Cluster migration causes LB issues

[gottwald]

There is a bug in capdo that only appears once a cluster has been migrated from one capi cluster to another.

capdo sets tags on the control plane nodes and the cloud loadbalancer to designate the nodes as backends to the LB. See code here: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-digitalocean/blob/58a45f155798fe774554228af55853760fa7cd09/cloud/services/networking/loadbalancers.go#L68

The problematic part of this is the UID of the cluster object as part of the tag. Even though it's a nice unique source, it's immutable and generated by the kube apiserver.

This is not an issue as long as the cluster is always managed by the same capi cluster. As soon as the cluster is migrated to another capi cluster this UID changes to a new UID created by the new capi cluster. This will work at first since all the capi and capdo object are just copied over and handed off. However as soon as the first control plane node is replaced, the new one comes up with the new tag which then doesn't match what is set on the cloud loadbalancer. This results in traffic not arriving at the backend as they're no longer seen as LB target droplets.

Possible backwards compatible way to solve this: Introduce a verification to check if the LB tag and droplet tag UID part is still equal to the cluster UID. If not, update the tags. This comes with side-effects and may be non-graceful if there isn't already a new node with the new tags. We could do the new droplet first and reconcile with a 2nd iteration to do the LB in order to avoid this.

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