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Summary

  • Add a narrow Degraded=True exception for the authentication operator during upgrade, scoped to UnavailablePod reasons only
  • Follows the existing pattern for kube-apiserver (OCPBUGS-38661), kube-controller-manager (OCPBUGS-38662), and kube-scheduler (OCPBUGS-38663)
  • Unblocks the OKD SCOS 5.0 promoted upgrade job which has been failing consistently since ec.4 (OKD-424)

Details

During upgrade rollout, the authentication operator transiently goes Degraded=True for ~8.5 seconds when oauth-apiserver and oauth-server pods are briefly unavailable. The condition reason is APIServerDeployment_UnavailablePod::OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod.

The except() function in operators.go already has Degraded exceptions for other control plane operators but was missing one for authentication. Without this exception, the transient state is recorded as a hard failure rather than a flake, blocking the upgrade job.

The exception is narrowly scoped to three UnavailablePod reason combinations observed in upgrade logs — it will not mask real authentication degradations from other causes.

Test plan

  • Existing tests pass (go test ./pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/)
  • go vet passes
  • Verify the OKD SCOS 5.0 upgrade job passes with a payload containing this change

References

  • OCPBUGS-111997
  • OKD-424 — full investigation of the upgrade failure
  • OCPBUGS-38661 — kube-apiserver Degraded exception (same pattern)
  • OCPBUGS-38662 — kube-controller-manager Degraded exception (same pattern)
  • OCPBUGS-38663 — kube-scheduler Degraded exception (same pattern)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved authentication monitoring during cluster upgrades.
    • Better recognizes expected temporary degradation while OAuth server components are rolling out, including combined rollout conditions.
    • Prevents known OAuth-related rollout states from being incorrectly reported as upgrade failures while continuing to flag unrelated degraded conditions for investigation.
    • Added coverage to verify both accepted and unexpected degradation scenarios are reported correctly.

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@pskrbasu: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-111997, which is invalid:

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

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Summary

  • Add a narrow Degraded=True exception for the authentication operator during upgrade, scoped to UnavailablePod reasons only
  • Follows the existing pattern for kube-apiserver (OCPBUGS-38661), kube-controller-manager (OCPBUGS-38662), and kube-scheduler (OCPBUGS-38663)
  • Unblocks the OKD SCOS 5.0 promoted upgrade job which has been failing consistently since ec.4 (OKD-424)

Details

During upgrade rollout, the authentication operator transiently goes Degraded=True for ~8.5 seconds when oauth-apiserver and oauth-server pods are briefly unavailable. The condition reason is APIServerDeployment_UnavailablePod::OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod.

The except() function in operators.go already has Degraded exceptions for other control plane operators but was missing one for authentication. Without this exception, the transient state is recorded as a hard failure rather than a flake, blocking the upgrade job.

The exception is narrowly scoped to three UnavailablePod reason combinations observed in upgrade logs — it will not mask real authentication degradations from other causes.

Test plan

  • Existing tests pass (go test ./pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/)
  • go vet passes
  • Verify the OKD SCOS 5.0 upgrade job passes with a payload containing this change

References

  • OCPBUGS-111997
  • OKD-424 — full investigation of the upgrade failure
  • OCPBUGS-38661 — kube-apiserver Degraded exception (same pattern)
  • OCPBUGS-38662 — kube-controller-manager Degraded exception (same pattern)
  • OCPBUGS-38663 — kube-scheduler Degraded exception (same pattern)

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The authentication upgrade exception now matches any Degraded=True reason containing OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod. Table-driven tests cover compound, exact, API-server, and unrelated reasons.

Changes

Authentication upgrade monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exception matching and validation
pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go, pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators_test.go
The monitor matches OAuth unavailable-pod reasons by substring and updates the exception message with the transient rollout context and OCPBUGS-111997. Tests build condition intervals and verify JUnit outcomes for excepted and non-excepted reasons.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 635ee

The change may suppress genuine authentication degradation outside an upgrade window when specific pod-unavailable reasons occur, potentially allowing an unhealthy cluster state to pass monitoring. The exception should be restricted to upgrades and covered by an out-of-window regression test before merge.

Suggested reviewers: p0lyn0mial, sjenning, hongkailiu

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the bug and the main change: adding an authentication operator degradation exception during upgrades.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The added Test_ and t.Run titles use static literals. They contain no timestamps, generated identifiers, node or namespace names, IP addresses, or other run-dependent values.
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed The added test is a standard Go table-driven unit test, not Ginkgo; it creates only in-memory intervals, uses no cluster resources or waits, and its assertions include reason-specific messages.
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR adds a standard Go Test_... unit test using testing and monitorapi; it adds no Ginkgo e2e test or MicroShift-incompatible test execution.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR adds a standard Go Test_ unit test, not a Ginkgo e2e test. It uses synthetic monitor intervals and no cluster, node, scheduling, or HA assumptions.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed The diff only changes ClusterOperator upgrade-exception matching and adds unit tests; it introduces no manifests, replicas, affinity, topology spread, selectors, tolerations, or PDB scheduling cons...
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed The complete PR diff adds no main/init/suite output calls; the implementation returns an exception string and the new test only builds intervals and asserts results. Existing logrus calls are uncha...
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR adds a standard Go testing unit test, not a Ginkgo e2e test. The changed code uses no IPv4 literals or external connectivity.
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The PR changes operator-reason matching and adds tests only; the complete diff introduces no weak-crypto primitive, custom crypto, or secret/token comparison.
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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`:
- Around line 332-337: Restrict the OCPBUGS-111997 exception branch in the
relevant operator condition handling to cases where withinUpgradeWindowBuffer is
true, so matching authentication degradation outside the upgrade window is not
accepted. Add a regression test covering an out-of-window matching event and
preserve the existing upgrade-window behavior.
- Around line 332-337: Update the OCPBUGS-111997 condition handling in the
relevant operator-reason mapping to recognize producer-supported composite
authentication reasons by matching the supported
APIServerDeployment_UnavailablePod and OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod
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…or during upgrade

The authentication operator transiently goes Degraded for ~8.5 seconds during
upgrade rollout when oauth-apiserver and oauth-server pods are briefly
unavailable. This is the same pattern already excepted for kube-apiserver
(OCPBUGS-38661), kube-controller-manager (OCPBUGS-38662), and kube-scheduler
(OCPBUGS-38663).

Add a narrow exception scoped to UnavailablePod reasons only, so transient pod
rollout states are classified as flakes rather than hard failures. This
unblocks the OKD SCOS 5.0 promoted upgrade job which has been failing
consistently since ec.4 (OKD-424).
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… upgrade

Verifies that the authentication operator's transient Degraded=True state
during upgrade is correctly excepted for UnavailablePod reasons, while
unrelated Degraded reasons remain hard failures.

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if tt.wantFatal {
assert.True(t, hasFailure, "expected a failure JUnit for reason %s", tt.reason)
assert.False(t, hasSuccess, "expected no success JUnit for reason %s (should be hard failure)", tt.reason)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the expected successful JUnit case.

At Line 769, the accepted-reason branch passes when hasFailure and hasSuccess are both false. A missing result for testName can then pass this test without validating the exception. Assert hasSuccess for every accepted reason, and assert that hasFailure is false.

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 			} else {
-				if hasFailure {
-					assert.True(t, hasSuccess, "expected both failure and success JUnit (flake) for reason %s", tt.reason)
-				}
+				assert.False(t, hasFailure, "expected no failure JUnit for reason %s", tt.reason)
+				assert.True(t, hasSuccess, "expected a success JUnit for reason %s", tt.reason)
 			}
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if tt.wantFatal {
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} else {
if hasFailure {
assert.True(t, hasSuccess, "expected both failure and success JUnit (flake) for reason %s", tt.reason)
}
}
if tt.wantFatal {
assert.True(t, hasFailure, "expected a failure JUnit for reason %s", tt.reason)
assert.False(t, hasSuccess, "expected no success JUnit for reason %s (should be hard failure)", tt.reason)
} else {
assert.False(t, hasFailure, "expected no failure JUnit for reason %s", tt.reason)
assert.True(t, hasSuccess, "expected a success JUnit for reason %s", tt.reason)
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around lines 766 - 773, The accepted-reason branch in the test assertions must
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Scheduling required tests:
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(condition.Reason == "APIServerDeployment_UnavailablePod" ||
condition.Reason == "APIServerDeployment_UnavailablePod::OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod" ||
condition.Reason == "OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod") {
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rather than just returning the issue link, offer a brief explanation and returning just the bug id?

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also we've tightened the restrictions here which might regress two node clusters. we could just have the original check in and remove isTwoNode

- Use strings.Contains for reason matching instead of exact matches,
  preserving the original breadth and avoiding regressions on two-node
  clusters
- Return a descriptive message with bug ID instead of a bare URL
- Update tests to match the new strings.Contains behavior

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386-388: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep this exception inside the upgrade window.

When withinUpgradeWindowBuffer is false, Lines 354-359 allow authentication Degraded=True conditions to reach this branch. The new strings.Contains check can therefore accept matching reasons outside an upgrade and report them as transient upgrade failures. Require withinUpgradeWindowBuffer here or move this exception into the upgrade-window path. Add an out-of-window regression test.

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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`
around lines 386 - 388, Restrict the OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod
exception in the condition-handling logic to withinUpgradeWindowBuffer, so
matching authentication Degraded conditions outside the upgrade window are not
treated as transient upgrade failures. Add an out-of-window regression test
covering this behavior.

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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`:
- Around line 386-388: Restrict the OAuthServerDeployment_UnavailablePod
exception in the condition-handling logic to withinUpgradeWindowBuffer, so
matching authentication Degraded conditions outside the upgrade window are not
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covering this behavior.

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Scheduling required tests:
/test e2e-aws-csi
/test e2e-aws-ovn-fips
/test e2e-aws-ovn-microshift
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@pskrbasu: The following tests failed, say /retest to rerun all failed tests or /retest-required to rerun all mandatory failed tests:

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