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fix(platform): keep the legacy etcd-operator stopped after etcd adoption - #4738

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Migration 50 scales the legacy etcd-operator to 0, adopts every legacy etcd.aenix.io cluster with etcd-migrate, and then scales the operator back to 1. At that point the Deployment still runs the legacy operator, and after a successful adoption it has nothing left to manage. Bringing it back undoes part of the adoption.

Observed on a production cluster upgraded from 1.4.3 to 1.6.4. The API audit log and the Helm history of a tenant's etcd release show this sequence, in UTC on the same day.

  • 13:21:12 migration 50 scales cozy-etcd-operator/etcd-operator-controller-manager to 0.
  • 13:22:59 etcd-migrate updates etcd-headless, pointing its owner references at the adopted EtcdMembers, and orphan-deletes the legacy EtcdCluster and StatefulSet.
  • 13:23:04 migration 50 scales the operator back to 1. It is still the legacy operator, the v1alpha2 one replaced it only at 13:40.
  • 13:23:42 Flux upgrades the tenant's etcd release with the old chart (Helm revision 87), because the new chart artifact appeared only at 13:24:40. The old chart re-creates the legacy EtcdCluster at 13:23:43.
  • 13:23:43 to 13:23:45 the legacy operator reconciles it, updates etcd-headless twice and re-creates the legacy StatefulSet etcd.
  • 13:36:49 Flux upgrades the release to the new chart (revision 88), which prunes the legacy EtcdCluster.
  • 13:36:50 the garbage collector deletes etcd-headless and the re-created StatefulSet.

The same happened in all five tenants that run an etcd. The pods survived because EtcdMembers own them, but they keep spec.subdomain: etcd-headless, so their etcd-<i>.etcd-headless.<ns>.svc names stopped resolving. From then on every member logged no such host for its peers, the v1alpha2 EtcdCluster had no status conditions, and the etcd-defrag CronJob failed every hour with context deadline exceeded. The transitional etcd-headless Service the etcd chart ships for this window (#3270) does not cover it. Helm patched the existing Service 202 ms before the garbage collector removed it, and did not create it again because it was already part of the release.

With this change the operator stays at 0 after a successful adoption. The etcd-operator HelmRelease replaces the Deployment with the v1alpha2 operator later in the same upgrade, and no later migration waits for the operator. A failed or interrupted adoption still restores it to 1 through the existing EXIT trap, so a failed run does not leave the tenant etcds without an operator. If that HelmRelease cannot reconcile, the adopted clusters wait for it with or without this change, because the legacy operator does not reconcile v1alpha2 EtcdClusters.

Clusters already upgraded with this bug can be repaired without restarting anything. Creating the Service from the tenant's own etcd release is enough.

helm -n <ns> get manifest etcd | awk 'BEGIN{RS="\n---\n"} /\nkind: Service\n/ && /\n  name: etcd-headless\n/' | kubectl -n <ns> create -f -

On the cluster above the v1alpha2 EtcdCluster reported Available with reason QuorumHealthy within 11 seconds of the Service being created, in every tenant, and the members stopped logging no such host.

Validation

  • hack/cozytest.sh hack/migration-50-etcd-adopt.bats passes all 29 tests. A new test asserts that a successful adoption scales the operator to 0 and never back to 1. Against the current script it fails with FAIL: the legacy operator was scaled back up after a successful adoption.
  • The existing test for a failed adoption still passes, so the EXIT trap still restores the operator to 1.
  • The new test checks the absence with if grep ...; then echo "FAIL: ..."; false; fi, the form the other suites use. A bare ! grep assertion cannot fail a test under hack/cozytest.sh, so it could not have caught this. The other negated assertions in this file had the same weakness, and test(tests): make negated BATS assertions able to fail #3790 has rewritten them on main. With all of them made able to fail in a scratch copy, the suite still passes against this change.

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Downstream repositories

Walked the trigger map in docs/agents/contributing.md against the diff. It changes a migration script and its bats test. No package, values, schema, CRD, make target or hack/ layout changes, so no entry matches.

Release note

fix(platform): keep the legacy etcd-operator stopped after migration 50 adopts the legacy etcd clusters. Scaling it back up let it reconcile the legacy EtcdCluster that Flux re-created from a not yet upgraded etcd chart, re-create the legacy StatefulSet and take the legacy etcd-headless Service away from the adopted members, which the garbage collector then deleted. The adopted members lost their DNS names, the EtcdCluster never reported a status and etcd defrag failed every hour. Clusters already upgraded can recreate the Service from the etcd release manifest.

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  • Migration Updates
    • After successful etcd adoption, the legacy operator remains scaled to zero replicas for replacement by the etcd operator; it is no longer scaled back up before the migration is stamped.
    • If adoption fails or exits before completion, the legacy operator is restored to one replica.
    • The dry-run message now describes the zero-replica outcome of successful adoption.
    • Successful adoption continues to record the migration version stamp.

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Migration 50 leaves the legacy etcd-operator Deployment at zero replicas after successful adoption. The EXIT trap restores it after failure or interruption. Tests check the operation order and verify that successful adoption does not scale the operator back up.

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Etcd adoption

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Adoption lifecycle and validation
packages/core/platform/images/migrations/migrations/50, hack/migration-50-etcd-adopt.bats
After etcd-migrate --apply succeeds, migration 50 leaves the legacy operator at zero replicas and stamps the version. The EXIT trap restores the operator after failure or interruption. Tests check the operation order and confirm that success does not scale the operator back up.

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On a slim upgrade with legacy etcd clusters, adoption can leave the old operator stopped without a replacement configured. Resolve that handoff before merging, or explicitly accept the risk for those configurations.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in hack/migration-50-etcd-adopt.bats: The test-plan comment no longer says the operator is scaled back to 1 after adoption; it specifies that successful adoption leaves it at 0 and only failure restores it to 1.
  • observed — Modified behavior in hack/migration-50-etcd-adopt.bats: The success-path ordering assertions remove the expected scale-up step between --apply and stamping. The test still requires credentials staging before scale-down, then apply before stamp.
  • observed — Modified behavior in hack/migration-50-etcd-adopt.bats: A new test runs a successful adoption and asserts the command log includes scale-to-0 and stamping, and contains no scale-to-1 command.
  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/core/platform/images/migrations/migrations/50: The dry-run output now says the operator remains at zero replicas after adoption instead of being scaled back to one.
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Review comments at @packages/core/platform/images/migrations/migrations/50:
- Around line 742-754: In migration 50’s adoption flow, require the target
bundle to include the `cozystack.etcd-operator` Package before scaling down the
legacy Deployment or running `etcd-migrate --apply`; reject adoption when no
replacement operator path is configured. Preserve the zero-replica handoff and
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Migration 50 scales the legacy etcd-operator to 0, adopts every legacy
etcd.aenix.io cluster with etcd-migrate and then scales the operator
back to 1. At that point it is still the legacy operator, and it has
nothing left to manage. Until a tenant's etcd HelmRelease reconciles the
new chart, Flux can upgrade it with the old one, which re-creates the
legacy EtcdCluster that etcd-migrate just orphan-deleted. The legacy
operator then reconciles it, re-creates the legacy StatefulSet and
rewrites the legacy etcd-headless Service, dropping the owner references
etcd-migrate pointed at the adopted EtcdMembers. When the new chart
prunes the legacy EtcdCluster, the garbage collector deletes the Service
with it, and the adopted members' etcd-<i>.etcd-headless names stop
resolving.

After a successful adoption the operator now stays at 0 until the
etcd-operator HelmRelease replaces the Deployment with the v1alpha2
operator later in the same upgrade. A failed or interrupted adoption
still restores it through the EXIT trap.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <[email protected]>
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europrinter (yankawai) force-pushed the fix/etcd-adoption-keep-legacy-operator-down branch from b42868e to 6248d45 Compare October 3, 2026 15:40

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europrinter (@yankawai) LGTM.

The operator does come back after this. On an upgrade from a pre-1.6 release the etcd-operator chart's pre-upgrade hook deletes the legacy Deployment, since its selector has no control-plane: controller-manager, and the chart recreates it with replicaCount: 1. No migration after 50 touches the operator.

Tests pass on a trial merge with current main. The new test fails if the success path scales the operator back to 1, and it also fails if trap - EXIT is dropped.

One thing in the PR body, since it becomes the merge commit message. The Validation section says #3790 is still open and the other negated assertions in this file can't fail. It merged today and main already rewrote those assertions here, so please drop or update that paragraph before merge.

The release-1.6 backport (#4739) has the same diff.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) merged commit 7bf6906 into cozystack:main Oct 5, 2026
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