fix: Prevented stuck status due to timeouts during scalers generation (…

…#5084)

Signed-off-by: Zbynek Roubalik <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Here is an overview of all new **experimental** features:
 
 ### Fixes
 
-- **General**: TODO ([#XXX](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/XXX))
+- **General**: Prevented stuck status due to timeouts during scalers generation ([#5083](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5083))
 
 ### Deprecations
 

pkg/scaling/scale_handler.go

@@ -291,36 +291,25 @@ func (h *scaleHandler) getScalersCacheForScaledObject(ctx context.Context, scale
 // performGetScalersCache returns cache for input scalableObject, it is common code used by GetScalersCache() and getScalersCacheForScaledObject() methods
 func (h *scaleHandler) performGetScalersCache(ctx context.Context, key string, scalableObject interface{}, scalableObjectGeneration *int64, scalableObjectKind, scalableObjectNamespace, scalableObjectName string) (*cache.ScalersCache, error) {
 	h.scalerCachesLock.RLock()
+	regenerateCache := false
 	if cache, ok := h.scalerCaches[key]; ok {
 		// generation was specified -> let's include it in the check as well
 		if scalableObjectGeneration != nil {
 			if cache.ScalableObjectGeneration == *scalableObjectGeneration {
 				h.scalerCachesLock.RUnlock()
 				return cache, nil
 			}
+			// object was found in cache, but the generation is not correct,
+			// we'll need to close scalers in the cache and
+			// proceed further to recreate the cache
+			regenerateCache = false
 		} else {
 			h.scalerCachesLock.RUnlock()
 			return cache, nil
 		}
 	}
 	h.scalerCachesLock.RUnlock()
 
-	h.scalerCachesLock.Lock()
-	defer h.scalerCachesLock.Unlock()
-	if cache, ok := h.scalerCaches[key]; ok {
-		// generation was specified -> let's include it in the check as well
-		if scalableObjectGeneration != nil {
-			if cache.ScalableObjectGeneration == *scalableObjectGeneration {
-				return cache, nil
-			}
-			// object was found in cache, but the generation is not correct,
-			// let's close scalers in the cache and proceed further to recreate the cache
-			cache.Close(ctx)
-		} else {
-			return cache, nil
-		}
-	}
-
 	if scalableObject == nil {
 		switch scalableObjectKind {
 		case "ScaledObject":
@@ -388,6 +377,17 @@ func (h *scaleHandler) performGetScalersCache(ctx context.Context, key string, s
 	default:
 	}
 
+	// Scalers Close() could be impacted by timeouts, blocking the mutex
+	// until the timeout happens. Instead of locking the mutex, we take
+	// the old cache item and we close it in another goroutine, not locking
+	// the cache: https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5083
+	if regenerateCache {
+		oldCache := h.scalerCaches[key]
+		go oldCache.Close(ctx)
+	}
+
+	h.scalerCachesLock.Lock()
+	defer h.scalerCachesLock.Unlock()
 	h.scalerCaches[key] = newCache
 	return h.scalerCaches[key], nil
 }

tests/sequential/broken_scaledobject_tolerancy/broken_scaledobject_tolerancy_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+//go:build e2e
+// +build e2e
+
+package broken_scaledobject_tolerancy_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
+
+	. "github.com/kedacore/keda/v2/tests/helper"
+)
+
+const (
+	testName = "broken-scaledobject-tolerancy-test"
+)
+
+var (
+	testNamespace           = fmt.Sprintf("%s-ns", testName)
+	deploymentName          = fmt.Sprintf("%s-deployment", testName)
+	monitoredDeploymentName = fmt.Sprintf("%s-monitored", testName)
+	scaledObjectName        = fmt.Sprintf("%s-so", testName)
+)
+
+type templateData struct {
+	TestNamespace           string
+	DeploymentName          string
+	MonitoredDeploymentName string
+	ScaledObjectName        string
+}
+
+const (
+	monitoredDeploymentTemplate = `apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: {{.MonitoredDeploymentName}}
+  namespace: {{.TestNamespace}}
+  labels:
+    deploy: workload-test
+spec:
+  replicas: 0
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      pod: workload-test
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        pod: workload-test
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: nginx
+          image: 'nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged'`
+
+	deploymentTemplate = `apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: {{.DeploymentName}}
+  namespace: {{.TestNamespace}}
+  labels:
+    deploy: workload-sut
+spec:
+  replicas: 0
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      pod: workload-sut
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        pod: workload-sut
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: nginx
+        image: 'nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged'`
+
+	brokenScaledObjectTemplate = `
+apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
+kind: ScaledObject
+metadata:
+  name: {{.ScaledObjectName}}-broken
+  namespace: {{.TestNamespace}}
+spec:
+  scaleTargetRef:
+    name: {{.MonitoredDeploymentName}}
+  minReplicaCount: 0
+  maxReplicaCount: 1
+  triggers:
+  - metadata:
+      activationLagThreshold: '1'
+      bootstrapServers: 1.2.3.4:9092
+      consumerGroup: earliest
+      lagThreshold: '1'
+      offsetResetPolicy: earliest
+      topic: kafka-topic
+    type: kafka
+`
+
+	scaledObjectTemplate = `apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
+kind: ScaledObject
+metadata:
+  name: {{.ScaledObjectName}}
+  namespace: {{.TestNamespace}}
+spec:
+  scaleTargetRef:
+    name: {{.DeploymentName}}
+  pollingInterval: 1
+  cooldownPeriod: 0
+  minReplicaCount: 0
+  maxReplicaCount: 10
+  advanced:
+    horizontalPodAutoscalerConfig:
+      behavior:
+        scaleDown:
+          stabilizationWindowSeconds: 5
+  triggers:
+  - type: kubernetes-workload
+    metadata:
+      podSelector: 'pod=workload-test'
+      value: '1'
+`
+)
+
+// As we need to ensure that a broken ScaledObject doesn't impact
+// to other ScaledObjects https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5083,
+// this test deploys a broken ScaledObject pointing to missing endpoint
+// which produces timeouts. In the meantime, we deploy another ScaledObject
+// and validate that it works although the broken ScaledObject produces timeouts.
+// all the time. This prevents us for introducing deadlocks on internal scalers cache
+func TestBrokenScaledObjectTolerance(t *testing.T) {
+	// setup
+	t.Log("--- setting up ---")
+	// Create kubernetes resources
+	kc := GetKubernetesClient(t)
+	data, templates := getTemplateData()
+
+	CreateKubernetesResources(t, kc, testNamespace, data, templates)
+
+	testScaleOut(t, kc)
+	testScaleIn(t, kc)
+
+	// cleanup
+	DeleteKubernetesResources(t, testNamespace, data, templates)
+}
+
+func getTemplateData() (templateData, []Template) {
+	return templateData{
+			TestNamespace:           testNamespace,
+			DeploymentName:          deploymentName,
+			ScaledObjectName:        scaledObjectName,
+			MonitoredDeploymentName: monitoredDeploymentName,
+		}, []Template{
+			{Name: "deploymentTemplate", Config: deploymentTemplate},
+			{Name: "monitoredDeploymentTemplate", Config: monitoredDeploymentTemplate},
+			{Name: "scaledObjectTemplate", Config: scaledObjectTemplate},
+			{Name: "brokenScaledObjectTemplate", Config: brokenScaledObjectTemplate},
+		}
+}
+
+func testScaleOut(t *testing.T, kc *kubernetes.Clientset) {
+	// scale monitored deployment to 2 replicas
+	replicas := 2
+	KubernetesScaleDeployment(t, kc, monitoredDeploymentName, int64(replicas), testNamespace)
+	assert.True(t, WaitForDeploymentReplicaReadyCount(t, kc, deploymentName, testNamespace, replicas, 10, 6),
+		fmt.Sprintf("replica count should be %d after 1 minute", replicas))
+
+	// scale monitored deployment to 4 replicas
+	replicas = 4
+	KubernetesScaleDeployment(t, kc, monitoredDeploymentName, int64(replicas), testNamespace)
+	assert.True(t, WaitForDeploymentReplicaReadyCount(t, kc, deploymentName, testNamespace, replicas, 10, 6),
+		fmt.Sprintf("replica count should be %d after 1 minute", replicas))
+}
+
+func testScaleIn(t *testing.T, kc *kubernetes.Clientset) {
+	// scale monitored deployment to 2 replicas
+	replicas := 2
+	KubernetesScaleDeployment(t, kc, monitoredDeploymentName, int64(replicas), testNamespace)
+	assert.True(t, WaitForDeploymentReplicaReadyCount(t, kc, deploymentName, testNamespace, replicas, 10, 6),
+		fmt.Sprintf("replica count should be %d after 1 minute", replicas))
+
+	// scale monitored deployment to 0 replicas
+	replicas = 0
+	KubernetesScaleDeployment(t, kc, monitoredDeploymentName, int64(replicas), testNamespace)
+	assert.True(t, WaitForDeploymentReplicaReadyCount(t, kc, deploymentName, testNamespace, replicas, 10, 6),
+		fmt.Sprintf("replica count should be %d after 1 minute", replicas))
+}