The gate asserted `--for=jsonpath='{.status.ready}'=2`. An Agones Fleet's
status carries replicas, readyReplicas, reservedReplicas and
allocatedReplicas -- there is no `ready` -- so the wait could never match
however healthy the Fleet was.
It failed in the most misleading way available: as "the Fleet never
became ready", which sent three separate investigations after the game
server. Two of those found genuine bugs, but the gate would have stayed
red with both fixed.
The evidence is in the previous CI run's own dump, which the new
per-container diagnostics produced: both GameServers Ready and stable for
5m6s, and the Fleet reporting DESIRED 2 / CURRENT 2 / READY 2, while
kubectl wait timed out beside it. That same dump also confirms the health
fix in 0de97381 worked -- those GameServers had been churning every ~20s
before it.
Assert the corrected jsonpath in test_fleet_manifests.py and reject the
old one, alongside the build-by-default behaviour, so neither silently
regresses.
Several independent causes, all of which had to be right before the
Fleet could reach Ready.
The supervisor pointed --sdk-base-url at 127.0.0.1:9357, which is the
Agones sidecar's gRPC port; its HTTP surface is 9358, and that is what
AGONES_SDK_HTTP_PORT carries and what agones_sdk.gd reads. An HTTP
client against the gRPC port could never have worked, in kind or in
production.
The supervisor also treated the sidecar's first incomplete /gameserver
response as fatal. The sidecar accepts requests before the controller
populates status.address and status.ports, so this produced a restart
loop precisely during normal Agones startup. It now polls until the
endpoint is assigned or ReadyTimeout elapses.
server_boot.gd started ServerControl and the Agones SDK only under
--allocated-mode, but the kind smoke deliberately strips that flag, so
nothing served the readiness probe and the GameServer could never become
Ready. Lifecycle now keys on AGONES_SDK_HTTP_PORT, which Agones injects
into every managed container, while allocation and roster semantics stay
tied to --allocated-mode. The SDK node is added to the tree
non-deferred, since start_health() creates a Timer immediately.
Fleet: Agones assigns its own SDK service account and masks that token
from the game container while keeping it for the injected sidecar, so
the manifest must not pin serviceAccountName or
automountServiceAccountToken. Godot stores user:// under HOME, so HOME
points at the writable runtime volume to keep the root filesystem
read-only, and fsGroup makes that volume writable for the non-root user.
Namespace: Agones' Dynamic port policy injects a hostPort, which both
the baseline and restricted Pod Security Standards forbid, so the
workload namespace enforces privileged while continuing to audit and
warn against restricted.
NetworkPolicy: the injected sidecar reaches the Kubernetes API over
HTTPS, and NetworkPolicy applies to the whole Pod rather than to the
container whose token was masked.
The kind runner creates the namespace before Helm so Agones can install
its per-namespace SDK RBAC, scopes gameservers.namespaces to it, forces
the allocator and ping Services to ClusterIP because LoadBalancer
ingress never becomes ready in plain kind, and labels the node so the
production Fleet's on-demand/zone constraints are exercised rather than
edited out of the rendered manifest.
Josh Creek