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fix(harbor): retry the nested system install instead of uninstalling it - #3621
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The harbor app chart renders a nested HelmRelease that owns the whole workload: the harbor Deployments, the inline RedisFailover and its volume. It carried Flux's default install strategy, and install remediation is an uninstall in every case Flux offers, so a first install that went over budget was torn down between attempts and the next one re-provisioned the redis volume and re-ran the master election from zero. That is reachable on a loaded runner. harbor-core blocks on redis while redis waits for its volume and its master election, and the nginx Deployment reaches the default progressDeadlineSeconds of 600s, which Flux reads as a stalled resource and fails the install early. The e2e wait budget for the release is the same 600s, so one teardown cycle consumes all of it and the second attempt cannot finish however fast it converges. RetryOnFailure keeps the manifests applied and retries the failed release, so the convergence already under way continues instead of restarting. Both actions carry the strategy because the controller performs the retry of a failed install as an upgrade, so on install alone the retry's own failure falls through to upgrade remediation. The cost is that a real upgrade failure retries rather than rolls back, which gives up no stable safety net: with retries: -1 and the default strategy, upgrade remediation already rolled back and retried without end. The remediation blocks stay because an absent release consults install and an out-of-sync one consults upgrade, both by retry count rather than by strategy. The change lands on the nested release rather than on the parent: the parent is built from the Application by the apiserver, which already stamps this strategy on both actions, while the nested release is the one that owns the workload and the volume a remediation deletes. Assisted-By: Claude <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe nested Harbor HelmRelease now retries failed installs and upgrades every 30 seconds. Helm tests verify both strategies and unlimited remediation retries. ChangesHarbor retry strategy
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…it (#3621) <!-- Thank you for making a contribution! Here are some tips for you: - Use Conventional Commits for the PR title: `type(scope): description` - Types: feat, fix, docs, style, refactor, perf, test, build, ci, chore - Scopes are not an exhaustive list — pick the most specific scope for the change and extend the list when a genuinely new area appears. 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A first install that misses its budget gets torn down, and the next one provisions the redis volume and runs the master election again from scratch. That happens on a loaded runner. harbor-core waits on redis, redis waits on its volume and the master election, and the nginx Deployment hits the default `progressDeadlineSeconds` of 600s. Flux reads that as a stalled resource and fails the install early. The e2e wait budget is 10m, the same as the deadline, so after a teardown the second attempt has less time than a first install needs. `RetryOnFailure` keeps the manifests applied and retries as an upgrade. Nothing is deleted, so the volume, the elected master and harbor-core's startup all survive, and the retry costs 30s instead of a full install. A Deployment clears `ProgressDeadlineExceeded` by itself once its pods go ready, so the retry lands as soon as the stack converges. This drops the teardown, not the deadline. The suite applies the release in one step and waits for it in later ones, so part of the budget is still left when the fail-early hits. That leftover is useless to a fresh install and usable to a retry that resumes. Whether the deadline or the budget also needs moving is a separate question, and an early deadline only becomes safe once a failed install stops being torn down. In production the win holds without any of that: a slow first install no longer deletes the Redis volume and the database. Both actions carry the strategy. The controller runs the retry of a failed install as an upgrade, so with install alone the retry's own failure falls through to upgrade remediation. The remediation blocks stay: an absent release consults install, an out-of-sync one consults upgrade, both by retry count rather than by strategy. It goes on the nested release, not the parent. The parent is built from the Application by the apiserver, which already stamps this strategy on both actions. The nested one owns the workload and the volume a remediation deletes. Same shape as the tenant CNI and CSI releases in #3552 and #3581, and the unit test follows theirs. Relates to #3445. ### Screenshots <!-- REQUIRED for UI changes: attach screenshots or screen recordings demonstrating the visual impact of your changes. PRs with UI changes without screenshots will not be merged. --> ### Downstream repositories <!-- Cozystack is upstream for repositories that are NOT kept in sync with it automatically, and nothing in CI compares the two sides, so a change here can break them silently. Which change forces what, and which file to touch, is the trigger map in docs/agents/contributing.md under "Downstream Repositories". Walk it before you tick anything. IF YOU ARE AN AI AGENT OR AN LLM, THIS IS PART OF THE TASK, NOT A FORM TO FILL IN: 1. Walk the trigger map against the actual diff of this PR, file by file. Do not decide from the PR title or from your memory of what you changed. 2. 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## What this PR does Backports to release-1.6, picked from main with `cherry-pick -x` in merge order. Each commit keeps the original message and its `(cherry picked from commit …)` line. - [#3581](#3581) fix(kubernetes): retry the tenant CSI install instead of uninstalling it - [#3621](#3621) fix(harbor): retry the nested system install instead of uninstalling it - [#3630](#3630) fix(tenant): retry failed etcd and seaweedfs installs in place - [#3735](#3735) fix(vm-instance): disable helm readiness wait on the VMInstance release - [#4799](#4799) fix: typo in monitoring-agents values.yaml ### Conflicts resolved by hand - [#3735](#3735): only `pkg/config/config_test.go` conflicted. release-1.6 has no `HelmServerSideApplyAnnotation`, so that test entry is left out, and two comments in `pkg/config/config.go` and `internal/controller/applicationdefinition_controller.go` are adjusted to what exists on this line. The rest is the original as is. Checked on this branch before opening: `helm template` of `monitoring-agents` and `vm-instance-rd`, `go build`, `go vet`, `go test` and the commit trailer check pass. Not run locally: `helm unittest` (plugin not installed) and `helm template` of `harbor`, `kubernetes` and `tenant`, which need values to render at base and head alike. CI runs the unit suites. ### Screenshots Not a UI change. ### Downstream repositories - [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change - [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) - follow-up: ### Release note ```release-note fix(kubernetes): the tenant CSI HelmRelease now retries a failed install instead of being uninstalled between attempts, so a failed install no longer takes the tenant's CSI node plugin and its propagated StorageClasses away while it retries. The same strategy applies to the upgrade action, which it has to: a retried install runs as an upgrade. One consequence is operator-visible: a failed CSI upgrade in a tenant cluster now retries the new manifests every 30s instead of rolling back to the previous release. fix(harbor): retry a failed Harbor install instead of uninstalling the release, so a slow first install no longer deletes the Redis volume and starts over fix(tenant): retry a failed etcd or seaweedfs install instead of uninstalling the release, so a slow first install no longer runs the cleanup hooks that delete the etcd data volumes, the SeaweedFS volumes and the filer metadata database fix(vm-instance): VMInstance HelmReleases no longer hang InProgress or roll back healthy VMs; the release no longer waits on VirtualMachine readiness, which helm-controller's kstatus poller cannot assess correctly for KubeVirt VMs. Existing VMInstance releases are brought in line automatically on upgrade. fix: typo in monitoring-agents values.yaml ```
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What this PR does
Harbor's app chart renders a nested HelmRelease that owns the whole workload: the Deployments, the inline RedisFailover and its volume. It had no install strategy, so it got Flux's default, and install remediation is an uninstall in every case Flux offers. A first install that misses its budget gets torn down, and the next one provisions the redis volume and runs the master election again from scratch.
That happens on a loaded runner. harbor-core waits on redis, redis waits on its volume and the master election, and the nginx Deployment hits the default
progressDeadlineSecondsof 600s. Flux reads that as a stalled resource and fails the install early. The e2e wait budget is 10m, the same as the deadline, so after a teardown the second attempt has less time than a first install needs.RetryOnFailurekeeps the manifests applied and retries as an upgrade. Nothing is deleted, so the volume, the elected master and harbor-core's startup all survive, and the retry costs 30s instead of a full install. A Deployment clearsProgressDeadlineExceededby itself once its pods go ready, so the retry lands as soon as the stack converges.This drops the teardown, not the deadline. The suite applies the release in one step and waits for it in later ones, so part of the budget is still left when the fail-early hits. That leftover is useless to a fresh install and usable to a retry that resumes. Whether the deadline or the budget also needs moving is a separate question, and an early deadline only becomes safe once a failed install stops being torn down. In production the win holds without any of that: a slow first install no longer deletes the Redis volume and the database.
Both actions carry the strategy. The controller runs the retry of a failed install as an upgrade, so with install alone the retry's own failure falls through to upgrade remediation. The remediation blocks stay: an absent release consults install, an out-of-sync one consults upgrade, both by retry count rather than by strategy.
It goes on the nested release, not the parent. The parent is built from the Application by the apiserver, which already stamps this strategy on both actions. The nested one owns the workload and the volume a remediation deletes.
Same shape as the tenant CNI and CSI releases in #3552 and #3581, and the unit test follows theirs. Relates to #3445.
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