namespace must be provided so request knows where to go

Signed-off-by: Ryan Cook <[email protected]>

Author: cooktheryan

components/manifests/operator-deployment.yaml

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ spec:
           valueFrom:
             fieldRef:
               fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+        - name: BACKEND_NAMESPACE
+          valueFrom:
+            fieldRef:
+              fieldPath: metadata.namespace
         - name: BACKEND_API_URL
           value: "http://backend-service:8080/api"
         - name: AMBIENT_CODE_RUNNER_IMAGE

components/operator/main.go

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ var (
 	ambientCodeRunnerImage string
 	imagePullPolicy        corev1.PullPolicy
 	contentServiceImage    string
+	backendNamespace       string
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -47,6 +48,12 @@ func main() {
 		namespace = "default"
 	}
 
+	// Get backend namespace from environment or use operator namespace
+	backendNamespace = os.Getenv("BACKEND_NAMESPACE")
+	if backendNamespace == "" {
+		backendNamespace = namespace // Default to same namespace as operator
+	}
+
 	// Get ambient-code runner image from environment or use default
 	ambientCodeRunnerImage = os.Getenv("AMBIENT_CODE_RUNNER_IMAGE")
 	if ambientCodeRunnerImage == "" {
@@ -391,7 +398,7 @@ func handleAgenticSessionEvent(obj *unstructured.Unstructured) error {
 									{Name: "LLM_TEMPERATURE", Value: fmt.Sprintf("%.2f", temperature)},
 									{Name: "LLM_MAX_TOKENS", Value: fmt.Sprintf("%d", maxTokens)},
 									{Name: "TIMEOUT", Value: fmt.Sprintf("%d", timeout)},
-									{Name: "BACKEND_API_URL", Value: os.Getenv("BACKEND_API_URL")},
+									{Name: "BACKEND_API_URL", Value: getBackendAPIURL()},
 
 									// 🔑 Git configuration environment variables
 									{Name: "GIT_USER_NAME", Value: gitUserName},
@@ -1003,6 +1010,20 @@ func updateProjectSettingsStatus(namespace, name string, statusUpdate map[string
 	return nil
 }
 
+// getBackendAPIURL returns the fully qualified backend API URL for cross-namespace communication
+func getBackendAPIURL() string {
+	// Check if a custom backend API URL is provided
+	if customURL := os.Getenv("BACKEND_API_URL"); customURL != "" {
+		// If it already contains a fully qualified domain, use it as-is
+		if strings.Contains(customURL, ".svc.cluster.local") || strings.Contains(customURL, "://") {
+			return customURL
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Construct fully qualified service name for cross-namespace communication
+	return fmt.Sprintf("http://backend-service.%s.svc.cluster.local:8080/api", backendNamespace)
+}
+
 var (
 	boolPtr          = func(b bool) *bool { return &b }
 	int32Ptr         = func(i int32) *int32 { return &i }