fix(controllers): keep EtcdCluster status truthful when etcd is unreachable - #369
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…chable On a converged cluster (ClusterID latched, current==desired), the steady-state promote and auth attempts returned their transient requeue directly, short-circuiting the reconcile before updateStatus. When etcd became unreachable the promote path took its MemberList-failure branch and requeued, so the cluster's Available/Degraded conditions and ReadyMembers froze at their last-healthy value. A fully down cluster kept advertising Available=True/QuorumHealthy indefinitely even though every EtcdMember had already flipped Ready=False. updateStatus derives the cluster conditions from the member set, so running it on every converged pass reports the truth on its own. Thread the promote/auth transient requeue through updateStatus via `pending` instead of returning early; the status write always happens and the returned Result carries whichever requeue fires sooner. This matches the existing "log and fall through to updateStatus" stance already used for the TLS-config, credentials, and dial-failure branches in the same block. Fixes #367 Assisted-By: LLM Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe reconciler now updates cluster status before returning transient promotion or authentication requeues. It preserves health conditions during scale-up, reports unhealthy established voters, withholds ChangesStatus retry flow
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EtcdClusterReconciler
participant promotePendingLearner
participant reconcileAuth
participant updateStatus
EtcdClusterReconciler->>promotePendingLearner: request promotion
promotePendingLearner-->>EtcdClusterReconciler: return pending requeue
EtcdClusterReconciler->>updateStatus: update status with pending result
updateStatus-->>EtcdClusterReconciler: return earlier requeue
EtcdClusterReconciler->>reconcileAuth: reconcile authentication after promotion clears
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to During scale-up, a cluster with a healthy majority of established etcd voters can be reported as unavailable while learners are still joining. Correct the voter-based quorum calculation before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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- Merge the doubled updateStatus doc comment into one paragraph. - Preserve the pre-fix promote-before-auth serialization: only attempt reconcileAuth when the promote step produced no pending requeue, so the auth-enable flip can't race an in-flight promotion. Previously a non-nil auth result could overwrite (and lengthen) a sooner promote requeue. - Add TestSoonerRequeue covering the nil, requeue-now, and shorter/longer delay branches of the requeue-merge helper. Assisted-By: LLM Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
Tighten the comments added for the etcd-unreachable status fix to the load-bearing invariant; drop narration and ticket references. Assisted-By: LLM Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the quick turnaround on #367. The change does cure the exact case in the issue, CI is green, and the test fails against main as claimed. Requesting changes because threading the promote/auth requeue into updateStatus introduces two status-semantics regressions, leaves two sibling freezes of the same class in place, and the new helper has a latent bug. Details below, most severe first.
1. Degraded now flaps on every routine scale-up
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:354
When the last learner has been added, current == desired, so the promote block runs. A learner-not-ready retry (tryPromoteLearner → RequeueAfter: 5s) used to return early with no status write. It now falls into updateStatus with ready == 2, desired == 3, which hits the ready > desired/2 branch and writes Available=True/QuorumAvailable "2/3 members ready" plus Degraded=True/MembersUnhealthy, while Progressing=True.
docs/concepts.md defines Degraded as the condition alerting pages on. The !allMembersReady gate at line 306-308 still suppresses the identical write for earlier learners in the same scale-up, so two identical mid-scale-up windows now report differently. No test asserts Degraded across a scale-up.
Suggested direction: keep threading pending, but do not rewrite the Available/Degraded pair while a not-ready promote retry is pending (or while Progressing=True and !reconciliationComplete).
2. Progressing=False/Reconciled is stamped while a learner is still unpromoted or auth-enable is still failing
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:1461
reconciliationComplete checks count, ClusterID and MemberReady only; MemberReady ignores IsLearner. On main the Reconciled write could only happen on the pass after promotion/latch succeeded, because the promote/auth requeue returned first. Now, with a learner whose MemberPromote keeps being rejected (raft log not caught up), or with spec.auth.enabled and a missing root Secret (reconcileAuth returns 10s forever), the cluster reads Progressing=False/Reconciled, ProgressDeadline is cleared, and Available=True/QuorumHealthy "All members are ready", although etcd has 2 voters + 1 learner or auth was never applied. Anyone gating on Progressing=False proceeds early.
The root cause is reconciliationComplete ignoring IsVoter and status.authEnabled, which predates this PR, but this PR is what makes it observable. Either extend the predicate or keep the Reconciled write gated on pending == nil.
3. The freeze is not fixed for an in-flight EtcdMember deletion
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:264
The PR body calls this path "a bounded, local-CR transient". It is not bounded. handleDeletion (controllers/etcdmember_controller.go:195-231) never drops the finalizer until removeMemberFromEtcd returns nil and requeues 5s forever; with surviving peer CRs and etcd down, it errors forever. On the cluster side, reconciliationComplete is false (2 != 3), deadlineExpired is false because ProgressDeadline was nil'd at convergence (lines 1466-1469), and the deletion-wait loop returns 5s before updateStatus. ReadyMembers=3 / Available=True/QuorumHealthy freezes exactly as in #367. Scenario: break-glass member deletion (or the memory-backed self-delete on pod loss), then all pods go down.
4. The freeze is not fixed on any scale path
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:308
Every scale-related return (deletion wait 268, hasPendingMember → scaleUp 282, !allMembersReady 308, scaleDown 315, and the 5s/10s returns inside scaleUp/completePendingMember/scaleDown) skips updateStatus. Healthy 3/3, replicas: 5, member 4 added as learner, node shutdown takes all pods down: status advertises healthy with 0 ready pods for the full 600s deadline, then handleDeadlineExceeded writes Available=False/DeadlineExceeded and returns without touching ReadyMembers (stays 3), Degraded (stays False/QuorumHealthy) or the PDB, and every later pass re-enters it until the user edits spec.
Items 3 and 4 are the same class as #367. If they are out of scope here, the PR body should say so and a follow-up issue should track them; but together with 1 and 2 they suggest the durable shape is to derive the member-based status before the scale fan-out (or on every non-error return) and keep it separate from the reconcile-state conditions that other writers own (cert-manager gate at 121, surfaceDiscoveryError 651/678/694, handleDeadlineExceeded 2005/2025). That is the first open question on #367; worth deciding before landing a second early-return patch.
5. soonerRequeue drops a pending retry for a zero base
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:1521
soonerRequeue(ctrl.Result{}, &ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: 10s}) returns ctrl.Result{}: neither Requeue is set and 10s < 0 is false, so the transient retry is lost. Latent today because the only caller passes a 30s base, but the helper is package-level and documented as "whichever requeues sooner"; the next soonerRequeue(ctrl.Result{}, pending) caller silently loses its retry. Also, {Requeue: true, RequeueAfter: 40s} is treated as immediate, but controller-runtime v0.21 dispatches RequeueAfter > 0 before Requeue (and Result.Requeue is deprecated there). Treat base.RequeueAfter == 0 && !base.Requeue as "never", or narrow the doc and signature to the one shape used, and add the zero-base case to TestSoonerRequeue.
6. The auth-gate comment gives the wrong reason
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:372
"auth-enable must not race an in-flight promotion": tryPromoteLearner calls MemberPromote synchronously under a 10s timeout and cancels before returning, so nothing is in flight by the time pending is set, and enabling auth alongside a Ready-but-unpromoted learner is harmless. What the gate actually protects against is a second etcd dial right after promote's MemberList timed out: reconcileAuth's AuthStatus/UserAdd/UserGrantRole/AuthEnable use the raw reconcile ctx with no deadline, and clientv3 defaults to WaitForReady, so an ungated call against a dead endpoint stalls the worker. Please state that reason, or bound those calls with context.WithTimeout and drop the gate.
7. The pending parameter can be a caller-side merge
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:1350
pending is only read at the final return. updateStatus's only error path returns ctrl.Result{}, err, so
res, err := r.updateStatus(ctx, cluster, active)
if err != nil {
return ctrl.Result{}, err
}
return soonerRequeue(res, pending), nilat line 389 is equivalent, keeps the status writer decoupled from Reconcile's control-flow state, and removes the nil at the other five call sites.
Nits (non-blocking)
controllers/etcdcluster_controller_test.go:661:meta.FindStatusCondition(cluster.Status.Conditions, lll.ClusterAvailable)instead of the hand-rolled loop (already used intest/e2e/suite_test.go).controllers/etcdcluster_controller_test.go:614:metav1.Now().Add(time.Hour)rather than60 * 60 * 1e9.controllers/etcdcluster_controller_test.go:627: the fixture block is a near-verbatim copy of five others in the file; a sharedmembers(t, n, readyStatus)helper would let the test show only what it is about (members alreadyReady=False, staleAvailable=True).
- updateStatus withholds the Available/Degraded rewrite while the cluster is Progressing and not yet reconciled: the promote-after-converged pass reaches updateStatus with ready<desired, and the ready/desired ratio counts a not-yet-joined member against quorum, so it would flap Degraded on every scale-up while the live voters hold quorum. Matches the allMembersReady early-return that suppresses the same write for the earlier learners of the same scale-up. - The Progressing=False/Reconciled stamp (and the ProgressDeadline clear) now waits for `pending == nil`. reconciliationComplete only checks MemberReady, so a Ready-but-unpromoted learner or a looping auth-enable otherwise reads the cluster settled while etcd still has an unpromoted voter or auth was never applied. - soonerRequeue no longer drops a pending retry against a zero base: ordering goes through requeueDelay, which maps a zero Result to "never" and honours controller-runtime v0.21's RequeueAfter-over-Requeue precedence. TestSoonerRequeue gains the zero-base and precedence cases. - Correct the auth-gate comment: the gate exists so reconcileAuth's unbounded, WaitForReady clientv3 calls don't dial a dead endpoint right after the promote pass found it unreachable, not to avoid a (synchronous) promotion race. - Tests: assert Degraded across a scale-up and the withheld-Reconciled window; share a members fixture; use meta.FindStatusCondition. Assisted-By: LLM Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
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Thanks — pushed 73eea79 addressing items 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and the nits; 3 and 4 deferred to #371 per your offer. Per-item: 1 — Degraded flaps on scale-up. 2 — Reconciled stamped while a learner is unpromoted / auth failing. Went with the localized option: the 3 & 4 — deletion / scale-path freezes. Deferred to #371. Agreed they're the same class as #367 and that the durable shape (derive member-status before the scale fan-out, decoupled from the reconcile-state conditions) is worth settling before a second early-return patch — especially the progression-time quorum-denominator question item 1 surfaces. #369 stays scoped to the converged path it fixes; the PR body now says so. 5 — soonerRequeue zero base. Rewrote ordering through a 6 — auth-gate comment. Rewritten to the real reason: skipping avoids reconcileAuth's unbounded, WaitForReady clientv3 calls dialing a dead endpoint right after the promote pass found it unreachable — not a promotion race (promote is synchronous). Kept the gate rather than threading timeouts into the four auth RPCs. 7 — pending as a caller-side merge. Item 2's fix makes Nits: |
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In `@controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go`:
- Around line 1445-1446: The progressing branch in the health-condition switch
must derive availability and degradation from current ready voters and known
voter membership via Status.IsVoter, rather than preserving prior conditions
unconditionally. Keep the healthy Available=True and Degraded=False pair only
when every known voter is ready and any pending members are learners, and add a
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Thanks, 73eea79 addresses 2, 5, 6, 7 and the nits cleanly, and #371 is a good home for 3 and 4. One blocking item remains: the fix for item 1 reopens the #367 freeze for a class of clusters.
The progressing withhold has no quorum floor
controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go, the new case progressing: in updateStatus.
progressing := !paused && clusterProgressing(cluster) && !reconciliationComplete(cluster, running). On the converged path (current == desired) that reduces to "Progressing is True and some member is not Ready". It cannot tell "one learner is still joining" from "every pod is dead", and in both cases it leaves Available/Degraded at their last value.
Reproduced against 73eea79 with the new fixture: a converged 3-member cluster carrying Progressing=True/SpecChanged and Available=True/QuorumHealthy, scaleUpMembers(t, "test", "ns", 0, 3) (all three Ready=False), updateStatus(..., &ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: 10s}). After the write:
ReadyMembers=0 Available=True/QuorumHealthy "All members are ready" Degraded=False
That is the #367 shape again, now with readyMembers and Available contradicting each other on the same object.
When does a converged cluster carry Progressing=True? For one pass after any spec-change adoption, and indefinitely whenever pending never clears: spec.auth.enabled with a missing or wrong root Secret (reconcileAuth loops on 10s), or a learner whose MemberPromote keeps being rejected. Item 2's new gate is exactly what holds Progressing=True in those states, so a cluster with a broken auth Secret that then loses all its pods advertises QuorumHealthy forever.
Ask: keep the withhold for the joining-member window, but give it a floor so quorum loss is always written. Minimal version:
case progressing && ready > 0:
// Health left as-is; a learner is still joining and the live voters hold quorum.so ready == 0 falls through to the QuorumLost branch. Better, since the fixture already sets IsVoter alongside readiness: withhold only while the Ready voters still hold quorum among the live voter set (readyVoters > voters/2), and write QuorumLost otherwise. Either way, please add the all-down-while-progressing case as a test next to TestUpdateStatus_NoDegradedFlapDuringScaleUp; it is a few lines on the same fixture. Settling the denominator for the general case can stay in #371.
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clusterProgressing reads the cluster's own Progressing condition to decide what to write next, which is the self-referential status pattern #186 is about (status should be reconstructible from the world, not from the previous status). Fine for this PR given the scope, but the #371 shape should derive "a member is joining" from the member set (count vs observed, IsVoter) rather than from a condition this same function wrote on the previous pass.
The `case progressing` withhold in updateStatus left Available/Degraded at their last value whenever the cluster was Progressing and a member was not Ready, without telling a joining learner from a dead cluster. Progressing latches indefinitely when `pending` never clears (spec.auth.enabled looping on a bad root Secret, or a learner whose MemberPromote keeps being rejected), so a cluster that then lost every pod kept advertising Available=True/QuorumHealthy — the #367 freeze, now with ReadyMembers=0 contradicting Available on one object. Floor the withhold on quorum: hold it only while the ready voters still carry the live voter set (readyVoters > voters/2), counted in the existing member scan alongside `ready`. Once quorum is gone the switch falls through and writes QuorumLost. The joining-member window where live voters hold quorum still reports unchanged, so scale-up does not flap Degraded. The general joining-member denominator stays in #371. Reuse that voter count for the PodDisruptionBudget floor instead of a second scan. Test: all-down-while-progressing writes QuorumLost. Assisted-By: LLM Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
The all-down-while-progressing test only drove the fixture shape where down members carry IsVoter=false (voters=0). The shape the fix actually targets is etcd unreachable: syncIsVoter cannot refresh the MemberList, so IsVoter stays sticky-true while only MemberReady flips false (voters=3, readyVoters=0). Table-drive the test over both shapes via a new downVoterMembers helper; the floor writes QuorumLost in each, and dropping it reddens both subcases. Assisted-By: LLM Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
…is Ready The progressing withhold in updateStatus was floored on quorum (readyVoters > voters/2). That keeps a total outage truthful, but a single established voter losing its pod while Progressing is latched still left the cluster reading Available=True/QuorumHealthy "All members are ready" with Degraded=False, because the two surviving voters hold quorum. The state the withhold exists for is "a learner is still joining", and the predicate for that is every established voter being Ready: the only not-Ready members are joiners. Key the withhold on that instead. A not-Ready voter now falls through to the health switch mid-progression and surfaces as Available=True/QuorumAvailable plus Degraded=True/MembersUnhealthy. The all-down shapes still fall through to QuorumLost, and the scale-up flap case (two Ready voters, one joining non-voter) is still withheld. Adds TestUpdateStatus_VoterDownWhileProgressingWritesDegraded for the minority-voter shape. Signed-off-by: Timofei Larkin <lllamnyp@gmail.com>
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Approving. 738f32e and 3b4e369 close the all-down hole, and I pushed 0c210ad on top for the last corner: with the floor keyed on quorum, an established voter losing its pod while Progressing is latched still read "All members are ready" with Degraded=False. The withhold is now keyed on every established voter being Ready (the only not-Ready members are joiners), so a down voter falls through to QuorumAvailable/MembersUnhealthy mid-progression; the all-down and scale-up-flap shapes behave as before. Test added for that shape. Merging once CI is green.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCalculate quorum from established voters.
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voters > 0andprogressingis false,updateStatusstill comparesreadywithdesired. During a scale-up to five members, two established voters can be ready while the third is unavailable and two learners are pending. The switch then evaluates2 > 5/2as false and can setAvailable=False/QuorumLost, althoughreadyVoters=2andvoters=3retain quorum.Use
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- Around line 1475-1496: Update updateStatus quorum evaluation to use
readyVoters and voters for Available and Degraded condition decisions whenever
voters > 0 and progressing is false, while retaining ready for ReadyMembers and
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Fixes #367.
On a converged cluster (
ClusterIDlatched,current == desired) the steady-statepromotePendingLearnerandreconcileAuthattempts returned their transient requeue directly, short-circuiting the reconcile beforeupdateStatus. When etcd became unreachable the promote path hit itsMemberList-failure branch (RequeueAfter: 10s) and returned early, so the cluster'sAvailable/Degradedconditions andReadyMembersfroze at their last-healthy value.Result: a fully down cluster kept advertising
Available=True/QuorumHealthyindefinitely, even though everyEtcdMemberhad already flippedReady=False. Monitoring/GitOps health checks gating on theAvailablecondition received a false-healthy signal.Fix
updateStatusalready derives the cluster conditions purely from theEtcdMemberset, so running it on every converged pass reports the truth on its own — no dependence on the operator's own etcd dial.updateStatusvia a newpending *ctrl.Resultparameter instead of returning early.Resultcarries whichever requeue fires sooner (soonerRequeue) — the promote/auth 5–10s retry still wins overupdateStatus's 30s steady cadence.This mirrors the existing "log and fall through to
updateStatus" stance already applied to the TLS-config, credentials, and dial-failure branches in the very same block (see the comments there).Genuine errors (
perrfrom promote,errfrom auth) still bubble as before — only the transient no-error requeues are threaded.Test
TestReconcile_UnreachableEtcdDoesNotFreezeStatus: converged cluster, staleAvailable=True/QuorumHealthyin status, 3 membersReady=False, a dialable fake etcd whoseMemberListerrors. After reconcile it assertsAvailable=False,ReadyMembers=0, andRequeueAfter=10s(the promote requeue survived). Verified it fails against the pre-fix early-return and passes with the fix.make test/go test ./controllers/green;go vetclean.Not in scope
Scope: this PR fixes the freeze on the converged path (
current == desired, all pods down). The same freeze class on the scale and in-flight-member-deletion early returns is not addressed here and is tracked in #371 — it turns on the durable "derive member status on every non-error return" shape, which is worth settling before a second early-return patch (see the review thread and #371 for the progression-time quorum-denominator subtlety).Also deliberately left out:
Unknowncondition: the per-memberReady=Falsealready carries the truth onceupdateStatusruns, andAvailable=False/QuorumLostis surfaced correctly.Summary by CodeRabbit