perf(ci): skip the Flux fence when the GHCR bridge has nothing to write - #3041
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The bridge pauses Flux policy reconciliation and restarts kustomize-controller before mutating, because suspending does not stop an already-started execution. That fence is the dominant cost of a deploy that writes nothing, and the script runs twice per deploy: measured 62s of a 276s deploy while reporting no change on both Secrets. Adds a read-only probe over the root Secret, variables-base, every consumer secret and every node proof; a fully matching cluster reasserts root auth and exits without fencing. Fails closed on any drift or read error. Fixes #3039
Runs the script twice against preserved cluster state, which is the production shape (stage before publish, reassert after cluster update). One test pins that a converged reassert does not restart kustomize-controller again while still reasserting root auth; the other pins that a partially applied node config still takes the full fence, which is the case --check-only cannot see. The consumer-secret fake falls back to the persisted variables-base value when a run performs no variables patch, so the fixture can express an already-converged cluster at all. Part of #3039
ValidationRED/GREEN from git, not mutation. Ablating That The guard-test passes both before and after by design — it is a regression pin, not a change detector. Ordering invariants re-checked against the file rather than assumed, since the probe exits early and could otherwise strand state:
Fail-closed direction checked deliberately. A false "matches" is the dangerous answer, so every check must pass affirmatively and each Not yet exercised against prod. The merge-queue |
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P1 — Preserve the fence if the root Secret changes after the probe. If the root Secret changes after the probe, the CAS helper can retry and restore the Git/SOPS value without the Flux fence. That is a real mutation on the path that claims there is nothing to write. Make the fast-path patch conditional on the root Secret still containing the value that the probe observed. If that condition fails, fall through to the existing fenced transaction. Add a concurrent root-Secret-change test for this interval. ✅ Action performedReview finished.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe refresh script adds a read-only convergence probe for Flux, variables-base, consumer Secrets, and Talos node proof state. A converged cluster receives only a root Secret reassertion and skips Flux fencing and controller restart. Any drift uses the existing fenced repair transaction. Tests cover persisted fixture state, the converged fast path, and escalation for partial node configuration. Possibly related PRs
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In `@scripts/refresh-flux-ghcr-auth.sh`:
- Around line 3824-3829: Update the matching path around
ghcr_state_already_matches_git and patch_root_secret to carry the probed root
Secret value or resourceVersion into the patch and verify it still matches
before applying the patch; if it changed, fall through to the existing fenced
transaction. Add coverage that mutates the root Secret between the probe and
patch and confirms the fenced path is used.
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validate_talos_node_inventoryis a read-only jq check, and the probe only callsselect_talos_node_targets; it does not skip selector validation.> Likely an incorrect or invalid review comment.
The fast path read the root Secret and then patched it outside the fence, so a writer landing in between would have its change overwritten by a decision made against a cluster that no longer existed. Record the observed resourceVersion and require it still holds at the write; anything else falls through to the fenced transaction. Addresses the CodeRabbit finding on #3041.
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P1 — Do not retry an unfenced root Secret write after the probe version moves. The check must bind the fast-path write itself to
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Readiness — exercised, not tracedThe three behaviours that matter were each observed by running the real script end-to-end (the harness substitutes the cluster, not the script), twice per case, in the production two-invocation shape — stage, then reassert against preserved state:
Each is pinned by a test that fails without its change — ablated from git, verified to actually mutate the file, and confirmed to fail by name rather than by count. The middle one passes before and after by design; it is a regression pin, not a change detector. What is not yet observed, stated plainly: the wall-clock saving on a real cluster. The ~60 s figure is arithmetic from measured step durations, not a measurement of this change, and the first real run is the merge-queue |
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| # Pin what the probe observed. The unfenced patch below is only sound while | ||
| # the cluster still looks the way it did here, so record the version the | ||
| # decision was made against rather than trusting that nothing moved. | ||
| probed_root_secret_version="$(jq -r '.metadata.resourceVersion // ""' \ | ||
| "${probe_dir}/root-secret.json" 2>/dev/null)" || return 1 | ||
| [[ -n "${probed_root_secret_version}" ]] |
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Revalidate every endpoint before skipping the fence
The fast path pins only the root Secret, leaving the variables Secret, consumer Secrets, and node inventory as stale point-in-time reads. If the Cluster Autoscaler adds or replaces a worker after the node read at line 402, or a downstream credential changes after its probe, the root resourceVersion can remain unchanged, so this condition succeeds and exits without processing the newly stale endpoint. In particular, a worker introduced with old or missing proof annotations during the post-cluster update reassert can begin receiving workloads without the registry-backed pull proof, causing private image pulls to fail until a later deploy; require a stable second observation/version check for every probed endpoint before taking the fast path.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L188-L192
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| # Every materialised tenant/Kyverno consumer. | ||
| for namespace in "$@"; do | ||
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Prove the OpenBao seed before taking the fast path
Checking only the materialized ghcr-auth Secrets does not prove that seed-ghcr has written the expected credential into OpenBao. After an OpenBao raft restore containing an older GHCR value, the existing Kubernetes Secrets can still match Git until their next ExternalSecret refresh, so this probe returns clean and skips the PushSecret force-sync; a later controller refresh then replaces the consumers with the restored stale credential and breaks private pulls. The fast path must prove the remote seed value or fall through to the force-sync transaction.
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| # Every node's v2 proof. select_talos_node_targets is side-effect free and | ||
| # FAILS on residual GHCR bridge ownership — a recovery state that must never | ||
| # take the fast path — so its failure correctly falls through. |
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Reject residual Flux fences on the fast path
The claimed residual-ownership check covers only node drain annotations. If a previous transaction completed credential synchronization but failed while resuming the parent or child Flux Kustomization, cleanup intentionally leaves those ownership annotations and spec.suspend=true; on retry, all credential and node checks can match, so this fast path exits successfully without reading either Flux fence. The deploy can then publish and attempt reconciliation while flux-system or infrastructure remains suspended, so require both policy fences to be unowned and unsuspended before skipping the recovery path.
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All three findings are valid, and together they retire this designI checked each against the code rather than the description, and none of them is refutable: 1. Revalidate every endpoint (P1). Correct, and it is the one that decides this. The transaction I bypass is not a sequence of checks — it is a convergence loop: 2. Prove the OpenBao seed (P1). Correct. The chain is SOPS → 3. Reject residual Flux fences (P1). Correct. Cleanup deliberately leaves the ownership annotations and Decision: closing, not patchingI could add a fence check, a seed check and a stable second observation — but that is rebuilding the convergence loop outside the fence, one finding at a time, on a path that handles production pull credentials. The premise was wrong: a cheap pre-probe cannot replicate a converging transaction's guarantees. The correct shape is the inverse, and I have re-scoped #3039 to it: keep the transaction and its convergence loop exactly as they are, and make the fence lazy — acquire it at the first actual write instead of before the first read. That keeps every guarantee these three findings defend, and still removes the Closing rather than parking, because the branch would be rewritten wholesale. The three tests are worth keeping and are recorded on #3039 for reuse.
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The GHCR auth bridge fences Flux before it mutates — it pauses policy reconciliation and restarts
kustomize-controller, because suspending does not stop an already-started execution. It takes that fence on every run, including runs that write nothing, and it runs twice per deploy. Measured while the Cilium gate was suppressingcluster update: stage 67 s + reassert 62 s of a 276 s deploy, both reporting(no change).What
A read-only probe runs first and skips the fence when the cluster already matches Git/SOPS — root Secret,
variables-base, every consumer secret, and every node proof. Root auth is still reasserted, pinned to theresourceVersionthe probe decided against, so a concurrent writer sends the run down the fenced path instead. It fails closed: any drift, read error, or residual bridge ownership falls through to today’s transaction unchanged.This removes ~60 s and one GitOps-engine restart per invocation. It is not the reason deploys are slow right now, and it should not be merged in the belief that it is.
Since the rollout gate was released (#3035, 20:00Z) every deploy runs
ksail cluster updateagain, and every deploy now rolling-reboots all seven nodes: 64 min, 36.5 min, 52 min for the three most recent, against 4.4–5.7 min while the gate was suppressing that step. Isolated inside a single run — the same script runs on both sides ofcluster update, so the run contains its own control:🔑 Stage— beforecluster updatepatched (no change)🔑 Reassert— aftercluster updatepatched(changed)ksail cluster updateinvalidates every node’s proof, so the reassert rebuilds it the expensive way. That is #3042, it is worth ~45–60 min per merge, and it needs a design decision. This PR is the ~60 s slice around it and lands independently.Fixes #3039