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The hand-rolled watchForCondition loop re-creates watches when the channel closes, but if cl.Watch() itself returns a transient error when establishing the new watch connection, it propagates as a hard failure and terminates the entire CI job. Azure load-balancer idle-timeout drops trigger it: the TCP connection dies after ~4min idle, and the reconnection attempt fails before a new connection is established.

Two changes fix this:

  1. TCP keepalive (30s) on the management client rest.Config sends probes that prevent idle connection reaping before the Azure timeout fires.

  2. Replace the hand-rolled watch loop with client-go's toolswatch.UntilWithSync, which uses RetryWatcher internally to re-establish watches on any error (connection drops, timeouts, 410 Gone) with backoff.

Out of scope: transport-level retry of write operations and application-level CreateOrUpdate recovery. The hook calls (phases 1, 3, 5, 7) are short-lived requests that aren't susceptible to idle-timeout drops. Making those hooks fully reentrant and retryable at the operation level is a separate concern that requires lifting credential generation out of DeployKeycloak so retries produce identical inputs.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability when waiting for guest resources to reach their expected conditions.
    • Added more robust management-cluster connectivity with connection timeouts and keepalive settings.
    • Enhanced handling of resource updates, watch events, and transient failures during guest creation.
    • Improved error reporting when a guest resource cannot be found or does not reach the expected state.
    • Reduced the likelihood of stalled operations while waiting for resources to become ready.

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@ironcladlou: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-109595, which is valid.

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The hand-rolled watchForCondition loop re-creates watches when the channel closes, but if cl.Watch() itself returns a transient error when establishing the new watch connection, it propagates as a hard failure and terminates the entire CI job. Azure load-balancer idle-timeout drops trigger it: the TCP connection dies after ~4min idle, and the reconnection attempt fails before a new connection is established.

Two changes fix this:

  1. TCP keepalive (30s) on the management client rest.Config sends probes that prevent idle connection reaping before the Azure timeout fires.

  2. Replace the hand-rolled watch loop with client-go's toolswatch.UntilWithSync, which uses RetryWatcher internally to re-establish watches on any error (connection drops, timeouts, 410 Gone) with backoff.

Out of scope: transport-level retry of write operations and application-level CreateOrUpdate recovery. The hook calls (phases 1, 3, 5, 7) are short-lived requests that aren't susceptible to idle-timeout drops. Making those hooks fully reentrant and retryable at the operation level is a separate concern that requires lifting credential generation out of DeployKeycloak so retries produce identical inputs.

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The create-guests helper configures a custom management client dialer with a 30-second timeout and keepalive. The condition watcher now uses a metadata.name field selector with cache.ListWatch and toolswatch.UntilWithSync. It preserves progress logging and wraps errors with the HostedCluster namespace and name.

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This change improves watch reconnection resilience and TCP keepalive behavior for the create-guests test flow; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.


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No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ❌ Error The PR activates raw client-go error logging for the new watch path. watchForCondition now constructs a cache.ListWatch and calls toolswatch.UntilWithSync at lines 405-419. The vendored reflecto… Use a logging-safe client-go context or logger that redacts request URLs and error details, and do not log the raw wrapped watch error. Log only a fixed failure category plus the generated cluster identifier. Verify that list failures, watc…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main changes: using RetryWatcher and enabling TCP keepalive to improve create-guests watch resilience. It is specific and related to the pull request objectives.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only the create-guests helper. The diff adds client watch and dialer logic but does not add or modify any Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When declaration. Th…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only the non-Ginkgo create-guests orchestration helper. It adds no It, BeforeEach, AfterEach, Eventually, Consistently, or Gomega assertions. Both condition-…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go. The diff adds a TCP dialer and replaces a HostedCluster status watch with cache.ListWatch/toolswatch.UntilWithSync. It …
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request modifies only test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go; it adds no Ginkgo test declarations or test files. The changed code contains no hardcoded IPv4 values, IPv4-only parsing, …
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The PR adds net.Dialer TCP keepalive configuration and Kubernetes watch code only. The diff adds no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, crypto, HMAC, or constant-time comparison code. The new …
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go. The diff adds a TCP dialer and rewrites watch handling. It does not add or modify a container or Kubernetes manifest, and t…
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PASS: The pull request changes only the create-guests helper. The diff adds client watch and dialer logic but does not add or modify any Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When declaration. The dynamic namespace and name values occur in operational logs and error messages, not test titles.

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PASS: The pull request changes only the non-Ginkgo create-guests orchestration helper. It adds no It, BeforeEach, AfterEach, Eventually, Consistently, or Gomega assertions. Both condition-wait callers use bounded contexts (cfg.waitTimeout), and the new wait path preserves that timeout while returning a diagnostic waiting for namespace/name error. No new resource-creation test or cleanup issue is introduced.

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PASS: The pull request changes only test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go. The diff adds a TCP dialer and replaces a HostedCluster status watch with cache.ListWatch/toolswatch.UntilWithSync. It adds no deployment manifest, operator/controller scheduling logic, affinity, topology spread, node selector, toleration, replica strategy, or PDB. The existing --node-pool-replicas argument is unchanged and does not introduce a scheduling constraint.

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PASS: The pull request modifies only test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go; it adds no Ginkgo test declarations or test files. The changed code contains no hardcoded IPv4 values, IPv4-only parsing, external URLs, public hostnames, or registry downloads. The new net.Dialer uses a generic DialContext and does not assume an IP family.

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The PR adds net.Dialer TCP keepalive configuration and Kubernetes watch code only. The diff adds no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, crypto, HMAC, or constant-time comparison code. The new comparisons check object types and nil values, not secrets or tokens. No custom crypto implementation was introduced.

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PASS: The pull request changes only test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go. The diff adds a TCP dialer and rewrites watch handling. It does not add or modify a container or Kubernetes manifest, and the changed file contains no privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation, or root security-context setting.

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The PR activates raw client-go error logging for the new watch path. watchForCondition now constructs a cache.ListWatch and calls toolswatch.UntilWithSync at lines 405-419. The vendored reflector and retry watcher log raw list/watch errors, including klog ... Error(err, ...). The REST watch path can return Go url.Error values whose text contains the complete request URL, including the management API host. This can expose an internal hostname. The PR also wraps that raw error at line 430, and existing callers log it with %v at lines 212 and 237.

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Use a logging-safe client-go context or logger that redacts request URLs and error details, and do not log the raw wrapped watch error. Log only a fixed failure category plus the generated cluster identifier. Verify that list failures, watch reconnect failures, authorization failures, and timeout failures cannot emit URLs, credentials, tokens, or response payloads.

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Out of scope: transport-level retry of write operations and application-level CreateOrUpdate recovery. The hook calls (phases 1, 3, 5, 7) are short-lived requests that aren't susceptible to idle-timeout drops. Making those hooks fully reentrant and retryable at the operation level is a separate concern that requires lifting credential generation out of DeployKeycloak so retries produce identical inputs.

This would be a good followup, making the operations fully idempotent and reentrant would enable the entire flow to be automatically retryable internally like any other controller loop

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/test e2e-aws-upgrade-hypershift-operator
/test e2e-kubevirt-aws-ovn-reduced
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In `@test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go`:
- Around line 421-426: Update the type-check guard before logClusterProgress to
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e2e-aks

…resilience

The hand-rolled watchForCondition loop re-creates watches when the
channel closes, but if cl.Watch() itself returns a transient error
when establishing the new watch connection, it propagates as a hard
failure and terminates the entire CI job. Azure load-balancer idle-
timeout drops trigger exactly this: the TCP connection dies after
~4min idle, and the reconnection attempt fails before a new
connection is established.

Two changes fix this:

1. TCP keepalive (30s) on the management client rest.Config sends
   probes that prevent idle connection reaping before the Azure
   timeout fires.

2. Replace the hand-rolled watch loop with client-go's
   toolswatch.UntilWithSync, which uses RetryWatcher internally to
   re-establish watches on any error (connection drops, timeouts,
   410 Gone) with backoff. This is the same machinery kubelet uses.

Out of scope: transport-level retry of write operations and
application-level CreateOrUpdate recovery. The hook calls (phases
1, 3, 5, 7) are short-lived requests that aren't susceptible to
idle-timeout drops. Making those hooks fully reentrant and retryable
at the operation level is a separate concern that requires lifting
credential generation out of DeployKeycloak so retries produce
identical inputs.

Fixes OCPBUGS-109595
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/test e2e-aks-5-0
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/test e2e-aws
/test e2e-aws-upgrade-hypershift-operator
/test e2e-kubevirt-aws-ovn-reduced
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Thanks for taking this forward with the simpler client-go approach. Using toolswatch.UntilWithSync together with TCP keepalive is a good fit for the observed reconnect failure.

One observation from the review:

test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go:421

UntilWithSync emits watch.Deleted events, but the callback currently checks only the object type and then evaluates the predicate. A deleted event can carry the last HostedCluster state, so a cluster that still has an Available or completed rollout status could make the wait return success after the object has been deleted. Please filter events to watch.Added and watch.Modified before logging and evaluating the predicate, or return an explicit error for watch.Deleted.

The change is aligned with the targeted create-guests watch-resilience problem and keeps the implementation focused. The broader retries for unrelated management-cluster writes or all API calls remain out of scope as documented.

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/test e2e-aks

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Thanks for taking this forward with the simpler client-go approach. Using toolswatch.UntilWithSync together with TCP keepalive is a good fit for the observed reconnect failure.

One observation from the review:

test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go:421

UntilWithSync emits watch.Deleted events, but the callback currently checks only the object type and then evaluates the predicate. A deleted event can carry the last HostedCluster state, so a cluster that still has an Available or completed rollout status could make the wait return success after the object has been deleted. Please filter events to watch.Added and watch.Modified before logging and evaluating the predicate, or return an explicit error for watch.Deleted.

The change is aligned with the targeted create-guests watch-resilience problem and keeps the implementation focused. The broader retries for unrelated management-cluster writes or all API calls remain out of scope as documented.

If the hostedcluster is deleted at any point during this flow there's a serious bug somewhere (e.g. cross-test interactions), and the same defensive rationale applies to every other part of the creation flow that interacts with the hostedcluster resource. That is to say, if I assume this is even a possible state to defend against in this narrow case, we might as well add such checks to every other part of the run() function, but I don't know it's worth it unless this is actually something that has ever really happened or we expect to happen.

So I don't think this is worth changing here since every other part of the code also makes the same assumptions, and if we want to change those assumptions for some reason, we should think about it holistically as a separate issue. I don't know it's a practical concern

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/lgtm

thanks for clarifying. That makes sense.

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Local validation performed against commit cd258730c547c00b0592244101d2becb380075b5:

$ go test -count=1 -tags=e2ev2 ./test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests
?    github.com/openshift/hypershift/test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests    [no test files]

$ go test -race -count=1 -tags=e2ev2 ./test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests
?    github.com/openshift/hypershift/test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests    [no test files]

$ go vet -tags=e2ev2 ./test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests
# exit 0

$ golangci-lint run --build-tags=e2ev2 ./test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests
0 issues.

$ gofmt -d test/e2e/v2/cmd/create-guests/main.go
# no output (exit 0)

$ make run-gitlint
Linting commits from 4a90b973736b8ae762da2f0b052c7ca9f44aae0d to cd258730c547c00b0592244101d2becb380075b5
# exit 0

$ git diff --check refs/heads/review/main...HEAD
# no output (exit 0)

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Remaining retests: 0 against base HEAD 63781a0 and 2 for PR HEAD cd25873 in total

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