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fix(nvca): apply a delete timeout to helm uninstall and survive SIGTERM when stripping ICMS finalizers during teardown - #1242

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helmfile destroy on the compute-plane stack calls helm uninstall with no delete-specific timeout, so it falls back to Helm's 5-minute default while the nvca-operator pre-delete hook can legitimately take up to ~10 minutes to cordon-and-drain in-flight requests. This makes make destroy report failure on a teardown that actually succeeds, and can leave the requests namespace deadlocked against reinstall if the hook's own deadline is hit mid-drain. This PR adds the correct helmfile delete timeout and hardens the finalizer-strip step against a SIGTERM landing mid-drain.

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  • deploy/stacks/nvcf-compute-plane/helmfile.d/02-nvca.yaml.gotmpl: helmDefaults.timeout only applies to install/upgrade in helmfile; the delete path (helmfile destroy / helm uninstall) reads separate deleteWait/deleteTimeout fields, which were never set. Added deleteWait: true and deleteTimeout: 900 so helm uninstall gets a timeout budget that actually covers the pre-delete hook's worst case.
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown.go: the pre-delete hook Job has its own activeDeadlineSeconds (~600s), and its worst-case internal budget (poll + rollout wait + full drain wait) leaves little margin before that deadline. If kubelet's SIGTERM lands around there, it cancels the cleanup process's context, and the step that strips the finalizer from any remaining in-flight-request custom resource — previously reached deep inside the later cleanup call, on that same context — fails silently. The CR is left finalizer-blocked, which keeps its namespace stuck Terminating and deadlocks a subsequent reinstall (ServiceAccount creation forbidden while the namespace terminates). The finalizer strip now runs immediately after the drain wait, on a context detached from the parent's cancellation (context.WithoutCancel + its own short timeout), so it survives that SIGTERM.
  • No functional change to the normal (non-timeout) path; the later, now-redundant strip call is idempotent.

For the Reviewer

  • Closest attention: the reordering in shutdown.go (finalizer strip moved to run right after drainWorkloads, on a detached context) and the new deleteWait/deleteTimeout keys in 02-nvca.yaml.gotmpl.
  • deleteWait/deleteTimeout are new to this helmfile config; confirmed they're recognized helmfile v1.7.3 fields via helmfile build rather than silently-dropped typos.

For QA

  • go build ./... and go test ./pkg/operator/cleanup/... pass, including a new regression test (TestRunShutdownCleanup_StripsICMSRequestFinalizersAfterDrain) that forces the drain-timeout branch and asserts the CR is gone by the time cleanup returns.
  • Live-simulated the exact SIGTERM-mid-drain race against a running self-managed cluster by building the pre-fix and post-fix nvca-operator-cleanup binaries and running each against a synthetic in-flight request with a SIGTERM sent mid-drain: pre-fix left the finalizer/CR in place after reporting "success"; post-fix removed it despite the same cancellation.
  • QA on a real teardown (make destroy with an in-flight request present) recommended before merge, to confirm the helmfile-level timeout change end-to-end.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved shutdown cleanup reliability when workload draining reaches its timeout.
    • Ensured pending request resources are fully removed even if the pre-delete process is cancelled.
    • Extended uninstall handling to wait for cleanup hooks and allow sufficient time for deletion.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage verifying forced cleanup successfully removes remaining finalizers and resources.

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Helmfile deletion now waits for uninstall hooks for up to 900 seconds. Shutdown cleanup removes ICMSRequest finalizers with a detached 30-second timeout after workload draining. A test covers cleanup after the drain timeout.

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Shutdown cleanup completion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Helm uninstall wait configuration
deploy/stacks/nvcf-compute-plane/helmfile.d/02-nvca.yaml.gotmpl
Helmfile deletion waits for uninstall hooks and uses a 900-second deletion timeout.
Detached ICMSRequest finalizer cleanup
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown_test.go
Shutdown cleanup strips ICMSRequest finalizers with a detached 30-second timeout after workload draining. The test verifies deletion through the drain-timeout path.

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The change adjusts teardown timing and preserves finalizer cleanup during termination. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Helmfile
  participant nvcaOperator
  participant ShutdownCleanup
  participant ICMSRequestAPI
  Helmfile->>nvcaOperator: Wait for uninstall hooks for up to 900 seconds
  nvcaOperator->>ShutdownCleanup: Run shutdown cleanup
  ShutdownCleanup->>ICMSRequestAPI: Strip ICMSRequest finalizers with a detached 30-second context
  ICMSRequestAPI-->>ShutdownCleanup: Finalizer removal result
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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown.go (1)

201-212: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Confirm whether the teardown diagram needs an update.

This change adds a detached finalizer-removal step to the shutdown flow. Update the architecture or sequence diagram if it documents teardown behavior.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown.go` around
lines 201 - 212, Check the teardown architecture or sequence diagram associated
with the shutdown flow and update it to show the detached ICMSRequest
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown.go`:
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