Add PodCertificateRequest feature gate to TechPreview

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Summary

Register the PodCertificateRequest feature gate and enable it under TechPreviewNoUpgrade and DevPreviewNoUpgrade feature sets.

Details

This adds the upstream Kubernetes PodCertificateRequest feature gate (KEP 4317) to OpenShift.

• Feature gate: PodCertificateRequest
• Product scope: Kubernetes
• Enabled in: TechPreviewNoUpgrade, DevPreviewNoUpgrade
• Jira component: kube-apiserver
• Contact: ibihim

Changed files

• features/features.go — feature gate definition
• features.md — documentation table update
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-*.yaml — generated manifest updates for all SelfManagedHA and Hypershift profiles

Companion PR: cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266 (runtime-config mapping)

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📒 Files selected for processing (10)

• features.md
• features/features.go
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-Hypershift-Default.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-Hypershift-DevPreviewNoUpgrade.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-Hypershift-OKD.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-Hypershift-TechPreviewNoUpgrade.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-SelfManagedHA-Default.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-SelfManagedHA-DevPreviewNoUpgrade.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-SelfManagedHA-OKD.yaml
• payload-manifests/featuregates/featureGate-4-10-SelfManagedHA-TechPreviewNoUpgrade.yaml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change registers the PodCertificateRequest feature gate with Kubernetes ownership and preview metadata. The feature support matrix enables it for DevPreviewNoUpgrade and TechPreviewNoUpgrade. Hypershift and SelfManagedHA manifests enable it in preview profiles and disable it in Default and OKD profiles.

Suggested reviewers: vr4manta

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2ac76

This change exposes PodCertificateRequest only in DevPreviewNoUpgrade and TechPreviewNoUpgrade while retaining disabled states in Default and OKD profiles. The reviewed configuration is consistent and ready to merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of the PodCertificateRequest feature gate. It highlights TechPreview, which is a primary part of the change, although it does not mention DevPreviewNoUpgrade.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately describes registering PodCertificateRequest, enabling it in TechPreviewNoUpgrade and DevPreviewNoUpgrade, and updating related documentation and manifests.
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 1…
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 pull request changes only feature-gate metadata, documentation, and YAML manifests. The diff adds no Ginkgo test files, test declarations, or test-title expressions such as It(), Describe(), Conte…
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not add or modify Ginkgo test code. The exact commit changes only features.md, features/features.go, and feature-gate YAML manifests; the diff contains no It, `Before…
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only feature metadata, documentation, and generated YAML manifests. The exact commit diff contains no new Ginkgo tests or test constructs such as It, Describe, Context, …
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The pull request adds one feature-gate declaration, documentation, and generated YAML manifest entries. The verified diff contains no new Ginkgo tests or other test constructs. Therefore, the SNO mult…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes one documentation row, one feature-gate registration, and eight FeatureGate configuration manifests. The added manifest entries only add the PodCertificateRequest na…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only feature-gate metadata, one top-level feature-gate registration, and generated YAML manifests. The added initializer calls in-memory builder methods and `mustRegiste…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The pull request adds no Ginkgo e2e tests. The exact diff contains only feature metadata, documentation, and YAML feature-gate manifests; the only changed Go file is features/features.go, and it con…
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request adds only the PodCertificateRequest feature-gate declaration, documentation, and generated manifest entries. The declaration contains metadata and enablement calls only. The d…
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The pull request adds a feature-gate definition, documentation, and FeatureGate status entries only. The changed JSON manifests are all kind: FeatureGate objects, not container or workload manifests…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request adds feature-gate metadata and manifest entries only. The changed Go code has no logging or print calls, and the added lines contain no passwords, tokens, API keys, PII, session…

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/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

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unable to get additional pr info from string: openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266/payload-job-with-prs: string: openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266/payload-job-with-prs doesn't match expected format: org/repo#number

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/lgtm

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Scheduling tests matching the pipeline_run_if_changed or not excluded by pipeline_skip_if_only_changed parameters:
/test e2e-aws-ovn
/test e2e-aws-ovn-hypershift
/test e2e-aws-ovn-hypershift-conformance
/test e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview
/test e2e-aws-serial-1of2
/test e2e-aws-serial-2of2
/test e2e-aws-serial-techpreview-1of2
/test e2e-aws-serial-techpreview-2of2
/test e2e-azure
/test e2e-gcp
/test e2e-upgrade
/test e2e-upgrade-out-of-change
/test minor-e2e-upgrade-minor

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[dgoodwin]

/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

[openshift-ci]

@dgoodwin: given command is invalid: at least one of the commands given is only supported on a one-command-per-comment basis, please separate out commands as multiple comments

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/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

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@dgoodwin: it appears that you have attempted to use some version of the payload command, but your comment was incorrectly formatted and cannot be acted upon. See the docs for usage info.

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/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

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@dgoodwin: it appears that you have attempted to use some version of the payload command, but your comment was incorrectly formatted and cannot be acted upon. See the docs for usage info.

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/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

[openshift-ci]

@dgoodwin: trigger 3 job(s) for the /payload-(with-prs|job|aggregate|job-with-prs|aggregate-with-prs) command

• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial-1of3
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial-2of3
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial-3of3

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/ad466c10-9a2f-11f1-9d41-29316589e5d5-0

[dgoodwin]

/payload-job-with-prs periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview openshift/cluster-kube-apiserver-operator#2266

[openshift-ci]

@dgoodwin: trigger 1 job(s) for the /payload-(with-prs|job|aggregate|job-with-prs|aggregate-with-prs) command

• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/c0d5e620-9a2f-11f1-9453-547627e4939d-0

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/retest

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New changes are detected. LGTM label has been removed.

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@redhat-chai-bot: The following tests failed, say /retest to rerun all failed tests or /retest-required to rerun all mandatory failed tests:

Test name	Commit	Details	Required	Rerun command
ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-hypershift	0ed3a20	link	true	/test e2e-aws-ovn-hypershift
ci/prow/e2e-aws-serial-techpreview-2of2	0ed3a20	link	true	/test e2e-aws-serial-techpreview-2of2
ci/prow/e2e-aws-serial-techpreview-1of2	0ed3a20	link	true	/test e2e-aws-serial-techpreview-1of2
ci/prow/minor-e2e-upgrade-minor	0ed3a20	link	true	/test minor-e2e-upgrade-minor
ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview	0ed3a20	link	true	/test e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview
ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn	0ed3a20	link	true	/test e2e-aws-ovn

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