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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe lease package adds bounded retries for Boskos 5xx errors. Blocking operations use a retrying client. Immediate acquisition and heartbeat use the direct client. Tests cover classification, backoff, cancellation, exhaustion, and lease flow. ChangesBoskos retry support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Release retries can hold the shared lease lock for up to five minutes, delaying heartbeats and other lease operations and potentially causing active leases to expire. This creates a high-impact merge-readiness risk that should be fixed before merging; the retry timeout calculation also needs a small correction. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 17✅ Passed checks (17 passed)
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In `@pkg/lease/retrying_client.go`:
- Around line 37-46: Update retryingBoskosClient.Acquire so it does not retry an
operation lacking an idempotency key; return the original delegate.Acquire error
immediately, or introduce and consistently reuse a stable request ID if the
underlying API supports idempotency. Add a test covering a server error after
the lease is created and verify no second Acquire attempt occurs.
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- Adds
pkg/lease/retry.go: exponential backoff (retryConfig,retryOnServerError) retrying only on 5xx errors, matched via regex on the error string. - Adds
pkg/lease/retrying_client.go:retryingBoskosClientwraps every Boskos client method (Acquire,AcquireWaitWithPriority,UpdateOne,ReleaseOne,ReleaseAll,Metric) with retry logic, each with its own ~5 minute timeout. pkg/lease/client.gonow routes all Boskos calls, including insideHeartbeat()andAcquireIfAvailableImmediately, through the wrapped client.
The retry mechanism itself is sound and well-tested, but wrapping every Boskos call uniformly introduces two regressions worth fixing before merge (see blocking items below).
Blocking
Heartbeat holds the client lock for up to N×5min during an outage — pkg/lease/client.go:163-180
func (c *client) Heartbeat() error {
c.Lock()
defer c.Unlock()
var errs []error
for name, lease := range c.leases {
err := c.boskos.UpdateOne(name, leasedState, nil)
...Heartbeat() takes c.Lock() for the entire loop over c.leases, and each UpdateOne call now goes through the retry wrapper, which can block up to maxTotalTime (~5 min) per lease on sustained 5xx errors. With N active leases during a Boskos outage, Heartbeat() can hold the lock for N×5 minutes, blocking Release, ReleaseAll, and Leases (which all also take c.Lock()) for the whole outage — the opposite of "not blocking CI jobs indefinitely."
AcquireIfAvailableImmediately's non-blocking contract is broken — pkg/lease/client.go:148-159, pkg/lease/retrying_client.go:36-44
func (c *client) AcquireIfAvailableImmediately(rtype string, n uint, cancel context.CancelFunc) ([]string, error) {
var ret []string
for i := uint(0); i < n; i++ {
r, err := c.boskos.Acquire(rtype, freeState, leasedState)AcquireIfAvailableImmediately is documented as "does not block, and only leases the resources if they are available right away." It calls c.boskos.Acquire, now wrapped by retryingBoskosClient.Acquire, which retries for up to maxTotalTime (~5 min) on 5xx. During a Boskos blip this silently turns a documented non-blocking call into a multi-minute blocking one.
Should fix
Hand-rolled backoff duplicates k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait — pkg/lease/retry.go:29-121
retryConfig/retryOnServerError reimplement context-aware exponential backoff with sleeping. k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait is already vendored and used elsewhere in this repo (e.g. pkg/steps/source.go:575, wait.ExponentialBackoff), which already covers deadline/context-aware backoff loops. Was this considered and found insufficient?
Nit
context.WithTimeout + defer cancel() boilerplate repeated 4x — pkg/lease/retrying_client.go:36-79
The pattern ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), r.cfg.maxTotalTime); defer cancel() is duplicated verbatim in Acquire, UpdateOne, ReleaseOne, ReleaseAll/Metric. A small helper (e.g. r.withTimeout(func(ctx) error) error) would remove the duplication.
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isRetryableServerError's regex correctly scopes to 5xx only (4xx, connection errors, sentinel errors likeErrNotFoundpass through unretried).AcquireWaitWithPrioritycorrectly threads the caller's ownctxintoretryOnServerErrorrather than creating a fresh background context, unlike the other four methods.- Integration tests cover retry-then-succeed and retry-exhausted paths at the client wrapper level.
Open questions
- Should
Heartbeat()retry at all, or release the lock between per-lease updates / drop to the upstream ~14s retry for this path specifically, given it already has its own failure-count-based retry mechanism (updateFailures/c.retries)? - Should
AcquireIfAvailableImmediatelybypass the retry wrapper (call the delegate directly) to preserve its non-blocking contract? - Is there a specific incident or requirement (e.g. observed Boskos 5xx blip length) that motivated 5 minutes as
maxTotalTime, and was the lock-holding/non-blocking-contract interaction considered?
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In `@pkg/lease/client.go`:
- Around line 104-105: Update Release and ReleaseAll to avoid holding c.Lock()
while invoking retrying c.boskos.ReleaseOne calls; snapshot or remove the
relevant lease state under the global lock, perform release retries outside it,
and preserve synchronization through narrower per-lease coordination where
needed so Heartbeat and other lease operations remain responsive.
In `@pkg/lease/retry.go`:
- Around line 83-90: Move the deadline initialization in retryOnServerError
before the initial fn() call so cfg.maxTotalTime covers the entire operation and
retry sequence. Add a regression test using the fake clock where the initial
operation advances time beyond the deadline, verifying no retry begins after
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not hold the lease lock across retrying release calls.
Release and ReleaseAll hold c.Lock() while calling c.boskos.ReleaseOne. After this assignment, a persistent 5xx can hold the lock for up to five minutes. Heartbeat and other lease operations then wait on the same lock, so active leases can miss heartbeats and expire.
Keep release retries, but coordinate the release outside the global lease lock or add narrower per-lease synchronization.
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In `@pkg/lease/client.go` around lines 104 - 105, Update Release and ReleaseAll to
avoid holding c.Lock() while invoking retrying c.boskos.ReleaseOne calls;
snapshot or remove the relevant lease state under the global lock, perform
release retries outside it, and preserve synchronization through narrower
per-lease coordination where needed so Heartbeat and other lease operations
remain responsive.
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When the Boskos leasing server returns a 5xx HTTP error (e.g. 502 Bad Gateway), the upstream Boskos client retries for only ~14 seconds before giving up. This is too short to survive transient outages, which can kill dozens of CI jobs simultaneously. Add a retry utility that detects 5xx errors from the upstream Boskos client's error messages and retries with exponential backoff. The default configuration targets ~5 minutes of total retry time with backoff progression: 5s, 10s, 20s, 40s, 60s (capped), which is long enough to ride out brief Boskos hiccups without blocking CI jobs indefinitely. The retry logic is context-aware: it respects cancellation during backoff sleeps and uses a fake-clock interface for deterministic testing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce a retryingBoskosClient decorator that wraps the boskosClient interface and retries operations that fail with 5xx HTTP errors using the exponential backoff utility added in the previous commit. The decorator is injected in NewClient, so both the direct ci-operator lease acquisition path and the lease proxy path benefit from retries without any changes to the proxy layer (which remains a "dumb server" delegating to the lease client). Methods with a caller-supplied context (AcquireWaitWithPriority) use that context for cancellation. Methods without a context create their own with a timeout matching the configured retry window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add tests that exercise the retryingBoskosClient decorator at two levels: 1. Per-method tests verifying that each boskosClient method (Acquire, AcquireWaitWithPriority, UpdateOne, ReleaseOne, ReleaseAll, Metric) correctly retries on 5xx errors, passes through non-5xx errors, and gives up after exhausting the retry window. 2. An end-to-end test that wires the retrying wrapper into the full lease.Client stack (retryingBoskosClient → client → Acquire → Heartbeat → Release), verifying that a transient 502 during acquire is retried transparently while heartbeat and release still work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
When the Boskos leasing server returns a 5xx error (most commonly 502 Bad Gateway),
ci-operatorfails the lease acquisition immediately with no retry. This makes every brief Boskos outage — even lasting just 2-5 seconds — fatal for all jobs attempting to acquire leases at that moment.Because the release controller launches all payload verification jobs simultaneously, a single Boskos hiccup during the thundering herd of lease acquisitions kills the entire verification run. On August 20, 2026, this caused 39 jobs to fail within a single minute across multiple build clusters and lease types.
The SHIP Status dashboard has tracked 10 leasing-server Down outages since March 2026 (~every 2-3 weeks), and additional brief outages fly under the monitoring threshold entirely.
Solution
Add a
retryingBoskosClientdecorator that wraps the upstreamboskosClientinterface with exponential backoff retry logic for 5xx errors:ErrNotFound,ErrTypeNotFound, and connection errors pass through immediatelyNewClient(), so both the direct ci-operator path and the lease proxy path benefit without any changes to the proxy layerArchitecture
The retry is implemented at the
boskosClientinterface boundary, which sits between the ci-tools leaseClientand the upstreamsigs.k8s.io/boskos/client. The upstream client already has its own short retry (~14 seconds, 4 attempts), but that's insufficient for outages lasting 2-5+ minutes.By wrapping at this layer:
boskosClientCommits
retry.go+retry_test.go: the core retry loop, 5xx detection regex, configurable backoff, context-aware sleepretrying_client.go+ 1-line change inclient.go: the decorator wrapping all 6boskosClientmethodsretrying_client_test.go: 21 test cases covering success, 502 retry, 4xx passthrough, context cancellation, timeout exhaustion, and all client methodsRelated Issues
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Summary
The lease client now retries Boskos operations that fail with HTTP 5xx errors. It uses exponential backoff from 5 seconds to a capped 60 seconds for up to approximately five minutes.
The retry wrapper covers blocking lease acquisition, updates, releases, and metrics. Immediate acquisition and heartbeat operations retain direct-client behavior. The client returns 4xx errors, not-found errors, and connection errors immediately. Context cancellation stops the retry wait.
This improves CI job reliability during temporary Boskos service failures without delaying non-retryable failures. Unit and integration tests cover retry behavior, cancellation, timeout exhaustion, and the complete lease lifecycle.