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Summary

During single-node (SNO) OpenShift upgrades, the node reboots to apply MachineConfig changes, making the API server temporarily unreachable. The machine-config-operator's MachineConfigNode controller retries API calls during this window, emitting MachineConfigNodeFailed events on each attempt. In CI, 23–29 events accumulate during the typical 5–10 minute outage, exceeding the default pathological event threshold of ~20 and causing false test failures.

This is expected behavior unique to the SingleReplica topology — multi-node clusters have other control-plane nodes available and never see this event pattern.

Changes

Adds a new SingleReplica-gated pathological event matcher for OperatorDegraded: MachineConfigNodeFailed events in ns/openshift-machine-config-operator with a repeatThresholdOverride of 40, following the existing pattern used by other SNO-specific overrides.

Details

  • File: pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_event_patterns.go
    • New matcher function newSingleNodeMachineConfigNodeFailedEventMatcher()
    • Registered in AllowedRepeatedEvents alongside existing SNO matchers
  • File: pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_events_test.go
    • 3 new test cases covering: SNO match, multi-node skip, unrelated event skip

Evidence

  • Real CI data from 4.21–5.1 SNO upgrade jobs shows OperatorDegraded: MachineConfigNodeFailed repeating 23–29 times during upgrades
  • The threshold of 40 provides headroom above the observed max (29) while still catching runaway cases
  • Precedent: similar SNO overrides exist for KMS health check events and Loki retry events

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Related: OCPBUGS-112466


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  • New Features

    • Added support for recognizing repeated MachineConfigNodeFailed events during single-node upgrades.
    • Allows up to 40 repeated events in the machine configuration system on single-node deployments.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Repeated events are not accepted on multi-node deployments or when the 40-event limit is exceeded.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for supported topologies, unsupported topologies, and event-count thresholds.

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Walkthrough

Adds an upgrade-only matcher for repeated MachineConfigNodeFailed events in the openshift-machine-config-operator namespace. The matcher applies to single-node topologies and allows up to 40 repeats. Tests cover topology and repetition thresholds.

Changes

MachineConfigNodeFailed upgrade matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Matcher registration and threshold validation
pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_event_patterns.go, pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_events_test.go
Registers the single-node upgrade matcher for MachineConfigNodeFailed events. The matcher allows up to 40 repeats. Tests cover allowed counts, multi-node rejection, and count-41 matching without allowance.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f2027

This localized change adjusts repeated-event handling for single-node upgrades and adds focused tests; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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In
`@pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_event_patterns.go`:
- Line 549: Move registration of
newSingleNodeMachineConfigNodeFailedEventMatcher from
NewUniversalPathologicalEventMatchers to NewUpgradePathologicalEventMatchers so
it applies only during upgrade analysis. Add coverage verifying
NewUniversalPathologicalEventMatchers does not permit this event, while
preserving the matcher in the upgrade matcher set.

In `@pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_events_test.go`:
- Around line 252-297: Add a SingleReplica test case alongside the existing
MachineConfigNodeFailed cases with AnnotationCount set to "40" and
expectedAllowName set to MachineConfigNodeFailedDuringSingleNodeUpgrade,
verifying the threshold is inclusive. Preserve the existing count-41 case and
its expected rejection.
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Comment thread pkg/monitortestlibrary/pathologicaleventlibrary/duplicated_event_patterns.go Outdated
During a single-node (SNO) upgrade the cluster's only node reboots,
taking the kube-apiserver down with it. While the API is unreachable the
machine-config-operator cannot resync machineconfignodes, so library-go
repeatedly surfaces an "OperatorDegraded: MachineConfigNodeFailed" event
on the machine-config ClusterOperator in
ns/openshift-machine-config-operator (e.g.
`dial tcp 172.30.0.1:443: connect: connection refused`). The API server
recovers once the reboot completes, so these repeats are expected
behavior on SNO rather than a real fault.

The pathological-events monitor only has the default threshold (~20) for
this event and no SNO-specific override, so the repeats (observed 23-29
times per run across recent 4.21-4.23 SNO upgrade jobs) fail the
"events should not repeat" test.

Add a SingleReplica topology-gated matcher that raises the allowed
threshold to 40 for this event, matching the approach used by the other
SNO-specific overrides (ConnectionErrorDuringSingleNodeAPIServerTargetDown,
KubeAPIServerProgressingDuringSingleNodeUpgrade). Multi-node topologies
keep the default threshold since they retain a control-plane quorum
during upgrades, and the override still fails runs where the event
repeats past 40 (a sign the API never recovered).

Register the matcher only in the upgrade matcher set. The node reboot
that triggers these repeats only occurs during an upgrade, so outside an
upgrade a burst of MachineConfigNodeFailed events is genuinely
pathological and should continue to fail. Unit tests cover the 40-repeat
threshold boundary (allowed) and 41 (rejected); because the event text
also satisfies the SNO connection-refused matcher and the matcher
registry iterates a map in non-deterministic order, the over-threshold
test accepts either matcher name for the match assertion.

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Scheduling required tests:
/test e2e-aws-csi
/test e2e-aws-ovn-fips
/test e2e-aws-ovn-microshift
/test e2e-aws-ovn-microshift-serial
/test e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2
/test e2e-aws-ovn-serial-2of2
/test e2e-gcp-csi
/test e2e-gcp-ovn
/test e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
/test e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6
/test e2e-vsphere-ovn
/test e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi

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/hold while @sadasu looks for a better solution than this or openshift/machine-config-operator#6444

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