ADR-068: Always recreate test cluster

Category: development Provenance: human

Decision

Integration tests must always run on a freshly created Kind cluster. The "cluster reuse" workflow is abandoned in favor of reproducibility and reliability. The make test command will alias make test-pre-commit which performs a full teardown and setup.

Rationale

Cluster reuse and cleanup logic proved to be flaky and complex ("messy cleanup"). Recreating the cluster ensures a pristine environment for every test run, eliminating state leakage and "works on my machine" issues. While slower, it guarantees that test results are valid and reproducible. The build cache is enabled to mitigate some of the speed loss.

Agent Instructions

Do not attempt to optimize testing by reusing existing clusters. Always expect and use the full teardown/setup cycle. The make test command is the single source of truth for running the full test suite.