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Summary

  • Add --fail --retry 3 --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 5 to all curl commands in the GKE prerequisites step
  • Use a CURL_CMD variable to keep the flags DRY

Problem

The hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites step downloads CRDs and cert-manager manifests via curl -sL without --fail or --retry. When the download silently fails (e.g., transient network error returns empty content), oc apply -f - gets "no objects passed to apply" and the entire pre-phase fails before tests can run.

This was observed in the rehearsal for #84187 and accounts for ~2 of 22 failures in the e2e-v2-gke presubmit (36 runs analyzed).

Example failure log:

error: no objects passed to apply

Fix

  • --fail: curl returns non-zero on HTTP errors instead of silently outputting error pages
  • --retry 3 --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 5: retries transient failures up to 3 times with 5s delay
  • With set -euo pipefail already in effect, a curl failure propagates through the pipe and exits the script

Ref: GCP-1113

Test plan

  • Rehearsal job passes the prerequisites step
  • CRDs and cert-manager install successfully on a fresh GKE cluster

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Updates the OpenShift CI GKE prerequisites step to detect failed CRD and cert-manager manifest downloads.
  • Adds shared CURL_CMD retry and failure options.
  • Buffers downloads in temporary files before applying them with oc.
  • Stops the prerequisites step when a download fails instead of reporting no objects passed to apply.

The prerequisites step downloads CRDs and cert-manager manifests via
curl without --fail or --retry. When the download silently fails
(returns empty content), oc apply gets "no objects passed to apply"
and the entire pre-phase fails. This accounts for ~2 of 22 failures
in the e2e-v2-gke presubmit.

Add --fail --retry 3 --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 5 to all curl
commands via a CURL_CMD variable. With set -euo pipefail already in
effect, --fail ensures curl returns non-zero on HTTP errors and
pipefail propagates it through the pipe to oc apply.

Ref: GCP-1113

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The prerequisite script adds fetch_and_apply for temporary-file manifest application. CRD installations use the helper. Cert-manager installation downloads its manifest to a temporary file, updates the namespace in place, applies it, and removes the file.

Changes

Prerequisite manifest application

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared download and apply helper
ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/gcp/gke/prerequisites/hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh
The script adds fetch_and_apply and uses it for the Prometheus, OpenShift Route, and DNSEndpoint CRD manifests.
Cert-manager temporary-file installation
ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/gcp/gke/prerequisites/hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh
The script downloads the cert-manager manifest, replaces its namespace in place, applies the file, and removes it.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 610f9

The change makes prerequisite downloads fail fast and retry transient errors, while failed attempts may leave temporary manifest files on the runner. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness or follow-up to add cleanup on every exit path.

Suggested reviewers: apahim

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding retry and failure detection to GKE prerequisite downloads.
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 changes only the GKE prerequisites shell script. The diff adds download handling and manifest application logic, and it does not add or modify Ginkgo test declarations or test t…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes one Bash prerequisites script only. The exact diff adds fetch_and_apply and temporary-file handling for curl/oc; it adds no Ginkgo test files or It blocks. There…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes one Bash prerequisite script only. The verified diff adds curl buffering and a shell helper; it adds no Ginkgo e2e tests or test declarations. Therefore the MicroShift t…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only one shell script, hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh. The diff adds curl buffering and the fetch_and_apply helper; it adds no Go files or Ginkgo test declaratio…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only download and temporary-file handling in the GKE prerequisite shell script. The diff adds curl retry flags, fetch_and_apply, and buffered cert-manager application…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only a Bash GKE prerequisites script. It adds curl/download handling and shell output, but it does not modify an OTE binary or process-level Go/Ginkgo code such as main…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR changes only one shell prerequisites script. The cumulative diff adds no Ginkgo test files or constructs such as It(), Describe(), Context(), or When(). The new public curl downloads belong to …
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only the GKE prerequisite shell script to add curl retry flags and temporary-file handling. The added lines contain no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptograph…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only the prerequisites shell script. The diff adds curl retry flags, temporary-file handling, and replaces streaming oc apply calls with equivalent file-based applies. It adds n…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds no sensitive data to logged commands. The changed script already had set -x; new trace entries contain only public manifest URLs, fixed curl flags, temporary file paths, …
Full details: Stable And Deterministic Test Names

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PASS. The pull request changes only the GKE prerequisites shell script. The diff adds download handling and manifest application logic, and it does not add or modify Ginkgo test declarations or test titles. Therefore, no unstable test name was introduced.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes one Bash prerequisites script only. The exact diff adds fetch_and_apply and temporary-file handling for curl/oc; it adds no Ginkgo test files or It blocks. Therefore the listed Ginkgo requirements do not apply.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request changes one Bash prerequisite script only. The verified diff adds curl buffering and a shell helper; it adds no Ginkgo e2e tests or test declarations. Therefore the MicroShift test compatibility check is not applicable.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS: The PR changes only one shell script, hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh. The diff adds curl buffering and the fetch_and_apply helper; it adds no Go files or Ginkgo test declarations (It, Describe, Context, or When). Therefore, the SNO test-compatibility check is not applicable.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

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PASS — The pull request changes only download and temporary-file handling in the GKE prerequisite shell script. The diff adds curl retry flags, fetch_and_apply, and buffered cert-manager application. It does not add or modify Deployment scheduling fields, replica logic, anti-affinity, topology spread constraints, node selectors, node affinity, tolerations, or PDBs. The existing cert-manager install remains unchanged in scheduling behavior.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

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PASS — The pull request changes only a Bash GKE prerequisites script. It adds curl/download handling and shell output, but it does not modify an OTE binary or process-level Go/Ginkgo code such as main(), TestMain(), suite setup, or top-level initializers. The OTE JSON stdout contract is therefore not applicable.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

Explanation

The PR changes only one shell prerequisites script. The cumulative diff adds no Ginkgo test files or constructs such as It(), Describe(), Context(), or When(). The new public curl downloads belong to CI setup, not a newly added Ginkgo e2e test, so this check is not applicable.

Full details: No-Weak-Crypto

Explanation

PASS. The PR changes only the GKE prerequisite shell script to add curl retry flags and temporary-file handling. The added lines contain no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptography, or secret/token comparisons.

Full details: Container-Privileges

Explanation

PASS: The PR changes only the prerequisites shell script. The diff adds curl retry flags, temporary-file handling, and replaces streaming oc apply calls with equivalent file-based applies. It adds no privileged, host namespace, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation, or root-related setting. The step and workflow YAML files are unchanged, and the same external cert-manager manifest URL was already applied before the PR.

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

Explanation

PASS: The pull request adds no sensitive data to logged commands. The changed script already had set -x; new trace entries contain only public manifest URLs, fixed curl flags, temporary file paths, manifest version, and non-sensitive Kubernetes resource names. The downloads are written to files, so manifest contents are not emitted by the shell trace. Repository searches found no credential-bearing variables or sensitive values in the changed step.

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ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/gcp/gke/prerequisites/hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh (1)

12-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep curl error diagnostics in CI logs.

CURL_CMD passes -s (--silent) to every download, so curl suppresses errors from --fail. Change -sL to -sSL to restore diagnostics when retries are exhausted.

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In
`@ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/gcp/gke/prerequisites/hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh`
at line 12, Update the CURL_CMD definition to use -sSL instead of -sL,
preserving silent progress output while enabling curl’s error diagnostics
alongside --fail and retry behavior.

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In
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- Line 12: Update the manifest download flow using CURL_CMD to first save each
response to a temporary file and only run the existing sed/oc apply pipeline
after curl completes successfully; clean up the temporary file afterward while
preserving the current retry behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In
`@ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/gcp/gke/prerequisites/hypershift-gcp-gke-prerequisites-commands.sh`:
- Line 12: Update the CURL_CMD definition to use -sSL instead of -sL, preserving
silent progress output while enabling curl’s error diagnostics alongside --fail
and retry behavior.
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Address CodeRabbit feedback: --retry-all-errors with piped output can
write duplicate data if a retry happens mid-stream. Download to a temp
file first, then apply after curl succeeds.

Extract a fetch_and_apply helper for the CRD downloads. Handle the
cert-manager case separately since it needs a sed transformation
between download and apply.

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pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-main-e2e-v2-gke openshift/hypershift presubmit Registry content changed
pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-5.2-e2e-v2-gke openshift/hypershift presubmit Registry content changed
pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-5.1-e2e-v2-gke openshift/hypershift presubmit Registry content changed
pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-5.0-e2e-v2-gke openshift/hypershift presubmit Registry content changed
pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.23-e2e-v2-gke openshift/hypershift presubmit Registry content changed
periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-5.1-periodics-e2e-v2-gke N/A periodic Registry content changed
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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In
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- Around line 14-21: Update fetch_and_apply to register cleanup for the
mktemp-created file immediately after assignment, ensuring the temporary
manifest is removed when CURL_CMD, sed, or oc apply fails as well as on
successful completion; apply the same cleanup handling to the other affected
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/pj-rehearse pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-main-e2e-v2-gke

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/pj-rehearse pull-ci-openshift-hypershift-main-e2e-v2-gke

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