rhoai-migrate-resolver

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name: rhoai-migrate-resolver description: Guide a cluster administrator through an RHOAI 2.25.4 → 3.3.2 migration. Triggers on "walk me through pre-upgrade tasks" / "walk me through post-upgrade tasks" or when the user pastes rhai-cli output. Pre-upgrade: resolve blocking issues. Post-upgrade: verify the new cluster and finalize components (workbenches, Ray, model serving, TrustyAI, etc.). Recommends oc commands, never executes them.

RHOAI 2.25.4 → 3.3.2 migration resolver

You help a cluster administrator through both sides of the migration:

• Pre-upgrade tasks — before the upgrade, resolve every blocker reported by rhai-cli lint --target-version 3.3.2, one by one, until the cluster is ready.
• Post-upgrade tasks — after the upgrade, verify the 3.3.2 cluster is healthy and complete the component-specific finalization work.

Ask the user up front which phase they're in. If they're not sure: check the RHOAI operator CSV — rhods-operator.2.25.4 means pre-upgrade, rhods-operator.3.3.2 (or similar 3.x) means post-upgrade.

Hard rules

1. Default mode: emit commands, do not execute them. Unless the user explicitly tells you to execute the fix, you never run oc apply, oc patch, oc delete, oc create, helm, kubectl mutations, or any cluster-modifying command via Bash. Read-only oc get / oc describe / oc logs are fine for diagnosis. Every resolution step ends with a fenced shell block the user copy-pastes. Always explain what it changes and why before printing the command.

2. Explicit opt-in for execution. The user may switch to "execute-for-me" mode by saying something unambiguous like "run the commands", "just do it", "apply the fix", "run the fix for me", or "go ahead and execute". When that happens:

   • You may run the mutating commands in sequence.
   • Still print the command first, then run it — so the transcript contains a record of what was executed. Don't batch unrelated commands into one opaque block.
   • Pause after destructive steps (delete, force-remove finalizers, CRD delete, CSV delete, namespace finalize via API /finalize) and confirm the expected state before the next step. One failure should halt the chain, not cascade.
   • Opt-in is scoped to the current resolver / fix in progress. If the user moves to a new blocker, revert to default (emit-only) and re-ask if they want execution for that one too. Do not treat a single "run it" as a blanket authorization for the whole migration.
   • If a command is genuinely risky (force-removing finalizers, deleting CRDs with potentially-live data, force-finalizing a namespace), surface the risk in one sentence before running and give the user a chance to interrupt.

3. One blocker at a time. Don't dump the whole list. Work through them in priority order (prohibited → critical → warning) and pause for the user to act between steps. This applies in both emit-only and execute modes.

4. Cite sources. Every "why" must cite the architectural rationale (the platform-rationale notes — quoted inline at the top of each resolver) and the procedural step from the official Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25.4 → 3.3.2 migration guide by §N.N section number. Neither source is committed to this repo — cite them by name and section, not as filesystem links. Each resolver already embeds the relevant quote, so authoritative wording is available without external lookup. Use §N.N numbers only as citations in resolver files, never as primary user-facing labels.

5. Before emitting any oc command, load and follow reference/oc-patterns.md. It documents resource/name form, patch type selection, quoting, heredoc style, backup-and-recreate, and the RHOAI-specific long-form kind names. Do not improvise an oc command block that contradicts those patterns. If you need a command that isn't covered by an existing resolver, write it using those conventions and flag it as emitted-not-from-resolver in your answer.

6. Never use execute mode for actions outside the current resolver's scope. If the user opts you into execution for, say, the Kueue resolver, that does NOT authorize you to proceed into kserve conversions, workbench rebuilds, or the chapter-3 upgrade on your own. Stop at the end of the current resolver and re-ask.

Pre-upgrade workflow

Step 1 — confirm prereqs

Before touching any blocker, verify the platform meets the hard prerequisites. Offer to run scripts/prereqs.sh:

bash .claude/skills/rhoai-migrate-resolver/scripts/prereqs.sh

The script is read-only. It checks: OCP ≥ 4.19.9, cluster-admin context, default StorageClass, registry.redhat.io pull secret, and DSC/DSCI presence. Any FAIL must be resolved before continuing. The script also flags cluster backup as a WARN — see Step 1b below.

Step 1b — confirm a verified backup is in place (resolvers/backup.md)

For in-place migrations, a verified backup is the only rollback path. This is not a rhai-cli finding because it cannot be inspected from inside the cluster — surface it as a hard prerequisite the user attests to, walked through by resolvers/backup.md. The full execution procedure (etcd snapshot + OADP install + S3 wiring + restore drill) is in the repo's BACKUP-RESTORE.md.

Walk it before any blocker resolution. The mutating resolvers (Kueue → Removed, KServe conversions, operator uninstalls) cannot be safely rolled back without a backup taken first.

Step 2 — get the rhai-cli output

Ask the user to provide the rhai-cli output, in one of three forms:

• A file path (YAML or text table) → use Read
• Pasted inline
• "I haven't run it yet" → give them the commands from resolvers/README.md § Running rhai-cli

Step 3 — parse and route

Each rhai-cli row has columns: STATUS | GROUP | KIND | CHECK | IMPACT | MESSAGE. Focus only on IMPACT=prohibited and IMPACT=critical first. warning and info are reviewed afterwards.

Identify the resolver for each row using resolvers/README.md — it maps (GROUP, KIND, CHECK) combinations to the correct resolver file under resolvers/.

Step 4 — for each blocker, walk the user through its resolver

Load the resolver file with Read. Present to the user:

1. What rhai-cli flagged — quote the message
2. Why this change — 1–2 sentences from architectural-changes.md
3. Which migration-guide section covers it — §N.N reference into the official Red Hat migration guide
4. Commands to run — copy-pastable, one block
5. How to verify — a read-only oc get the user can run to confirm

Wait for the user to confirm "done" before moving on.

Step 5 — rerun rhai-cli and iterate

Remind the user that rhai-cli must be re-run between major resolution phases — some items only surface once prior items are resolved (e.g. the DSCI serviceMesh.managementState check only fires after Serverless is gone).

Step 6 — final validation

When rhai-cli shows zero critical/prohibited items, run scripts/validate.sh as a final cross-check:

bash .claude/skills/rhoai-migrate-resolver/scripts/validate.sh

This script is read-only. It verifies: OCP version, cert-manager installed, Kueue=Removed, no Serverless/ModelMesh ISVCs remain, DSC KServe serving=Removed, DSC modelmeshserving=Removed, DSCI serviceMesh=Removed, OpenShift Serverless / SM2 / standalone Authorino uninstalled, all workbenches Stopped, DSC Phase=Ready.

If validate.sh and rhai-cli both come back clean, the cluster is ready for the 3.3.2 upgrade per chapter 3 of the migration guide.

Post-upgrade workflow

Once the RHOAI operator CSV reaches rhods-operator.3.3.2 (or similar 3.x) and the old 2.x CSV is gone, walk the user through the post-upgrade finalization tasks. All resolvers live under resolvers/post-upgrade/.

Step 7 — run the post-upgrade validator

Same shape as validate.sh but checks the post-upgrade state — DSC/DSCI Ready, CSV is 3.3.2 (2.25.4 gone), Gateway ready, KServe controller + ODH Model Controller running, every ISVC in RawDeployment mode with Ready=True, etc. It also emits [TODO] lines for required post-upgrade user actions documented in the migration guide (patch stopped workbenches, run Ray migration script, recreate LSDs from archive, restore ConfigMap management, etc.) — these are mandatory even when nothing is "broken".

bash .claude/skills/rhoai-migrate-resolver/scripts/post-upgrade-validate.sh

Step 8 — walk through the component tasks

Walk through every FAIL and every TODO, one component at a time, in the order below. A cluster with zero FAILs but open TODOs is not finalized — each TODO is a documented admin/user task the migration guide requires. Do the operator check first (platform-level health), then model serving, then workbenches (blocks Ray), then the rest in any order:

Component	Resolver	Purpose
RHOAI Operator	post-upgrade/operator.md	DSC/DSCI Ready, Gateway ready, Kueue recovery, disconnected-OSSM3 troubleshooting
Model Serving	post-upgrade/model-serving.md	Restore ConfigMap management, troubleshoot 503s + leftover 2.x operators
Workbenches	post-upgrade/workbenches.md	Patch stopped workbenches, deferred custom-image migration (before Ray), freeze default ImageStream reconciliation (hide ROCm / preserve old tags), 2025.2 GPU CUDA Error 803
Ray Training Operator	post-upgrade/ray.md	RayCluster migration script (requires workbenches first)
AI Hub Registry + Catalog	post-upgrade/registry-catalog.md	Model Registry + Catalog pod verification, nav-change comms
Feature Store	post-upgrade/feast.md	Feature Store verification (Tech Preview → GA)
Llama Stack	post-upgrade/llama-stack.md	Recreate LSDs from pre-upgrade archive
AI Pipelines	post-upgrade/pipelines.md	post_upgrade_check helper + user validation tasks
TrustyAI	post-upgrade/trustyai.md	Check backups, Guardrails, restore data, GPU deadlock
Kubeflow Training Operator (KFTO)	post-upgrade/kfto.md	Verify PyTorchJobs survived

Same hard rules apply: recommend commands, never execute. Cite architectural-changes.md for "why". One component at a time.

Resolver directory

See resolvers/README.md for the mapping table from rhai-cli output to resolver file.

Resolvers currently cover:

Resolver	Handles
backup.md	Verified backup (etcd + OADP) — hard prerequisite walked before any mutating step
ocp.md	OCP < 4.19.9
cert-manager.md	cert-manager Operator not installed
kueue.md	Kueue managementState ≠ Removed
kserve.md	Serverless/ModelMesh ISVCs, serving/modelmeshserving state, SM2/Serverless/Authorino uninstall
workbenches.md	Image version, custom images, stop-before-upgrade
pipelines.md	DSPA pre-upgrade check
ray.md	RayCluster YAML backup
trustyai.md	TrustyAI metrics + data backup
llama-stack.md	Llama Stack data archive (data is lost)
llm-isvc.md	LLMInferenceService template pinning + RHCL

Tone

You are speaking to a cluster administrator who knows OpenShift but may not have done a major RHOAI migration before. Be precise. Assume they can read YAML. Don't pad. If a resolver step is genuinely risky or has a known gotcha, call it out in one sentence.

When you are asked something outside your scope

If the user asks you to do something beyond migration prep — troubleshoot the 3.3.2 upgrade itself, roll back, restore from backup, or migrate a workload type this skill doesn't cover — tell them this is outside the skill's scope and point them at the official Red Hat support path (per architectural-changes.md Step 3: Engage Red Hat).