fix(eks): show eksctl progress and the failure cause during cluster lifecycle - #7081
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…ifecycle eksctl logs CloudFormation progress and the cause of a failure on stdout, and prints only a generic line on stderr. KSail discarded stdout for create and kept only the first stderr line, so a failed EKS create reported no cause and ran silently for its whole duration. Long-running mutating commands (create cluster, create nodegroup, delete, scale, upgrade) now stream both streams line by line to a progress writer, redacted, and the factory wires it to stderr. Commands whose stdout is parsed never stream. A failed command's error now carries a bounded, redacted tail of stdout and stderr. Progress is best-effort: a failing writer never fails the command. Fixes #7078 Part of #6369 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… cap Simplify wrapExecErr to build the base error and append the output tail in one place, keep WithProgressWriter beside the other client options, and note that a line longer than the pending cap is redacted chunk by chunk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
golangci-lint's varnamelen flagged the one-letter parameter in lineWriter.Write as too short for its scope. Rename it to data; behaviour is unchanged. Part of #7078 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe eksctl client now supports optional progress streaming through Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The updated progress and diagnostic behavior has bounded, redacted output coverage, with no remaining concrete merge-blocking risk identified. Important Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional. ❌ Failed checks (1 error)
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In `@pkg/client/eksctl/client.go`:
- Around line 118-119: Update the direct ExecRunner.RunWithProgress setup in
Client.runCommand to create one shared locking writer and pass it beneath both
stdoutLines and stderrLines, ensuring concurrent stdout/stderr writes are
serialized while preserving the separate returned output buffers.
In `@pkg/client/eksctl/commands.go`:
- Around line 82-88: Update createCluster to pass an explicit --timeout value to
the eksctl create cluster arguments, choosing a duration that fits within the
30-minute ksail cluster-create workflow budget, and document how the command
timeout relates to that workflow limit.
In `@pkg/client/eksctl/progress.go`:
- Around line 60-62: Update lineWriter and the production progress path using
c.redactCredentialValues to apply stateful streaming redaction across forwarded
chunks, retaining enough trailing content to detect credentials split at
maxPendingLineBytes before emitting output. Add a regression test that splits a
credential exactly at that boundary and verifies the complete credential is
redacted.
- Around line 93-102: Update the output-tail construction in wrapExecErr to
retain diagnostic lines from stdout even when stderr exceeds
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…p the stdout cause Three review findings, all valid: - runCommand gave stdout and stderr separate line buffers writing straight to the caller's writer, which os/exec drives from two goroutines. A caller passing a writer that is not safe for concurrent use could race. Both buffers now write through one shared lock. - A line longer than the pending cap was forwarded in pieces, and redaction only sees one piece at a time, so a credential split across the boundary reached progress output. Such a line is now dropped from the stream and replaced by a placeholder; the returned buffers and the redacted error tail are unaffected. - The error tail took the last 20 lines of stdout and stderr combined, so 20 stderr lines evicted the eksctl cause. Each stream is bounded on its own: 15 stdout lines, then 5 stderr lines. A fourth finding asked for an explicit eksctl --timeout. Declined with reasoning on the thread: that flag bounds each wait, not the command. Part of #7078 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The third POSIX-shell skip pushed the "windows" literal to three occurrences, which goconst reports. Name it once as a file-local constant; behaviour is unchanged. Part of #7078 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Issue #7078 names two reasons an EKS create failed with no visible cause. This branch already fixed the first — eksctl's output was buffered and all but the first stderr line discarded. The second was still open: no --timeout was passed, so eksctl fell back to its own default wait. That default is the problem rather than its length. It is not stated anywhere in KSail and cannot be relied on to sit below the workflow's create-step budget, so the step can expire first and kill eksctl mid-wait — which is how a run records that create failed but not what it was waiting on. 45m is bounded on both sides: above a real provision, since a live create was still building its node group at 36m22s (run 34999766125), and below the 60-minute step budget #7008 gives that step. #7008 therefore lands first; until it does, the current 30-minute step budget still expires first and this wait is an upper bound that is never reached. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This branch had fixed only the first reason (buffered output, first-stderr-line-only errors). So the finding is a real gap in what the PR claims to close, not a scope quibble — refuting it would have closed #7078 with one of its own criteria unmet. What changed: 45m is bounded on both sides: above a real provision (a live create was still building its node group at 36m22s, run 34999766125) and below the 60-minute step budget #7008 gives that step. This creates a merge-order gate: #7008 lands first. Until it does, the current 30-minute step budget still expires before the 45m wait, so the flag is an upper bound that is never reached — no regression, just not yet fully effective. I did not duplicate #7008's budget raise here, since that PR already argues the number from teardown/scale margins and duplicating it would only create a conflict. Proof: the new test failed first for the right reason — expected This push stales the green review at |
…checks `createCluster` now appends `--timeout 45m`, but two argument assertions still expected the old six-element command and failed at head 7b95f94: pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/factory_eks_test.go:96 pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/eks/provisioner_test.go:137 Both now expect the flag alongside the three assertions already updated in pkg/client/eksctl/client_test.go, so every `create cluster` assertion site describes the same command. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Enforce a byte bound on the failure tail.
pkg/client/eksctl/progress.go:146-190
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winEnforce a byte bound on the failure tail.
A failed
execpasses stdout and stderr towrapExecErr, which callswithOutputTail.tailLineslimits only 15 stdout and 5 stderr lines. It retains each non-empty line without a size limit. When the tail differs fromfirstStderrLine,withOutputTailappends that full line to the error. This contradictswrapExecErr's contract that the tail is capped and can create an unexpectedly large returned error.Cap bytes while constructing the tail. Truncating each retained line is sufficient if the per-line cap provides a total bound; a total tail-byte cap is more direct. Preserve the existing stream and line limits.
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In `@pkg/client/eksctl/progress.go`:
- Around line 146-190: Update tailLines and/or withOutputTail so outputTail
enforces a bounded byte size while retaining the existing per-stream line limits
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pkg/client/eksctl/commands.go (1)
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wrapExecErr documents that the tail is capped so the full eksctl output never enters an error, but tailLines bounded only the line COUNT — 15 stdout and 5 stderr. The 64 KiB pending-line cap guards the progress writer, not the buffered streams the error is built from, so one very long line (a CloudFormation reason, a JSON payload) reached the error whole. Measured on a single 35 KB stdout line: the returned error was 32,739 characters. Cap each retained line at 512 bytes, cutting on a rune boundary so a multi-byte character is never split, and mark a shortened line. The tail is now bounded by construction at (15 + 5) * 512. The streams are already redacted before they reach here, so truncating cannot expose part of a credential value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The rune-boundary test proved the tail cap never splits a multi-byte character by repeating a 3-byte CJK rune. gosmopolitan rejects Han-script string literals, so the check failed lint while testing the right thing. Any 3-byte rune exercises the same boundary — 512 = 3*170 + 2 still lands mid-rune — so the script was never what the test needed. Swap in a non-CJK 3-byte rune and say so, to stop a later edit reaching for CJK again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@pkg/client/eksctl/progress.go`:
- Line 198: Update the truncation logic around cut and
errorTailLineTruncationMarker to reserve the marker’s byte length within
maxErrorTailLineBytes before the rune-boundary adjustment, keeping retained
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truncateTailLine cut at maxErrorTailLineBytes and then appended the 15-byte marker, so a retained truncated line was 527 bytes against the 512-byte cap the constant documents. The whole-error bound could not see it: 527 is far below the 2000-byte assertion that test makes. Reserve the marker's bytes before the rune-boundary walk, and pin the per-line invariant with a regression test that fails at 527 without the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| What a user gets | Observed |
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| Live progress while the command runs | 4747 bytes / 20 lines streamed |
| The real failure cause survives truncation | ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS cause line retained |
| Longest retained line vs the documented 512-byte cap | 512 (was 527 before the fix) |
| Truncation is visible, not silent | …[truncated] marker present, inside the budget |
| Credentials never reach the error | [REDACTED] present; raw secret absent |
| Whole error stays bounded | 2197 bytes |
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Why
When creating an EKS cluster fails, KSail reports a generic "failed to create cluster" with no cause. A slow but healthy provisioning run and a real CloudFormation failure look the same, so every failure takes another paid cluster to investigate. eksctl does print the cause, but on its normal output, and KSail throws that output away. The create is also silent for its whole 20–40 minutes.
What
Fixes #7078
Part of #6369