fix(miniservice): treat webhook-unavailable, EOF, and admission timeout - #1554
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe miniservice recognizes known transient webhook-unavailability messages in ChangesWebhook event classification
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change keeps recognized webhook failures retryable, avoiding unnecessary child recreation during temporary outages. An open edge case may suppress reporting of some transient events, so owner awareness is warranted before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/status.go`:
- Line 1398: Update parseErrorEventMessage so transient FailedCreate,
FailedUpdate, and BindingError events return include=true regardless of
event.Type, preserving matching Normal or empty-type events; add regression
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| // terminal: marking it terminal force-purges the object and | ||
| // regenerates the load that caused the failure. | ||
| if isTransientWebhookUnavailableMessage(event.Message) { | ||
| return event.Message, event.Type == corev1.EventTypeWarning, false |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Kubernetes corev1 Event Type Warning FailedCreate BindingError EventRecorder contract
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The error FailedCreate is a standard Kubernetes event reason indicating that a controller (such as a ReplicaSet, StatefulSet, or Job) was unable to create a requested resource, most commonly a Pod [1][2][3]. This event type is typically marked as Warning and indicates that the resource creation request was rejected or failed before the object could be persisted in etcd [1][3]. Common causes for FailedCreate events include: 1. Admission Webhook Rejection: The most frequent cause is an admission controller (validating or mutating webhook) blocking the request [1][2]. The event message will often contain details from the webhook explaining why the request was denied (e.g., policy violation, missing labels) [1][2]. 2. Resource Quota Exceeded: The request may be blocked because the namespace has reached its resource quota limits [1]. 3. API Server Errors: In some cases, transient timeouts or internal server errors during the API request can trigger this event [4]. A BindingError, while sometimes appearing in related scheduling logs or error messages, refers to a failure in the process of binding a Pod to a Node [5][6]. Pods are created first, then scheduled, and finally bound [1]. If you see a FailedCreate event, it generally means the issue occurred before scheduling, at the admission/creation phase [3]. Conversely, a Binding rejection typically happens after the Pod has been admitted and passed the scheduling phase, often due to conflicts if a scheduler attempts to bind a Pod that is already bound or has been deleted [5][6]. The EventRecorder contract is the mechanism used by controllers to emit these events [7][8]. In Kubernetes Go code, the EventRecorder interface provides methods such as Event, Eventf, and AnnotatedEventf [8][9]. The contract requires: - An object (runtime.Object) that the event concerns [8]. - A string representing the event type (corev1.EventTypeWarning or corev1.EventTypeNormal) [10][8][11]. - A short, unique reason string (like FailedCreate), which is used for programmatic handling [7][8]. - A human-readable message string providing context [7][8]. When writing a custom controller, you use the EventRecorder to report these states to the Kubernetes API, making them visible to users via kubectl describe [7][11]. The controller is responsible for identifying the failure, constructing the event, and calling the recorder to propagate it to the cluster [7][8].
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- 1: https://www.netdata.cloud/guides/kubernetes/kubernetes-pod-creation-fails/
- 2: GitHub issue 127081 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: https://devopsaitoolkit.com/blog/kubernetes-error-replicafailure/
- 4: GitHub issue 47002 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: GitHub issue 31709 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50933127/kubernetes-python-client-error-create-namespaced-binding-409-reason-conflict
- 7: https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/record
- 8: https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/blob/master/tools/record/event.go
- 9: https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/blob/master/tools/events/event_recorder.go
- 10: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/events/event-v1/
- 11: https://pkg.go.dev/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/recorder
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In the Kubernetes API, the type field in an Event object is a required field that indicates the nature of the event [1]. It is a machine-readable string that must be set to either Normal or Warning for new Events [1][2]. While new types may be introduced in the future, Normal and Warning are the standard classifications used to categorize the significance of the event [1][2]. Regarding the relationship between type and reason, the type field serves as the broad classification (Normal vs. Warning), whereas the reason field (often found in the Event structure as a short, machine-understandable string) provides specific, programmatic details about the underlying cause of the event [1][2]. Although there is no strict schema-level binding between specific types and specific reasons, convention dictates that the reason should be a short, CamelCase string that explains the event's trigger [3]. It is important to note that event consumers should treat these as supplemental, best-effort data, as the specific triggers and messages associated with a reason may evolve over time [4][5].
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- 1: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/events/event-v1/
- 2: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/core/event-v1/
- 3: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/definitions/condition-v1-meta/
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Preserve transient failure events with non-Warning types.
parseErrorEventMessage sets include=false for transient FailedCreate, FailedUpdate, and BindingError events unless event.Type == corev1.EventTypeWarning. Kubernetes does not bind these reasons to Warning, so getUnexpectedEventsForObject can discard a matching event with type Normal or empty. Return include=true for this branch and add regression coverage.
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/status.go` at line 1398,
Update parseErrorEventMessage so transient FailedCreate, FailedUpdate, and
BindingError events return include=true regardless of event.Type, preserving
matching Normal or empty-type events; add regression coverage through
getUnexpectedEventsForObject for these non-Warning event types.
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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/status.go (1)
1398-1398:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 MinorKeep transient webhook events in the result.
When the message is transient, return
include=trueandisError=false. The currentevent.Type == corev1.EventTypeWarningcheck removes matchingFailedCreate,FailedUpdate, andBindingErrorevents with an empty orNormaltype.getUnexpectedEventsForObjectthen deletes the event, so the retryable failure is not reported. Add regression cases for non-Warningevent types.Also applies to: 1405-1405
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/miniservice/status.go`:
- Line 1398: Update the event-result logic in getUnexpectedEventsForObject so
transient webhook messages return include=true and isError=false regardless of
event.Type, preserving them for reporting; retain warning-based error
classification for non-transient messages. Add regression cases covering
transient FailedCreate, FailedUpdate, and BindingError events with empty or
Normal types.
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TL;DR
Classify NVCA's own admission-webhook-unavailable failures (EOF, timeout, connection reset) as retryable instead of terminal, so a brief webhook outage no longer escalates a MiniService's child objects to a terminal state.
Additional Details
A MiniService instance is force-purged and recreated when NVCA classifies one of its child objects (StatefulSet/Pod) as terminally bad. When NVCA's own admission webhook briefly becomes unavailable (CPU throttling, a rollout, node loss, a network blip), the resulting
FailedCreate/BindingErrorevents referencing NVCA's own webhooks were classified the same as a genuine workload defect: terminal.What changed:
internal/miniservice/status.go:parseErrorEventMessagenow checksFailedCreate/FailedUpdate/BindingErrorevent messages against a set of known webhook-unavailability signatures (isTransientWebhookUnavailableMessage). A match is treated as retryable, not terminal; anything else still escalates as before.BindingErrorwas previously an unhandledReasonin the classification switch, falling through todefaultand only accidentally staying non-terminal. It now gets the same transient-webhook carve-out asFailedCreate/FailedUpdate.For the Reviewer
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transientWebhookUnavailableSignaturesandisTransientWebhookUnavailableMessageinstatus.goBindingErrorcase inparseErrorEventMessageFor QA
QA to test this on the live cluster
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