Add annotation to force recreation of Jobs

[tun0]

I recently ran into this nice article. Which got me thinking: you might not really need the dependency stuff, but do would like for a Job to be kicked off when a new image is available. In which case the Kustomization part feels rather overkill. A "cleaner" solution would be to annotate said Job(s) with say kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/force: true and have those Jobs recreated whenever an immutable field changes.

See also slack.

[stefanprodan]

Update: This has been released in Flux 0.39.0

I've started implementing this here: fluxcd/pkg#453. After the SSA changes are merged and released, I'll enable the selector in kustomize-controller. We are not using boolean values for labels and annotations, the key will be kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/force with enabled and disabled as values.

[tun0]

Awesome!

[guicholeo]

@stefanprodan can this be applied to the Helm Release as well? I'm deploying a Job Helm Chart via a Helm Release.

[tun0]

Pretty sure that helm itself offers quite some methods for triggering Job executions?

[guicholeo]

They do, I want to recreate the Helm Release to pass the values I'm using in it. And the Helm Release is a dependency to other HRs

[stefanprodan]

@guicholeo there is no need for such an annotation inside charts, just set force in the HelmRelease upgrade spec.