fix(operator): reconcile the warm pool on ADDED, not just MODIFIED - #142
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A released image never reached the warm pool. Mannheim served a pull request's image, pr-170, to students for four weeks after 1.3.0 shipped, and Bonn served 1.2.0 from nine of its ten instances. The reconcile logic was already correct - it compares each instance's appdefinition-generation label against the AppDefinition and recreates the stale ones, skipping any owned by a live Session. It simply never ran. appDefinitionAdded called ensureCapacity, which creates missing ids and never compares generations, and ADDED is the path an image change actually arrives on: the operator replays every existing AppDefinition as ADDED at startup, and a helm upgrade restarts the operator in the same release that rewrites the AppDefinition. Ten instances existed, none were missing, so nothing happened. Confirmed on the live cluster. The operator logged "[init] Ensuring pool capacity: 10 for thm-java-25-latest" at 11:24:24, thirty seconds after the new AppDefinition landed, and left every instance on the old image. Annotating the AppDefinition to force one MODIFIED event recreated eight of ten within four seconds; the two it skipped were the two bound to live sessions, which is the behaviour we want. restoreEmailConfigsOfClaimedInstances runs in reconcile as well as in ensureCapacity, so claimed instances keep their oauth2-proxy allow-list. ensureCapacity now has no caller; it is left in place because there is uncommitted work in that file on another branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe ADDED handler now reconciles the prewarmed pool to ChangesPool reconciliation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Scaling down during startup could disrupt live sessions. Preserve their ConfigMaps before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change should help move prewarmed instances to the current definition after an operator restart. Existing ownership checks protect instances already claimed by sessions, but a claim racing with replacement or a failed replacement could disrupt an instance. The exposure is within the operator-managed pool, not an identified new cross-system permission. Retained concerns
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What changed in this PR
Updates eager AppDefinition startup handling to reconcile warm-pool resources and adds generation comparison tests.
Changes:
- Replaces
ensureCapacitywithreconcilefor ADDED events. - Adds five
isOutdatedtest cases. - Documents startup reconciliation behavior and pool-generation semantics.
| File | Description |
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| java/operator/org.eclipse.theia.cloud.operator/src/test/java/org/eclipse/theia/cloud/operator/pool/PrewarmedResourcePoolTests.java | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| java/operator/org.eclipse.theia.cloud.operator/src/main/java/org/eclipse/theia/cloud/operator/handler/appdef/EagerStartAppDefinitionAddedHandler.java | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| AGENTS.md | Updated as part of this pull request. |
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- Line 95: Update ResourceLifecycleManager.reconcile so proxy and email
ConfigMaps belonging to claimed instances are preserved during scale-down,
matching the existing session-owner rule for services and deployments. Ensure
the corresponding ownership is removed when the session is released, so the
ConfigMaps can be reconciled normally afterward.
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A released image never reached the warm pool. Mannheim served
thm-java-25:pr-170to students for four weeks after 1.3.0 shipped; Bonn servedjavascript:1.2.0from nine of its ten instances. Both AppDefinitions read1.3.0the whole time.The bug is which method ADDED calls
The reconcile logic is already correct.
PrewarmedResourcePool.reconcilecompares each instance'stheia-cloud.io/appdefinition-generationlabel against the AppDefinition's generation and recreates the stale ones, andshouldRecreaterequiresOwnershipManager.isOwnedSolelyBy, so an instance claimed by a liveSessionis skipped.It just never ran.
EagerStartAppDefinitionAddedHandler.appDefinitionAddedcalledensureCapacity, which creates missing ids and never compares generations - and ADDED is the path an image change actually arrives on:BasicTheiaCloudOperatorlists every AppDefinition at startup and replays it throughhandleAppDefnitionEvent(ADDED, ...)before the watch begins. There is no periodic resync and the cache is in-memory.operator.yamlstampshelm.sh/revisionon the operator pod template, so everyhelm upgraderestarts the operator, and Helm writes the AppDefinition CR after the Deployment.So the release rewrites the AppDefinition, restarts the operator underneath it, and the operator comes back, counts ten instances, finds none missing, and stops.
Compounding it:
computeIdsOfMissing*treats "a resource named for id N exists" as the whole test, andreserveInstancehands out the lowest free instance without checking either - so a stale instance both counts as present and gets handed to the next student.Confirmed on the live cluster
That single MODIFIED event moved eight of ten instances to
1.3.0in about four seconds. The two it skipped were exactly the two bound to live sessions. Bonn behaved identically.The change
appDefinitionAddednow callsreconcileinstead ofensureCapacity, with the tracing span renamed to match.reconcileis a superset: it creates the same missing ids and additionally recreates outdated ones.Safety already in place, checked rather than assumed:
shouldRecreaterequires sole ownership by the AppDefinition; a claimed instance carries the Session owner ref. Verified live - the two student sessions were untouched.instance-N-email-…ConfigMaps of claimed instances.restoreEmailConfigsOfClaimedInstancesis called fromreconcile(line 471) as well asensureCapacity(line 258), so that protection holds on this path.reconciledoes not delete them.deleteInstancePvchas exactly two callers, both inreconcileInstance(the post-session-release path).reconcile's recreate callscreateInstancePvc, which returns an existing PVC untouched unless it is already terminating, and returns empty entirely for apps without a shared-workspace sidecar.ensureCapacitynow has no caller. It is deliberately left in place: there is uncommitted work inPrewarmedResourcePool.javaonfeat/env-var-docsand removing a method from that file would collide with it. Worth deleting in a follow-up.Tests
Five cases added to
PrewarmedResourcePoolTestscoveringisOutdated, which is what the ADDED path now depends on: generation matches, generation older, label missing (the production case - instances predating the label), no labels at all, and an unparseable label.mvn clean installonmaven-conf,commonandoperator: BUILD SUCCESS, 20 tests in PrewarmedResourcePoolTests, 0 failures, up from 15. Note that nothing in CI runs these - AGENTS.md is explicit that a PR breaking a Java test goes green - so they were run locally.Not in this PR
Deleting an instance Deployment still does not get it replaced: the pool sat at 9 for over 90 seconds with nothing in the log, because the operator watches only AppDefinition, Workspace and Session, and has no resync timer. That wants either a periodic resync or a Deployment watch, and is a larger change. This fix would have prevented the reported incident on its own.
One consequence worth weighing in review: with a stale generation, startup now recreates every outdated instance at once. That is what the live nudge did - eight at once on a single-node k3s, with the image already preloaded. If that is too blunt for a larger pool, batching belongs in
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