Goal

• As a QE eng, I would like to be able to support passing AnsibleExtraVars parameters in the split update jobs, for instance to be able to add kpatch run during system update.

Reference material

Those two reviews:

• https://github.com/openstack-k8s-operators/ci-framework/pull/3377
• https://github.com/openstack-k8s-operators/install_yamls/pull/1098
  add support for kpatch during a "normal" update.

For split update, we should implement it in install_yamls/blob/main/scripts/openstack-update-system.sh . This should be enough to support cifmw_update_openstack_update_kpatch: true and create the correct CR for the split update.

Acceptance Criteria

Define a crc testproject similar to

- job: 
    name: periodic-podified-multinode-update-rhel9-osp18-crc-kpatch
    parent: periodic-podified-multinode-update-rhel9-osp18-crc
    vars: 
      cifmw_update_openstack_update_kpatch: true
      cifmw_test_operator_tobiko_workflow: 
        - stepName: kpatch-testing
          testenv: update_podified_post
      cifmw_update_extras: 
        cifmw_run_tobiko: true

but additionally set cifmw_update_variant to split to run the split-update path instead of the monolitic.

Then review that install_yaml comment on github to know what to check.

Also for the full picture you can review that ci-framework github comment for a complete review of the execution path.