Brian Kane 38dea0b56c feat: application-scoped policies (#7067)
Introduces application-scoped policies and global auto-applied policies
for KubeVela.

Key changes:
- PolicyDefinition gains `scope`, `global`, and `priority` fields
- Global policies (global=true, scope=Application) are auto-applied to
  every Application in their namespace (and vela-system globals apply
  cluster-wide) without being listed in spec.policies
- PolicyScopeIndex: in-memory singleton index of PolicyDefinition
  metadata, bootstrapped at startup and kept live via watch events.
  Follows KubeVela's 2-step lookup (local namespace → vela-system)
- ApplicationPolicyCache: per-app cache of rendered policy results,
  invalidated by spec hash, revision hash, or TTL; cleared on deletion
- Policy rendering pipeline extended to inject global policies before
  user-specified ones, respecting priority ordering
- Appfile.Context carries context.Context from controller into rendering
- Feature gates: EnableApplicationScopedPolicies and EnableGlobalPolicies
  (both Alpha, default false); admission webhook warns when a
  PolicyDefinition targets a disabled gate

Signed-off-by: Brian Kane <briankane1@gmail.com>
2026-03-19 07:58:15 -07:00
2025-12-16 11:18:14 +00:00
2026-02-10 15:00:44 +00:00
2021-05-13 10:03:26 +08:00



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