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This PR adds new fields to the ci-operator configuration to replace the .config.prowgen file, as a first step toward deprecating it.

New fields:

  • prowgen.private / prowgen.expose / prowgen.disable_rehearsals / prowgen.enable_secrets_store_csi_driver — top-level prowgen extras
  • tests[].slack_reporter — per-test Slack reporting config (with defaults for job_states_to_report and report_template)
  • tests[].disable_rehearsal — per-test rehearsal disable
  • tests[].max_concurrency — per-test max concurrency override
  • operator.skip_presubmits — skip operator bundle presubmit generation
  • openshift-priv org defaults to private: true automatically

Else:

  • CI-operator config fields take precedence over .config.prowgen
  • .config.prowgen fallback is fully preserved — no behavior change for unmigrated repos
  • TODO: Migration in o/release, then we can delete the code related

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Introduced Slack reporting configuration for tests with customizable notification channels and job state filters
    • Added per-test max concurrency limits for controlling parallel job execution
    • Added ability to disable test rehearsals on a per-test or global basis
    • Added option to skip operator presubmit generation
    • Extended Prow configuration with private job and organizational secrets store support

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Walkthrough

The changes introduce Slack reporting capabilities and per-test configuration options for Prow job generation. New API types encapsulate SlackReporter configuration, ProwgenExtras settings, and extend existing configuration types with optional fields for disabling rehearsals, setting max concurrency, and controlling operator presubmits. Prowgen job generation logic is refactored to apply these configurations with explicit precedence rules.

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Cohort / File(s) Summary
API Type Definitions
pkg/api/types.go
Introduces SlackReporter and ProwgenExtras structs with constants/variables for defaults. Extends ReleaseBuildConfiguration, TestStepConfiguration, and OperatorStepConfiguration with new optional fields for Slack reporting, rehearsal control, concurrency limits, and operator-specific flags.
Prowgen Helpers
pkg/prowgen/jobbase.go
Adds internal helper functions (isPrivate, isExposed, isSecretsStoreCSIDriverEnabled) to centralize configuration checks. Refactors multiple code paths to use these helpers instead of direct conditionals, centralizing precedence logic between ci-operator config and ProwgenInfo.
Prowgen Job Generation
pkg/prowgen/prowgen.go
Introduces maxConcurrency helper and extends option types (GeneratePresubmitOptions, GeneratePostsubmitOptions, GeneratePeriodicOptions) with SlackReporter and MaxConcurrency fields. Refactors addSlackReporterConfig to accept per-test reporter with precedence over global config. Adds logic for operator presubmit skipping and per-test rehearsal disabling.
Unit Tests
pkg/prowgen/prowgen_test.go
Adds comprehensive test scenarios covering SlackReporter configuration sourcing and precedence, rehearsal control (per-test and global), operator presubmit skipping, private/expose settings, openshift-priv defaulting, and max concurrency for postsubmits and periodics.
Test Fixtures - Rehearsal & Operators
pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_disable_all_rehearsals_from_ci_operator_prowgen_config.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_disable_rehearsal_from_ci_operator_config_per_test.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_openshift_priv_org_defaults_to_private.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_skip_operator_presubmits_from_ci_operator_config.yaml
Fixture files validating rehearsal disabling behavior, openshift-priv organization defaults, and operator presubmit skipping configurations.
Test Fixtures - Slack Reporter
pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_slack_reporter_from_ci_operator_config_with_defaults.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_slack_reporter_from_ci_operator_config_with_explicit_values.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_slack_reporter_from_ci_operator_config_takes_precedence_over_prowgen_config.yaml
Fixture files validating Slack reporter configuration sourcing, default values, and precedence of ci-operator config over prowgen config.
Test Fixtures - Concurrency
pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_postsubmit_with_custom_max_concurrency.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_periodic_with_custom_max_concurrency.yaml
Fixture files validating max concurrency settings for postsubmit and periodic job generation.
Test Fixtures - Privacy Settings
pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_private_from_ci_operator_prowgen_config.yaml, zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_private_with_expose_from_ci_operator_prowgen_config.yaml
Fixture files validating private and expose settings from ci-operator prowgen configuration.
Integration Tests
test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/input/config/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master.yaml, test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/output/jobs/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master-presubmits.yaml, prowgen-config-duper-master-postsubmits.yaml, prowgen-config-duper-master-periodics.yaml
Integration test data demonstrating prowgen configuration with multiple test variants including Slack reporters, max concurrency settings, postsubmit enablement, and rehearsal control across presubmits, postsubmits, and periodic jobs.

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In `@pkg/api/types.go`:
- Around line 52-64: The ProwgenExtras boolean toggles (Private, Expose,
DisableRehearsals, EnableSecretsStoreCSIDriver) and
OperatorStepConfiguration.SkipPresubmits must be made tri-state so omitted vs
explicit-false can be distinguished; change their types from bool to *bool
(e.g., Private *bool) and update downstream checks in isPrivate(), isExposed(),
isSecretsStoreCSIDriverEnabled() and any logic using SkipPresubmits to test for
nil before dereferencing (treat nil as “unset” and only honor explicit
true/false when pointer is non-nil), keeping existing fallback behavior to
legacy checks.

In
`@test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/input/config/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master.yaml`:
- Around line 16-19: Update the CPU quantity units for the YAML fixture: replace
limits.cpu value "500Mi" with "500m" and requests.cpu value "10Mi" with "10m" so
CPU uses millicores; locate the entries under the limits and requests keys
(limits.cpu, requests.cpu) and change the unit suffix from "Mi" to "m".

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  • pkg/api/types.go
  • pkg/prowgen/jobbase.go
  • pkg/prowgen/prowgen.go
  • pkg/prowgen/prowgen_test.go
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_disable_all_rehearsals_from_ci_operator_prowgen_config.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_disable_rehearsal_from_ci_operator_config_per_test.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_openshift_priv_org_defaults_to_private.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_periodic_with_custom_max_concurrency.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_postsubmit_with_custom_max_concurrency.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_private_from_ci_operator_prowgen_config.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_private_with_expose_from_ci_operator_prowgen_config.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_skip_operator_presubmits_from_ci_operator_config.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_slack_reporter_from_ci_operator_config_takes_precedence_over_prowgen_config.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_slack_reporter_from_ci_operator_config_with_defaults.yaml
  • pkg/prowgen/testdata/zz_fixture_TestGenerateJobs_slack_reporter_from_ci_operator_config_with_explicit_values.yaml
  • test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/input/config/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master.yaml
  • test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/output/jobs/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master-periodics.yaml
  • test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/output/jobs/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master-postsubmits.yaml
  • test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/output/jobs/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master-presubmits.yaml

Comment on lines +52 to +64
type ProwgenExtras struct {
// Private indicates that generated jobs should be marked as hidden
// from display in deck and that they should mount appropriate git credentials
// to clone the repository under test.
Private bool `json:"private,omitempty"`
// Expose declares that jobs should not be hidden from view in deck if they
// are private. This field has no effect if private is not set.
Expose bool `json:"expose,omitempty"`
// DisableRehearsals prevents all tests in this config from being rehearsed.
DisableRehearsals bool `json:"disable_rehearsals,omitempty"`
// EnableSecretsStoreCSIDriver indicates that jobs should use the new CSI Secrets Store
// mechanism to handle multi-stage credentials secrets.
EnableSecretsStoreCSIDriver bool `json:"enable_secrets_store_csi_driver,omitempty"`
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical

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In Go, when unmarshalling JSON/YAML into a bool field tagged with omitempty, can code distinguish an omitted field from an explicit falsewithout using*bool or a custom type?

💡 Result:

No—not when you unmarshal directly into a struct field of type bool.

  • omitempty affects marshaling only; it “has no effect when unmarshaling.” [1] (Same idea in gopkg.in/yaml.v3: the omitempty flag is described as a marshaling control.) [2]
  • When a field is omitted in the input, Go’s unmarshaler simply doesn’t assign it, so it stays at the Go zero value; for bool that’s false, which is indistinguishable from an explicitly provided false. [3]

If you can’t use *bool or a custom type, the remaining option is an out-of-band presence check, e.g. unmarshal into a map[string]json.RawMessage / map[string]any (or yaml.Node) to see whether the key exists, then decode into your struct.

Sources: [1] encoding/json/v2 docs on struct tags (omitempty has no effect when unmarshaling) https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json/v2, [2] yaml.v3 docs (omitempty flag described under Marshal/tag behavior) https://pkg.go.dev/gopkg.in/yaml.v3, [3] Eli Bendersky on missing fields keeping Go zero values during json.Unmarshal https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/optional-json-fields-in-go/


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Use tri-state booleans for the migrated prowgen toggles.

These fields need "set vs unset" semantics. Plain bool cannot distinguish between omitted and explicit false during JSON/YAML unmarshal—both result in false. This breaks fallback behavior: an openshift-priv repo migrating only prowgen.expose: true will unmarshal private as false, and the helper logic in pkg/prowgen/jobbase.go will return false instead of falling back to the legacy check. The same issue affects all four ProwgenExtras fields and OperatorStepConfiguration.SkipPresubmits.

Use *bool instead. The codebase already follows this pattern for optional booleans (AlwaysRun, RestrictNetworkAccess, etc.). Downstream code in isPrivate(), isExposed(), and isSecretsStoreCSIDriverEnabled() will need to check for nil before dereferencing, which enables correct fallback semantics.

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 type ProwgenExtras struct {
-	Private bool `json:"private,omitempty"`
-	Expose bool `json:"expose,omitempty"`
-	DisableRehearsals bool `json:"disable_rehearsals,omitempty"`
-	EnableSecretsStoreCSIDriver bool `json:"enable_secrets_store_csi_driver,omitempty"`
+	Private *bool `json:"private,omitempty"`
+	Expose *bool `json:"expose,omitempty"`
+	DisableRehearsals *bool `json:"disable_rehearsals,omitempty"`
+	EnableSecretsStoreCSIDriver *bool `json:"enable_secrets_store_csi_driver,omitempty"`
 }
 ...
-	SkipPresubmits bool `json:"skip_presubmits,omitempty"`
+	SkipPresubmits *bool `json:"skip_presubmits,omitempty"`

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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In `@pkg/api/types.go` around lines 52 - 64, The ProwgenExtras boolean toggles
(Private, Expose, DisableRehearsals, EnableSecretsStoreCSIDriver) and
OperatorStepConfiguration.SkipPresubmits must be made tri-state so omitted vs
explicit-false can be distinguished; change their types from bool to *bool
(e.g., Private *bool) and update downstream checks in isPrivate(), isExposed(),
isSecretsStoreCSIDriverEnabled() and any logic using SkipPresubmits to test for
nil before dereferencing (treat nil as “unset” and only honor explicit
true/false when pointer is non-nil), keeping existing fallback behavior to
legacy checks.

Comment on lines +16 to +19
limits:
cpu: 500Mi
requests:
cpu: 10Mi
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor

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🌐 Web query:

In Kubernetes resource requests/limits, is Mia valid unit for CPU, and should millicores be expressed withm instead?

💡 Result:

No—Mi should not be used for CPU requests/limits. In Kubernetes, CPU is expressed in CPU units (cores), and fractional CPU is typically written as millicpu / millicores using the m suffix (e.g., 100m = 0.1 CPU). Kubernetes’ own docs describe CPU this way and use m for milli-CPU. [1]

Mi is an IEC binary prefix (“mebi”, 2²⁰) that belongs to the generic Kubernetes Quantity syntax (used commonly for bytes like memory), alongside Ki, Gi, etc. [2] For CPU, the correct milli-unit is m, not Mi. [1]

Examples

  • CPU: cpu: "250m" or cpu: "0.25" [1]
  • Memory: memory: "128Mi" [1]

Sources: [1], [2]


Fix the CPU quantity units in this fixture.

cpu: 500Mi and cpu: 10Mi use a binary memory suffix (Mi = mebi, 2²⁰), which is invalid for CPU. CPU quantities should use the m suffix for millicores. Change these to cpu: 500m and cpu: 10m respectively.

Suggested fix
 resources:
   '*':
     limits:
-      cpu: 500Mi
+      cpu: 500m
     requests:
-      cpu: 10Mi
+      cpu: 10m
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limits:
cpu: 500Mi
requests:
cpu: 10Mi
limits:
cpu: 500m
requests:
cpu: 10m
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In
`@test/integration/ci-operator-prowgen/input/config/prowgen-config/duper/prowgen-config-duper-master.yaml`
around lines 16 - 19, Update the CPU quantity units for the YAML fixture:
replace limits.cpu value "500Mi" with "500m" and requests.cpu value "10Mi" with
"10m" so CPU uses millicores; locate the entries under the limits and requests
keys (limits.cpu, requests.cpu) and change the unit suffix from "Mi" to "m".

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