[DRAFT] Experimental revert of #2923 — payload upgrade test

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Reverts #2923

Experimental revert — do NOT merge. This draft PR tests whether reverting the BGPBasedVIPManagement feature gate change resolves the 4.22→5.0 major upgrade failures in the aggregated-azure-ovn-upgrade-5.0-major blocking job.

Failure pattern: config-operator never sets Progressing=True during major upgrade, causing CVO invariant config-operator must go Progressing=True during an upgrade to fail. The CVO sync loop restarts extend the wait beyond 3 minutes.

Stream blocked: 5.0 CI — 5 consecutive rejections, 38+ hours blocked (last accepted: 5.0.0-0.ci-2026-07-23-195533).

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This change removes the BGPBasedVIPManagement feature gate and related API fields, enum values, CRD schema properties, feature-gate manifest entries, and test coverage. It removes vipManagement from Infrastructure and ControllerConfig and bgpVIPPeersJSON from ControllerConfig, adds TechPreviewNoUpgrade CRD manifests, updates release annotations, and changes the infrastructure CRD test reference.

Possibly related PRs

• openshift/api#2923: Added the BGP VIP management feature gate and related API fields removed here.

Suggested reviewers: cheesesashimi, everettraven

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly indicates this is a draft revert of #2923 for the payload upgrade test, matching the main change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the revert of the BGPBasedVIPManagement change and the upgrade-failure test goal.
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	PASS: The only touched test identifier is TestInfrastructureStatusDefault, and deleted YAML suite names are fixed strings; no dynamic Ginkgo titles were added.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS: No Ginkgo test code was added or modified; the only Go test change is a path constant update in a plain unit test, and the removed YAML manifests aren't Ginkgo tests.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	No new Ginkgo e2e tests were added; the only changed Go test is a unit test with no Ginkgo and no MicroShift-unsafe APIs.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	No new Ginkgo e2e tests were added; only a unit-test path changed and two YAML test configs were deleted, with no SNO-sensitive assumptions introduced.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	Changes only remove feature-gate/CRD fields; no deployments, pod specs, affinities, nodeSelectors, PDBs, or topology-spread constraints were introduced.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	Only schema/feature-gate removals and a test path update changed; no touched main/init/TestMain code or stdout logging was added.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	No new Ginkgo/e2e tests were added; the only Go test change is a unit-test CRD path constant, with no IPv4 or external connectivity assumptions.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	No md5/sha1/des/rc4/3DES/Blowfish/ECB, custom crypto, or secret/token comparisons appear in the diff; changes are CRD/feature-gate removals only.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	No modified K8s/container manifests set privileged/hostPID/hostNetwork/hostIPC/SYS_ADMIN/root or allowPrivilegeEscalation; changes are CRDs/feature-gates only.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	No logging statements were added; changed files are CRD/schema/test fixtures, and sensitive-looking strings appear only in schema docs, not logs.

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