The in-sandbox pull-through cache fetches a blob only when a client asks for it, so the first tenant worker's kubelet pull is a live fetch from ghcr.io. That leg is what misses the node-Ready budget: measured at 40-165 KB/s for a 61 MiB image, with two blob streams dying mid-transfer after 7-8 MiB on an upstream HTTP/2 reset. Talos holds the kubelet service in PreFunc until the pull completes, so the node never registers, and the tenant cilium HelmRelease then fails for want of a schedulable node rather than for any fault of its own. Fill the cache from a Job started in the same install step that deploys the mirror, tens of minutes before the kubernetes suites run. The Job waits for the mirror to serve, then asks it for each kubelet tag's index, walks the manifests it gets back, and discards the blob bodies; distribution populates its blobstore on the way past. It warms one platform per tag -- the one the workers run -- picked out of the index by record, which keeps the walk a grep. Walking both platforms was a true addition to the same throttled leg: arm64 is bytes nothing in the sandbox pulls, and the digest ordering put it first for both tags, so on the slow runs this exists for the deadline expired with the second tag still cold. It warms the two minors the suites select, not the whole version map. The map would be ~300 MiB at the one-platform walk this ships (~61 MiB per tag), three fifths of it for minors no suite can resolve, spent on the same throttled egress the rest of the install is using. The tag list still comes from the chart's map rather than a copy, ordered the way the suites resolve it, so the set is theirs without restating their expression. The readiness wait is a wall clock, not a per-attempt count. Cilium answers a Service with no ready endpoints by rejecting, so a probe costs nothing when the mirror is absent and the full timeout when it is merely slow; a constant was wrong in both directions across two attempts at picking one. Tags are refused by character class before the pattern is applied, so a value cannot pass by having a valid first line: grep matches per line and the pattern's anchor is end-of-line, not end-of-input. The Job exits non-zero on any miss, so backoffLimit is a real bound and a warm-up that reached nothing cannot report success. It names its own requests, because the node-join diagnostic counts kubelet GETs in the access log to tell a worker that pulled through the mirror from one that fell back to public ghcr.io. Naming them is only half of that. The same diagnostic now reports the Job's status and result and the Job outlives the suites, because excluding the warm-up without reporting it would leave a red run unable to distinguish a warm cache from a warm-up that never started. That counter also moved onto the access-line shape: registry:2.8.3 writes three lines carrying the path per request, so matching the path counted one pull as three. It reads the repository from the same variable the warm-up does, so a rename cannot leave the diagnostic counting zero while the workers pull under the new name. GET and HEAD both count: containerd resolves a manifest with a HEAD first, so a GET-anchored count reports a pull that died before its first GET as no request at all. The failure path also prints how long the mirror took to answer the worker. A warm cache and a cold one are otherwise indistinguishable in the artifacts -- the Job reports success either way, because the proxy stores the blob in the background and a completed GET is a different event from a stored blob -- and server-side duration separates them by orders of magnitude. It filters the log in the shell that read it: a single argv element is capped at 131072 bytes on Linux regardless of ARG_MAX, and probe traffic carries this log past that within about twenty minutes of mirror uptime, so handing it to a helper would empty the section on every run worth reading. Nothing is printed when the log could not be read at all, because a heading with no lines under it reads as a finding about the workers. Measured against a local pull-through registry using the script the builder emits: 32m47s cold, 1.1s warm for the same tags, and the blobs it fetches are the same digests the failing runs stalled on. A warm-up that fails, times out or never starts does not fail the step, and the suites behave as they did before it existed. It is not free, though: it pulls across the same throttled egress the install is using, which is why the warm set is two tags and not five. Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Chainsaw E2E tests
The Cozystack E2E app suite, written for Kyverno Chainsaw — a declarative, Kubernetes-native E2E test framework (CNCF, part of the Kyverno project; successor to KUTTL).
This directory replaces the per-app BATS suite that used to live in hack/e2e-apps/*.bats. The CI e2e job runs chainsaw test hack/e2e-chainsaw/ after make install-cozystack; cluster bootstrap (hack/e2e-prepare-cluster.bats, hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats) and the OpenAPI checks (hack/e2e-test-openapi.bats) remain BATS.
Layout
hack/e2e-chainsaw/
├── .chainsaw.yaml # global Configuration (namespace, timeouts, JUnit report)
├── _lib/ # shell reused by the script-heavy suites
│ ├── run-kubernetes.sh # tenant Kubernetes bringup + LB/NFS/ouroboros checks
│ └── remediation-guard.sh
├── <app>/
│ ├── chainsaw-test.yaml # one or more Test definitions
│ └── <app>.yaml # the manifests the test applies
└── ...
Suites: postgres, bucket, mariadb, mongodb, redis, qdrant, clickhouse, kafka, etcd, openbao, harbor, foundationdb, external-dns, kuberture, vminstance, gateway, kubernetes-latest, kubernetes-previous, kubernetes-oidc-system, kubernetes-oidc-customconfig, securitygroup.
What Chainsaw buys over the BATS suite
- Readable tests — a list of resources and expected states, not shell control flow. The
timeout N sh -ec "until kubectl get ..."+kubectl waitpair that appeared ~100 times collapses into a singleassertthat polls existence and state together. - Distinguishable failure modes — "object never created", "created but never ready", and "wrong status" all surface as a structured diff instead of an opaque shell timeout.
- Automatic diagnostics —
catchblocks dump events,describe, and pod logs on any failure (the BATS suite only did this inharbor.bats, by hand). - Automatic cleanup — resources Chainsaw applied are deleted (and waited on) in reverse order;
finallycovers operator-created leftovers. - CI-ready output — a JUnit
chainsaw-report.xmlis emitted for the test summary.
Test anatomy
Each suite is a directory with a chainsaw-test.yaml (one or more Test docs) plus the manifests it applies. A step has try (operations: apply, assert, error, script, delete, …), optional catch (diagnostics on failure), and optional finally (teardown regardless of outcome).
Declarative suites assert on status.conditions and concrete fields. Inherently imperative suites keep their logic in script steps:
- openbao —
bao operator init/unsealviakubectl exec. - kuberture —
jqon Service annotations + external-dns split-horizon log assertions. - gateway — admission-rejection cases that need
kubectl --asimpersonation or error-message greps; the tenant apex is read from the namespacenamespace.cozystack.io/hostlabel at runtime so they pass on any host. - kubernetes-latest/previous — wrap
_lib/run-kubernetes.sh(Kamaji bringup, port-forward, LB/NFS/ouroboros). The scriptcds to the repo root (the test dir ishack/e2e-chainsaw/<suite>, so repo root is../../..).
Conventions / gotchas (Chainsaw v0.2.15)
- Condition asserts use the filter-as-list form, not the documented
[0]index:Thestatus: (conditions[?type == 'Ready']): - status: "True"(conditions[?type == 'Ready'])[0]: {status: "True"}idiom fails with "field not found in the input object". - A reading of a failure diff: the "actual" side is a projection onto the expected fields —
status: {}means the JMESPath expression failed, not that status is empty. Read the error line above the diff first. errorwith a bare resource ref (name only) asserts the resource does not exist (used for "PVC reclaimed", "no backup schedule", "child has no Gateway HR").scriptruns in the test directory with$NAMESPACEset to the config namespace (tenant-test).
Running locally
Requires a cluster with Cozystack installed and a tenant-test namespace (the environment hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats produces). bucket additionally needs mc and nc on the host; kuberture/openbao/harbor need jq.
# install chainsaw
go install github.com/kyverno/chainsaw@latest # or: brew install kyverno/chainsaw/chainsaw
# run all suites (config picked up from .chainsaw.yaml)
cd hack/e2e-chainsaw
chainsaw test
# run a single suite
chainsaw test postgres/
kubernetes-latest/kubernetes-previous each bring up a full tenant Kubernetes cluster (~25 min, real worker nodes) and vminstance boots a nested VM — expect a long run for the full set.
CI integration
The e2e job in .github/workflows/pull-requests.yaml runs make -C packages/core/testing test-chainsaw (which execs chainsaw test hack/e2e-chainsaw/ inside the e2e sandbox) and uploads chainsaw-report.xml. The sandbox image (packages/core/testing/images/e2e-sandbox/Dockerfile) ships the chainsaw binary alongside kubectl/helm/mc/jq/nc.