset.yaml, charts/mongodb/ci/arbiter-values.yaml, charts/mongodb/examples/replicaset-arbiter.yaml, charts/mongodb/tests/arbiter_test.yaml	The chart conditionally renders a headless Service and a single-replica arbiter StatefulSet. The StatefulSet supports probes, resources, ephemeral storage, and key-file authentication.
Replica-set initialization and reconciliation charts/mongodb/templates/job-rs-init.yaml, charts/mongodb/templates/NOTES.txt, charts/mongodb/tests/arbiter_test.yaml	The initialization Job runs on install and upgrade. It waits for a primary, reconciles data members, adds or removes the arbiter, and preserves implicit write concerns.
Operational documentation and examples charts/mongodb/README.md, charts/mongodb/DESIGN.md, charts/mongodb/docs/replicaset.md	The documentation describes arbiter topology, generated resources, scaling behavior, write-concern handling, and operational boundaries.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a2134

This change adds arbiter support and topology reconciliation, but upgrades can currently fail when write-concern preservation happens too late, while long release names can produce invalid arbiter resources. These bounded correctness and deployment issues should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Helm
  participant ArbiterStatefulSet
  participant RsInitJob
  participant SeedMember
  participant ReplicaSet
  Helm->>ArbiterStatefulSet: Render one arbiter replica
  Helm->>RsInitJob: Run post-install or post-upgrade hook
  RsInitJob->>SeedMember: Wait for elected PRIMARY
  RsInitJob->>ArbiterStatefulSet: Wait for arbiter ping
  RsInitJob->>ReplicaSet: Add or remove arbiterOnly member
  ReplicaSet-->>RsInitJob: Return replica-set configuration

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement issue #1075 by adding arbiter configuration, dedicated Kubernetes resources, replica-set reconciliation, validation, tests, and documentation for two data-bearing members plus a …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within scope for issue #1075. Documentation, examples, CI values, validation, and tests directly support the new arbiter capability.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding MongoDB arbiter support to the chart.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes implement issue #1075 by adding arbiter configuration, dedicated Kubernetes resources, replica-set reconciliation, validation, tests, and documentation for two data-bearing members plus a non-data-bearing arbiter.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (14 skipped: 14 unsupported.)

✨ Finishing Touches

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch fix/mongodb-arbiter-support

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Inline comments:
In `@charts/mongodb/docs/replicaset.md`:
- Around line 123-134: Update both charts/mongodb/docs/replicaset.md lines
123-134 and charts/mongodb/README.md lines 294-306 to state that the
post-upgrade hook calls preserve_implicit_write_concern() before adding missing
data-bearing members with rs.add(). Add a regression test covering scale-up from
two data members in a PSA set to four data-bearing members.

In `@charts/mongodb/templates/_helpers.tpl`:
- Around line 87-100: Update the arbiter naming helpers around
mongodb.arbiterName and mongodb.arbiterHeadlessServiceName to truncate the base
name to 46 characters before appending suffixes, keeping all derived DNS-label
names within 63 characters. Update the hook to reuse the derived ARBITER_NAME
via mongodb.arbiterName instead of constructing the StatefulSet name directly,
and add a render test covering a 63-character fullnameOverride.

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📒 Files selected for processing (14)

• charts/mongodb/DESIGN.md
• charts/mongodb/README.md
• charts/mongodb/ci/arbiter-values.yaml
• charts/mongodb/docs/replicaset.md
• charts/mongodb/examples/replicaset-arbiter.yaml
• charts/mongodb/templates/NOTES.txt
• charts/mongodb/templates/_helpers.tpl
• charts/mongodb/templates/arbiter-service.yaml
• charts/mongodb/templates/arbiter-statefulset.yaml
• charts/mongodb/templates/job-rs-init.yaml
• charts/mongodb/tests/arbiter_test.yaml
• charts/mongodb/tests/validate_test.yaml
• charts/mongodb/values.schema.json
• charts/mongodb/values.yaml

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