Refactor agent tolerations for null case and update related changelog

.chloggen/enhance-agent-daemonset-toleration.yaml → .chloggen/refactor-agent-daemonset-toleration.yaml

@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 # One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
-change_type: enhancement
+change_type: breaking
 # The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, operator, chart, other)
 component: agent
 # A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
 note: Make it so the default tolerations used to deploy the agent collector account for k8s distribution
 # One or more tracking issues related to the change
-issues: [1562]
+issues: [1562,1572]
 # (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
 # These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
 # Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
-subtext: OpenShift infra nodes and AKS system nodes will now be monitored by the agent by default
+subtext: |
+  The agent collector now adjusts default tolerations based on Kubernetes distributions.
+  OpenShift infra nodes and AKS system nodes are included in default monitoring.
+  Default tolerations are applied when `tolerations: []` is set, instead of being explicitly defined in `values.yaml`.
+  To disable default tolerations (previously settable using the value `tolerations: []`), now only use the values `tolerations:` or `tolerations: null`.

helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/daemonset.yaml

@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ spec:
       affinity:
         {{ toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
       {{- end }}
+      {{- if ne .Values.tolerations nil }}
       tolerations:
-      {{- if and (.Values.tolerations) (ne (len .Values.tolerations) 0) }}
+      {{- if (ne (len .Values.tolerations) 0) }}
         {{ toYaml .Values.tolerations | nindent 8 }}
       {{- else }}
         - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/master
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ spec:
           operator: Exists
         {{- end }}
       {{- end }}
+      {{- end }}
       {{- if and (eq (include "splunk-otel-collector.logsEnabled" .) "true") (not .Values.isWindows) (not $agent.skipInitContainers) }}
       initContainers:
         {{- if and (eq .Values.logsEngine "fluentd") (not (eq .Values.distribution "gke/autopilot")) }}

helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml

@@ -1009,9 +1009,13 @@ secret:
   # Specifies whether secret provided by user should be validated.
   validateSecret: true
 
-# The tolerations for deploying the agent collector daemonset. By default, it targets control-plane, worker,
-# and k8s distribution-specific nodes (infrastructure or system) to ensure logs and metrics collection from nodes.
-# If set, the specified tolerations will override the defaults.
+# Configures tolerations for deploying the agent collector DaemonSet.
+# - Set to null to omit the tolerations section entirely.
+# - Set to an empty list to apply the default tolerations defined in the template:
+#   https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector-chart/blob/main/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/daemonset.yaml
+#   By default, it targets control-plane, worker, and k8s distribution-specific nodes
+#   (infrastructure or system) to ensure logs and metrics collection from all nodes, taking distribution into account.
+# - Set custom tolerations and they will explicitly and completely be used as the value for tolerations.
 tolerations: []
 
 # Defines which nodes should be selected to deploy the agent collector daemonset.