tests: mcl, syncer bats by acpana · Pull Request #7053 · GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-config-connector

acpana · 2026-03-17T00:09:37Z

adds more "real" e2e tests for the mcl, syncer integration components on top off #6919

Signed-off-by: Alex Pana <8968914+acpana@users.noreply.github.com>

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--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23171988832, 23231946084
Name: ci-presubmit
Cause: Infrastructure
Details: The tests-e2e-mcl step failed because the bats executable was not found by tests/e2e/mcl/run-ha-e2e-tests.sh. A fallback install in dev/ci/presubmits/tests-e2e-mcl using if ! command -v bats &> /dev/null was skipped because an incompatible bats alias or executable already existed on the runner.
Action Taken: Modified dev/ci/presubmits/tests-e2e-mcl to force the installation of bats-core unconditionally.

Run ID: 23171988831, 23180790372, 23181167298, 23231946076
Name: Presubmit
Cause: Code Error
Details: The validations step failed because cmd/manager/main.go, tests/e2e/mcl/storagebucket.yaml, and tests/e2e/mcl/run_test_direct.sh were not properly formatted or were missing copyright headers.
Action Taken: Ran make fmt to correct file formatting and added copyright headers to the newly added files.

Run ID: 23181167284
Name: ci-presubmit
Cause: Code Error
Details: The `validate-generated-files` step failed because the script generates types and then runs `go fmt`, creating an uncommitted change for `cmd/manager/main.go`.
Action Taken: Committed formatting changes to the branch.

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--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23231946076
Name: validations
Cause: Code Error
Details: The run failed on make fmt due to cmd/manager/main.go having improper formatting and several other shell/yaml files missing Apache 2.0 license headers.
Action Taken: Ran make fmt to format the code and append the correct headers.

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23231946084
Name: tests-e2e-mcl
Cause: Test Failure
Details: The mcl_syncer_integration.bats test timed out while waiting for the leader manager to reconcile the StorageBucket because the cache sync initialization for 500+ CRDs takes roughly 95 seconds. The script only waited for 75 seconds (retry 15 5). Additionally, cmd/manager/main.go was misformatted causing a generated-files mismatch, and a logic flaw in opts.Cache prevented the DefaultNamespaces mapping from safely falling back to defaults.
Action Taken: Corrected the ManagerOptions Cache initializer block in main.go, formatted the codebase, and increased the bats wait timeouts from retry 15 5 (75s) to retry 30 5 (150s).

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23181167284
Name: ci-presubmit
Cause: Test Failure
Details: Older run which failed because the environment lacked a proper BATS installation (bats: command not found).
Action Taken: None (the author added a BATS installation routine in a subsequent commit).

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23181167298
Name: Presubmit
Cause: Code Error
Details: Failed make fmt due to formatting errors and missing license headers.
Action Taken: None (superseded by fixes in later runs).

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23180790372
Name: Presubmit
Cause: Code Error
Details: Failed make fmt due to formatting errors and missing license headers.
Action Taken: None (superseded by fixes in later runs).

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23171988831
Name: Presubmit
Cause: Code Error
Details: Failed make fmt due to formatting errors and missing license headers.
Action Taken: None (superseded by fixes in later runs).

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23171988832
Name: ci-presubmit
Cause: Test Failure
Details: Older run which failed because the environment lacked a proper BATS installation (`bats: command not found`).
Action Taken: None (the author added a BATS installation routine in a subsequent commit).

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codebot-robot · 2026-03-26T01:58:48Z

Triggered rebase to resolve merge conflicts.

codebot-robot

Overall, the integration of KRMSyncer with MultiClusterLease is structurally sound, and adding these realistic E2E integration tests adds a lot of value. However, there are several critical issues to address before merging.

Key points:

Accidental Commit: The file test_output.log contains a BATS test failure and was checked in. It should be removed, and the underlying failure must be fixed.
Error Handling Risk: In setUpMultiClusterLease, failing to explicitly check for NotFound errors before falling back to default in-cluster leader election risks a split-brain state during transient API server instability.
Makefile Regression: The removal of DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 might break features like setcap in multi-stage builds, contrary to the existing comment.
Blocking Callbacks: Adding synchronous time.Sleep retry loops inside OnStoppedLeading and OnNewLeader blocks the leader election callbacks, delaying state transitions.
Retry Logic Bug: The EnsurePullingFromLeader function contains a premature return nil when the lease hasn't updated yet. This directly bypasses the retry loop implemented in kccmanager.go, risking failures in failover synchronizations.
Script Resilience: Several shell scripts for E2E testing contain potential silent failure paths, chmod 777 permissions, or missing newlines that should be fixed.
GVK Mappings: syncer_exceptions.go hardcodes a large static map. While acceptable, double check if these can be dynamically generated or extracted.

Please review the inline comments for specific feedback on error handling, cache safety, test script hardening, and more details!

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codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:29Z

 # Use Docker BuildKit when building images to allow usage of 'setcap' in
 # multi-stage builds (https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/38132)
-DOCKER_BUILD := DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build
+DOCKER_BUILD := docker build


Removing DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 might cause regressions in multi-stage builds that rely on setcap, as warned by the comment directly above this line. Consider restoring DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:29Z

-go 1.24.0
-
-toolchain go1.24.6
+go 1.25.6


The Go version was upgraded from 1.24.0 to 1.25.6. Please confirm if this bump was intentional for this PR, as it seems outside the scope of adding MCL/Syncer tests.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:29Z

+
+	if enableSyncing && !multiClusterElection {
+		logging.Fatal(fmt.Errorf("syncing-mode can only be enabled if leader-election-type is not disabled"), "error validating flags")
+	}


The error message syncing-mode can only be enabled if leader-election-type is not disabled is slightly misleading because !multiClusterElection evaluates to true even if leader-election-type is default. It should probably explicitly state leader-election-type must be multicluster.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:29Z

 }

-func newManager(ctx context.Context, restCfg *rest.Config, scopedNamespace string, userProjectOverride bool, billingProject string, multiclusterlease bool) (manager.Manager, error) {
+func newManager(ctx context.Context, restCfg *rest.Config, scopedNamespace string, userProjectOverride bool, billingProject string, multiclusterlease bool, syncingMode bool) (manager.Manager, error) {


The parameter syncingMode is typed as a bool, but named syncingMode (which is the name of the string flag). For clarity, consider renaming the function parameter to enableSyncing or syncerIntegration.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:29Z

 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error deleting stale StatefulSet for watched namespace %v: %w", ccc.Namespace, err)
 	}

+	cc, err := controllers.GetConfigConnector(ctx, c, controllers.ValidConfigConnectorNamespacedName)


There is duplicated logic for fetching the ConfigConnector and calling applyExperimentsToManagerContainer in both handleControllerManagerStatefulSet and handleControllerManagerStatefulSetPerNamespace. Consider extracting this block into a shared helper function to keep it DRY.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:30Z

+
+  cat <<EOF | kubectl --context "${context}" apply -f -
+apiVersion: core.cnrm.cloud.google.com/v1beta1
+kind: ConfigConnectorContext


Generating a mock private key and placing it directly as a plain text string inside a shell script is generally discouraged. It is more maintainable and less error-prone to load this from a dedicated test fixture file.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:30Z

+	}
+
+	if leaderIdentity == "" {
+		klog.V(2).Infof("MultiClusterLease %s has no GlobalHolderIdentity", si.leaseNN)


Returning nil here when leaderIdentity == myIdentity causes the retry loop in OnStoppedLeading to break immediately without actually retrying. The syncer will fail to configure to pull from the new leader because it won't wait for the MultiClusterLease to be updated by the new leader. You should return an error here (e.g. fmt.Errorf("leader is still %s", myIdentity)) so the loop keeps retrying.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:30Z

+		if err := mgr.Start(ctx); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("mgr failed to start: %v", err)
+		}
+	}()


Calling t.Errorf from a background goroutine can cause a race condition if the main test completes or if the testing framework accesses internal states concurrently. It is usually better to send the error to a channel and verify it in the main test thread.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:30Z

+    docker run -d --name fake-gcs --network kind \
+      -v "${TMP_DIR}/fake-gcs-data":/data \
+      fsouza/fake-gcs-server -scheme http -public-host fake-gcs:4443 -external-url http://fake-gcs:4443
+    sleep 3


The fsouza/fake-gcs-server image is downloaded without a specific version tag. It's highly recommended to pin this to a specific version to prevent upstream breaking changes from silently breaking CI runs in the future.

codebot-robot · 2026-03-27T07:34:30Z

+			return fmt.Errorf("error getting KRMSyncer %s: %w", name, err)
+		}
+	}
+


If the initial creation fails, reconcileSyncer bubbles up the error immediately. It might be safer to handle apierrors.IsAlreadyExists(err) explicitly here in case another process created it concurrently, rather than returning the error to the caller.

acpana added 3 commits March 16, 2026 20:52

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--- INVESTIGATION REPORT --- Run ID: 23171988832 Name: ci-presubmit Cause: Test Failure Details: Older run which failed because the environment lacked a proper BATS installation (bats: command not found). Action Taken: None (the author added a BATS installation routine in a subsequent commit).

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Run ID: 23181167284
Name: ci-presubmit
Cause: Code Error
Details: The `validate-generated-files` step failed because the script generates types and then runs `go fmt`, creating an uncommitted change for `cmd/manager/main.go`.
Action Taken: Committed formatting changes to the branch.

--- INVESTIGATION REPORT ---
Run ID: 23171988832
Name: ci-presubmit
Cause: Test Failure
Details: Older run which failed because the environment lacked a proper BATS installation (`bats: command not found`).
Action Taken: None (the author added a BATS installation routine in a subsequent commit).