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feat(node-drainer): record the drain decision before draining - #2354
Closes#2205. Part of #1903. Design: ADR-064, sections "The drain decision" and "Existing configurations". Uses the drainDecision field from #2204.
Problem. node-drainer selected the drain method (BuiltIn eviction or a Custom drain CR) again on each pass, from the node labels. A label change during a drain could change the method, so a custom drain CR and the built-in eviction could run on the same node.
Change. node-drainer now selects the method and the scope one time for each health event and records them in healtheventstatus.draindecision:
method: BuiltIn or Custom.
ruleSet: custom-drain-node-selector when customDrain.nodeSelector selects Custom.
scope: the entity of a partial drain (entitytype, entityvalue), from partialDrainEnabled and the COMPONENT_RESET entity. A full drain has no scope.
Each later pass, and cold start, reads the record. It does not evaluate the selector or partialDrainEnabled again, so a change to either during a drain does not change how or what node-drainer drains.
How a pass works. All steps happen in one pass:
The evaluator selects the decision for an event with no record.
The evaluator stores the decision through a callback from the reconciler. The callback does a compare-and-set write: the write matches only while draindecision is unset.
The evaluator returns the drain action for the stored decision, and the reconciler acts.
The order in step 2 depends on the method:
BuiltIn: the store comes before the pod checks, because those checks can force-delete pods past their deadline.
Custom: the custom drain CR checks only read, so they come first. If the CR of another event already drained the node, the event is AlreadyDrained and gets no record. Otherwise the store comes next, then the CR is created.
Every drain action therefore comes from a stored decision. If the write fails, nothing drains and the queue retries. A failed write increments node_drainer_processing_errors_total with error_type="record_drain_decision_error", and does not also count evaluate_event_error.
Rolling update. Two node-drainer pods can decide the same event with different configuration. Only the first write is kept. The other pod matches no document, drains nothing, requeues, and follows the stored decision on its next pass.
Fail closed. node-drainer keeps a recorded method. It does not select a different one. It waits, logs an error, and increments node_drainer_processing_errors_total with a new error_type when:
The record says Custom and custom drain is now off (recorded_custom_drain_unavailable). To end the drain, end the quarantine and delete the CR drain-<node name>-<event ID>.
The record says BuiltIn, custom drain is on with no nodeSelector, and userNamespaces and podDrainPolicies are both empty (recorded_builtin_no_pod_policies). With custom drain off, empty lists act as they do for an event with no record.
The record has no method or a method that this version does not know (recorded_drain_method_unknown).
No record:
Healthy events, drainOverrides.skip, terminal events, and events that AlreadyQuarantined marks AlreadyDrained.
An event whose node the custom drain CR of another event already drained.
The completed CR of the event itself still gets Custom. This covers a drain that a node-drainer without this change started.
Relation to #2206. This PR writes and follows the scope of the current event. #2206 keeps the already-drained check for earlier events in commons/pkg/drain. The two PRs no longer have to ship in the same release.
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New Features
Node-drainer records the selected drain method for each health event and reuses it on later attempts, even if node labels or configuration change.
Partial drains retain the scope of the original decision.
Bug Fixes
If a recorded drain method is unavailable or unrecognized, node-drainer reports an error and retries instead of selecting a different method.
Drain actions do not proceed if the decision cannot be recorded.
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Updated guidance to explain drain-decision recording, retries, and recovery.
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Node Drainer now records a health event’s selected drain method and, for partial drains, its scope before taking drain actions. Later passes reuse the stored decision. Tests and documentation cover selection, persistence, retries, and decision retention.
Changes: Health-event drain decisions
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Summary
Select and evaluate drain decisions data-models/pkg/model/health_event_extentions.go, node-drainer/pkg/evaluator/*, node-drainer/pkg/metrics/metrics.go
The evaluator selects a built-in or custom drain method, preserves recorded decisions, and carries the decision with its action. If a recorded method cannot run under the current configuration, the evaluator waits and records a processing error. Evaluator tests cover selection, scope, and recording failures.
Persist decisions before drain actions node-drainer/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go
The reconciler stores a new decision only when the event has no stored decision. A write failure or competing write prevents drain actions on that pass.
Verify and document decision behavior node-drainer/pkg/reconciler/reconciler_integration_test.go, docs/configuration/node-drainer.md, docs/health-event-data-model.md, tests/helpers/mongodb.go, tests/node_drainer_test.go
Integration tests cover decision persistence, failures, competing writes, label changes, and custom-drain states. Documentation describes decision recording and retry behavior. Test helpers query the recorded method, and an end-to-end test checks for a BuiltIn decision.
NVIDIA/NVSentinel#1535: This PR updates the health-event data-model reference introduced there, including the drainDecision fields and recording rules.
The change records the drain decision before draining, with fail-closed retries. Its end-to-end check for the recorded method could pass on a stale event from an earlier run. Bind the lookup to the current event to keep that check reliable; the production path is not affected.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 6f278
Recording the drain method and target before acting reduces unintended changes during a drain. No introduced security concern was established in the inspected paths. Upgrade transitions and recovery from disabled custom draining remain operational limits, and incomplete coverage prevents a minimal-risk assessment.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — Each decision is persisted against one event document. Its privileged actions address that event's node and pass the selected entity scope into custom draining, immediate eviction, timeout eviction and completion checks. Full-node actions may cover multiple configured namespaces on that node.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The inspected evaluator retains quarantine and terminal-state preconditions. For new decisions, a missing recorder or recording error prevents the selected drain action; subsequent passes use the recorded method and scope rather than current selector results.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Cancellation does not delete an event's custom drain request when custom draining is currently disabled, so the plugin can continue acting until that request is removed separately. The same cleanup gate exists in the base revision; this is an inherited recovery limitation, not an established PR-introduced concern. The new documentation explicitly describes the required cleanup.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Consider making custom-request cleanup follow durable event ownership independently of the current selection flag, while retaining the client configuration needed to reach the original request. This would reduce reliance on manual cleanup during configuration rollback.
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[#2205] The evaluator records healtheventstatus.draindecision before the applicable drain action and reuses the stored method and scope on later passes. The compare-and-set reconciler update handles…
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The changed model constants, evaluator, reconciler, metrics, integration tests, end-to-end helper, and documentation support [#2205]. Partial-drain scope and fail-closed metrics implement the same rec…
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Docstring coverage is 92.86% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
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[#2205] The evaluator records healtheventstatus.draindecision before the applicable drain action and reuses the stored method and scope on later passes. The compare-and-set reconciler update handles upgrades without a record and prevents a losing writer from draining. Integration tests cover label changes, missing records, write failures, races, and decision reuse. The end-to-end test verifies BuiltIn after eviction. The node-drainer and health-event data-model documentation describe the stable method behavior.
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The changed model constants, evaluator, reconciler, metrics, integration tests, end-to-end helper, and documentation support [#2205]. Partial-drain scope and fail-closed metrics implement the same recorded-decision behavior. No unrelated change is established by the provided whole-PR summary.
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Review comments at @tests/node_drainer_test.go:
- Around line 156-166: Move the “BuiltIn” assertion out of the
require.Eventually condition in the test using HealthEventDrainMethod; capture
the returned method while polling for availability, then assert its value after
require.Eventually succeeds so failures are reported on the test goroutine.
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The comment says recordNewDrainDecision counts its own failures. Only the UpdateDocument error path increments ErrorTypeRecordDrainDecision. Other failures return an error without incrementing a metric:
The empty-method check at Line 499.
The ExtractDocumentIDNative failure.
storeDrainDecision wraps both errors in ErrDrainDecisionNotRecorded. evaluateEvent therefore skips the evaluate_event_error counter. A persistent failure, such as an event with no extractable document ID, retries forever and no metric shows it.
Increment metrics.ProcessingErrors with ErrorTypeRecordDrainDecision on these two paths. A lost race can stay uncounted, as the comment intends.
Proposed fix
if decision.GetMethod() == "" {
+ metrics.ProcessingErrors.WithLabelValues(metrics.ErrorTypeRecordDrainDecision, nodeName).Inc()
return fmt.Errorf("drain decision for node %s has no method to record", nodeName)
}
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documentID, err := utils.ExtractDocumentIDNative(event)
if err != nil {
+ metrics.ProcessingErrors.WithLabelValues(metrics.ErrorTypeRecordDrainDecision, nodeName).Inc()
tracing.RecordError(span, err)
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Review comment at @node-drainer/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go around lines 474 -
475:
Update the decision-recording failure paths in storeDrainDecision so the
empty-method check and ExtractDocumentIDNative failure increment
ProcessingErrors with ErrorTypeRecordDrainDecision for the relevant node. Keep
lost-race outcomes uncounted and preserve the existing behavior for
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Review comments at @node-drainer/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go:
- Around line 474-475: Update the decision-recording failure paths in
storeDrainDecision so the empty-method check and ExtractDocumentIDNative failure
increment ProcessingErrors with ErrorTypeRecordDrainDecision for the relevant
node. Keep lost-race outcomes uncounted and preserve the existing behavior for
UpdateDocument failures.
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- Line 409: Constrain both datastore lookups that assert the health-event
outcome to the current event ID, rather than allowing an earlier matching
succeeded event to satisfy them. Verify that this specific event has completed
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Summary
Closes #2205. Part of #1903. Design: ADR-064, sections "The drain decision" and "Existing configurations". Uses the
drainDecisionfield from #2204.Problem. node-drainer selected the drain method (
BuiltIneviction or aCustomdrain CR) again on each pass, from the node labels. A label change during a drain could change the method, so a custom drain CR and the built-in eviction could run on the same node.Change. node-drainer now selects the method and the scope one time for each health event and records them in
healtheventstatus.draindecision:method:BuiltInorCustom.ruleSet:custom-drain-node-selectorwhencustomDrain.nodeSelectorselectsCustom.scope: the entity of a partial drain (entitytype,entityvalue), frompartialDrainEnabledand theCOMPONENT_RESETentity. A full drain has no scope.Each later pass, and cold start, reads the record. It does not evaluate the selector or
partialDrainEnabledagain, so a change to either during a drain does not change how or what node-drainer drains.How a pass works. All steps happen in one pass:
draindecisionis unset.The order in step 2 depends on the method:
BuiltIn: the store comes before the pod checks, because those checks can force-delete pods past their deadline.Custom: the custom drain CR checks only read, so they come first. If the CR of another event already drained the node, the event isAlreadyDrainedand gets no record. Otherwise the store comes next, then the CR is created.Every drain action therefore comes from a stored decision. If the write fails, nothing drains and the queue retries. A failed write increments
node_drainer_processing_errors_totalwitherror_type="record_drain_decision_error", and does not also countevaluate_event_error.Rolling update. Two node-drainer pods can decide the same event with different configuration. Only the first write is kept. The other pod matches no document, drains nothing, requeues, and follows the stored decision on its next pass.
Fail closed. node-drainer keeps a recorded method. It does not select a different one. It waits, logs an error, and increments
node_drainer_processing_errors_totalwith a newerror_typewhen:Customand custom drain is now off (recorded_custom_drain_unavailable). To end the drain, end the quarantine and delete the CRdrain-<node name>-<event ID>.BuiltIn, custom drain is on with nonodeSelector, anduserNamespacesandpodDrainPoliciesare both empty (recorded_builtin_no_pod_policies). With custom drain off, empty lists act as they do for an event with no record.recorded_drain_method_unknown).No record:
drainOverrides.skip, terminal events, and events thatAlreadyQuarantinedmarksAlreadyDrained.The completed CR of the event itself still gets
Custom. This covers a drain that a node-drainer without this change started.Relation to #2206. This PR writes and follows the scope of the current event. #2206 keeps the already-drained check for earlier events in
commons/pkg/drain. The two PRs no longer have to ship in the same release.Type of Change
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