fix(collector): check resource existence before deletion

[Clee2691]

Description

Avoid issuing DELETE API calls against non-existent deployments and daemonsets during reconciliation.

Previously, Remove() and RemoveDeployment() would blindly call Delete, causing the API server
to return 404s every reconcile cycle and inflating audit log noise. Now check with Get first - return early if NotFound, only Delete if the resource actually exists.

/cc @vparfonov
/assign @jcantrill

Links

• JIRA: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/LOG-9810

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved cleanup of collector workloads when resources are absent or require removal.
  • Prevented unnecessary delete operations for missing DaemonSets and Deployments.
  • Added clearer error handling when workload lookup or deletion fails.
  • Ensured stale collector resources are removed using the appropriate workload type.
  • Improved reliability when resources disappear during cleanup, avoiding unnecessary failures.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Collector removal now checks resource existence before deletion and handles deletion races. Tests verify DELETE calls for absent and existing resources. Controller cleanup selects workload-specific removal functions.

Changes

Collector removal handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resource removal semantics internal/collector/daemonset.go, internal/collector/deployment.go	RemoveDaemonset and RemoveDeployment check resource existence before deletion. Missing resources return success. Other lookup errors are reported.
Workload-specific cleanup wiring internal/controller/observability/clusterlogforwarder_controller.go	Validation cleanup and stale-workload cleanup select DaemonSet or Deployment removal based on deployment mode.
Removal behavior validation internal/collector/collector_test.go	Fake clients count DELETE calls and simulate NotFound races. Tests cover absent resources, successful deletion, and deletion races for DaemonSets and Deployments.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
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PR Summary by Qodo

Avoid deleting absent collector workloads during reconciliation

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 10-20 Minutes

AI Description

• Check Deployment and DaemonSet existence before issuing collector deletion requests.
• Skip absent workloads to prevent recurring 404 responses and audit noise.
• Verify DELETE calls occur only for resources present in the fake client.

Diagram

graph TD
  A["CLF Reconciler"] --> B["Workload remover"] --> C["Kubernetes Get"] --> D{"Resource exists"} -->|Yes| E["Kubernetes Delete"] --> F["Return result"]
  D -->|No| F

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High-Level Assessment

The Get-before-Delete approach directly addresses API-server 404 audit noise while preserving explicit error reporting for lookup and deletion failures. Continuing to call Delete and merely ignoring NotFound was considered but dismissed because it still emits the unwanted request and audit entry.

Files changed (4) +71 / -5

Bug fix (2) +15 / -3

daemonset.goCheck DaemonSet existence before deletion +8/-2

Check DaemonSet existence before deletion

• Renames the generic Remove helper to RemoveDaemonset and performs a Get before Delete. Missing DaemonSets return successfully without a DELETE request, while lookup and deletion failures receive resource-specific context.

internal/collector/daemonset.go

deployment.goCheck Deployment existence before deletion +7/-1

Check Deployment existence before deletion

• Looks up the collector Deployment before attempting deletion. A missing resource is treated as successful cleanup, preventing repeated 404-producing DELETE requests.

internal/collector/deployment.go

Refactor (1) +2 / -2

clusterlogforwarder_controller.goUse the explicit DaemonSet removal helper +2/-2

Use the explicit DaemonSet removal helper

• Updates validation cleanup and stale-workload selection to call the renamed RemoveDaemonset helper. Existing Deployment-versus-DaemonSet cleanup selection remains unchanged.

internal/controller/observability/clusterlogforwarder_controller.go

Tests (1) +54 / -0

collector_test.goTest conditional collector workload deletion +54/-0

Test conditional collector workload deletion

• Adds an intercepted fake Kubernetes client that counts DELETE calls. Covers absent and existing DaemonSets and Deployments to verify deletion is skipped or issued exactly once as appropriate.

internal/collector/collector_test.go

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/controller/observability/clusterlogforwarder_controller.go`:
- Line 112: Update stale-workload cleanup at
internal/controller/observability/clusterlogforwarder_controller.go lines
112-112 to use the same workload-specific removal selector as validation
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collector.RemoveDeployment when internalobs.DeployAsDeployment(*forwarder) is
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🐞 Bugs (1) 📘 Rule violations (0) 📜 Skill insights (0)

1. Delete race returns NotFound 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability

Description

RemoveDaemonset and RemoveDeployment no longer ignore a NotFound returned by Delete, so a
resource removed after the preceding Get causes cleanup to fail and the stale-workload
reconciliation path to return an error. This race can still produce the repeated 404/audit noise the
change intends to prevent, whereas the previous Delete logic treated it as successful cleanup.

Code

internal/collector/daemonset.go[R36-37]

+	if err = k8sClient.Delete(context.TODO(), ds); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failure deleting daemonset %s/%s: %v", namespace, name, err)

Relevance

●●● Strong

The Get/Delete race is real; preserving NotFound-as-success is a standard cleanup invariant and
aligns with this change’s stated intent.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

Both removal functions perform separate Get and Delete operations but return every Delete error. The
production stale-workload caller propagates that error from reconciliation, while the pre-PR
behavior shown by the diff explicitly excluded errors.IsNotFound(err) from returned Delete
failures.

internal/collector/daemonset.go[30-37]
internal/collector/deployment.go[29-36]
internal/controller/observability/clusterlogforwarder_controller.go[119-122]
internal/controller/observability/clusterlogforwarder_controller.go[140-145]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The new Get-before-Delete sequence is non-atomic. If a DaemonSet or Deployment disappears between the calls, Delete returns NotFound, which is currently wrapped and propagated even though the desired end state has already been reached.

## Issue Context
The prior implementation explicitly ignored Delete-time NotFound. Keep the preflight Get behavior, but preserve idempotent deletion by treating NotFound from the subsequent Delete as success in both removal functions; add race-oriented tests using the client interceptor if practical.

## Fix Focus Areas
- internal/collector/daemonset.go[36-37]
- internal/collector/deployment.go[35-36]
- internal/collector/collector_test.go[515-530]
- internal/collector/collector_test.go[802-817]

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