feat(defrag): EtcdDefrag controller (stacked on the EtcdDefrag API) - #361
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe operator now supports opt-in etcd backend defragmentation. It adds API configuration, health-gated scheduling, follower-first execution, metrics, events, alerts, documentation, unit tests, and end-to-end tests. ChangesBackend defragmentation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds operator-driven etcd defragmentation and capacity metrics, but current settings and cooldown handling can permit repeated or continuously eligible defragmentation, scheduled runs may use the manager’s local timezone instead of UTC, and success metrics can become stale after restarts or membership changes; the end-to-end checks also need correction to reliably validate member selection and health gating before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EtcdClusterReconciler
participant DefragController
participant EtcdClusterClient
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EtcdClusterReconciler->>DefragController: reconcile configured defragmentation
DefragController->>EtcdClusterClient: probe member status
EtcdClusterClient-->>DefragController: backend sizes and cluster health
DefragController->>EtcdClusterClient: defragment selected member
EtcdClusterClient-->>DefragController: operation result
DefragController->>KubernetesAPI: update condition, annotation, and event
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In `@api/v1alpha2/etcdcluster_types.go`:
- Around line 339-370: Enforce strictly positive values for
DefragPolicy.MinInterval and DefragRule.FreeSpaceAbove at both CRD admission
validation and reconciliation, rejecting zero and negative inputs before
defragDue or rule evaluation can use them. Add the appropriate positive-value
markers to the API types, update reconciliation validation around the relevant
policy/rule handling symbols, and regenerate the CRD.
In `@controllers/defrag.go`:
- Around line 210-225: Update the successful defragmentation flow around
stampLastDefrag so a failed cooldown-marker write records a durable
pending/successful operation and retries persistence without reissuing the
defragment RPC. Do not schedule or select the member for another defragmentation
pass until its AnnLastDefrag cooldown state has been durably persisted.
- Around line 85-93: Update both defragmentation schedule parsing call sites,
including the validation flow around cron.ParseStandard and the due-check flow
near lines 301–306, to use a shared parser that applies the CRON_TZ=UTC prefix
before parsing. Ensure validation and due checks evaluate schedules in UTC
regardless of time.Local.
In `@controllers/metrics.go`:
- Around line 51-54: Update reconciliation to reset the metricDefragLastSuccess
series for the current cluster, then repopulate one series per current member
using its persisted AnnLastDefrag annotation, including after operator restarts.
Ensure removed members’ stale series are cleared, and add coverage for restart
restoration and scale-down cleanup.
In `@docs/operations.md`:
- Line 352: Update the metric description in the operations documentation so
etcd_operator_cluster_db_size_bytes and
etcd_operator_cluster_db_size_in_use_bytes are identified as having namespace,
cluster, and member labels, while etcd_operator_cluster_db_quota_bytes is
described as having only namespace and cluster labels.
In `@test/e2e/defrag_test.go`:
- Around line 93-118: The defrag test must first wait for DefragChecked=False
with reason ClusterNotHealthy after deleting member Pods, then verify no
Defragmented success is reported while that unhealthy condition is observed.
Update the loop around defragCheckedCond to stop treating Defragmented as a
failure once recovery begins, preserving the existing recovery waits and final
successful defragmentation assertion.
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| if spec.Schedule != "" { | ||
| if _, err := cron.ParseStandard(spec.Schedule); err != nil { | ||
| msg := fmt.Sprintf("invalid spec.defrag.schedule %q: %v", spec.Schedule, err) | ||
| if setClusterCondition(cluster, lll.ClusterDefragChecked, metav1.ConditionFalse, "InvalidSchedule", msg) { | ||
| r.event(cluster, corev1.EventTypeWarning, "DefragBlocked", msg) | ||
| } | ||
| logger.Error(err, "defrag: invalid schedule; not defragmenting", "schedule", spec.Schedule) | ||
| return &ctrl.Result{}, r.Status().Update(ctx, cluster) | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
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For github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.1, verify the default location used by ParseStandard and support for the CRON_TZ=UTC prefix.
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For github.com/robfig/cron/v3 (v3.0.1), the ParseStandard function parses a cron spec using the standard 5-field format [1]. Regarding the location and time zone: 1. Default Location: The ParseStandard function itself does not attach a specific time zone to the returned schedule; it simply parses the string [1]. However, when used within a Cron instance, the scheduling is interpreted using the location associated with that Cron instance, which defaults to time.Local [2][3]. 2. CRON_TZ Support: The library explicitly supports the CRON_TZ= prefix to specify a time zone for individual cron schedules [3][4]. By prefixing a cron spec with "CRON_TZ=", you can override the default location (time.Local or the location set via cron.New) for that specific job [3]. For example, "CRON_TZ=UTC 0 6 * *?" will interpret that specific schedule in the UTC time zone [3].
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- 1: https://github.com/robfig/cron/blob/v3/parser.go
- 2: https://github.com/robfig/cron/blob/v3/cron.go
- 3: https://github.com/robfig/cron/blob/v3/doc.go
- 4: Support CRON_TZ robfig/cron#148
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Parse defragmentation schedules in UTC.
The CRD documents spec.defrag.schedule as a standard cron expression evaluated in UTC. cron.ParseStandard uses time.Local when no timezone prefix is present. On a non-UTC manager, the validation path and due-check path can evaluate the same schedule at the wrong time.
Use a shared parser with the CRON_TZ=UTC prefix at both call sites, including lines 301–306.
Proposed fix
+func parseDefragSchedule(schedule string) (cron.Schedule, error) {
+ return cron.ParseStandard("CRON_TZ=UTC " + schedule)
+}
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- if _, err := cron.ParseStandard(spec.Schedule); err != nil {
+ if _, err := parseDefragSchedule(spec.Schedule); err != nil {
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- sched, err := cron.ParseStandard(schedule)
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| if spec.Schedule != "" { | |
| if _, err := cron.ParseStandard(spec.Schedule); err != nil { | |
| msg := fmt.Sprintf("invalid spec.defrag.schedule %q: %v", spec.Schedule, err) | |
| if setClusterCondition(cluster, lll.ClusterDefragChecked, metav1.ConditionFalse, "InvalidSchedule", msg) { | |
| r.event(cluster, corev1.EventTypeWarning, "DefragBlocked", msg) | |
| } | |
| logger.Error(err, "defrag: invalid schedule; not defragmenting", "schedule", spec.Schedule) | |
| return &ctrl.Result{}, r.Status().Update(ctx, cluster) | |
| } | |
| func parseDefragSchedule(schedule string) (cron.Schedule, error) { | |
| return cron.ParseStandard("CRON_TZ=UTC " + schedule) | |
| } | |
| if spec.Schedule != "" { | |
| if _, err := parseDefragSchedule(spec.Schedule); err != nil { | |
| msg := fmt.Sprintf("invalid spec.defrag.schedule %q: %v", spec.Schedule, err) | |
| if setClusterCondition(cluster, lll.ClusterDefragChecked, metav1.ConditionFalse, "InvalidSchedule", msg) { | |
| r.event(cluster, corev1.EventTypeWarning, "DefragBlocked", msg) | |
| } | |
| logger.Error(err, "defrag: invalid schedule; not defragmenting", "schedule", spec.Schedule) | |
| return &ctrl.Result{}, r.Status().Update(ctx, cluster) | |
| } |
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In `@controllers/defrag.go` around lines 85 - 93, Update both defragmentation
schedule parsing call sites, including the validation flow around
cron.ParseStandard and the due-check flow near lines 301–306, to use a shared
parser that applies the CRON_TZ=UTC prefix before parsing. Ensure validation and
due checks evaluate schedules in UTC regardless of time.Local.
| metricDefragLastSuccess = prometheus.NewGaugeVec(prometheus.GaugeOpts{ | ||
| Name: "etcd_operator_defrag_last_success_timestamp_seconds", | ||
| Help: "Unix time of the last successful defragmentation of a member.", | ||
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Rebuild the last-success gauge from persisted member state.
metricDefragLastSuccess is set only after a new successful RPC. After an operator restart, every prior timestamp disappears although AnnLastDefrag persists. A removed member can also retain a stale series.
During reconciliation, clear this cluster's timestamp series and repopulate them from each current member's AnnLastDefrag annotation. Add restart and scale-down coverage.
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In `@controllers/metrics.go` around lines 51 - 54, Update reconciliation to reset
the metricDefragLastSuccess series for the current cluster, then repopulate one
series per current member using its persisted AnnLastDefrag annotation,
including after operator restarts. Ensure removed members’ stale series are
cleared, and add coverage for restart restoration and scale-down cleanup.
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51-70: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCheck physical database size on the defragmented member.
Line 63 reports success for one selected member. Lines 51 and 65 always inspect the first ready member. The reconciler selects followers first, so this Pod can differ from the defragmented member. The test can fail after a successful defragmentation.
Capture fragmented sizes for all members. Then require that at least one member has a lower
DbSize.Proposed fix
fragmentEtcd(ctx, t, ns, pod) - frag := endpointDBSize(ctx, t, ns, pod) - t.Logf("db after fragmenting: size=%d inUse=%d free=%d", frag.dbSize, frag.dbSizeInUse, frag.dbSize-frag.dbSizeInUse) - if frag.dbSize-frag.dbSizeInUse < 1<<20 { - t.Fatalf("expected >1Mi reclaimable free space after fragmenting, got %d", frag.dbSize-frag.dbSizeInUse) + fragmented := make(map[string]dbStat) + for _, memberPod := range defragMemberNames(ctx, t, ns) { + fragmented[memberPod] = endpointDBSize(ctx, t, ns, memberPod) } waitFor(ctx, t, 3*time.Minute, "DefragChecked=Defragmented", defragCheckedIs(ns, metav1.ConditionTrue, "Defragmented")) waitFor(ctx, t, 2*time.Minute, "physical DbSize reclaimed", func(ctx context.Context) error { - now := endpointDBSize(ctx, t, ns, pod) - if now.dbSize >= frag.dbSize { - return fmt.Errorf("dbSize not reclaimed: was %d, still %d", frag.dbSize, now.dbSize) + for memberPod, before := range fragmented { + if now := endpointDBSize(ctx, t, ns, memberPod); now.dbSize < before.dbSize { + return nil + } } - return nil + return fmt.Errorf("no member DbSize was reclaimed") })🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@test/e2e/defrag_test.go`:
- Around line 51-70: Update the defragmentation test around aReadyMemberPod,
endpointDBSize, and the physical-size wait to capture the fragmented DbSize for
every member rather than only the first ready pod, then poll all members and
succeed when at least one has a lower DbSize than its own pre-defragmentation
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Requesting changes — this belongs outside EtcdClusterSpec
First, credit where it's due: the safety model here is the right one. One member per pass, followers before the leader, refusing to stamp the cooldown after a failure, deferring rather than forcing on a degraded cluster, and documentation that is honest about its own approximations rather than overselling them. The reasoning in "Design vs alternatives" for hosting this in the operator — TLS/auth material and endpoints already in hand, whole-cluster view already available, leader election already free — is correct, and I don't want that argument thrown away.
What I can't take is the shape. Defragmentation is operational intent that runs on a completely different clock from EtcdCluster reconciliation. Reconciling an EtcdCluster is level-triggered convergence toward a declared target: it should be idempotent, cheap, and finish. Defragmentation is an occasional, expensive, stateful, ordered procedure with its own cadence, its own failure modes, and its own history. Folding the second into the first buys nothing and costs the clarity of both.
The API consequence is the part I care most about, because it's the permanent part. spec.defrag sets a precedent: every operational concern gets a block in EtcdClusterSpec. Next it's compaction policy, then snapshot scheduling, then rebalancing, then whatever comes after — each with its own thresholds, cadence, and rule sub-object, all of them mutually independent and all of them living in the spec of a resource whose job is to describe what the cluster is, not what maintenance we'd like performed on it. An operator exists to take operational burden off the user. A spec that grows a knob per procedure hands it back with extra steps.
Two ways forward
Option A — ship the CronJob, as #221 was filed. A per-cluster CronJob running etcd-defrag with the rule from the issue. Genuinely less capable: it re-plumbs TLS/auth/endpoints per cluster, it's blind to whether the operator is mid-scale-up, and it has no cluster-wide view. But it's small, it's what the issue asked for, and it adds zero permanent API. If defragmentation isn't worth a resource of its own, it isn't worth spec.defrag either — this is the honest floor.
Option B — give it its own resource. An EtcdDefrag with a .spec.clusterRef, reconciled by its own controller:
- The intent becomes a first-class object with its own lifecycle. Its
statusis the natural home for what's currently being crammed into a cluster condition and a member annotation — per-member progress, last-run times, outcomes, the whole ordered sweep. You get history and observability for free, and you can express "defrag this cluster once, now" as a one-shot object, which is a thing operators actually want at 3am and whichspec.defragcannot express at all. - The reconciler runs on its own clock and its own work queue, and stops interfering with the cluster reconciler's schedule and algorithm. Right now the two are entangled in a way that's already causing bugs (below).
EtcdClusterSpecstays a description of the cluster. Snapshot scheduling, compaction policy, and whatever comes next follow the same pattern instead of each landing as another spec block.
If you take Option B, one more thing is worth trying, since most of the work is already done: drive the trigger from metrics rather than from a rule embedded in the CRD. Thresholds belong where thresholds already live — in alerting rules, evaluated by the metrics stack, tuned without a CRD change and without an operator release. An EtcdDefrag that reacts to a custom/external metrics source (the way an HPA does) rather than carrying quotaUsageAbove / freeSpaceAbove in its own spec keeps the API to "defrag this cluster when this signal says so" and puts the polling burden on the system built for polling. It also removes the need for the operator to probe every member's Maintenance.Status on its own loop just to decide whether to act. Treat this as optional and gated on a fallback for clusters with no metrics adapter — but if the effort is being spent anyway, it's the version that ages best.
The coupling is already costing you
Three defects in this PR are not really independent bugs; they're the same structural decision surfacing three times. reconcileDefrag returns early from Reconcile (controllers/etcdcluster_controller.go:383-391) on paths that pre-empt updateStatus, and updateStatus is where this operator maintains Available, Degraded, readyMembers, brokenMembers, and the PodDisruptionBudget.
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An unparseable
spec.defrag.schedulefreezes the cluster's entire status and its PDB.controllers/defrag.go:85-93returns with no requeue, soupdateStatusnever runs and the 30s heartbeat is gone with it. A cluster with a typo'd cron keeps serving whileAvailablereads whatever it last said — includingTrue/QuorumHealthyafter a member has died. -
The blocked-defrag path starves
updateStatusfor the whole degraded window.controllers/defrag.go:187-195returns with a 15s requeue whenever a defrag is due and the cluster isn't fully healthy. For a PVC-backed member replacement — tens of minutes, per the README — health conditions and the PDB stop being updated in exactly the window where they matter, while the operator re-dials etcd and re-probes every member every 15 seconds against an already-degraded cluster. -
DefragCheckedis a write-once latch, not a live signal.controllers/defrag.go:180-182sets the condition in memory and falls through, butupdateStatuswrites status only when its own comparisons changed — it has no idea a condition was mutated upstream. Reproduce by settling every fieldupdateStatustouches and running a not-needed pass: the condition is never persisted at all on a healthy under-threshold cluster, and after a successful run it staysTrue/Defragmentedindefinitely.DefragNotNeededis documented as a reachable steady state; in practice it usually isn't. (TestReconcileDefrag_NotNeededmisses this because it asserts against the in-memory object where its sibling tests re-Get.)
Under Option B all three dissolve, because a separate reconciler owns a separate status object. That's the argument for the restructure in concrete form.
Findings that survive either path
These are etcd-domain issues, independent of where the code lives — worth carrying forward into whichever option you take:
- The health gate can't detect the failure it exists to prevent (
controllers/defrag.go:129-146).Maintenance.Statusis a local read: a member answers it while having lost quorum, while carrying aNOSPACEorCORRUPTalarm, and while arbitrarily far behind in raft. A partitioned cluster with all pods up and reachable passes the gate. The response already carriesErrors,Leader,RaftIndex,RaftAppliedIndex, andIsLearner; none are checked. At minimum requireLeader != 0with agreement across members, and an emptyErrors. - No leadership transfer before defragging the leader (
controllers/defrag.go:197-208). "Leader last" bounds the ordering risk, not the leader-specific one: a defrag longer than the election timeout costs an election.MoveLeaderis already on theclientv3Maintenance interface. - The quota arm re-triggers forever with nothing to reclaim (
controllers/defrag.go:248-271).dbSize == dbSizeInUse == 1.7Giagainst a 2Gi quota returns true under both the default rule and an explicitquotaUsageAbove: 80%. With the 1h default cooldown that's an hourly stop-the-world of every member, reclaiming nothing, forever, with aDefragmentedevent each time. Needs a minimum-reclaimable gate on the quota arm, and a backoff when a defrag doesn't shrinkDbSize. - Nothing compacts, and nothing disarms the alarm. Auto-compaction is an unset-by-default user knob, so a cluster without it has
dbSizeInUse ≈ dbSize: the free-space arm never fires, the quota arm fires forever, and defrag reclaims nothing. And a cluster that actually reachesNOSPACEstays read-only after a successful defrag, because the alarm is still armed —kubectl etcd alarm disarmalready exists in this repo, but the operator never notices the alarm and never clears it. Either close that loop or stop implying in the README and runbook that this recovers a quota-pressured cluster. - The shipped alerts break under the ServiceMonitor the same chart ships.
charts/etcd-operator/templates/prometheusrule.yaml:20-22,32-34joinon(namespace, cluster), but prometheus-operator relabels every target'snamespacefrom the scrape target andhonor_labelsdefaults to false, so the metric's ownnamespacebecomesexported_namespaceandnamespacebecomes the operator's. Two clusters sharing a name in different namespaces then make the right-hand side ambiguous and both quota rules stop evaluating — in a multi-tenant install that's the common case, not the edge case. NeedshonorLabels: trueon the endpoint inservicemonitor.yaml(plus the equivalent for the CozystackVMServiceScrape), or a different label name. - The capacity gauges go missing for seconds on every pass (
controllers/defrag.go:125-127, re-set at:143-144). TheDeletePartialMatchruns before a probe loop that spends up to 5s per unreachable member, so the series are absent for up to N×5s each pass. Any scrape landing in that gap resets thefor: 15mtimer — the slow-cluster case the alert exists for may never fire. Build the new value set first, then delete only the labels that dropped out. EtcdDefragmentationNotKeepingUpfalse-positives against its own defaults (prometheusrule.yaml:45-47): it fires at the same 200Mi that is the default trigger, withfor: 30mshorter than the defaultminInterval: 1h. A member that re-fragments and waits out its cooldown trips a warning while working as designed.- No admission validation on the new numeric fields (
api/v1alpha2/etcdcluster_types.go:339-370).minIntervalaccepts0sand negatives, which removes the cooldown entirely and lets defrag run on every pass;freeSpaceAboveaccepts0and negatives through the stock Quantity pattern, making the arm always-true.quotaUsageAboveis properly pattern-validated — match it. scheduledoesn't schedule (controllers/defrag.go:291-307). The first run ignores it entirely, and afterwards the firing time drifts to whatever hour the threshold happens to be crossed. The godoc is honest about this, but a cron-shaped field namedschedulewill be read as "run the disruptive thing at 3am" by everyone who sets it and the docs won't be re-read. Either implement a real window or name the field for what it does. A separate resource makes the real thing easy.
Split the metrics out
The capacity metrics and the PrometheusRule should be their own PR against #357, not a passenger on this one. They're the smaller, lower-risk half; they're currently emitted only inside reconcileDefrag, so a cluster that hasn't opted into defrag — the one with no automatic remediation and the most need for a quota alert — exports nothing at all; and the gauges linger at stale values forever if a user later removes spec.defrag, since they're only cleared on cluster deletion. They're also spending #357's metric namespace and label scheme on one slice of what that issue asked for, before the rest of it is designed: #357's own strawman labels these namespace/name, this ships namespace/cluster, and cluster additionally collides with the external label Thanos/Mimir/VictoriaMetrics add in multi-cluster fleets. Metric names and labels are as permanent as API — worth settling with the full set in view.
What I'd approve
Either option, done properly. Option A is a small PR and I'll take it on its merits. For Option B: an EtcdDefrag type with .spec.clusterRef, its own controller and status, no new fields in EtcdClusterSpec, the domain findings above addressed, and the metrics split into a separate PR. The metrics-driven trigger is a bonus, not a condition.
Happy to talk through the EtcdDefrag shape before you invest in it — the API is the part worth agreeing on first, and the mechanism you've already written should port across largely intact.
Introduces a dedicated EtcdDefrag resource for operator-driven backend defragmentation, instead of the spec.defrag-in-EtcdClusterSpec shape rejected in #361's review. One-shot and run-to-completion, modeled on EtcdSnapshot: spec.clusterRef, an optional rule (with a reclaimable floor so a full-but-unfragmented backend isn't defragmented for nothing), and a status carrying per-member outcomes. Recurring runs are driven externally, as with EtcdSnapshot. This lands the API type, generated deepcopy/CRD, and user docs so the reconciling controller can follow as a self-contained change. Until that lands the resource is inert (documented as such). No changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
Introduces a dedicated EtcdDefrag resource for operator-driven backend defragmentation, instead of the spec.defrag-in-EtcdClusterSpec shape rejected in #361's review. One-shot and run-to-completion, modeled on EtcdSnapshot: spec.clusterRef, an optional rule (with a reclaimable floor so a full-but-unfragmented backend isn't defragmented for nothing), and a status carrying per-member outcomes. Recurring runs are driven externally, as with EtcdSnapshot. This lands the API type, generated deepcopy/CRD, and user docs so the reconciling controller can follow as a self-contained change. Until that lands the resource is inert (documented as such). No changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
Introduces a dedicated EtcdDefrag resource for operator-driven backend defragmentation, instead of the spec.defrag-in-EtcdClusterSpec shape rejected in #361's review. One-shot and run-to-completion, modeled on EtcdSnapshot: spec.clusterRef, a rule (reclaimable floor so a full-but-unfragmented backend isn't defragmented for nothing; rule.all for explicit unconditional), and a status carrying per-member outcomes. Lands the API type, generated deepcopy/CRD, and user docs so the reconciling controller can follow as a self-contained change. The resource is inert until that controller lands (documented in the type godoc and the doc). No changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Review fixes: quantity(string(...)) coercion on the rule quantities (integer input tripped a "no such overload" CEL error) + an integer-input regression test; CEL guards for clusterRef.name, minReclaim<=freeSpaceAbove, minReclaim requires quotaUsageAbove, and rule.all exclusivity; typed Outcome/Role; dropped the Deferred phase (deferral is a condition on Pending); docs reframe scheduling around a planned EtcdDefragPolicy rather than "external-only, permanent", mark controller-contract sections as planned, and use `etcdctl defrag`. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
Introduces a dedicated EtcdDefrag resource for operator-driven backend defragmentation, instead of the spec.defrag-in-EtcdClusterSpec shape rejected in #361's review. One-shot and run-to-completion, modeled on EtcdSnapshot: spec.clusterRef, a rule (reclaimable floor so a full-but-unfragmented backend isn't defragmented for nothing; rule.all for explicit unconditional), and a status carrying per-member outcomes. Lands the API type, generated deepcopy/CRD, and user docs so the reconciling controller can follow as a self-contained change. The resource is inert until that controller lands (documented in the type godoc and the doc). No changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Review fixes: quantity(string(...)) coercion on the rule quantities (integer input tripped a "no such overload" CEL error) + an integer-input regression test; CEL guards for clusterRef.name, minReclaim<=freeSpaceAbove, minReclaim requires quotaUsageAbove, and rule.all exclusivity; typed Outcome/Role; dropped the Deferred phase (deferral is a condition on Pending); docs reframe scheduling around a planned EtcdDefragPolicy rather than "external-only, permanent", mark controller-contract sections as planned, and use `etcdctl defrag`. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
Introduces a dedicated EtcdDefrag resource for operator-driven backend defragmentation, instead of the spec.defrag-in-EtcdClusterSpec shape rejected in #361's review. One-shot and run-to-completion, modeled on EtcdSnapshot: spec.clusterRef, a rule (reclaimable floor so a full-but-unfragmented backend isn't defragmented for nothing; rule.all for explicit unconditional), and a status carrying per-member outcomes. Lands the API type, generated deepcopy/CRD, and user docs so the reconciling controller can follow as a self-contained change. The resource is inert until that controller lands (documented in the type godoc and the doc). No changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Review fixes: quantity(string(...)) coercion on the rule quantities (integer input tripped a "no such overload" CEL error) + an integer-input regression test; CEL guards for clusterRef.name, minReclaim<=freeSpaceAbove, minReclaim requires quotaUsageAbove, and rule.all exclusivity; typed Outcome/Role; dropped the Deferred phase (deferral is a condition on Pending); docs reframe scheduling around a planned EtcdDefragPolicy rather than "external-only, permanent", mark controller-contract sections as planned, and use `etcdctl defrag`. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
Reworks the defragmentation implementation from the rejected EtcdCluster.spec.defrag shape (#361 review) into a controller for the dedicated EtcdDefrag API (proposal/etcd-defrag-api, which this is stacked on). The controller reconciles an EtcdDefrag as a one-shot, run-to-completion sweep: resolve the cluster; serialize per cluster (oldest non-terminal run acts, the rest wait Pending); gate on real health (every desired member present, reachable, alarm-free, agreeing on a leader — not just "Status answered"); then defragment members one at a time, followers before the leader, one per reconcile pass with the health re-checked between. A due defrag on an unhealthy cluster is deferred (Pending + DefragChecked=False/ClusterNotHealthy + a DefragDeferred event), never forced. Per-member outcomes/sizes land in status.members; phase moves Pending -> Running -> Complete|Failed; an overall active-deadline bounds a stuck run; ttlSecondsAfterFinished GCs a finished record. The rule matches the EtcdDefrag API: rule.all is unconditional; otherwise the reclaimable floor (freeSpaceAbove, default 200Mi) is always applied and the quota arm only fires with at least minReclaim to reclaim — so a full-but-unfragmented backend is never defragmented for nothing. Adds Defragment to the etcd client interface, wires the controller (RBAC + main.go), and covers it with unit + controller-integration tests (defrag when needed, skip below threshold, defer-not-force without quorum, failed RPC, per-cluster serialization) and an e2e retargeted to create EtcdDefrag objects. Capacity metrics/alerts are intentionally out of scope here (tracked in #357); no changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 spec.defrag approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
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Reworks the defragmentation implementation from the rejected EtcdCluster.spec.defrag shape (#361 review) into a controller for the dedicated EtcdDefrag API (proposal/etcd-defrag-api, which this is stacked on). The controller reconciles an EtcdDefrag as a one-shot, run-to-completion sweep: resolve the cluster; serialize per cluster (oldest non-terminal run acts, the rest wait Pending); gate on real health (every desired member present, reachable, alarm-free, agreeing on a leader — not just "Status answered"); then defragment members one at a time, followers before the leader, one per reconcile pass with the health re-checked between. A due defrag on an unhealthy cluster is deferred (Pending + DefragChecked=False/ClusterNotHealthy + a DefragDeferred event), never forced. Per-member outcomes/sizes land in status.members; phase moves Pending -> Running -> Complete|Failed; an overall active-deadline bounds a stuck run; ttlSecondsAfterFinished GCs a finished record. The rule matches the EtcdDefrag API: rule.all is unconditional; otherwise the reclaimable floor (freeSpaceAbove, default 200Mi) is always applied and the quota arm only fires with at least minReclaim to reclaim — so a full-but-unfragmented backend is never defragmented for nothing. Adds Defragment to the etcd client interface, wires the controller (RBAC + main.go), and covers it with unit + controller-integration tests (defrag when needed, skip below threshold, defer-not-force without quorum, failed RPC, per-cluster serialization) and an e2e retargeted to create EtcdDefrag objects. Capacity metrics/alerts are intentionally out of scope here (tracked in #357); no changes to EtcdClusterSpec. Refs #221, #357; supersedes the #361 spec.defrag approach. Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Kolkov <androndo@gmail.com>
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Structurally this is what the split was for. The cluster reconciler is untouched, so the defrag path can no longer pre-empt updateStatus or stall PDB reconciliation; the health gate checks status.Errors, a non-zero Leader, and leader agreement across members instead of trusting a bare local read; runs are serialized per cluster; there is a per-RPC bound and an overall run deadline; and status.members[] carries real per-member records. The minReclaim floor does what it was meant to — a full-but-unfragmented backend is no longer defragmented for nothing.
Two defects need fixing before this lands. Both reproduce against the existing fake-etcd test harness.
Blocking
A NOSPACE alarm blocks defragmentation entirely
clusterDefragHealthy (controllers/etcddefrag_controller.go:274) fails the gate on any non-empty status.Errors, and that field is where etcd reports active alarms — the API defines it as "errors contains alarm/health information and status".
On a 3-member cluster with rule.all: true and one member alarmed:
phase=Pending defragCalls=[]
condition DefragChecked=False reason=ClusterNotHealthy
msg=... not fully healthy ...: member c1-0 reports alarms: memberID:10 alarm:NOSPACE
No Defragment call is ever issued. The run sits in Pending until defragActiveDeadline fails it 30 minutes later.
A cluster that has hit its backend quota is the case this feature exists to resolve, and it is the one cluster the controller now refuses to touch. The gate needs to discriminate between alarms rather than blanket-refusing: NOSPACE should permit the run, CORRUPT should block it. Closing that loop properly also means disarming the alarm after a successful sweep — AlarmList/AlarmDisarm are not yet on the EtcdClusterClient interface, and without them a cluster stays read-only after the space has been reclaimed.
status.startedAt is reset on every Pending → Running transition, so the run deadline never expires
Lines 174-179 stamp StartedAt whenever the phase is not already Running, and the health-gate branch at line 150 sets the phase back to Pending on every blip. Seed a run whose clock already reads 25 of its 30 minutes, park it in Pending, and give it one healthy pass:
seeded startedAt 25m ago; after one healthy pass it is 0s old (phase=Running)
The comment on defragActiveDeadline (lines 52-55) states the guarantee this is supposed to provide — that a run stuck on an unhealthy cluster cannot hold the per-cluster slot forever. On a cluster that flaps more often than every 30 minutes, the run never fails and every subsequent EtcdDefrag for that cluster queues behind it indefinitely, including ones a scheduler stamps out. Fix is to stamp only when StartedAt == nil.
Non-blocking
No MoveLeader before defragmenting the leader. Doing the leader last bounds the ordering risk but not the leader-specific one: a defrag that outlasts the election timeout costs an election and a write-availability blip. MoveLeader is already on the clientv3 Maintenance interface.
Roles are snapshotted once and never re-derived. plannedMembers fixes each member's role at plan time, so "followers before the leader" holds only against the plan-time leader. Leadership can move mid-sweep — defragmenting a member can itself cause it — after which the new leader is processed as a follower while the old one waits at the end of the list. Re-deriving the leader each pass, or reordering when the current leader comes up next while followers remain pending, would close it.
MaxConcurrentReconciles is unset (so 1) while defragRPCTimeout is 5 minutes, so one wedged member stalls defragmentation for every other cluster too. Since oldestActive already enforces per-cluster serialization, this is safe to raise.
A failed post-defrag Status read reports a successful defrag as reclaiming nothing. b.after is pre-seeded to the pre-defrag DbSize at probe time (line 244), so when the read at line 198 fails, DBSizeAfter equals DBSizeBefore and ReclaimedBytes is 0. That is silently wrong in the field the per-member status design exists to provide; better to leave the after-size unset and say the read was unavailable.
Smaller things:
- The phase moves backwards
Running → Pendingon a health blip after members have already been processed. A run holding partial results readingPendingis confusing; the condition already carries the reason, so the phase could stayRunning. - Raft lag is not part of the health gate. A member that has rejoined and is still catching up answers
Status, reports no alarms, and agrees on the leader, so blocking a second member with a defrag can still stall writes.RaftIndex - RaftAppliedIndexis in the same response already being read. docs/etcd-defrag.md:133states that "a defrag that doesn't shrinkDbSizeis backed off rather than repeated". The controller does not do this, and inside a one-shot run that touches each member once there is nothing for it to mean. Either drop the line or move it to whatever ends up owning repeat scheduling.- A cluster that legitimately scales down mid-run leaves a planned member absent, which marks it
MemberGone/Failedand fails the whole run.
Test coverage
The six unit tests cover the sweep, rule.all, deferral on an unhealthy cluster, a failed RPC, and per-cluster serialization, which is a good spread. Not covered: TTL garbage collection, deadline expiry, and leadership drift mid-sweep — the second of which is where one of the blockers above lives.
The e2e suite went from two tests to one; the case that proved a due defragmentation is withheld while the cluster is unhealthy and runs once it recovers no longer has end-to-end coverage, leaving the safety property on the unit test alone.
Merge order
This is stacked on #362, which is good to go. Land #362 first; GitHub will retarget this to main automatically.
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Reworks defragmentation from the rejected
EtcdCluster.spec.defragshape (this PR's earlier review) into a controller for the dedicatedEtcdDefragAPI.Stacked on #362 (the
EtcdDefragAPI) — base isproposal/etcd-defrag-api, so the diff here is controller + wiring only. Merge #362 first; retarget this tomainonce #362 lands (then re-rungo mod tidy).What it does
Reconciles an
EtcdDefragas a one-shot, run-to-completion sweep:Pending).Pending+DefragChecked=False/ClusterNotHealthy+ aDefragDeferredevent), never forced.status.members; phasePending → Running → Complete|Failed; an overall active-deadline bounds a stuck run;ttlSecondsAfterFinishedGCs a finished record.rule.allis unconditional; otherwise the reclaimable floor (freeSpaceAbove, default 200Mi) is always applied and the quota arm only fires with at leastminReclaimto reclaim — a full-but-unfragmented backend is never defragmented for nothing.Adds
Defragmentto the etcd client interface; wires the controller (RBAC +main.go). No changes toEtcdClusterSpec.Metrics & alerts split out (per review)
The first-party capacity metrics and the values-gated
PrometheusRulethat the earlier version of this PR carried are removed — they belong in their own PR against #357 (they must also cover clusters that never opt into defrag, and the metric/label scheme should be settled with the full set in view). This PR ships nocontrollers/metrics.go, nocharts/.../prometheusrule.yaml, and noalertsvalues; the controller records sizes inEtcdDefrag.statusduring a run instead of as continuously-scraped gauges.Deliberately out of scope
MoveLeader) before the leader, and a compaction /NOSPACE-disarm loop → follow-ups noted in the doc; leader-last already bounds the ordering risk.Tests
rule.alldefragments everyone; defers with aDefragDeferredevent and performs no defrag when quorum is lost; failed RPC →Failed; two runs on one cluster are serialized.//go:build e2e): create anEtcdDefrag, watch a real member'sDbSizeshrink toComplete; and a run withheld while the cluster is unhealthy, completing after recovery.go build/go vet/go test ./.../gofmtgreen;-tags e2ecompiles; CRD/RBAC/deepcopy regenerated (codegen-drift clean).Refs #221, #357.
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