SIG-CI Quarantine Catch-Up

[Dylan White]

Hi all,

See the meeting minutes below,

2026-09-09 sig-ci quarantine catch-up

When: Weekly on Wed, 9:45 – 10:15am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dywhite, 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

• kubevirt quarantine process documentation

Topics:

• [urgent]

• [dollierp] sig-monitoring lane is blocked after prometheus bump to v0.18.0 in kubevirtci

• PR#19041 requires attention

• Need to decide how to trigger the monitoring lane for kubevirtci bump PRs such as this one PR#19022

• Update the run_if_changed rule to match kubevirtci/cluster-up/…

• [dollierp] slow progress in making k8s-1.37 lanes required

• PRs require attention

• sig-compute: PR#18939

• sig-storage: PR#18951

• ci-health

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

• is:pr is:open quarantine -label:do-not-merge/work-in-progress label:kind/flake -label:needs-rebase

• Auto-quarantine for Live Migration test: PR#19029

• Need to check if the flake was already fixed by PR#18988

• previous action items

• state of existing issues: is:issue is:open label:kind/flake sort:updated-asc label:sig/ci

• [non-urgent]

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• Look at flakes

• most flaky tests

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• flake stats - create issues accordingly

• overall ( ∑=1180, 100.00% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.37-sig-compute ( ∑=228, 19.32% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-monitoring ( ∑=161, 13.64% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.35-sig-compute ( ∑=160, 13.56% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-compute ( ∑=141, 11.95% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.37-sig-storage ( ∑=114, 9.66% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-test-S390X ( ∑=51, 4.32% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.37-sig-operator ( ∑=49, 4.15% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-s390x ( ∑=45, 3.81% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-operator ( ∑=43, 3.64% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-kind-1.36-sev ( ∑=40, 3.39% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-compute-migrations ( ∑=31, 2.63% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-compute-migrations ( ∑=27, 2.29% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.37-sig-storage ( ∑=17, 1.44% )

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.37-sig-compute ( ∑=14, 1.19% )

• periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.37-sig-operator ( ∑=12, 1.02% )

Last updated: 2026-09-09 06:51:13.240156357 +0000 UTC m=+14.154837671

• 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

• No PR in the merge queue currently

• dequarantine tests:

• look at list of quarantined tests

• Count: 14 tests in quarantine currently
  

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

• look at PRs that want to fix flakes

• see whether we can dequarantine tests

• Prometheus Endpoint tests for release-1.7: PR#19062 – requires attention

• misc topics

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Action items

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  update/create issues with latest flakes spotted

Dylan White

Software Engineer

Red Hat EMEA

One Central Plaza

Dame Street

dyw...@redhat.com