[BUG] Some bundle deployments are not deployed / do not contain status release when running many clusters in `0.14.3-rc.2`

[mmartin24]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

Same issue as in #4599 but on 0.14.3-rc.2 (Release not present in some bundledeployments).

However, I confirmed it was ok in 0.14.3-rc.1 as can be seen in this log:

Fleet Version: 0.14.3-rc.1
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Starting test at: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:52:56 PM CET

Clusters: 50
Agents: 50
Bundles: 50
Total BundleDeployments: 2550
Fleet Version: 0.14.3-rc.1
Helm Version: version.BuildInfo{Version:"v4.0.0", GitCommit:"99cd1964357c793351be481d55abbe21c6b2f4ec", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.25.3", KubeClientVersion:"v1.34"}

gitrepo.fleet.cattle.io/scale-50-single created

created gitrepo for 50 bundles: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:52:57 PM CET
.....
bundles exist: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:53:06 PM CET
.
bundledeployments exist: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:53:18 PM CET
...........
bundles ready: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:54:21 PM CET

gitrepo ready: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:54:22 PM CET

clusters ready: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:54:23 PM CET

delete 
gitrepo.fleet.cattle.io "scale-50-single" deleted from fleet-default namespace

clusters 1/1: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:54:28 PM CET
No resources found

secrets removed: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:54:29 PM CET
Test completed at: Wed 18 Feb 2026 03:54:32 PM CET

Expected Behavior

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Steps To Reproduce

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Environment

- Architecture:amd64
- Fleet Version: 0.14.3-rc.2
- Cluster:
  - Provider: rke2
  - Options:
  - Kubernetes Version: v1.33.4+rke2r1

Logs

Anything else?

No response

[thardeck]

Related to the following backport.

[mmartin24]

Confirmed good again in 0.14.3.-rc.3:

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Starting test at: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:57:44 PM CET

Clusters: 50
Agents: 50
Bundles: 50
Total BundleDeployments: 2550
Fleet Version: 0.14.3-rc.3
Helm Version: version.BuildInfo{Version:"v4.0.0", GitCommit:"99cd1964357c793351be481d55abbe21c6b2f4ec", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.25.3", KubeClientVersion:"v1.34"}

gitrepo.fleet.cattle.io/scale-50-single created

created gitrepo for 50 bundles: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:57:45 PM CET
......
bundles exist: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:57:55 PM CET
.
bundledeployments exist: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:07 PM CET
....
bundles ready: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:31 PM CET

gitrepo ready: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:31 PM CET

clusters ready: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:32 PM CET

delete 
gitrepo.fleet.cattle.io "scale-50-single" deleted from fleet-default namespace

clusters 1/1: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:37 PM CET
No resources found

secrets removed: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:38 PM CET
Warning: Permanently added 'ec2-34-230-82-144.compute-1.amazonaws.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Warning: Permanently added 'ip-172-16-100-8.ec2.internal' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
769M	/var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/db/

Test completed at: Thu 19 Feb 2026 03:58:40 PM CET
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[mmartin24]

Preliminary check done with ad-hoc dev image with fix based on #4707 seems to work:

  --set image.repository=0xavi0/fleet \
  --set image.tag=1.0.6 \
  --set agentImage.repository=0xavi0/fleet-agent \
  --set agentImage.tag=1.0.6

Did 3 runs and all of them ok, no leftovers and processed in average time:

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Starting test at: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:03 PM CET

Clusters: 50
Agents: 50
Bundles: 50
Total BundleDeployments: 2550
Fleet Version: 0.14.3-rc.2 tag 1.0.6 with xavi's agent image + upstream
Helm Version: version.BuildInfo{Version:"v4.0.0", GitCommit:"99cd1964357c793351be481d55abbe21c6b2f4ec", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.25.3", KubeClientVersion:"v1.34"}

gitrepo.fleet.cattle.io/scale-50-single created

created gitrepo for 50 bundles: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:04 PM CET
........
bundles exist: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:18 PM CET
.
bundledeployments exist: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:30 PM CET
....
bundles ready: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:54 PM CET

gitrepo ready: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:54 PM CET

clusters ready: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:42:55 PM CET

delete 
gitrepo.fleet.cattle.io "scale-50-single" deleted from fleet-default namespace

clusters 1/1: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:43:00 PM CET
No resources found

secrets removed: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:43:01 PM CET
Warning: Permanently added 'ec2-100-31-152-121.compute-1.amazonaws.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Warning: Permanently added 'ip-172-16-102-239.ec2.internal' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
737M	/var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/db/

Test completed at: Fri 27 Feb 2026 02:43:03 PM CET
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