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Motivation

clusteroperator/olm briefly flips Available=False (sub-second) during OCP upgrades: catalogd's soft anti-affinity occasionally co-schedules both replicas on one master, and when MCO drains that node both pods fail readiness and get evicted.
Full scenario explanation at OCPBUGS-105876.

Idea

Add availableInertia, mirroring the existing degradedInertia: a new WithAvailableInertia builder lets a consumer opt in to a grace period before a brief Available=False is propagated to the ClusterOperator. Defaults to nil (unchanged instant-propagation behavior) for any consumer that doesn't call it, so this is a no-op for every existing StatusSyncer user.

Notes

TestAvailableInertia exercises the new behavior through Sync, mirroring TestDegraded's structure (including per-condition-type duration overrides via InertiaCondition).

Proof PR still missing, will add here in place of this line as soon as done.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved status updates by applying configurable inertia to availability conditions.
    • Helps prevent transient availability changes from causing immediate status flips.
    • Supports custom timing for availability conditions while preserving clear status reasons and messages.

clusteroperator/olm briefly flips Available=False (sub-second) during
OCP upgrades: catalogd's soft anti-affinity occasionally co-schedules
both replicas on one master, and when MCO drains that node both pods
fail readiness and get evicted (the PDB's unhealthyPodEvictionPolicy:
AlwaysAllow permits this), driving AvailableReplicas to 0 momentarily.
StatusSyncer currently propagates Available with no inertia, unlike
Degraded which already tolerates a 2-minute grace period. Root cause
tracked in OCPBUGS-105876; deployment-side mitigations (hard
anti-affinity, dropping AlwaysAllow) were rejected as riskier than the
blip itself, leaving the status-reporting layer as the fix.

Add availableInertia, mirroring the existing degradedInertia: a new
WithAvailableInertia builder lets a consumer opt in to a grace period
before a brief Available=False is propagated to the ClusterOperator.
Defaults to nil (unchanged instant-propagation behavior) for any
consumer that doesn't call it, so this is a no-op for every existing
StatusSyncer user.

TestAvailableInertia exercises the new behavior through Sync,
mirroring TestDegraded's structure (including per-condition-type
duration overrides via InertiaCondition).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Giudici <fgiudici@redhat.com>
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StatusSyncer now supports separate inertia for available conditions. A copied controller can configure this inertia with WithAvailableInertia. New tests cover default and custom thresholds, multiple conditions, and resulting status fields.

Changes

Available Condition Inertia

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and validate available-condition inertia
pkg/operator/status/status_controller.go, pkg/operator/status/status_controller_test.go
StatusSyncer stores configurable available-condition inertia and uses it during available-condition aggregation. Tests cover default and custom durations, single and multiple conditions, status, reason, and messages.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 09e62

The change adds an opt-in grace period while preserving existing behavior by default. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the test should still handle both returned errors to keep failures reliable and diagnosable.


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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The diff adds standard Go test subtests with fixed names such as "one unavailable/within threshold"; no Ginkgo titles or dynamic values were introduced.
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed The added test is a standard table-driven Go test, not Ginkgo. It uses only fake clients, synchronous calls, no cluster resources or waits, and follows the nearby TestDegraded pattern.
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR adds a standard Go unit test (TestAvailableInertia with t.Run), not a Ginkgo e2e test; the MicroShift compatibility check therefore does not apply.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The diff adds only a standard Go TestAvailableInertia unit test; it adds no Ginkgo It/Describe/Context/When e2e test or SNO-sensitive cluster assumption.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed The diff only adds available-condition inertia and tests in StatusSyncer; it adds no affinity, topology spread, selectors, tolerations, replicas, deployments, or PDB scheduling constraints.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed The commit changes only StatusSyncer inertia logic and a test; it adds no main or suite setup and no stdout writes. Existing klog calls are unchanged.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The diff adds a standard Go unit test (TestAvailableInertia), not Ginkgo e2e tests; it contains no IPv4 assumptions or external connectivity requirements.
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The diff adds condition-timing logic and tests only; added lines and affected files contain no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom crypto, or secret comparisons.
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The PR changes only Go status logic and tests. No container/Kubernetes manifests or privilege-related settings are added.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding availableInertia support to StatusSyncer.
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In `@pkg/operator/status/status_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 466-467: Update the subtest around the cache indexer setup and
ClusterOperators().Get call to capture and check both returned errors. Call
t.Fatal(err) immediately when indexer.Add(clusterOperator) or the Get operation
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  • pkg/operator/status/status_controller.go
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indexer := cache.NewIndexer(cache.MetaNamespaceKeyFunc, cache.Indexers{cache.NamespaceIndex: cache.MetaNamespaceIndexFunc})
indexer.Add(clusterOperator)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
file="pkg/operator/status/status_controller_test.go"
sed -n '430,525p' "$file"
printf '\n--- nearby test declaration and imports ---\n'
rg -n -A8 -B8 'TestAvailableInertia|indexer.Add|ClusterOperators\(\)\.Get' "$file"

Repository: openshift/library-go

Length of output: 9995


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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
file="pkg/operator/status/status_controller_test.go"

printf '%s\n' '--- error-handling patterns in this test file ---'
rg -n -A3 -B2 'if err := .*indexer\.Add|if err := .*\.Get\(|indexer\.Add\([^)]*\)|,\s*_\s*:=.*\.Get\(' "$file" | head -160

printf '%s\n' '--- interface/signature references ---'
rg -n 'type Indexer interface|func .* Add\(.*\) error|ClusterOperators\(\).*Get|func \(.*\) Get\(' --glob '*.go' . | head -160

printf '%s\n' '--- focused read-only verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
p = Path("pkg/operator/status/status_controller_test.go")
lines = p.read_text().splitlines()
start = next(i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if line.startswith("func TestAvailableInertia"))
end = next(i for i in range(start + 1, len(lines)) if lines[i].startswith("func TestRelatedObjects"))
scope = "\n".join(lines[start:end])
checks = {
    "indexer.Add return is discarded": "indexer.Add(clusterOperator)" in scope and "if err := indexer.Add(clusterOperator)" not in scope,
    "ClusterOperators.Get error is discarded": "result, _ := clusterOperatorClient.ConfigV1().ClusterOperators().Get" in scope,
}
for name, failed in checks.items():
    print(f"{name}: {'yes' if failed else 'no'}")
raise SystemExit(1 if any(checks.values()) else 0)
PY

Repository: openshift/library-go

Length of output: 22802


Handle both returned errors.

If indexer.Add(clusterOperator) or ClusterOperators().Get(...) returns an error, fail the subtest with t.Fatal(err) before continuing. Ignoring either error can cause a misleading failure or a nil dereference.

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[error] 467-467: Error return value of indexer.Add is not checked

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In `@pkg/operator/status/status_controller_test.go` around lines 466 - 467, Update
the subtest around the cache indexer setup and ClusterOperators().Get call to
capture and check both returned errors. Call t.Fatal(err) immediately when
indexer.Add(clusterOperator) or the Get operation fails, before using their
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@fgiudici fgiudici changed the title Add availableInertia OCPBUGS-105876: add availableInertia support to StatusSyncer Aug 14, 2026
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@fgiudici: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-105876, 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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Motivation

clusteroperator/olm briefly flips Available=False (sub-second) during OCP upgrades: catalogd's soft anti-affinity occasionally co-schedules both replicas on one master, and when MCO drains that node both pods fail readiness and get evicted.
Full scenario explanation at OCPBUGS-105876.

Idea

Add availableInertia, mirroring the existing degradedInertia: a new WithAvailableInertia builder lets a consumer opt in to a grace period before a brief Available=False is propagated to the ClusterOperator. Defaults to nil (unchanged instant-propagation behavior) for any consumer that doesn't call it, so this is a no-op for every existing StatusSyncer user.

Notes

TestAvailableInertia exercises the new behavior through Sync, mirroring TestDegraded's structure (including per-condition-type duration overrides via InertiaCondition).

Proof PR still missing, will add here in place of this line as soon as done.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
  • Improved status updates by applying configurable inertia to availability conditions.
  • Helps prevent transient availability changes from causing immediate status flips.
  • Supports custom timing for availability conditions while preserving clear status reasons and messages.

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@openshift-ci-robot openshift-ci-robot added the jira/invalid-bug Indicates that a referenced Jira bug is invalid for the branch this PR is targeting. label Aug 14, 2026
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Sorry you turned it to a draft while I was reviewing, but I am still gonna post the comments 🙂

"time"

clocktesting "k8s.io/utils/clock/testing"

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Could we just move this to the k8s import block? Thanks.

fakeClock := clocktesting.NewFakePassiveClock(time.Now())
threeMinutesAgo := metav1.NewTime(fakeClock.Now().Add(-3 * time.Minute))
fiveSecondsAgo := metav1.NewTime(fakeClock.Now().Add(-2 * time.Second))
yesterday := metav1.NewTime(fakeClock.Now().Add(-24 * time.Hour))

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Could we add a comment here explaining which are covered by the inertia? Or perhaps even name them such that it's obvious, like withinInertiaTime or something. Would be nice to do that with Type as well, like customInertiaType = "TypeDAvailable" or something. I can always scroll down and remember which types are special, but this is just making it easier to understand. Just feed this to an agent and it's done 🙂

}
if len(tc.expectedReason) > 0 {
expectedCondition.Reason = tc.expectedReason
}

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You don't really need these ifs there, it will work just fine without them.

InertiaCondition{
ConditionTypeMatcher: regexp.MustCompile("^TypeDAvailable$"),
Duration: time.Minute,
},

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One more comment: I think that we only need to test the custom inertia takes effect, we don't need to test the custom inertia implementation, e.g. custom condition matchers, so I would just make this test as simple as possible.

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