fix(ci): recover deploy tests from vcluster tunnel drops

[xianlubird]

Overview

Harden deploy-test CI against transient vCluster port-forward outages. This preserves the useful test failure, retries recoverable tunnel failures, and uploads enough tunnel diagnostics to investigate future incidents.

Details

• Retry transient vCluster API failures while listing pods and deleting test deployments.
• Preserve the original setup or test exception only when cleanup fails with a known vCluster transport error; unexpected cleanup defects are re-raised.
• Rebuild the frontend pod port-forward and retry the final inference request once on transport failure.
• Retain timestamped vCluster port-forward logs and capture tunnel health/PID diagnostics in failure artifacts.
• Write watchdog-triggered restart output to the dedicated watchdog log.

Failure evidence

The motivating failure was sglang Deploy Test / agg_router on PR #13512 (workflow run 33703673466, job 100490130697). The relevant log is also embedded below so the diagnosis remains available if the source PR is updated or its checks are rerun:

2026-09-03T01:41:27Z Deployment sglang-agg-router has Ready condition True and state successful
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z exc_type = <class 'httpx.RemoteProtocolError'>
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z exc_val  = RemoteProtocolError('Server disconnected without sending a response.')
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py:1773: in __aexit__
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z     await self._cleanup()
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py:1748: in _cleanup
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z     await self._delete_deployment()
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorError:
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z     Cannot connect to host 127.0.0.1:8443 ssl:default
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z     [Connect call failed ('127.0.0.1', 8443)]
2026-09-03T01:41:30Z FAILED tests/deploy/test_dgd.py::test_deployment[sglang-agg_router]
2026-09-03T01:41:34Z Cluster info dumped to .../test-output/cluster-info

The frontend request lost its connection after the deployment became Ready. Cleanup then hit the same local vCluster tunnel outage and masked the original request error. The successful cluster dump about four seconds later indicates that the outage was transient and the watchdog restored connectivity.

Where should the reviewer start?

• tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py: retry boundaries and cleanup exception handling.
• .github/actions/connect-vcluster/action.yml: timestamped initial/watchdog port-forward logs.
• .github/actions/dynamo-deploy-test/action.yml: failure artifact collection.
• tests/deploy/test_dgd_utils.py: recovery and exception-propagation coverage.

Related Issues

• Confirmed — no related issue. This was motivated by the CI failure observed on PR fix(operator): tolerate transient worker liveness failures #13512.

Validation

• uv run --no-sync python -m pytest -xvv tests/deploy/test_dgd_utils.py (7 passed)
• uvx pre-commit run --files .github/actions/connect-vcluster/action.yml tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py tests/deploy/test_dgd_utils.py
• git diff --check

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Walkthrough

The pull request improves vCluster diagnostics and resilience. It appends timestamped port-forward logs, captures failure state, retries transient API failures, rebuilds failed port-forwards, and preserves original test exceptions during cleanup.

Changes

vCluster resilience

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Port-forward logging and failure diagnostics .github/actions/connect-vcluster/action.yml, .github/actions/dynamo-deploy-test/action.yml	Port-forward starts append UTC timestamps and output. Failure diagnostics collect logs, health endpoint results, and process status.
Connection retries and cleanup handling tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py	Pod listing and deployment deletion retry transient connection failures. Cleanup logs secondary errors while preserving the original exception.
Port-forward request recovery and validation tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py, tests/deploy/test_dgd.py, tests/deploy/test_dgd_utils.py	Inference requests rebuild a failed port-forward and retry once. Tests cover retries, deletion, cleanup, and request recovery.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 56ecb

The deploy-test resilience changes improve recovery from transient tunnel failures, but unexpected cleanup defects may be hidden and watchdog restart details may be absent from their intended diagnostic artifact. These are bounded CI diagnosability and cleanup risks that should be addressed before relying on the new failure evidence.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/actions/connect-vcluster/action.yml:
- Around line 147-148: Update the watchdog restart block to use the watchdog log
destination passed as its second argument, `${WATCHDOG_LOG}`, for both the
restart marker and restarted kubectl output, while preserving the existing
port-forward behavior.

In `@tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py`:
- Around line 1791-1794: In tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py#L1791-L1794, narrow the
stop() cleanup handler to documented recoverable exceptions; in `#L1849-L1853` and
`#L1864-L1867`, preserve the setup or test error only for expected cleanup
failures, while logging and re-raising unexpected cleanup exceptions. Update the
relevant port-forward cleanup handlers without altering normal cleanup behavior.

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[xianlubird]

The CI failure is unrelated to this PR's code. The arm64 sequential job reached 96% without a test assertion failure, then the self-hosted runner reported 'Executing the custom container implementation failed'. The subsequent artifact-upload steps failed with the same runner error. dynamo-status-check only propagated that job failure. The same arm64 job passed on main at the PR's merge base, so this appears to be an infrastructure flake.

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