NO-JIRA: Isolate OCP-42982 kubeconfig writes

[not-stbenjam]

What changed

Pass --skip-config-write when OCP-42982 creates its explicit p42982-1 project. The project is still created, and the test already supplies -n p42982-1 to the subsequent command.

Root cause

openshift-tests runs extension tests concurrently with the same injected KUBECONFIG. OCP-42982 used oc new-project p42982-1 without --skip-config-write, so oc rewrote that shared file to select a context named p42982-1. Other test processes could load the kubeconfig during that update and fail before their test body with either:

invalid configuration: context was not found for specified context: p42982-1/...

or the same error plus cluster has no server defined.

The 5.0 CI stability study found 79 such observations across 72 builds from April 7 through July 24, 2026, spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and bare metal. Every observed dangling context was named p42982-1, while the victim test varied; the long-running OCP-42982 test overlapped the sampled failures.

Impact

Retained JUnit was streamed for all 72 affected builds. Fifty-seven builds had a passing retry, 15 had at least one unrecovered context failure, and 6 failed Prow jobs had no independent blocking failure. The conservative historical counterfactual is therefore 6 additional green Prow jobs; no aggregate parent is additionally counted because each affected parent retained an unrelated aggregation failure.

Validation

GOTOOLCHAIN=auto GOMAXPROCS=2 go test -p=2 -run '^$' ./test/e2e

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What changed

Pass --skip-config-write when OCP-42982 creates its explicit p42982-1 project. The project is still created, and the test already supplies -n p42982-1 to the subsequent command.

Root cause

openshift-tests runs extension tests concurrently with the same injected KUBECONFIG. OCP-42982 used oc new-project p42982-1 without --skip-config-write, so oc rewrote that shared file to select a context named p42982-1. Other test processes could load the kubeconfig during that update and fail before their test body with either:

invalid configuration: context was not found for specified context: p42982-1/...

or the same error plus cluster has no server defined.

The 5.0 CI stability study found 69 such non-RT observations across 63 builds from April 7 through July 24, 2026, spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and bare metal. Every observed dangling context was named p42982-1, while the victim test varied; the long-running OCP-42982 test overlapped the sampled failures.

Impact

Retained JUnit was streamed for all 63 affected builds. Forty-eight builds had a passing retry, 14 had at least one unrecovered context failure, and 6 failed Prow jobs had no independent blocking failure. The conservative historical counterfactual is therefore 6 additional green Prow jobs; no aggregate parent is additionally counted because each affected parent retained an unrelated aggregation failure.

Validation

GOTOOLCHAIN=auto GOMAXPROCS=2 go test -p=2 -run '^$' ./test/e2e

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Walkthrough

The quota test now passes --skip-config-write when it creates project p42982-1.

Changes

Quota test update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Project creation option test/e2e/cli.go	The quota test adds --skip-config-write to the new-project invocation for p42982-1.

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

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 14 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Test Structure And Quality	⚠️ Warning	The OCP-42982 It block has multiple Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred()) assertions without failure messages, which violates the assertion-message requirement.	Add meaningful operation-specific messages to each assertion, and fail when quota output lacks the expected units instead of only logging a warning.

✅ Passed checks (14 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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	The PR changes only a CLI argument. The affected Ginkgo title remains a static string and contains no runtime-generated value.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff changes one argument in an existing OCP-42982 Ginkgo test; it adds no new It, Describe, Context, or When test, so this check is not applicable.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR changes one command in existing test/e2e/cli.go; it adds no new Ginkgo test, so the SNO multi-node compatibility check is not applicable.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The commit changes only test/e2e/cli.go, adding --skip-config-write to oc new-project; it adds no manifests, operator code, controllers, or scheduling constraints.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	The only change adds --skip-config-write to an oc command inside the OCP-42982 g.It callback; it adds no process-level stdout or logging write.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The commit changes one existing OCP-42982 command by adding --skip-config-write; it adds no Ginkgo test or IPv4/external-network dependency, and the test already skips disconnected clusters.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The only PR change adds --skip-config-write to an oc new-project test command; it introduces no weak crypto, custom crypto, or secret comparison.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The PR changes only a Go CLI argument. It adds no privileged, host namespace, SYS_ADMIN, root, or allowPrivilegeEscalation setting.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The PR only adds --skip-config-write to an existing command; it adds no logging or sensitive value, and the existing username log is unchanged.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: isolating kubeconfig writes for OCP-42982.

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