Value Statement

When developing changes to an upgrade path in ACM, it is incredibly difficult to smoketest before a downstream build is created. If we can discover how to create a custom catalog source and custom ACM bundle image, then we can have two channels with which to actually perform a real upgrade scenario during smoketest.

Definition of Done for Engineering Story Owner (Checklist)

• [x] A bundle PoC has been created

Status

• I have used CLAUDE AI to successfully generate an ACM bundle image and a custom Catalog Source image in order to trigger a true upgrade scenario.
• I documented the whole process here https://docs.google.com/document/d/18kvMlyNLmEAmL8ciQSMonXtI7aF9ixb2Qs_cTa_toO4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.pets10nvz448

These two images depict an upgrade scenario change occurring: MCE has not been upgraded yet in the first image, and it has in the second image. This status block is new to the code I was testing at the time