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cluster-controller: delete pods whose execution is already retired - #1631
Adds the cluster-controller loop retired_execution_pod_gc. It is off by default (SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_ENABLED) and runs in dry-run when first enabled (SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_DRY_RUN). The knobs are documented in docs/configuration.md.
Each tick, the loop:
reads the sandbox pod cache, skipping Running and terminating pods;
batch-looks up the sandbox_k8s_executions row that names each pod (pod_name is unique), scoped to the sandbox namespace and Kubernetes-managed sandboxes.
It deletes two shapes:
terminal_retired: the row is inactive, and the pod is Succeeded or Failed with every container terminated, so no VM is left. This includes restore pods. A suspended sandbox's latest pod is often its restore pod, and orphaned_restore_pod_gc doesn't treat that pod as superseded.
replaced_never_started: the row was retired as replaced, and the pod is a Pending fresh-create pod with no pod IP whose kubelet reports PodReadyToStartContainers=False. The shim boots the VM in RunPodSandbox, and kubelet reports that condition as False until RunPodSandbox succeeds, so such a pod has no VM. A pod without the condition is skipped. Pending restore pods stay with orphaned_restore_pod_gc.
Every other pod is skipped, including active rows, identity mismatches and retired pods that may still hold a VM.
Safeguards:
A pod must be seen in a reapable shape continuously for 300 s. The observation clock is keyed on the pod UID. It resets on a restart, a cold cache or a failed scan.
Before each delete, the loop does a fresh GET and re-reads the row.
The DELETE carries UID and resourceVersion preconditions.
Deletes are capped at 120 per rolling minute, and each tick has a 45 s budget.
Outcomes are reported on cluster_reconciler.outcome with loop:retired_execution_pod_gc and a verdict tag for the shape. To roll out, enable with dry-run on and compare the would reap counts with the pod populations you expect, then set SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_DRY_RUN=false. To roll back, unset the enable flag.
Why
Some writers retire an execution in Postgres but have no Kubernetes client, so the execution's pod object is left behind:
Node-published idle suspend. The internal API applies the node's suspend_completed receipt (finalize_suspended) and retires the execution as suspended. The pod sits in Succeeded until either:
the sandbox's next restore sweeps older generations, or
kube-controller-manager's terminated-pod GC trims the namespace.
API-driven suspend already deletes its pod; this path does not. Covering it here avoids adding a Kubernetes client to the internal API.
Node-published activation rollback. The execution is retired as replaced while its pod is still Pending, and kubelet keeps retrying the sandbox create. The create's cleanup (api: delete a cancelled create's pod when its execution is already retired #1630) deletes the pod when it runs. This loop is the backstop for when the cleanup doesn't run, such as an API restart or a failed delete.
Testing
Unit tests: cargo test --locked -p pplx-space-cluster-controller-server retired_execution_pod_gc passed 15 tests. They include:
reaps_the_stuck_container_creating_shape: the regression test for this bug. It covers the cleanup of a Pending fresh-create pod whose execution was retired as replaced: no pod IP and PodReadyToStartContainers=False, the stuck ContainerCreating shape.
reaps_a_pending_fresh_create_pod_retired_as_replaced and reaps_a_terminal_pod_of_a_suspended_execution: the two reaped shapes.
The classify matrix, including skips for a replaced Pending pod that has an IP or lacks PodReadyToStartContainers=False.
Config parsing and clamps, an identity change between scan and delete, clock reset and cold cache.
cargo test --locked -p pplx-space-metrics passes. cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy ... -- -D warnings and cargo arch are clean.
E2E on kind with this PR and #1630 deployed: the scenario local.retired_execution_pod_gc_reaps_retired_pods (added in #1734) passed with no cleanup failures:
Run evidence (counters read from the stack's fake metrics intake, pod state from kubectl --context kind-space-local):
idle_suspended_pod: space-sbx-01a1be5de309...-g1, executions [(1, "suspended")] -> terminal_retired
strand_attempt_2: space-sbx-01a1be5ebfdd...-g1, outcome "replaced", Pending -> replaced_never_started
gc_off_kept: 3 pods for 60 s
dry_run_would_reap: {"replaced_never_started": 1, "terminal_retired": 1} (expected the same; no live deletes)
dry_run_kept: both retired pods for 50 s, past the 20 s threshold
observed (live): {"live/replaced_never_started": 1, "live/terminal_retired": 1}
reaped_after_config_seconds: 38.2, 38.2
with_ip_kept: space-sbx-01a1be5f3aab...-g1 for 50 s
SandboxPodExecution(phase='Pending', pod_ip='192.0.2.10', sandbox_not_ready=True, row_state='replaced', row_active=False)
live_sandbox_kept: space-sbx-01a1be5ddc67...-g1 (Running)
after: every SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_* key back to unset
After the run, no space-sbx- pods were left and the sandboxes table was empty.
Stacked on #1630 (base shehan/cancel-cleanup-delete-retired-pod); merge #1630 first. #1734 stacks the kind scenario on this PR.
Adds a Kubernetes-only reconciler for pods associated with inactive executions. It classifies terminal pods and certain replaced pending pods, then requires continuous eligibility before acting. The reconciler checks the pod and execution row again before deletion, uses UID and resource-version preconditions, and applies time and rate limits. Configuration defaults to disabled and dry-run mode. The change also adds outcome metrics, controller wiring, tests, and configuration documentation. Cancellation cleanup also checks whether an execution generation was already retired before deciding whether to delete its pod.
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perplexityai/SPACE#1734: Adds a scenario that exercises this reconciler’s dry-run reporting, pod classification, and live deletion path.
Merge Risk: High · up to 7feb2
This adds a pod cleanup loop that is off by default and starts in dry-run. When enabled it deletes pods for retired executions, and the Pending-pod check relies on published kubelet status rather than a runtime check. Roll it out in dry-run first and compare reported counts before enabling deletes.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7feb2
Automatic deletion is opt-in, defaults to dry-run, and is guarded by retirement, workload identity, and fresh-state checks. No newly exploitable path was established. Production deployment and runtime-admission behavior were not completely verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The new deletion loop can affect multiple eligible sandboxes within its configured Kubernetes namespace, rather than only one initiating request's sandbox. Namespace and Kubernetes-management filters constrain that scope; deployed credential permissions and the number of independently managed environments were not established.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Cached pod metadata alone cannot authorize deletion: classification also requires matching retired database ownership, followed by fresh pod and execution reads. Live GC deletion includes the observed UID and fresh resourceVersion preconditions. Cancellation instead uses the UID captured for its original pod, preventing a name-only deletion of a replacement.
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Reviewed at e55cb53. The safety structure is good:
default off, then dry-run;
a 300s continuous-observation clock keyed on UID, reset on a cold cache or a failed lookup;
a fresh GET plus a re-read of the row before acting;
a UID+RV-preconditioned DELETE, with 404/409 treated as benign;
a rolling delete budget.
Cross-PR check: no unsafe double delete with #1630, A3 (#1627) or stuck_container_creating_gc. Every path deletes under a UID precondition and treats NotFound/Conflict as benign. The API teardown deletes the pod before it retires the row, so this loop never sees a retired row ahead of teardown's node-local delete and its refusals. The stop path's retire-then-delete window is far shorter than the 300s threshold.
Cover every PodPhase variant in the active-execution test.
The loop covers Pending, Succeeded and Failed. It omits Running and Other. The test name claims "never reaps" for an active execution. The active check runs before the phase match today, so a reordering of classify could let an active Running or Other pod through without failing this test.
Add the two missing variants to the array. Better, drive the loop from an exhaustive list of all PodPhase variants.
- for phase in [PodPhase::Pending, PodPhase::Succeeded, PodPhase::Failed] {+ for phase in [+ PodPhase::Pending,+ PodPhase::Running,+ PodPhase::Succeeded,+ PodPhase::Failed,+ PodPhase::Other,+ ] {
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Update never_reaps_a_pod_whose_execution_is_active to include PodPhase::Running
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The test name does not match what the body exercises.
a_pod_that_stops_classifying_restarts_its_clock only covers the lookup-failure path. That path calls first_seen.clear(). It does not cover a pod that stops classifying as reapable. That case relies on first_seen.retain(...) in tick. Deleting the retain line leaves this test green. The retain path therefore has no coverage.
Add a second step to the test. After the first tick, flip the row to active = true. Tick once. Flip it back and advance past the threshold. Tick again. Assert too_young == 1. Alternatively, rename the test to failed_lookup_restarts_the_clock.
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The test a_pod_that_stops_classifying_restarts_its_clock only covers lookup
failure, not the retain behavior in tick. Extend it to mark the row active and
tick, then mark it reapable again, advance past the threshold, and tick; assert
too_young is 1 and no deletion occurs, so removing the retain behavior would
fail the test.
ExecutionRow.state crosses the store boundary as a String, contrary to the state-type rule. If a writer changes the spelling of replaced without updating the classifier, pending-pod cleanup can silently skip the pod.
Extend or introduce a shared execution-state type and use it in the store, classifier, and writer. Preserve terminal-pod cleanup for other accepted states.
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Replace the string-based ExecutionRow.state with a shared execution-state type
and use that type consistently across the store, classifier, and writer so state
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- Around line 447-467: The test a_pod_that_stops_classifying_restarts_its_clock
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Fixed. ReplacedNeverStarted now also requires no status.podIP. Kubelet reports the IP only after RunPodSandbox, the call where the shim boots the VM, returns successfully. So a replaced Pending pod with an IP is skipped, and a test pins that. A pod still inside a slow RunPodSandbox has no IP yet. The 300s threshold covers that window, along with sbx-mgr refusing to start a replaced generation.
The rationale for keeping terminal restore pods is sound. A Succeeded/Failed pod with every container terminated holds no VM, whatever its kind. The module docs, ReapReason, SkipReason and configuration.md now all say so consistently, and there's a test.
The CodeRabbit test tightenings look good. Clean.
Non-blocking: a terminal restore pod can now be a candidate for both this loop and orphaned_restore_pod_gc. Both deletes are UID-preconditioned and a 404 is benign, so this is safe. If the two report delete counts separately, though, a dashboard may double-count.
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Major · Apply the tick deadline to batched lookups. · reconciler.rs:138-160
crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/retired_execution_pod_gc/reconciler.rs:138-160 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Apply the tick deadline to batched lookups.
With five batches that each take nine seconds or more, lookups can exhaust the default budget before any candidate is acted on. Repeated slow scans can prevent pod cleanup. Apply deadline to each lookup and clear first_seen if the scan times out.
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Apply the existing tick deadline to each batched `rows_for_pods` lookup in
`tick`, stopping the scan when the budget expires. On timeout, clear
`first_seen` so an incomplete scan does not preserve continuity state; retain
the existing behavior for scans that finish within budget.
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On the nitpick about matching execution_state strings against a shared enum: no execution-state type is shared between the API store and the cluster controller. The controller reads the column as text, the same way orphaned_restore_pod_gc does. The classifier only reaps on exact matches (replaced for the Pending shape, plus active = false for both shapes), so a misspelled or new state is skipped rather than reaped. I'd rather not add a cross-crate type just for this loop. The latest commit (1c5f8ab) also updates the ReplacedNeverStarted docs: PodReadyToStartContainers=False covers a sandbox boot still in flight, and the observation threshold is what rules that out.
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…tired
When a create is cancelled after its pod exists, the cancel cleanup retires
the execution fenced on generation and activation attempt, then deletes the
pod by UID. If another writer had already retired the execution (for example
the control plane applying a node's activation-rollback receipt, which retires
it as replaced without touching the pod), the fenced retire matched nothing
and the cleanup returned without deleting the pod. Kubelet then retried the
pod's sandbox create against the retired generation indefinitely.
The cleanup now reads whether the execution naming the pod is retired. If it
is, it deletes the pod under its UID precondition; if the row is still
active, a newer activation owns the pod and it is left alone.
Some writers retire an execution in Postgres without a Kubernetes client, so
its pod object stays behind: a node-published idle suspend leaves a Succeeded
pod until the sandbox's next restore or kube's terminated-pod GC, and a
node-published activation rollback leaves a Pending pod that kubelet retries
against the retired generation.
Add retired_execution_pod_gc. It scans the sandbox pod cache, looks up the
execution row naming each pod, and deletes two shapes once they have been
observed continuously for a threshold: a retired execution's terminal pod
with every container exited, and a Pending fresh-create pod whose execution
was retired as replaced. Each delete re-reads the pod and its row first and
carries UID and resourceVersion preconditions; deletes are rate-capped and
each tick is time-bounded. Off by default, and dry-run when first enabled.
…pod IP
The shim boots the VM in RunPodSandbox, so a Pending pod may still have a VM.
The pod gets its IP when its sandbox comes up, so require no IP. Document that
terminal restore pods are reaped here.
…e to reap a Pending pod
A missing pod IP alone doesn't prove the runtime sandbox is down. Kubelet
reports PodReadyToStartContainers=False until RunPodSandbox succeeds, so
require that explicit signal too; a pod without the condition is skipped.
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What
Adds the cluster-controller loop
retired_execution_pod_gc. It is off by default (SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_ENABLED) and runs in dry-run when first enabled (SPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_DRY_RUN). The knobs are documented indocs/configuration.md.Each tick, the loop:
Runningand terminating pods;sandbox_k8s_executionsrow that names each pod (pod_nameis unique), scoped to the sandbox namespace and Kubernetes-managed sandboxes.It deletes two shapes:
terminal_retired: the row is inactive, and the pod isSucceededorFailedwith every container terminated, so no VM is left. This includes restore pods. A suspended sandbox's latest pod is often its restore pod, andorphaned_restore_pod_gcdoesn't treat that pod as superseded.replaced_never_started: the row was retired asreplaced, and the pod is aPendingfresh-create pod with no pod IP whose kubelet reportsPodReadyToStartContainers=False. The shim boots the VM inRunPodSandbox, and kubelet reports that condition asFalseuntilRunPodSandboxsucceeds, so such a pod has no VM. A pod without the condition is skipped.Pendingrestore pods stay withorphaned_restore_pod_gc.Every other pod is skipped, including active rows, identity mismatches and retired pods that may still hold a VM.
Safeguards:
Outcomes are reported on
cluster_reconciler.outcomewithloop:retired_execution_pod_gcand averdicttag for the shape. To roll out, enable with dry-run on and compare thewould reapcounts with the pod populations you expect, then setSPACE_RETIRED_EXECUTION_POD_GC_DRY_RUN=false. To roll back, unset the enable flag.Why
Some writers retire an execution in Postgres but have no Kubernetes client, so the execution's pod object is left behind:
Node-published idle suspend. The internal API applies the node's
suspend_completedreceipt (finalize_suspended) and retires the execution assuspended. The pod sits inSucceededuntil either:API-driven suspend already deletes its pod; this path does not. Covering it here avoids adding a Kubernetes client to the internal API.
Node-published activation rollback. The execution is retired as
replacedwhile its pod is stillPending, and kubelet keeps retrying the sandbox create. The create's cleanup (api: delete a cancelled create's pod when its execution is already retired #1630) deletes the pod when it runs. This loop is the backstop for when the cleanup doesn't run, such as an API restart or a failed delete.Testing
Unit tests:
cargo test --locked -p pplx-space-cluster-controller-server retired_execution_pod_gcpassed 15 tests. They include:reaps_the_stuck_container_creating_shape: the regression test for this bug. It covers the cleanup of aPendingfresh-create pod whose execution was retired asreplaced: no pod IP andPodReadyToStartContainers=False, the stuckContainerCreatingshape.reaps_a_pending_fresh_create_pod_retired_as_replacedandreaps_a_terminal_pod_of_a_suspended_execution: the two reaped shapes.Pendingpod that has an IP or lacksPodReadyToStartContainers=False.deletes_only_after_the_threshold_with_uid_and_rv_preconditions.dry_run_verifies_but_never_deletes_and_reports_once.rate_limit_caps_deletes_per_rolling_minute.cargo test --locked -p pplx-space-metricspasses.cargo fmt --all -- --check,cargo clippy ... -- -D warningsandcargo archare clean.E2E on kind with this PR and #1630 deployed: the scenario
local.retired_execution_pod_gc_reaps_retired_pods(added in #1734) passed with no cleanup failures:The scenario patched these settings into the controller's env, then restored them:
Run evidence (counters read from the stack's fake metrics intake, pod state from
kubectl --context kind-space-local):After the run, no
space-sbx-pods were left and thesandboxestable was empty.Stacked on #1630 (base
shehan/cancel-cleanup-delete-retired-pod); merge #1630 first. #1734 stacks the kind scenario on this PR.Created with Perplexity