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Track transition error on concurrent bridge update

Fabio Pitino requested to merge track-transition-errors-in-bridge-status into master

What does this MR do?

Related to #207234 (closed) (post-regression issue)

Related to #198354 (closed) (original issue)

Related to #202239 (closed) (related issue)

Scenario: Let's consider that a bridge uses strategy:depend to mirror the status of the downstream pipeline, and the downstream pipeline is dropped during the creation because of activity_limit_exceeded. The downstream pipeline status transition to failed triggers a status update on the bridge job asynchronously. The same occurs in Ci::CreateCrossProjectPipelineService#execute when we check if the downstream pipeline failed to be created and we drop also the bridge job.

Fix: Rescue and track any possible state machine transition errors that can occur when updating the bridge job after a downstream pipeline is created. This is important to understand whether we have race conditions on bridge status updates. We expect race conditions to only occur for the same status transition.

  • This change is a temporary stop-gap to avoid that the Ci::CreateCrossProjectPipelineService raises the exception and causes the worker to retry.
  • In a different MR we should define status updates only in one place to avoid concurrent status updates.

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

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Edited by Fabio Pitino

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