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🐛 Fix VAP access-control e2e flake under HA control planes - #3013

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Description

The Denied - ... scenarios in test/e2e/features/vap-access-control.feature intermittently fail on HA (multi-replica) control planes with:

expected apply to fail with "...", but it succeeded

Root cause

ResourceApplyAsUserFails (test/e2e/steps/steps.go) waited for ValidatingAdmissionPolicy enforcement using a server dry-run poll and then fired a single real apply.

ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding enforcement propagates per kube-apiserver replica and is eventually consistent. On an HA control plane the dry-run can be served by a replica that already enforces the binding, while the subsequent real apply is load-balanced to a replica that has not caught up yet — so the resource is admitted and the assertion fails. This never reproduces on single-apiserver kind clusters, which is why it only shows up on HA CI.

Fix

Keep the cheap, non-persisting dry-run wait, and replace the single real apply with a bounded retry loop that:

  • returns success as soon as the real apply is denied with the expected message;
  • if a request slips through the propagation window and is admitted, tracks the object for cleanup, deletes it (--ignore-not-found --wait=false, namespace-aware), and retries;
  • on any other error, keeps polling until the step timeout, then returns a descriptive error with the last failure.

This converges once enforcement is consistent across all replicas, without leaking a persisted resource or reporting a false positive.

Testing

  • go build of the e2e steps package passes.
  • gofmt clean.
  • Not run against a live HA cluster; the change is a test-harness hardening of an existing eventual-consistency wait.

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    • Improved reliability of access-denied resource apply checks. Checks retry when an apply is temporarily admitted, remove any temporarily admitted resources, and report a timeout if the expected denial isn’t observed. Unexpected apply errors and cleanup failures are also surfaced.

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ResourceApplyAsUserFails retries real impersonated applies after a dry-run denial. It tracks and deletes admitted resources. It succeeds after an expected denial with no pending cleanup, or returns an error when the timeout expires.

Changes: Impersonated apply denial

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry applies and clean up admitted resources
test/e2e/steps/steps.go
The helper retains the parsed resource, deletes it after an admitted apply, and retries. It succeeds after an expected denial when cleanup is complete. On timeout, it returns the latest failure.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: pedjak

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 07b74

A stalled retry can block the e2e step beyond its configured timeout. Bind each apply to the retry deadline to keep the test workflow bounded.

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- Line 523: Update the deletion step using k8sClient so it checks and handles
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The "Denied - ..." scenarios in vap-access-control.feature intermittently
failed on HA (multi-replica) control planes with "expected apply to fail
..., but it succeeded".

ResourceApplyAsUserFails waited for ValidatingAdmissionPolicy enforcement
with a server dry-run poll and then fired a single real apply. VAP binding
enforcement propagates per kube-apiserver replica and is eventually
consistent, so the dry-run could be served by a replica that already
enforces the binding while the real apply is load-balanced to one that has
not caught up yet, admitting the resource and failing the assertion.

Keep the (cheap, non-persisting) dry-run wait and replace the single real
apply with a bounded retry loop: succeed as soon as the real apply is
denied with the expected message; if a request slips through the
propagation window, track the admitted object for cleanup, delete it, and
retry until enforcement converges or the step timeout elapses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Per G. da Silva <pegoncal@redhat.com>
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- Around line 537-541: Update the delete arguments in the deadline-controlled
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The ResourceApplyAsUserFails cleanup loop used a blocking kubectl delete
(default --wait) without a timeout. The "Denied" scenarios apply a
ClusterExtension, which carries a finalizer, so a slipped-through apply
could make the delete wait on its controller and push the step past its
deadline (checked only after the delete returns). Pass --timeout set to
the remaining budget (clamped to one tick); a timed-out delete returns
non-nil, so pendingCleanup stays set and the removal-confirmation
invariant is preserved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Bind each retry apply to the retry deadline. · steps.go:515-557

test/e2e/steps/steps.go:515-557
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Bind each retry apply to the retry deadline.

After an admitted apply is deleted, the new loop can start another apply before deadline. The E2E runner supplies Godog's default context.Background(), and this apply has no request-timeout argument. If it blocks past deadline, the timeout check cannot run until the command returns. The base implementation made only one real apply, so this additional overrun path is introduced by the retry.

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+		applyCtx, cancel := context.WithDeadline(ctx, deadline)
-		_, stdErr, applyErr := k8scliWithInput(ctx, yamlContent, "apply", "-f", "-", "--as="+user, "--as-group="+group)
+		_, stdErr, applyErr := k8scliWithInput(applyCtx, yamlContent, "apply", "-f", "-", "--as="+user, "--as-group="+group)
+		cancel()
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Review comment at @test/e2e/steps/steps.go around lines 515 - 557:
Bind each retry of the apply operation in the visible retry loop to the existing
deadline by creating a deadline-scoped context from ctx and passing it to
k8scliWithInput; cancel it after the call. Keep the existing retry and cleanup
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- Around line 515-557: Bind each retry of the apply operation in the visible
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