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Aleksei Sviridkin 0ba567dd73 fix(tenant): bound the pre-delete cleanup waits and the hook Job (#3598)
## What this PR does

The tenant pre-delete hook deletes the tenant's HelmReleases in two
waves with `kubectl delete --wait=true` and no `--timeout`. kubectl
reads `--timeout=0` as "wait forever" and substitutes a week, so a wave
hangs for as long as any child HelmRelease cannot finalize. helm then
returns from the uninstall without deleting anything: the release stays
in storage, flux keeps the finalizer, and the same teardown gets
retried. The delete policy carries no `hook-failed`, so the waiting Job
survives between attempts too.

Each wave now gets 90s. Neither is guarded, on purpose. Nothing stands
behind these deletes, so a wave that did not finish ends the run instead
of reporting a cleanup that never happened. That also keeps the order
the two waves exist for, since the tenant modules are what the
applications run on. Whatever got deleted stays deleted, so the next
attempt resumes from there.

The Job gets `activeDeadlineSeconds: 270`. It bounds what the waits do
not, since the DELETE calls carry kubectl's default `--request-timeout`
of 0, and it sits under the 300s uninstall budget flux applies when the
HelmRelease has no timeout of its own. That is the budget for tenants
cozystack-api generates; `tenant-root` is the exception, a static
release in `cozystack-basics` carrying `timeout: 15m0s`, and the
ordering holds there too since 280 is under 900. The 30s gap is not
cosmetic. The deadline runs from the Job's `.status.startTime` while
helm's budget runs from before the Job is created, so at equal values
helm gives up first, on a Job that is still running. That is the state
this change is meant to end, and it would look fixed, because a number
would be there.

`terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10` is part of the same arithmetic.
Since 1.31 the Job controller holds back the terminal condition until
every pod has finished terminating, so what helm waits for is the
deadline plus the termination. At the 30s default that lands on 270+30,
level with the budget, which is the gap the deadline was set to buy.
That period gets spent in full, every time. The SIGTERM goes to PID 1,
which is the shell: the script runs several commands, so the shell never
execs into kubectl and stays PID 1 itself. A signal carrying its default
disposition is discarded by the kernel when the target is PID 1, and a
non-interactive shell installs no SIGTERM handler, so nothing acts on
it. kubectl is a child and was not signalled at all. The pod ends on
SIGKILL. Nothing in that script needs to finish gracefully, the DELETE
calls are already sent and the process is only watching.

The pod also gets resource requests, matching the sibling hook in
`packages/apps/kubernetes`. Without them it is BestEffort and first to
go under node pressure, which mattered less when a retry inside the Job
absorbed an eviction. With a single attempt it does not.

`backoffLimit: 0` and `restartPolicy: Never` go together, and neither
implies the other. At the default limit of 6 the Job does not reach
`Failed` inside the budget, so helm falls back on its own timeout with
the same nameless "timed out waiting for the condition" as before. Under
`OnFailure` the pod survives its own failure and the kubelet re-runs the
container in place, and the Job controller finds out afterwards by
summing `restartCount`. The script starts over, re-enters the
applications wave that just expired, and gets cut down mid-run when the
controller catches up. `Never` puts a failed pod in front of the
controller directly.

## What this PR does not do

No remedy behind the bounded waits. The `packages/apps/kubernetes` hook
force-clears child finalizers when its own wait expires. That needs
`patch` on HelmReleases in the Role, and it is only safe there because
the whole tenant control plane is going away in the same run. Here a
wave that expires ends the attempt.
`packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/delete.yaml` is untouched.

It does not make a doomed teardown converge. A tenant whose children
cannot finalize still gets its uninstall retried. What changes is that
each attempt ends in bounded time, instead of eating the whole uninstall
budget and leaving a pod behind.

90s is a guess, and it is tight. The first wave deletes every
application HelmRelease in the namespace, including kinds that are slow
to tear down: a nested Tenant runs this same hook one level down before
its release finalizes, and an app of kind Kubernetes tears a control
plane down. Either one can outrun 90s. The bound is what is left once
the Job deadline sits under helm's budget instead of level with it,
split between the two waves.

The 90s the deadline keeps back for scheduling and the image pull is not
calibrated either, and I would rather say so than imply it was.
`docker.io/clastix/kubectl:v1.32` comes from Docker Hub with no mirror
in front of it, and this repo has measured Docker Hub pulls of a smaller
image at about 1m42s in CI. So that remainder is roughly the observed
worst case rather than comfortably above it. A cold pull that slow lands
on the `activeDeadlineSeconds` path, which is the one that deletes the
pod and leaves nothing to read.

There is a band that pays for this, and I would rather name it than
round it off. Neither shape above fits inside 300s today, so for them
the bound costs nothing that works. But every generated child
HelmRelease carries a wait strategy, so a wave inherits its slowest
child, and a wave that settles in something like 95s does complete
inside the budget today. After this change it expires instead, and that
tenant trades one clean attempt for an extra flux retry. In wall clock
that retry is about five minutes, since `helmrelease-interval` defaults
to `5m`, so a tenant in that band takes noticeably longer to delete than
it does now. I think that is the right side of the trade: an unbounded
wave does not fail, it spends the whole budget and leaves helm reporting
a timeout that names nothing. If the band turns out to be populated, the
waits and the deadline move together, and the bats suite pins their
ordering rather than their values.

One caveat on the diagnostics, since the comments in the chart used to
promise more than they deliver. The failing wave leaves its output in
the failed pod, which `ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 300` then reaps while
flux's uninstall backoff is still climbing. And on the
`activeDeadlineSeconds` path there is no log at all, because the Job
controller deletes the active pods when the deadline expires. That path
is the backstop for a kubectl that never returns; the expected path is
the wave's own `--timeout`, where the script exits on its own and the
pod survives to be read.

## Tests

`hack/tenant-pre-delete-hook.bats` renders the chart, pulls the hook
script out of the Job and runs it against a stub `kubectl` on `PATH`. It
covers a clean run reporting success, every delete reaching kubectl with
a non-zero bound, the ordering of the four numbers, and a wave that gave
up ending the run without going on to the next one. `--timeout` is
implemented inside kubectl, so no stub can make that deadline actually
elapse. The tests read the arguments that reached kubectl and inject the
non-zero exit an expired delete produces. No EXIT traps.

The ordering test reads the numbers out of the rendered Job instead of
pinning them, so moving a value keeps it honest while a value that
breaks the ordering still fails. An absent deadline or termination
period is rejected explicitly, otherwise `null` satisfies the numeric
comparison and a Job with no bound at all passes.

The Job's own shape is pinned in the chart's helm-unittest suite, since
the script cannot observe that about itself.

Both suites are green locally, and I mutated each pinned value to
confirm they fail for the right reason: dropping either `--timeout`,
dropping `activeDeadlineSeconds`, dropping
`terminationGracePeriodSeconds`, dropping the requests, `backoffLimit`
back to 6, `restartPolicy` back to `OnFailure`, and a `|| echo` appended
to the applications wave. Each one goes red in the test that claims that
ground.

Worth flagging so the check marks are not read as more than they are:
`make bats-unit-tests` is red at the merge base, unrelated to this
branch, and the loop it runs exits on the first failing file.
`hack/cozyreport.bats` sorts ahead of this suite, so on CI the new bats
file is not reached at all right now. It is not failing, it is not
running. The helm-unittest cases are unaffected and do execute.

### Screenshots

None. This changes a Job manifest and its tests, with no user-visible
surface.

### Downstream repositories

Walked the trigger map against the diff. The diff is one Job manifest
inside the tenant chart, its helm-unittest suite, and a new
`hack/*.bats` file. No package is added, renamed or removed; no
`values.schema.json`, `values.yaml` default or version enum changes; no
`ApplicationDefinition` semantics, namespace, variant or release asset
changes; nothing under `hack/` is moved or renamed and no make target
changes behaviour, since `bats-unit-tests` already globs `hack/*.bats`.

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
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### Release note

```release-note
fix(tenant): bound the pre-delete cleanup hook's HelmRelease deletions and give its Job a wall-clock deadline, so a tenant whose children cannot finalize no longer leaves the hook waiting indefinitely and blocking the uninstall
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Reliability Improvements**
* Tenant cleanup jobs now enforce execution deadlines and terminate
gracefully.
* Cleanup operations have bounded deletion timeouts and no automatic
retries.
* Failed cleanup steps now stop subsequent operations and correctly
report failure.
  * Cleanup jobs now specify CPU and memory resource requirements.

* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive coverage for cleanup behavior, timeouts, failure
handling, and job lifecycle settings.

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