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https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-115197

In the CAPI-to-MAPI success path, convertedMAPIMachine was passed to applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch. In steady-state reconciliations (no status or spec changes detected), ensureMAPIMachineStatusUpdated returns early before copying existing conditions into convertedMAPIMachine, leaving its Status.Conditions empty. This caused SetLastTransitionTime to treat the Synchronized condition as new and reset it to Now() on every sync.

Fix by using existingMAPIMachine (which carries the live conditions from the cluster) when it is non-nil, falling back to convertedMAPIMachine only for newly created machines where no prior condition exists.

Add integration tests for both MAPI-to-CAPI and CAPI-to-MAPI directions that confirm lastTransitionTime is preserved across successive successful reconciliations.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved machine synchronization so successful reconciliations preserve the existing synchronization condition timestamp.
    • Ensured consistent behavior when either Machine API or Cluster API is authoritative.
    • New machines continue to receive the synchronization status as expected.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for preserving synchronization timestamps across repeated reconciliations.

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Partially fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-61596, but that has a broader scope.

In the CAPI-to-MAPI success path, convertedMAPIMachine was passed to applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch. In steady-state reconciliations (no status or spec changes detected), ensureMAPIMachineStatusUpdated returns early before copying existing conditions into convertedMAPIMachine, leaving its Status.Conditions empty. This caused SetLastTransitionTime to treat the Synchronized condition as new and reset it to Now() on every sync.

Fix by using existingMAPIMachine (which carries the live conditions from the cluster) when it is non-nil, falling back to convertedMAPIMachine only for newly created machines where no prior condition exists.

Add integration tests for both MAPI-to-CAPI and CAPI-to-MAPI directions that confirm lastTransitionTime is preserved across successive successful reconciliations.

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The synchronization controller now applies success conditions to existing MAPI machines when available. New MAPI machines still receive conditions on converted objects. Integration tests verify transition-time preservation in both synchronization directions.

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Machine synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve synchronization condition state
pkg/controllers/machinesync/machine_sync_controller.go, pkg/controllers/machinesync/machine_sync_controller_test.go
The controller patches the existing MAPI machine when available. Tests verify that Synchronized.LastTransitionTime remains unchanged during Machine API-authoritative and Cluster API-authoritative reconciliations.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ea1f9

The change preserves the Synchronized condition transition time during repeated reconciliations, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining beyond a minor test-message follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: mdbooth

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 14 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Test Structure And Quality ⚠️ Warning The added Ginkgo tests lack meaningful assertion messages. Both new tests use bare Expect(initialTime.IsZero()).To(BeFalse()) and several Eventually(...).Should(...) calls without diagnostic messa… Add meaningful failure messages to every assertion in both new tests. For example, describe failure to observe the initial Synchronized condition, failure to update the trigger object, failure to observe the synchronized spec or label, an…
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds two Ginkgo test titles, and both use fixed string literals: "should preserve the Synchronized condition lastTransitionTime on subsequent successful syncs". The added `Conte…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The new Ginkgo specs are controller integration tests, not MicroShift e2e tests. They run in pkg/controllers/machinesync under controller-runtime envtest; the repository runs pkg/... with the `u…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The added Ginkgo tests run in the package's envtest harness and only create or update Machine API, Cluster API, and AWS machine objects. They trigger reconciliation with a label or provider-spec…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only machine synchronization status handling and adds integration tests. The controller change selects the existing MAPI machine for condition updates to preserve `LastT…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only pkg/controllers/machinesync/machine_sync_controller.go and its Ginkgo test file. The added controller logic performs condition selection and patching; it adds no …
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The two added Ginkgo specs only update MAPI/CAPI Kubernetes objects and verify labels, provider fields, and LastTransitionTime. They add no IPv4 addresses, IP parsing, URL construction, networ…
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The pull request changes only condition handling and integration tests. The added code introduces no MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptography, or secret/token comparisons. The ch…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed PASS. The commit changes only two Go files under pkg/controllers/machinesync/: controller logic and integration tests. The added code contains no container or Kubernetes manifest fields, and no adde…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds no logging statements or log fields. The production diff only changes which MAPI object supplies the synchronized condition. The shared status helper reads condition data a…
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving the Synchronized condition lastTransitionTime during CAPI-to-MAPI synchronization.
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PASS: The pull request adds two Ginkgo test titles, and both use fixed string literals: "should preserve the Synchronized condition lastTransitionTime on subsequent successful syncs". The added Context title, "when in steady state", is also static. The titles contain no pod names, timestamps, UUIDs, node names, namespaces, IP addresses, or generated identifiers. They directly describe the stable behavior under test and are not overly specific to runtime values.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

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The added Ginkgo tests lack meaningful assertion messages. Both new tests use bare Expect(initialTime.IsZero()).To(BeFalse()) and several Eventually(...).Should(...) calls without diagnostic messages. This violates requirement 4 and was introduced by the pull request. The tests otherwise use the existing BeforeEach/AfterEach lifecycle, and their cluster waits use the repository's configured 10-second default or explicit timeouts.

Resolution

Add meaningful failure messages to every assertion in both new tests. For example, describe failure to observe the initial Synchronized condition, failure to update the trigger object, failure to observe the synchronized spec or label, and failure to preserve LastTransitionTime. Add an explicit timeout argument to the two new Eventually(k.Update(...)) calls if the test standard requires each cluster operation to declare its timeout rather than rely on the suite default.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

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The new Ginkgo specs are controller integration tests, not MicroShift e2e tests. They run in pkg/controllers/machinesync under controller-runtime envtest; the repository runs pkg/... with the unit target and runs real e2e tests separately from ./e2e/... against an active kubeconfig. Therefore MicroShift API compatibility does not apply. The specs use MAPI objects, but they run against the envtest API server and have no MicroShift execution path to protect.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

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PASS: The added Ginkgo tests run in the package's envtest harness and only create or update Machine API, Cluster API, and AWS machine objects. They trigger reconciliation with a label or provider-spec change and verify condition timestamps. They do not count nodes, schedule pods, use topology or affinity rules, test failover, drain, scaling, or require separate hosts. No SNO guard is required.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

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PASS. The pull request changes only machine synchronization status handling and adds integration tests. The controller change selects the existing MAPI machine for condition updates to preserve LastTransitionTime; it does not add deployments, replicas, affinities, topology spread constraints, node selectors, tolerations, taints, or PDBs. The scheduling compatibility check is therefore not applicable.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

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PASS: The pull request changes only pkg/controllers/machinesync/machine_sync_controller.go and its Ginkgo test file. The added controller logic performs condition selection and patching; it adds no fmt.Print*, log.Print*, klog, os.Stdout, or suite/process-level setup writes. The added test code runs inside It blocks, whose stdout is explicitly excluded by this check. The OTE entry point is unchanged.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

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PASS: The two added Ginkgo specs only update MAPI/CAPI Kubernetes objects and verify labels, provider fields, and LastTransitionTime. They add no IPv4 addresses, IP parsing, URL construction, network policies, image pulls, DNS lookups, or external service connections. The shared setup uses the Kubernetes test client and local controller manager.

Full details: No-Weak-Crypto

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The pull request changes only condition handling and integration tests. The added code introduces no MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptography, or secret/token comparisons. The changed Go files also add no crypto-related imports or APIs.

Full details: Container-Privileges

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PASS. The commit changes only two Go files under pkg/controllers/machinesync/: controller logic and integration tests. The added code contains no container or Kubernetes manifest fields, and no added line matches privileged: true, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, or allowPrivilegeEscalation: true. The custom check is not triggered.

Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs

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PASS: The pull request adds no logging statements or log fields. The production diff only changes which MAPI object supplies the synchronized condition. The shared status helper reads condition data and patches status; it does not log object contents. Added tests use non-sensitive labels and instance types.

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Comment thread pkg/controllers/machinesync/machine_sync_controller_test.go
…PI-to-MAPI sync

In the CAPI-to-MAPI success path, `convertedMAPIMachine` was passed to
`applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch`. In steady-state reconciliations
(no status or spec changes detected), `ensureMAPIMachineStatusUpdated`
returns early before copying existing conditions into `convertedMAPIMachine`,
leaving its `Status.Conditions` empty. This caused `SetLastTransitionTime` to
treat the Synchronized condition as new and reset it to `Now()` on every sync.

Fix by using `existingMAPIMachine` (which carries the live conditions from the
cluster) when it is non-nil, falling back to `convertedMAPIMachine` only for
newly created machines where no prior condition exists.

Add integration tests for both MAPI-to-CAPI and CAPI-to-MAPI directions
that confirm `lastTransitionTime` is preserved across successive successful
reconciliations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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simkam force-pushed the lastTransitionTime branch from ea1f98c to fc839d3 Compare August 25, 2026 10:52
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/pipeline required

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Scheduling tests matching the pipeline_run_if_changed or not excluded by pipeline_skip_if_only_changed parameters:
/test e2e-aws-capi-disconnected-techpreview
/test e2e-aws-capi-techpreview
/test e2e-aws-capi-techpreview-post-install
/test e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview
/test e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-upgrade
/test e2e-azure-capi-techpreview
/test e2e-azure-ovn-techpreview
/test e2e-azure-ovn-techpreview-upgrade
/test e2e-gcp-capi-techpreview
/test e2e-gcp-ovn-techpreview
/test e2e-metal3-capi-techpreview
/test e2e-openstack-capi-techpreview
/test e2e-vsphere-capi-techpreview
/test regression-clusterinfra-aws-ipi-techpreview-capi

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@simkam simkam changed the title NO-JIRA: machinesync: preserve Synchronized condition lastTransitionTime in CAPI-to-MAPI sync OCPBUGS-115197: machinesync: preserve Synchronized condition lastTransitionTime in CAPI-to-MAPI sync Sep 1, 2026
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@simkam: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-115197, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

3 validation(s) were run on this bug
  • bug is open, matching expected state (open)
  • bug target version (5.1.0) matches configured target version for branch (5.1.0)
  • bug is in the state ASSIGNED, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)

The bug has been updated to refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker.

Details

In response to this:

Partially fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-61596, but that has a broader scope.

In the CAPI-to-MAPI success path, convertedMAPIMachine was passed to applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch. In steady-state reconciliations (no status or spec changes detected), ensureMAPIMachineStatusUpdated returns early before copying existing conditions into convertedMAPIMachine, leaving its Status.Conditions empty. This caused SetLastTransitionTime to treat the Synchronized condition as new and reset it to Now() on every sync.

Fix by using existingMAPIMachine (which carries the live conditions from the cluster) when it is non-nil, falling back to convertedMAPIMachine only for newly created machines where no prior condition exists.

Add integration tests for both MAPI-to-CAPI and CAPI-to-MAPI directions that confirm lastTransitionTime is preserved across successive successful reconciliations.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

  • Improved machine synchronization so successful reconciliations preserve the existing synchronization condition timestamp.

  • Ensured consistent behavior when either Machine API or Cluster API is authoritative.

  • New machines continue to receive the synchronization status as expected.

  • Tests

  • Added coverage for preserving synchronization timestamps across repeated reconciliations.

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@simkam: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-115197, which is valid.

3 validation(s) were run on this bug
  • bug is open, matching expected state (open)
  • bug target version (5.1.0) matches configured target version for branch (5.1.0)
  • bug is in the state POST, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)
Details

In response to this:

https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-115197

In the CAPI-to-MAPI success path, convertedMAPIMachine was passed to applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch. In steady-state reconciliations (no status or spec changes detected), ensureMAPIMachineStatusUpdated returns early before copying existing conditions into convertedMAPIMachine, leaving its Status.Conditions empty. This caused SetLastTransitionTime to treat the Synchronized condition as new and reset it to Now() on every sync.

Fix by using existingMAPIMachine (which carries the live conditions from the cluster) when it is non-nil, falling back to convertedMAPIMachine only for newly created machines where no prior condition exists.

Add integration tests for both MAPI-to-CAPI and CAPI-to-MAPI directions that confirm lastTransitionTime is preserved across successive successful reconciliations.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

  • Improved machine synchronization so successful reconciliations preserve the existing synchronization condition timestamp.

  • Ensured consistent behavior when either Machine API or Cluster API is authoritative.

  • New machines continue to receive the synchronization status as expected.

  • Tests

  • Added coverage for preserving synchronization timestamps across repeated reconciliations.

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@simkam in the end, have you figured out if this is also need for machinesetsync? TY

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@simkam in the end, have you figured out if this is also need for machinesetsync? TY

@damdo not needed, machineset's sync already passes existingMAPIMachineSet to applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch

return ctrl.Result{}, r.applySynchronizedConditionWithPatch(ctx, existingMAPIMachineSet, corev1.ConditionTrue,

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