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  • New Features
    • Release builds now run container certification checks against the pushed operator image.
    • Certification results are submitted for eligible release events; other builds run checks without submitting results.
    • Diagnostic output is captured and grouped to support troubleshooting.
    • Certification failures are clearly reported and prevent the release build from proceeding.

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The release workflow updates Buildah, installs Preflight, and checks the pushed operator image. Release events include Pyxis submission arguments. The OWNERS reviewer list also changes.

Changes

Release image certification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build setup
.github/workflows/build-release.yml
The workflow sets PREFLIGHT_VERSION and updates the Buildah action versions for the operator and bundle image steps.
Preflight certification check
.github/workflows/build-release.yml
The workflow installs Preflight and checks the pushed operator image. Release events include Pyxis submission arguments. The step captures debug output and returns the Preflight result.

Reviewer list

Layer / File(s) Summary
OWNERS reviewers
OWNERS
The reviewer list includes caxu-rh, itroyano, and vikasmulaje in place of the previous entries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow
  participant Preflight
  participant Pyxis
  Workflow->>Preflight: install CLI and check pushed operator image
  Preflight->>Pyxis: submit results on release events
  Preflight-->>Workflow: return check result
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If the secret-selected registry is private and the runner lacks pull credentials, the certification step can block releases. Confirm public access or provide Preflight credentials before merging.

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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml:
- Around line 62-67: Update the Preflight invocation in the release workflow to
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Just a few comments to start off with. Answers will determine if changes are needed or not.

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In @.github/workflows/preflight-check.yml:
- Line 12: Update the PREFLIGHT_VERSION configuration to use the fixed value
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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml:
- Line 79: Replace the unquoted SUBMIT_FLAGS expansion in the preflight
invocation with a properly initialized argument array, storing each option as a
separate element and expanding it as "${PREFLIGHT_ARGS[@]}". Preserve the
existing preflight options and command behavior while preventing word splitting
and pathname expansion of secret-derived values.
- Line 84: Update the RunPreflight/checkContainerRunE flow to inspect the
generated result’s PassedOverall value and return a nonzero error when checks
fail, even if RunPreflight returns nil. Preserve successful results as exit code
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PREFLIGHT_EXIT=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
echo "::endgroup::"

if [ "${PREFLIGHT_EXIT}" -ne 0 ]; then

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

: "${NON_COMPLIANT_IMAGE:?Set a known non-compliant image reference}"

preflight --version

set +e
preflight check container "${NON_COMPLIANT_IMAGE}" --loglevel=debug \
  2>&1 | tee /tmp/preflight-failure-probe.txt
status=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
set -e

grep -Eiq 'failed|failure' /tmp/preflight-failure-probe.txt

if [ "${status}" -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Preflight reported a failed check but returned zero"
  exit 1
fi

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find /tmp/coderabbit-repo-knowledge/redhat-openshift-ecosystem-operator-certificatio-061f3366 \
  -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.md' -print

printf '%s\n' '--- workflow ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/build-release.yml | sed -n '1,125p'

printf '%s\n' '--- repository-owned workflow guidance ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- exact Preflight 1.20.0 implementation references ---'
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redhat-openshift-ecosystem/openshift-preflight/1.20.0/internal/cli/cli.go \
  | nl -ba \
  | grep -C 12 -E 'func .*RunPreflight|PassedOverall|return nil'

printf '%s\n' '--- Preflight version and result-related symbols ---'
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redhat-openshift-ecosystem/openshift-preflight/1.20.0/internal/cli/cli.go \
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text = urlopen(url, timeout=20).read().decode()
lines = text.splitlines()
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
    if any(token in line for token in ("RunPreflight", "PassedOverall")):
        lo, hi = max(1, i - 12), min(len(lines), i + 18)
        print(f"--- lines {lo}-{hi} ---")
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openshift-preflight 1.20.0 internal/cli/cli.go RunPreflight PassedOverall return nil

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In the openshift-preflight tool, the RunPreflight function located in internal/cli/cli.go serves as the primary execution point for running certification checks [1][2]. When RunPreflight reaches the end of its execution and returns nil, it indicates that the function completed its operations (such as running checks, writing logs, and optionally submitting results) without encountering a Go error condition [1][2]. Historically, older versions of openshift-preflight included logic at the end of RunPreflight that explicitly returned custom error types (such as ChecksErroredError or ChecksFailedError) if the internal results object indicated that checks had failed or errored [2]. In more recent versions of the tool, this logic has been removed from the function body [2]. Consequently, RunPreflight now typically returns nil upon completion, delegating the responsibility of interpreting the check results and determining appropriate exit codes (e.g., non-zero exit codes for failed checks) to the calling code (typically the CLI command's execution logic in main.go or the specific cobra command handler) [1]. This design change allows for more flexible handling of test outcomes and cleaner separation between test execution and process termination [1].

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printf '%s\n' '--- CLI entry points in the tagged source ---'
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import json, sys
tree=json.load(sys.stdin).get("tree", [])
for x in tree:
    p=x.get("path","")
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The exact GitHub code search is unavailable without signing in, so no matching source lines could be verified. The 1.20.0 tag does exist, and its repository includes an errors package and cmd/preflight directory. [1][2]

Search directly within the tag for:

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[1] (github.com)
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for path in cmd/preflight/cmd/check.go cmd/preflight/cmd/check_container.go cmd/preflight/cmd/root.go; do
  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$path"
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printf '%s\n' '--- check container execution path ---'
curl -k -fsSL "${base}cmd/preflight/cmd/check_container.go" \
  | sed -n '100,245p'

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Gate bundle creation on the Preflight result.

When latest resolves to Preflight 1.20.0, RunPreflight logs PassedOverall but returns nil for a failed check. checkContainerRunE passes this result to Cobra without checking PassedOverall, so line 84 receives exit code 0 and Build Bundle runs. Inspect the generated result and exit on failed checks before building the bundle.

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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml at line 84, Update the
RunPreflight/checkContainerRunE flow to inspect the generated result’s
PassedOverall value and return a nonzero error when checks fail, even if
RunPreflight returns nil. Preserve successful results as exit code 0 so the
PREFLIGHT_EXIT gate prevents Build Bundle only for failed preflight checks.

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preflight check container \
"${OPERATOR_IMAGE}" \
${SUBMIT_FLAGS} \
--loglevel=debug 2>&1 | tee /tmp/preflight-output.txt

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Is this tee necessary? preflight already produces logs.

I also think that all of this might be dead code when preflight returns a a non-zero exit code. based on how GHA work nothing below would execute and we'd get a silent error and not know why.

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@acornett21 I'm closing this PR since the git became dirty with a bad rebase on my part. Will open a new one

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