fix(e2e): wait for controller leader election before running tests - #1002
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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>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe controller readiness utility now waits for a recent leader lease renewal. The admin CLI E2E context creates clients and exporters in shared setup and verifies each resource in dedicated tests. ChangesController readiness and E2E verification
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~15–30 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change aims to prevent end-to-end jobs from hanging by waiting for controller leadership and failing setup early, but the current implementation can still abort while the Lease is absent, misread valid lease timestamps, and allow dependent tests to continue after setup failure. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded test-reliability issues are fixed. Suggested reviewers: 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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controller/hack/utilse2e/test/e2e_test.go
| renew_time=$(kubectl get lease a38b78e7.jumpstarter.dev -n "${namespace}" \ | ||
| -o jsonpath='{.spec.renewTime}' 2>/dev/null) | ||
| if [ -n "$renew_time" ]; then | ||
| renew_epoch=$(date -d "$renew_time" +%s 2>/dev/null || date -j -f "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" "${renew_time%%.*}" +%s 2>/dev/null) | ||
| now_epoch=$(date +%s) | ||
| if [ -n "$renew_epoch" ] && [ $((now_epoch - renew_epoch)) -lt 30 ]; then |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Make Lease polling tolerate absence and validate timestamps correctly.
When the Lease is absent, kubectl get lease returns non-zero. Because this helper is sourced while set -e is enabled, the lookup can terminate the script before the retry loop runs; guard the lookup so a missing Lease produces an empty value and continues polling.
Also parse renewTime as UTC for both date implementations, normalize fractional and whole-second RFC3339 values, and accept only lease ages from 0 through 29 seconds so future or stale timestamps do not incorrectly satisfy readiness.
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In `@controller/hack/utils` around lines 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.
| It("clients were created", func() { | ||
| out, err := Jmp("config", "client", "list", "-o", "yaml") | ||
| Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), out) | ||
| Expect(out).To(ContainSubstring("test-client-legacy")) | ||
| }) | ||
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| It("exporters were created", func() { | ||
| out, err := Jmp("config", "exporter", "list", "-o", "yaml") | ||
| Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), out) | ||
| Expect(out).To(ContainSubstring("test-exporter-legacy")) | ||
| }) |
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printf '%s\n' '--- Ginkgo version and test commands ---'
rg -n 'onsi/ginkgo|ginkgo/v2|ContinueOnFailure|BeforeAll|AfterAll|Describe|When|It\(' \
e2e go.mod go.sum Makefile 2>/dev/null | head -n 240
printf '%s\n' '--- related resource and lifecycle references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'test-client-legacy|test-exporter-legacy|login|exporter' e2e/test 2>/dev/null | head -n 320Repository: jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter
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Ginkgo v2.28.1 ContinueOnFailure Ordered BeforeAll failed later specs skipped semantics
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In Ginkgo v2.28.1, the ContinueOnFailure decorator modifies the default behavior of Ordered containers regarding spec execution after a failure [1][2]. Ordinarily, when a spec fails within an Ordered container, Ginkgo treats the entire container as suspect and skips all remaining specs in that container [3][4]. Adding the ContinueOnFailure decorator to the outermost Ordered container allows Ginkgo to proceed with the remaining specs even if a failure occurs [1][5]. However, there is a critical exception regarding setup nodes: if a BeforeAll block or a BeforeEach/JustBeforeEach block annotated with OncePerOrdered fails, Ginkgo considers the preconditions for the entire Ordered container to have failed [1]. In this scenario, no specs within that Ordered container will run, regardless of the presence of the ContinueOnFailure decorator [1]. Key constraints for using ContinueOnFailure include: - It must be applied to the outermost Ordered container [1][5]. - It cannot be used on nested Ordered containers; attempting to do so will result in an error [1][6].
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/blob/master/decorator_dsl.go
- 2: https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- 3: https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/MIGRATING_TO_V2
- 4: continue after failure in ordered container onsi/ginkgo#966
- 5: Support BeforeAll/AfterAll in un-Ordered container onsi/ginkgo#1103
- 6: Apply
ContinueOnFailureto nestedOrderedtest containers onsi/ginkgo#1201
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printf '%s\n' '--- repository documentation references ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- read-only semantic source verifier ---'
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from pathlib import Path
repo = Path("e2e/test/e2e_test.go").read_text()
ginkgo = Path("/home/jailuser/go/pkg/mod/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2@v2.28.1/internal/group.go").read_text()
assert 'Describe("Core E2E Tests", Label("core"), Ordered, ContinueOnFailure' in repo
creation = repo.index('Context("Admin CLI resource creation"')
login = repo.index('Context("OIDC / SA login"')
clients = repo.index('It("clients were created"')
exporters = repo.index('It("exporters were created"')
assert creation < clients < exporters < login
assert 'if g.failedInARunOnceBefore && g.continueOnFailure' in ginkgo
assert 'Spec skipped because a BeforeAll node failed' in ginkgo
assert 'g.continueOnFailure = specs[0].Nodes.FirstNodeMarkedOrdered().MarkedContinueOnFailure' in ginkgo
print("source structure: resource checks are sibling It nodes before login specs")
print("Ginkgo v2.28.1: failed BeforeAll skips later specs even with ContinueOnFailure")
print("Ginkgo v2.28.1: ordinary failed It nodes are governed separately by g.succeeded/continueOnFailure")
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repo = Path("e2e/test/e2e_test.go").read_text()
ginkgo = Path("/home/jailuser/go/pkg/mod/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2@v2.28.1/internal/group.go").read_text()
assert 'Describe("Core E2E Tests", Label("core"), Ordered, ContinueOnFailure' in repo
creation = repo.index('Context("Admin CLI resource creation"')
login = repo.index('Context("OIDC and SA login"')
clients = repo.index('It("clients were created"')
exporters = repo.index('It("exporters were created"')
assert creation < clients < exporters < login
assert 'if g.failedInARunOnceBefore && g.continueOnFailure' in ginkgo
assert 'Spec skipped because a BeforeAll node failed' in ginkgo
assert 'g.continueOnFailure = specs[0].Nodes.FirstNodeMarkedOrdered().MarkedContinueOnFailure' in ginkgo
assert 'failedInARunOnceBefore = g.attemptSpec(attempt == maxAttempts-1, spec)' in ginkgo
assert 'g.failedInARunOnceBefore = true' in ginkgo
assert 'g.succeeded = false' in ginkgo
print("source structure: resource checks are It nodes before the login context")
print("ordinary It failure: ContinueOnFailure permits later specs")
print("BeforeAll failure: the group records failedInARunOnceBefore and skips later specs")
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creation = repo.index('Context("Admin CLI resource creation"')
clients = repo.index('It("clients were created"')
exporters = repo.index('It("exporters were created"')
login = repo.index('Context("OIDC and SA login"')
assert 'Ordered, ContinueOnFailure' in repo
assert creation < clients < exporters < login
assert 'if !g.succeeded && !g.continueOnFailure' in group
assert 'if g.failedInARunOnceBefore && g.continueOnFailure' in group
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print("PASS: current list checks are ordinary It nodes before dependent login specs")
print("PASS: ContinueOnFailure allows later ordinary It nodes after an It failure")
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Make resource verification a setup gate.
Move both list assertions into the BeforeAll after resource creation. A failed It does not stop later specs under ContinueOnFailure; a failed BeforeAll skips dependent specs.
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In `@e2e/test/e2e_test.go` around lines 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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Should we also/instead fix the controllers to make sure they don't declare healthy status until leader acquired? wdyt?
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If the LoginService being leader-only is acceptable (it's low throughput), then this becomes straightforward. The fix is a one-liner in each controller binary — replace healthz.Ping with healthz.LeaderElectionCheck:
// controller/cmd/main.go (line 324):
mgr.AddReadyzCheck("readyz", healthz.LeaderElectionCheck(mgr))Same change in controller/cmd/exporter-set-controller/main.go and controller/deploy/operator/cmd/main.go.
This would:
- Make standby replicas report not-ready → removed from all Service endpoints
- Fix this PR's root cause (pod "Available" before leader election) at the source
- Also fix the existing HA bug where ~50% of gRPC traffic hits non-leader pods that aren't listening on port 8082
The shell-side wait in this PR is still good to keep as belt-and-suspenders for e2e, and the BeforeAll refactor is a standalone improvement. But the LeaderElectionCheck change could either be added to this PR or tracked as a follow-up.
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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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| renew_time=$(kubectl get lease a38b78e7.jumpstarter.dev -n "${namespace}" \ | ||
| -o jsonpath='{.spec.renewTime}' 2>/dev/null) |
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The script runs under set -eo pipefail (line 4 of this file) and set -exo pipefail in deploy_with_operator.sh which sources it. If the Lease object doesn't exist yet, kubectl get lease returns non-zero. In a simple variable assignment (var=$(cmd)), set -e will abort the script — 2>/dev/null only suppresses stderr, not the exit code.
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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("clients were created", func() { | ||
| out, err := Jmp("config", "client", "list", "-o", "yaml") | ||
| Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), out) | ||
| Expect(out).To(ContainSubstring("test-client-legacy")) | ||
| }) | ||
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| It("exporters were created", func() { | ||
| out, err := Jmp("config", "exporter", "list", "-o", "yaml") | ||
| Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), out) | ||
| Expect(out).To(ContainSubstring("test-exporter-legacy")) | ||
| }) |
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CodeRabbit suggested moving these list-verification assertions back into the BeforeAll. Their reasoning is that under ContinueOnFailure, a failed It won't stop later specs, so if the verification fails the downstream specs would still run and time out.
However, I think the current approach is fine: the purpose of the BeforeAll is to create resources, and these It blocks verify creation succeeded. If creation itself fails in BeforeAll, Ginkgo v2 already skips all specs in the container (even with ContinueOnFailure). These It blocks provide better diagnostics by separating "creation command succeeded" (checked in BeforeAll) from "resource is visible in config" (checked here). If the list check fails, it's a less severe issue that shouldn't necessarily abort the entire suite.
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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: