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image registry operator bootstraps as "removed" on certain platforms. on these platforms if the image registry is up then it must has been manually configured as so by the workflow.

if the workflow sets the image registry up with a single replica we should not fail the test. a single replica is not ha and is expected to be unavailable during an upgrade.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved image registry monitoring across supported platform types.
    • Single-replica exceptions are now applied consistently according to the cluster’s infrastructure configuration.
    • Monitoring behavior now accurately reflects the platform reported by the cluster.
    • Added more reliable handling when infrastructure details are unavailable, incomplete, or cannot be retrieved within the expected timeframe.

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@ricardomaraschini: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-66213, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

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The bug has been updated to refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker.

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image registry operator bootstraps as "removed" on certain platforms. on these platforms if the image registry is up then it must has been manually configured as so by the workflow.

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Walkthrough

The image registry monitor now checks the cluster infrastructure platform before allowing a single-replica exception. Infrastructure lookup uses a 10-second timeout and returns contextual errors. Supported platform types include vSphere and other defined platforms.

Changes

Platform-aware image registry handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Infrastructure platform lookup
pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go
The vSphere-specific helper was replaced with getInfrastructurePlatformType. The helper uses a 10-second timeout, wraps lookup errors, and reports missing platform status.
Platform-based replica exception
pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go
The monitor tolerates one image registry replica for the defined platform types. Lookup failures are logged and do not create an exception. Alternative-architecture handling remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 46d1d

The change is merge-ready after normal review; only minor wording corrections remain, with no actionable merge-blocking risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ImageRegistryMonitor
  participant getInfrastructurePlatformType
  participant InfrastructureClient
  participant ImageRegistry
  ImageRegistryMonitor->>getInfrastructurePlatformType: request infrastructure platform type
  getInfrastructurePlatformType->>InfrastructureClient: retrieve infrastructure with 10-second timeout
  InfrastructureClient-->>getInfrastructurePlatformType: return platform status or error
  getInfrastructurePlatformType-->>ImageRegistryMonitor: return platform type or wrapped error
  ImageRegistryMonitor->>ImageRegistry: check replica count
  ImageRegistry-->>ImageRegistryMonitor: return replica count
  ImageRegistryMonitor-->>ImageRegistryMonitor: apply exception for supported platforms
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the image registry single-replica exception change and includes the related issue identifier.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The two-commit diff changes only image-registry exception logic; no Ginkgo title or JUnit Name construction changes. The dynamic platform value appears only in exception output.
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed The diff changes monitor evaluation code, not Ginkgo It blocks; it adds no resource setup, cleanup, or assertions, and the new infrastructure lookup has a 10-second timeout.
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The diff changes only operator exception and infrastructure helpers; it adds no Ginkgo It/Describe/Context/When test, so this MicroShift test check does not apply.
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Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR changes only cluster-version monitoring test logic. The diff adds platform and replica lookups, with no manifests, pod affinity, topology spread, selectors, tolerations, PDBs, or scheduling...
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed The PR adds no stdout writes, klog calls, or suite/process hooks; its logrus calls run in monitor evaluation and logrus defaults to os.Stderr.
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@ricardomaraschini: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-66213, which is valid.

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image registry operator bootstraps as "removed" on certain platforms. on these platforms if the image registry is up then it must has been manually configured as so by the workflow.

if the workflow sets the image registry up with a single replica we should not fail the test. a single replica is not ha and is expected to be unavailable during an upgrade.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
  • Improved image registry monitoring across supported platform types.
  • Single-replica exceptions are now applied consistently based on the cluster’s infrastructure configuration, rather than being limited to one platform.
  • Added more reliable handling when infrastructure information is unavailable or cannot be retrieved.

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pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go (1)

433-443: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reduce this comment block.

Keep the policy reason for the allowlist. Remove the detailed historical narrative and source-specific maintenance details. The platform list already shows the implementation policy.

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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`
around lines 433 - 443, Reduce the comment block above the platform allowlist to
a concise statement of the policy reason: single-replica registries may become
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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`:
- Around line 457-460: Update checkReplicas and its callers so the Kubernetes
namespace and Deployment lookups use a context with a finite deadline instead of
context.Background(), ensuring monitor evaluation cannot block indefinitely.
Preserve the existing replica-count behavior and error logging, including the
image-registry path shown here.

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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`:
- Around line 433-443: Reduce the comment block above the platform allowlist to
a concise statement of the policy reason: single-replica registries may become
unavailable during upgrades, so these known platforms are allowlisted because
the registry bootstraps as Removed. Remove the historical narrative,
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Thanks for looking into the cases and providing me more context in the slack.

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image registry operator bootstraps as "removed" on certain platforms. on these platforms if the image registry is up then it must has been manually configured as so by the workflow.

if the workflow sets the image registry up with a single replica we should not fail the test. a single replica is not ha and is expected to be unavailable during an upgrade.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
  • Improved image registry monitoring across supported platform types.
  • Single-replica exceptions are now applied consistently according to the cluster’s infrastructure configuration.
  • Monitoring behavior now accurately reflects the platform reported by the cluster.
  • Added more reliable handling when infrastructure details are unavailable, incomplete, or cannot be retrieved within the expected timeframe.

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/test e2e-aws-ovn-microshift
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/test e2e-gcp-csi
/test e2e-gcp-ovn
/test e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
/test e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6
/test e2e-vsphere-ovn
/test e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi

ricardomaraschini and others added 2 commits August 24, 2026 10:27
image registry operator bootstraps as "removed" on certain
platforms. on these platforms if the image registry is up
then it must has been manually configured as so by the
workflow.

if the workflow sets the image registry up with a single
replica we should not fail the test. a single replica is
not ha and is expected to be unavailable during an upgrade.
…operators.go

Co-authored-by: Hongkai Liu <hongkailiu@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ricardomaraschini: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-66213, which is valid.

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In response to this:

image registry operator bootstraps as "removed" on certain platforms. on these platforms if the image registry is up then it must has been manually configured as so by the workflow.

if the workflow sets the image registry up with a single replica we should not fail the test. a single replica is not ha and is expected to be unavailable during an upgrade.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
  • Improved image registry monitoring across supported platform types.
  • Single-replica exceptions are now applied consistently according to the cluster’s infrastructure configuration.
  • Monitoring behavior now accurately reflects the platform reported by the cluster.
  • Added more reliable handling when infrastructure details are unavailable, incomplete, or cannot be retrieved within the expected timeframe.

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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`:
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// The high-availability of image-registry depends on both the deployment and the shared storage, e.g., either replica=1 or storage=emptyDir (not shared among replicas) leads to lose of HA. This is by the design of image-registry which is at the moment in the maintenance mode and thus unlikely to be changed.
// On the platform from `tolerateSingleReplicaOn`, the image-registry is removed by default (replicas=0) but the workflow in the test brings it up with 1 replica and uses `emptyDir` as its storage. Hence, HA is lost as expected.
// To achieve HA on those platforms, the test has to configure image-registry with at least 2 replicas and shared storage backend such as AWS S3. It might not worth the effort because of the maintenance mode.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the wording in this rationale.

“Leads to lose of HA” should be “leads to loss of HA.”
“It might not worth the effort” should be “It might not be worth the effort.”

As per coding guidelines, keep comments minimal and helpful, explaining why rather than what.

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-				// The high-availability of image-registry depends on both the deployment and the shared storage, e.g., either replica=1 or storage=emptyDir (not shared among replicas) leads to lose of HA. This is by the design of image-registry which is at the moment in the maintenance mode and thus unlikely to be changed.
+				// The high-availability of image-registry depends on both the deployment and the shared storage, e.g., either replica=1 or storage=emptyDir (not shared among replicas) leads to loss of HA. This is by the design of image-registry which is at the moment in the maintenance mode and thus unlikely to be changed.
-				// To achieve HA on those platforms, the test has to configure image-registry with at least 2 replicas and shared storage backend such as AWS S3. It might not worth the effort because of the maintenance mode.
+				// To achieve HA on those platforms, the test has to configure image-registry with at least 2 replicas and shared storage backend such as AWS S3. It might not be worth the effort because of the maintenance mode.
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// The high-availability of image-registry depends on both the deployment and the shared storage, e.g., either replica=1 or storage=emptyDir (not shared among replicas) leads to lose of HA. This is by the design of image-registry which is at the moment in the maintenance mode and thus unlikely to be changed.
// On the platform from `tolerateSingleReplicaOn`, the image-registry is removed by default (replicas=0) but the workflow in the test brings it up with 1 replica and uses `emptyDir` as its storage. Hence, HA is lost as expected.
// To achieve HA on those platforms, the test has to configure image-registry with at least 2 replicas and shared storage backend such as AWS S3. It might not worth the effort because of the maintenance mode.
// The high-availability of image-registry depends on both the deployment and the shared storage, e.g., either replica=1 or storage=emptyDir (not shared among replicas) leads to loss of HA. This is by the design of image-registry which is at the moment in the maintenance mode and thus unlikely to be changed.
// On the platform from `tolerateSingleReplicaOn`, the image-registry is removed by default (replicas=0) but the workflow in the test brings it up with 1 replica and uses `emptyDir` as its storage. Hence, HA is lost as expected.
// To achieve HA on those platforms, the test has to configure image-registry with at least 2 replicas and shared storage backend such as AWS S3. It might not be worth the effort because of the maintenance mode.
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In `@pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go`
around lines 430 - 432, Update the comments explaining image-registry high
availability to correct the grammar (“loss of HA” and “might not be worth the
effort”) and keep the rationale concise and focused on why the test behavior is
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The suggested correction looks good to me.
If a new patch is pushed, I will retag.

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@hongkailiu, thank you. The correction is limited to the comment wording. I will review the updated patch after you retag.

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/test e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
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/lgtm

I still think we should start with None in tolerateSingleReplicaOn and add others into it only when we have evidence that it causes problems too in the test. #31544 (comment)

Perhaps we should not block the pull on it: The pull improves the testing by giving more details (both in logs of the job and in comment of the code) about the exception which now does not depend on a particular bug, or a particular platform. Many thanks for working on it. And this time we left enough trace about why we are doing this.

Although the current version of API docs does not make any exception, co/image-registry is in the maintenance mode. I guess we have to face the reality. And we do have other bugs for an operator in the maintenance mode closed as WontDo, e.g., co/olm (olmv0).


This is what I think about one replica deployment of operator/operand on a HA cluster. If registry was not in the maintenance mode, it could be a direction of working.

  • In general, we should not allow it to happen. Because it is hard to get HA out of replicas=1, and "Availability=False" requires an cluster admin's immediate attention. It is like a snake biting its own tail.
  • If it has to be one replica for any reason, CO might need to modify the code about claiming "Availability=False". Something like, during upgrade, or a node drain (where the replica runs), CO is tolerant a bit without going "Availability=False". As a result, it does not reflect the truth for a period of time but it is a compromise of paging an admin at mid-night and not hiding a real issue of the cluster.

A more extreme scenario I have seen is to bump the replica from 0 to a higher number (not necessarily to be 1) during an e2e test. Before the deployment gets ready, CO reports Available=False which triggers a CO test case to fail.

This kind of conversation has happened a couple of times about CO conditions and its API docs.
I do realize that it might not make perfect sense for every CO (Progressing=True is another instance).
I think it is always open to revisit, modification and iteration. ^_^

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+1, sounds reasonable from non-SME perspective

Thanks @ricardomaraschini and @hongkailiu!

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