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Fixes OCPBUGS-115163: the [sig-cluster-lifecycle] Cluster version operator acknowledges upgrade check can time out while the CVO is legitimately retrieving a slow release payload, producing a false acknowledgement failure.

The check waited only for status.observedGeneration to catch up, within a fixed per-platform timeout (2m default / 4m OpenStack / 10m bare metal). The CVO advances observedGeneration only after the release payload has been retrieved, verified, and accepted, so a slow release-image pull outlasts the fixed window even while the CVO is making progress, and the test fails.

Approach

Keep acknowledgement gated on the payload actually being accepted (observedGeneration catching up), but make the wait tolerate a slow-but-progressing retrieval and fail fast only on a terminal payload rejection — one that retrying cannot fix. The decision keys on the CVO ReleaseAccepted ClusterVersion condition, whose Reason is the CVO's payload-load step.

ReleaseAccepted=False cases and why some are terminal

Reason Meaning Recoverable by retry? Test behavior
RetrievePayload release-image pull failed — slow/timed-out, registry unreachable, or auth-rejected Yes — the CVO retries and it frequently succeeds on a later attempt keep waiting (bounded by the hard cap)
LoadPayload the retrieved payload will not load (bad/corrupt content) No fail fast
VerifyPayloadVersion the release version does not match what was requested No fail fast
PreconditionChecks an upgrade precondition failed No fail fast

Why RetrievePayload is not terminal. The CVO reports ReleaseAccepted=False, reason=RetrievePayload after each failed retrieval attempt of a pull that is merely slow (the version-* pod hits its 2-minute ActiveDeadlineSeconds, or the build-farm registry is temporarily slow/unreachable). Such pulls routinely succeed on a subsequent attempt — the OCPBUGS-115163 failures are exactly this shape (GCP/Azure/libvirt runs that time out a few times, then PayloadLoaded fires and the cluster upgrades). Failing fast here would fail the very runs this PR targets. A persistent registry-auth failure (invalid username/password) surfaces under this same reason and is indistinguishable from a slow pull by reason alone, so it is treated identically (keep waiting) and correctly fails when the cap elapses — bounded, never a false pass.

Why the others are terminal. LoadPayload, VerifyPayloadVersion, and PreconditionChecks describe a payload or cluster state that retrying cannot fix; waiting them out to the cap only wastes time, so we fail fast — surfacing only the reason (a fixed CVO step identifier), never the raw condition message, which can carry internal registry hostnames.

Force: true nuance (this test forces the update): the CVO bypasses signature verification and downgrades precondition failures to warnings when forced, so in practice only LoadPayload and VerifyPayloadVersion can actually fire here. PreconditionChecks is kept in the terminal set defensively (correct if the test ever runs unforced).

Behavior

  • Succeed as soon as observedGeneration catches up (payload accepted) — unchanged success criterion.
  • Fail fast on a terminal ReleaseAccepted=False (LoadPayload / VerifyPayloadVersion / PreconditionChecks), surfacing only the condition reason.
  • Otherwise keep waiting, bounded by maxCVOUpdateAckTimeout (20m, matching the maximum acknowledgement wait in OCPBUGS-115163: test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade: 20m fatal observation for update-ack #31654). A retrieval that never succeeds, or a request the CVO never picks up, still fails when the cap elapses.

The failure message uses the Timed out prefix only when the hard-cap deadline actually expires; a terminal rejection or a desired-update conflict surfaced by the poll uses a neutral Failed while waiting for cluster to acknowledge upgrade prefix.

Why the earlier revisions of this PR were changed

  • An earlier revision failed fast on any ReleaseAccepted=False. But the CVO stamps ReleaseAccepted=False, reason=RetrievePayload on each failed attempt of a slow-but-eventually-successful pull, so that check would still have failed the very runs this fixes.
  • It also failed at the short per-platform timeout when no target-matched condition was visible. But the CVO does not reliably publish its intermediate "retrieving" (ReleaseAccepted=Unknown) condition until the first attempt completes, so a legitimately slow first pull shows no target-matched condition at the short timeout and would trip that check.

Both checks are removed: the wait is bounded solely by the hard cap and fail-fast is reserved for terminal rejections.

Supersedes #31583 (which accepted a "retrieval started" signal as acknowledgement — rejected because it would let a real download/verification failure pass with no bounded place left to catch it). Complementary to #31654 (same test; shared 20m maximum wait). The underlying retrieval slowness is also being addressed upstream in openshift/cluster-version-operator#1361; this change hardens the test itself so it does not raise false failures regardless.

Testing

Local, on the changed package:

  • go test ./test/e2e/upgrade/ — table-driven unit tests pass:
    • releaseAcceptedForTarget — in-progress match, failure match, stale/other-image ignored (incl. version-matches-but-image-differs), version-only match/non-match.
    • isTerminalReleaseAcceptedFailure — terminal reasons vs retriable RetrievePayload vs non-False conditions.
    • ackProgress — success on generation catch-up, keep-waiting on retrieving/retrieval-failure, fail-fast on terminal rejection, and acceptance winning over a stale terminal condition.
  • go vet ./test/e2e/upgrade/ — clean.
  • gofmt -l — clean.
  • go build ./test/e2e/upgrade/ — compiles. (Full openshift-tests binary build covered by CI.)

Validated against real recent CI runs: slow-but-successful pulls (e.g. libvirt 2099777836721115136, request→PayloadLoaded ~2m26s) now pass; persistent metal registry-auth failures (e.g. 2100551312939683840) fail bounded at the cap rather than being conflated with slow pulls.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Upgrade monitoring now accurately recognizes acceptance of requested releases by image or version.
    • Upgrade checks validate updates at the correct generation, reducing premature or inconsistent results.
    • Upgrade acknowledgement and completion checks now honor cancellation and time limits, tolerate transient retrieval failures and platform delays, and promptly report terminal release rejection.
    • Improved handling of slow successful acknowledgements reduces upgrade test flakiness and provides clearer status details when timeouts occur.

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@emmahone: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-115163, which is valid.

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What / Why

Fixes OCPBUGS-115163: the [sig-cluster-lifecycle] Cluster version operator acknowledges upgrade check can time out while the CVO is legitimately retrieving a slow release payload, producing a false acknowledgement failure.

The acknowledgement check waited only for status.observedGeneration to catch up, within a fixed per-platform timeout (2m default / 4m OpenStack / 10m bare metal). The CVO advances observedGeneration only after the release payload has been retrieved, verified, and accepted. A slow release-image retrieval therefore outlasts the fixed window even while the CVO is making progress, and the test fails (or, over 2m, flaked).

Approach

This supersedes the earlier attempt in #31583. That PR made the check accept a "payload-retrieval started" signal as acknowledgement. As @petr-muller (former CVO engineer) pointed out, that is not correct: acknowledgement is meant to prove the CVO can actually start updating, and payload download + validation is a precondition — accepting "retrieval started" would let a genuine download/verification failure pass the check, with no bounded place left to catch it.

Instead, this keeps acknowledgement gated on the payload actually being accepted, but makes the wait aware of payload-retrieval state via the CVO ReleaseAccepted ClusterVersion condition:

  • Succeed as soon as observedGeneration catches up (payload accepted) — unchanged success criterion.
  • Fail fast when ReleaseAccepted=False for the requested release, i.e. the CVO tried and could not retrieve or verify the payload — bounded and immediate, with the CVO's reason/message surfaced.
  • Tolerate exceeding the short per-platform timeout only while the CVO shows a target-matched ReleaseAccepted condition (evidence it is actively retrieving), up to a bounded hard cap (maxCVOUpdateAckTimeout = 15m). A CVO that never picks up the request still fails at the short timeout.

This removes the false timeout without losing detection of a real payload retrieval/validation failure, and the wait is always bounded — a stuck or failed retrieval never leaves the test waiting indefinitely nor lets it pass without the payload being validated. This directly answers the review contract on #31583 ("detect that retrieval started, and still fail, bounded, when retrieval/validation does not complete or fails").

The ReleaseAccepted condition (not RetrievePayload events) is used deliberately, so the event-list API-failure and log-sanitization problems seen in #31583 do not recur. Target matching keys on the release image (or version, for version-only requests) recorded in the condition message, since observedGeneration/status.desired only advance after acceptance and cannot identify the in-progress target.

The former flake-on-slow-ack branch is replaced with a telemetry log line, since a slow-but-progressing retrieval is now a legitimate, bounded wait.

Note: the underlying retrieval slowness is also being addressed upstream in openshift/cluster-version-operator#1361 (watcher/ListOptions performance). This change hardens the test itself so it does not raise false failures regardless.

Testing

Local, on the changed package:

  • go test ./test/e2e/upgrade/ — new table-driven unit tests for releaseAcceptedForTarget (in-progress match, failure match, stale/other-image ignored, version-only match/non-match) pass.
  • go vet ./test/e2e/upgrade/ — clean.
  • gofmt -l — clean.
  • go build ./test/e2e/... ./cmd/openshift-tests/ — the e2e tree and the openshift-tests binary compile.

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Walkthrough

The upgrade monitor now matches ReleaseAccepted conditions to requested payloads. The acknowledgement wait uses bounded, context-aware polling, target-specific rejection handling, retrieval-progress checks, and context propagation during completion polling.

Changes

CVO upgrade acknowledgement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Target condition monitoring
test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go
versionMonitor.Check accepts a context and treats equal or greater observed generations as complete. Helpers match target-specific ReleaseAccepted conditions, classify terminal payload failures, and report acknowledgement progress. Tests cover matching, stale, retriable, terminal, and completed states.
Bounded acknowledgement polling
test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go
The acknowledgement wait uses the larger platform timeout or 20-minute cap. It waits through retryable retrieval failures, fails for terminal target-specific rejection, reports the last status on timeout, and logs slow successful acknowledgements.
Completion context propagation
test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go
Upgrade-completion polling uses the context-aware wait API and passes its context to monitor.Check.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant clusterUpgrade
  participant acknowledgementPolling
  participant versionMonitor.Check
  participant ClusterVersion
  clusterUpgrade->>acknowledgementPolling: Wait for target acknowledgement
  loop Until acknowledgement or bounded timeout
    acknowledgementPolling->>versionMonitor.Check: Check ClusterVersion with context
    versionMonitor.Check->>ClusterVersion: Request status
    ClusterVersion-->>versionMonitor.Check: Return generation and conditions
    versionMonitor.Check-->>acknowledgementPolling: Return acknowledgement progress
  end
  acknowledgementPolling-->>clusterUpgrade: Continue, fail, or complete
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No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ❌ Error The new acknowledgement error includes %v for err in upgrade.go. When monitor.Check detects a desired-update conflict, that error contains cv.Spec.DesiredUpdate; the Update type includes t… Return a fixed, sanitized conflict error from monitor.Check, or include only safe fields such as the generation and a conflict classification. Do not format the complete DesiredUpdate or propagate it into cluster event notes and test re…
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the tracked issue and the main change: making upgrade acknowledgement aware of CVO payload retrieval. It is concise and directly matches the pull request objectives.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 80.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 3 files.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed No unstable test names were introduced. The new monitor_test.go cases use static string literals for t.Run names, such as "image-matched retrieval in progress" and `"terminal rejection fails fas…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed No explicit test-structure failure was introduced. The new tests are standard testing.T table tests, not Ginkgo tests. Each subtest checks one behavior and all Fatalf calls include diagnostic mess…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds three standard Go tests using testing.T; it does not add any Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When test. The tests construct configv1.ClusterVersion objects in …
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The PR adds three ordinary Go testing unit tests (TestReleaseAcceptedForTarget, TestIsTerminalReleaseAcceptedFailure, and TestAckProgress). It does not add Ginkgo It, Describe, `Cont…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only three Go files under test/e2e/upgrade: CVO acknowledgement monitoring, polling logic, and unit tests. The diff adds no deployment manifests, operator/controller sch…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed No changed process-level stdout write was introduced. The exact PR diff adds one output call, framework.Logf, inside clusterUpgrade; its only caller is within a Ginkgo It test body, which the ch…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The PR adds three standard testing.T unit tests, not new Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When tests. The new quay.io values are static image strings used for condition-matching fixt…
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only upgrade monitoring, polling, condition matching, and tests. The added code imports no crypto packages and introduces no MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or EC…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The pull request changes only three Go files under test/e2e/upgrade. The diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest. Searches of the changed diff and files found no privileged, hostPID, `host…
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Explanation

The new acknowledgement error includes %v for err in upgrade.go. When monitor.Check detects a desired-update conflict, that error contains cv.Spec.DesiredUpdate; the Update type includes the full Image string. The pull request changes the generation check from > to >=, so this conflict path is newly activated at the equal-generation boundary. The returned error is also stored in the cluster event note and JUnit failure, which can expose an internal registry hostname in the image. The new ReleaseAccepted status output is limited to status and reason, but it does not sanitize this conflict error.

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Return a fixed, sanitized conflict error from monitor.Check, or include only safe fields such as the generation and a conflict classification. Do not format the complete DesiredUpdate or propagate it into cluster event notes and test reports.

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Approach looks good to me. Would be great if someone from PIXAA had a look but if needed I'm comfortable to lgtm a change like this too

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/override-sticky ci/prow/e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6

Automated triage: This failure appears unrelated to the PR changes.

Job classification: Eligible long-running e2e presubmit for bare-metal IPI with OVN on IPv6. The job definition uses the bare-metal cluster profile and the baremetalds-e2e-ovn-ipv6 workflow; its test phase is baremetalds-e2e-test.
Revision check: run 33fc58118ba1a9b0fcec7b41c3914586b8f3d3a5; current PR HEAD 33fc58118ba1a9b0fcec7b41c3914586b8f3d3a5; match. The Prow metadata endpoint did not return a separate run SHA, so the incoming run SHA and live PR HEAD are the verified revision pair.
Execution status: Tests executed extensively: 2,251 tests ran, with 2,125 passed, 96 failed (91 flakes and 5 net failures), and 30 skipped. The failing test step ran for about 2 hours.
Completed supporting jobs: ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback, ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn, ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi, ci/prow/unit, ci/prow/lint, ci/prow/verify, ci/prow/go-verify-deps, and ci/prow/verify-deps passed. tide is pending and is not counted as positive signal.
Overlap assessment: The PR changes test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go, and test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go. The observed failures were in unrelated sig-network/router/network-segmentation setup and API access, not upgrade acknowledgement behavior. There is no plausible direct overlap; the only indirect relationship is shared test-cluster/API infrastructure.
Missing-coverage risk: Low for this decision. The run completed most of the suite before the infrastructure disruption, and the changed upgrade code has passing unit and upgrade-related e2e signal. The interrupted bare-metal IPv6/OVN coverage should still be rerun when capacity permits.
Rationale: At 18:52 UTC, the log records simultaneous proxy connection timeouts for Kubernetes API, OAuth API, and OpenShift API backends. The failures then occurred during test setup/API operations across multiple sig-network tests, while the disruption monitor recorded DisruptionBegan events. This is a known CI infrastructure failure pattern, not a failure caused by the PR's upgrade-monitor changes.

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Automated triage: This failure appears unrelated to the PR changes.

Job classification: Eligible long-running e2e presubmit for bare-metal IPI with OVN on IPv6. The job definition uses the bare-metal cluster profile and the baremetalds-e2e-ovn-ipv6 workflow; its test phase is baremetalds-e2e-test.
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Execution status: Tests executed extensively: 2,251 tests ran, with 2,125 passed, 96 failed (91 flakes and 5 net failures), and 30 skipped. The failing test step ran for about 2 hours.
Completed supporting jobs: ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback, ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn, ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi, ci/prow/unit, ci/prow/lint, ci/prow/verify, ci/prow/go-verify-deps, and ci/prow/verify-deps passed. tide is pending and is not counted as positive signal.
Overlap assessment: The PR changes test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go, and test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go. The observed failures were in unrelated sig-network/router/network-segmentation setup and API access, not upgrade acknowledgement behavior. There is no plausible direct overlap; the only indirect relationship is shared test-cluster/API infrastructure.
Missing-coverage risk: Low for this decision. The run completed most of the suite before the infrastructure disruption, and the changed upgrade code has passing unit and upgrade-related e2e signal. The interrupted bare-metal IPv6/OVN coverage should still be rerun when capacity permits.
Rationale: At 18:52 UTC, the log records simultaneous proxy connection timeouts for Kubernetes API, OAuth API, and OpenShift API backends. The failures then occurred during test setup/API operations across multiple sig-network tests, while the disruption monitor recorded DisruptionBegan events. This is a known CI infrastructure failure pattern, not a failure caused by the PR's upgrade-monitor changes.

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Update: distinguish terminal payload rejections from retriable retrieval failures

Reworked the acknowledgement wait so it no longer fails on transient/slow retrieval failures. Here is the full set of CVO ReleaseAccepted cases and how the test now treats each, with the reasoning.

The CVO sets ReleaseAccepted from its payload-load step, using the step name as the condition Reason (cluster-version-operator pkg/cvo/sync_worker.go, pkg/cvo/status.go setReleaseAcceptedCondition). The complete set of ReleaseAccepted=False reasons is:

Reason Meaning Recoverable by retry? Test behavior
RetrievePayload release-image pull failed — slow/timed-out, registry unreachable, or auth-rejected Yes — the CVO retries and it frequently succeeds on a later attempt keep waiting (bounded by the hard cap)
LoadPayload the retrieved payload will not load (bad/corrupt content) No fail fast
VerifyPayloadVersion the release version does not match what was requested No fail fast
PreconditionChecks an upgrade precondition failed No fail fast

Why RetrievePayload is not terminal. The CVO advances status.observedGeneration only after the payload is retrieved, verified, and accepted, and it reports ReleaseAccepted=False, reason=RetrievePayload after each failed retrieval attempt of a pull that is merely slow (the version-* pod hits its 2-minute ActiveDeadlineSeconds, or the build-farm registry is temporarily slow/unreachable). Such pulls routinely succeed on a subsequent attempt — the OCPBUGS-115163 failures are exactly this shape (GCP/Azure/libvirt runs where the pull times out a few times, then PayloadLoaded fires and the cluster upgrades). Failing fast on RetrievePayload=False would fail the very runs this PR is meant to fix. Note also that a persistent registry-auth failure (invalid username/password) surfaces under this same reason and is indistinguishable from a slow pull by reason alone, so it is treated identically (keep waiting) and correctly fails when the cap elapses — bounded, never a false pass.

Why the others are terminal. LoadPayload, VerifyPayloadVersion, and PreconditionChecks describe a payload or cluster state that retrying cannot fix; waiting them out to the cap only wastes time, so we fail fast — surfacing only the reason (a fixed CVO step identifier), never the raw condition message, which can carry internal registry hostnames.

Force: true nuance (this test forces the update): the CVO bypasses signature verification and downgrades precondition failures to warnings when forced, so in practice only LoadPayload and VerifyPayloadVersion can actually fire here. PreconditionChecks is kept in the terminal set defensively (correct if the test ever runs unforced).

Removed the short "no progress" fail. The CVO does not reliably publish its intermediate "retrieving" (ReleaseAccepted=Unknown) condition until the first retrieval attempt completes, so a legitimately slow first pull can show no target-matched condition at the 2-minute mark — the old per-platform timeout false-failed those. The wait is now bounded solely by the hard cap, raised to 20m to match the maximum acknowledgement wait in #31654, and fail-fast is reserved for terminal rejections.

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The "Cluster version operator acknowledges upgrade" check waited only for
status.observedGeneration to catch up, within a fixed per-platform timeout.
The CVO advances observedGeneration only after the release payload has been
retrieved, verified, and accepted, so a slow release-image retrieval can blow
the timeout and fail the test even though the CVO is legitimately making
progress.

Make the wait tolerate a slow-but-progressing retrieval and fail fast only on a
genuine, non-recoverable payload rejection:

  - succeed as soon as observedGeneration catches up (payload accepted);
  - fail fast only when the CVO terminally rejects the payload -- ReleaseAccepted=False
    with a reason retrying cannot fix (LoadPayload, VerifyPayloadVersion, or
    PreconditionChecks);
  - otherwise keep waiting up to a bounded hard cap. A RetrievePayload failure is
    the CVO retrying a slow, unreachable, or transiently-erroring pull (including a
    registry auth failure), which frequently succeeds on a later attempt, so it is
    not treated as fatal; a pull that never succeeds still fails the test when the
    cap elapses.

The previous revision failed fast on any ReleaseAccepted=False, but the CVO
reports ReleaseAccepted=False with reason "RetrievePayload" after each failed
retrieval attempt of a slow-but-eventually-successful pull, so that check would
still have failed the very runs this fixes. It also failed at the short
per-platform timeout when no target-matched ReleaseAccepted condition was yet
visible, but the CVO does not reliably publish its "retrieving" condition until
the first attempt completes, so a legitimately slow first pull would trip that
check too. Both are removed: the wait is now bounded solely by the hard cap and
fail-fast is reserved for terminal rejections. The 20m cap aligns with the
maximum acknowledgement wait in openshift#31654.

The fail-fast error surfaces only the ReleaseAccepted condition reason (a fixed
CVO step identifier); the raw condition message is omitted because it echoes the
requested image and retrieval error, which can carry internal registry
hostnames or other sensitive data into JUnit output and cluster events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Scheduling tests matching the pipeline_run_if_changed or not excluded by pipeline_skip_if_only_changed parameters:
/test e2e-aws-ovn-fips
/test e2e-aws-ovn-microshift
/test e2e-aws-ovn-microshift-serial
/test e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2
/test e2e-aws-ovn-serial-2of2
/test e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback
/test e2e-gcp-ovn
/test e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
/test e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6

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/override-sticky ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-fips

Automated triage: This failure appears unrelated to the PR changes.

Job classification: Eligible long-running presubmit e2e/integration job. The generated job uses the openshift-org-aws cluster profile, ipi-aws workflow, and openshift-e2e-test; the run lasted 3h20m, including 1h31m21s of test execution.
Revision check: run 430e65d04721c7e3d9b746ccc38f7b0f1600cfd8; current PR HEAD 430e65d04721c7e3d9b746ccc38f7b0f1600cfd8; match.
Execution status: Tests executed. The suite reported 2235 passed, 4 blocking failures, 2 informing failures, 0 flaky, and 2118 skipped. The four blocking failures were:

  • [cloud-provider-aws-e2e] loadbalancer CLB internal should be reachable with hairpinning traffic [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel]
  • [cloud-provider-aws-e2e] loadbalancer CLB should be reachable with default configurations [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel]
  • [sig-network-edge][Conformance][Area:Networking][Feature:Router] The HAProxy router should pass the gRPC interoperability tests [apigroup:route.openshift.io][apigroup:operator.openshift.io] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel/minimal]
  • [sig-network-edge][Conformance][Area:Networking][Feature:Router][apigroup:route.openshift.io][apigroup:config.openshift.io] The HAProxy router should pass the http2 tests [apigroup:image.openshift.io][apigroup:operator.openshift.io] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel/minimal]
    Completed supporting jobs: ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-microshift, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-microshift-serial, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback, and ci/prow/e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade passed. Pending: ci/prow/e2e-gcp-ovn and tide. Other failed checks were ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-serial-2of2 and ci/prow/e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6.
    Fleet-wide failure rate: Exact presubmit job: 58/75 passed in the last 14 days (77.3%). Exact test pass rates over the last 7 days, global/AWS: CLB internal hairpinning 99.3%/99.6%; CLB default configurations 99.3%/99.6%; HAProxy gRPC interoperability 98.9%/99.5%; HAProxy http2 95.6%/91.1%. The current release-5.1 Sippy view reports HAProxy http2 at 79.9% on AWS with 102 flakes in 512 runs and 81.8% for FIPS with 12 flakes in 66 runs; the other three tests have no comparable current FIPS regression signal.
    Open regressions: None found in the current Component Readiness data for these four tests.
    Linked bugs: OCPBUGS-77166 is currently Verified and has an explicit bug_tests association with [cloud-provider-aws-e2e] loadbalancer CLB internal should be reachable with hairpinning traffic [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel]; its description is for edge-zone scheduling. OCPBUGS-83399 is currently Verified and has an explicit association with that same full test name; its description is for hypershift/external topology. Neither matches this standard HA/IPI/AWS topology. No linked bug was found for the CLB default, HAProxy gRPC, or HAProxy http2 failures.
    Overlap assessment: The PR changes test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, adds test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go, and changes test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go for CVO payload acknowledgement during upgrade. The failed tests are AWS cloud-provider CLB and HAProxy router conformance tests in the default openshift/conformance/parallel suite; there is no direct overlap with the modified upgrade-acknowledgement code, and no changed cloud-provider, router, network, or CI configuration.
    Missing-coverage risk: Low for this PR's changed surface: this job exercised the default conformance suite rather than the modified upgrade-acknowledgement path, and completed upgrade/e2e jobs on the same SHA passed. Residual risk remains for the AWS/OVN/FIPS CLB/router conformance coverage that this override accepts.
    Prior bot activity on this SHA: One targeted /test e2e-aws-ovn-fips was already issued by openshift-merge-bot at 2026-09-21T20:21:34Z; no prior override for this context on this SHA. No further retest is allowed for this SHA.
    Rationale: The run is a current-HEAD, long-running e2e job with completed test execution. The exact job fails fleet-wide at 77.3%, and the HAProxy http2 failure is independently known to be highly flaky on AWS. The failing surfaces do not overlap the PR's upgrade/CVO changes, so the failure is unrelated and the context is override-eligible.

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@redhat-chai-bot: Overrode contexts on behalf of redhat-chai-bot: ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-fips

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/override-sticky ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-fips

Automated triage: This failure appears unrelated to the PR changes.

Job classification: Eligible long-running presubmit e2e/integration job. The generated job uses the openshift-org-aws cluster profile, ipi-aws workflow, and openshift-e2e-test; the run lasted 3h20m, including 1h31m21s of test execution.
Revision check: run 430e65d04721c7e3d9b746ccc38f7b0f1600cfd8; current PR HEAD 430e65d04721c7e3d9b746ccc38f7b0f1600cfd8; match.
Execution status: Tests executed. The suite reported 2235 passed, 4 blocking failures, 2 informing failures, 0 flaky, and 2118 skipped. The four blocking failures were:

  • [cloud-provider-aws-e2e] loadbalancer CLB internal should be reachable with hairpinning traffic [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel]
  • [cloud-provider-aws-e2e] loadbalancer CLB should be reachable with default configurations [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel]
  • [sig-network-edge][Conformance][Area:Networking][Feature:Router] The HAProxy router should pass the gRPC interoperability tests [apigroup:route.openshift.io][apigroup:operator.openshift.io] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel/minimal]
  • [sig-network-edge][Conformance][Area:Networking][Feature:Router][apigroup:route.openshift.io][apigroup:config.openshift.io] The HAProxy router should pass the http2 tests [apigroup:image.openshift.io][apigroup:operator.openshift.io] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel/minimal]
    Completed supporting jobs: ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-microshift, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-microshift-serial, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2, ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback, and ci/prow/e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade passed. Pending: ci/prow/e2e-gcp-ovn and tide. Other failed checks were ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-serial-2of2 and ci/prow/e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6.
    Fleet-wide failure rate: Exact presubmit job: 58/75 passed in the last 14 days (77.3%). Exact test pass rates over the last 7 days, global/AWS: CLB internal hairpinning 99.3%/99.6%; CLB default configurations 99.3%/99.6%; HAProxy gRPC interoperability 98.9%/99.5%; HAProxy http2 95.6%/91.1%. The current release-5.1 Sippy view reports HAProxy http2 at 79.9% on AWS with 102 flakes in 512 runs and 81.8% for FIPS with 12 flakes in 66 runs; the other three tests have no comparable current FIPS regression signal.
    Open regressions: None found in the current Component Readiness data for these four tests.
    Linked bugs: OCPBUGS-77166 is currently Verified and has an explicit bug_tests association with [cloud-provider-aws-e2e] loadbalancer CLB internal should be reachable with hairpinning traffic [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel]; its description is for edge-zone scheduling. OCPBUGS-83399 is currently Verified and has an explicit association with that same full test name; its description is for hypershift/external topology. Neither matches this standard HA/IPI/AWS topology. No linked bug was found for the CLB default, HAProxy gRPC, or HAProxy http2 failures.
    Overlap assessment: The PR changes test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, adds test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go, and changes test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go for CVO payload acknowledgement during upgrade. The failed tests are AWS cloud-provider CLB and HAProxy router conformance tests in the default openshift/conformance/parallel suite; there is no direct overlap with the modified upgrade-acknowledgement code, and no changed cloud-provider, router, network, or CI configuration.
    Missing-coverage risk: Low for this PR's changed surface: this job exercised the default conformance suite rather than the modified upgrade-acknowledgement path, and completed upgrade/e2e jobs on the same SHA passed. Residual risk remains for the AWS/OVN/FIPS CLB/router conformance coverage that this override accepts.
    Prior bot activity on this SHA: One targeted /test e2e-aws-ovn-fips was already issued by openshift-merge-bot at 2026-09-21T20:21:34Z; no prior override for this context on this SHA. No further retest is allowed for this SHA.
    Rationale: The run is a current-HEAD, long-running e2e job with completed test execution. The exact job fails fleet-wide at 77.3%, and the HAProxy http2 failure is independently known to be highly flaky on AWS. The failing surfaces do not overlap the PR's upgrade/CVO changes, so the failure is unrelated and the context is override-eligible.

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@emmahone: The following tests failed, say /retest to rerun all failed tests or /retest-required to rerun all mandatory failed tests:

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