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Purpose

When the cluster gateway sends a GOAWAY frame to an agent (during pod shutdown in drainAgentConnections or load shedding in rebalanceOnce), the connection previously remained fully selectable by ConnectionManager.Get / GetForCR until the socket closed. Requests routed to an agent in this window failed with "agent connection closed before responding".

This PR introduces a draining state on AgentConnection so connections that have received GOAWAY are excluded from selection when live candidates are available, while keeping them registered to process any in-flight responses.

Fixes #4582

Approach

  1. AgentConnection Draining State: Added draining bool with thread-safe SetDraining() and IsDraining() methods.
  2. Selection with preferLive: Added a preferLive() helper used in Get and GetForCR that filters candidates down to live (non-draining) connections. If all candidates are draining, it falls back to returning all candidates rather than failing immediately mid-rollout.
  3. Marking Draining in Send Paths:
    • In drainAgentConnections: Calls conn.SetDraining() immediately upon successfully sending GOAWAY.
    • In rebalanceOnce: Filters local to active connections when computing load/fair-share, and calls conn.SetDraining() upon shedding a connection.
  4. Preserved In-Flight Handling: The connection remains registered in ConnectionManager until socket close so pendingHTTPRequests continue to correlate and deliver responses for requests already in flight.

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  • Tests added or updated (unit, integration, etc.)
  • Samples updated (if applicable)
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Remarks

Comprehensive unit and integration tests added in connection_manager_test.go and server_test.go.

@kavix kavix changed the title fix(cluster-gateway): exclude agent connections from selection after GOAWAY is sent fix: exclude agent connections from selection after GOAWAY is sent Aug 30, 2026
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Summary

The cluster gateway now tracks draining agent connections.

  • DrainConnection marks a connection as draining while it sends GOAWAY. If the send fails, it clears the draining state.
  • Get and GetForCR prefer non-draining connections. If every eligible connection is draining, they can still select one.
  • Draining connections remain registered until socket closure, so they can continue to receive in-flight responses.
  • Pod shutdown and connection rebalancing use DrainConnection. Rebalancing excludes connections already draining when it calculates local connection counts.

Changed files

Top-level folder Files
internal/ 4
Total 4

API and CRD surface

  • No API or CRD surface changes.
  • Compatibility risk: low. The added Go methods are in the internal package and do not change an external API or CRD.
  • Added methods include AgentConnection.SetDraining(), ClearDraining(), and IsDraining(), plus ConnectionManager.SetDraining(), ClearDraining(), and DrainConnection().

Tests

Tests cover draining state transitions, live-connection preference and fallback in Get and GetForCR, nil handling, failed GOAWAY sends, and selection synchronization with draining. Server tests cover draining during rebalancing and pod shutdown, including failed writes.

A sustained proxy-load test during agent restarts is not present in the supplied changes. The required zero-error result for "agent connection closed before responding" is not established. Test execution results were not supplied.

Risk hotspots

  • Authn/authz: low. No authentication or authorization behavior changed.
  • RBAC: low. No RBAC resources changed.
  • Secrets: low. No secret handling changed.
  • Reconciliation loops: medium. Rebalancing excludes connections already draining when it calculates the local connection count.
  • Install/upgrade paths: low. No installation or upgrade files changed.
  • Connection routing: medium. Get and GetForCR change selection behavior for connections marked draining.

Walkthrough

Agent connections now track draining state. Connection selection prefers non-draining connections and falls back to draining connections when needed. Shutdown and rebalancing send GOAWAY through the connection manager. Rebalancing excludes draining connections from local counts.

Changes

Draining agent connection lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Connection state and live selection
internal/cluster-gateway/connection_manager.go, internal/cluster-gateway/connection_manager_test.go
AgentConnection exposes mutex-protected draining state. Get and GetForCR prefer non-draining candidates and fall back when all eligible candidates are draining. Tests cover state transitions, selection, send failures, and concurrent draining.
GOAWAY draining integration
internal/cluster-gateway/connection_manager.go, internal/cluster-gateway/server.go, internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go
Shutdown and rebalancing send GOAWAY through ConnectionManager.DrainConnection. Rebalancing excludes already-draining connections from local counts. Tests cover successful and failed GOAWAY writes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 130bd

Connection selection prefers live eligible connections while preserving fallback and authorization behavior. The concurrent test's false-failure concern is resolved; no merge-blocking issue remains identified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 130bd

The change preserves certificate-based routing authorization and does not add an externally callable draining endpoint. A limited recovery-state concern remains: a failed repeated drain can undo the state established by an earlier successful drain, allowing requests to target that connection again.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A failed repeated or overlapping DrainConnection call unconditionally clears the connection's draining flag, even if another invocation already sent GOAWAY successfully. Shutdown's snapshot includes already-draining connections, so repetition is not excluded by the production callers. This can defeat the new selection-containment guarantee until socket cleanup. The state-transition defect is source-supported; its production frequency and security impact are unproven.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A mistaken draining-state recovery affects routing through that registered connection and the plane/CR identities it is authorized to serve. The inspected transition does not grant additional identities, credentials, or cross-tenant authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Agent registration retains authentication and per-CR certificate validation before connection registration. Draining is initiated by server lifecycle code, while request selection retains authorization filtering; exported method visibility alone does not establish attacker reachability.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Keeping connections registered preserves in-flight response ownership, and close/unregister bounds the lifetime of inconsistent draining state. These controls limit the recovery concern, but do not make failed-send rollback ownership-aware.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make draining idempotent and recovery ownership-aware so a failed attempt cannot reverse an earlier successful drain. Validate the transition across repeated shutdown/rebalance calls and mixed successful and failed sends.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning PR #4594 implements the core coding requirements in issue [#4582]. AgentConnection stores draining state. Get and GetForCR prefer non-draining connections and fall back to draining connections w… Add an automated load test that sends sustained traffic through the specified proxy endpoint while restarting the agent deployment. Assert that the test reports zero agent connection closed before responding errors.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the required Conventional Commits format and clearly describes the main change: excluding connections from selection after GOAWAY.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required Purpose, Approach, Related Issues, Checklist, and Remarks sections. It explains the problem, implementation, preserved in-flight handling, and test coverage. Opti…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue [#4582]. The draining state, selection preference, fallback behavior, GOAWAY transition, rebalancer handling, shutdown handling, and related tests directly support the is…
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PR #4594 implements the core coding requirements in issue [#4582]. AgentConnection stores draining state. Get and GetForCR prefer non-draining connections and fall back to draining connections when required. DrainConnection marks connections after successful GOAWAY handling and preserves registration until socket closure. Pod shutdown, rebalancing, and automated tests cover these behaviors. The PR provides no sustained-traffic load test through /api/proxy/{planeType}/{planeID}/{namespace}/{crName}/k8s/... during agent deployment restarts. It also provides no evidence of zero agent connection closed before responding errors.

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internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go (1)

2416-2442: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover failed GOAWAY writes.

Both tests cover only successful writes. Add a failing SendRawMessage case and assert that its connection remains non-draining. This protects the required success-only state transition.

  • internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go#L2416-L2442: make one rebalance candidate fail its GOAWAY write and assert it remains selectable.
  • internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go#L2461-L2465: make one shutdown-drain candidate fail its GOAWAY write and assert it remains non-draining.
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In `@internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go` around lines 2416 - 2442, Extend the
rebalance test around s.rebalanceOnce so one candidate’s SendRawMessage GOAWAY
write fails, then assert that connection remains non-draining and selectable;
also update internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go lines 2461-2465 to cover a
failed shutdown-drain GOAWAY write and assert that candidate remains
non-draining. Keep the existing successful-write assertions intact.

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In `@internal/cluster-gateway/connection_manager.go`:
- Line 314: The connection selection checks in Get and GetForCR must be
serialized with draining transitions. Add a manager-level drain operation that
acquires ConnectionManager.mu, and use it in both GOAWAY handling paths instead
of calling SetDraining directly, so selection cannot return a connection after
it has begun draining.

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In `@internal/cluster-gateway/server_test.go`:
- Around line 2416-2442: Extend the rebalance test around s.rebalanceOnce so one
candidate’s SendRawMessage GOAWAY write fails, then assert that connection
remains non-draining and selectable; also update
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In `@internal/cluster-gateway/server.go`:
- Around line 502-503: Make the GOAWAY transition atomic with connection
selection by replacing the separate SetDraining calls with the
connection-manager operation that publishes the draining state while holding the
selection lock. Apply this at internal/cluster-gateway/server.go lines 502-503
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In `@internal/cluster-gateway/connection_manager_test.go`:
- Line 1079: Refactor TestConnectionManager_DrainConnection_AtomicWithSelection
into smaller cohesive helpers by extracting the fixture setup and/or concurrent
selector workload, while keeping the drain behavior and assertions unchanged.
Preserve the existing test coverage and make setup, worker lifecycle, draining,
and verification independently identifiable for easier failure diagnosis.
- Line 1121: Remove the post-selection IsDraining check from the selection
assertions around the conditions at lines 1121 and 1125, so selections made
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