feat(platform): gate upgrades on a pre-flight cluster health check - #3458

Actionable comments posted: 2

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@packages/core/platform/images/migrations/preflight/checks/10-nodes-ready.sh`:
- Around line 35-38: The jq pipelines must fail closed instead of converting
parsing errors into empty results. In
packages/core/platform/images/migrations/preflight/checks/10-nodes-ready.sh
lines 35-38, preserve jq’s exit status, log the parse failure, and exit 2. In
packages/core/platform/images/migrations/preflight/checks/20-linstor.sh lines
76-80 and 95-99, apply the same exit-2 handling to satellite and volume response
parsing, and add malformed JSON fixtures covering these failures to
hack/upgrade-preflight.bats.

In `@packages/core/platform/templates/preflight-hook.yaml`:
- Around line 96-111: The RBAC rules currently grant pod, deployment, and
pods/exec access cluster-wide. Keep the nodes permissions in the ClusterRole,
move pods, pods/exec, and deployments rules into a namespace-scoped Role for
cozy-linstor, and bind that Role with a RoleBinding in the same namespace;
ensure the Job uses the namespace-scoped binding while preserving required
access.

Actionable comments posted: 1

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/operations/upgrade-preflight.md`:
- Line 36: Update the status publication description around the verdict and
run-log fields to state that ConfigMap publication is best-effort and may be
unavailable, and that log contains only the final 100000 bytes rather than the
full run log. Preserve the existing status fields and outcome descriptions.

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I don't think we should merge this PR. There are no concrete use cases explaining which upgrade becomes unsafe, under what conditions, and what failure this gate prevents. A general requirement that the cluster should be healthy is not enough justification for adding a default-on upgrade blocker.

Our upgrade instructions already require checking cluster health before upgrading. The linked checklist covers HelmReleases, nodes, LINSTOR nodes, storage pools and faulty resources, Kube-OVN databases, and quotas. Automatic enforcement could help when someone skips those checks, but the PR needs to explain which conditions justify blocking and how upgrades needed to repair a degraded cluster should work.

The implementation is incomplete and fragile. It only runs when the migration counter advances, and LINSTOR is advisory by default, despite storage safety being the main argument for this PR. The JSON parsing can report healthy without receiving any health data. I don't consider this reliable enough to put into the upgrade path.

We already spend too much time dealing with shell problems. This has grown into check discovery, subprocess management, JSON parsing, timeout handling and status persistence. Logic at this level should be native Go code with API clients, typed results and explicit error handling. A Go wrapper around the same shell commands would keep most of these problems.

I propose closing this PR and discussing an extension of check-readiness. First fix its error handling so failed queries cannot produce success, then add structured output and native Kubernetes and LINSTOR API checks. We could cover more of the documented checklist there and later support Blockstor through the compatible API, with tests confirming the health data we depend on.

The same checker could run as an on-demand in-cluster Job, before an upgrade, after maintenance, or whenever an administrator needs diagnostics. Its Go package could then be reused by a health controller. Making particular results block an upgrade should be a separate decision backed by concrete failure scenarios.

IvanHunters NOT LGTM. CI is red because of this diff, the LINSTOR check passes when it gets no health data at all, and I agree with the design objection already on the thread.

Business context: upgrades start without checking that the cluster is healthy, so this adds a default-on pre-upgrade hook that blocks a version-advancing upgrade when a node is NotReady (enforcing) or LINSTOR is degraded (advisory).

Blockers

B1: the required checks are red because of the new suite

The unit test job fails on this head because the new suite is not reachable from the e2e selection graph. Unit & controller tests fails on ac3e2d33 (run 34123395153, created 2026-09-07T12:43:10Z, attempt 1) at a CNI change selects every suite the graph can reach in hack/select-e2e_test.bats. That test lives on current main, not on this branch, so it fails on the merge ref. It compares the suites a cilium change selects against every directory under hack/e2e-chainsaw/. platform-preflight shows up in the second list but not the first, because no source in the dependency graph reaches it. I reproduced it locally by merging this head into main b113cc77. E2E (in-tree) was then skipped, so E2E Tests is red and the new chainsaw suite has never run in CI. The fix is to rebase and either map the suite into the graph or have the test account for a suite no source reaches, then get a green E2E run that actually includes platform-preflight.

B2: the LINSTOR check reports healthy when it received no health data

Both LINSTOR queries treat an answer with no satellites and no volumes as healthy. checks/20-linstor.sh:78-82 and :100-104 collect whatever objects carry connection_status or disk_state through recursive descent. When none turn up, the result is empty, and empty means healthy. I ran the real runner with the fake kubectl, PREFLIGHT_ADVISORY="" (so linstor is enforcing), FAKE_LINSTOR_NODES_JSON='{"unexpected":"shape"}' and FAKE_LINSTOR_VOL_JSON='[]'. The output was LINSTOR healthy (all satellites ONLINE, no faulty volume states) with exit 0. A renamed field, a wrapped error payload, or a controller that answers with zero satellites all end up as a pass. docs/operations/upgrade-preflight.md:24 says every check fails closed on "output it could not parse". That claim was added in this PR and it does not hold. The check should require at least one satellite object and fail when it finds none. The page should also stop claiming what the check does not do. Advisory-by-default limits the impact today, but the stated plan is to flip linstor to enforcing, and this is the path that would then wave a broken cluster through.

B3: the value case is still open

myasnikovdaniil's points still hold on this head, and I checked each one. The body names no upgrade that this gate would have saved. The gate renders only when cozystack-version is below migrations.targetVersion (preflight-hook.yaml:34-41), so a release that ships no migration is not gated at all. The check that carries the storage argument is advisory. The empty-data pass is B2. Meanwhile cmd/check-readiness already exists as a Go readiness checker with a golden test (test/check-readiness), and this PR adds a second, shell-based health framework next to it (~2100 lines, most of it tests and comments) instead of extending that one. A default-on blocker changes the upgrade path of every existing cluster. It needs a concrete failure it prevents and a reason it can't live in check-readiness.

One case the PR should spell out: a node is NotReady because of a CNI or kubelet bug that the new release fixes. The gate then blocks exactly the upgrade that would repair it. The operator has to set preflight.override: true on the Package CR, let the upgrade go through, and then remember to reset it. Nothing tells them to reset it, so a leftover override: true silently disables every later gate. The migrations.etcdAdoptSkipBackup comment in the same values.yaml does tell operators to reset that key.

B4: commit messages and comments narrate the PR's own history

Most commits after the first two fix defects this same PR introduced, and their messages say so. The repo merges with merge commits, so every one of these bodies lands in main. 5d3a6cb0 reads "fix preflight defects found in live e2e on a dev cluster … Live e2e surfaced three defects a static review could not … --request-timeout, added earlier to bound the calls". 7c46b778 "reconcile the linstor advisory rationale" and 503875cd "Correct the comments that implied per-pod scoping" are the same kind. The same thing happens in code: run-preflight.sh:63 says "That also drops the word-splitting the earlier "$@" form needed.", and hack/upgrade-preflight.bats:13 says "The behaviours pinned here are the review blockers". Please squash the fix-ups into the commits they belong to, so each message describes the change at rest, and drop those two comment lines. None of the 17 commits carries an Assisted-by trailer. If a model helped write this, add Assisted-by: LLM. The comment density (around half of preflight-hook.yaml) and all-caps headers such as WHY THIS MUST RUN AGAINST A LIVE CONTROLLER: and THESE KEYS LIVE UNDER point that way.

B5: the PR body is out of date and hardwrapped

The body becomes the merge commit message, and several of its facts no longer match the head. It still says the hook "binds a scoped ClusterRole (read nodes/pods, exec into linstor-controller)". On the head, exec is a namespaced Role in cozy-linstor, and a third grant writes the status ConfigMap. The coverage sentence leaves out the chainsaw suite and the status ConfigMap. The LINSTOR note says the field names "should be confirmed", but values.yaml:82-84 says they are confirmed. The prose paragraphs are also wrapped at ~80 columns, which the repo's prose rule in AGENTS.md forbids.

Non-blocking follow-ups

1. preflight-hook.yaml:136-141: the ClusterRole grants pods get/list in every namespace. No check reads pods outside cozy-linstor, where kubectl exec deploy/… resolves them. That verb belongs in the cozy-linstor Role.
2. docs/operations/upgrade-preflight.md:36 promises "the full run log", and line 38 says the ConfigMap "is written by every run". The runner keeps only the last 100000 bytes (run-preflight.sh, tail -c 100000), and a failed write is only a warning. The page should say that.
3. The chainsaw suite copies the chart's RBAC by hand instead of rendering it, while 2795a803 says it runs "with the chart's RBAC". A grant the chart drops would still pass there.
4. run-preflight.sh reads PREFLIGHT_ENABLED, which the chart never sets, because a disabled gate is not rendered at all.

The tests that ship are solid where they exist. hack/upgrade-preflight.bats passes 27/27 and the two helm unittest suites pass 25/25. I made seven mutations. Six went red: always-override, always-advisory, dropping the cordon exemption, false accepted as affirmative, false no longer accepted as negative, and lt→le on the version gate. One survived: OVERRIDE != "false" in place of = "true", which is harmless because the chart only ever renders true or false. The CodeRabbit jq fail-closed finding is fixed. Its RBAC finding is half fixed (exec is scoped, pods reads are not, see follow-up 1). Its docs finding still holds (follow-up 2).