fix(e2e): wait for controller leader election before running tests - #1002
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe controller readiness utility now waits for a recent leader lease renewal. The admin CLI E2E setup creates clients and exporters once, then verifies each resource in separate tests. ChangesController readiness and E2E verification
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~15–30 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR improves E2E setup by waiting for controller leadership and failing ordered tests early, but stale Lease handling and non-fatal resource verification can still let tests start prematurely or cascade into long timeouts. Merge should wait for these bounded CI reliability issues to be addressed or explicitly accepted. Poem
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In `@controller/hack/utils`:
- Around line 251-256: Update the lease polling logic around the renew_time
lookup to tolerate kubectl get lease failures under set -e, parse fractional and
whole-second RFC3339 renewTime values as UTC in both GNU date and the BSD date
-j fallback, and accept the lease only when its age is at least 0 and less than
30 seconds, rejecting future timestamps.
Apply the same fix in `@controller/hack/utils` around lines 251 - 252.
In `@e2e/test/e2e_test.go`:
- Around line 110-120: Move the client and exporter list verification from the
separate “clients were created” and “exporters were created” It blocks into the
BeforeAll that creates those resources, keeping both Jmp list assertions there
so failures gate and skip dependent specs.
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Review Summary
Good fix for a real CI problem. The diagnosis is solid — the controller pod being "Available" before leader election completes causes downstream reconciliation-dependent operations to time out.
Findings
Shell script (controller/hack/utils):
- Bug: The
kubectl get leaselookup will abort the script underset -eif the Lease object doesn't exist yet. Needs|| trueto let the retry loop continue. (See inline comment.) - The leader election wait logic is well thought out — checking
renewTimefreshness rather than justholderIdentitypresence is the right approach for avoiding stale leases.
Test refactor (e2e/test/e2e_test.go):
- Moving resource creation into
BeforeAllis a good improvement. UnderContinueOnFailure, a failedBeforeAllskips all specs in the container, which is exactly the fail-fast behavior needed here. - The separate
Itblocks for verification provide good diagnostics.
Architectural note (re: @mangelajo's comment):
- The underlying issue is that the controller's readiness probe (
healthz.Ping) is not leader-election-aware. However, naively addingLeaderElectionCheckwould break theLoginServicewhich intentionally runs on all replicas and shares the same pod selector. This is an existing HA design issue that should be tracked as a follow-up, separate from this PR's scope. See inline comment for details.
Actionable items
- Add
|| trueto thekubectl get leasecommand to preventset -efrom aborting the script - Consider opening a follow-up issue for the HA readiness probe architecture
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Re @mangelajo's question — the idea of tying readiness to leader election is the right instinct, but it's more nuanced than it seems.
The current situation is already broken for HA (2+ replicas):
- The controller defaults to 2 replicas (
jumpstarter_types.go:335). - The gRPC
ControllerService(port 8082) only runs on the leader — it doesn't implementNeedLeaderElection(), so controller-runtime defaults totrueandStart()never executes on standby replicas. Port 8082 is not listening on non-leader pods. - But
healthz.Pingalways returns OK, so Kubernetes includes both pods in the gRPC Service endpoints. - Result: with 2 replicas, ~50% of gRPC connections hit the non-leader pod and get connection refused.
Doing this would make all gRPC traffic go to one controller when in HA (login and gRPC client/exporter traffic) but seems like the right thing to do as well, it was always designed with active/passive in mind.
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It's not that easy, so I think this is an ok workaround for our CI for now.
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The controller pod can be "Available" (passing readiness probes) before it has acquired the leader lease, which means it cannot reconcile CRDs yet. Legacy exporter creation depends on reconciliation to generate a Secret, so it times out when leader election is slow (~57s observed in CI). Combined with ContinueOnFailure, this caused every downstream spec to wait 5 min on kubectl wait before failing and retrying — effectively hanging the job for hours. Two fixes: - Poll the controller's Lease object in wait_for_jumpstarter_resources() until holderIdentity is set, proving reconciliation is possible. - Move client/exporter creation from It blocks into BeforeAll so that a setup failure aborts the Ordered container immediately instead of letting dependent specs time out one by one. Assisted-by: claude-opus-4.6 Signed-off-by: Benny Zlotnik <bzlotnik@redhat.com>
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In `@e2e/test/e2e_test.go`:
- Around line 122-129: Update the core lane entries in e2e/README.md to match
the test descriptions used by the It blocks for client and exporter creation,
including “clients were created” and “exporters were created”; remove or correct
references to the absent project-structure.md and e2e-doc-sync.md files.
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The controller pod can be "Available" (passing readiness probes) before it has acquired the leader lease, which means it cannot reconcile CRDs yet. Legacy exporter creation depends on reconciliation to generate a Secret, so it times out when leader election is slow (~57s observed in CI). Combined with ContinueOnFailure, this caused every downstream spec to wait 5 min on kubectl wait before failing and retrying — effectively hanging the job for hours.
Two fixes: