temporalio/temporal-worker-controller

Manage the lifecycle of Temporal Workers

Stars: 187
Forks: 70
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 59
Avg merge: 4d 2h
Merged PRs (30d): 30

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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59 open issues indexed

[Bug] Worker pods fail TLS handshake when Connection uses a private CA (tls.caCertSecretRef) with API-key or no-credentials auth Open

rbac

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#612 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug] "Detected rollback scenario" logged on every reconcile for a steady-state current version Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#609 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
[Feature Request] Version-status selector in WorkerResourceTemplate (different policy for current vs draining versions) Open

worker resource templates

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#608 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Inactive WorkerDeploymentVersions with no open pinned workflow executions never cleaned up Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#596 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Helm chart: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration caBundle not wired to webhook TLS cert Open

helm

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#591 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[Feature Request] Support `worker_version` selectors in `WorkerResourceTemplate` Open

good first issue

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#588 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Feature Request] Gate per step of a progressive rollout Open

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#586 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Feature Request] Add E2E configuration matrix tests for TWC Open

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#584 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Support separate connection handling for controller and worker pods Open

rbac

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#578 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Generate `values.schema.json` file automatically Open

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#563 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Address cold-start problems with scale-to-zero scalers Open

autoscaling KEDA

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#547 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
flaky integration test: TestIntegration/7th-rollout-unblocked-after-pollers-die-version-deleted Open

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#542 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Automate syncing of Helm `values.schema.json` file Open

build-release helm

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#536 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026
[Feature Request] Eliminate ClusterRole requirement in namespace-scoped mode Open

rbac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#530 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Support Kubernetes Service Account Tokens as an auth mode for Connection (controller + worker pods) Open

rbac

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 48/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#515 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[Feature Request] Interoperability with K8S/GKE CapacityBuffer API Open

autoscaling GKE

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#509 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Expose Deployment rollingUpdate strategy (maxUnavailable/maxSurge) on TemporalWorkerDeployment Open

crd-change

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#496 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Automate execution of internal controller validation pipelines Open

build-release cicd

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#492 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Automatically build branch release images Open

build-release cicd

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#491 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Document new release cadence proposal Open

build-release documentation

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#481 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Build and Release Automation Open

build-release epic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#479 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Ensure that all CRD statuses are compatible with kstatus (used by Argo and Helm) Open

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#478 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Connection and Credentials Handling Improvements Open

epic rbac

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#477 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Document release process Open

build-release documentation

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#459 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2026
feat: support file-based / external API key credentials (API key counterpart of #311) Open

rbac

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#449 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Address scaling oscillations for scale-to-zero scalers Open

autoscaling

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#439 · 9 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 12, 2026
[Chore] Separate integration test pipelines out of saas-cicd Open

build-release cicd

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#428 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
[Feature Request] Consider using explicit configuration for temporal api key Open

rbac

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#375 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2026
[Feature Request] Support Datadog Pod Autoscaler (DPA) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#367 · Opened Jun 4, 2026
[Feature Request] Support Watermark Pod Autoscaler (WPA) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#366 · Opened Jun 4, 2026
[Feature Request] Argo Rollouts-like canaries (per step gate, rollback on gate failure) Open

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#365 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2026
[Feature Request] Support per-version metrics label templating to close loop on KEDA per-version scaling Open

autoscaling

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#355 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2026
[Bug] set-ramping-version and set-current-version return success without persisting state when backing system workflow is damaged Open

need information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#354 · 3 comments · Opened May 27, 2026
[Bug] Plan executor produces delete+update on same Deployment UID, then retries stale plan indefinitely Open

need information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#353 · 2 comments · Opened May 27, 2026
[Bug] HorizontalPodAutoscaler continuously rescales due to controller interference Open

autoscaling bug cannot-reproduce need information

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#350 · 10 comments · 2 assignees · Opened May 25, 2026
Revive retained zero-replica Deployments when a drained version becomes draining again Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#332 · 2 comments · Opened May 22, 2026
[Feature Request] Multi-pod worker deployments Open

crd-change

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#330 · 11 comments · 7 reactions · Opened May 22, 2026
Narrow TemporalConnection RBAC: finalizer updates currently require main-resource writes Open

rbac

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#321 · 1 assignee · Opened May 9, 2026
feat: support file-based mTLS credentials and TLS server name override Open

rbac

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#311 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 1, 2026
Systematize release process Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#310 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Controller pod crashes on startup when no TLS secret is provided (WRT webhook cannot be disabled) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#284 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Support per-build ConfigMaps generated from WorkerResourceTemplate and consumable by versioned worker Deployments Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#280 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Publish compatible versions of OSS and TWC Open

build-release documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#257 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
[Feature Request] Temporal Worker Controller as a library Open

enhancement

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#246 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 26, 2026
[Bug] Some fixes and details required to deploy successfully Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#237 · Opened Mar 22, 2026
Add Watch namespace support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#196 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2026
[Feature Request] Support custom labels on generated Kubernetes Deployment resources Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#187 · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Add controller upgrade path tests in CI Open

build-release cicd safety

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#146 · Opened Sep 22, 2025
Document Patch Rollout via Manual Mode + CLI Open

documentation enhancement

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#83 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025
run-book candidate: Steps an operator should take on pod initialization errors Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

temporalio/temporal-worker-controller#77 · Opened Jun 27, 2025

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