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Part 4/5 of a series completing the ClusterObjectSet (COS) Ready condition vocabulary. Breaking (experimental API): removes a status reason.

Follows #3017 (merged), which split ValidationFailure into PreconditionsNotMet / InvalidSpecification. This PR is the RetryableError removal, now rebased directly onto main.

Transient errors now leave the Ready condition unchanged and return the error for rate-limited backoff requeue, instead of overwriting Ready with RetryableError. On a first reconcile that hits a transient error before Ready is ever set, the condition stays absent (consumers read absent as Unknown).

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  • Every transient/infra error site (secret read, phase build, engine create, establish-watch, revision reconcile, teardown error, cache-free on delete/archive) returns the error without mutating Ready. Remove setRetryableErrorConditions and ClusterObjectSetReasonRetryableError.
  • CE reconstruction goes neutral on transient COS errors: determineFailureReason flags ObjectCollision, PreconditionsNotMet, and InvalidSpecification as Installed=Failed; progressingFromReady maps ObjectCollision / PreconditionsNotMet → Progressing=True/Retrying and InvalidSpecification → Progressing=False/Blocked (the PreconditionsNotMet / InvalidSpecification reasons were introduced in ⚠ split ClusterObjectSet Ready ValidationFailure reason #3017).

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Experimental API only; go-apidiff / crd-diff will flag the removed reason constant. Updates unit tests (transient-error cases now assert Ready unchanged/absent; CE determineFailureReason / progressingFromReady) and regenerates CRD/manifests/API reference.

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ClusterObjectSet transient reconciliation errors now return for retry without changing the Ready condition. Operator failure mapping and the documented Ready-condition reasons reflect this behavior.

Changes: ClusterObjectSet Ready condition

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ready condition contract
api/v1/clusterobjectset_types.go, applyconfigurations/api/v1/clusterobjectsetstatus.go, helm/olmv1/base/object-controller/crd/experimental/olm.operatorframework.io_clusterobjectsets.yaml, manifests/experimental*.yaml, docs/draft/concepts/clusterobjectsets.md
The RetryableError reason is removed from the public constant and condition documentation. The concepts documentation explains that transient errors leave Ready unchanged and are retried with backoff.
Reconciliation error handling
internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectset_controller.go, internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectset_controller_test.go, docs/draft/concepts/large-bundle-support.md
Transient errors return for retry without changing Ready. Tests check that Ready stays absent or retains its existing value. Confirmed mutable Secret validation still requeues after 10 seconds.
Operator status mapping
internal/operator-controller/controllers/common_controller.go, internal/operator-controller/controllers/common_controller_test.go
Failure mapping now identifies ObjectCollision and ValidationFailure as failures. A missing Ready condition maps to Absent, and RetryableError is no longer grouped with ObjectCollision for Progressing status.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to eb26c

Invalid configuration may be reported as automatically recoverable when manual correction is required, while the public documentation still describes an inconsistent status model.

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🟡 Minor · Update the stale Status conditions section. · clusterobjectsets.md:197-232

docs/draft/concepts/clusterobjectsets.md:197-232
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Update the stale Status conditions section.

The changed text at Lines 228-229 describes only the Ready condition. The surrounding section is still stale:

  • Line 199 says COS reports three conditions.
  • The Progressing and Succeeded sections remain.
  • Line 226 still lists the Migrated reason.

The PR objectives say these items are removed. Remove them, and describe rollout completion through status.completedAt.

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| False | `Archived` | Objects torn down after archival |
| Unknown | `Migrated` | Migrated from existing release; probes not yet observed |

A transient internal error (e.g. an API read failure) leaves the `Ready` condition unchanged and is retried with backoff; it is not reported as a distinct reason, so on a first reconcile the condition may remain absent (`Unknown`).

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WDYT about setting Ready to Unknown with reason RetryableError? That is the most truthful thing we can say.

Or maybe we can figure out a way for a RetryableError to only cause a condition to flip after a certain number of consecutive failed retries?

I'm worried about a situation where our code has decided that an error is transient, but then it turns out that it is not transient and our status gives no indication of that.

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I was thinking of following this PR with generating an event for these transient errors - that way we at least get some kind of external signal. I really think we shouldn't be surfacing controller state through the object - otherwise we're being kinda edge based. But, I agree this leaves that case open =/ ultimately, I think we need to cover this gap through monitoring and metrics.

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+1 on the eventing idea. Need to be careful there to avoid sending too many duplicate events. There's an OLMv0 bug about that right now, I think.

But on the COS status, if we say Ready/Unknown/Indeterminate/could not evaluate readiness due to transient error, that's not controller state. That's accurate COS state, saying 🤷 ?

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internal/object-controller/controllers/clusterobjectset_controller_test.go: 1

900-977: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for a missing Secret.

The current case injects a generic read error for secret-a. It does not exercise the apierrors.IsNotFound branch. Add a case where secret-a is absent and assert that the reconcile returns an error with Ready still absent.

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 		{
 			// A transient, non-NotFound read error leaves the Ready condition untouched
 			// (absent here) and returns the error for backoff; it is not a validation failure.
 			name:    "read error leaves Ready untouched",
 			secrets: []client.Object{secret("secret-b", true)},
 			failGet: "secret-a",
 			wantErr: true,
 		},
+		{
+			name:    "missing Secret leaves Ready untouched",
+			secrets: []client.Object{secret("secret-b", true)},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
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- Around line 272-281: In the condition mapping, keep ObjectCollision as
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Transient errors now leave the Ready condition unchanged and return an error for
rate-limited backoff requeue, instead of overwriting Ready with RetryableError. On
a first reconcile the condition may remain absent (read as Unknown). The
ClusterExtension no longer maps transient COS errors to Installed=Failed or
Progressing=Retrying; it goes neutral. Remove the RetryableError reason constant
and the setRetryableErrorConditions helper. determineFailureReason now treats only
ObjectCollision, PreconditionsNotMet, and InvalidSpecification as installation
failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Per G. da Silva <pegoncal@redhat.com>
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