Nightly and the rc gate still booted the management nodes as QEMU
guests, the substrate the merge-gating lanes left behind. On it the
tenant Kubernetes suites have missed their node-join deadline on most
nights since 2026-10-02, each failure spends the whole deadline, and
the job reaches its timeout before the alphabetically later suites
run. Over the same days those suites passed on every PR run that
selected them, where the nodes are Talos containers and a tenant
worker sits one virtualization level shallower.
Both lanes now use the PR lanes' container substrate. Nightly's e2e no
longer waits for the nocloud disk, which it does not boot; the disk is
still built and published. A manual e2e-tag dispatch against a tag
that predates the container lane fails early and names the ref to
dispatch from instead.
DRBD, the replicated StorageClass and the Cozystack Talos node image
lose their last e2e coverage with this. The docs and comments that
pointed at nightly and the rc gate as that coverage now say so.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
The E2E install sets Tenant/root spec.monitoring to false, but left the
platform monitoring.rootEnabled at its default of true, so
cozystack-basics rendered its vlinsert/vminsert ExternalName Services
into cozy-monitoring regardless.
That namespace is created only by metrics-server, monitoring-agents and
monitoring. A narrow suite selection disables all three, so basics
fails with `namespaces "cozy-monitoring" not found` and every package
waiting on it never installs. Wide selections passed only because they
keep at least one of those packages.
Setting rootEnabled to match the root tenant removes the dependency and
is what the value's contract asks for anyway.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
The shell translator rewrites test bodies and loses Bats reporting.
The unit lane needs complete TAP results and JUnit reports without
changing how live-cluster suites run.
Sourced production helpers still need a dash pass, and unit test bodies
need nounset without exporting shell options into subprocesses.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Myasnikov Daniil <myasnikovdaniil2001@gmail.com>
The E2E job installs the whole platform on a fresh cluster before it
knows which suites will run, so every PR pays install time and flake
surface for packages its suites never use. Select the suites first and
pass the complement computed by select-install.sh to the platform
Package as disabledPackages.
The full-e2e label and an empty selection keep the full install, and
the nightly and tag lanes pass no list, so they are unchanged.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Myasnikov Daniil <myasnikovdaniil2001@gmail.com>
The srv1-srv3 nodes of both lanes that gate a merge -- the same-repo one
in pull-requests.yaml and the fork one in e2e-fork.yaml -- run as Talos
containers instead of QEMU guests, so a tenant worker sits at L2 rather
than L3. Measured in CI on commits where both substrates ran the same
tree: whole-job wall clock down 24-49 minutes, essentially all of it in
Chainsaw, while the two tenant-Kubernetes suites go from 1143-2040s to
466-809s and stop depending on the runner's vgif flag.
The node-join soft-red gate goes with the substrate, which is what it
was for. It existed because nested virtualisation on the shared runners
degraded far enough that a worker registering in minutes elsewhere could
miss any deadline this test could afford; #3513 established that the
discriminator was the host's kvm_amd vgif flag, and removing a nesting
level removes what it acted on. So hack/e2e-node-join-soft-red.sh, the
SOFT-RED-node-join.txt marker and the soft_red job outputs are gone from
all four workflows, and a missed deadline is an ordinary red again. The
::warning annotation survives, because the reason a run went red should
be legible without opening the log, and so does the 124-versus-everything
-else test, because "the workers were slow" and "the wait never ran"
send a reader to different places.
Done by swapping the substrate inside the existing e2e jobs rather than
by promoting a separate container job. Those jobs carry more than a
substrate -- the GitHub App token, the report-overrun guard, the images
list, the SSH breakpoint -- and promoting a job that never had them
would have dropped four features without saying so.
Three properties of container mode drive the design, and each fails
quietly rather than loudly. machine.kernel.modules is a silent no-op --
kernel_module_spec.go returns early on ModeContainer with no error and
no event -- so the host loads openvswitch and zfs before the nodes start
and the workflow step asserts both rather than trusting them; a missing
module surfaces an hour later looking like a CNI or a storage
regression. Docker gives a privileged container its own tmpfs /dev
seeded once at creation, so /dev/kvm works but ZFS zvols created later
never appear and linstor-csi fails ControllerPublishVolume; the compose
file binds the host devtmpfs, which is also why talosctl cluster create
docker can never carry LINSTOR. And there is no ARP VIP, so
192.168.123.11 stands in for the QEMU lane's .10.
The QEMU machinery stays in the tree and keeps running: nightly.yaml and
e2e-tag.yaml still call `make prepare-env`, so DRBD, the replicated
StorageClass, its Immediate binding mode, the tenant StorageClass
propagation that only applies to remotely-accessible classes, and the
Cozystack Talos node image with its extensions all keep nightly and
release-candidate coverage. None of them is exercised per pull request
any more. That is the trade.
Nothing on the PR path builds or downloads a nocloud disk now, so
build-talos drops the talos-nocloud step and the talos-image artifact.
build-talos itself stays: finalize consumes its digest fragment.
One property this does not fix, recorded beside the runner class because
it will be read off a red run eventually: a container node reports the
HOST's CPU and memory as capacity, and hack/e2e-container-up.sh counters
that with kubelet systemReserved. That corrects the scheduler and not
what a pod reads from /proc, so a workload sizing itself from
/proc/cpuinfo or /proc/meminfo is configured for the whole runner.
Also carried here because the same files carry them: the ghcr.io
pull-through mirror removal (see #4007 -- whichever lands first makes the
other a no-op), the authoritative HelmRelease readiness gate, the
backup-credential preflight, the prepull guard against an image-less
container fragment, and folding the two standalone OIDC suites into the
latest-version tenant cluster.
Signed-off-by: Myasnikov Daniil <myasnikovdaniil2001@gmail.com>
Aleksei Sviridkin