Description of problem:

The MCE annotation installer.open-cluster-management.io/edge-manager-enabled is missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

"acm_image": "quay.io:443/acm-d/acm-dev-catalog:2.15.0-DOWNSTREAM-2025-10-07-01-13-22",
"mce_image": "quay.io:443/acm-d/mce-dev-catalog:2.10.0-DOWNSTREAM-2025-10-06-15-17-22",

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install ACM/MCE
2. Enable Edge Manager

Actual results:

The annotation installer.open-cluster-management.io/edge-manager-enabled is missing from the MCE.

Expected results:

The annotation should be there.

SOLUTION

• MCH is the operator that places this annotation on the MCE CR
• in common.go > ensureMultiClusterEngineCR(), if the existing annotations on the MCE CR are nil, then a new map is created
• The code assumes that the annotations are not nil, allowing for modifying the annotations by pointer reference
• When a recent code change removed all other annotations from the CR, the annotations were nil
• Because of this, when the new map[string]string was created, the assumed pointer reference was broken, and the annotation was never set
• Manually setting the annotations resolved this issue, since it is no longer reliant on a pointer reference assumption

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QE Hand Off Template (fill out when moving to Review) 10/14/25:

Summary of the Work:
See SOLUTION above for details. Essentially, a single line was changed that made the annotations propagate properly.

Key Areas to Verify:

1. The annotation installer.open-cluster-management.io/edge-manager-enabled should propagate to MCE resource 

Fix or Feature Availability:
Code merged on:2025-10-07