fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions by pkoutsovasilis · Pull Request #9634 · elastic/elastic-agent

pkoutsovasilis · 2025-08-28T22:16:16Z

What does this PR do?

This PR refactors the Coordinator.Upgrade API to use functional options (UpgradeOpt) instead of long argument lists, and introduces a preUpgradeCallback.

Specifically:

Moves the action proxying of Endpoint upgrades into a callback passed to the coordinator. This ensures that action dispatch only happens after the initial upgrade checks succeed (already upgrading, agent upgradeable, agent upgrade capability allowed, etc.), which is a more logical sequence.
Reorders checks inside Coordinator.Upgrade to make the flow more consistent (e.g. first verifying that the coordinator is not already upgrading before continuing).
Updates tests and server code to use the new options-based API.

All business logic changes are captured here bcdba7b (+90 -29 lines changed)

Why is it important?

Currently, upgrade actions can remain stuck in bkgActions when tamper protection is enabled (see #9629). This occurs because errors returned from the Endpoint action proxying are not correctly handled, leaving stale entries behind.

By moving this logic into a preUpgradeCallback, any error from proxying is now surfaced through the coordinator’s upgrade flow, which ensures that bkgActions are cleaned up correctly.

I am not fully satisfied with these changes — they are a pragmatic fix until we perform a larger rewrite to centralize upgrade action handling in a single place. Still, they are necessary to resolve the immediate issue of stuck upgrade actions.

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I have made corresponding change to the default configuration files
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I have added an integration test or an E2E test

Disruptive User Impact

None expected - this change only affects the internal proxying of upgrade actions to Endpoint and does not alter the upgrade request API.

How to test this PR locally

mage unitTest

Related issues

Closes Upgrade actions can be ignored due to stale entries in bkgActions #9629

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elasticmachine · 2025-09-08T05:51:09Z

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cmacknz

The approach looks good to me as a way to fix this without totally rewriting everything. A couple of small comments.

cmacknz · 2025-09-10T01:09:37Z

After your clarifications my only remaining comments are suggestions for readability or documentation, which I think are necessary but if you do these and get approval from someone else go ahead and merge and don't feel the need to wait for me to review again.

elastic-sonarqube · 2025-09-10T10:17:04Z

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elasticmachine · 2025-09-10T10:18:28Z

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cmacknz

Thanks for the follow up!

github-actions · 2025-09-10T14:03:16Z

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#9859 [8.18] (backport #9634) fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions has been created for branch 8.18 but encountered conflicts
#9860 [8.19] (backport #9634) fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions has been created for branch 8.19 but encountered conflicts
#9861 [9.0] (backport #9634) fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions has been created for branch 9.0 but encountered conflicts
#9862 [9.1] (backport #9634) fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions has been created for branch 9.1 but encountered conflicts

* fix: refactor coordinator Upgrade to use opts and introduce pre-upgrade callback to properly handle errs and upgrade details * ci: add unit-tests * doc: add changelog fragment * fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn * doc: add comment for notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn unit-test assertion (cherry picked from commit bb98f2a) # Conflicts: # internal/pkg/agent/application/coordinator/coordinator.go

…ng it to bkgActions (#9859) * fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions (#9634) * fix: refactor coordinator Upgrade to use opts and introduce pre-upgrade callback to properly handle errs and upgrade details * ci: add unit-tests * doc: add changelog fragment * fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn * doc: add comment for notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn unit-test assertion (cherry picked from commit bb98f2a) # Conflicts: # internal/pkg/agent/application/coordinator/coordinator.go * fix: resolve conflicts --------- Co-authored-by: Panos Koutsovasilis <panos.koutsovasilis@elastic.co>

…g it to bkgActions (#9861) * fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions (#9634) * fix: refactor coordinator Upgrade to use opts and introduce pre-upgrade callback to properly handle errs and upgrade details * ci: add unit-tests * doc: add changelog fragment * fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn * doc: add comment for notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn unit-test assertion (cherry picked from commit bb98f2a) # Conflicts: # internal/pkg/agent/application/coordinator/coordinator.go * fix: resolve conflicts --------- Co-authored-by: Panos Koutsovasilis <panos.koutsovasilis@elastic.co>

…ng it to bkgActions (#9860) * fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions (#9634) * fix: refactor coordinator Upgrade to use opts and introduce pre-upgrade callback to properly handle errs and upgrade details * ci: add unit-tests * doc: add changelog fragment * fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn * doc: add comment for notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn unit-test assertion (cherry picked from commit bb98f2a) # Conflicts: # internal/pkg/agent/application/coordinator/coordinator.go * fix: resolve conflicts --------- Co-authored-by: Panos Koutsovasilis <panos.koutsovasilis@elastic.co>

…g it to bkgActions (#9862) * fix: send upgrade action to units before adding it to bkgActions (#9634) * fix: refactor coordinator Upgrade to use opts and introduce pre-upgrade callback to properly handle errs and upgrade details * ci: add unit-tests * doc: add changelog fragment * fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn * doc: add comment for notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn unit-test assertion (cherry picked from commit bb98f2a) # Conflicts: # internal/pkg/agent/application/coordinator/coordinator.go * fix: resolve conflicts --------- Co-authored-by: Panos Koutsovasilis <panos.koutsovasilis@elastic.co>

…stic#9634) * fix: refactor coordinator Upgrade to use opts and introduce pre-upgrade callback to properly handle errs and upgrade details * ci: add unit-tests * doc: add changelog fragment * fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn * doc: add comment for notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn unit-test assertion

pkoutsovasilis self-assigned this Aug 28, 2025

pkoutsovasilis added bug Something isn't working Team:Elastic-Agent-Control-Plane Label for the Agent Control Plane team skip-changelog backport-active-all Automated backport with mergify to all the active branches labels Aug 28, 2025

pkoutsovasilis force-pushed the fix/endpoint_upgrade_action_error branch 2 times, most recently from deac63b to ad27fc6 Compare September 5, 2025 10:36

pkoutsovasilis added 3 commits September 5, 2025 16:47

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pkoutsovasilis force-pushed the fix/endpoint_upgrade_action_error branch from ad27fc6 to eb2f6a5 Compare September 5, 2025 13:47

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fix: rename notifyUnitsOfProxiedAction to notifyUnitsOfProxiedActionFn

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pkoutsovasilis merged commit bb98f2a into elastic:main Sep 10, 2025
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Agent is unable to retry upgrade with correct binary on failing once with incorrect binary. #7611

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