## What

Consolidated landing branch for a set of interdependent platform/CI
stabilization fixes. It began as the source PRs in the table below (in
dependency order) and has since grown with review-driven fixes and a few
production-behavior changes — the full current inventory is under
**Scope** below. Landing them as one unit lets CI run against the real
combined state instead of a fragile bottom-up merge train.

## Source PRs (dependency order)

| # | Commit | Source PR | Addresses |
|---|--------|-----------|-----------|
| 1 | fix(capi): startupProbe on capi-controller-manager | #2946 | capi
crashloop during cert provisioning |
| 2 | test(e2e): bucket.bats port-forward + S3 client reliability |
#2944 | flaky bucket test |
| 3 | fix(seaweedfs): restore -lock BucketClass, s3 svc name, drop
volumeSizeLimitMB | #2943 | missing bucket/access classes |
| 4 | test(e2e): in-cluster Cilium endpoint-leak healer (install + apps)
| #2874 | cilium "IP already in use" leak |
| 5 | refactor(build): mode=max registry cache + main-only warmer |
#2938 | build cache |
| 6 | ci(build): isolate each PR build on its own ephemeral runner VM |
#2939 | shared-buildkit contention |
| 7 | fix(e2e): LINSTOR post-install waits on a single 15m deadline |
#2928 | LINSTOR provisioning timeouts |
| 8 | test(metallb): assert digest-pinned image form, not version
literal | #2873 | brittle metallb assertion |

## Why consolidated

These form a dependency DAG (verified from CI logs): e.g. 2943 needs
2946, 2938 needs 2874, 2928 needs 2938/2939, 2873 needs 2928. Tested
bottom-up, each lower PR runs with none of the fixes above it and can't
go green alone. This branch carries all of them, so CI runs against the
real combined state.

## Verification status

CI is green on the latest head (`5653c30`): full-suite E2E passes
end-to-end and is reproducible (2 of 3 runs on this SHA green). The one
red run was a LINSTOR tie-breaker / DRBD-metadata infra flake on the
sandbox, unrelated to the diff — a different environmental subsystem
failed each run (details in the comments below). The earlier 3-hour
crust-gather snapshot hang is fixed in `5653c30`.

## Scope beyond the original 8

The branch has grown past the 8 source PRs above with review-driven
fixes and a few production-behavior changes. For reviewer transparency,
the full set:

**Review fixes (@lexfrei review):**
- **B1 (blocker)** — `8f41910` converts the SeaweedFS
`-lock`/`-readonly` BucketClasses and the s3 service-name override into
`patches/`, wired into `make update`, so a re-vendor no longer drops
them.
- **FU1** — `cc99230` grants the cilium leak-healer `delete` on pods
(both delete remedies were RBAC-forbidden).
- **FU3** — `014de3f` adds a unit test for the HelmRelease update
conflict-retry path.
- **FU4** — `6deddc6` makes the leak-healer refuse a disconnect for any
non-terminal owner phase, not just `Running`.
- **FU7** — `f3914d2` sets `persist-credentials: false` on the
build-cache checkout (SHA-pinning is handled repo-wide in #2849).

**Production-behavior changes (not in the table above):**
- VPA `updateMode: Auto → Initial` for etcd (`6e9ff90`) and monitoring
(`0997105`), plus `vmselect`/`vmstorage` `minAllowed` floors — stops
install-time eviction churn.
- cozystack-api: `retry.RetryOnConflict` on the Application→HelmRelease
update path (`728f676`).

**E2E robustness follow-ups:** per-test crust-gather snapshots
(`50e5f94`), EtcdBackupSchedule wait (`763b85e`), tenant-node
single-deadline wait (`9e43d45`), harbor BucketClaim 10m budget
(`d7f244f`), tenant API via LoadBalancer (`9beda4e`), crust-gather pin
(`95f42aa`).

**Not addressed (by decision):** FU2 — the s3 Service keeps
`seaweedfs.name`-based naming via patch (rendered output unchanged;
cozystack renders `fullname == seaweedfs`, so it matches the
`componentName`/`fullname` siblings in practice). FU6 — fork PR build
push is handled by the existing mirror-to-same-repo-branch workflow.

## Relates to

#2946 #2944 #2943 #2874 #2938 #2939 #2928 #2873 — if this lands, those
can be closed; otherwise they remain the granular per-PR review path.


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Added CI build cache warming for main branch builds.
* Added a best-effort in-cluster Cilium endpoint self-heal watchdog for
e2e installs.
* Extended SeaweedFS COSI with object-lock support plus separate
readonly access.

* **Improvements**
* Reduced e2e install flakiness with a shared readiness deadline, safer
waits, and improved cleanup/diagnostics capture.
* Prevented install-time churn by switching VPA update mode to
**Initial**.
  * Added container startup probes and updated SeaweedFS volume sizing.

* **Tests**
* Improved e2e robustness (etcd backup schedule waiting, digest-pinned
image checks, and corrected S3 port-forwarding).
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

…stack#2939)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Myasnikov Daniil <myasnikovdaniil2001@gmail.com>

Reconcile the parallel-matrix PR build (#2983) with main, which since this branch
diverged landed a competing single-VM build restructure (#2939) and
test-impact-analysis E2E (#2559). Per maintainer decision, #2983's matrix build
supersedes #2939:

- .github/workflows/pull-requests.yaml: keep #2983's
  plan/checks/build(matrix)/build-talos/finalize jobs; keep main's newer
  resolve_assets/e2e (carrying #2559 test-impact E2E). The build->e2e artifact
  interface (pr-patch + talos-image) is identical on both sides, so e2e depends
  on finalize/build-talos with no input rewiring. main's top-level permissions
  and SHA-pinned action refs applied across all jobs.
- All other files merged cleanly (only pull-requests.yaml conflicted).

Signed-off-by: Myasnikov Daniil <myasnikovdaniil2001@gmail.com>