Env variable not added to multiple deployments with /- in the path if there is no other env variable defined before

[e9169]

What happened?

When trying to add env variables to several Kubernetes Deployments at the same time, it failed because one of the Deployments manifest didn't have environment variables defined before. Using '/-' don't add it if there are no envs defined in advance, instead it throws the error:

doc is missing path: "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/env/-": missing value

What did you expect to happen?

I expect that, if an item, an env variable in this case, doesn't exist and I end the path with '/-', that it's actually appended at the end. At the end of none, should be the first and only env variable in there.

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

#kustomization.yaml
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
namespace: argocd
resources:
- github.com/argoproj-labs/argocd-autopilot/manifests/base?ref=v0.4.17

patches:
- patch: |-
    - op: add
      path: /spec/template/spec/containers/0/env/-
      value:
        name: test
        value: test

  target:
    group: apps
    version: v1
    kind: Deployment

Expected output

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  namespace: argocd
  name: argocd-deployment
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
         env:
         - name: test
            value: test

Actual output

doc is missing path: "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/env/-": missing value

Kustomize version

v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3

Operating system

MacOS

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[varshaprasad96]

Just to clarify the issue, this happens because the env key is not defined in your deployment. Which basically means that the deployment yaml looks like:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  namespace: argocd
  name: argocd-deployment
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx

I don't see an issue in us appending the env variable directly if none is specified. But it needs investigation on whether it can be implemented in Kustomize.

[varshaprasad96]

/assign @garomonegro

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