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Domain filtering fix (GCP, Azure): The per-zone provider in add-active-group and remove-active-group CLI commands used RegexDomainFilter with pattern ^zone.example.com$, which only matches the exact zone name. The active groups TXT record name is kuadrant-active-groups.zone.example.com — a subdomain that doesn't match the regex. Azure's UpdateRecords()/DeleteRecords() silently skips records that don't match the domain filter, so writes appeared to succeed but never actually applied. GCP had the same filtering issue. Switched to list-based DomainFilter{Filters: []string{domain}} which matches subdomains. The get-active-groups command already used the correct filter.

TXT record quoting fix (AWS): The shared failover code wrapped TXT record values in literal double quotes ("\"version=1;groups=...\""). AWS Route53 requires this quoting at the API level, but GCP and Azure APIs accept raw, with literal quotes get stored as data, corrupting the value. Moved quoting responsibility solely into the AWS provider, accordingly adjusting the quotes in the existing tests.

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# Before fix: add-active-group reports success on GCP/Azure but record is never created
kubectl-kuadrant_dns add-active-group test-group -d gcp.example.com --providerRef kuadrant/gcp-credentials -y
# added group "test-group" to active groups of "azure.example.com" zone
kubectl-kuadrant_dns get-active-groups -d gcp.example.com --providerRef kuadrant/gcp-credentials
# Output: no active groups found

# After fix: add-active-group correctly creates the record
kubectl-kuadrant_dns add-active-group test-group -d azure.example.com --providerRef kuadrant/azure-credentials -y
# added group "test-group" to active groups of "azure.example.com" zone
kubectl-kuadrant_dns get-active-groups -d azure.example.com --providerRef kuadrant/azure-credentials
# Output: `test-group` shown as an active group

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an overview of DNS endpoint changes expected when removing a failover group, including records to be deleted or modified.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Applied exact domain matching for per-zone provider operations and corrected endpoint retrieval error messaging.
    • Standardised failover TXT record formatting while retaining support for existing quoted records.
    • Normalised Route 53 TXT values when reading and formatting updates.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for quoted and unquoted TXT values, compatibility with existing records, and group-removal impact analysis.

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Failover TXT targets now omit surrounding quotes internally. The AWS provider converts TXT values at the Route53 boundary. The change adds group-removal impact analysis and uses exact per-zone domain filters.

Changes: Failover TXT and domain handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Route53 TXT conversion
internal/external-dns/provider/aws/aws.go, internal/external-dns/registry/txt.go
Route53 TXT values are unquoted when read and quoted when written. The provider trims existing surrounding quotes before conversion. TXT registry generation passes false as the first argument to targets.Serialize.
Failover TXT values and removal impact
cmd/plugin/failover/shared.go, cmd/plugin/failover/shared_test.go, test/e2e/*_record_test.go, internal/controller/dnsrecord_controller_delegation_test.go
Failover TXT targets no longer include surrounding quotes. AnalyseGroupRemovalImpact reports endpoint deletions and modifications after group removal. Unit and integration tests use unquoted targets and cover quoted current-version compatibility and removal-impact cases.
Exact domain filtering
cmd/plugin/failover/add-active-group.go, cmd/plugin/failover/remove-active-group.go
Per-zone provider operations use exact domain filters. The endpoint retrieval error message is corrected.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to fa3e6

TXT records containing embedded quotation marks can be changed when read or written, potentially affecting failover metadata. Make the AWS quote handling escape-aware before merging.

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internal/external-dns/provider/aws/aws.go (1)

408-412: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add Route53 boundary regression coverage.

The supplied internal/external-dns/provider/aws/aws_test.go case passes Value: aws.String("random") and expects random. This case passes without the new read conversion. The supplied tests also do not show a write-side assertion for quoteTXTRecord.

Add cases for:

  • a quoted Route53 value that reads as an unquoted endpoint target;
  • an unquoted endpoint target that writes with one surrounding quote pair;
  • an already quoted target that remains unchanged.

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In `@internal/external-dns/provider/aws/aws.go` around lines 408 - 412, Add
Route53 regression cases in the AWS provider tests covering read-side removal of
surrounding TXT quotes and write-side behavior through quoteTXTRecord: unquoted
targets should receive one quote pair, while already quoted targets remain
unchanged; retain the existing unquoted-value expectation.
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In `@cmd/plugin/failover/add-active-group.go`:
- Line 109: Replace the direct DomainFilter literals in both per-zone filter
sites with externaldnsendpoint.NewDomainFilter([]string{domain}) so upper-case
and trailing-dot domain values are normalized before matching:
cmd/plugin/failover/add-active-group.go lines 109-109 and
cmd/plugin/failover/remove-active-group.go lines 90-90.

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In `@internal/external-dns/provider/aws/aws.go`:
- Around line 408-412: Add Route53 regression cases in the AWS provider tests
covering read-side removal of surrounding TXT quotes and write-side behavior
through quoteTXTRecord: unquoted targets should receive one quote pair, while
already quoted targets remain unchanged; retain the existing unquoted-value
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A few comments, but generally fine.

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🟡 Minor · Do not report endpoint deletion when removing the final active group. · shared.go:183-231

cmd/plugin/failover/shared.go:183-231
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not report endpoint deletion when removing the final active group.

When postRemovalGroups is empty, AnalyseGroupRemovalImpact treats registry ownership from inactive groups as removable and reports DELETE or MODIFY. The command only deletes the active-groups TXT record. No active grouped controller remains to run unpublishInactiveGroups, so the DNS endpoint remains unchanged. Dry-run therefore reports an incorrect endpoint action.

Return no endpoint impacts when the removal leaves no active groups.

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 	var impacts []EndpointImpact
+	if len(postRemovalGroups) == 0 {
+		return GroupRemovalImpact{
+			RemainingGroups: remainingGroups,
+		}
+	}
 
 	for _, ep := range endpoints {
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In `@cmd/plugin/failover/add-active-group.go`:
- Line 109: Update the per-zone filters in add-active-group.go at line 109 and
remove-active-group.go at line 91 to use each selected zone’s DNSName instead of
the wildcard domain argument. This ensures filters match zones selected through
wildcard domain patterns.

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In `@internal/external-dns/provider/aws/aws.go`:
- Line 411: Replace the `strings.Trim` handling of `val` with Route 53
quoted-string decoding that removes delimiters, preserves escaped quotation
marks, and combines adjacent quoted strings into their decoded TXT content.
- Line 750: Update the TXT value preparation at the val assignment to split
unquoted targets longer than 255 characters into multiple quoted strings within
the same Route 53 Value element, keeping each string within the limit and
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val := aws.ToString(rr.Value)
if r.Type == types.RRTypeTxt {
// route53 stores TXT values quoted
val = strings.Trim(val, "\"")

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Decode Route 53 TXT values without discarding data.

For a valid TXT value such as "abc\"", strings.Trim removes both the closing delimiter and the escaped final quotation mark. The target becomes abc\; a later change cannot reconstruct the original value. A multi-string value such as "first" "second" also remains partly encoded in the target. Parse the Route 53 quoted-string format and preserve the decoded TXT content. (docs.aws.amazon.com)

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This can be valid, but rather an edge-case with quotations placement not introduced by this PR. Might be worth fixing in the future

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@averevki, agreed that this is an edge case. The strings.Trim call is new in this PR, though, and it can discard an escaped quotation mark from a Route 53 TXT value. I’ll leave the finding open without blocking this PR. Would you like a follow-up issue for the TXT decoder?

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