chore: validate test images don't exist on remote before building by Molter73 · Pull Request #2214 · stackrox/fact

Molter73 · 2026-10-23T09:54:26Z

Description

This is a follow up to #2209, we need to backport those changes and we need to ensure release branches will not accidentally overwrite images built in the main branch.

A new exists make target is added to all test containers and a global check ensures at least one of the images is missing before triggering the rebuild.

On normal operation, new versions of the images will be built by the main branch and be available once the QA_TAG bump is backported to release branches. In this case the paths-filter action will determine a rebuild is needed, but the new check will skip building the images.

If the images are in the process of being built on the main branch and some of them are not yet pushed, the backported commit will push the images again but they will have been built in such a small span of time the resulting images will pretty much be the same.

On PRs, if the containers need to be rebuilt a unique tag is generated and the step will always return the images don't exist.

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Patch has a change log entry OR does not need one.
Investigated and inspected CI test results
Updated documentation accordingly

Automated testing

Added unit tests
Added integration tests
Added regression tests

If any of these don't apply, please comment below.

Testing Performed

Run with the rebuild-test-container properly rebuilds all containers with unique tags. (CI run)
Running without the rebuild-test-container reuses the images built on main. (CI run)
Bumping the QA_TAG rebuilds with the new value. (CI run)

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- Automated test-container builds now check whether required images are available and build and publish missing images.
- Pull requests marked for a container rebuild can trigger a new build even when all required images are already available.
- The test-container image version has been updated. These changes affect the automated build process; application features and behavior are unchanged.

This is a follow up to #2209, we need to backport those changes and we need to ensure release branches will not accidentally overwrite images built in the main branch. A new `exists` make target is added to all test containers and a global check ensures at least one of the images is missing before triggering the rebuild. On normal operation, new versions of the images will be built by the main branch and be available once the QA_TAG bump is backported to release branches. In this case the paths-filter action will determine a rebuild is needed, but the new check will skip building the images. If the images are in the process of being built on the main branch and some of them are not yet pushed, the backported commit will push the images again but they will have been built in such a small span of time the resulting images will pretty much be the same. On PRs, if the containers need to be rebuilt a unique tag is generated and the step will always return the images don't exist.

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The container Makefiles now expose test image names. The workflow checks their manifests and conditionally runs the build-and-push step.

Changes: Test container build workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose test image names `tests/containers/Makefile`, `tests/containers/base/Makefile`, `tests/containers/editors/Makefile`, `tests/containers/self-deleter/Makefile`, `tests/containers/QA_TAG`	The Makefiles add an `image-names` target. The QA tag changes from `0.2.0` to `0.3.0`.
Check manifests and conditionally build `.github/workflows/test-containers-build.yml`	The workflow checks each image manifest. It fails on inspection errors other than missing manifests. It runs the build-and-push step when a manifest is missing or the pull request has the `rebuild-test-container` label.

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Change: Other

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as Test container workflow
  participant Make as Container Makefiles
  participant Docker as Docker registry
  Workflow->>Make: Run make image-names
  Make-->>Workflow: Return image names
  loop For each image
    Workflow->>Docker: Inspect image manifest
    Docker-->>Workflow: Return inspection result
  end
  Workflow->>Workflow: Build and push if a manifest is missing or the rebuild label is present

Suggested reviewers: ovalenti

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Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title clearly describes the primary change: checking whether remote test images exist before building them.
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- Line 84: Update the check step containing `make -C
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🟠 Major · Distinguish missing images from probe errors. · test-containers-build.yml:85-88

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Distinguish missing images from probe errors.

Each exists target returns the status from docker manifest inspect. The Docker CLI returns an error when both manifest lookups fail, including missing manifests and registry, network, or authentication failures. The workflow treats every non-zero status as exist=false, so a probe error can start build-and-push for an existing tag. Handle an explicitly missing manifest as false, but fail the job for other probe errors.
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Update the `exists` target used by the workflow to distinguish an explicitly
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- Around line 85-88: Update the `exists` target used by the workflow to
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This reverts commit 2de7bd6.

* ROX-36983: version containers used in tests (#1789) After a change in the Vi/Vim versioned used by Fedora broke our integration tests, we have decided to tag and version all images used in our tests. This patch adds a CI job for building and pushing the images when `tests/containers/QA_TAG` is updated, much like we do in stackrox/collector. It also modifies the existing tests from always building the images to: * Try to find the image locally. * Attempt to pull it if it is not found. * If unable to pulled and allowed to build locally, do that. * ROX-37670: test container rebuilds happen during nightlies (#2209) * Never rebuild test containers on scheduled builds * Bump test container version * Use debian:trixie as the base distro for 'editors' * Use centos images + pin image versions and packages used This leads to a closer and (hopefully) more stable version of the existing fedora images we were previously using. --------- Co-authored-by: Mauro Ezequiel Moltrasio <mmoltras@redhat.com> * chore: validate test images don't exist on remote before building (#2214) * chore: validate test images don't exist on remote before building This is a follow up to #2209, we need to backport those changes and we need to ensure release branches will not accidentally overwrite images built in the main branch. A new `exists` make target is added to all test containers and a global check ensures at least one of the images is missing before triggering the rebuild. On normal operation, new versions of the images will be built by the main branch and be available once the QA_TAG bump is backported to release branches. In this case the paths-filter action will determine a rebuild is needed, but the new check will skip building the images. If the images are in the process of being built on the main branch and some of them are not yet pushed, the backported commit will push the images again but they will have been built in such a small span of time the resulting images will pretty much be the same. On PRs, if the containers need to be rebuilt a unique tag is generated and the step will always return the images don't exist. * Global FACT_QA_TAG and portable redirections * Don't conflate network/registry errors with manifest does not exist errors --------- Co-authored-by: ovalenti <ovalenti@redhat.com>

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