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The image-tools repository switched to a timestamp based versioning scheme for its images with cilium/image-tools#286 in order to allow renovate to start managing the updates of those images. But renovate is not able to properly manage those as it does not recognize their versioning scheme.

This PR adds a renovate package rule for those images with a custom versioning config.

I tested it in a test repo and renovate managed to detect the dependency and update it:

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The image-tools repository switched to a timestamp based versioning
scheme for its images with
cilium/image-tools#286 in order to allow
renovate to start managing the updates of those images. But renovate is
not able to properly manage those as it does not recognize their
versioning scheme.

This PR adds a a renovate package rule for those images with a custom
[versioning](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/versioning/) config.

I tested it in a test repo and renovate managed to detect the dependency
and update it:

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Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
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HadrienPatte added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 23, 2025
With #41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since #32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs sucessfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
HadrienPatte added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 23, 2025
With #41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since #32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs successfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
HadrienPatte added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2025
With #41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since #32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs successfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
HadrienPatte added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 4, 2025
With #41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since #32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs successfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
HadrienPatte added a commit to DataDog/cilium that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2025
With cilium#41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since cilium#32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs successfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2025
With #41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since #32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs successfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
jarrodb pushed a commit to 46labs/cilium that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2025
With cilium#41230, renovate will now handle updating those images, but since
they haven't been updated in a while, there's some manual adjustments
that are required before renovate can handle those.

With cilium/image-tools#339 and
cilium/image-tools#343, these two images no
longer include their test files. This PR removes the test stage from the
`runtime` image as it was just rerunning those tests and there are no
`runtime` image tests.

This PR also fixes the tests for the `builder` image. It turns out that
those tests have been broken since cilium#32767 because they haven't been
running in CI for years. Those tests aren't running since we switched
from the legacy docker engine to buildkit, see [details](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/#differences-between-legacy-builder-and-buildkit):

> The legacy Docker Engine builder processes all stages of a Dockerfile leading up to the selected --target. It will build a stage even if the selected target doesn't depend on that stage.
>
> BuildKit only builds the stages that the target stage depends on.

Future followups:
* Does it make sense to have a test expect a specific version of `libprotoc` when this dependency is regularly automatically updated by renovate? With the current setup, this test will break everytime renovate updates `libprotoc`. I'd argue that the version string should be removed from the expected output so we only test that `protoc --version` runs successfully without expecting a given version string.
* Consider either:
  * Update the CI to ensure those container structure tests are run on
    PRs
  * Remove container structure tests as after this PR, only the `builder` image will have [some](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/a7de0143835a080750dbbde7285be37ab8599883/images/builder/test/spec.yaml) and all they test is that `protoc` is installed in the image

Note: the release note for this PR is more focused on the user-visible
change related to the update of the `bpftools` and `llvm` images.

```release
images: Update `bpftools` and `llvm` images to reduce the size of the
`cilium` image by 39MB (`amd64`) / 35MB (arm64)
```

Signed-off-by: Hadrien Patte <hadrien.patte@datadoghq.com>
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