[e2e] Tektonhubexternaldatabase testcase failing with namespace not found on PPC64LE

[sanskruti1098]

Expected Behavior

Testcases should pass.

Actual Behavior

Failed with namespace not found. https://dashboard.dogfooding.tekton.dev/#/namespaces/bastion-p/pipelineruns/tekton-operator-ppc64le-nightly-run-pl7xb?pipelineTask=e2e-test-operator&step=run-e2e-tests&view=details

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. install kubeadm cluster
2. clone operator code
3. run ./test/e2e-test.sh

Additional Info

• Kubernetes version:

  Output of kubectl version:

  [root@k8s-5d8e5b-bastion-1 operator]# kubectl version -o yaml
  clientVersion:
  buildDate: "2024-03-15T00:08:19Z"
  compiler: gc
  gitCommit: 6813625b7cd706db5bc7388921be03071e1a492d
  gitTreeState: clean
  gitVersion: v1.29.3
  goVersion: go1.21.8
  major: "1"
  minor: "29"
  platform: linux/ppc64le
  kustomizeVersion: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
  serverVersion:
  buildDate: "2024-01-17T15:41:12Z"
  compiler: gc
  gitCommit: bc401b91f2782410b3fb3f9acf43a995c4de90d2
  gitTreeState: clean
  gitVersion: v1.29.1
  goVersion: go1.21.6
  major: "1"
  minor: "29"
  platform: linux/ppc64le
  

• Tekton Pipeline version:

  Output of tkn version or kubectl get pods -n tekton-pipelines -l app=tekton-pipelines-controller -o=jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.labels.version}'

Failure log:

=== RUN TestTektonChainDeployment
03_tektonchaindeployment_test.go:45: Tekton chain is not available for "linux/ppc64le"
--- SKIP: TestTektonChainDeployment (0.00s)
=== RUN TestTektonChainTutorialTestSuite
04_tektonchainsgettingstartedtutorial_test.go:61: Tekton chain is not available for "linux/ppc64le"
--- SKIP: TestTektonChainTutorialTestSuite (0.00s)
=== RUN TestTektonHubTestSuite
=== RUN TestTektonHubTestSuite/Test01_DeployDefault
2024-03-12T12:43:23.219Z debug common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:110 removing the tekton hub cr if any
2024-03-12T12:43:23.239Z debug common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:115 test environment ready. starting the actual test
=== RUN TestTektonHubTestSuite/Test02_DeployWithExternalDatabase
2024-03-12T12:44:33.281Z debug common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:110 removing the tekton hub cr if any
2024-03-12T12:44:38.333Z debug common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:115 test environment ready. starting the actual test
2024-03-12T12:44:38.427Z debug common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:325 wait for external database deployment becomes ready {"namespace": "hub-external-db", "deploymentName": "tekton-hub-db"}
2024-03-12T12:45:13.447Z debug common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:331 external database deployment is ready
05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:350:
Error Trace: /root/tekton/operator/test/e2e/common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:350
/root/tekton/operator/test/e2e/common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:144 Error: Received unexpected error:
namespaces "tekton-pipelines" not found
Test: TestTektonHubTestSuite/Test02_DeployWithExternalDatabase
2024-03-12T12:45:13.510Z info common/05_tektonhubdeployment_test.go:123 test failed, executing debug commands {"testName": "TestTektonHubTestSuite/Test02_DeployWithExternalDatabase"}

------------------- debug information -------------------
$ kubectl get tektonconfig

[sanskruti1098]

Referred this GH issue which the Z team has also mentioned about the failure.
Tried the fix mentioned in this PR. That seems to have fixed the test failures locally.

[sanskruti1098]

@jkandasa can you please take a look at this?

[sanskruti1098]

/assign @sanskruti1098