mcc/node: allow NewestFirst node update age order via MCP annotation

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Summary

• Adds MachineConfigPool annotation machineconfiguration.openshift.io/update-order with values OldestFirst (default) and NewestFirst.
• Keeps zone-alphabetical rollout order; only reverses age order within a zone (and among no-zone nodes).
• Enables aligning MCO worker rollouts with MachineSet deletePolicy: Oldest / ClusterAutoscaler so MCO updates newest nodes while autoscaler deletes oldest ones (RFE-9696).

Usage

oc annotate mcp/worker machineconfiguration.openshift.io/update-order=NewestFirst --overwrite

Test plan

• Unit tests: TestSortNodeList covers newest-first; TestPoolWantsNewestFirst covers annotation parsing
• Manual cluster validation: with two workers in the same zone, NewestFirst selected the newer node for desiredConfig first
• CI unit / e2e jobs on this PR

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for choosing node rollout order during MachineConfigPool updates.
  • Pools can now request newest-first node selection through an annotation.
  • Existing behavior remains unchanged by default, using oldest-first ordering while preserving zone distribution.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for default and annotation-based node ordering.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Node rollout ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ordering contract and candidate selection pkg/controller/node/node_controller.go	The controller defines MachineConfigPool update-order annotations and reads the newest-first preference during candidate selection. Zone ordering remains unchanged.
Directional sorting and validation pkg/controller/node/node_controller.go, pkg/controller/node/node_controller_test.go	Node sorting supports oldest-first and newest-first creation-time ordering. Tests cover both modes and annotation handling.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1e75c

The PR changes node update ordering as intended. A localized naming cleanup remains in a test, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: cheesesashimi, pablintino, umohnani8

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the node controller change that enables NewestFirst ordering through a MachineConfigPool annotation.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	The PR adds only static Go test names (TestSortNodeList and TestPoolWantsNewestFirst); no Ginkgo title calls or dynamic values appear in the changed tests.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	Changed tests are standard Go unit tests, not Ginkgo; they use in-memory objects, no cluster waits or Eventually/Consistently, and include diagnostic Fatal messages.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR changes only controller code and Go unit tests (Test...); the parent-to-HEAD diff adds no Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When e2e tests.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff changes only controller code and a Go testing.T unit test; it adds no Ginkgo It/Describe/Context/When e2e test or multi-node assumption.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff only changes MachineConfigPool rollout node age sorting and tests; it adds no pod affinity, topology spread, replica, selector, toleration, or PDB scheduling constraint.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	Parent-to-HEAD diff adds sorting helpers, constants, and unit assertions only; it adds no stdout writes, logging setup, or process-level OTE code.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff adds standard Go unit tests (TestSortNodeList, TestPoolWantsNewestFirst) only. It adds no Ginkgo e2e tests, IPv4 assumptions, or external connectivity.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The parent-to-HEAD diff only adds node ordering and annotation logic; it introduces no weak-crypto API, algorithm, custom crypto, or secret/token comparison.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The commit changes only two Go files; its patch contains no privilege fields or capability settings and changes no container or Kubernetes manifest.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The commit changes sorting and annotation parsing only; its added lines contain no logging calls or sensitive data, and no new log output exposes credentials, PII, hostnames, or customer data.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

pkg/controller/node/node_controller_test.go (1)

1555-1558: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Rename output_nodes to outputNodes.

golangci-lint reports var-naming for output_nodes at Line 1555. Rename the variable and its references to remove the warning.

Proposed rename

-	output_nodes := sortNodeList(nodes, false)
+	outputNodes := sortNodeList(nodes, false)

-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted_nodes, output_nodes) {
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted_nodes, outputNodes) {

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In `@pkg/controller/node/node_controller_test.go` around lines 1555 - 1558, Rename
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