Merge pull request kubernetes-sigs#7719 from killianmuldoon/pr-reconcile-uncontactable-machines

 🌱  Allow Machines in unreachable Clusters to do initial reconciliation

Author: k8s-ci-robot

internal/controllers/machine/machine_controller.go

@@ -272,10 +272,6 @@ func patchMachine(ctx context.Context, patchHelper *patch.Helper, machine *clust
 }
 
 func (r *Reconciler) reconcile(ctx context.Context, cluster *clusterv1.Cluster, m *clusterv1.Machine) (ctrl.Result, error) {
-	if err := r.watchClusterNodes(ctx, cluster); err != nil {
-		return ctrl.Result{}, err
-	}
-
 	// If the machine is a stand-alone one, meaning not originated from a MachineDeployment, then set it as directly
 	// owned by the Cluster (if not already present).
 	if r.shouldAdopt(m) {

internal/controllers/machine/machine_controller_noderef.go

@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ var (
 func (r *Reconciler) reconcileNode(ctx context.Context, cluster *clusterv1.Cluster, machine *clusterv1.Machine) (ctrl.Result, error) {
 	log := ctrl.LoggerFrom(ctx)
 
+	// Create a watch on the nodes in the Cluster.
+	if err := r.watchClusterNodes(ctx, cluster); err != nil {
+		return ctrl.Result{}, err
+	}
+
 	// Check that the Machine has a valid ProviderID.
 	if machine.Spec.ProviderID == nil || *machine.Spec.ProviderID == "" {
 		log.Info("Waiting for infrastructure provider to report spec.providerID", machine.Spec.InfrastructureRef.Kind, klog.KRef(machine.Spec.InfrastructureRef.Namespace, machine.Spec.InfrastructureRef.Name))