2025-12-31 sig-ci quarantine catch-up - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2025-12-31 sig-ci quarantine catch-up

When: Weekly on Wed, 9:45 – 10:15am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, 

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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• sig-ci failure report

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16445

• 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]

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• Look at flakes

• flake stats - create issues accordingly

• overall ( ∑=1028, 100.00% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-compute ( ∑=401, 39.01% )

• clustered failure (99 errors): https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-compute/2003209049658626048

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16438

• 165 errors accounting to existing https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/15976

• remaining ones accounted to quarantined tests

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute ( ∑=181, 17.61% )

• clustered failure (59 errors): https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-compute/2005592284321550336

• (existing) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16275

• remaining ones accounted to quarantined tests

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.32-sig-compute ( ∑=138, 13.42% )

• two clustered failures recorded

• (existing) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/15791

• remaining ones due to quarantined tests

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-compute ( ∑=113, 10.99% )

• clustered failure (20 errors) https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-compute/2005937061399367680

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16440

• remaining ones due to quarantined tests

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-operator ( ∑=48, 4.67% )

• clustered failure (43 errors) https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-operator/2002695727905509376

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16441

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-operator ( ∑=46, 4.47% )

• clustered failure (42 errors) https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/logs/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.33-sig-operator/2003780321840992256

• (new) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16442

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-monitoring ( ∑=12, 1.17% )

• failures largely due to quarantined tests

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• dequarantine tests:

• look at list of quarantined tests

• count: tests in quarantine currently
  (insert screenshot from ci-health)

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

• look at PRs that want to fix flakes

• see whether we can dequarantine tests 

• 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

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