Crucible Network dataplane test (iperf) TCP and UDP

[smandaRH]

Summary by CodeRabbit

This PR adds two new weekly performance testing jobs to the OpenShift CI infrastructure for RHO-SO (Red Hat OpenStack) deployments. Specifically, it introduces:

• weekly-rhoso-crucible-udp - A weekly test job running Crucible network dataplane (iperf) tests using UDP protocol
• weekly-rhoso-crucible-tcp - A weekly test job running Crucible network dataplane (iperf) tests using TCP protocol

Both jobs are scheduled identically to run every Saturday at 5 PM UTC on the metal-perfscale-osp cluster profile. They provision 17 RHEL 9.4 nodes and execute a standard test workflow that includes:

1. Environment setup and preparation (installer, pre-provisioning)
2. Browbeat performance testing tool installation and execution
3. Results backup and reporting

The jobs differ only in the workload type (crucible-udp vs crucible-tcp), allowing continuous performance validation of both TCP and UDP network dataplane performance for OpenShift on OpenStack infrastructure. This enables the performance and scale testing team to track network dataplane performance characteristics across both protocol types on a regular basis.

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• ci-operator/config/openshift-eng/ocp-qe-perfscale-ci/openshift-eng-ocp-qe-perfscale-ci-main__metal-rhoso-x86.yaml

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Walkthrough

Two new weekly scheduled CI jobs for Metal RHO-SO performance testing are added: weekly-rhoso-crucible-udp and weekly-rhoso-crucible-tcp. Both jobs share identical configuration including cron schedule, cluster profile, RHEL 9.4 environment with 17 nodes, and test orchestration, differing only in workload variant.

Changes

Metal RHO-SO Crucible Test Jobs

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Weekly Crucible UDP and TCP test jobs ci-operator/config/openshift-eng/ocp-qe-perfscale-ci/openshift-eng-ocp-qe-perfscale-ci-main__metal-rhoso-x86.yaml	Added weekly-rhoso-crucible-udp and weekly-rhoso-crucible-tcp scheduled jobs with shared configuration (Saturday 17:00 UTC cron, metal-perfscale-osp cluster, RHEL 9.4, 17 nodes) and identical test refs, differing only by WORKLOAD type (crucible-udp vs crucible-tcp).

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: adding Crucible network dataplane tests for TCP and UDP protocols to the CI configuration.
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	This PR only modifies CI configuration YAML files and documentation; it contains no Ginkgo test code (It/Describe/Context/When), making the check inapplicable.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	The PR modifies only a YAML CI configuration file that defines test job parameters. The custom check requires Ginkgo test code review, which is not present in this PR.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	This PR adds CI job configuration (YAML) only, not Ginkgo e2e tests. The check applies only to new Ginkgo tests, so it's not applicable here.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PR adds CI job configuration (YAML only), not new Ginkgo e2e test code. SNO compatibility check applies only to new test code additions.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	File is a ci-operator test configuration, not a deployment manifest, operator code, or controller. Custom check scope does not apply.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PR only modifies YAML CI configuration; no Go source code changes present, making OTE stdout contract check inapplicable.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PR only adds CI job configuration to YAML file; no new Ginkgo e2e tests added. The check does not apply as it is specific to "when new Ginkgo e2e tests are added."
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	Pull request modifies only a YAML CI configuration file with no cryptographic code, weak crypto algorithms, custom implementations, or secret comparisons.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	File is a CI configuration, not a K8s manifest. No privilege escalation indicators found (privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation).
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The PR adds two CI job configurations with no exposed passwords, tokens, API keys, PII, or other sensitive data. Environment variables and logging references are standard CI/CD metadata.

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[openshift-merge-bot]

[REHEARSALNOTIFIER]
@smandaRH: no rehearsable tests are affected by this change

Note: If this PR includes changes to step registry files (ci-operator/step-registry/) and you expected jobs to be found, try rebasing your PR onto the base branch. This helps pj-rehearse accurately detect changes when the base branch has moved forward.
The following jobs are not rehearsable without the network-access-rehearsals-ok, and approved labels present on this PR. This is due to the restrict_network_access field being set to false. The network-access-rehearsals-ok label can be added by any openshift org member other than the PR's author by commenting: /pj-rehearse network-access-allowed:

Test name
periodic-ci-openshift-eng-ocp-qe-perfscale-ci-main-metal-rhoso-x86-weekly-rhoso-crucible-tcp
periodic-ci-openshift-eng-ocp-qe-perfscale-ci-main-metal-rhoso-x86-weekly-rhoso-crucible-udp

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