2026-04-27 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-04-27 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: Dylan White, dhiller, dollierp, nirdothan

Reminders:

• we will create GitHub issues for tracking

• GitHub issues and PRs

• should be marked with /sig ci and /kind flake if applicable

• should be marked with the target sig

Topics:

• [urgent]

• [dollierp] SEV cluster is still down

• SEV lanes have been disabled (always_run: false)

• But they are still triggered by the phased plugin

• [dhiller] skip_report: true

• [dhiller] Whitedyl investigating: https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/issues/5007

• ci-health

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• ci-failures

• 7/11 failures were caused by quay outage on 2026-04-21 

• 2/11 failures were caused by cleanup of podman, likely similar to what was noted in 26-03-30 sig-ci weekly

• one curl against github failed with 500

• one fetch from quay yielded a 502

• quick look at the e2e job failures:
  https://grafana.ci.kubevirt.io/d/efpTS3t4z/e2e-jobs-overview-v2

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• [timeboxed: 5 mins] revisit previous action items

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• existing issues opened in last 7 days: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Akubevirt%2Fproject-infra+is%3Aissue++-label%3Akind%2Fenhancement&type=issues&state=open

• [non-urgent]

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• [misc]

• Look at held tests:

• https://grafana.ci.kubevirt.io/d/uAoSeksSk/referee-retests?orgId=1&refresh=15m&from=now-1h&to=now

• is:pr is:open label:approved label:lgtm -label:do-not-merge/hold -label:needs-rebase 

• is:pr is:open quarantine -label:do-not-merge/work-in-progress label:kind/flake -label:needs-rebase 

• recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI

• 15 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-04-20 author:dhiller author:dollierp author:whitedyl org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4997: fix(bump): add missing config path and align label_sync image (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4995: fix(git-pr.sh): correct script invocation in some periodics (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4994: fix(prow,job,image-bump): add images from gcr.io (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4987: ci: copy SIG test lanes for k8s 1.36 provider (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4984: chore(livez): use kubectl to also validate cluster certificate (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4983: fix: allow kubevirt-commenter-bot to apply skip-review label (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4982: feat(horologium): switch to upstream manifests (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4980: SEV: disable lanes due to expired API server certificate (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#17529: [release-1.6] MDEV tests: fix for non-kubevirtci execution (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4973: Convert SIG report from periodic to postsubmit (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/ci-health#121: Add analyze-pr command for PR build failure analysis (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#17522: [release-1.7] MDEV tests: fix for non-kubevirtci execution (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/ci-health#120: feat: add Claude skills, AGENTS.md, and remove stale Bazel triggers (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4929: chore(prow-deploy): optimize image build (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/community#436: add Whitedyl to SIG CI reviewers (by @Whitedyl)

• [nirdothan] flaky test not being picked up by auto-quarantine: https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/pr-logs/pull/kubevirt_kubevirt/17497/pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-network/2047264304784216064

Action items

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  communication

• send meeting notes to kubevirt-dev (include meeting changes for upcoming instances)

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Kind regards,

Daniel Hiller

He / Him / His

Principal Software Engineer, KubeVirt CI, OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat

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