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What this PR does / why we need it:

Root Cause

When a management worker node is power-cycled, the Kubernetes node controller takes ~40 seconds (node-monitor-grace-period) to detect the failure. During that window, the kube-apiserver Service retains stale endpoints pointing to the dead pod's IP. kube-proxy randomly routes ~33% of new connections to the dead endpoint, causing timeouts for those requests. This explains the 26-37% cluster failure rate (roughly matching the 1/3 probability of hitting the dead endpoint).

After detection, the default DefaultTolerationSeconds admission plugin adds 300-second tolerations, so pods aren't evicted and replaced for 5 full minutes, extending the degraded-HA window.

Fix 1: Fast pod eviction via short NoExecute tolerations

File: defaults.go:255-271

Added explicit node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute and node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute tolerations with 10-second TolerationSeconds for all API-critical components (kube-apiserver, openshift-apiserver, openshift-oauth-apiserver, oauth-openshift, router, packageserver) and etcd. This overrides the default 300s, so once the node controller marks a node NotReady:

  • T+0s: Stale endpoint removed (pod Ready condition -> Unknown)
  • T+10s: Pod evicted (deleted), replacement scheduled
  • T+40-60s: New pod ready and serving
    vs. the old behavior where replacement didn't start until T+300s.

Fix 2: Startup probe + responsive readiness probe

File: deployment.yaml:51-60

  • Added startupProbe with failureThreshold: 36 (360s startup budget) — handles the slow-start case that the old high readiness threshold was covering.
  • Reduced readiness failureThreshold from 18 to 3 — unhealthy pods are now removed from endpoints in 30 seconds instead of 180 seconds. This helps when a kube-apiserver pod becomes unhealthy while the node itself is fine (a separate failure mode from node crashes).

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-97811

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved kube-apiserver startup, liveness, and readiness detection using HTTPS health checks.
    • Reduced the time required to identify kube-apiserver readiness failures.
    • Improved API-critical and etcd component resilience during temporary node readiness or reachability issues.
    • Added default 10-second toleration handling for API-critical components and 60-second handling for etcd.
    • Preserved compatible custom toleration settings and ensured non-critical components remain unaffected.

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What this PR does / why we need it:

Root Cause

When a management worker node is power-cycled, the Kubernetes node controller takes ~40 seconds (node-monitor-grace-period) to detect the failure. During that window, the kube-apiserver Service retains stale endpoints pointing to the dead pod's IP. kube-proxy randomly routes ~33% of new connections to the dead endpoint, causing timeouts for those requests. This explains the 26-37% cluster failure rate (roughly matching the 1/3 probability of hitting the dead endpoint).

After detection, the default DefaultTolerationSeconds admission plugin adds 300-second tolerations, so pods aren't evicted and replaced for 5 full minutes, extending the degraded-HA window.

Fix 1: Fast pod eviction via short NoExecute tolerations

File: defaults.go:255-271

Added explicit node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute and node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute tolerations with 10-second TolerationSeconds for all API-critical components (kube-apiserver, openshift-apiserver, openshift-oauth-apiserver, oauth-openshift, router, packageserver) and etcd. This overrides the default 300s, so once the node controller marks a node NotReady:

  • T+0s: Stale endpoint removed (pod Ready condition -> Unknown)
  • T+10s: Pod evicted (deleted), replacement scheduled
  • T+40-60s: New pod ready and serving
    vs. the old behavior where replacement didn't start until T+300s.

Fix 2: Startup probe + responsive readiness probe

File: deployment.yaml:51-60

  • Added startupProbe with failureThreshold: 36 (360s startup budget) — handles the slow-start case that the old high readiness threshold was covering.
  • Reduced readiness failureThreshold from 18 to 3 — unhealthy pods are now removed from endpoints in 30 seconds instead of 180 seconds. This helps when a kube-apiserver pod becomes unhealthy while the node itself is fine (a separate failure mode from node crashes).

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-97811

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The kube-apiserver deployment updates liveness and readiness probe timing and adds an HTTPS readyz startup probe. API-critical workloads receive 10-second NoExecute tolerations. Etcd workloads receive 60-second tolerations. Matching user tolerations suppress corresponding defaults, while all user tolerations remain present.

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The PR shortens control-plane pod eviction and improves probe responsiveness to reduce Tenant API downtime during management-node failures; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains based on the supplied evidence.

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support/controlplane-component/defaults.go (1)

255-273: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the repeated duration literal with a named constant.

The value 10 controls an availability policy and appears twice. Define one nodeFailureTolerationSeconds constant and reuse it for both tolerations.

As per coding guidelines: “Avoid magic numbers — use named constants.”

Proposed refactor
+const nodeFailureTolerationSeconds int64 = 10
+
 if apiCriticalComponents.Has(c.Name()) || isEtcdComponent(c.Name()) {
...
-				TolerationSeconds: ptr.To[int64](10),
+				TolerationSeconds: ptr.To(nodeFailureTolerationSeconds),
...
-				TolerationSeconds: ptr.To[int64](10),
+				TolerationSeconds: ptr.To(nodeFailureTolerationSeconds),
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In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults.go` around lines 255 - 273, Define a
named nodeFailureTolerationSeconds constant near the toleration configuration
and replace both TolerationSeconds values in the
apiCriticalComponents/isEtcdComponent block with it, preserving the existing
10-second policy.

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Inline comments:
In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults.go`:
- Around line 255-273: Update the toleration handling around the
API-critical/etcd branch so hcp.Spec.Tolerations cannot override the 10-second
NoExecute limits for node.kubernetes.io/not-ready or
node.kubernetes.io/unreachable. Reject or filter matching custom tolerations
before appending them, while preserving unrelated custom tolerations and the
existing defaults.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults.go`:
- Around line 255-273: Define a named nodeFailureTolerationSeconds constant near
the toleration configuration and replace both TolerationSeconds values in the
apiCriticalComponents/isEtcdComponent block with it, preserving the existing
10-second policy.
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@mehabhalodiya mehabhalodiya changed the title OCPBUGS-97811: fix Tenant API downtime during a management worker nod… OCPBUGS-97811: fix Tenant API downtime during a management worker node Aug 12, 2026
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@mehabhalodiya: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-97811, which is valid.

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The bug has been updated to refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker.

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Root Cause

When a management worker node is power-cycled, the Kubernetes node controller takes ~40 seconds (node-monitor-grace-period) to detect the failure. During that window, the kube-apiserver Service retains stale endpoints pointing to the dead pod's IP. kube-proxy randomly routes ~33% of new connections to the dead endpoint, causing timeouts for those requests. This explains the 26-37% cluster failure rate (roughly matching the 1/3 probability of hitting the dead endpoint).

After detection, the default DefaultTolerationSeconds admission plugin adds 300-second tolerations, so pods aren't evicted and replaced for 5 full minutes, extending the degraded-HA window.

Fix 1: Fast pod eviction via short NoExecute tolerations

File: defaults.go:255-271

Added explicit node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute and node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute tolerations with 10-second TolerationSeconds for all API-critical components (kube-apiserver, openshift-apiserver, openshift-oauth-apiserver, oauth-openshift, router, packageserver) and etcd. This overrides the default 300s, so once the node controller marks a node NotReady:

  • T+0s: Stale endpoint removed (pod Ready condition -> Unknown)
  • T+10s: Pod evicted (deleted), replacement scheduled
  • T+40-60s: New pod ready and serving
    vs. the old behavior where replacement didn't start until T+300s.

Fix 2: Startup probe + responsive readiness probe

File: deployment.yaml:51-60

  • Added startupProbe with failureThreshold: 36 (360s startup budget) — handles the slow-start case that the old high readiness threshold was covering.
  • Reduced readiness failureThreshold from 18 to 3 — unhealthy pods are now removed from endpoints in 30 seconds instead of 180 seconds. This helps when a kube-apiserver pod becomes unhealthy while the node itself is fine (a separate failure mode from node crashes).

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-97811

Special notes for your reviewer:

Checklist:

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support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go (1)

298-349: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use the required test description format.

Rename each new table case to use When ... it should .... Keep the names stable and deterministic.

As per coding guidelines: “Always use "When ... it should ..." format for describing test cases when creating unit tests.”

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In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go` around lines 298 - 349,
Rename each newly added table-test case in the toleration tests to the required
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265-280: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Define one constant for the node-failure toleration duration. The value 10 defines one policy and appears in both implementation and tests.

  • support/controlplane-component/defaults.go#L265-L280: define and use a named int64 duration constant for both default tolerations.
  • support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go#L369-L380: use the same constant in the assertions.

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In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults.go` around lines 265 - 280, Define a
named int64 constant for the node-failure toleration duration and use it for
both default tolerations in support/controlplane-component/defaults.go lines
265-280; update the corresponding assertions in
support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go lines 369-380 to reference the
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In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go`:
- Around line 313-389: Update the toleration test table and assertions in the
setControlPlaneIsolation test to track expected not-ready and unreachable
defaults independently. For each single-toleration override case, assert that
only the matching default is suppressed while the other default remains present,
and preserve the existing non-critical component behavior using the separate
expectations.

Apply the same fix in `@support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go` around
lines 352 - 354.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go`:
- Around line 298-349: Rename each newly added table-test case in the toleration
tests to the required deterministic “When ... it should ...” description format,
preserving the existing scenarios and expectations in the cases for API-critical
components, non-critical components, user overrides, and NoSchedule tolerations.

In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults.go`:
- Around line 265-280: Define a named int64 constant for the node-failure
toleration duration and use it for both default tolerations in
support/controlplane-component/defaults.go lines 265-280; update the
corresponding assertions in support/controlplane-component/defaults_test.go
lines 369-380 to reference the same constant instead of the literal 10.
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Thanks for the detailed root-cause writeup — the analysis is clear and the change is small and readable. My main concern is whether this actually closes the bug, plus a few standards cleanups and two operational issues worth blocking on.

Does this close OCPBUGS-97811?

[blocking] The change speeds up recovery after the node is detected as failed, but the downtime the bug measures happens before detection.

The root cause is that during the ~40s node-monitor-grace-period, the KAS Service still lists the dead pod's endpoint and kube-proxy routes ~1/3 of connections to it. But:

  • The 10s NoExecute tolerations only take effect after the node-lifecycle-controller applies the not-ready/unreachable taints (post grace-period, ~T+40s). They accelerate pod eviction/replacement, not endpoint removal during T+0–40s when the stale endpoint is still serving traffic.
  • The readiness change (failureThreshold 18→3) runs the readyz probe kubelet→container-local. On a powered-off node the kubelet is gone, so it can't report failure — this only helps the separate "alive-but-unhealthy" mode, not a power-cycle.

So the ~10-20s downtime in the Jira doesn't appear to shrink. Could you clarify how these changes move the pre-detection window? If the goal is truly "zero tenant API downtime," the lever is faster endpoint removal (termination behavior / node-monitor-grace-period), not toleration/replacement speed. If the intent is a partial post-detection mitigation, let's state that explicitly in the PR body and Jira.

[blocking] livenessProbe is untouched — it's the actual restart lever for the "alive-but-unhealthy" mode. Liveness is still timeoutSeconds: 160 / periodSeconds: 180, so a wedged-but-alive KAS is killed far slower (~minutes) than readiness now ejects it (30s). If the readiness change is meant to address that mode, liveness — not readiness — is what actually restarts the pod; leaving it slow means the fix may not achieve its goal there.

[suggestion] The readiness budget may flap healthy pods at scale. failureThreshold: 3, periodSeconds: 10, timeoutSeconds: 10 means ~30s of consecutive slow /readyz ejects a pod from endpoints. Endpoint removal on readiness-fail is intended, so this is a "tune the budget" concern — but under the 54-HCP/12-node load profile in the Jira, a slow-but-healthy KAS could self-eject. Please confirm this won't cause flapping.

[suggestion] No E2E for an availability fix. A change whose whole purpose is reducing tenant-API downtime during node failure currently has only unit tests asserting toleration presence. Consider a deterministic E2E (or documented manual validation) that proves the recovery-time delta and guards against the flapping risk above.

Deployment blast radius (please add to the PR description)

[blocking] This triggers a one-time fleet-wide HCP control-plane restart. To be precise: these pod-spec changes do not feed the NodePool config hash and do not trigger a worker/NodePool rollout. However, they do change every HCP's KAS Deployment and etcd StatefulSet template, so rolling out this CPO (via the OCP payload) will roll every hosted control plane's KAS + etcd once, simultaneously. That's the real blast radius — please call it out and consider staged-rollout implications.

Standards

Two documented-standard issues (both TESTING.md) plus some magic-string/duplication cleanups — details inline.

[praise] Good root-cause writeup, unit tests included, clean conventional-commit message.

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Comment thread support/controlplane-component/defaults.go Outdated
Comment on lines +265 to +280
if !userKeys.Has("node.kubernetes.io/not-ready") {
podTemplate.Spec.Tolerations = append(podTemplate.Spec.Tolerations, corev1.Toleration{
Key: "node.kubernetes.io/not-ready",
Operator: corev1.TolerationOpExists,
Effect: corev1.TaintEffectNoExecute,
TolerationSeconds: ptr.To[int64](10),
})
}
if !userKeys.Has("node.kubernetes.io/unreachable") {
podTemplate.Spec.Tolerations = append(podTemplate.Spec.Tolerations, corev1.Toleration{
Key: "node.kubernetes.io/unreachable",
Operator: corev1.TolerationOpExists,
Effect: corev1.TaintEffectNoExecute,
TolerationSeconds: ptr.To[int64](10),
})
}

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[suggestion] The not-ready and unreachable blocks are byte-identical except the key, and 10 is an unnamed literal. Extract a helper and a named const:

const defaultNodeFailureTolerationSeconds int64 = 10

shortToleration := func(key string) corev1.Toleration {
    return corev1.Toleration{
        Key:               key,
        Operator:          corev1.TolerationOpExists,
        Effect:            corev1.TaintEffectNoExecute,
        TolerationSeconds: ptr.To(defaultNodeFailureTolerationSeconds),
    }
}

Comment thread support/controlplane-component/defaults.go
timeoutSeconds: 10
readinessProbe:
failureThreshold: 18
failureThreshold: 3

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[suggestion] failureThreshold: 3 with periodSeconds: 10 / timeoutSeconds: 10 means a healthy-but-slow KAS whose /readyz takes >10s three times in a row is pulled from endpoints (~30s). Given the bug's 54-HCP/12-node load profile, please confirm this can't cause healthy pods to flap out of rotation. Note that livenessProbe remains at timeoutSeconds: 160 / periodSeconds: 180, so the two probes now react on very different timescales.

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@mehabhalodiya: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-97811, which is invalid:

  • expected the bug to target either version "5.1.0." or "openshift-5.1.0.", but it targets "5.0.0" instead

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Root Cause

When a management worker node is power-cycled, the Kubernetes node controller takes ~40 seconds (node-monitor-grace-period) to detect the failure. During that window, the kube-apiserver Service retains stale endpoints pointing to the dead pod's IP. kube-proxy randomly routes ~33% of new connections to the dead endpoint, causing timeouts for those requests. This explains the 26-37% cluster failure rate (roughly matching the 1/3 probability of hitting the dead endpoint).

After detection, the default DefaultTolerationSeconds admission plugin adds 300-second tolerations, so pods aren't evicted and replaced for 5 full minutes, extending the degraded-HA window.

Fix 1: Fast pod eviction via short NoExecute tolerations

File: defaults.go:255-271

Added explicit node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute and node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute tolerations with 10-second TolerationSeconds for all API-critical components (kube-apiserver, openshift-apiserver, openshift-oauth-apiserver, oauth-openshift, router, packageserver) and etcd. This overrides the default 300s, so once the node controller marks a node NotReady:

  • T+0s: Stale endpoint removed (pod Ready condition -> Unknown)
  • T+10s: Pod evicted (deleted), replacement scheduled
  • T+40-60s: New pod ready and serving
    vs. the old behavior where replacement didn't start until T+300s.

Fix 2: Startup probe + responsive readiness probe

File: deployment.yaml:51-60

  • Added startupProbe with failureThreshold: 36 (360s startup budget) — handles the slow-start case that the old high readiness threshold was covering.
  • Reduced readiness failureThreshold from 18 to 3 — unhealthy pods are now removed from endpoints in 30 seconds instead of 180 seconds. This helps when a kube-apiserver pod becomes unhealthy while the node itself is fine (a separate failure mode from node crashes).

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-97811

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
  • Improved kube-apiserver startup, liveness, and readiness detection using HTTPS health checks.
  • Reduced the time required to identify kube-apiserver readiness failures.
  • Improved API-critical and etcd component resilience during temporary node readiness or reachability issues.
  • Added default 10-second toleration handling for API-critical components and 60-second handling for etcd.
  • Preserved compatible custom toleration settings and ensured non-critical components remain unaffected.

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In `@support/controlplane-component/defaults.go`:
- Around line 294-304: Update the default-toleration suppression logic around
userKeys to use Kubernetes Toleration.ToleratesTaint semantics for exact
NoExecute taints, rather than matching only keys. Ensure Equal tolerations with
non-empty values do not suppress defaults, while empty-effect tolerations do;
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OCPBUGS-97811

Change 1: Add explicit short NoExecute tolerations for not-ready/unreachable on
API-critical components in defaults.go (10 seconds). This speeds up pod eviction
and replacement after node failure detection.

Change 2: Add a startupProbe to the kube-apiserver deployment and reduce the
readinessProbe failureThreshold from 18 to 3. The high failureThreshold was
compensating for slow startup, but a proper startupProbe handles that case
while allowing the readiness probe to be much more responsive (30s vs 180s
to mark unhealthy).

Signed-off-by: mehabhalodiya <mehabhalodiya@gmail.com>
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@mehabhalodiya: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-97811, which is valid.

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