fix: resilient namespace deletion in TeardownReporter with retry

Author: subhashkhileri

docs/.vitepress/config.ts

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
       { text: "Examples", link: "/examples/" },
       { text: "Overlay Testing", link: "/overlay/" },
       {
-        text: "v1.1.34",
+        text: "v1.1.35",
         items: [{ text: "Changelog", link: "/changelog" }],
       },
     ],

docs/changelog.md

@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
-## [1.1.34] - Current
+## [1.1.35] - Current
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Resilient namespace deletion in TeardownReporter**: Retry once with 5s delay and catch errors to prevent cluster connectivity failures (e.g. DNS `EAI_AGAIN`) from crashing Playwright before it generates the HTML report.
+
+## [1.1.34]
 
 ### Added
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@red-hat-developer-hub/e2e-test-utils",
-  "version": "1.1.34",
+  "version": "1.1.35",
   "description": "Test utilities for RHDH E2E tests",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {

src/playwright/teardown-reporter.ts

@@ -117,13 +117,26 @@ export default class TeardownReporter implements Reporter {
       }
     }
 
-    // Delete namespaces only in CI
+    // Retry + catch to avoid crashing Playwright if the cluster becomes unreachable.
+    const maxAttempts = 2;
     if (process.env.CI === "true") {
       for (const ns of namespaces) {
         console.log(
           `[TeardownReporter] Deleting namespace "${ns}" (project: ${projectName})`,
         );
-        await k8sClient.deleteNamespace(ns);
+        for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= maxAttempts; attempt++) {
+          try {
+            await k8sClient.deleteNamespace(ns);
+            break;
+          } catch (error) {
+            console.error(
+              `[TeardownReporter] Failed to delete namespace "${ns}" (attempt ${attempt}/${maxAttempts}):`,
+              error,
+            );
+            if (attempt < maxAttempts)
+              await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5000));
+          }
+        }
       }
     }
   }