2026-07-20 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-07-20 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, dollierp, Nestor Acuna Blanco Nir Dothan Orel Misan

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] duration of lane pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-compute-serial increased from 2h30m to 4h00m

• first occurrence on main

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-compute-serial#2077034200250191872 

• Pull Request VEP 190: Guard plugin ValidatingAdmissionPolicies behind Plugins feature gate

• same issue on branch release-1.9 for the backport

• pull-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.36-sig-compute-serial-1.9#2077570807382413312 

• Pull Request https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/18476

• [dhiller] need to contact the author on this also notify the sig-compute on this

• [dollierp] in-house prow external plugins don’t detect their own user anymore after github app migration

• comment bomb: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/18490

• tentative fix (needs-review): https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/pull/5309

• [dhiller] will review the fix

• 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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• actually looking worse than it really is wrt sig-monitoring - one failing job causing the 100% spike, right after that one succeeding job. Still waiting on changing the run_if_changed pattern from sig-observability

• [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

• auto-quarantine failed to detect correct SIG

• [non-urgent]

• [nestoracunablanco] -> Requesting approver review: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1706 

• testing alpine cloud image, gives us freedom to check network backend

• Orel Misan Can we disable Sourcery now that we have CodeRabbit?

• [dhiller] was under impression that Edy would notify when it should be turned off

• Orel Misan Istio bump path forward

• [dhiller] will sync with Orel later and bump the image manually

• [orelmisan] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1779

• needs approver review

• [dhiller] will take a look

• [nirdothan] network resources injector

• FYI we had a recent failure

• going to research that again

• [misc]

• 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

• 19 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-07-13 author:dhiller author:dollierp author:whitedyl org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5304: chore(retester): add check-tests-for-flakes (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5303: chore(jobs): consolidate GitHub credentials preset (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5299: fix(imagebump): fix case of two tags with same date (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1778: fix: revert timeout and retry number changes (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5296: fix(external-plugins): pin images to newest tag and disable bumper (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5294: feat(external-plugins): switch to GitHub App credentials (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1777: centos10: Switch to using the fedora image from fedora registry as base container (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5289: chore(sev): update lanes to kind-1.36 provider (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5288: fix(kubevirt-unit-tests-1.9): use image with increased pid_limits (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1767: feat: capture VM serial console output for CI debugging (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1766: Revert "Automatic bump of CentOS Stream to latest (#1764)" (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#18450: docs: add worktree build caveat to getting-started guide (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1765: docs: add dev guide pointers and validation section to CONTRIBUTING (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5282: docs: add image publishing and label config docs (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5281: feat: re-enable CentOS 9 Stream automatic bump jobs (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5276: fix(prow-deploy): skip control-plane deployment for job-only changes (bis) (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/ci-health#166: docs: add automation & workflows section to README (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5259: chore(jobs): enable job decoration globally by default (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5252: feat(external-plugins): add support for GitHub App credentials (by @dollierp)

Action items

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  communication

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  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

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