In the AfterEach check of the e2e node device plugin tests,
the tests want really bad to clean up after themselves:
- delete the sample device plugin
- restart again the kubelet
- ensure that after the restart, no stale sample devices
(provided by the sample device plugin) are reported anymore.
We observed that in the AfterEach block of these e2e tests
we have quite reliably a flip/flop of the kubelet readiness
state, possibly related to a race with/ a slow runtime/PLEG check.
What happens is that the kubelet readiness state is true,
but goes false for a quick interval and then goes true again
and it's pretty stable after that (observed adding more logs
to the check loop).
The key factor here is the function `getLocalNode` aborts the
test (as in `framework.ExpectNoError`) if the node state is
not ready. So any occurrence of this scenario, even if it
is transient, will cause a test failure. I believe this will
make the e2e test unnecessarily fragile without making it more
correct.
For the purpose of the test we can tolerate this kind of glitches,
with kubelet flip/flopping the ready state, granted that we meet
eventually the final desired condition on which the node reports
ready AND reports no sample devices present - which was the condition
the code was trying to check.
So, we add a variant of `getLocalNode`, which just fetches the
node object the e2e_node framework created, alongside to a flag
reporting the node readiness. The new helper does not make
implicitly the test abort if the node is not ready, just bubbles
up this information.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com>
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