Add explicit skip-workload label for Websites

webhosting-operator/cmd/samples-generator/main.go

@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ import (
 var (
 	scheme = runtime.NewScheme()
 
-	count      int
-	namespaces []string
+	count        int
+	namespaces   []string
+	skipWorkload bool
 )
 
 func init() {
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ func main() {
 
 	cmd.Flags().IntVarP(&count, "count", "c", count, "number of websites to generate per project")
 	cmd.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&namespaces, "namespace", "n", namespaces, "project namespaces to generate websites in")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&skipWorkload, "skip-workload", false, "don't run any actual workload for the generated websites")
 
 	if err := cmd.ExecuteContext(signals.SetupSignalHandler()); err != nil {
 		fmt.Printf("Error generating samples: %v\n", err)
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ func generateSamples(ctx context.Context, c client.Client) error {
 		}
 
 		for i := 0; i < websiteCount; i++ {
-			if err := c.Create(ctx, &webhostingv1alpha1.Website{
+			website := &webhostingv1alpha1.Website{
 				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
 					Name:      "sample-" + utils.RandomName(8),
 					Namespace: project,
@@ -122,7 +124,13 @@ func generateSamples(ctx context.Context, c client.Client) error {
 				Spec: webhostingv1alpha1.WebsiteSpec{
 					Theme: utils.PickRandom(themes),
 				},
-			}); err != nil {
+			}
+
+			if skipWorkload {
+				website.Labels[webhostingv1alpha1.LabelKeySkipWorkload] = "true"
+			}
+
+			if err := c.Create(ctx, website); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 		}

webhosting-operator/pkg/apis/webhosting/v1alpha1/constants.go

@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ const (
 	LabelKeyProject = "webhosting.timebertt.dev/project"
 	// LabelValueProject is the label value for LabelKeyProject on Namespaces for identifying webhosting projects.
 	LabelValueProject = "true"
+
+	// LabelKeySkipWorkload is the label key on Websites for instructing webhosting-operator to skip any actual workload
+	// for the website. Any value is accepted as truthy.
+	LabelKeySkipWorkload = "skip-workload"
 )
 
 var (

webhosting-operator/pkg/controllers/webhosting/website_controller.go

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ func (r *WebsiteReconciler) IngressForWebsite(serverName string, website *webhos
 
 	applyIngressConfigToIngress(r.Config.Ingress, ingress)
 
-	if isGeneratedByE2ETestOrExperiment(website) {
+	if skipWorkload(website) {
 		// don't actually expose website ingresses in load tests
 		// use fake ingress class to prevent overloading ingress controller (this is not what we want to load test)
 		ingress.Spec.IngressClassName = ptr.To("fake")
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ func (r *WebsiteReconciler) DeploymentForWebsite(serverName string, website *web
 		},
 	}
 
-	if isGeneratedByE2ETestOrExperiment(website) {
+	if skipWorkload(website) {
 		// don't actually run website pods in load tests
 		// otherwise, we would need an immense amount of compute power for running dummy websites
 		deployment.Spec.Replicas = ptr.To[int32](0)
@@ -611,6 +611,9 @@ var ConfigMapDataChanged = predicate.Funcs{
 	},
 }
 
-func isGeneratedByE2ETestOrExperiment(obj client.Object) bool {
-	return obj.GetLabels()["e2e-webhosting-operator"] != "" || obj.GetLabels()["generated-by"] == "experiment"
+// skipWorkload returns true if the controller should not run any actual workload for this Website, e.g., for load tests
+// or e2e tests.
+func skipWorkload(website *webhostingv1alpha1.Website) bool {
+	_, ok := website.Labels[webhostingv1alpha1.LabelKeySkipWorkload]
+	return ok
 }

webhosting-operator/pkg/experiment/scenario/base/base.go

@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ func (s *Scenario) AddToManager(mgr manager.Manager) error {
 	s.Labels = map[string]string{
 		"generated-by": "experiment",
 		"scenario":     s.ScenarioName,
+
+		webhostingv1alpha1.LabelKeySkipWorkload: "true",
 	}
 
 	return mgr.Add(s)

webhosting-operator/test/e2e/webhosting_operator_test.go

@@ -128,11 +128,14 @@ func describeScaleController(text string, replicas int32) {
 }
 
 func newWebsite(name string) *webhostingv1alpha1.Website {
+	labels := maps.Clone(testRunLabels)
+	labels[webhostingv1alpha1.LabelKeySkipWorkload] = "true"
+
 	return &webhostingv1alpha1.Website{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
 			Name:      name,
 			Namespace: namespace.Name,
-			Labels:    maps.Clone(testRunLabels),
+			Labels:    labels,
 		},
 		Spec: webhostingv1alpha1.WebsiteSpec{
 			Theme: theme.Name,