fix: improve error handling and logging for node rolling update detection

What does this MR do and why?

This MR improves the error handling of the workload cluster node rolling update detection job that runs after management cluster updates.

Key improvements:

  • Fixed logging reliability: Replaced exec redirection with wrapper approach to ensure output is captured even when commands fail early
  • Added robust error handling: Validates that the cluster-machines-ready kustomization exists before attempting to query it
  • Enhanced error messages: Shows available annotations when reconciliation timestamps are not found, improving debugging
  • Fixed namespace reference: Uses correct ENV_NAME variable for workload cluster namespace

Why this is needed:

The current implementation can fail silently or produce empty log files when kubectl commands fail immediately, making it difficult to debug issues. This MR ensures reliable logging and provides clear error messages when the expected Flux resources are missing.

CI configuration

Below you can choose test deployment variants to run in this MR's CI.

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Legend:

Icon Meaning Available values
☁️ Infra Provider capd, capo, capm3
🚀 Bootstrap Provider kubeadm (alias kadm), rke2, okd, ck8s
🐧 Node OS ubuntu, suse, na, leapmicro
🛠️ Deployment Options light-deploy, dev-sources, ha, misc, maxsurge-0, logging, no-logging, openbao
🎬 Pipeline Scenarios Available scenario list and description
  • 🎬 preview ☁️ capd 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu

  • 🎬 preview ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse

  • 🎬 preview ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capd 🚀 kadm 🛠️ light-deploy 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capd 🚀 rke2 🛠️ light-deploy 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 leapmicro

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 kadm 🎬 wkld-k8s-upgrade 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 rolling-update-no-wkld 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade-from-1.4.x 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade-from-1.4.x 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🛠️ ha,misc,openbao🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 ck8s 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🎬 rolling-update-no-wkld 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🎬 wkld-k8s-upgrade 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade-from-1.4.x 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🛠️ misc,ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade-from-1.4.x 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 ck8s 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2|okd 🎬 no-update 🐧 ubuntu|na

Global config for deployment pipelines

  • autorun pipelines
  • allow failure on pipelines
  • record sylvactl events

Notes:

  • Enabling autorun will make deployment pipelines to be run automatically without human interaction
  • Disabling allow failure will make deployment pipelines mandatory for pipeline success.
  • if both autorun and allow failure are disabled, deployment pipelines will need manual triggering but will be blocking the pipeline

Be aware: after configuration change, pipeline is not triggered automatically. Please run it manually (by clicking the run pipeline button in Pipelines tab) or push new code.

Closes #2874 (closed)

Edited by Nikhil Sethi

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