SPLAT-2888: Created vSphere 4.22 zones techpreview jobs

[vr4manta]

SPLAT-2888

Changes

• Added new vSphere 4.22 zones TP jobs

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Added scheduled vSphere 4.22 TechPreview nightly jobs for parallel and serial zones testing.
• Configured both jobs with the vsphere-elastic profile, vSphere alert reporting, and the openshift-e2e-vsphere-zones workflow.
• Configured the serial job to run the conformance serial suite.
• CI confirmed the Jira reference SPLAT-2888, but reported a target-version mismatch with the openshift-5.0.0.* branch requirement.

[openshift-ci-robot]

@vr4manta: This pull request references SPLAT-2888 which is a valid jira issue.

Warning: The referenced jira issue has an invalid target version for the target branch this PR targets: expected the story to target either version "5.0.0." or "openshift-5.0.0.", but it targets "openshift-4.22.z" instead.

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SPLAT-2888

Changes

• Added new vSphere 4.22 zones TP jobs

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⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: Repository YAML (base), Central YAML (inherited)

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Enterprise

Run ID: 3e48b519-fb2a-4352-9705-7420887150bc

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 80778f2 and 5600531.

⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (1)

• ci-operator/jobs/openshift/release/openshift-release-main-periodics.yaml is excluded by !ci-operator/jobs/**

📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• ci-operator/config/openshift/release/openshift-release-main__nightly-4.22.yaml

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Walkthrough

The nightly 4.22 release configuration adds parallel and serial vSphere TechPreview zones jobs. The jobs run daily with the vsphere-elastic profile and report failures and errors to the vSphere alerts channel.

Changes

vSphere zones nightly testing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scheduled zones job definitions ci-operator/config/openshift/release/openshift-release-main__nightly-4.22.yaml	Adds parallel and serial daily vSphere TechPreview jobs. Both use the zones workflow and vSphere alert reporting. The serial job selects the conformance serial suite.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to 56005

The PR adds vSphere 4.22 tech-preview jobs, but its Jira target/version metadata may not align with the target branch and should be confirmed before merge. The job definitions are already generated, so this is a bounded owner-awareness issue rather than a merge blocker.

Possibly related PRs

• openshift/release#79310: Adds scheduled vSphere TechPreview periodic jobs for different workflows and YAML files.

Suggested reviewers: dustman9000, bfournie

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the addition of vSphere 4.22 zones TechPreview jobs.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	The commit changes only release YAML and generated Prow jobs; added identifiers are static, and no Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When titles were introduced.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only two YAML configuration files and adds no Ginkgo test code, so the listed test-structure requirements do not apply.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The commit changes only two YAML CI configuration files and adds no Ginkgo tests or test code, so the MicroShift compatibility check is not applicable.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR changes only two YAML CI job files and adds no Ginkgo declarations or test source, so the SNO test-compatibility check is not applicable.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff only adds CI job definitions and generated Prow jobs; it adds no workload affinity, spread, replica, PDB, node-role selector, or taint toleration constraints.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	The PR changes only YAML job and generated Prow declarations; the diff adds no OTE binary source or process-level stdout writes.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR diff adds only YAML CI job definitions and generated Prow metadata. It adds no Ginkgo tests or IPv4 and external-connectivity logic.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The pull request adds CI job configuration only; no weak-crypto algorithm, custom crypto, or secret comparison is introduced.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The PR adds only vSphere job scheduling and test fields; the generated pods add no privileged, host namespace, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation, or root settings.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The diff adds CI YAML and generated job definitions only; Slack templates contain job/status fields and a prow.ci.openshift.org link, with no passwords, tokens, PII, or customer data.

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[REHEARSALNOTIFIER]
@vr4manta: the pj-rehearse plugin accommodates running rehearsal tests for the changes in this PR. Expand 'Interacting with pj-rehearse' for usage details. The following rehearsable tests have been affected by this change:

Test name	Repo	Type	Reason
periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-vsphere-ovn-zones-techpreview-serial	N/A	periodic	Periodic changed
periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-vsphere-ovn-zones-techpreview	N/A	periodic	Periodic changed

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[jcpowermac]

/lgtm

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[vr4manta]

/pj-rehearse periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-vsphere-ovn-zones-techpreview-serial periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-vsphere-ovn-zones-techpreview

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@vr4manta: now processing your pj-rehearse request. Please allow up to 10 minutes for jobs to trigger or cancel.

[vr4manta]

/pj-rehearse ack

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@vr4manta: now processing your pj-rehearse request. Please allow up to 10 minutes for jobs to trigger or cancel.

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@vr4manta: The following test failed, say /retest to rerun all failed tests or /retest-required to rerun all mandatory failed tests:

Test name	Commit	Details	Required	Rerun command
ci/rehearse/periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-vsphere-ovn-zones-techpreview-serial	5600531	link	unknown	/pj-rehearse periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.22-e2e-vsphere-ovn-zones-techpreview-serial

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