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Aleksei Sviridkin a7ac37be65 test(e2e): let HR-Ready waits outlast the install timeout of the release they wait on (#4471)
## What this PR does

Stacked on #4468, which holds the raised backup waits to a start margin;
review that one first. This PR's own diff is the six commits on top of
it.

Most HR-Ready waits in the E2E suites gave up before the release they
were waiting on could fail its install. cozystack-api gives every
release it generates a 600s install timeout, and the Chainsaw asserts in
front of those releases sat at 5 or 6 minutes. When an install genuinely
failed, the suite reported a bare assert timeout against a release that
was still installing, and the reason the install failed, which the
release records when its own timeout fires, was never reached. Red runs
failed just as often as they should; they only said less.

I raised every HR-Ready wait above the install timeout of its own
release, by the 60s start margin #4468 introduces:

- Chainsaw asserts on releases cozystack-api generates go to 11m, across
bucket, clickhouse, etcd, external-dns, foundationdb, harbor, mongodb,
openbao, opensearch, postgres, qdrant, rabbitmq, redis, valkey and
vminstance.
- Asserts on nested `<name>-system` releases take their floor from the
template that renders them: 11m for external-dns, openbao and qdrant
(10m `spec.timeout`), 16m for `harbor-test-system` (15m). `harbor-test`
sat exactly on its 600s floor, which expires first because the assert's
clock starts before the install's; it goes to 11m too.
- The kuberture Package release takes its 10m from cozystack-operator
and goes to 11m.
- In the backup walkthroughs, the bucket waits go from 300s to 660s in
clickhouse, kafka, mariadb, mongodb, postgres, rabbitmq and redis, and
the two postgres waits go from 360s to 660s. The kafka bucket wait
passed no budget and silently took the helper's 300s default, which is
why earlier scans for literal budgets missed it. Each Chainsaw op that
runs a walkthrough grows by exactly what its waits gained (clickhouse
78m, kafka 46m, mariadb 48m, mongodb 42m, postgres 66m, rabbitmq 48m,
redis 36m), so a failure at any later wait keeps the headroom it had and
is still reported by the script instead of being cut off by the op.

Two waits stay as they are, on purpose:

- kafka: `kafka-rd` sets a 7h install timeout, which no budget inside
the 215-minute E2E job can clear. The kafka assert and the Kafka waits
in the kafka and kafka-metadata walkthroughs keep their numbers, and the
assert now says why in-line.
- `vm-instance-test`: `vm-instance-rd` disables the install wait, so its
release goes Ready as soon as helm has applied and there is no floor to
clear. Earlier lists of this problem included it by mistake.

The cost falls on red runs only: a suite whose release never goes Ready
now spends up to six more minutes before it reports, and in exchange the
report carries the release's own reason. Green runs are unchanged.
Suites run one after another in a single job capped at 215 minutes, so a
systemic failure that reddens many suites now reaches that cap sooner,
and a job cancelled at the cap loses its log and `cozyreport.tgz`. I
took that trade because a failed install that says why is worth more
than a red run that ends a few minutes earlier.

`docs/agents/e2e-testing.md` stopped being true in several places once
the waits were raised: it described most of the tree as under the floor,
mariadb as the only suite raised, the walkthrough bucket waits as under
it, and harbor's asserts as sitting on and under theirs. I rewrote those
sentences, and the one that pointed at "every wait above the band" of
5-6m, kept the start-margin wording from #4468, and added that a
walkthrough wait passing no budget takes the helper's default. The
comments in `hack/mariadb-first-boot-waits.bats` that quoted the old op
and bucket figures are restated; its existing checks and constants are
unchanged, because every op grew by exactly its bucket delta and each
remainder still sits at exactly its constant. I also added postgres to
the table that file holds the walkthroughs to, so its raised waits and
its op cannot drift back apart unnoticed, and a test that holds each
table suite's bucket wait to the bucket release's floor, read from the
api-server default with `bucket-rd` checked for an override; the op
check alone could not catch a bucket wait dropping back, since a lower
wait only widens the slack. redis stays out: its walkthrough waits on no
redis HelmRelease, only on the bucket and on the sentinel master, so the
table's floor check has nothing to read there.

How I checked it, since E2E cannot run locally:

- I re-ran the enumeration from the sizing section of
`docs/agents/e2e-testing.md` over every
`hack/e2e-chainsaw/*/chainsaw-test.yaml` and every `wait_hr_ready` call
under `examples/backups/`, literal or default, and held each against its
own release's floor. Every `Ready=True` assert and every `wait_hr_ready`
call a suite drives now clears its floor, except the kafka ones named
above. The opt-in etcd round-trip uses bare `kubectl wait hr` calls at
300s instead of that helper; they are listed in #4470. The `Ready=False`
assert on the rejected redis upgrade is not a readiness wait and is left
out.
- `make bats-unit-mariadb-first-boot-waits` passes, 31 of 31. For the
new postgres row, putting the op back to 50m fails only the postgres
slack test, and a postgres wait at 659s fails only the postgres floor
test. Setting any one table suite's bucket wait to 659s fails only the
bucket test, naming only that suite, and an install-timeout override on
`bucket-rd` fails it too. I ran the mutations under plain `bats` so a
fail-fast runner could not hide a second failure.
- `hack/select-e2e.sh` over this diff selects bucket, clickhouse, etcd,
external-dns, foundationdb, harbor, kafka, kuberture, mariadb, mongodb,
openbao, opensearch, postgres, qdrant, rabbitmq, redis, valkey and
vminstance.

Out of scope, and tracked in #4470: the tenant addon waits in
`hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh` (an edit there escalates the
whole E2E run), the redis and kafka-metadata `wait_hr_ready` helpers
that print no reason on timeout, and the opt-in etcd round-trip's bare
`kubectl wait` calls.

Known and left for later, none of them changed here:

- Only the mariadb Chainsaw asserts and the walkthroughs in the guard's
table are held by a test. The other raised asserts, and the redis and
kafka bucket waits, rest on literals with in-line reasons; #4470 covers
extending the guard.
- The Kafka waits in `examples/backups/kafka/04-create-kafka.sh`,
`07-restore-to-copy.sh` and `kafka-metadata/run-all.sh` stay at 300s
against the 7h floor without an in-line reason at the call site. The
doc's rule asks that of Chainsaw asserts only, and the kafka Chainsaw
assert carries it.

The postgres waits are the ones #3748 is about. Their budget now clears
the install-timeout floor and a test holds it there; what a CNPG first
boot costs on this platform is still unmeasured, so that issue stays
open.

Closes #3771

Closes #3753

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

I walked the trigger map in `docs/agents/contributing.md` against the
diff. It touches E2E suites, backup walkthrough scripts, a unit-lane
bats file and an agent doc, none of which any downstream repository
restates.

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
fix(tests): HelmRelease readiness waits in the E2E suites and backup walkthroughs now outlast the install timeout of the release they wait on, so a failed install reports its own reason instead of a bare timeout.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Extended readiness and backup round-trip test timeouts across multiple
services to accommodate slower startup and provisioning.
* Added checks to verify that bucket readiness waits meet configured
installation-timeout requirements.

* **Documentation**
* Updated testing guidance to clarify how readiness waits relate to
release-specific timeouts and overall test budgets.

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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 every suite under hack/e2e-chainsaw/ through hack/e2e-chainsaw-run.sh 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, valkey, qdrant, clickhouse, kafka, rabbitmq, etcd, openbao, harbor, foundationdb, external-dns, kuberture, vminstance, gateway, opensearch, kubernetes-latest, kubernetes-previous, 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 wait pair that appeared ~100 times collapses into a single assert that 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 — catch blocks dump events, describe, and pod logs on any failure (the BATS suite only did this in harbor.bats, by hand).
  • Automatic cleanup — resources Chainsaw applied are deleted (and waited on) in reverse order; finally covers operator-created leftovers.
  • CI-ready output — a JUnit chainsaw-report.xml is 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/unseal via kubectl exec.
  • kuberture — jq on Service annotations + external-dns split-horizon log assertions.
  • gateway — admission-rejection cases that need kubectl --as impersonation or error-message greps; the tenant apex is read from the namespace namespace.cozystack.io/host label at runtime so they pass on any host.
  • kubernetes-latest/previous — wrap _lib/run-kubernetes.sh (Kamaji bringup, port-forward, LB/NFS/ouroboros). The script cds to the repo root (the test dir is hack/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:
    status:
      (conditions[?type == 'Ready']):
      - status: "True"
    
    The (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.
  • error with a bare resource ref (name only) asserts the resource does not exist (used for "PVC reclaimed", "no backup schedule", "child has no Gateway HR").
  • script runs in the test directory with $NAMESPACE set 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, nc, and jq 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 hack/e2e-chainsaw-run.sh inside the e2e sandbox) and uploads chainsaw-report.xml. The runner calls chainsaw test once per suite directory, fails a suite whose pods outlive its cleanup by more than the default timeouts.cleanup (LEAKED-PODS suite=<dir> in the log; see docs/agents/e2e-testing.md §8 and _lib/leak-allowlist.txt for known, filed leaks), and merges the per-suite reports into that one file. A local chainsaw test as shown above runs the same tests without the leak check. The sandbox image (packages/core/testing/images/e2e-sandbox/Dockerfile) ships the chainsaw binary alongside kubectl/helm/mc/jq/nc.