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Description of the change:
implements per-CSV healthcheck retry backoff approaches. In order to attempt to split the difference between responsiveness and not pummeling the cluster with checks, it becomes necessary to track and pursue backoff individually per CSV.

Motivation for the change:
By design, OLMv0 is pretty aggressive about assessing health of deployed CSVs. In some cases with either constrained capacity or arbitrary event limits, this can add noise to an eventually-consistent process.
https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-127050 identified cases where the event count was deemed pathological.

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  • Reliability
    • Strategy errors that indicate an installation is still waiting now trigger retries with progressively longer delays, starting at 10 seconds and capped at 5 minutes. Delays are tracked separately for each installation.
    • Other strategy errors continue to trigger immediate retries and reset the delay sequence.
    • Retry delays reset when an installation becomes healthy or is deleted.

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The operator now applies per-CSV exponential backoff to waiting strategy errors, starting at 10 seconds and capped at 5 minutes. Other strategy errors trigger immediate requeues and clear backoff state. Successful install checks and CSV deletion also clear that state.

Changes: CSV health-check backoff

Layer / File(s) Summary
Backoff and strategy-error routing
pkg/controller/operators/olm/health_check_backoff.go
A keyed rate limiter tracks exponential delays per CSV, from 10 seconds up to 5 minutes. Waiting strategy errors use delayed requeues. Other strategy errors clear the backoff and requeue immediately.
Operator lifecycle integration and validation
pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go, pkg/controller/operators/olm/health_check_backoff_test.go
The operator initializes and uses the backoff, then clears its entry after successful install checks or CSV deletion. Tests cover delay growth, per-CSV isolation, resets, and requeue behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant requeueAfterStrategyError
  participant csvHealthCheckBackoff
  participant csvQueueSet
  Operator->>requeueAfterStrategyError: Pass CSV key and strategy error
  alt Waiting strategy error
    requeueAfterStrategyError->>csvHealthCheckBackoff: Get next delay for CSV key
    csvHealthCheckBackoff-->>requeueAfterStrategyError: Return exponential delay
    requeueAfterStrategyError->>csvQueueSet: Request delayed requeue
  else Other strategy error
    requeueAfterStrategyError->>csvHealthCheckBackoff: Forget CSV key
    requeueAfterStrategyError->>csvQueueSet: Request immediate requeue
  end
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Some unhealthy CSVs may be checked more frequently than intended. The impact is bounded, but the reset should occur only after all install checks pass.

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Review comments at @pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go:
- Around line 2621-2624: Move the `healthCheckBackoff.forget(key)` call out of
the `strategyErr == nil` check near `CheckInstalled`; a successful strategy
check alone does not mean all install checks passed. Reset the per-CSV backoff
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  • pkg/controller/operators/olm/health_check_backoff.go
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Comment on lines +2621 to +2624
key := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: csv.GetNamespace(), Name: csv.GetName()}
if strategyErr == nil {
a.healthCheckBackoff.forget(key)
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '2590,2720p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go
sed -n '1,110p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/health_check_backoff.go
rg -n 'func .*CheckInstalled|CheckInstalled\(' pkg/controller/operators/olm pkg/controller/install

Repository: operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager

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printf '%s\n' '--- resolver.go ---'
sed -n '1,115p' pkg/controller/install/resolver.go
printf '%s\n' '--- deployment CheckInstalled and nearby helpers ---'
sed -n '180,285p' pkg/controller/install/deployment.go
printf '%s\n' '--- strategy error declarations/usages ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'StrategyErrReasonWaiting' -e 'ReasonForError' -e 'requeueAfterStrategyError' pkg/controller
printf '%s\n' '--- focused operator tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'updateInstallStatus' -e 'healthCheckBackoff' -e 'StrategyErrReasonWaiting' pkg/controller/operators/olm pkg/controller/install

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printf '%s\n' '--- callers and surrounding control flow ---'
sed -n '2315,2390p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go
sed -n '2390,2455p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go
sed -n '2480,2545p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go
printf '%s\n' '--- availability helpers ---'
rg -n -F -e 'func (a *Operator) areAPIServicesAvailable' -e 'func (a *Operator) areWebhooksAvailable' pkg/controller/operators/olm
sed -n '2550,2625p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go
printf '%s\n' '--- backoff tests ---'
sed -n '1,165p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/health_check_backoff_test.go
printf '%s\n' '--- error contract ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- API service availability ---'
sed -n '320,390p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/apiservices.go
printf '%s\n' '--- webhook availability ---'
sed -n '545,610p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/apiservices.go
printf '%s\n' '--- test installer binding ---'
sed -n '75,135p' pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator_test.go
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'func NewTestInstaller' -e 'NewTestInstaller(' pkg/controller/operators/olm

Repository: operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager

Length of output: 7621


Reset health backoff only after all install checks pass.

CheckInstalled only validates the deployment strategy. It can return no error while an APIService or webhook is still unavailable. The current reset then clears the CSV backoff before those checks run. A later waiting error can therefore restart at 10 seconds instead of using the next per-CSV delay.

Suggested fix
 	now := a.now()
 	key := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: csv.GetNamespace(), Name: csv.GetName()}
-	if strategyErr == nil {
-		a.healthCheckBackoff.forget(key)
-	}
 
 	if strategyErr != nil {
 		a.logger.WithError(strategyErr).Debug("operator not installed")
 	}
@@
 	if strategyInstalled && apiServicesInstalled && webhooksInstalled {
+		a.healthCheckBackoff.forget(key)
 		// if there's no error, we're successfully running
 		csv.SetPhaseWithEventIfChanged(v1alpha1.CSVPhaseSucceeded, v1alpha1.CSVReasonInstallSuccessful, "install strategy completed with no errors", now, a.recorder)
 		return nil
 	}
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Review comment at @pkg/controller/operators/olm/operator.go around lines 2621 -
2624:
Move the `healthCheckBackoff.forget(key)` call out of the `strategyErr == nil`
check near `CheckInstalled`; a successful strategy check alone does not mean all
install checks passed. Reset the per-CSV backoff only in the branch where
`strategyInstalled`, `apiServicesInstalled`, and `webhooksInstalled` are all
true, before returning success.

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Closing this, because olmv0 is in maintenance mode

@grokspawn grokspawn closed this Oct 19, 2026
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