2026-05-20 sig-ci quarantine catch-up - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-05-20 sig-ci quarantine catch-up

When: Weekly on Wed, 9:45 – 10:15am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: nirdothan, dywhite, fossedihelm

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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• review and merge the quarantine PRs in 2 working days without SIG lgtm. 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+quarantine+-label%3Ado-not-merge%2Fwork-in-progress+label%3Akind%2Fflake+-label%3Aneeds-rebase

• Quarantine flaky ClusterProfiler pprof subresource access test

• [dhiller] has some failures in the lanes probably due to cache issues, need to investigate those

• [Nir] please unhold https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17536

• [dhiller] will do

• 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

• n/a

• [non-urgent]

• [Nir] Please LGTM removal of quarantine https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17840

• suggestion by fossedihelm - set test to Pending (PEntry in this case)

• [dhiller] will add that to the proposal of test lifecycle

• [fossedihelm] Where are we about `Mandatory pre-submit lanes`?

• [dhiller] currently at always_run: true, optional: false for 1.36 lanes

• Look at flakes

• most flaky tests

• sig-compute

• [rfe_id:273][crit:high][vendor:cnv...@redhat.com][level:component][sig-compute]VMIlifecycle [rfe_id:273][crit:high][vendor:cnv...@redhat.com][level:component]Creating a VirtualMachineInstance [test_id:1622]should log libvirtd logs

• being investigated, might be an intermittent failure

• [sig-compute] Infrastructure cluster profiler for pprof data aggregation when ClusterProfiler configuration is enabled it should allow subresource access

• quarantine pending, see above

• [sig-compute] vitiofs config volumes With a ServiceAccount defined Should be the namespace and token the same for a pod and vmi with virtiofs

• failing on 1.36 only, issue exists, see above

• sig-monitoring

• [sig-monitoring]Component Monitoring Up metrics VirtControllerDown should be triggered when virt-controller is down

• failures might be fallout from working on fixing the flakes - Joao is working on that IIRC

• sig-storage

• (existing) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17791

• flake stats

• https://github.com/dhiller/ci-health/blob/264395a0feb3285e5c1419a2af95984947a3a4ab/output/kubevirt/kubevirt/flake-overview/flake-overview-2026-05-20.md

• Look at held tests:

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

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Aapproved+label%3Algtm+-label%3Ado-not-merge%2Fhold+-label%3Aneeds-rebase

• dequarantine tests:

• look at list of quarantined tests

• Count: xx 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

• dhiller will be out next Monday, public holiday in Germany (Pentecost)

• Dylan will step in for the meeting

• [Nir] failures in sig-network with network injecting mutating webhook

• not on a specific test

• flakes randomly

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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