🐛elbv2: wait for LB active state instead of resolving DNS name

Using DNS name resolution as a way to check the load balancer is working
can cause problems that are dependent on the host running CAPA. In some
systems, the DNS resolution can fail with very large TTLs cached DNS
responses, causing very long provisioning times.

Instead of DNS resolution, let's use the AWS API to check for the load
balancer "active" state. Waiting for resolvable DNS names should be left
for the clients to do.

controllers/awscluster_controller.go

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ package controllers
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
-	"net"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
@@ -288,13 +287,6 @@ func (r *AWSClusterReconciler) reconcileLoadBalancer(clusterScope *scope.Cluster
 		return &retryAfterDuration, nil
 	}
 
-	clusterScope.Debug("Looking up IP address for DNS", "dns", awsCluster.Status.Network.APIServerELB.DNSName)
-	if _, err := net.LookupIP(awsCluster.Status.Network.APIServerELB.DNSName); err != nil {
-		clusterScope.Error(err, "failed to get IP address for dns name", "dns", awsCluster.Status.Network.APIServerELB.DNSName)
-		conditions.MarkFalse(awsCluster, infrav1.LoadBalancerReadyCondition, infrav1.WaitForDNSNameResolveReason, clusterv1.ConditionSeverityInfo, "")
-		clusterScope.Info("Waiting on API server ELB DNS name to resolve")
-		return &retryAfterDuration, nil
-	}
 	conditions.MarkTrue(awsCluster, infrav1.LoadBalancerReadyCondition)
 
 	awsCluster.Spec.ControlPlaneEndpoint = clusterv1.APIEndpoint{

controllers/awscluster_controller_unit_test.go

@@ -395,31 +395,6 @@ func TestAWSClusterReconcileOperations(t *testing.T) {
 				g.Expect(err).To(BeNil())
 				expectAWSClusterConditions(g, cs.AWSCluster, []conditionAssertion{{infrav1.LoadBalancerReadyCondition, corev1.ConditionFalse, clusterv1.ConditionSeverityInfo, infrav1.WaitForDNSNameReason}})
 			})
-			t.Run("Should fail AWSCluster create with LoadBalancer reconcile failure with WaitForDNSNameResolve condition as false", func(t *testing.T) {
-				g := NewWithT(t)
-				awsCluster := getAWSCluster("test", "test")
-				runningCluster := func() {
-					networkSvc.EXPECT().ReconcileNetwork().Return(nil)
-					sgSvc.EXPECT().ReconcileSecurityGroups().Return(nil)
-					ec2Svc.EXPECT().ReconcileBastion().Return(nil)
-					elbSvc.EXPECT().ReconcileLoadbalancers().Return(nil)
-				}
-				csClient := setup(t, &awsCluster)
-				defer teardown()
-				runningCluster()
-				cs, err := scope.NewClusterScope(
-					scope.ClusterScopeParams{
-						Client:     csClient,
-						Cluster:    &clusterv1.Cluster{},
-						AWSCluster: &awsCluster,
-					},
-				)
-				awsCluster.Status.Network.APIServerELB.DNSName = "test-apiserver.us-east-1.aws"
-				g.Expect(err).To(BeNil())
-				_, err = reconciler.reconcileNormal(cs)
-				g.Expect(err).To(BeNil())
-				expectAWSClusterConditions(g, cs.AWSCluster, []conditionAssertion{{infrav1.LoadBalancerReadyCondition, corev1.ConditionFalse, clusterv1.ConditionSeverityInfo, infrav1.WaitForDNSNameResolveReason}})
-			})
 		})
 	})
 	t.Run("Reconcile delete AWSCluster", func(t *testing.T) {

controllers/helpers_test.go

@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ func mockedCreateLBV2Calls(t *testing.T, m *mocks.MockELBV2APIMockRecorder) {
 		LoadBalancerArn: lbArn,
 		SecurityGroups:  aws.StringSlice([]string{"sg-apiserver-lb"}),
 	})).MaxTimes(1)
+	m.WaitUntilLoadBalancerAvailableWithContext(gomock.Any(), gomock.Eq(&elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{
+		LoadBalancerArns: []*string{lbArn},
+	})).MaxTimes(1)
 }
 
 func mockedDescribeTargetGroupsCall(t *testing.T, m *mocks.MockELBV2APIMockRecorder) {

pkg/cloud/services/elb/loadbalancer.go

@@ -121,6 +121,17 @@ func (s *Service) reconcileV2LB(lbSpec *infrav1.AWSLoadBalancerSpec) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	wReq := &elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{
+		LoadBalancerArns: aws.StringSlice([]string{lb.ARN}),
+	}
+	s.scope.Debug("Waiting for LB to become active", "api-server-lb-name", lb.Name)
+	waitStart := time.Now()
+	if err := s.ELBV2Client.WaitUntilLoadBalancerAvailableWithContext(context.TODO(), wReq); err != nil {
+		s.scope.Error(err, "failed to wait for LB to become available", "time", time.Since(waitStart))
+		return err
+	}
+	s.scope.Debug("LB reports active state", "api-server-lb-name", lb.Name, "time", time.Since(waitStart))
+
 	// set up the type for later processing
 	lb.LoadBalancerType = lbSpec.LoadBalancerType
 	if lb.IsManaged(s.scope.Name()) {

pkg/cloud/services/elb/loadbalancer_test.go

@@ -2275,6 +2275,9 @@ func TestReconcileV2LB(t *testing.T) {
 					},
 					nil,
 				)
+				m.WaitUntilLoadBalancerAvailableWithContext(gomock.Any(), gomock.Eq(&elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{
+					LoadBalancerArns: aws.StringSlice([]string{elbArn}),
+				})).Return(nil)
 			},
 			check: func(t *testing.T, lb *infrav1.LoadBalancer, err error) {
 				t.Helper()
@@ -2476,6 +2479,10 @@ func TestReconcileV2LB(t *testing.T) {
 					LoadBalancerArn: aws.String(elbArn),
 					Subnets:         []*string{},
 				}).Return(&elbv2.SetSubnetsOutput{}, nil)
+
+				m.WaitUntilLoadBalancerAvailableWithContext(gomock.Any(), gomock.Eq(&elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{
+					LoadBalancerArns: aws.StringSlice([]string{elbArn}),
+				})).Return(nil)
 			},
 			check: func(t *testing.T, lb *infrav1.LoadBalancer, err error) {
 				t.Helper()
@@ -2658,6 +2665,12 @@ func TestReconcileLoadbalancers(t *testing.T) {
 					},
 					nil,
 				)
+				m.WaitUntilLoadBalancerAvailableWithContext(gomock.Any(), gomock.Eq(&elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{
+					LoadBalancerArns: aws.StringSlice([]string{elbArn}),
+				})).Return(nil)
+				m.WaitUntilLoadBalancerAvailableWithContext(gomock.Any(), gomock.Eq(&elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{
+					LoadBalancerArns: aws.StringSlice([]string{secondElbArn}),
+				})).Return(nil)
 			},
 			check: func(t *testing.T, firstLB *infrav1.LoadBalancer, secondLB *infrav1.LoadBalancer, err error) {
 				t.Helper()