2026-06-22 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-06-22 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dywhite, dhiller, dollierp, fossedihelm, 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]

• [fossedihelm] Updates of https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/18116 

• [dywhite]Needs root approval

• [fossedihelm] Were the builder images copied to kv registry?

• [dhiller] will take a look and give feedback related to sig-buildsystem

• ci-health

• 

• [dhiller] hours to merge seems broken will take a look

• 

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• CI => 64/70 failures were caused by bazel remote cache blob fetch failure

• Monitoring => Job pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-monitoring is failing consistently on test Metrics Prometheus metrics should contain virt components metrics since 06/13:
  requests.memory '544Mi' is greater than limits.memory '512Mi'

• [dylan] bcarey has an open PR

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/18119

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

• 

• [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

• n/a

• [non-urgent]

• 
  

• [misc]

• [fossedihelm] last release idea

• [dhiller] put up a vep to enforce code freeze https://github.com/kubevirt/enhancements/pull/221

• [fossedihelm] use priority: config.yaml#L330-L333 

• approved + lgtm + kind/bug | kind/flake

• approved-vep + approved + lgtm

• approved + lgtm

• 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

• 17 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-06-15 author:dhiller author:dollierp author:whitedyl org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5162: fix(quarantine): preserve comments when quarantining tests (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5161: feat(tide): switch to upstream manifests (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5156: Redesign most flaky tests report for readability & add approaching quarantine test (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5154: fix(searchci): handle empty results page (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5153: fix(release-tag): increase timeout to 5h (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#18151: Quarantine flaky post-copy liveness probe migration test (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5148: fix(docker-proxy): increase proxy_ssl_verify_depth (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5147: fix(crier): inject prow clusters kubeconfig (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5146: fix(ci-search): set Jira endpoint which is now required (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5140: Increase most flaky report freshness (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5136: feat(prow-controller-manager): switch to upstream manifests (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5132: Onboard CodeRabbit and enable golangci-lint standard linters (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#18096: fix(tests): preserve DisabledFeatureGates in hostdev tests (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/sig-release#64: docs: add lane migration process link to v1.9 schedule (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#18089: docs: clarify NoFlakeCheck decorator policy and usage guidelines (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5125: fix: require recent consistent failures for auto-quarantine (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5121: ci(greenhouse): add weekly cache wipe periodic job (by @dhiller)

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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