[devkoriel]

Reloader annotations set on this chart have never worked, and this makes them work.

Problem

Stakater Reloader reads its annotations from the workload metadata (Deployment.metadata.annotations), not from the pod template. The chart only exposed podAnnotations, which renders into spec.template.metadata.annotations, so any reloader annotation set through it is silently ignored and pods never roll when a mounted ConfigMap or Secret changes.

values.yaml actively documented the broken pattern:

podAnnotations: {}
  # configmap.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "erpc-config"

That comment is where the mistake propagated from. Live check on the legacy prod deployment, which sets exactly that:

deploy.metadata.annotations:  []
podTemplate.annotations:      [{"key":"configmap.reloader.stakater.com/reload","value":"erpc-prod-config"}]

So erpc-prod-config changes have never triggered a restart.

This is not theoretical. A Goldsky Edge credential in the new rpcs stack was wrong for weeks; once corrected in Vault, the ExternalSecret synced but the pods kept serving the old value because the key is injected via env[].valueFrom.secretKeyRef, which Kubernetes only resolves at container start. It took a manual rollout restart to take effect.

Change

• Add deploymentAnnotations, rendered into the Deployment metadata.
• Move the reloader example off podAnnotations so the documented pattern is the working one.
• Bump chart 0.6.7 to 0.7.0 (additive, backward compatible), README regenerated.

Verification

With the value set, the annotation lands where Reloader reads it:

kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: t-erpc
  labels: ...
  annotations:
    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: prod-rpcs-provider-api-keys

Unset, the render is byte-identical to before: zero annotation lines at Deployment level, podAnnotations behavior untouched.

Follow-up

A separate app-of-apps PR will set deploymentAnnotations on the rpcs prod and stage apps for *-rpcs-provider-api-keys, and can fix the legacy rpc-nodes apps to move their existing reloader annotation off podAnnotations.