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classify reconciler errors as terminal or transient to prevent indefinite requeues

Previously, every reconciliation failure — including permanent configuration errors — resulted in a 30-second requeue loop.
This caused unnecessary API server load and made operator logs noisy, with no way to distinguish errors that require user action from those that might self-resolve.

This change introduces a first-class terminal/transient error classification across both controllers.

What changed

Error classification (constants.go)

  • Extract all condition reason strings into named constants so every call site
    uses a single source of truth; renaming a reason now requires one edit.
  • Introduce TerminalDegradedReasons map — any reason in this map suppresses
    RequeueAfter, logs at Info level, and returns immediately.
  • Terminal reasons: InvalidName, DuplicateNetwork, AWSCredentialsInvalid,
    RouteServerNotFound, CUDNSpecInvalid.
  • Transient reasons (requeue after 30 s): all others — PatchFailed,
    CheckFailed, AWSDiscoveryFailed, ApplyFailed, AWSReconcileFailed,
    NamespaceNotReady, CUDNFailed, RAFailed.

Config controller (cudnbgpconfig_controller.go)

  • setDegraded checks TerminalDegradedReasons: terminal → ctrl.Result{} +
    Info log; transient → RequeueAfter: 30s + Error log.
  • AWS credential failures (buildPlatform returns error) now map to
    AWSCredentialsInvalid (terminal); the user must fix the secret — retrying
    is pointless.
  • AWS discovery failures map to AWSDiscoveryFailed (transient); a temporary
    AWS outage can self-resolve.
  • Added a secondary watch on CUDNBgpRouting (Create + Delete only) that
    re-enqueues the singleton config so a terminating config proceeds promptly
    once the last routing CR is removed, without relying on the 30-second timer.

Routing controller (cudnbgprouting_controller.go)

  • setDegraded receives the same terminal/transient treatment as the config
    controller.
  • DuplicateNetwork and CUDNSpecInvalid are terminal: a conflicting name or
    structurally invalid spec cannot self-heal.
  • Added enqueueAllRoutings helper and a secondary self-watch on
    CUDNBgpRouting (Create, Delete, and spec.network.name changes only) so
    that when the conflicting CR is removed or renamed, all remaining routings
    are immediately re-evaluated rather than waiting 30 s.

Typed errors for terminal conditions

  • RouteServerNotFoundError (platform/aws/aws.go + discovery.go): returned
    by describeRouteServer when AWS reports zero results for a given route
    server ID. The config controller checks errors.As for this type and uses
    reason RouteServerNotFound.
  • CUDNValidationError (controller/cudn.go): wraps apierrors.IsInvalid
    errors from the Kubernetes API server when a CUDN object is structurally
    invalid. The routing controller checks errors.As for this type and uses
    reason CUDNSpecInvalid.

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The change adds shared condition-reason constants and terminal-reason mappings. It introduces typed errors for invalid CUDN specifications and missing AWS Route Servers. Configuration reconciliation classifies AWS failures and suppresses requeues for terminal conditions. Routing reconciliation classifies invalid specifications and watches relevant routing events. Tests cover terminal and transient failures, recovery after duplicate removal, invalid names, invalid CUDNs, and routing enqueue behavior.

Suggested reviewers: alebedev87, frobware

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ba09a

The change can leave obsolete cloud endpoints or success conditions visible after a platform change or cloud failure, which may mislead users about the current configuration. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to clear stale status before reconciliation.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: classifying reconciliation errors as terminal or transient.
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Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR diff changes reconciliation, error handling, and watches only; it adds no pod affinity, topology spread, selectors, tolerations, replica, or PDB scheduling constraints.
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In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 165-166: Handle the error returned by each c.Get lookup before
asserting status fields: in internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller_test.go
lines 165-166 and internal/controller/cudnbgprouting_controller_test.go lines
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…nite requeues

Previously, every reconciliation failure — including permanent configuration
errors — resulted in a 30-second requeue loop. This caused unnecessary API
server load and made operator logs noisy, with no way to distinguish errors
that require user action from those that might self-resolve.
This change introduces a first-class terminal/transient error classification
across both controllers.
- Extract all condition reason strings into named constants so every call site
  uses a single source of truth; renaming a reason now requires one edit.
- Introduce `TerminalDegradedReasons` map — any reason in this map suppresses
  `RequeueAfter`, logs at Info level, and returns immediately.
- Terminal reasons: `InvalidName`, `DuplicateNetwork`, `AWSCredentialsInvalid`,
  `RouteServerNotFound`, `CUDNSpecInvalid`.
- Transient reasons (requeue after 30 s): all others — `PatchFailed`,
  `CheckFailed`, `AWSDiscoveryFailed`, `ApplyFailed`, `AWSReconcileFailed`,
  `NamespaceNotReady`, `CUDNFailed`, `RAFailed`.
- `setDegraded` checks `TerminalDegradedReasons`: terminal → `ctrl.Result{}` +
  Info log; transient → `RequeueAfter: 30s` + Error log.
- AWS credential failures (`buildPlatform` returns error) now map to
  `AWSCredentialsInvalid` (terminal); the user must fix the secret — retrying
  is pointless.
- AWS discovery failures map to `AWSDiscoveryFailed` (transient); a temporary
  AWS outage can self-resolve.
- Added a secondary watch on `CUDNBgpRouting` (Create + Delete only) that
  re-enqueues the singleton config so a terminating config proceeds promptly
  once the last routing CR is removed, without relying on the 30-second timer.
- `setDegraded` receives the same terminal/transient treatment as the config
  controller.
- `DuplicateNetwork` and `CUDNSpecInvalid` are terminal: a conflicting name or
  structurally invalid spec cannot self-heal.
- Added `enqueueAllRoutings` helper and a secondary self-watch on
  `CUDNBgpRouting` (Create, Delete, and spec.network.name changes only) so
  that when the conflicting CR is removed or renamed, all remaining routings
  are immediately re-evaluated rather than waiting 30 s.
- `RouteServerNotFoundError` (platform/aws/aws.go + discovery.go): returned
  by `describeRouteServer` when AWS reports zero results for a given route
  server ID. The config controller checks `errors.As` for this type and uses
  reason `RouteServerNotFound`.
- `CUDNValidationError` (controller/cudn.go): wraps `apierrors.IsInvalid`
  errors from the Kubernetes API server when a CUDN object is structurally
  invalid. The routing controller checks `errors.As` for this type and uses
  reason `CUDNSpecInvalid`.i

# Conflicts:
#	internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go
#	internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller_test.go
#	internal/platform/aws/aws.go
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148-185: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale cloud-derived status before reconciliation.

If an AWS configuration previously succeeded, Status.PeerGroups and cloud conditions remain when spec.platform changes to Manual. They also remain after a later cloud build or discovery failure. The object can then report obsolete AWS endpoints or CloudResourcesReconciled=True.

Clear peer groups and reset cloud conditions before this branch. Then add only the current reconciliation results. Add AWS-to-Manual and AWS-success-to-discovery-failure transition tests.

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In `@internal/controller/cudnbgpconfig_controller.go`:
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clear stale cloud-derived state before evaluating the current configuration:
reset config.Status.PeerGroups and remove or reset cloud conditions, including
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Overall LGTM, just some nit and suggestion

Comment on lines +70 to +77
// TerminalDegradedReasons are condition reasons that must not schedule RequeueAfter.
var TerminalDegradedReasons = map[string]struct{}{
ReasonInvalidName: {},
ReasonDuplicateNetwork: {},
ReasonCloudCredentialsInvalid: {},
ReasonRouteServerNotFound: {},
ReasonCUDNSpecInvalid: {},
}

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Would be cleaner to declare that as a function returning a fresh map

}); err != nil {
return ctrl.Result{}, err
}
if _, terminal := TerminalDegradedReasons[reason]; terminal {

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nit: caching the result of TerminalDegradedReasons[reason] in a var line 395 and reusing it here would be cleaner

Comment on lines 137 to 148
meta.SetStatusCondition(&config.Status.Conditions, metav1.Condition{
Type: networkingv1alpha1.ConditionFRRNamespaceReady,
Status: metav1.ConditionTrue,
Reason: "Ready",
Reason: ReasonFRRReady,
Message: "FRR namespace and pods are running",
ObservedGeneration: config.Generation,
})

// Build the cloud platform once if configured (used in Phases 3 and 5)
var cloudPlatform platform.CloudPlatform
var discoveryResult *platform.DiscoveryResult
if config.Spec.Platform != networkingv1alpha1.PlatformManual {

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Should we clear status before re evaluating platform ?

meta.SetStatusCondition(&config.Status.Conditions, metav1.Condition{
	Type:               networkingv1alpha1.ConditionFRRNamespaceReady,
	Status:             metav1.ConditionTrue,
	Reason:             ReasonFRRReady,
	Message:            "FRR namespace and pods are running",
	ObservedGeneration: config.Generation,
})

// Clear cloud-derived status before re-evaluating the platform.
config.Status.PeerGroups = nil
meta.RemoveStatusCondition(&config.Status.Conditions, networkingv1alpha1.ConditionCloudEndpointsDiscovered)
meta.RemoveStatusCondition(&config.Status.Conditions, networkingv1alpha1.ConditionCloudResourcesReconciled)

// Build the cloud platform once if configured (used in Phases 3 and 5)
var cloudPlatform platform.CloudPlatform
var discoveryResult *platform.DiscoveryResult
if config.Spec.Platform != networkingv1alpha1.PlatformManual {

That would cover cases like:

  • changing from aws to manual
  • success case after a failure

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Closing this one in favor of #94 (Gavriel is on PTO and we had to rebase). @jpinsonneau: can you please re-add your comments in there?

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