2026-01-19 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-01-19 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, ycui, vamsi, nirdothan, dollierp

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]

• [vamsi] Need help with reviewing the alpine-test-tooling  support for s390x pr reviews

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1587

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1598

• ci-health

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

• sig-monitoring shows an increased failure rate

• sig-storage shows a relatively high failure rate as well

• remaining ones seem to calm down again

• [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]

• [nir] start working on kubevirtci - network resources injector, which uses a webhook in addition to the usual ones

• [Or] consider moving to kcli instead of kubevirtci - project maintained for 7 years, deploy vanilla k8s, openshift, hypershift, declarative, can create bm nodes or use vm nodes, updated daily

• POC - PR https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16502

• POC of emulated SR-IOV https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1600

• Note that if we use kcli, it will able to do it as well

• 9 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-01-12 author:dhiller author:dollierp org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1606: OWNERS: add myself as approver for kubevirtci (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4641: fix(s390x): remove unknown presets (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4637: chore(skip-review): add documentation (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4636: [Snyk] Security upgrade urllib3 from 2.0.7 to 2.6.3 (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4631: chore(grafana): improve e2e job failures/h (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4622: chore(plugins): enable branchcleaner plugin for kv/secrets repo (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4618: feat(flake-stats): add md output showing lane failures (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4609: fix(dequarantine,check-tests-for-flakes): timeout (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4549: fix(robots,pkg): move robots/pkg => pkg, robots/cmd => robots (by @dhiller)

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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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