2026-01-28 sig-ci quarantine catch-up - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-01-28 sig-ci quarantine catch-up

When: Weekly on Wed, 9:45 – 10:15am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, dollierp, ycui

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

• kubevirt quarantine process documentation

Topics:

• [urgent]

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• ci-health

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• preview for ci-failure summary

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• previous action items

• state of existing issues: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Akind%2Fflake+sort%3Aupdated-asc+label%3Asig%2Fci

• [non-urgent]

• [dollierp] created PR to integrate HyperV (TODO add PR link)

• Look at flakes

• flake stats - create issues accordingly

• overall ( ∑=1142, 100.00% )

• new set of two tests failing on all periodic sig-compute lanes

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16679

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-compute ( ∑=238, 20.84% )

• clustered failure https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-compute/2016255055367245824

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16688

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute-serial ( ∑=149, 13.05% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute ( ∑=144, 12.61% )

• clustered failure https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute/2016101541211017216

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16689

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.32-sig-compute ( ∑=92, 8.06% )

• clustered failure https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.32-sig-compute/2015945511009259520

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16690

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-compute ( ∑=85, 7.44% )

• clustered failure

• (existing) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16539

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.32-sig-operator ( ∑=42, 3.68% )

• clustered failure

• (existing) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16610

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-operator ( ∑=41, 3.59% )

• clustered failure

• (existing) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16609

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-storage ( ∑=36, 3.15% )

• apart from the failed quarantined tests, only showing a mild flakyness

• note: remainder skipped for brevity

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-storage ( ∑=34, 2.98% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute-np ( ∑=26, 2.28% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.32-sig-storage ( ∑=24, 2.10% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-storage ( ∑=22, 1.93% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-storage ( ∑=22, 1.93% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute-arm64 ( ∑=22, 1.93% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.32-sig-storage ( ∑=20, 1.75% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-compute ( ∑=18, 1.58% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-storage ( ∑=17, 1.49% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-monitoring ( ∑=13, 1.14% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute-migrations ( ∑=12, 1.05% )

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• dequarantine tests:

• look at list of quarantined tests

• count: tests in quarantine currently
  

• [nir] there’s a q’d test on sig-network that is being missed by the report, need to check why it’s being

• check status, i.e. who is working on those

• look at PRs that want to fix flakes

• see whether we can dequarantine tests

• [sig-network] working on de-q the ipv6 test

• misc topics

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Action items

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  update/create issues with latest flakes spotted

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  communication

• send meeting notes to kubevirt-dev, bcc sig people for spotted flakes (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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