OCPBUGS-105882: Remove orphaned etcd members even during a revision rollout

[tchap]

I've found this potential issue when working on operator status conditions. This simply narrows a window when things can go wrong since they are inconsistent.

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When a master node is decommissioned, its etcd member should be removed from the cluster. If a revision rollout starts around the same time, the revisionStable guard introduced in OCPBUGS-74151 blocks the entire sync function, including removeMemberWithoutMachine. The orphaned member — one whose Node and Machine no longer exist — remains in etcd's member list for the duration of the rollout. EtcdEndpointsController mirrors that list into the etcd-endpoints configmap, so the dead IP persists and is picked up by API server configuration.

The revisionStable guard was intended to protect attemptToScaleDown and attemptToRemoveLearningMember, where members can temporarily appear unhealthy during a rollout because their pods are being reinstalled. It was applied as a blanket early return that also covered removeMemberWithoutMachine unintentionally.

removeMemberWithoutMachine only acts on members that have neither a Machine nor a Node resource and are reported as unhealthy — conditions that are independent of rollout state. Moving it before the revisionStable check ensures orphaned members are cleaned up promptly without compromising the safety properties OCPBUGS-74151 established for scale-down.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved cluster member cleanup when associated Machine and Node resources are missing.
  • Ensured cleanup errors are retained and reported alongside revision stability and endpoint synchronization errors.
  • Improved validation ordering so Machine API availability is checked before subsequent synchronization checks.
  • Prevented errors from being lost when synchronization checks are skipped.

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I've found this potential issue when working on operator status conditions. This simply narrows a window when things can go wrong since they are inconsistent. I am not linking it to any Jira issue specifically, but I think that it's worth improving.

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When a master node is decommissioned, its etcd member should be removed from the cluster. If a revision rollout starts around the same time, the revisionStable guard introduced in OCPBUGS-74151 blocks the entire sync function, including removeMemberWithoutMachine. The orphaned member — one whose Node and Machine no longer exist — remains in etcd's member list for the duration of the rollout. EtcdEndpointsController mirrors that list into the etcd-endpoints configmap, so the dead IP persists and is picked up by API server configuration.

The revisionStable guard was intended to protect attemptToScaleDown and attemptToRemoveLearningMember, where members can temporarily appear unhealthy during a rollout because their pods are being reinstalled. It was applied as a blanket early return that also covered removeMemberWithoutMachine unintentionally.

removeMemberWithoutMachine only acts on members that have neither a Machine nor a Node resource and are reported as unhealthy — conditions that are independent of rollout state. Moving it before the revisionStable check ensures orphaned members are cleaned up promptly without compromising the safety properties OCPBUGS-74151 established for scale-down.

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Walkthrough

The controller now checks Machine API functionality before reconciliation, removes members without Machine or Node resources before stability checks, and preserves cleanup errors when revision or endpoint validation skips reconciliation.

Changes

Member removal reconciliation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Machine API validation and cleanup pkg/operator/clustermemberremovalcontroller/clustermemberremovalcontroller.go	sync checks Machine API functionality and runs removeMemberWithoutMachine before revision and endpoint checks.
Validation error propagation pkg/operator/clustermemberremovalcontroller/clustermemberremovalcontroller.go	Cleanup errors are aggregated with revision and endpoint validation errors. Skip paths return the accumulated errors.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a54c7

The PR narrows the window in which orphaned etcd members can remain during a revision rollout, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining after normal checks and review.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

pkg/operator/clustermemberremovalcontroller/clustermemberremovalcontroller.go (1)

126-170: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add sync-level regression tests for both skip paths.

No test invokes sync. Add cases that verify orphan cleanup runs before the revision and endpoint guards, and that cleanup errors are returned when either guard skips further processing.

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In
`@pkg/operator/clustermemberremovalcontroller/clustermemberremovalcontroller.go`
around lines 126 - 170, Add sync-level regression tests for the controller’s
sync method covering both revision-stability and etcd-endpoints guards. Verify
removeMemberWithoutMachine runs before either guard, and that cleanup errors are
preserved and returned when revisionStable is false or etcdEndpointsUpdated is
false; ensure later processing is skipped in both cases.

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In
`@pkg/operator/clustermemberremovalcontroller/clustermemberremovalcontroller.go`:
- Around line 126-170: Add sync-level regression tests for the controller’s sync
method covering both revision-stability and etcd-endpoints guards. Verify
removeMemberWithoutMachine runs before either guard, and that cleanup errors are
preserved and returned when revisionStable is false or etcdEndpointsUpdated is
false; ensure later processing is skipped in both cases.

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[tchap]

/retitle OCPBUGS-23746: Remove orphaned etcd members even during a revision rollout

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@tchap: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-23746, which is valid.

3 validation(s) were run on this bug

• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (5.1.0) matches configured target version for branch (5.1.0)
• bug is in the state POST, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)

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

Details

In response to this:

I've found this potential issue when working on operator status conditions. This simply narrows a window when things can go wrong since they are inconsistent.

---

When a master node is decommissioned, its etcd member should be removed from the cluster. If a revision rollout starts around the same time, the revisionStable guard introduced in OCPBUGS-74151 blocks the entire sync function, including removeMemberWithoutMachine. The orphaned member — one whose Node and Machine no longer exist — remains in etcd's member list for the duration of the rollout. EtcdEndpointsController mirrors that list into the etcd-endpoints configmap, so the dead IP persists and is picked up by API server configuration.

The revisionStable guard was intended to protect attemptToScaleDown and attemptToRemoveLearningMember, where members can temporarily appear unhealthy during a rollout because their pods are being reinstalled. It was applied as a blanket early return that also covered removeMemberWithoutMachine unintentionally.

removeMemberWithoutMachine only acts on members that have neither a Machine nor a Node resource and are reported as unhealthy — conditions that are independent of rollout state. Moving it before the revisionStable check ensures orphaned members are cleaned up promptly without compromising the safety properties OCPBUGS-74151 established for scale-down.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
• Improved cluster member cleanup when associated Machine and Node resources are missing.
• Ensured cleanup errors are retained and reported alongside revision stability and endpoint synchronization errors.
• Improved validation ordering so Machine API availability is checked before subsequent synchronization checks.
• Prevented errors from being lost when synchronization checks are skipped.

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/pipeline required

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[hasbro17]

/test e2e-aws-ovn-etcd-scaling

[tchap]

/retitle OCPBUGS-105882: Remove orphaned etcd members even during a revision rollout

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@tchap: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-105882, which is invalid:

• expected the bug to target the "5.1.0" version, but no target version was set

Comment /jira refresh to re-evaluate validity if changes to the Jira bug are made, or edit the title of this pull request to link to a different bug.

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

Details

In response to this:

I've found this potential issue when working on operator status conditions. This simply narrows a window when things can go wrong since they are inconsistent.

---

When a master node is decommissioned, its etcd member should be removed from the cluster. If a revision rollout starts around the same time, the revisionStable guard introduced in OCPBUGS-74151 blocks the entire sync function, including removeMemberWithoutMachine. The orphaned member — one whose Node and Machine no longer exist — remains in etcd's member list for the duration of the rollout. EtcdEndpointsController mirrors that list into the etcd-endpoints configmap, so the dead IP persists and is picked up by API server configuration.

The revisionStable guard was intended to protect attemptToScaleDown and attemptToRemoveLearningMember, where members can temporarily appear unhealthy during a rollout because their pods are being reinstalled. It was applied as a blanket early return that also covered removeMemberWithoutMachine unintentionally.

removeMemberWithoutMachine only acts on members that have neither a Machine nor a Node resource and are reported as unhealthy — conditions that are independent of rollout state. Moving it before the revisionStable check ensures orphaned members are cleaned up promptly without compromising the safety properties OCPBUGS-74151 established for scale-down.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
• Improved cluster member cleanup when associated Machine and Node resources are missing.
• Ensured cleanup errors are retained and reported alongside revision stability and endpoint synchronization errors.
• Improved validation ordering so Machine API availability is checked before subsequent synchronization checks.
• Prevented errors from being lost when synchronization checks are skipped.

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[tchap]

/retest

[tchap]

/jira refresh

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@tchap: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-105882, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

3 validation(s) were run on this bug

• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (5.1.0) matches configured target version for branch (5.1.0)
• bug is in the state New, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)

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[tchap]

/retest

[dusk125]

/test e2e-aws-ovn-etcd-scaling

[hasbro17]

This fixes the true-orphan case (both Machine and Node deleted out-of-band) so bringing removeMemberWithoutMachine above the revision gate cleans it up.

The gap is the half-orphan case (Node gone, but Machine still pending deletion due to the preDrain deletion hook blocking removal).

That is the case for the more common MachineHealthCheck(MHC) remediation / ControlPlaneMachineSet(CPMS) deletion workflow:

• MHC deletes the old Machine, but our EtcdQuorumOperator PreDrain hook deliberately blocks the Machine from finalizing until etcd removes the member. So the Machine lingers as a tombstone and keeps its internal IP in Status.Addresses.
• Even after the Node is gone, getMachineForMember falls back to FindMachineByNodeInternalIP and finds that tombstone → machine != nil → removeMemberWithoutMachine skips it (line 336).
• Its only removal route is attemptToScaleDown, which this PR still leaves behind IsRevisionStable. So the deadlock persists for that member: the Machine can't finalize until the member is removed, and
  member removal is gated by revision stability, which the member's own endpoint churn will slow down.

Trying to confirm on https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-105882 whether it was the half orphan case that brought this about since that will not be resolved by this.

Either way we may want to account for that by conditioning fast removal in the orphan case on Node absence rather than Machine absence
i.e "remove an unhealthy member whose Node is gone (Machine absent or pending deletion), regardless of revision stability."

[hasbro17]

Also it's finally time to introduce unit tests for the sync() function since the ordering of the these gates is causing this bug and we only have unit tests for the helpers in isolation.
Initially the sync was more straightforward but not anymore.

And currently nothing is testing these changes in sync() to validate we don't break the baseline cases based on revision rollouts and member topology.

Quick tally from claude:

Core cases (assert on resulting member list + returned error):

#	Revision	Member topology	Expected
A	in progress	true orphan (no machine, no node, unhealthy)	removed — proves the fix
B	in progress	voting member pending deletion, node+machine present, unhealthy, replacement present	not removed — #1540 guard (scale-down stays gated)
C	in progress	learner pending deletion	not removed — learner path stays gated
D	stable, endpoints match	voting member pending deletion + replacement, quorum ok	removed via scale-down — baseline intact
E	stable, endpoints lag live	any removable member	nothing removed, nil error — isEtcdEndpointsUpdated gate
F	any	orphan present, MachineAPI not functional	nothing removed, nil — IsFunctional gate
G	any	bootstrap not complete	nothing removed, nil
H	in progress	orphan whose MemberRemove errors	sync returns the aggregated error (not swallowed) — covers new aggregation
I	in progress	no machine, no node, reported healthy	current: returns error (→Degraded). If Finding 2 adopted: no error, skipped

Two more if we broaden the orphan predicate to "node gone + unhealthy member":

#	Revision	Member topology	Expected under Finding 0
J	in progress	half-orphan: node gone, machine has DeletionTimestamp, unhealthy	removed (today: not removed) — the MHC fix
K	in progress	node present, machine present, unhealthy (rollout-transient)	not removed — proves node-absence discriminator doesn't over-remove during pod reinstall

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