Switch ARO-HCP e2e-parallel to centralus

[inbharajmani]

https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/AROSLSRE-1882

Summary

• Switch e2e-parallel and e2e-parallel-inplace-upgrade from canadacentral to centralus
• The canadacentral ACR geo-replica is returning HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests) under the concurrent load of ~390 parallel E2E clusters
• This caused ~700 deadline-exceeded cluster create failures per day since Switch ARO-HCP e2e-parallel to canadacentral #83878 was merged on Aug 24
• centralus has an existing ACR geo-replica and is a different Azure region that may not have the same rate limiting behavior

Context

After switching from westus3 to canadacentral in #83878, the shared ACR mirror arohcpocpdev.azurecr.io started throttling image pulls with 429s — 275k failures on Aug 25 alone across 2,968 namespaces. The same workload had zero 429s in westus3. Since westus3 has ongoing provisioning issues, we're trying centralus as an alternative ACR replica region.

Test plan

• Monitor first E2E run for ACR 429 events in Kusto after merge
• Compare cluster create deadline failure rate vs canadacentral baseline

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Updated ARO-HCP e2e-parallel and e2e-parallel-inplace-upgrade jobs to use the centralus Azure region.
• This change redirects test clusters to the existing centralus ACR geo-replica and supports monitoring for reduced ACR 429 errors and cluster creation failures.

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Walkthrough

The Azure ARO-HCP configuration changes the location override for the e2e-parallel and e2e-parallel-inplace-upgrade jobs from canadacentral to centralus.

Changes

Azure ARO-HCP location configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update parallel job locations ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml	The two parallel end-to-end jobs now set MULTISTAGE_PARAM_OVERRIDE_LOCATION to centralus.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0de85

The PR changes the E2E region configuration and is merge-ready after normal CI configuration validation; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: gmfrasca, raelga, roivaz

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	PASS: The commit changes only two YAML environment values from canadacentral to centralus. It does not add or modify Ginkgo test titles, and the changed file contains no It, Describe, `Context…
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml. The exact diff changes two location values from canadacentral to centralus; it changes no Ginkgo tes…
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML environment values in ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml. It does not add or modify Ginkgo e2e tests, and it introduces no MicroShi…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML environment values, from canadacentral to centralus, in existing e2e-parallel jobs. The diff adds no Ginkgo tests or test bodies, so the SNO multi-no…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two CI job environment values from canadacentral to centralus. The complete diff contains no deployment manifests, operator code, controllers, replicas, affinit…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML environment values in ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml, from canadacentral to centralus. The diff contains no Go or test-suit…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML values, from canadacentral to centralus, for existing e2e-parallel jobs. The commit adds no Ginkgo test declarations, IPv4 literals, or external conn…
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML region values, from canadacentral to centralus, for the two named E2E jobs. The parent-to-commit diff contains no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, …
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only two MULTISTAGE_PARAM_OVERRIDE_LOCATION values from canadacentral to centralus in a CI job configuration. The diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest fi…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only two environment values from canadacentral to centralus. The values select Azure regions. The diff adds no logging code, credentials, tokens, PII, hostnames, or…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change from canadacentral to centralus for ARO-HCP e2e testing. It omits the e2e-parallel-inplace-upgrade job but remains concise and sufficiently descriptive.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Stable And Deterministic Test Names

Explanation

PASS: The commit changes only two YAML environment values from canadacentral to centralus. It does not add or modify Ginkgo test titles, and the changed file contains no It, Describe, Context, or When declarations.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml. The exact diff changes two location values from canadacentral to centralus; it changes no Ginkgo test files or It blocks. Therefore the stated test-structure requirements are not applicable.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML environment values in ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml. It does not add or modify Ginkgo e2e tests, and it introduces no MicroShift API or feature usage.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML environment values, from canadacentral to centralus, in existing e2e-parallel jobs. The diff adds no Ginkgo tests or test bodies, so the SNO multi-node compatibility check does not apply.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two CI job environment values from canadacentral to centralus. The complete diff contains no deployment manifests, operator code, controllers, replicas, affinity, topology spread, node selectors, tolerations, or PDB changes. The referenced scripts use this variable only to override the Azure test location, so the topology-aware scheduling check is not applicable.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML environment values in ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml, from canadacentral to centralus. The diff contains no Go or test-suite code and no process-level stdout writes. The changed variable is consumed by existing shell configuration steps to select the deployment location, so this change does not introduce an OTE binary stdout contract violation.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML values, from canadacentral to centralus, for existing e2e-parallel jobs. The commit adds no Ginkgo test declarations, IPv4 literals, or external connectivity code. The custom check is therefore not applicable.

Full details: No-Weak-Crypto

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML region values, from canadacentral to centralus, for the two named E2E jobs. The parent-to-commit diff contains no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, ECB, custom crypto, or secret/token comparison changes.

Full details: Container-Privileges

Explanation

PASS — The pull request changes only two MULTISTAGE_PARAM_OVERRIDE_LOCATION values from canadacentral to centralus in a CI job configuration. The diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest fields for privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation, or root execution.

Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs

Explanation

PASS — The pull request changes only two environment values from canadacentral to centralus. The values select Azure regions. The diff adds no logging code, credentials, tokens, PII, hostnames, or customer data. Repository references show the variable is used as a location override.

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pull-ci-Azure-ARO-HCP-main-e2e-parallel-inplace-upgrade	Azure/ARO-HCP	presubmit	Ci-operator config changed

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml (1)

468-468: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Run make update to validate the CI configuration change.

The location override is read from ci-operator/config/ at runtime, so generated Prow jobs are not expected to contain centralus.

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In `@ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml` at line 468, Run
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In `@ci-operator/config/Azure/ARO-HCP/Azure-ARO-HCP-main.yaml`:
- Line 468: Run make update to regenerate and validate the CI configuration
after changing MULTISTAGE_PARAM_OVERRIDE_LOCATION, ensuring generated Prow jobs
do not contain the centralus override.

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[inbharajmani]

Closing — the ACR 429 error shows a registry-wide rate limit (20,000 req/60s), not per-replica. Switching regions won't help.

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