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Summary

  • Derive the shared Weave Trace ServiceAccount from the Helm release name.
  • Have the trace workers reuse that account without creating component accounts.
  • Keep Azure workload-identity account selection unchanged.
  • Leave the separate base weave service unchanged.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable shared Weave Trace identity support for the main trace service and worker services.
    • Automatically derives a release-scoped service account name and supports custom annotations.
    • Prevents duplicate service account creation when shared identity is enabled.
    • Shared identity can be enabled or disabled through chart values.
  • Improvements

    • Updated Helm chart versions and bundled components to compatible releases.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for service account naming, annotations, enablement, and worker deployment behavior.

Validation (live cluster, 2026-08-19)

Tested end-to-end on a fresh EKS cluster, simulating the managed-install condition: a full operator-wandb install (release name wandb) with Gorilla's app.internalJWTMap overridden to trust only system:serviceaccount:<ns>:wandb-weave-trace (i.e. the Terraform-supplied list that wholesale-replaces the chart default).

Bug reproduced on released 0.44.5:

  • Chart created per-workload SAs (wandb-weave-trace, -trace-worker, -evaluate-model-worker).
  • Trace worker's dangerzone call (GET /service-dangerzone/secrets/... with its projected SA JWT in Gorilla-Internal-JWT) → 401 {"error":"unknown subject"}.
  • Trace server (trusted subject) → authorized. Exact production failure.

Upgraded in place to this PR's build (0.44.6):

  • helm upgrade completed in one revision — no immutable-field errors, no hooks failed, no manual steps, no Gorilla config change or restart.
  • Per-worker SA objects removed; trace worker + evaluate-model worker now run as wandb-weave-trace; wandb-weave untouched.
  • Same dangerzone call from the worker → authorized (404 for a nonexistent entity — identical response to the trusted trace server). 401 gone against the unchanged JWT map.

Functional check post-upgrade: admin login + GraphQL viewer OK; weave SDK session logged 10 nested @weave.op calls and read them back correctly (get_calls) — write and read paths healthy under the consolidated identity.

Notes for reviewers

  1. useWeaveTraceIdentity takes precedence over serviceAccount.create/name (only the Azure path wins over it). Since it defaults to true for the workers, installs that set a custom SA name/annotations (e.g. IRSA) on a worker will silently lose that SA on upgrade unless they set useWeaveTraceIdentity: false. Worth a values comment / changelog line.
  2. Pre-existing (not this PR): weave-evaluate-model-worker and weave-trace-agent-scoring-worker have no weave-trace-internal-jwt projected volume in values — they can't make JWT-authed dangerzone calls until that's added. This consolidation makes adding it trivially safe (same trusted subject).
  3. Coverage: trace-worker and evaluate-model-worker validated live; agent-scoring-worker not exercised (install: false pending 0.82) but uses the identical values mechanism.

Update (2026-08-21): umbrella-owned SA + JWT map cleanup

  • The shared <release>-weave-trace SA is now explicitly owned by the umbrella chart (templates/weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml, same pattern as azure-storage-serviceaccount.yaml/wandb-bucket-access), with weave-trace flipped to useWeaveTraceIdentity: true so all four workloads consume the flag uniformly — no implicit owner, no footgun if the flag is toggled on weave-trace. weave-trace.serviceAccount.annotations pass through to the umbrella SA (needed for IRSA/Workload-Identity users).
  • Default internalJWTMap drops the dead -weave-trace-worker subject and derives the surviving entry from the shared wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName helper (evaluated via the existing tpl wrap in api.yaml), so the trust map and the SA object share one source of truth.
  • Tests: weave_trace_service_account_test.yaml extended (umbrella render, annotations passthrough, disabled-gate, subchart no longer renders the SA) — 11/11 pass, full operator-wandb suite 60/60. Snapshots regenerated; the weave-trace SA's owning template change is visible in the snap diffs, rendered names and JWT subject strings unchanged, so the live validation above still holds.

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Confirmed how the four Weave-trace subcharts currently get their ServiceAccount: they're all aliases of wandb-base (see charts/operator-wandb/Chart.yaml:40-64) and resolve their SA through wandb-base.serviceAccountName in charts/wandb-base/templates/_helpers.tpl:87-95, which defaults to {{ .Release.Name }}-<alias> via wandb-base.fullname. With .Release.Name = wandb, weave-trace already produces wandb-weave-trace today — so the new weave-trace.serviceAccount block in this PR just restates the default and can be dropped.

The bigger issue: the three worker aliases hardcode name: wandb-weave-trace as a literal string. .Values.serviceAccount.name is not tpl'd by the helper, so '{{ .Release.Name }}-weave-trace' won't work as a values-side fix, and the current literal breaks the moment anyone deploys with a release name other than wandb.

Suggested design

Mirror the existing azureStorageServiceAccountEnabled / azureStorageServiceAccountName pattern already in charts/wandb-base/templates/_helpers.tpl — that helper is generic (backs every wandb-base-aliased subchart, not Weave-specific), and it already has one shared-SA short-circuit branch. Add a second one for Weave-trace:

1. In charts/wandb-base/templates/_helpers.tpl, add a new short-circuit branch and companion helper:

{{- define "wandb-base.serviceAccountName" -}}
  {{- if include "wandb-base.azureStorageServiceAccountEnabled" . | trim | eq "true" }}
{{- include "wandb-base.azureStorageServiceAccountName" . }}
  {{- else if .Values.serviceAccount.useWeaveTraceIdentity }}
{{- include "wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName" . }}
  {{- else if .Values.serviceAccount.create }}
{{- default (include "wandb-base.fullname" .) .Values.serviceAccount.name }}
  {{- else }}
{{- default "default" .Values.serviceAccount.name }}
  {{- end }}
{{- end }}

{{- define "wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName" -}}
{{- printf "%s-weave-trace" .Release.Name -}}
{{- end }}

2. In charts/wandb-base/templates/serviceaccount.yaml, extend the guard so opt-in workloads don't create their own SA:

{{- if and .Values.serviceAccount.create
      (not (include "wandb-base.azureStorageServiceAccountEnabled" . | trim | eq "true"))
      (not .Values.serviceAccount.useWeaveTraceIdentity) -}}

3. In charts/wandb-base/values.yaml, add the flag default:

serviceAccount:
  useWeaveTraceIdentity: false

4. In charts/operator-wandb/values.yaml, drop the weave-trace.serviceAccount block entirely, and on each of weave-trace-worker, weave-evaluate-model-worker, weave-trace-agent-scoring-worker set only:

serviceAccount:
  useWeaveTraceIdentity: true

No hardcoded name, no create: false — the helper handles both, and it stays correct regardless of .Release.Name.

Follow-up (not required for this PR)

Once all workers are on the shared SA, the three per-worker entries in internalJWTMap (-weave-trace-worker, -weave-evaluate-model-worker, -weave-trace-agent-scoring-worker) will be unused and can be removed. Keeping them during rollout is fine.

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charts/operator-wandb/tests/weave_trace_service_account_test.yaml (1)

37-93: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test Azure identity priority with Weave Trace identity enabled.

The worker tests enable only useWeaveTraceIdentity. They do not cover the branch where Azure workload identity is also enabled. The helper selects wandb-bucket-access before the release-derived Trace ServiceAccount in that case.

Add a render test for one worker with valid Azure workload-identity values. Assert that the Pod uses the Azure shared ServiceAccount.

As per coding guidelines, “Exercise every meaningful branch in Helm templates with render or snapshot tests.”

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@charts/operator-wandb/tests/weave_trace_service_account_test.yaml` around
lines 37 - 93, Extend the worker render tests around the deployment assertions
to cover the branch where Weave Trace identity and Azure workload identity are
both enabled. Configure one worker with valid Azure workload-identity values,
then assert its Pod uses the shared wandb-bucket-access ServiceAccount,
preserving the existing release-derived identity tests for the non-Azure path.

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In `@charts/operator-wandb/tests/weave_trace_service_account_test.yaml`:
- Around line 37-93: Extend the worker render tests around the deployment
assertions to cover the branch where Weave Trace identity and Azure workload
identity are both enabled. Configure one worker with valid Azure
workload-identity values, then assert its Pod uses the shared
wandb-bucket-access ServiceAccount, preserving the existing release-derived
identity tests for the non-Azure path.

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Follow-up on my previous comment — design landed cleanly, but seeing it merged I want to revisit who owns the SA object. Today weave-trace is the implicit owner via wandb-base.fullname happening to equal <release>-weave-trace; a reader who "helpfully" adds useWeaveTraceIdentity: true to weave-trace for symmetry would silently kill the SA and leave four pods ServiceAccountNotFound. Worth closing that footgun.

Precedent for the fix is exact: charts/operator-wandb/templates/azure-storage-serviceaccount.yaml already owns wandb-bucket-access at the umbrella level for the same reason — a shared identity that many W&B workloads converge on. The umbrella is the only file location that renders once per release; the weave-* workloads are all wandb-base aliases with no dedicated subchart to hold this. Filename carries the scope.

Concretely

1. Helper in charts/operator-wandb/templates/_bucket.tpl (next to weaveTraceUsesAzureWorkloadIdentity):

{{- define "wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName" -}}
  {{- printf "%s-weave-trace" .Release.Name -}}
{{- end }}

2. New umbrella template charts/operator-wandb/templates/weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml — gate only on weave-trace.install, otherwise render:

{{- if (index .Values "weave-trace" "install") }}
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: {{ include "wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName" . }}
  labels:
    {{- include "wandb.commonLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
{{- end }}

3. Flip weave-trace to useWeaveTraceIdentity: true in charts/operator-wandb/values.yaml so all four subcharts consume the flag uniformly. No implicit owner.

4. wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName stays as-is — the two printfs are load-bearingly identical strings; a one-line comment on each pointing at the other is enough.

Testing

  • Extend weave_trace_service_account_test.yaml with a case rendering the new umbrella template and asserting metadata.name: custom-release-weave-trace.
  • Regenerate weave-trace-with-worker.snap: same chartsnap-weave-trace SA, new owner (operator-wandb/templates/weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml). That diff is the receipt.

Live re-test isn't needed — the JWT map trusts <release>-weave-trace and that string doesn't change.

JWT map cleanup (do it in this PR)

charts/operator-wandb/values.yaml:855-859 still ships two default trusted subjects:

app:
  internalJWTMap:
    - subject: "system:serviceaccount:{{ .Release.Namespace }}:{{ .Release.Name }}-weave-trace"
      issuer: "https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local"
    - subject: "system:serviceaccount:{{ .Release.Namespace }}:{{ .Release.Name }}-weave-trace-worker"
      issuer: "https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local"

Two things to fix:

1. Drop the -weave-trace-worker entry. Post-consolidation no pod runs as that subject; the entry is dead. (For managed installs whose Terraform wholesale-replaces app.internalJWTMap — including the one you tested against — this is cosmetic; but the chart default is what OSS / self-hosted users get, and they'd wonder why a -weave-trace-worker subject is trusted for a pod that no longer exists.)

2. Make the remaining entry reference the umbrella SA symbolically so the JWT map and the SA object share one source of truth:

app:
  internalJWTMap:
    - subject: "system:serviceaccount:{{ .Release.Namespace }}:{{ include `wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName` . }}"
      issuer: "https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local"

This works because api.yaml:48 already wraps the rendered map in tpl (...), so the include is evaluated on the second pass just like the existing {{ .Release.Namespace }} interpolation. If we ever rename the helper's output, the JWT map follows automatically instead of going stale.

Worth noting for the incident record: the chart default never trusted -weave-evaluate-model-worker or -weave-trace-agent-scoring-worker — those two workers would have hit 401 against a stock install before this PR, since they had their own component SAs that were absent from the map. This PR fixes that as a side effect by routing all four onto -weave-trace.

Follow-up in wandb/core (do it together, or immediately after)

All three cloud single-tenant TF modules wholesale-replace app.internalJWTMap — they don't rely on the chart default, so managed installs continue working with this PR alone. But every module still ships the now-dead -weave-trace-worker subject and, on AWS/Azure, an unused SA-name local. Clean those up in a wandb/core PR:

…ject

The shared <release>-weave-trace ServiceAccount was implicitly owned by the
weave-trace subchart via wandb-base.fullname coinciding with the shared name;
flipping useWeaveTraceIdentity on weave-trace would have silently deleted it.
Own it explicitly in the umbrella chart (same pattern as
azure-storage-serviceaccount.yaml / wandb-bucket-access) and flip all four
weave workloads to consume the flag uniformly. Annotations from
weave-trace.serviceAccount pass through to the umbrella SA.

Also drop the now-dead <release>-weave-trace-worker default JWT subject and
derive the surviving entry from the shared helper so the map and the SA share
one source of truth (api.yaml already tpl-wraps the rendered map).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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charts/operator-wandb/templates/_bucket.tpl (1)

127-134: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the base helper to keep the ServiceAccount contract single-sourced.

Line 130 requires this helper to remain identical to wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName. The duplicated printf creates two sources of truth. If either helper changes, the umbrella ServiceAccount name and worker references can diverge. Delegate to wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName.

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 {{- define "wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName" -}}
-  {{- printf "%s-weave-trace" .Release.Name -}}
+  {{- include "wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName" . -}}
 {{- end }}
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In `@charts/operator-wandb/templates/_bucket.tpl` around lines 127 - 134, Update
the wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName helper to delegate to
wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName instead of duplicating the printf
expression, keeping the shared ServiceAccount naming contract single-sourced.
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Inline comments:
In `@charts/operator-wandb/templates/weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml`:
- Around line 1-14: Update the weave-trace ServiceAccount template around
$serviceAccount to honor serviceAccount.create before rendering and propagate
serviceAccount.automount to the ServiceAccount automountServiceAccountToken
field, matching the existing serviceaccount.yaml behavior; add render assertions
covering both disabled creation and automount=false.
- Around line 1-14: Format the weave-trace ServiceAccount Helm template
according to the repository’s template formatter, preserving its existing
conditional rendering and ServiceAccount fields.
- Around line 1-3: Update the ServiceAccount template’s top-level condition to
render when any supported identity-enabled workload requires it, not only when
weave-trace.install is enabled. Define and use the focused
wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountNeeded helper based on all four workload install
and useWeaveTraceIdentity flags, then add render coverage for each worker-only
configuration.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@charts/operator-wandb/templates/_bucket.tpl`:
- Around line 127-134: Update the wandb.weaveTraceServiceAccountName helper to
delegate to wandb-base.weaveTraceServiceAccountName instead of duplicating the
printf expression, keeping the shared ServiceAccount naming contract
single-sourced.
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Comment thread charts/operator-wandb/templates/weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml Outdated
Comment thread charts/operator-wandb/templates/weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml
format_templates.py pass on weave-trace-serviceaccount.yaml (lint check),
and regenerate user-defined-clickhouse-secret.snap which also renders the
default internalJWTMap and was missed in the previous snapshot pass.

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