## 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. ``` <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## 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. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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 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, 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.