[Bug]: TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhen* tests are flaky

[fvaleri]

Bug Description

Topic Operator integration tests that starts with shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhen are flaky, but they only seems to be failing on Azure with similar logs:

2024-12-07T14:01:08.5931055Z [INFO] Results:
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5931548Z [INFO] 
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5931910Z [ERROR] Failures: 
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5932358Z [ERROR] io.strimzi.operator.topic.TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigRemovedInKube
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5933312Z [ERROR]   Run 1: TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigRemovedInKube:992->shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigChangedInKube:872 expected: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234}> but was: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234, unclean.leader.election.enable=true}>
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5934673Z [ERROR]   Run 2: TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigRemovedInKube:992->shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigChangedInKube:872 expected: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234}> but was: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234, unclean.leader.election.enable=true}>
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5936219Z [ERROR]   Run 3: TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigRemovedInKube:992->shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigChangedInKube:872 expected: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234}> but was: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234, unclean.leader.election.enable=true}>
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5937016Z [INFO] 
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5942614Z [WARNING] Flakes: 
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5943537Z [WARNING] io.strimzi.operator.topic.TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenDoubleConfigChangedInKube
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5944569Z [ERROR]   Run 1: TopicControllerIT.shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenDoubleConfigChangedInKube:935->shouldUpdateTopicInKafkaWhenConfigChangedInKube:872 expected: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.1, index.interval.bytes=1234, unclean.leader.election.enable=true}> but was: <{compression.type=producer, cleanup.policy=compact, flush.ms=1234, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio=0.6, index.interval.bytes=1234, unclean.leader.election.enable=true}>
2024-12-07T14:01:08.5945802Z [INFO]   Run 2: PASS

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Expected behavior

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Strimzi version

main

Kubernetes version

1.31

Installation method

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Infrastructure

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Configuration files and logs

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Additional context

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[fvaleri]

Trying to address in #10921.

[ppatierno]

Triaged on 12/12/2024: Fede is trying to address the flakyness with a PR and we should fix it.