Starting OpenShift 4.16, we will be required to support each OCP release for 36 months. That implies at any point in time, we will have about 9 releases to maintain. In OpenShift Networking, various teams are working on figuring out how to reduce our maintenance cost for the codebase. OCP uses OVN-Kubernetes as the default CNI which in turn uses OVN as the underlying networking platform. So far the OVN-Kubernetes downstream has been using specially tagged OVN rpms and consuming them from brew. There is an overall desire to consume OVN as a platform by moving to a model that is more idiomatic for the platform - i.e. consume OVN packages via FDP releases.

Epic Goal

This epic is intended to capture the work required to introduce representative OCP test cases in the release process for FDP to gate OVN releases

Additional info

Share test cases from OVN QE to understand any delta between how OVN QE tests vs OCP QE (OCP QE will share as well)

• • OVN QE Tests
  • OVN Test Case Intro

Planning Done Checklist

The following items must be completed on the Epic prior to moving the Epic from Planning to the ToDo status

• Priority+ is set by engineering
• Epic must be Linked to a +Parent Feature
• Target version+ must be set
• Assignee+ must be set
• (Enhancement Proposal is Implementable
• (No outstanding questions about major work breakdown
• (Are all Stakeholders known? Have they all been notified about this item?
• Does this epic affect SD? {}Have they been notified{+}? (View plan definition for current suggested assignee)
  1. Please use the "Discussion Needed: Service Delivery Architecture Overview" checkbox to facilitate the conversation with SD Architects. The SD architecture team monitors this checkbox which should then spur the conversation between SD and epic stakeholders. Once the conversation has occurred, uncheck the "Discussion Needed: Service Delivery Architecture Overview" checkbox and record the outcome of the discussion in the epic description here.
  2. The guidance here is that unless it is very clear that your epic doesn't have any managed services impact, default to use the Discussion Needed checkbox to facilitate that conversation.

Additional information on each of the above items can be found here: Networking Definition of Planned