Backport 'Clean up orphan indices in elastic test teardown' (19.0)

What does this MR do and why?

Backports the Elasticsearch test-teardown orphan-index cleanup fix to the 19-0-stable-ee branch.

  • !240598 (merged) — Clean up orphan indices in elastic test teardown (712a9e191547)

Why

On 19-0-stable-ee, ee/spec/lib/gitlab/elastic/bulk_indexer_spec.rb (and other :elastic specs) fail consistently during setup with:

RuntimeError: Index or alias under 'gitlab-test-projects' already exists.
# ee/lib/search/elastic/helper.rb: create_index
# ee/spec/support/elastic.rb: create_standalone_indices

The test teardown's delete_indices! listed indices to delete via aliases (client.cat.aliases). An orphan index (an index left without an alias, e.g. by a test that crashed between index creation and alias assignment) is never returned, so it is never deleted. The next :elastic group's create_standalone_indices then raises "already exists" and every example in that group fails.

The fix lists all gitlab-test* indices directly (client.cat.indices) and deletes them, catching orphans. This is a test-only change — no product code, no changelog.

Note

This is an unrelated pre-existing test-infrastructure failure surfacing on the 19-0-stable-ee pipeline; it is not caused by any product change. Fixed on master / 19.2 and absent from 19.0 and 19.1. Backported so the stable pipelines are green.

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  • This MR is backporting a bug fix, documentation update, or spec fix, previously merged in the default branch.
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Edited by Terri Chu

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