[delize]

Related issue: #54013

fleetctl gitops --dry-run now fails when an app_store_id under software.app_store_apps is not available on the VPP account, with the same requested app not available on vpp account error the real apply returns. Before this change the dry run returned success before looking at Apple's asset list, so a wrong or unlicensed App Store ID passed CI and only failed during the real apply. When the failing app belonged to a fleet that was being added to the VPP list, fleetctl's two-pass re-apply had already cleared the other VPP fleets' App Store apps before it stopped, which is the incident behind #54013.

Two paths are covered in BatchAssociateVPPApps:

• Existing team. The dry-run early return moves below the existing vpp.GetAssets availability check. The check is read-only, so nothing is written on a dry run; it just runs before returning.
• Team that does not exist yet. The dry run used to return immediately when TeamByName came back not found, because the team's token cannot be resolved before the team is created. It now validates the requested Apple apps against the assets of every unexpired VPP token, and returns the same error when an app is available on none of them. When no token exists at all it keeps the previous behaviour and skips, since the real apply already reports the missing token. Play Store entries are not VPP assets and are ignored.

This addresses the "not alerted to in a dry run" half of #54013. #54023 adds the same check as a visible step in the GitOps repository template, for servers that predate this change. The graceful-failure half (the real apply halting and leaving other fleets without their apps) is not changed here.

Checklist for submitter

• Changes file added for user-visible changes in changes/, orbit/changes/ or ee/fleetd-chrome/changes.
  See Changes files for more information.
• Input data is properly validated, SELECT * is avoided, SQL injection is prevented (using placeholders for values in statements), JS inline code is prevented especially for url redirects, and untrusted data interpolated into shell scripts/commands is validated against shell metacharacters.
• Timeouts are implemented and retries are limited to avoid infinite loops (no new loops or retries; the added asset lookup uses the existing vpp.GetAssets client)

Testing

• Added/updated automated tests
  • TestBatchAssociateVPPAppsDryRunReportsMissingAssets: existing team, dry run, licensed app passes and nothing is written; unlicensed app returns the same 422 as a real apply.
  • TestBatchAssociateVPPAppsDryRunNewTeamReportsMissingAssets: team not found, dry run, licensed app passes, unlicensed app fails, Play Store entry ignored, real apply for a missing team still returns not-found.
  • TestGitOpsTeamVPPApps: two new table cases run fleetctl gitops --dry-run end to end against the mock server, one with an available app (passes) and one with team_vpp_invalid_app.yml (fails with app not available on vpp account). The existing wet-run cases are unchanged.
• QA'd all new/changed functionality manually
  • Reproduced the original gap against a Fleet Cloud tenant on 4.92.0: a PR adding a fleet with an App Store ID whose license had been bought for a different app passed the dry run, then the apply failed with requested app not available on vpp account after the VPP re-apply had removed the other fleets' App Store apps. With this change the same configuration fails at --dry-run.

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Notes for reviewers

• The dry run for an existing team now makes one extra outbound call to Apple's VPP asset service per team with Apple apps, the same call the real apply already makes.
• For a not-yet-existing team the dry run calls GetAssets once per unexpired token. Orgs with several tokens pay a few extra calls per new team on dry runs only.
• Existing tests that run --dry-run with app_store_apps for new teams against a mock store whose ListVPPTokens returns nothing keep their previous behaviour because of the no-token skip. Tests that do return tokens will now validate the requested IDs against the fake VPP server's assets (1 and 2 in StartAndServeVPPServer).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Dry runs now check whether Apple apps are available through unexpired VPP tokens, including when the team does not yet exist.
  • Dry runs report unavailable apps and expired-token errors without creating or assigning apps.
  • Dry runs also validate app versions, categories, platforms, and update windows before reporting whether the requested changes can be applied.
  • New-team dry runs require global VPP-app write access to check token availability; Android apps are validated without Apple asset checks.

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Dry runs now check whether requested Apple apps are available in VPP assets for existing teams and teams that do not yet exist. For new teams, the service validates authorization and payloads before reading tokens. It handles expired tokens and asset retrieval failures. The service returns errors for unavailable apps and performs no mutations during dry runs. GitOps integration tests cover successful and failing dry-run cases.

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A dry run can approve a set of apps that later fails to apply when the apps are split across VPP tokens. Resolve that mismatch before merging.

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[delize]

@jkatz01 thanks for the review. Pushed the changes:

• Added the VPPApp write authorization before dryRunValidateVPPAssetsForNewTeam, so the new-team dry run can't be used to read VPP assets without software write access. Covered with a role-matrix test.
• Also took the optional one. The new-team dry run now runs the same team-independent payload checks as the apply (platform, Fleet agent prefix, categories, version names, iOS auto-update window, collation of version names), sharing helpers with the main loop so they can't drift.
• One behaviour change worth a look: when several tokens exist, a token Apple rejects is skipped as long as another token answers, and the dry run only fails if none do. Fail-fast would have blocked every new-fleet dry run in an org on one revoked token. This is primarily common for regional based application deployments or for apps that are not globally available in the app store.

Rebased onto main. Heads up that lint is red for a reason unrelated to this PR: server/datastore/mysql/vpp_test.go:1419 calls InsertVPPAppWithTeam with three arguments after #54590 changed it to four, and #55006 merged the call. Main's own golangci-lint run on 2b77376 fails the same way. It's a trailing , nil at that call site. Happy to open a one-line PR for it if that's easier than fixing it on your side.

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Looks great, thanks!