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Adds a DrainBlocked condition on the NodeWright so PDB rejections, unmanaged pods, and emptyDir pods that are stalling a node's drain are visible on the CR immediately, instead of only showing up in operator logs. A PDB rejection is now treated as a self-resolving wait state rather than a reconcile error — it no longer aborts the pass or trips exponential backoff — and the operator retries every 30s while any node is drain-blocked, instead of the usual 2s.

Closes #541

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operator/internal/drain/drain.go New BlockReason, BlockedPod, and DrainResult types describing why a pod is blocking drain (PodDisruptionBudget, UnmanagedPod, EmptyDirData)
operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go DrainNode now returns drain.DrainResult (instead of bool) carrying the blocked pods for this pass; classifyEvictionRejection detects a PDB rejection (HTTP 429 + DisruptionBudgetCause) and reports it as a block rather than an error; EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt and ProcessInterrupt thread the accumulated []wrapper.DrainBlockedNode for the pass up to RunSkyhookPackages, which sets the condition once after the node loop and requeues at 30s while any node is blocked
operator/internal/wrapper/skyhook_conditions.go Adds SkyhookConditionDrainBlocked, plus DrainBlockedConditionReason / DrainBlockedConditionMessage to render the aggregate condition (nodes affected, and per-pod detail for PDB causes)
operator/internal/controller/cluster_state_v2.go UpdateDrainBlockedCondition(blocks []wrapper.DrainBlockedNode) sets or clears the condition from this pass's findings
docs/architecture/interrupt-flow.md Documents the new condition, its reasons, and its interaction with the existing Blocked condition
Mocks Regenerated for the updated SkyhookNodes interface

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  • go vet ./...
  • go test ./... (including the internal/controller envtest suite)

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Closes #541

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The controller now classifies PDB, unmanaged-pod, and emptyDir drain blockers. It aggregates blockers by node and publishes the DrainBlocked condition. PDB rejections remain retryable wait states. Drain APIs now return structured readiness and blocker details. Tests and architecture documentation cover the new behavior. Generated mocks use any arguments and improved test-helper handling.

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Change: Feature

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PDB-blocked drains may generate excess eviction traffic or delay unrelated work, and skipped reconciliations can leave stale DrainBlocked status visible to users. Generated mocks also omit required license headers. Merge readiness is moderate pending retry and condition-persistence fixes.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning For #541, the PR implements the main blocker classification and persists per-node blocker data. It adds the aggregate DrainBlocked condition, blocker reasons, PDB detail text, independent Blocked … Implement a drain-blocked-specific retry interval of 30 seconds, or implement the approved alternative if #632 changes this requirement. Add automated tests for blocker classification, reason and message generation, and DrainBlocked condi…
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The mock changes required by #541 include SkyhookNodes, SkyhookNode, and SkyhookNodeOnly support for the new drain-blocker methods. The PR also changes unrelated generated DAL, client, dynamic, … Keep only generated changes required by the new drain-blocker interfaces. Revert unrelated mock churn, or regenerate only required artifacts with the correct tool configuration and preserved SPDX license headers.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exposing PDB, unmanaged pod, and emptyDir drain blockers through a new DrainBlocked condition.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the DrainBlocked condition, blocker types, retry behavior, implementation changes, documentation updates, testing, and linked issue.
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For #541, the PR implements the main blocker classification and persists per-node blocker data. It adds the aggregate DrainBlocked condition, blocker reasons, PDB detail text, independent Blocked handling, clearing, node continuation, and interrupt-flow documentation. The controller summary shows serial processing requeues after 2 seconds and does not show a separate drain-blocked retry interval. Documentation alone does not establish the required 30-second drain-blocked retry. The test summary also does not establish coverage for blocker classification, condition message generation, or condition set and clear behavior.

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Implement a drain-blocked-specific retry interval of 30 seconds, or implement the approved alternative if #632 changes this requirement. Add automated tests for blocker classification, reason and message generation, and DrainBlocked condition set and clear behavior.

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The mock changes required by #541 include SkyhookNodes, SkyhookNode, and SkyhookNodeOnly support for the new drain-blocker methods. The PR also changes unrelated generated DAL, client, dynamic, event-recorder, and workqueue mocks. Those changes replace interface{} with any, add Helper() calls, and remove SPDX license headers without supporting the DrainBlocked feature.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 3263-3268: Update the ProcessInterrupt blocker aggregation so each
NodeName produces only one wrapper.DrainBlockedNode, merging blocked package
details when the same node is encountered multiple times. Ensure the condition
summary counts unique blocked nodes rather than interrupt packages, while
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- Line 1403: Update the serial-package return path in the reconcile flow so it
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- Around line 1414-1418: Update the NodeWright reconcile retry logic around
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Two things to fold in here, both consequences of #582 (the podNonInterruptLabels pre-drain barrier) merging just ahead of this one. Posting them now so they are on the record before review.

1. Consolidate NonInterruptPodsRunning onto DrainBlocked

#582 surfaces its barrier as Blocked with reason NonInterruptPodsRunning. #542 asked for that reason to live on the DrainBlocked type this PR introduces — "whichever is second should not introduce a parallel type" — and #541 makes the same argument from this side: "a NodeWright can be both dependency-blocked and drain-blocked at once, and a single condition type cannot represent that."

We are merging #582 as-is rather than holding it, on the understanding that this PR consolidates before the next operator release. Nothing user-visible ships in between, so the churn is internal. On rebase:

  • Move the reason onto SkyhookConditionDrainBlocked. The barrier returns before DrainNode is ever called, so it is not a drain.BlockedPod decision — it needs either a new drain.BlockReason or a separate field on DrainBlockedNode. Worth deciding what DrainBlockedConditionReason should return when a barrier hold coexists with a PDB rejection; today that collapses to MultipleCauses, which may be the right answer or may bury the more actionable cause.
  • Delete updateDrainBlockedCondition and nodeNeedsInterruptDrain. EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt already has the blocking pod names, and ProcessInterrupt already carries your *[]wrapper.DrainBlockedNode — appending there replaces the entire aggregate pass, along with its second List of pods per node per reconcile and its RunNext-based re-derivation of which nodes are at the barrier.
  • Delete the deferral guard and RemoveSkyhookConditionTypeAndReason, and restore the unconditional RemoveSkyhookConditionTypes(..., SkyhookConditionBlocked) in UpdateBlockedCondition. All three exist only because two writers were sharing one condition slot.
  • Retire fix(operator): surface Blocked condition and event when non-interrupt… #582's "preserves an unrelated Blocked condition" specs. They encode the workaround as intended behavior; kept as-is they would actively defend the parallel-type outcome.
  • Update the CRD field description in operator/api/nodewright/v1alpha1/nodewright_types.go (and regenerate), the chart mirror, and the Blocked reason list in docs/architecture/operator-status.md — all name Blocked today.

2. DrainBlocked can strand True with no writer left to clear it

UpdateDrainBlockedCondition is only reached at the end of RunSkyhookPackages. That function is skipped entirely for paused and disabled Skyhooks in processSkyhooksPerNode, returns early at if !changed && skyhook.IsComplete() before SelectNodes is called, and returns on every error path inside the node loop.

So: a NodeWright blocked draining that is then paused keeps DrainBlocked=True indefinitely. Same if the blocker clears in the same pass the Skyhook reaches complete, or if the pass errors out before the loop finishes. The condition outlives the condition it describes, and kubectl describe then reports a drain blocker that no longer exists.

This is the same failure mode I raised as blocking on #582. The clear wants to run somewhere unconditional — refreshSkyhookConditions at the top of Reconcile is where the other conditions do it — with only the set path fed from the pass's findings.

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Reviewed the code. The DrainBlocked condition is the right shape and the PDB classification is what #541 asked for — the findings below are about how it is wired in, not about the idea.

1. The branch carries a bad rebase

operator/deps.mk is +26/-0: the previous block of tool pins is back, sitting above the current one. ?= is first-wins, so what actually builds is kustomize v5.4.1, controller-tools v0.21.0, ginkgo v2.28.1, mockery v3.7.0, helm v4.1.4, helmify v0.4.12, envtest v0.24.1, ctlptl v0.9.4 (undoing #611, merged four commits before this branch) and govulncheck v1.3.0.

That is why nine mocks unrelated to this change are in the diff, and why all ten regenerated mock files lost their SPDX/Apache-2.0 headers — license-header-check skips files carrying the generated marker, so CI stays green and the loss is silent. Every generated artifact here came out of those downgraded tools, so this needs sorting before the generated files can be judged at all.

2. The condition is published from a place that does not always run

Beyond the pause/disable/complete paths in my previous comment: spec.serial returns from inside the node loop, before the publish at the end of RunSkyhookPackages. Serial NodeWrights therefore never set the condition, and never clear one they are already carrying.

That is now three distinct exits that skip it. Worth deciding where this condition's write belongs rather than patching each exit as it turns up.

3. What the condition contains is neither stable nor bounded

Three symptoms, likely one pass over the collection site and the message builder:

  • A node is recorded once per interrupt-bearing package rather than once per node, because the package loop continues after a blocked node. A single-node NodeWright with two such packages reports 2/1 nodes blocked draining (node-a, node-a) with duplicated detail lines.
  • The node list is sorted; the per-pod detail lines are not. Node order comes from a compartment map and pod order from the informer store, so the message reshuffles between otherwise identical passes and writes status every time. UpdateBlockedCondition sorts specifically to avoid this.
  • The node list is capped at ReadyConditionNodeListLimit; the detail lines are uncapped. .status.conditions[].message carries maxLength: 32768, so a large enough blocked set fails the status update outright — the operator stops being able to report status exactly when the cluster is most blocked.

4. The requeue change

Filed as #632 with the analysis. Short version: Reconcile is whole-world and returns one ctrl.Result for the entire cluster, so a per-NodeWright interval cannot be expressed here — processSkyhooksPerNode keeps the last non-nil result, so whether the 30s or the 2s survives depends on iteration order. I would drop the RequeueAfter change from this PR and land the condition on its own; #632 covers the replacement throttle.

5. DrainNode discards the blockers it collected when anything errors

if len(errs) > 0 returns a zero-valued DrainResult, dropping the blocked slice. A node with both a PDB-held pod and an unrelated transient delete failure reports no blockers at all — the condition is emptiest in the case where it is most needed.

6. None of the new behavior is tested

The test diff is 22+/22-, entirely drained → result.Ready. No test anywhere references DrainBlocked, BlockReason or result.Blocked, so classifyEvictionRejection, blockReasonFromDrainReason, the reason/message builders and the set/clear path are all uncovered — and two of the bugs above would have been caught by a single table test over the message builder.

Worth noting so the ask stays realistic: envtest runs no kube-controller-manager, so a PDB's disruptionsAllowed is never computed and the real 429 cannot be produced there. Unit coverage of the pure helpers plus an assertion on the existing "should wait without deleting unmanaged pods when force is false" spec is the achievable shape.

Small, specific

  • operator/internal/wrapper/skyhook_conditions.go:316 — the doc comment justifies the type as "kept independent of the controller package's nodeDrainBlock", but nodeDrainBlock does not exist anywhere in the tree. Drop the clause or name the real constraint.
  • docs/architecture/operator-status.md — "Other Condition Types" needs a DrainBlocked entry. It is the catalog page for exactly this, and AGENTS.md names it required reading.
  • operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md — no entry. Reclassifying a PDB rejection from error to wait state is user-visible ([FEA]: Surface drain blockers (PDB, unmanaged pods, emptyDir) as a DrainBlocked condition #541 says so explicitly), and a new condition type is worth discovering. That is the "behavior they will notice" test in AGENTS.md.
  • Not blocking, but flagging the pattern: ProcessInterrupt's drainBlocks *[]wrapper.DrainBlockedNode out-param silently no-ops when nil, and both updated specs pass nil. EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt one frame below already returns its blockers by value.

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🟠 Major · Persist collected blockers before returning the drain error. · skyhook_controller.go:1383-1385

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Persist collected blockers before returning the drain error.

DrainNode can return collected blockers with an unrelated eviction or deletion error. EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt and ProcessInterrupt preserve and merge those blockers before returning the error. This return exits the package loop before UpdateDrainBlockedCondition and SaveNodesAndSkyhook. The caller only aggregates the error, so the blockers are not published.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 1383 - 1385,
The error return in the package-processing loop should pass through the same
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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Line 3318: Update mergeDrainBlockedNode so the blocked entries appended to
each node are deduplicated by namespace, pod name, and blocker reason before
merging; preserve distinct Detail values only when those identity fields differ,
and ensure duplicate entries do not consume the ten-detail limit.
- Around line 1399-1410: Update processSkyhooksPerNode to finalize each Skyhook
through a common path, including paused, disabled, complete, and
RunSkyhookPackages error or early-return paths. Ensure this path passes an empty
drainBlocks list when no blockers are found, calls UpdateDrainBlockedCondition,
and persists the cleared condition with SaveNodesAndSkyhook; preserve the
existing serial-mode finalization behavior without duplicate updates.

In `@operator/internal/wrapper/skyhook_conditions.go`:
- Around line 392-394: Update the blocker rendering logic around the b.Detail
empty check to use b.Reason as the detail when no explicit detail is present,
rather than skipping the blocker. Ensure every blocker from DrainNode, including
unmanaged and emptyDir blockers, is rendered with its pod namespace and name in
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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go`:
- Around line 1383-1385: The error return in the package-processing loop should
pass through the same condition-update and persistence finalization used by
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…zer with optimistic lock; retry runtime-required taint removal

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…DrainBlock; fix test call sites for updated DrainNode/EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt/ProcessInterrupt signatures

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- Around line 1543-1544: Update the requeue logic around the controller’s
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if serialStop || !skyhook.IsComplete() || requeue {
return &ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: time.Second * 2}, nil // not sure this is better then just requeue bool

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use the drain-block retry interval.

A DrainBlocked result keeps skyhook.IsComplete() false. This branch therefore requeues every blocked drain after two seconds. The required 30-second retry is never selected.

Track drain-only waiting separately from other pending work. Use the 30-second interval only when blocked drains are the remaining retry reason.

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In `@operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go` around lines 1543 - 1544,
Update the requeue logic around the controller’s serialStop,
skyhook.IsComplete(), and requeue checks to track drain-only waiting separately
from other pending work. Select the 30-second drain-block retry interval when
blocked drains are the sole remaining retry reason, while preserving the
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if !skyhook.IsComplete() || requeue {
if serialStop || !skyhook.IsComplete() || requeue {
return &ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: time.Second * 2}, nil // not sure this is better then just requeue bool

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Nothing throttles eviction retries for a PDB-blocked drain, and the doc added in this PR says otherwise.

classifyEvictionRejection (line 2727) turns the 429 into a non-error blocker, so controller-runtime's exponential backoff never engages. ProcessInterrupt returns ok=false → requeue = true → this line returns RequeueAfter: 2s unconditionally. With a PDB at 0 allowed disruptions and spec.drainConfig.timeout unset, the operator POSTs an eviction for every blocked pod on every blocked node every 2 seconds, indefinitely.

To be clear about the fix — please do not just restore the unconditional 30s requeue. CodeRabbit asked on 2026-09-16 (line 1418) not to do that, because a single drain blocker then also stalls healthy nodes that need the 2s retry for package/interrupt progress. That ask is right. What is needed is what it actually proposed: track drain-blocked separately from requeue, and use the longer interval only when a blocked drain is the sole remaining retry reason.

Independent of which interval wins, docs/architecture/interrupt-flow.md:222-224 still states "the operator retries roughly every 30 seconds instead of the usual 2 seconds, so an untimed drain does not hammer the eviction API while a PDB holds." That is false at head and needs updating in this PR.

ok, err := r.ProcessInterrupt(ctx, node, f, interrupt, interrupt != nil && f.Name == pack, &drainBlocks)
if err != nil {
// TODO: error handle
return nil, fmt.Errorf("error processing if we should interrupt [%s:%s]: %w", f.Name, f.Version, err)

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The error path merges blockers into drainBlocks and then throws them away.

DrainNode now returns DrainResult{Blocked: blocked} alongside the aggregate error, EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt forwards it, and ProcessInterrupt merges it into drainBlocks — then this line returns before line 1533 ever runs, so the whole slice is dropped.

Concretely: a node has one PDB-blocked pod plus one pod whose Delete fails with a 500. The blocker detail is captured correctly and then discarded, leaving the condition unset precisely when something is wrong.

Same root cause as the cluster_state_v2.go:637 comment — a common finalization path that also runs on the error exits fixes both.

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}

if serialStop {

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Routing serial through the common finalization is right; the remaining gap is that it runs against a partial node set.

To be explicit, I am not asking you to revert this — CodeRabbit asked on 2026-09-16 (line 1533) to stop returning early so serial reaches UpdateDrainBlockedCondition / SaveNodesAndSkyhook, and this break is the correct response.

The issue is what the condition is computed from. With spec.serial=true and 10 selected nodes where node-7 is PDB-blocked: the pass visits node-1, applies a package, sets serialStop, and breaks out of both loops before node-7 is ever examined. drainBlocks is empty → UpdateDrainBlockedCondition(nil) → RemoveSkyhookConditionTypes clears DrainBlocked. The next pass that does reach node-7 sets it back to True. The condition flips True/False across passes while the PDB never changes, and each flip is a status write — the exact churn the sort-order comment at skyhook_conditions.go:392-397 says it is trying to avoid.

A partial node set should not be able to clear the condition. Deriving from persisted per-node state (see the cluster_state_v2.go:630 note) would resolve this too.

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skyhookNode.SetStatus(v1alpha1.StatusErroring)
return false, nil
return drain.DrainResult{}, nil

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The drain-timeout branch drops the blocker detail at the moment it matters most.

This returns drain.DrainResult{} with Blocked nil, before the pod loop runs. With spec.drainConfig.timeout=10m and a PDB blocking default/web-0 on node-a: for 10 minutes the condition correctly reports the PDB cause, then at timeout node-a contributes nothing to drainBlocks — and if it was the only blocked node, DrainBlocked is removed entirely.

The node is now StatusErroring with a DrainTimeout event, but the CR no longer says what caused it. docs/architecture/interrupt-flow.md (added in this PR) calls DrainTimeout the only path that turns a stuck drain into an erroring node, so this is the case where a user most needs the detail retained.

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}
if truncated {
lines = append(lines, "(additional detail truncated; see controller logs)")

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This points the reader at controller logs, but nothing logs the blocked set.

git grep drainBlocks over the head tree turns up no logr call — the slice is constructed, merged, and passed to UpdateDrainBlockedCondition, and that is it. So with 15 blocked pods across 3 nodes, the message shows 10 lines plus this footer, and the remaining 5 exist in no output at all.

The doc comment at line 370 says "The full set is always available from nodes[].Blocked for logging by the caller" — but no caller does. updateTaintToleranceCondition in cluster_state_v2.go is the established pattern: it logs the full set before truncating. Either do that, or drop the pointer to logs from this string.

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 	if err := skyhook.UpdateUninstallConditions(); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error updating uninstall conditions: %w", err)
 	}
+	if _, saveErrs := r.SaveNodesAndSkyhook(ctx, clusterState, skyhook); len(saveErrs) > 0 {
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func (r *SkyhookReconciler) EnsureNodeIsReadyForInterrupt(ctx context.Context, skyhookNode wrapper.SkyhookNode, _package *v1alpha1.Package) (bool, []drain.BlockedPod, error) {

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Blocker — behavior bug

SetDrainBlocked is only reachable past two early returns, so the persisted annotation — and therefore the condition — can go permanently stale.

Cordon() returns at 3524 and hasWork returns at 3555, both before DrainNode. Neither touches the annotation, which is fine on the way in (nothing recorded yet) but not on the way back out.

The permanent case: node-a is recorded PDB-blocked, then someone removes the interrupt from that package. ProcessInterrupt now short-circuits at if !skyhookNode.HasInterrupt(*_package) { return true, nil } (3378), this function is never called again, and UpdateDrainBlockedCondition rebuilds DrainBlocked=True from the stale annotation on every reconcile for the life of the node — on a NodeWright that reaches complete. Uncordon(), the natural end-of-drain hook, does not delete the key either; only wrapper.Reset() and CleanupSCRMetadata do.

The recurring case: a podNonInterruptLabels pod starts on node-a, the hasWork branch returns before DrainNode, and the condition keeps naming a PDB pod that is no longer what is holding the drain.

This is the flip side of level-triggering off persisted state: the annotation now has to be cleared by whoever concludes the node is no longer drain-blocked, not only by the one path that re-runs the drain.

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// the condition itself is rebuilt from persisted per-node state (see below), which is
// what makes it level-triggered rather than dependent on reaching this line.
if totalBlockedPods := countBlockedPods(drainBlocks); totalBlockedPods > wrapper.ReadyConditionNodeListLimit {
logger.Info("DrainBlocked condition message truncated; full blocked set", "nodewright", skyhook.GetSkyhook().Name, "drainBlocks", drainBlocks)

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The guard counts this pass's findings; the message is built from every node's persisted annotation. They diverge, and then the footer points at a log line that was never written.

This is a genuine improvement on last round — a log now exists where none did — but not for the set the message is rendered from.

Twenty nodes carry persisted blockers, this pass reaches three (serialStop break, an IsNodeReadyForSkyhook skip, or nodes already past the apply stage). countBlockedPods(drainBlocks) == 3, the > ReadyConditionNodeListLimit guard never fires, nothing is logged. UpdateDrainBlockedCondition then builds from all twenty, DrainBlockedConditionMessage truncates past ten detail lines and appends (additional detail truncated; see controller logs), and FormatNodeList collapses the node list to (list truncated; see controller logs). The reader follows both pointers into nothing.

Worse: refreshSkyhookConditions publishes this same condition for paused, disabled and complete NodeWrights, none of which enter RunSkyhookPackages, so for those the log is unreachable by construction.

The key is also labelled "full blocked set" while carrying this pass's subset. Deriving the log from the same persisted state the condition is built from fixes the gate, the label, and the reachability in one move.

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[FEA]: Surface drain blockers (PDB, unmanaged pods, emptyDir) as a DrainBlocked condition

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