simple-private-codecollection/docs/04-generation-rule-walkthrough.md

# 04 — Generation rule walkthrough

## What you'll do

Read the generation rule at [`codebundles/gcp-bucket-crossplane-health/.runwhen/generation-rules/gcp-bucket-crossplane-health.yaml`](../codebundles/gcp-bucket-crossplane-health/.runwhen/generation-rules/gcp-bucket-crossplane-health.yaml)
line by line and understand each block.

## The full file

```yaml
apiVersion: runwhen.com/v1
kind: GenerationRules
spec:
  platform: kubernetes
  generationRules:
    - resourceTypes:
        - buckets.storage.gcp.upbound.io/v1beta1
      matchRules:
        - type: pattern
          pattern: ".+"
          properties: [name]
          mode: substring
      slxs:
        - baseName: xp-bkt-hlth
          qualifiers: ["resource", "cluster"]
          baseTemplateName: gcp-bucket-crossplane-health
          levelOfDetail: detailed
          outputItems:
            - type: slx
            - type: sli
            - type: runbook
              templateName: gcp-bucket-crossplane-health-taskset.yaml
```

## Block-by-block

### Envelope

```yaml
apiVersion: runwhen.com/v1
kind: GenerationRules      # note the plural — the loader rejects "GenerationRule"
spec:
  platform: kubernetes     # per-file default; can be overridden per rule
  generationRules: [ ... ] # one or more rules
```

- `kind` must be exactly `GenerationRules`. RunWhen Local's loader
  compares this to a schema constant.
- `spec.platform` sets the default platform for every rule in the file.
- `spec.generationRules` is a list — you can define many rules per file.

### `resourceTypes`

```yaml
resourceTypes:
  - buckets.storage.gcp.upbound.io/v1beta1
```

This is the *selective discovery* signal. Because this string appears in
a loaded rule, the Kubernetes indexer knows to enumerate that CRD.
Without any rule mentioning a CRD, it would not be listed.

You can list multiple types in one rule if you want the same SLX shape
for each. Splitting into separate rules is usually cleaner though.

### `matchRules`

```yaml
matchRules:
  - type: pattern
    pattern: ".+"
    properties: [name]
    mode: substring
```

Match predicates are ANDed together. The pattern predicate here says
"the resource's `name` property must match the regex `.+` (i.e. non-empty)
as a substring". Since every Bucket has a name, every Bucket matches.

You can filter more aggressively if you want. Examples:

```yaml
# Only buckets whose name starts with "prod-"
- type: pattern
  pattern: "^prod-"
  properties: [name]
  mode: substring
```

```yaml
# Only buckets that carry the label env=production
- type: exists
  path: "resource/metadata/labels/env"
```

```yaml
# Combine — buckets in the prod GCP project label AND with a Ready condition entry
- type: and
  matches:
    - type: pattern
      pattern: "^runwhen-prod-.*"
      properties: [name]
      mode: substring
    - type: exists
      path: "resource/status/conditions"
```

### `slxs`

```yaml
slxs:
  - baseName: xp-bkt-hlth
    qualifiers: ["resource", "cluster"]
    baseTemplateName: gcp-bucket-crossplane-health
    levelOfDetail: detailed
    outputItems:
      - type: slx
      - type: sli
      - type: runbook
        templateName: gcp-bucket-crossplane-health-taskset.yaml
```

- `baseName` — short identifier appended to the qualifier prefix to form
  the final `slx_name`. Keep it under 15 characters (`xp-bkt-hlth` is 11).
- `qualifiers` — determines both the **generated SLX name** and how
  many SLXs are produced.
  - Including `resource` means "one SLX per matching Bucket".
  - Including `cluster` prefixes the name with the cluster name so it is
    stable across multi-cluster workspaces.
  - **Not including `namespace`** — Crossplane managed resources are
    cluster-scoped; they have no namespace.
- `baseTemplateName` — the file-name stem for the templates. The output
  items resolve to `<baseTemplateName>-<type>.yaml` unless overridden.
  So `type: slx` looks up `gcp-bucket-crossplane-health-slx.yaml`,
  `type: sli` → `-sli.yaml`, etc.
- `levelOfDetail` — one of `none | basic | detailed` (or `0|1|2`). This
  gates whether the SLX is emitted based on the platform's LOD filter.
  Since our airgap `defaultLOD` is `detailed`, we set the SLX to
  `detailed` so it always renders.
- `outputItems` — one entry per artifact we want. `type: runbook`
  specifies an explicit `templateName` because we want to point at a
  file named `-taskset.yaml`, not `-runbook.yaml`, purely for convention
  matching what other RunWhen bundles do.

## What resource identity ends up in the SLX

Given a Bucket named `runwhen-nonprod-shared-litellm-logging` on cluster
`shared-cluster`, the rule will produce an SLX whose name is roughly:

```
shared-cluster-runwhen-nonprod-shared-litellm-logging-xp-bkt-hlth
```

RunWhen Local will *also* shorten and hash-suffix pieces as needed for
length. The exact rendering happens in
[`generation_rules.py::make_slx_name`](https://github.com/runwhen-contrib/runwhen-local/blob/main/src/enrichers/generation_rules.py).

## Screenshot placeholders

- `images/04-generation-rule-annotated.png` — the YAML above with arrows
  pointing to the resource type, match rule, and output items.

## Next

Continue to [05 — SLX and templates](05-slx-and-templates.md).