fix(ratelimiter): keep rate-limit counters across pod replacement

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TL;DR

Rate-limit counters were lost whenever the pods holding them were replaced, so a rolling upgrade of the ratelimiter silently handed every caller a fresh budget. This keeps a backup copy of each counter, hands a terminating pod's counters to the surviving members, and stops reporting a pod ready before it has joined the cluster.

Why

Counters live only in the ratelimiter's Olric cluster memory, one copy each, on whichever member owns that key's partition. Two properties combine badly:

• The Olric replica count was never set, so it defaulted to 1. No backup copy exists, and losing the owning member erases the counters it held.
• Olric only puts data on a member when a write lands on it. Its balancer moves a partition when the current holder stops owning it, but nothing back-fills a member that joined while a counter sat idle. A freshly started pod therefore holds nothing for existing counters.

So replacing every pod in turn drops every counter. The next check finds no key, treats it as a new window, and admits a full budget again. Nothing logs it and no metric distinguishes it from a legitimately new window.

Measured with three pods and a function limited to 10 per hour: spend 4, replace all three pods, invoke again, and all 10 further calls are admitted, so 14 pass against a limit of 10. Interleaving a single request between replacements preserves the counter, confirming writes are the only path that seeds a new member.

What changed

Four parts. None is sufficient alone, and the correctness lives in the service rather than in per-deployment config.

• The Olric replica count defaults to 2 in the service, so each counter has a backup wherever it runs. Read and write quorums stay at 1 so a degraded cluster keeps serving checks. rateLimiter.olricReplicaCount overrides it.
• On SIGTERM the pod reports unready, waits for the Service to drop it, stops serving gRPC, then re-writes each entry so the put path replicates it to the members that own it now. Incr with a zero delta is used rather than Get plus Put because it is atomic per key and preserves the TTL. The hand-off is budgeted to fit the default 30s grace period, so no deployment has to raise it.
• Readiness now reports unready until this member has joined the cluster. A member on its own counts against an empty view and cannot receive a hand-off. This also paces rolling updates: with maxUnavailable: 0, the next pod is not replaced until the new member is in the cluster, which removes the need for a minReadySeconds timer.
• The chart pins maxSurge: 1 and maxUnavailable: 0 so a live member always exists to receive the hand-off. The percentage defaults allow an unavailable pod at some replica counts.

Replication covers abrupt death where no hand-off is possible, the hand-off covers graceful death where replication alone would not seed the new pods, and readiness plus the surge give the hand-off a destination.

Deployment

• Self-hosted: chart upgrade, no values changes required.
• Managed (astro, which deploys the image without this chart): image bump only. The replica count defaults in the service, the hand-off fits the 30s grace period already in use, and the readiness probe is already wired, so no envConfig or grace-period changes are needed.

What this fixes

Each scenario uses a fresh counter limited to 10 per hour: spend 4, perturb the cluster, then send 10 more. "10 admitted" means the limit held exactly, with denials after.

Scenario	Before	After
No churn (control)	10 admitted	10 admitted
Graceful kill of 1 pod	10 or 14, depending on which pod owned the key	10 admitted
Graceful kill of 2 pods	14 admitted	10 admitted
Graceful kill of all 3 pods	14 admitted	10 admitted
kubectl rollout restart, no traffic during it (x2 runs)	14 admitted	10 admitted
Scale 3 to 2 to 3	not measured	10 admitted
SIGKILL of 1 pod	not measured	10 admitted
SIGKILL of all 3 pods, one at a time	not measured	10 admitted

What this does not fix

• Losing every member at the same instant. Deleting all three pods simultaneously with --grace-period=0 admits 14 against a limit of 10, in every run. Counters are held in memory and nothing is persisted, so when every copy disappears at once there is nothing to recover from. Whole-cluster restarts and losing every pod's node together fall in this category.
• Members dying faster than the cluster redistributes. Sequential loss is safe because each removal gives the survivors time to re-own and re-copy the partitions. Compress that interval far enough and it degrades toward the simultaneous case.
• Counter accuracy under concurrency. The counter path is a non-atomic read-modify-write (Get then Put in olric_store.go), so simultaneous checks for the same key can lose an increment. That predates this change and is untouched here. Switching that path to Incr would fix it and is worth a follow-up.
• Durability as a guarantee. This makes counters survive pod replacement; it does not make them durable. If rate limits ever need to be exact across arbitrary failures, that calls for a persistent shared store rather than an in-memory grid.

Customer Release Notes

Rate limits are now enforced correctly across ratelimiter pod restarts and rolling upgrades. Previously a rollout reset every counter, letting callers exceed their configured limit for the duration.

Plan Summary

The ratelimiter Deployment gains maxSurge: 1, maxUnavailable: 0, and terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 60. Rollouts of this service become slower by design, because each new member must join the cluster and pass readiness before the next pod is replaced.

Usage

rateLimiter.olricReplicaCount overrides the service default of 2. Empty uses the default.

Testing

Unit tests cover the drain preserving values and TTLs, and the empty-store case. The scenario table above was run end to end against a self-hosted control plane and compute plane, driving the ratelimiter gRPC API directly, with no minReadySeconds set, so the pacing comes from readiness alone. QA on an amd64 cluster is still worth doing since local coverage was arm64.

Pre-existing and unrelated: TestRateLimiterService/testNoRateLimit in ratelimiter/cmd fails on clean main as well, so it is not addressed here.

Notes

• Readiness is now a cluster-membership check, so a misjudged condition here would keep pods out of service. It gates on membership only, not on partitions or backups being fully distributed.
• Scan iterates the whole keyspace rather than only this member's keys, so each terminating pod re-writes every counter. That is cheap at current key counts and worth revisiting if the keyspace grows.
• Drain reports through logs (Drained counters), not metrics. Metrics emitted during termination are unlikely to be scraped before the pod exits.

References

Closes #975

Related Pull Requests

None

Dependencies

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added configurable counter replication.
  • Added graceful shutdown draining to preserve rate-limit counters during deployments.

• Reliability

  • Health checks report the service as unavailable while draining or when cluster membership is unavailable.
  • Deployments now use controlled rolling updates and readiness safeguards.

• Configuration

  • Added configurable replica counts and a 60-second termination grace period.
  • Replica counts can be explicitly configured or use the service default.

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The Helm chart configures Olric replicas and rollout timing. The rate limiter marks itself unready, stops gRPC gracefully, and drains Olric counters before shutdown. Tests cover counter preservation, TTL retention, empty stores, key redaction, and health handler arguments.

Changes

Rate limiter counter preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Helm rollout and replica configuration deploy/helm/ratelimiter/nvcf-ratelimiter/templates/_helpers.tpl, deploy/helm/ratelimiter/nvcf-ratelimiter/templates/deployment.yaml, deploy/helm/ratelimiter/nvcf-ratelimiter/values.yaml	The chart configures rolling updates, termination grace periods, and the Olric replica count. It passes OLRIC_REPLICA_COUNT to the container.
Counter replication and health checks src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/rate_limiter.go, src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/cmd/main.go	The rate limiter accepts Olric replica settings, applies a default, configures quorum values, and reports unhealthy when Olric has no members.
Counter drain implementation and validation src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go, src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store_test.go	Store.Drain rewrites existing keys with zero-delta increments while preserving TTLs. Logs redact subjects. Tests cover populated and empty stores, TTL retention, and key redaction.
Graceful shutdown and health transition src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/cmd/main.go, src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/cmd/info_test.go	Shutdown marks the service as draining, returns 503 from health checks, stops gRPC gracefully, and drains counters with timeouts. Health handler tests pass the atomic draining state.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 704ad

This change alters counter replication, shutdown handoff, readiness, and rollout behavior to preserve rate limits across pod replacement, but current code can still lose counters when handoff writes fail, mishandle traffic during endpoint removal, or deploy with insufficient replication; it also risks exposing client identity data in drain logs. These correctness, availability, deployment, and security risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Suggested reviewers: sanjay-saxena

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Kubernetes
  participant RateLimiter
  participant HealthMux
  participant GRPCServer
  participant Store

  Kubernetes->>RateLimiter: send shutdown signal
  RateLimiter->>HealthMux: set draining state
  HealthMux-->>Kubernetes: return 503 Service Unavailable
  RateLimiter->>GRPCServer: stop gracefully
  RateLimiter->>Store: drain counters
  Store-->>RateLimiter: return drain result

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Test the draining health response.

These changes only update /info test setup. They do not test the new /health branch at Lines 186-190.

Add a test that sets draining to true, requests /health, and expects 503 Service Unavailable. This test can pass nil for rateLimiter because the draining branch returns before it accesses the limiter.

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Inline comments:
In `@deploy/helm/ratelimiter/nvcf-ratelimiter/templates/_helpers.tpl`:
- Around line 157-164: Update the nvcf-ratelimiter.olricReplicaCount helper to
default to 2 when autoscaling is enabled, maxReplicas is greater than 1, and no
explicit olricReplicaCount is set, including the existing replicaCount condition
as appropriate; otherwise preserve the current defaults. Add a chart-render test
covering replicaCount 1 with autoscaling enabled and maxReplicas greater than 1.

In `@deploy/helm/ratelimiter/nvcf-ratelimiter/templates/deployment.yaml`:
- Around line 97-101: Update the environment-variable rendering near
OLRIC_REPLICA_COUNT so rateLimiter.env cannot emit that reserved name a second
time; preserve the chart-derived OLRIC_REPLICA_COUNT value, preferably by
filtering or rejecting the conflicting generic entry. Add a Helm chart-render
test covering rateLimiter.env containing OLRIC_REPLICA_COUNT and verify the
rendered manifest has no duplicate variable name and retains the derived value.

In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/cmd/main.go`:
- Around line 118-144: Update drainAndStop so gRPC shutdown runs asynchronously
with a bounded deadline, invokes server.Stop when GracefulStop exceeds that
deadline, and only then begins Store.Drain. Ensure drainReadinessDelay and the
gRPC shutdown plus drainTimeout fit within the 60-second termination grace
period, add coverage for the forced-stop timeout path, and update shutdown
documentation if the sequence has changed.

In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store_test.go`:
- Around line 31-33: Add an integration test alongside the existing store tests
that starts an owner, writes counters, joins a replacement member, invokes
Drain, stops the owner, and verifies the replacement member preserves both
counter values and TTLs; configure Olric ReplicaCount explicitly above the
default when testing replica survival, and reuse the existing test-store setup
and counter APIs.

In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go`:
- Around line 174-183: Update Store.Drain to retry non-olric.ErrKeyNotFound Incr
failures while ctx remains active, track failed keys, and return an aggregated
wrapped error containing the failed-key count instead of reporting success;
preserve missing-key handling and successful drain counting. Remove the warning
log for errors that are returned, and add coverage for mixed successful and
failed keys.

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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/cmd/info_test.go`:
- Around line 45-63: Add a test for the draining branch of newHealthServeMux:
initialize an atomic draining flag as true, issue a GET request to /health with
a nil rateLimiter, and assert the response status is 503 Service Unavailable.
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In `@deploy/helm/ratelimiter/nvcf-ratelimiter/values.yaml`:
- Around line 35-37: Update the ratelimiter chart’s effective Olric
replica-count handling so single-pod deployments default to one copy instead of
inheriting the application default of two. Derive the value from
rateLimiter.replicaCount, use that effective value consistently for the
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/cmd/main.go`:
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configured period, failure threshold, and endpoint propagation before invoking
GracefulStop or Store.Drain. Update the shutdown flow and add a test verifying
that no new RPC reaches the draining pod before Store.Drain begins.
- Around line 272-275: Update the Olric configuration near ReplicaCount and
WriteQuorum so WriteQuorum requires both copies by setting it to 2 for the
two-replica setup, ensuring acknowledged counter increments have a successful
backup write. Add coverage for member loss after an acknowledged increment and
verify the increment is not lost.

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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go`:
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store_test.go`:
- Around line 69-84: The test around store.Drain should verify that Drain
preserves each key’s remaining TTL, not merely that a TTL exists. Capture the
TTL for keys “a” and “b” before calling Drain, then compare post-drain TTLs
against those values while allowing for elapsed-time tolerance, retaining the
existing counter assertions.

In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go`:
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