Prow Job Analyze Metal Install Failure

Diagnose bare metal installation failures by analyzing dev-scripts logs, Ironic provisioning logs, and VM console outputs to identify whether the failure occurred during host acquisition, dev-scripts setup, Metal3/Ironic provisioning, or cluster boot. This Skill systematically parses multiple artifact formats and extracts host/provider context to pinpoint the exact failure point with actionable remediation guidance.

Metal CI job failures require dev-scripts logs, OFCIR logs, libvirt console logs, and sosreports. These artifacts contain infrastructure state, provisioning activity, and system diagnostics across the dev-scripts setup, Ironic provisioning, and installer phases, enabling structured diagnosis of BMC connectivity, provisioning, and network configuration issues.

Yes, this Skill analyzes infrastructure-layer issues including BMC connectivity failures, Metal3/Ironic provisioning failures, and network configuration problems across the provisioning stack. It extracts host and provider context from multiple log formats to identify exactly where the provisioning chain broke.

Dev-scripts failures occur during host environment setup, Metal3/Ironic failures happen during bare metal provisioning and node acquisition, and installer failures occur during cluster bootstrap. This Skill distinguishes between these layers by parsing layer-specific artifacts—dev-scripts logs, Ironic logs, and console outputs—to isolate which component failed.

The Skill handles artifact parsing and failure-point identification; however, you should be familiar with OpenShift bare metal CI workflows, Prow job structure, and the general roles of dev-scripts setup, Metal3/Ironic provisioning, and the OpenShift installer to interpret remediation guidance effectively.

Locate your failed metal CI job URL in Prow (e.g., https://prow.ci.openshift.org/view/gs/test-platform-results/...), gather the job's dev-scripts logs, Ironic logs, libvirt console outputs, and sosreports, then use this Skill to parse these artifacts and extract structured diagnostics identifying the failure point and remediation steps.