2026-07-13 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-07-13 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, Orel Misan, fossedihelm, Nir Dothan

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]

• [dollierp] sig-operator lane flakiness status

• issue#18309, issue#18336 => PR#18355 (fix), PR#18420 (quarantine - hold)

• [dhiller] we should merge quarantine PRs regardless of the release-blocker label, but create an all-hands-on-deck situation in that case

• discussion meeting link below in action items section

• issue#18320 => PR#18338 (fix - draft)

• 18338 will be superseded by https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/18397 

• ci-health

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

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• [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]

• Orel Misan vhostuser-network-binding-plugin

• https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/pull/5274

• https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/pull/5275 

• Orel Misan Istio upgrade - CI issues

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1757 

• in earlier versions the base image was merged and manually pushed to kubevirtci quay

• [dhiller] check whether there’s no automation, probably automation disabled by Dylan and bump reverted by me

• need to fix that 

• I will investigate what is to do there

• [dhiller] fix to check-flakes was merged last week

• need to check whether it all works

• [fossedihelm] Spin https://prow.ci.kubevirt.io/view/gs/kubevirt-prow/pr-logs/pull/kubevirt_kubevirt/18338/pull-kubevirt-check-tests-for-flakes/2076581445236690944 that was not working previously

• [misc]

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• 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

• 24 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-07-06 author:dhiller author:dollierp author:whitedyl org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5267: fix(prow-deploy): skip control-plane deployment for job-only changes (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5264: fix(prow-workloads): set undefined variable (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5260: chore(coderabbit): replace vendor exclusion with path instruction (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5257: chore(istio): bump istio image versions (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5256: fix(check-tests,dequarantine): use ginkgo-tests (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#18394: fix(repeated_tests.sh): update to gingko-tests (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5255: fix(ginkgo-tests): provide go toolchain (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5254: Update jobs using GO_MOD_PATH to use entrypoint.sh instead of runner.sh (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/ci-health#165: docs: add ci-failures CLI documentation to root README (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#164: feat(ci-failures): persist finished.json result in build analysis (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5248: kubevirtci: fix GO_MOD_PATH by using entrypoint.sh and correcting path (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5247: fix(bootstrap): raise container pids_limit from 4096 to 8192 (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5246: chore(coderabbit): expand review instructions to match repo specifics (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5242: coverage: add coverage delta and configurable threshold (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5241: s390x: re-enable lanes after the cluster issue is fixed (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5239: s390x: disable lanes due to clusters issue (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/ci-health#163: feat(sigci): split sig-ci badge into internal and external failure badges (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1755: cluster-provision: install crictl explicitly (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5230: feat(needs-rebase): switch to GitHub App credentials (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/containerized-data-importer#4191: fix(bazel-docker): mount bazel cache GCS credentials into builder container (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5202: chore(jobs): cleanup empty name field (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#18152: fix(dockerized): mount bazel cache GCS credentials into builder container (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5091: Add weekly CronJob to clean up pods stuck in Terminating state (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5041: ci: archive dead release branches 0.4-0.57 (VEP #233) (by @dhiller)

Action items

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  Daniel Hiller create a meeting on how to handle quarantined tests that are release-blockers

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  meeting link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NXBnZmI2YnQ4ZDdob3V2MDE0ZW9lbWdlbXAgZGhpbGxlckByZWRoYXQuY29t&tmsrc=dhiller%40redhat.com

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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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