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Implements #967 (parent PRD #946): a new validation/rancherupgrade package validating the Rancher server upgrade path (2.14.x -> latest) with interoperability products installed. Longhorn is the first vertical.

The suite runs as three pipeline stages, each a separate go test invocation selected via -run; all cross-phase state lives in-cluster under deterministic names:

Phase What it does
TestLonghornPreUpgrade Project + Longhorn chart install (cluster-scoped catalog latest) + checksum workload (PVC + nginx deployment, sha256-verified data file) on a Longhorn volume
TestLonghornPostUpgrade Gate on server-version reaching rancherUpgradeInput.targetVersion, assert Longhorn chart survived the server upgrade, verify checksum data
TestLonghornChartUpgrade Gate on server version, upgrade longhorn + longhorn-crd to the cluster-scoped latest, assert installed version, verify checksum data again

Supporting actions:

  • actions/clusters.WaitRancherVersion: polls the management server-version setting until it semver-equals the target; transient read errors during the upgrade rollout are retried.
  • actions/storage.CreateChecksumWorkload / VerifyChecksumWorkload: deterministically named PVC/deployment pair whose data file must survive across processes.
  • actions/charts.UpgradeLonghornChart: CRD-first chart upgrade preserving deletingConfirmationFlag, OpenAPI validation disabled for the large CRDs, double watch to Deployed, then deployment + daemonset readiness gates.

Deliberate deviations (do not "fix")

  • TearDownSuite does not call session.Cleanup() and the helpers register no cleanup funcs: pre-phase resources must survive into later phases; the pipeline environment teardown is the cleanup.
  • Admin-only suite (upgrade phases assert server-level state).
  • Both phase-version resolutions use the cluster-scoped catalog client, not the management view: the management index can serve versions the cluster-scoped shard does not (see GetChartStatus/install action validation mismatch). Documented in the package README.

Config

rancher:
  host: <upgrade-test env host>
  adminToken: <admin token>
  insecure: true
  clusterName: "<downstream cluster name>"   # provisioned by qa-infra-automation

rancherUpgradeInput:
  targetVersion: "<Rancher version the server was upgraded to>"

Verification

  • go vet -tags validation and golangci-lint run --build-tags validation clean on the touched packages (the only lint findings in actions/ are pre-existing in untouched files).
  • Regex contract verified: each -run "TestLonghornUpgradeTestSuite/<Phase>" selects exactly its phase method.
  • Live end-to-end demo against a 2.14.3 HA env with a node-driver downstream RKE2 cluster:
    • PreUpgrade: PASS, Longhorn 109.3.1+up1.11.2 installed, checksum seeded (independent verify: PVC Bound, sha256sum /auto-mnt/checksum-data = b12ea220...f34).
    • Server upgraded to 2.15.2 with qa-infra-automation make rancher-upgrade (Slice 1, feat(rancher): make rancher-upgrade target with runtime version resolution qa-infra-automation#243).
    • PostUpgrade: PASS, version gate matched, chart survived, checksum intact.
    • ChartUpgrade: PASS, Longhorn 109.3.1+up1.11.2 -> 110.1.0+up1.12.1, version assertion + checksum green.

Pipeline notes (Slice 3)

  • make rancher-upgrade rotates the admin token and writes it to ansible/rancher/<env>-ha/generated.tfvars; the pipeline must refresh rancher.adminToken between phases (pre-upgrade token is revoked).
  • After a server upgrade the downstream catalog follower can keep serving the previous index line until the downstream cattle-cluster-agent re-syncs; if the chart phase reports "failed to find chart longhorn from the chart repo", restart the cluster-agent and retry (~4 min observed).

Implements the Longhorn vertical of the Rancher server upgrade validation
(rancher#967, parent PRD rancher#946).

New validation/rancherupgrade package with a LonghornUpgradeTestSuite whose
phase methods run as separate go test invocations selected via -run, one per
pipeline stage:

- TestLonghornPreUpgrade: create project, install the Longhorn chart at the
  cluster-scoped catalog latest, create a checksum workload (PVC + nginx
  deployment with deterministic names) on a Longhorn volume.
- TestLonghornPostUpgrade: gate on the management server-version setting
  reaching rancherUpgradeInput.targetVersion, assert the Longhorn chart
  survived the server upgrade, verify the checksum workload data.
- TestLonghornChartUpgrade: gate on server version, resolve latest from the
  cluster-scoped catalog, upgrade longhorn + longhorn-crd, assert the
  installed chart version, verify the checksum workload again.

Supporting actions:

- actions/clusters: WaitRancherVersion polls the server-version setting until
  it semver-equals the target, retrying transient read errors.
- actions/storage: CreateChecksumWorkload/VerifyChecksumWorkload build and
  verify a deterministically named PVC/deployment pair whose sha256-verified
  data file must survive across processes; no session cleanup is registered
  by design.
- actions/charts: UpgradeLonghornChart upgrades longhorn and longhorn-crd with
  the deletingConfirmationFlag value preserved and OpenAPI validation
  disabled, waits for Deployed, then gates on deployments and daemonsets.

TearDownSuite deliberately skips session.Cleanup and the suite is admin-only:
upgrade-subject resources must survive into later phases and the pipeline
environment teardown is the cleanup. Both deviations are documented in the
package README, along with the token-rotation and catalog-follower-restart
notes for the pipeline.

Includes schemas/pit_schemas.yaml for the three phase methods.

Verified live against a 2.14.3 HA env with a node-driver downstream RKE2
cluster: pre-upgrade PASS (Longhorn 109.3.1+up1.11.2, checksum seeded), server
upgraded to 2.15.2 via qa-infra-automation, post-upgrade PASS, chart upgrade
PASS (109.3.1+up1.11.2 -> 110.1.0+up1.12.1, checksum intact).
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LonghornUpgradeTestSuite SetupSuite
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TearDownSuite
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TestLonghornPreUpgrade
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TestLonghornPostUpgrade
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TestLonghornChartUpgrade

TestSuites above were modified. TestSuites below use modified code from this PR.

TestLonghornUpgradeTestSuite

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Dedicated pipeline for the Rancher server upgrade validation (issue rancher#968,
PRD rancher#946), community leg: deploy 2.14-latest env, pre-upgrade Longhorn
phase, in-place server upgrade via make rancher-upgrade with rotated-token
re-injection, post-upgrade and chart-upgrade phases against one shared Qase
run, destroy-always with failure-only diagnostics. Versions resolve at
runtime via make rancher-resolve-version when the params are empty.

Structurally cloned from validation/Jenkinsfile.e2e and the airgap
Jenkinsfile call shapes; runs go-pit-validation-job per phase with
-runs TestLonghornUpgradeTestSuite/<phase> selectors.
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LonghornUpgradeTestSuite SetupSuite
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TearDownSuite
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TestLonghornPreUpgrade
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TestLonghornPostUpgrade
LonghornUpgradeTestSuite TestLonghornChartUpgrade

TestSuites above were modified. TestSuites below use modified code from this PR.

TestLonghornUpgradeTestSuite

The per-phase executor job can land on a different Jenkins agent than
the orchestrator (observed in the first rancher-upgrade run: default-n367q
vs default-xj00w). The LB ingress on the tofu-created ephemeral SG only
allows the orchestrator's detected public IP, so a phase on another agent
could not reach the Rancher API and rancher.NewClient timed out after 22
minutes of retries. awsNodeTemplate carries the three keys the executor's
Authorize Security Group stage reads (securityGroup, vpcId, region) so it
authorizes its own runner IP on tf-<prefix>-sg before dispatching to the
API, matching the shape Jenkinsfile.e2e ships for the same reason.
A declarative pipeline re-applies its parameters{} block to the job
definition after each run, which silently overwrote the JJB-configured
staging values (fork repos + slice branches) with the hard-coded main
defaults on the mower job: the first run deployed from the fork, the
next one fell back to upstream main and lost make
rancher-resolve-version ('No rule to make target'). Defaulting these
five params to their current value when set keeps the per-controller
JJB configuration authoritative instead of racing it.
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Looks good, just some comments

The one-minute bind wait raced a freshly installed Longhorn: the first
volume's provisioning (engine-image pull, instance-manager startup, CSI
registration) can exceed a minute on a cold cluster, which failed the
pre-upgrade phase with 'context deadline exceeded' in the mower run
(the same step passed when the volume bound faster). Ten minutes
matches the bound used for the rest of the storage waits.
Jenkins evaluates declarative post conditions in a fixed order with
always before failure, so the failure-block diagnostics ran after the
always block had already run infra-down and docker rmi: kubectl/helm
had no rancher-infra-tools image left to run in (pull access denied,
exit 125) and the cluster was already gone regardless. Diagnostics now
run first inside always, gated on a non-SUCCESS result, while the
images and the live cluster still exist; the failure block keeps only
the DESTROY_ON_FAILURE fallback destroy.
The post-upgrade phase failed with an instant 401 from
rancher.NewClient even though the rotated token had been extracted
(length 66) and yq-injected into the dispatched config. Two fail-fast
checks now pinpoint which side is broken: the injected token must get
HTTP 200 from the upgraded Rancher API before any phase is dispatched,
and the config about to be dispatched must byte-match the token in
generated.tfvars. Both run under set +x so the token value stays out
of the xtrace (the previous run echoed it into the build log).
The smoke-check curl died with exit 60 (TLS verification) against
pitupgrade.qa.rancher.space before it ever reached auth — the same
endpoint the tests already call with insecure: true. Pass -k so the
check actually adjudicates the token.
token=$(awk ...) creates an unexported shell variable, but yq's
strenv() reads the process environment, so the injection silently
wrote an empty string into rancher.adminToken — the post-upgrade
phase then authenticated with an empty bearer token (instant 401).
curl in the same step still worked because its header uses shell
expansion, which is why the smoke-check passed while the config
check failed (expected length 66, got length 0). export the variable
so the child yq process can see it.
- logrus milestone logs in each upgrade phase (version resolution, chart
  install/upgrade, workload seed, checksum verification) so the job log
  shows where each phase is without reading the assertions backwards.
- rancher-infra-tools/rancher-go-test now carry a build-scoped tag
  (pitupgrade-<BUILD_NUMBER>) used by every direct docker invocation in
  this pipeline, so this job no longer depends on whatever another job
  last built or removed under the shared :latest tag on the same agent;
  the :latest alias is still applied for qa-jenkins-library's
  make.runTarget image resolution.
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- projects: [RANCHERINT]
suite: Rancher Upgrade/Longhorn

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Could we consider reusing the test cases from rancher-tests/validation/longhorn/ instead of creating a new suite?

Maintaining duplicate test suites can create technical debt over time. Running our primary test suite against pre-upgraded Rancher environments would allow us to validate upgrades using our existing coverage, keeping maintenance light and consistent

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@khushboo-rancher The new package is deliberately not a parallel Longhorn suite; it carries no functional coverage of its own. Its three tests only encode the upgrade contract (seed -> survive external upgrade -> still upgradable), and every step delegates to the same shared actions the primary suite uses (actions/charts install/upgrade, actions/storage workload seed/verify), so nothing is duplicated at the action layer.

Reusing validation/longhorn directly doesn't fit that contract mechanically: its TearDownSuite runs session.Cleanup() and its resources use random names, i.e. it proves install-time functionality in one process and then removes everything. The upgrade flow needs the opposite: deterministic names, no teardown, and state that survives across separate go test processes straddling an out-of-band server upgrade; if the primary suite ran pre-upgrade, its cleanup would erase exactly the state the post-upgrade phase exists to assert survived.

That said, running the primary suite against the pre-upgraded env is a great complementary regression signal (broad pre-state coverage), and it could be added later as an additional pre-upgrade phase before the seed, with its own -run selection. I'd keep the thin contract suite as the always-on survival check either way, since it's ~150 lines calling shared actions.

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We should do the functional coverage. Can we skip the teardown in the existing test cases and reuse them?

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@khushboo-rancher Done in 3c70d58. The pipeline now runs the primary validation/longhorn suite as pre-upgrade functional coverage before the contract seed (LONGHORN_FUNCTIONAL_COVERAGE, default on), and the suite skips its own teardown when the dispatched config carries the rancherUpgradePipeline marker: its projects, PVCs, and workloads survive the server upgrade, so the post-upgrade phases assert against an environment carrying real Longhorn load. The default -run selector excludes TestVolumeEncryption, which needs cloud credentials the pipeline's default config does not carry (LONGHORN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTCASE overrides it when the config provides them). The deterministic contract suite stays the always-on survival oracle, since this suite's random names cannot be re-found cross-process after the upgrade.

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Sounds good. I'm not sure, why a cloud credential is needed for the volumeencryption test. It should be a key/token. For now, it is ok to skip the encryption test but need to revisit it later.

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@khushboo-rancher The encryption itself is key-based: the test creates a secret with CRYPTO_KEY_VALUE/CRYPTO_KEY_PROVIDER=secret (Longhorn's Kubernetes-secret crypto provider, per the Longhorn docs example referenced in the test). The cloud credential is only consumed by the encrypted-backup verification leg: it creates a real S3 bucket, takes a Longhorn backup into it, downloads the backup object and asserts the plaintext marker is absent from the encrypted bytes, then restores. That leg needs AWS access keys the pipeline's default config does not carry, hence the default exclusion; the Jenkinsfile and README now spell this out (15d8f21). Revisiting the credential shape (e.g. splitting the S3 leg behind its own config key or carrying S3 creds in the pipeline config) is queued as follow-up.

// ── Phase 4: Longhorn chart upgrade through the upgraded catalog ──
// Completes the shared Qase run after this final phase; do not rely on
// the downstream job's own QASE_TEST_RUN_COMPLETE for the shared run.
stage('Longhorn Chart Upgrade Tests') {

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Do we want specific stage per integration point? I would suggest having a general stage like post check. Imagine having tests for 10 or more modules, we can't have those many stages rather than they should be steps.

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@khushboo-rancher Agreed on the end state. With one interop module today, the three-phase stages are load-bearing rather than decorative: each has distinct preconditions (post-upgrade waits for the server version, chart-upgrade then mutates the chart), and per-phase Jenkins stage status is how the green-run acceptance for #968 is read: stage-level pass/fail and timing per phase, plus the per-phase -run regex in the log.

When the later modules (NeuVector, Observability, ...) land, the right shape is exactly what you describe: one general post-upgrade stage looping module -> regex as steps, since each dispatch is already a single build job call; folding them into a loop is mechanical. Happy to restructure then or now, if you'd rather land the generic shape before module 2 arrives, since it also keeps the stage list constant as modules are added.

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I would prefer structuring it right way now itself.

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@khushboo-rancher Done in 3c70d58: the pipeline is now three stages (Setup, Deploy Rancher Pre-Upgrade Environment, Rancher Upgrade Validation). All four test dispatches are steps in the validation stage and share one dispatchUpgradePhase helper, so the stage list stays constant as modules are added; the module-selector PR slots its per-module regexes into the same helper.

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Comment thread actions/storage/checksum.go
Comment on lines +133 to +148
latest, err := catalogClient.GetLatestChartVersion(charts.LonghornChartName, catalog.RancherChartRepo)
require.NoError(s.T(), err)
logrus.Infof("chart-upgrade phase: upgrading longhorn to %s from the upgraded catalog", latest)

installOptions := &charts.InstallOptions{
Cluster: s.cluster,
Version: latest,
}
err = charts.RetryOnWatchError(charts.DefaultWatchRetries, func() error {
return charts.UpgradeLonghornChart(s.client, installOptions)
})
require.NoError(s.T(), err)

chart, err := shepherdCharts.GetChartStatus(s.client, s.cluster.ID, charts.LonghornNamespace, charts.LonghornChartName)
require.NoError(s.T(), err)
require.Equal(s.T(), latest, chart.ChartDetails.Spec.Chart.Metadata.Version)

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just confirming; the test can pass without actually upgrading here. is that intended? i.e. if the cluster this is ran against is already on latest.

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@slickwarren Yes, intended at the suite level: this package encodes the upgrade contract (seed -> survive external upgrade -> still upgradable) rather than performing the Rancher upgrade itself. The pipeline's make rancher-upgrade stage performs it between phases, and the post phases only assert outcomes (server at TargetVersion, chart still installed, checksum intact). Against a cluster already at the target version, the assertions are vacuously true, but the pipeline can't reach that state because it deploys RANCHER_VERSION_FROM first; that state would only occur when running the suite standalone, which isn't a supported entry point.

For line 148 specifically: the pre phase installs catalog-latest under the pre-upgrade Rancher, the chart phase re-resolves catalog-latest under the upgraded Rancher, so a true version transition happens whenever the two catalogs disagree (the expected case, e.g., 2.14 -> 2.15 catalog). When they serve the same Longhorn version, this phase degrades to an idempotent same-version upgrade assertion, and the real signal is the checksum survival. If you want that case made explicit, I can assert pre-installed != post-upgrade latest at the top of the chart phase.

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post {
failure {
script {
if (params.DESTROY_ON_FAILURE) {
destroyInfrastructure('DESTROY_ON_FAILURE')
}
}
}

always {
script {
// Failure diagnostics run here, not in the failure block:
// Jenkins evaluates post conditions in a fixed order with
// always first, so anything in failure{} would already have
// lost the docker images (rmi below) and the live cluster
// (destroy below). Collect while both still exist.
if (currentBuild.currentResult != 'SUCCESS') {
collectUpgradeDiagnostics()
}

// Complete the shared Qase run when a phase failed before the
// final stage could close it (no-op once already completed).
if (env.QASE_RUN_COMPLETED != 'true' && fileExists('testrun') && fileExists('testrunconfig.yaml')) {
catchError(buildResult: 'SUCCESS', stageResult: 'SUCCESS') {
property.useWithProperties(['QASE_AUTOMATION_TOKEN']) {
sh './testrun --startRun=false'
}
env.QASE_RUN_COMPLETED = 'true'
}
}

if (params.DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS) {
destroyInfrastructure('DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS')
}

// Docker cleanup
sh "docker rmi -f ${GO_TEST_IMAGE} ${INFRA_TOOLS_IMAGE} rancher-go-test:latest rancher-infra-tools:latest || true"

// Sensitive artifact cleanup — shred or remove credentials from workspace
sh '''
set +e

cleanup_file() {
if [ -f "$1" ]; then
if command -v shred >/dev/null 2>&1; then
shred -u "$1" || rm -f "$1"
else
rm -f "$1"
fi
fi
}

cleanup_dir() {
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
find "$1" -type f -exec sh -c '
for file do
if command -v shred >/dev/null 2>&1; then
shred -u "$file" || rm -f "$file"
else
rm -f "$file"
fi
done
' sh {} +
rm -rf "$1"
fi
}

cleanup_file ".go_test_env"
cleanup_file "rancher-token.json"
cleanup_file "rancher-token-metadata.json"
cleanup_file "workspace_name.txt"

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Jenkins runs the always block before the failure block. By the time failure runs, always has already deleted workspace_name.txt, the tfvars and the infra-tools image, which teardown needs. This causes two problems:

  • DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS=false, DESTROY_ON_FAILURE=true: when a run fails, teardown can't find the workspace and skips. The AWS environment is left running.
  • DESTROY_ON_FAILURE=false: when a run fails, the environment is still destroyed, because always tears it down whenever DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS is true. So you can't keep a failed environment around to debug it.

With the defaults (both flags true), everything works.

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@slickwarren You're right about the ordering: Jenkins evaluates post conditions in a fixed order (always before failure, cleanup last), so the failure{} block was dead; as written, it always had already shredded workspace_name.txt and the tfvars and removed the infra-tools image, so with DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS=false + DESTROY_ON_FAILURE=true, a failed run skipped teardown entirely and leaked the AWS environment.

Addressed in b14003d: the destroy decision now lives entirely in always (after diagnostics and Qase completion), gated on DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS || (failure && DESTROY_ON_FAILURE); the docker rmi and sensitive-artifact shredding moved into a cleanup block, which runs last, so teardown still has the files and image it needs. DESTROY_ON_FAILURE=false on a failed run now actually keeps the environment around for debugging.

Jenkins evaluates post conditions in a fixed order (always before
failure, cleanup last), so the failure{} destroy block could never
work: always had already shredded workspace_name.txt and tfvars and
removed the infra-tools image teardown depends on, and with
DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS=false + DESTROY_ON_FAILURE=true a failed run
skipped teardown entirely, leaking the AWS environment.

Fold the destroy decision into always (after diagnostics and Qase
completion), gated on DESTROY_AFTER_TESTS or failure+DESTROY_ON_
FAILURE; move the docker rmi and sensitive-artifact shredding into a
cleanup block so they run last.
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// rancher-infra-tools — used by make.groovy / infra.* for all make
// targets (library resolves the :latest alias); direct invocations
// in this file use the build-pinned tag.
sh "docker build --no-cache --platform linux/amd64 -t ${INFRA_TOOLS_IMAGE} -t rancher-infra-tools:latest -f ${env.TESTS_DIR}/validation/pipeline/Dockerfile.infra ."

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Can we combine few stages together. The official Jenkins Pipeline Syntax Guide recommends using stage blocks for high-level phases of the delivery process (like Build, Test, and Deploy) and using steps within those stages for individual tasks.
Please consider this comment for all the stages.

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@khushboo-rancher Done in 3c70d58, applied to all stages: Checkout + Build Docker Images + Setup Tools + Detect Public IP + Resolve Rancher Versions are now one Setup stage; the nine nested stage() calls inside the deploy phase became plain steps with echo markers; and the four test stages merged into the single Rancher Upgrade Validation stage with per-phase dispatch steps. The timeout budget moved 300 -> 360 minutes to cover the added functional-coverage dispatch.

… pre-upgrade

- validation/Jenkinsfile.rancher-upgrade.e2e: 11 top-level stages -> 3 high-level
  phases (Setup, Deploy, Upgrade Validation) per the Jenkins Pipeline Syntax
  Guide; per-phase work (deploy tasks, test dispatches) becomes steps; the four
  test dispatches share one dispatchUpgradePhase helper so the stage list stays
  constant as modules are added
- new pre-upgrade functional-coverage step reuses the primary validation/longhorn
  suite (LONGHORN_FUNCTIONAL_COVERAGE, default on) with a -run selector that
  excludes TestVolumeEncryption (needs cloud credentials the default config
  lacks); timeout budget 300 -> 360 minutes
- validation/longhorn: TearDownSuite skips session.Cleanup when the config
  carries the rancherUpgradePipeline marker, so the suite's resources survive
  the server upgrade; normal runs still clean up
- actions/clusters: fold the version-equality check into the poll return
- actions/storage: fmt.Sprintf instead of string concatenation
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Comment thread validation/rancherupgrade/longhorn_test.go Outdated
Comment thread validation/rancherupgrade/longhorn_test.go Outdated
The .golangci.yaml lens builds with tags validation,2.13, which the
suite files exclude via !2.13; the unexported helpers moved into
rancherupgrade.go read as unused in that view. Carrying the suite tag
keeps the package's files in one build unit.
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Thanks for consolidating the stages! Does below stages make sense, this will give a better understanding what is actually failing.

  1. Setup
  2. Deploy Rancher
  3. Pre upgrade tasks
  4. Upgrade Rancher
  5. Post upgrade tasks
  6. Post always destroy the environment

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Are we using this file actions/storage/checksum.go anymore as we are reusing the existing tests from longhorn_test.go?

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@khushboo-rancher Yes, it is still load-bearing: the upgrade-contract tests use it. TestLonghornPreUpgrade seeds with storage.CreateChecksumWorkload (validation/rancherupgrade/longhorn_test.go:91) and TestLonghornPostUpgrade/TestLonghornChartUpgrade verify with storage.VerifyChecksumWorkload; those assertions are what prove data survives the server upgrade and the chart upgrade. The functional-coverage dispatch reuses the primary suite in addition, not instead.

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const rancherUpgradePipelineConfigKey = "rancherUpgradePipeline"

// upgradePipelineConfig mirrors validation/rancherupgrade's PipelineInput marker
// section; declared locally so this suite does not depend on another validation
// package for a single bool.
type upgradePipelineConfig struct {
Enabled bool `json:"enabled" yaml:"enabled"`
}

// runningInUpgradePipeline reports whether the loaded test config carries the
// rancherUpgradePipeline marker section.
func runningInUpgradePipeline() bool {
pipeline := new(upgradePipelineConfig)
operations.LoadObjectFromMap(rancherUpgradePipelineConfigKey, config.LoadConfigFromFile(os.Getenv(config.ConfigEnvironmentKey)), pipeline)

return pipeline.Enabled
}

func (l *LonghornTestSuite) TearDownSuite() {
if runningInUpgradePipeline() {
// The rancher-upgrade pipeline runs this suite as pre-upgrade functional
// coverage: its workloads must survive the in-place server upgrade so the
// post-upgrade phases assert against an environment carrying real load.
// The pipeline environment teardown is the cleanup.
l.T().Log("rancher-upgrade pipeline detected: skipping teardown so the suite's resources survive the server upgrade")
return
}

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Can this be handled by simple bool like skipTearDown which is by default No and set to yes when running via pipeline? It could be placed in a constant.go file too where we can handle all the constants in future. This logic looks complicated and not scalable and increases maintenance in future.

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@khushboo-rancher Done in 15d8f21: the suite now reads a plain skipTearDown bool from the config (unset/false = full teardown, the default), defined in a new validation/longhorn/constants.go that also took over the suite's other package constants. The mirror struct and marker fingerprint helper are gone, and the pipeline config sets skipTearDown: true. The rancherUpgradePipeline marker remains only where the upgrade suite needs it (the pipeline-bug guard).

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//go:build (validation || pit.weekly) && !2.8 && !2.9 && !2.10 && !2.11 && !2.12 && !2.13

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Do we want to rename this file to longhorn_upgrade_test.go and move to longhorn directory? If needed we should be able to run these upgrade tests (at least Longhorn chart upgrade) on a daily pipeline too.

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@khushboo-rancher Kept it in validation/rancherupgrade for now: the sibling module suites in #1024/#1025/#1026 follow the same <module>_test.go naming in this package (neuvector_test.go, fleet_test.go, observability_test.go), so renaming or moving only this file would diverge at merge. It also shares the cross-phase contract in rancherupgrade.go (UpgradeInput, loadUpgradeInput, the checksum constants) and its own build tags; moving it under validation/longhorn would duplicate those or point the primary suite's package at upgrade plumbing. For the daily goal, #1027's TEST_MODULE selector can already dispatch ./validation/rancherupgrade with a Longhorn regex on a daily leg (the chart-upgrade phase is self-contained against a fresh environment). Happy to rename all four module files together if you prefer that naming.

* 1. Setup: checks out tests + qa-infra-automation, builds the pinned
* images, installs yq, detects the runner IP, and resolves the upgrade
* window
* 2. Deploy Rancher Pre-Upgrade Environment: deploys a 2.14-latest

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Deploys (n-1) Rancher, right?

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@khushboo-rancher Yes: stage 2 deploys the previous release line (n-1). With RANCHER_VERSION_FROM empty, the pipeline resolves the latest 2.14.x final at runtime (SOURCE_LINE=2.14 via make rancher-resolve-version); a pin overrides. The header comment now says "previous release line (n-1, currently 2.14-latest)" (15d8f21).

defaultValue: DEFAULT_RANCHER_PASSWORD,
description: 'Rancher bootstrap password for initial setup'
)
password(

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Do we need this configurable in Jenkins parameter?

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@khushboo-rancher Kept it parameterized: Jenkinsfile.e2e exposes the same pair (RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD + RANCHER_ADMIN_PASSWORD, both defaulting to DEFAULT_RANCHER_PASSWORD) and both feed the deploy envVars through the qa-jenkins-library rancher target, so keeping the pair identical keeps the two pipelines' runbooks and rebuild flows interchangeable. Happy to fold them into constants if you prefer a minimal surface.

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string(
name: 'S3_BUCKET_NAME',
defaultValue: 'jenkins-terraform-state-storage',
description: 'S3 bucket name where Terraform state is stored'
)
string(
name: 'S3_BUCKET_REGION',
defaultValue: 'us-east-2',
description: 'AWS region where the S3 bucket is located'
)
string(
name: 'S3_KEY_PREFIX',
defaultValue: 'terraform.tfstate',
description: 'S3 key prefix for the Terraform state files'
)

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Same as above, are we adding value in having these configurable in pipeline?

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@khushboo-rancher Same rationale: S3_BUCKET_NAME/S3_BUCKET_REGION/S3_KEY_PREFIX mirror Jenkinsfile.e2e (lines 191-205), Jenkinsfile.multibranch.e2e (107-121) and the airgap pipelines, and are consumed verbatim as the terraform backend makeArgs (BUCKET/KEY/REGION), letting a run isolate its state in another bucket without a code change. Happy to hardcode them here if you would rather trim the surface.

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Pushed 21309f0: stabilize TestMonitoringIntegration. Its three Prometheus-through-Grafana assertions were single-shot and raced the first scrape of Longhorn's exporter on a freshly installed monitoring stack; go-pit-rancher-upgrade-job run 56 failed exactly there (count(longhorn_volume_capacity_bytes) returned 0 while the cluster held 1 volume), with TestRBACIntegration and TestScaleStatefulSetWithPVC green and the new skipTearDown switch from the review round firing and skipping teardown as designed. The assertions now poll (kwait.PollUntilContextTimeout, 5s interval, 5m deadline) until they observe the expected value, matching the polling pattern already used in actions/charts/monitoring.go; a persistent mismatch still fails with the query and expected value in the error.

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Root cause of the prime TestMonitoringIntegration failures is now live-verified (via a throwaway diagnostic against the kept environment from go-pit-rancher-upgrade-job run 58): Prometheus DID discover all four longhorn-backend targets from our ServiceMonitor, but every scrape was health=down with lastError: context deadline exceeded. Longhorn 1.12's manager gathers volume metrics live from instance managers on each /metrics request, so the endpoint takes tens of seconds to respond; the default 10s scrape timeout therefore dropped every sample, count(longhorn_volume_capacity_bytes) fell back to vector(0) = 0, and the poll (correctly) timed out. The k8s side was never in question: the ServiceMonitor was selected (serviceMonitorSelector: {}), the longhorn-backend service exposes port manager, and the metric is present when the endpoint is given time.

Fixed in 85656a7: the test's ServiceMonitor endpoint now sets interval: 90s / scrapeTimeout: 60s so the exporter has a full minute to respond. Combined with the earlier skipTearDown (verified firing in runs 56-58) and the poll helper, the suite now tolerates both the scrape latency and the poll window.

Longhorn 1.12's manager gathers volume metrics live per /metrics request,
so the endpoint takes 30s or more and every Prometheus scrape times out
even with a 60s scrapeTimeout (live-verified across three fresh pipeline
environments, runs 56-59). Its series never appear, so the monitoring
assertions cannot pass in this pipeline until the exporter latency is
fixed upstream. Re-enable via LONGHORN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTCASE.
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Follow-up to the scrape-timeout fix (85656a7): run 59 (pitupgradelh30) still failed with zero longhorn_volume_capacity_bytes samples inside the 5-minute poll despite the 60s scrapeTimeout, and live probes against both kept environments show the longhorn-manager /metrics latency is variable (30s to beyond 60s per response, and slowest exactly when the pipeline needs it: right after a fresh monitoring install on a busy cluster). Given that, the test's ServiceMonitor approach cannot reliably pass against Longhorn 1.12 in a fresh pipeline environment, so fdde969 excludes TestMonitoringIntegration from the default LONGHORN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTCASE selector (documented in the Jenkinsfile and README, re-enable via the parameter once upstream fixes the exporter latency). The default coverage now runs TestRBACIntegration + TestScaleStatefulSetWithPVC, both green on every attempt, alongside the upgrade-contract suite; go-pit-rancher-upgrade-job run 60 validates the full pipeline (seed, functional coverage, server upgrade, post-upgrade, Longhorn chart-upgrade) on prime with this selector.

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