fix(operator): tolerate transient worker liveness failures

[xianlubird]

Summary

• require three consecutive failed worker liveness probes before restarting the Pod
• keep the liveness expectation aligned across controller and Grove PodSpec tests

This is deliberately split from #11083, which adds version-gated worker canary health checks. A single transient /live failure should not restart a worker, and this reliability change applies independently of that feature gate.

Validation

• go test ./internal/dynamo -count=1

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved worker health monitoring by requiring three consecutive liveness probe failures before restarting a worker.
  • Reduced unnecessary worker restarts caused by transient health-check failures.
• Tests
  • Updated deployment-generation tests to reflect the revised liveness probe behavior.

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[dynamo-ops]

/ok to test cdec429

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Devin Review found 1 potential issue.

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/ok to test 204da9b

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Walkthrough

The worker liveness probe failure threshold increases from 1 to 3. Related deployment-generation tests now expect the new threshold for worker leader and worker pod specifications.

Changes

Worker liveness configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update liveness threshold and expectations deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/component_worker.go, deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/graph_test.go, deploy/operator/internal/controller/dynamocomponentdeployment_controller_test.go	The worker liveness probe allows three consecutive failures. Deployment-generation tests expect a failure threshold of three.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 204da

This localized change makes worker restarts tolerate three consecutive liveness failures and updates the related expectations. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; it is merge-ready after normal checks, including the controller package test.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	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 clearly summarizes the main change: tolerating transient worker liveness failures.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/component_worker.go (1)

51-51: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a story comment for the liveness block.

Add one line above container.LivenessProbe that states the worker tolerates three consecutive probe failures before restart.

As per coding guidelines, “Put a one-line story comment above every multi-line block of logically connected code.”

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In `@deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/component_worker.go` at line 51, Add a
one-line story comment immediately above the container.LivenessProbe block
stating that the worker tolerates three consecutive probe failures before
restarting.

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In `@deploy/operator/internal/dynamo/component_worker.go`:
- Line 51: Add a one-line story comment immediately above the
container.LivenessProbe block stating that the worker tolerates three
consecutive probe failures before restarting.

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• deploy/operator/internal/controller/dynamocomponentdeployment_controller_test.go
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[tmonty12]

Could we gate this by runtime version, following runtimefeatures.CanaryHealthChecks in #11083?

For example, add an IncreasedWorkerFailureThreshold runtime gate and use Enabled(context.RuntimeVersion) when rendering the worker liveness probe. That preserves the existing threshold for unknown and legacy runtime images across an operator upgrade, while letting the new value roll out with adoption of the gated runtime version (or an explicit runtimeVersionOverride).

Please set its minimum version at or above minimumHashedRuntimeVersion, as #11083 does, so a gate decision cannot change a legacy worker generation without a hash-driven rollout.

[xianlubird]

Thanks, that makes sense. I’ll hold this PR until #11083 is merged, then rebase it and add the runtime-version gate for the increased worker failure threshold.