🐛 [BUG] - flaky catalog E2E test

[mikolajkucinski]

Priority

(Low) Something is a little off

Description

Description

The Catalog E2E tests are flaky.

Root cause:

The catalog controller returns lifecycle.Success before flux resources (ExternalArtifact, Kustomization) are fully ready. The setStatus() conditioner runs afterward and correctly sets Ready=False, but it cannot trigger a requeue since EnsureCreated() already returned. The controller then waits for the next scheduled reconcile instead of retrying promptly. Additionally, redundant status updates in setStatus() trigger watch events that can interfere with the reconciliation timing.

Reproduction steps

for i in {1..20}; do
  echo "=== Run $i/20 ==="
  SCENARIO=catalog make e2e-local 2>&1 | tail -5
done

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[abhijith-darshan]

@mikolajkucinski Sound reasoning.

Could you also link the lines of codes for redundant status updates in setStatus() ?