OCPBUGS-100316: vsphere: recover machines when the clone TaskRef is lost - #1535
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The vSphere actuator permanently wedged a machine when the status patch
that persists the clone TaskRef failed (for example, a transient
admission-webhook denial during install):
- Actuator.Create cached the TaskRef before PatchMachine. When the patch
was denied, the in-memory TaskIDCache kept the ref while the Machine
object never received it, so the staleness guard in Create requeued
forever ("machine object missing expected provider task ID"). The cache
is only cleared by Update()/Delete(), which never run because exists()
keeps returning false, so the machine was stuck in Provisioning.
- reconciler.create() only recovered a lost TaskRef when InstanceState
was already PoweredOff; otherwise it re-cloned, risking duplicate VMs.
Fix both sides:
- Cache the TaskRef only after PatchMachine succeeds, so a denied patch
cannot leave a phantom cache entry that wedges every future reconcile.
- In create(), look the VM up in vCenter before cloning. If it already
exists we adopt it and power it on to recover; otherwise we clone the
template. This makes create() idempotent and prevents duplicate VMs.
Any transient patch failure during creation now self-heals on the next
reconcile instead of leaving workers permanently stuck in Provisioning.
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WalkthroughThe vSphere controller reuses cached task references when status persistence fails or status contains a stale reference. When ChangesvSphere creation recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR improves recovery when a clone task reference is lost and prevents machines from remaining stuck in provisioning. The remaining concern is limited to an unbounded wait in a test that could hang CI; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ActuatorCreate
participant TaskReferenceCache
participant MachineStatus
participant ReconcilerCreate
participant vCenter
participant VMGroup
ActuatorCreate->>TaskReferenceCache: Read or cache task reference
ActuatorCreate->>MachineStatus: Patch task status
MachineStatus-->>ActuatorCreate: Return patch result
ReconcilerCreate->>vCenter: Look up VM when TaskRef is missing
vCenter-->>ReconcilerCreate: Return existing VM or not-found
ReconcilerCreate->>VMGroup: Restore VM-group membership
ReconcilerCreate->>vCenter: Power on existing VM
vCenter-->>TaskReferenceCache: Record power-on task
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In `@pkg/controller/vsphere/reconciler.go`:
- Around line 169-174: In the lost-TaskRef recovery branch of the reconciler,
update the recovered VM’s VMGroup membership using the existing modifyVMGroup
flow before calling powerOn. Preserve the current recovery and task-recording
behavior, and add a regression case covering a configured Workspace.VMGroup.
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Disposition: REQUEST_CHANGESTwo independent functional defects are BLOCKING. Both were confirmed with executable, package-local tests against the reviewed head Specialist FindingsBugs — 2 BLOCKING
Adversarial — 2 BLOCKING
Security — no findingsReviewed credential loading, status/task inputs, vSphere lookup and power operations, logging, admission-denial handling, and dependency/build scope. No new injection, authorization bypass, credential disclosure, or supply-chain risk was found. Architecture — 2 suggestions, subsumed by BLOCKING findings
Consistency — no findingsCompared task-cache lifecycle, status serialization and patch ordering, VM lookup/error conventions, simulator fixtures, feature-gate setup, and analogous tests. No new duplicate helper or convention drift was found. QA — 3 suggestions
Technical Writer — no findingsThe change adds no public API, configuration, status meaning, or user-facing contract. Existing documentation does not describe this internal transient recovery sequence, so no documentation update is required. Panel SynthesisThe cache move fixes the permanent stale-cache requeue, but discards the only identity for a clone that is accepted and not yet visible. The recovery branch also omits a required post-clone operation. VM-group membership is not advisory: it carries the configured placement policy. This defect was independently identified by the bugs, adversarial, and architecture reviews and was already raised in the existing CodeRabbit thread. The runtime reproducer confirmed the VM reached Confirmed reproducer: duplicate asynchronous clone submissionCommand The test used local Expected: one clone submission; the retry retains/reconciles T1. Actual: T1 succeeded. The Machine/cache tracked T2, which failed Confirmed reproducer: VM-group membership skippedCommand The test configured Expected: recovery adds the VM to Actual: The VM powered on successfully while its configured VM group remained empty. Required Actions
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| // in vCenter before cloning), so a lost taskRef is recovered on the next | ||
| // reconcile rather than re-cloning. | ||
| if scope.providerStatus.TaskRef != "" { | ||
| a.TaskIDCache[machine.Name] = scope.providerStatus.TaskRef |
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Bug: Preserve the in-flight clone identity across a failed patch
clone() returns before its asynchronous task must create a discoverable VM. If the status patch fails, leaving this cache empty permits the immediate retry to see no VM and submit a second clone. The reproducer delayed T1 before inventory visibility: the retry submitted T2, T1 succeeded, and the persisted/tracked T2 failed *types.DuplicateName.
Fix: retain the accepted task identity across patch failure and make the stale-object path actively reconcile/persist that task instead of either infinite-requeueing or discarding it. Add a delayed-task regression that proves only one clone submission.
Reproducer
Command: go test ./pkg/controller/vsphere -run '^TestActuatorCreateCloneRetryWhileFirstTaskDelayed$' -count=1 -v
Expected: one clone task.
Actual: cloneTasks=2; task-55 succeeded; tracked task-56 failed *types.DuplicateName; inventory increased by one.
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| // recording the power-on task so subsequent reconciles can track it, | ||
| // instead of requeueing forever. | ||
| klog.Infof("%v: VM already exists without a persisted taskRef, powering on to recover", r.machine.GetName()) | ||
| task, err := powerOn(r.machineScope) |
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Bug: Restore VM-group membership during lost-task recovery
This recovery path skips the modifyVMGroup(..., false) step used after normal clone completion. Once this power-on task is recorded, the Machine never returns to the clone-task branch, and update does not repair membership. The reproducer powered the recovered VM on while ClusterVmGroup.Vm remained empty. This independently confirms the existing CodeRabbit finding.
Fix: apply the same feature-gated VM-group update and error handling before powerOn, then assert membership in the lost-TaskRef regression.
Reproducer
Command: go test ./pkg/controller/vsphere -run '^TestReproLostTaskRecoverySkipsVMGroup$' -count=1 -v
Expected: VM is added to Workspace.VMGroup before power-on.
Actual: powerState=poweredOn ... members=[] ... member=false.
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… recovery Addresses review feedback on the lost-TaskRef recovery. Preserve the clone task identity across a failed status patch. The actuator now caches the TaskRef even when PatchMachine fails, and the staleness guard seeds the cached ref and reconciles the in-flight task instead of requeueing forever. This fixes both the permanent wedge and a duplicate clone being submitted while the first clone is still in-flight (before the cloned VM is discoverable by findVM). Restore VM group membership during recovery. The existing-VM recovery path now runs modifyVMGroup(..., false) before power-on, mirroring the normal completed-clone path, so a recovered VM is not left outside its configured DRS host-affinity group. Regression tests: identity retention across a denied patch, no duplicate clone on retry while the clone is in-flight, and VM group membership restored on recovery. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.6
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Thanks for the detailed review — both BLOCKING findings were valid and are now addressed in 1. Preserve clone task identity across a failed status patchYou were right: caching the Resolution:
2. Restore VM-group membership during lost-task recoveryAlso correct. The existing-VM recovery branch now runs the same feature-gated Regression coverage
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pkg/controller/vsphere/reconciler.go (1)
133-148: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRestrict recovery to the Machine instance UUID.
Session.FindVMfalls back tofindVMByNamewhen the UUID is invalid or does not match. The pre-clone lookup can therefore adopt a VM from a deleted Machine with the same name. Use an instance-UUID-only lookup for recovery.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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pkg/controller/vsphere/reconciler_test.go (1)
3027-3031: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe test checks final state, not ordering.
The comment states that membership is restored "before powering the VM on", but the assertions only inspect the group membership after
create()returns. The test would still pass ifmodifyVMGroupran afterpowerOn. If the ordering is part of the contract, assert the VM power state at the time membership is applied, or record the call order. Otherwise, adjust the comment to describe the checked property.Also applies to: 3105-3119
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570-607: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe in-flight window depends on wall-clock timing.
The test relies on the 2000 ms
CloneVmdelay to keep the clone running across twoactuator.Createcalls. On a loaded CI node the first clone can finish before Line 602 runs, and the assertions on VM count and clone count then fail. Consider polling for the running task state instead of relying on the fixed delay, or raise the delay to reduce flake risk.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/controller/vsphere/reconciler.go`:
- Around line 133-148: Update the pre-clone recovery lookup in the reconciler
around findVM to use an instance-UUID-only lookup, bypassing Session.FindVM’s
name fallback. Ensure recovery can adopt a VM only when its UUID matches the
current Machine, while preserving the existing not-found and error handling
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In `@pkg/controller/vsphere/actuator_test.go`:
- Around line 570-607: The in-flight clone test relies on the fixed 2000 ms
CloneVm delay and can race on slow or loaded CI nodes. Update the test around
actuator.Create and the simulator.TaskDelay configuration to deterministically
wait or poll until the clone task is confirmed running before the retry,
preserving the assertions that the VM remains undiscoverable and no second clone
is submitted.
In `@pkg/controller/vsphere/reconciler_test.go`:
- Around line 3027-3031: Update TestCreateRecoveryRestoresVMGroup to verify that
VM-group membership is applied before the VM is powered on, by recording or
asserting the relevant call order/state during execution; otherwise revise the
test comment to claim only the final membership state. Keep the test focused on
the intended ordering contract.
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Follow-up to the deep review. The original empty-TaskRef clone race and VMGroup findings are fixed, but one stale nonempty TaskRef mismatch remains. Full evidence is in the follow-up PR comment.
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| // we already submitted instead of requeueing forever (which permanently | ||
| // wedged creation) or dropping the task identity (which could submit a | ||
| // duplicate clone). | ||
| if cachedTaskRef, ok := a.TaskIDCache[machine.Name]; ok && scope.providerStatus.TaskRef == "" { |
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Bug: recover any stale TaskRef mismatch, not only an empty one
A status patch can fail when advancing from one nonempty task to the next. Reproduced sequence: the API object retained completed clone task C; the cache advanced to delayed power-on P1; retrying with a fresh API object ignored P1 because C != "", processed C again, and submitted P2. Runtime evidence: clone=task-55 cachedP1=task-58 cachedP2=task-59 powerOnTasks=2. Informer lag after a successful patch creates the same mismatch.
Fix: recover when the cached ref differs from provider status, not only when provider status is empty (for example, cachedTaskRef != scope.providerStatus.TaskRef). Update the regression to fetch a fresh Machine before retrying; the current test reuses the pointer that PatchMachine already mutated before the intercepted patch failed, so it does not prove cache-only recovery. Add the nonempty C → P1 case.
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Follow-up to review of 302951f. The staleness guard recovered the cached task reference only when the Machine object had an empty TaskRef. A denied status patch (or informer lag) can instead leave the Machine on the previous, still-nonempty task while the cache has already advanced to the next one. In that case the guard did nothing and create() reprocessed the stale reference, e.g. reconciling a finished clone again and submitting a duplicate power-on. Recover the cached reference on any mismatch (cachedTaskRef != scope.providerStatus.TaskRef). The cache always holds the most recently submitted task (updated before the patch), so it is the correct thing to reconcile. Also make the delayed-clone test faithful: it now retries with a freshly read Machine instead of the in-memory pointer, since PatchMachine mutates that pointer's status before the failed patch would have hidden the bug. Adds a regression test for the stale-nonempty-TaskRef case. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.6
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Good catch — both points are valid and are fixed in Stale nonempty TaskRef not recovered (BLOCKING)Confirmed. The guard only recovered the cached ref when the Machine's Fix: recover on any mismatch, exactly as you suggested: if cachedTaskRef, ok := a.TaskIDCache[machine.Name]; ok && cachedTaskRef != scope.providerStatus.TaskRef {
scope.providerStatus.TaskRef = cachedTaskRef
}This is safe because the cache always holds the most recently submitted task (it is updated on every reconcile, before the patch), so it is always ≥ the persisted object — recovering it always reconciles the latest task and never resurrects an older one. It also preserves the original staleness invariant, just reconciling instead of requeueing. Misleading delayed-clone test (valid)Also correct: New regression coverage
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504-509: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse a bounded context for task waits.
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context.WithTimeoutcontext and pass it to bothsession.GetTaskandTask.Wait. An incomplete vSphere task can otherwise block the test indefinitely.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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What this does
Makes the Machine API vSphere provider resilient to a transient failure of the status patch that persists a machine's task reference. Previously a single denied patch (for example, a transient admission-webhook denial during install) permanently wedged the machine in
Provisioning.Why
Root cause of the permanent wedge:
Actuator.Createtracks the submitted task reference in an in-memoryTaskIDCache. A staleness guard compared the cache to the Machine's persistedTaskRefand, on any mismatch, requeued indefinitely. If the status patch that would have persisted theTaskRefwas denied, the object never received it, so the guard requeued forever. The cache is only cleared byUpdate()/Delete(), which never run becauseexists()keeps returning false for a powered-off VM inProvisioning.reconciler.create()only recovered a lostTaskRefwhenInstanceStatewas alreadyPoweredOff; otherwise it re-cloned, risking duplicate VMs.The fix
actuator.go— the staleness guard no longer requeues forever. The cache always holds the most recently submitted task (it is updated on every reconcile, before the patch), so when the Machine's persistedTaskRefdiffers from the cache, the actuator recovers the cached reference and reconciles that task. This covers both an empty persistedTaskRef(denied patch / informer lag) and a stale nonempty one (object still on the previous task while the cache advanced to the next), avoiding both the permanent wedge and a duplicate clone/power-on.reconciler.gocreate()— whenTaskRef == "", look the VM up directly in vCenter before cloning. If it already exists (cloned but the ref was lost), adopt it: restore VM-group membership ifWorkspace.VMGroupis configured (mirroring the completed-clone path so a recovered VM is not left outside its DRS host-affinity group), then power it on. Only clone when the VM is genuinely absent. This makescreate()idempotent and prevents duplicate VMs.Net effect: any transient patch failure during VM creation self-heals on the next reconcile instead of leaving workers stuck in
Provisioning.Testing
TestActuatorCreateTaskRefLifecycle:simulator.TaskDelay;Cpersisted, cache advanced to power-onP1) is recovered from the cache on retry without submitting a second power-on.TestCreateRecoversLostTaskRef:TaskRef==""with an existing powered-off VM → no duplicate clone, VM powered on.TestCreateRecoveryRestoresVMGroup: recovery restores VM-group membership before power-on, no duplicate clone.go build,go vet, andgofmtare clean. ExistingTestCreate/TestExists/TestUpdate/TestDelete/TestClone/TestPowerOnstill pass. Each new test fails on the pre-fix code and passes with the fix.Background
This is the provider-side defense described in the OCPBUGS-100316 investigation: the VAP
paramKindinformer warm-up window is transient and inherent, but the vSphere actuator turned a single failed status patch into a permanent failure. No change tocluster-capi-operatorVAPfailurePolicyis required.Known residual
If the controller process crashes after vCenter accepts a task but before the task reference is recorded in either the Machine status or any durable store, an in-memory cache cannot close that gap. Since the persisting patch is precisely what failed in this scenario, this window is fundamentally bounded rather than something this change can eliminate.
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