Merge https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-nfs:master into ma…

…ster

charts/latest/csi-driver-nfs/templates/NOTES.txt

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 To check CSI NFS Driver pods status, please run:
 
-  kubectl --namespace={{ .Release.Namespace }} get pods --selector="release={{ .Release.Name }}" --watch
+  kubectl --namespace={{ .Release.Namespace }} get pods --selector="app.kubernetes.io/instance={{ .Release.Name }}" --watch

deploy/csi-nfs-driverinfo.yaml

@@ -7,5 +7,4 @@ spec:
   attachRequired: false
   volumeLifecycleModes:
     - Persistent
-    - Ephemeral
   fsGroupPolicy: File

docs/csi-debug.md

@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 ## CSI driver debug tips
 
 ### case#1: volume create/delete failed
- - locate csi driver pod
+> There could be multiple controller pods (only one pod is the leader), if there are no helpful logs, try to get logs from the leader controller pod.
+ - find csi driver controller pod
 ```console
 $ kubectl get pod -o wide -n kube-system | grep csi-nfs-controller
 NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE     IP             NODE
 csi-nfs-controller-56bfddd689-dh5tk      5/5     Running   0          35s     10.240.0.19    k8s-agentpool-22533604-0
 csi-nfs-controller-56bfddd689-sl4ll      5/5     Running   0          35s     10.240.0.23    k8s-agentpool-22533604-1
 ```
- - get csi driver logs
+ - get pod description and logs
 ```console
+$ kubectl describe csi-nfs-controller-56bfddd689-dh5tk -n kube-system > csi-nfs-controller-description.log
 $ kubectl logs csi-nfs-controller-56bfddd689-dh5tk -c nfs -n kube-system > csi-nfs-controller.log
 ```
-> note: there could be multiple controller pods, if there are no helpful logs, try to get logs from other controller pods
 
 ### case#2: volume mount/unmount failed
  - locate csi driver pod that does the actual volume mount/unmount
@@ -24,8 +25,9 @@ csi-nfs-node-cvgbs                        3/3     Running   0          7m4s    1
 csi-nfs-node-dr4s4                        3/3     Running   0          7m4s    10.240.0.4     k8s-agentpool-22533604-0
 ```
 
- - get csi driver logs
+ - get pod description and logs
 ```console
+$ kubectl describe po csi-nfs-node-cvgbs -n kube-system > csi-nfs-node-description.log
 $ kubectl logs csi-nfs-node-cvgbs -c nfs -n kube-system > csi-nfs-node.log
 ```
 

go.mod

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-nfs
 
-go 1.16
+go 1.18
 
 require (
 	github.com/container-storage-interface/spec v1.5.0
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/onsi/ginkgo v1.14.0
 	github.com/onsi/gomega v1.10.1
 	github.com/pborman/uuid v1.2.0
-	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.11.1 // indirect
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.0
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20220411220226-7b82a4e95df4 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20211209124913-491a49abca63
 	google.golang.org/grpc v1.40.0
 	k8s.io/api v0.23.3
@@ -24,6 +22,82 @@ require (
 	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.2.0
 )
 
+require (
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.38.49 // indirect
+	github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 // indirect
+	github.com/bits-and-blooms/bitset v1.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/blang/semver v3.5.1+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin v0.2.2 // indirect
+	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/docker/distribution v2.7.1+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/evanphx/json-patch v4.12.0+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop v1.0.1 // indirect
+	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.9 // indirect
+	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 // indirect
+	github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20210331224755-41bb18bfe9da // indirect
+	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.5 // indirect
+	github.com/google/gofuzz v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/google/uuid v1.1.2 // indirect
+	github.com/googleapis/gnostic v0.5.5 // indirect
+	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway v1.16.0 // indirect
+	github.com/imdario/mergo v0.3.5 // indirect
+	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath v0.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12 // indirect
+	github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions v1.0.2-0.20181231171920-c182affec369 // indirect
+	github.com/moby/spdystream v0.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd // indirect
+	github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2 // indirect
+	github.com/nxadm/tail v1.4.4 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.0.2 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/selinux v1.8.2 // indirect
+	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.11.1 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/common v0.28.0 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.6.0 // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.2.1 // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/export/metric v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v0.20.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v0.7.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20220411220226-7b82a4e95df4 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.0.0-20210819190943-2bc19b11175f // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220412211240-33da011f77ad // indirect
+	golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210615171337-6886f2dfbf5b // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.3.7 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20210723032227-1f47c861a9ac // indirect
+	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.7 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20210831024726-fe130286e0e2 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.27.1 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/tomb.v1 v1.0.0-20141024135613-dd632973f1e7 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20210107192922-496545a6307b // indirect
+	k8s.io/apiserver v0.23.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/cloud-provider v0.23.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/component-base v0.23.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/component-helpers v0.23.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20211115234752-e816edb12b65 // indirect
+	k8s.io/kubectl v0.0.0 // indirect
+	k8s.io/kubelet v0.0.0 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client v0.0.27 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20211020170558-c049b76a60c6 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 v4.2.1 // indirect
+)
+
 replace (
 	golang.org/x/text => golang.org/x/text v0.3.7
 	k8s.io/api => k8s.io/api v0.23.3

go.sum

@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ github.com/boltdb/bolt v1.3.1/go.mod h1:clJnj/oiGkjum5o1McbSZDSLxVThjynRyGBgiAx2
 github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-proto v0.2.1/go.mod h1:f6KPmirojxKA12rnyqOA5BBL4O983OfeGPqjHWSTneU=
 github.com/certifi/gocertifi v0.0.0-20191021191039-0944d244cd40/go.mod h1:sGbDF6GwGcLpkNXPUTkMRoywsNa/ol15pxFe6ERfguA=
 github.com/certifi/gocertifi v0.0.0-20200922220541-2c3bb06c6054/go.mod h1:sGbDF6GwGcLpkNXPUTkMRoywsNa/ol15pxFe6ERfguA=
-github.com/cespare/xxhash v1.1.0 h1:a6HrQnmkObjyL+Gs60czilIUGqrzKutQD6XZog3p+ko=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash v1.1.0/go.mod h1:XrSqR1VqqWfGrhpAt58auRo0WTKS1nRRg3ghfAqPWnc=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.1 h1:6MnRN8NT7+YBpUIWxHtefFZOKTAPgGjpQSxqLNn0+qY=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.1/go.mod h1:VGX0DQ3Q6kWi7AoAeZDth3/j3BFtOZR5XLFGgcrjCOs=
@@ -750,7 +749,6 @@ golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210503060351-7fd8e65b6420/go.mod h1:9nx3DQGgdP8bBQD5qx
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210525063256-abc453219eb5/go.mod h1:9nx3DQGgdP8bBQD5qxJ1jj9UTztislL4KSBs9R2vV5Y=
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210805182204-aaa1db679c0d/go.mod h1:9nx3DQGgdP8bBQD5qxJ1jj9UTztislL4KSBs9R2vV5Y=
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210825183410-e898025ed96a/go.mod h1:9nx3DQGgdP8bBQD5qxJ1jj9UTztislL4KSBs9R2vV5Y=
-golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20211112202133-69e39bad7dc2/go.mod h1:9nx3DQGgdP8bBQD5qxJ1jj9UTztislL4KSBs9R2vV5Y=
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20211209124913-491a49abca63 h1:iocB37TsdFuN6IBRZ+ry36wrkoV51/tl5vOWqkcPGvY=
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20211209124913-491a49abca63/go.mod h1:9nx3DQGgdP8bBQD5qxJ1jj9UTztislL4KSBs9R2vV5Y=
 golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.0.0-20180821212333-d2e6202438be/go.mod h1:N/0e6XlmueqKjAGxoOufVs8QHGRruUQn6yWY3a++T0U=
@@ -854,8 +852,9 @@ golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210603081109-ebe580a85c40/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBc
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210615035016-665e8c7367d1/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210616094352-59db8d763f22/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210809222454-d867a43fc93e/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
-golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210831042530-f4d43177bf5e h1:XMgFehsDnnLGtjvjOfqWSUzt0alpTR1RSEuznObga2c=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210831042530-f4d43177bf5e/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220412211240-33da011f77ad h1:ntjMns5wyP/fN65tdBD4g8J5w8n015+iIIs9rtjXkY0=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220412211240-33da011f77ad/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
 golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20201126162022-7de9c90e9dd1/go.mod h1:bj7SfCRtBDWHUb9snDiAeCFNEtKQo2Wmx5Cou7ajbmo=
 golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210615171337-6886f2dfbf5b h1:9zKuko04nR4gjZ4+DNjHqRlAJqbJETHwiNKDqTfOjfE=
 golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210615171337-6886f2dfbf5b/go.mod h1:jbD1KX2456YbFQfuXm/mYQcufACuNUgVhRMnK/tPxf8=

pkg/nfs/controllerserver.go

@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ func getInternalMountPath(workingMountDir string, vol *nfsVolume) string {
 
 // Get internal path where the volume is created
 // The reason why the internal path is "workingDir/subDir/subDir" is because:
-//   * the semantic is actually "workingDir/volId/subDir" and volId == subDir.
-//   * we need a mount directory per volId because you can have multiple
+//   - the semantic is actually "workingDir/volId/subDir" and volId == subDir.
+//   - we need a mount directory per volId because you can have multiple
 //     CreateVolume calls in parallel and they may use the same underlying share.
 //     Instead of refcounting how many CreateVolume calls are using the same
 //     share, it's simpler to just do a mount per request.
@@ -385,10 +385,11 @@ func getVolumeIDFromNfsVol(vol *nfsVolume) string {
 
 // Given a CSI volume id, return a nfsVolume
 // sample volume Id:
-//   new volumeID:
-//	    nfs-server.default.svc.cluster.local#share#pvc-4bcbf944-b6f7-4bd0-b50f-3c3dd00efc64
-//	    nfs-server.default.svc.cluster.local#share#subdir#pvc-4bcbf944-b6f7-4bd0-b50f-3c3dd00efc64
-//   old volumeID: nfs-server.default.svc.cluster.local/share/pvc-4bcbf944-b6f7-4bd0-b50f-3c3dd00efc64
+//
+//	  new volumeID:
+//		    nfs-server.default.svc.cluster.local#share#pvc-4bcbf944-b6f7-4bd0-b50f-3c3dd00efc64
+//		    nfs-server.default.svc.cluster.local#share#subdir#pvc-4bcbf944-b6f7-4bd0-b50f-3c3dd00efc64
+//	  old volumeID: nfs-server.default.svc.cluster.local/share/pvc-4bcbf944-b6f7-4bd0-b50f-3c3dd00efc64
 func getNfsVolFromID(id string) (*nfsVolume, error) {
 	var server, baseDir, subDir, uuid string
 	segments := strings.Split(id, separator)

pkg/nfs/fake_mounter.go

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func (f *fakeMounter) MountSensitive(source string, target string, fstype string
 	return nil
 }
 
-//IsLikelyNotMountPoint overrides mount.FakeMounter.IsLikelyNotMountPoint.
+// IsLikelyNotMountPoint overrides mount.FakeMounter.IsLikelyNotMountPoint.
 func (f *fakeMounter) IsLikelyNotMountPoint(file string) (bool, error) {
 	if strings.Contains(file, "error_is_likely") {
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("fake IsLikelyNotMountPoint: fake error")

release-tools/filter-junit.go

@@ -35,10 +35,18 @@ var (
 )
 
 /*
- * TestSuite represents a JUnit file. Due to how encoding/xml works, we have
+ * TestResults represents a JUnit file. Due to how encoding/xml works, we have
  * represent all fields that we want to be passed through. It's therefore
  * not a complete solution, but good enough for Ginkgo + Spyglass.
+ *
+ * Before Kubernetes 1.25 and ginkgo v2, we directly had <testsuite> in the
+ * JUnit file. Now we get <testsuites> and inside it the <testsuite>.
  */
+type TestResults struct {
+	XMLName   string    `xml:"testsuites"`
+	TestSuite TestSuite `xml:"testsuite"`
+}
+
 type TestSuite struct {
 	XMLName   string     `xml:"testsuite"`
 	TestCases []TestCase `xml:"testcase"`
@@ -93,7 +101,15 @@ func main() {
 			}
 		}
 		if err := xml.Unmarshal(data, &junit); err != nil {
-			panic(err)
+			if err.Error() != "expected element type <testsuite> but have <testsuites>" {
+				panic(err)
+			}
+			// Fall back to Ginkgo v2 format.
+			var junitv2 TestResults
+			if err := xml.Unmarshal(data, &junitv2); err != nil {
+				panic(err)
+			}
+			junit = junitv2.TestSuite
 		}
 	}
 

release-tools/go-get-kubernetes.sh

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
-#
+
 # This script can be used while converting a repo from "dep" to "go mod"
 # by calling it after "go mod init" or to update the Kubernetes packages
 # in a repo that has already been converted. Only packages that are

release-tools/prow.sh

@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_KIND "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version fo
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_GINKGO "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version for building ginkgo" # depends on CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION below
 
 # ginkgo test runner version to use. If the pre-installed version is
-# different, the desired version is built from source.
+# different, the desired version is built from source. For Kubernetes,
+# the version built via "make WHAT=vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo" is
+# used, which is guaranteed to match what the Kubernetes e2e.test binary
+# needs.
 configvar CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION v1.7.0 "Ginkgo"
 
 # Ginkgo runs the E2E test in parallel. The default is based on the number
@@ -196,7 +199,7 @@ kindest/node:v1.14.10@sha256:f8a66ef82822ab4f7569e91a5bccaf27bceee135c1457c512e5
 # If the deployment script is called with CSI_PROW_TEST_DRIVER=<file name> as
 # environment variable, then it must write a suitable test driver configuration
 # into that file in addition to installing the driver.
-configvar CSI_PROW_DRIVER_VERSION "v1.3.0" "CSI driver version"
+configvar CSI_PROW_DRIVER_VERSION "v1.8.0" "CSI driver version"
 configvar CSI_PROW_DRIVER_REPO https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path "CSI driver repo"
 configvar CSI_PROW_DEPLOYMENT "" "deployment"
 configvar CSI_PROW_DEPLOYMENT_SUFFIX "" "additional suffix in kubernetes-x.yy[suffix].yaml files"
@@ -234,7 +237,7 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH "k8s.io/kubernetes" "E2E package"
 # of the cluster. The alternative would have been to (cross-)compile csi-sanity
 # and install it inside the cluster, which is not necessarily easier.
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_REPO https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-test "csi-test repo"
-configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_VERSION v4.3.0 "csi-test version"
+configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_VERSION v5.0.0 "csi-test version"
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_PACKAGE_PATH github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-test "csi-test package"
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_SERVICE "hostpath-service" "Kubernetes TCP service name that exposes csi.sock"
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_POD "csi-hostpathplugin-0" "Kubernetes pod with CSI driver"
@@ -346,9 +349,12 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA "${csi
 # kubernetes-csi components must be updated, either by disabling
 # the failing test for "latest" or by updating the test and not running
 # it anymore for older releases.
-configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES_LATEST 'GenericEphemeralVolume=true,CSIStorageCapacity=true' "alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES_LATEST '' "alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
 configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES "${csi_prow_kubernetes_version_suffix}")" "alpha E2E feature gates"
 
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES_LATEST '' "non alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES "${csi_prow_kubernetes_version_suffix}")" "non alpha E2E feature gates"
+
 # Which external-snapshotter tag to use for the snapshotter CRD and snapshot-controller deployment
 default_csi_snapshotter_version () {
 	if [ "${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}" = "latest" ] || [ "${CSI_PROW_DRIVER_CANARY}" = "canary" ]; then
@@ -437,6 +443,10 @@ install_kind () {
 
 # Ensure that we have the desired version of the ginkgo test runner.
 install_ginkgo () {
+    if [ -e "${CSI_PROW_BIN}/ginkgo" ]; then
+        return
+    fi
+
     # CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION contains the tag with v prefix, the command line output does not.
     if [ "v$(ginkgo version 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/.* //')" = "${CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION}" ]; then
         return
@@ -940,7 +950,9 @@ install_e2e () {
         patch_kubernetes "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" "${CSI_PROW_WORK}" &&
         go_version="${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_E2E:-$(go_version_for_kubernetes "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" "${CSI_PROW_E2E_VERSION}")}" &&
         run_with_go "$go_version" make WHAT=test/e2e/e2e.test "-C${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" &&
-        ln -s "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/_output/bin/e2e.test" "${CSI_PROW_WORK}"
+        ln -s "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/_output/bin/e2e.test" "${CSI_PROW_WORK}" &&
+        run_with_go "$go_version" make WHAT=vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo "-C${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" &&
+        ln -s "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/_output/bin/ginkgo" "${CSI_PROW_BIN}"
     else
         run_with_go "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_E2E}" go test -c -o "${CSI_PROW_WORK}/e2e.test" "${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/test/e2e"
     fi
@@ -1254,7 +1266,8 @@ main () {
         fi
 
         if tests_need_non_alpha_cluster; then
-            start_cluster || die "starting the non-alpha cluster failed"
+            # Need to (re)create the cluster.
+            start_cluster "${CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES}" || die "starting the non-alpha cluster failed"
 
             # Install necessary snapshot CRDs and snapshot controller
             install_snapshot_crds
@@ -1304,7 +1317,11 @@ main () {
             delete_cluster_inside_prow_job non-alpha
         fi
 
-        if tests_need_alpha_cluster && [ "${CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES}" ]; then
+        # If the cluster for alpha tests doesn't need any feature gates, then we
+        # could reuse the same cluster as for the other tests. But that would make
+        # the flow in this script harder and wouldn't help in practice because
+        # we have separate Prow jobs for alpha and non-alpha tests.
+        if tests_need_alpha_cluster; then
             # Need to (re)create the cluster.
             start_cluster "${CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES}" || die "starting alpha cluster failed"