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fix: surface reconcile errors as Degraded condition on EtcdCluster status#395

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An EtcdCluster failing every reconcile could be invisible in .status: the ownership and unsupported-upgrade-path errors returned a nil state so the deferred status update never ran (completely empty status), while errors from later phases — e.g. an invalid TLS validityDuration failing during certificate creation — did update status but reported a misleading Degraded=False/ClusterHealthy because conditions were derived from member health alone. This returns a populated state on those early error paths (omitting a StatefulSet the operator does not own so its replica counts cannot leak into status), captures the cluster-state phase error for the deferred update, and threads the reconcile error into the status update so Degraded=True with reason ReconcileFailed and the error message. Tested with go test ./internal/... including new Reconcile-level tests through a fake client with the status subresource.


PR series — operability fixes & TLS

Small single-purpose PRs from live kind-cluster testing of the operator. Each stands alone unless an After is listed. → = this PR.

PR Lands After
Reviewable now — small, any order
🟢 #374 Requeue instead of swallowing the client-cert provisioning error
🟢 #391 Grant events.k8s.io RBAC so operator Events are actually recorded
🟢 #392 Correlate members[]/leaderID from one health snapshot (consistent leader)
🟢 #393 Propagate user-supplied altNames.ipAddresses into certificates
🟢 #394 Accept day-suffix validityDuration (365d, 100d12h) as documented
🟢→ #395 Surface early reconcile errors as a Degraded condition (was empty status)
🟢 #379 Configurable reconcile worker pool (--max-concurrent-reconciles)
🟢 #369 kind-based stress/scale e2e harness (1/3/7 members, churn, quorum watcher)
TLS stack — in order
🟢 #376 Independent spec.tls.{peer,client} surfaces (breaking alpha API)
#377 TLSReady condition + TLS lifecycle Events #376
#378 Multi-member TLS quorum e2e + PeerCANotShared #377
Parked as drafts pending #363
#382 Per-cluster domain metrics on the operator /metrics endpoint
#384 EtcdCluster admission webhooks (consolidating with #328) #363
#386 EtcdBackup CR → object storage (S3/GCS) #363
#387 Automatic quorum-loss disaster recovery (bootstrap-latch guarded) #363

🟢 ready · ⚪ draft

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An EtcdCluster stuck on a persistent reconcile error was invisible in
.status: fetchAndValidateState returned a nil state on the ownership and
upgrade-path error paths so the deferred status update never ran, leaving
the status completely empty. Errors from later phases (e.g. an invalid TLS
validityDuration failing with "failed to parse ValidityDuration" during
certificate creation) did reach the status update, but updateConditions
derived Degraded solely from member health and reported ClusterHealthy
while every reconcile failed; the cluster-state phase error was never even
seen by the deferred update.

Return a populated reconcileState on the early error paths (omitting a
StatefulSet the operator does not own so its replica counts cannot leak
into status), capture the cluster-state phase error for the deferred
update, and thread the reconcile error into updateStatus/updateConditions,
setting Degraded=True with reason ReconcileFailed and the error message.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Lange <xrlange@gmail.com>
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