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-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # this is used to trigger the workflow on non-main branches
-    inputs:
-      pr:
-        description: 'PR number from the selected branch to test'
-        type: string
-        required: true
-  issue_comment:
-    types: [created, edited]
-
-name: test-kata-deploy
-
-jobs:
-  check-comment-and-membership:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: |
-      github.event.issue.pull_request
-      && github.event_name == 'issue_comment'
-      && github.event.action == 'created'
-      && startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/test_kata_deploy')
-      || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
-    steps:
-      - name: Check membership on comment or dispatch
-        uses: kata-containers/is-organization-member@1.0.1
-        id: is_organization_member
-        with:
-          organization: kata-containers
-          username: ${{ github.event.comment.user.login || github.event.sender.login }}
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Fail if not member
-        run: |
-          result=${{ steps.is_organization_member.outputs.result }}
-          if [ $result == false ]; then
-              user=${{ github.event.comment.user.login || github.event.sender.login }}
-              echo Either ${user} is not part of the kata-containers organization
-              echo or ${user} has its Organization Visibility set to Private at
-              echo https://github.com/orgs/kata-containers/people?query=${user}
-              echo 
-              echo Ensure you change your Organization Visibility to Public and
-              echo trigger the test again.
-              exit 1
-          fi
-
-  build-asset:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: check-comment-and-membership
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        asset:
-          - cloud-hypervisor
-          - firecracker
-          - kernel
-          - kernel-dragonball-experimental
-          - nydus
-          - qemu
-          - rootfs-image
-          - rootfs-initrd
-          - shim-v2
-          - virtiofsd
-    steps:
-      - name: get-PR-ref
-        id: get-PR-ref
-        run: |
-            if [ ${{ github.event_name }} == 'issue_comment' ]; then
-                ref=$(cat $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH | jq -r '.issue.pull_request.url' | sed  's#^.*\/pulls#refs\/pull#' | sed 's#$#\/merge#')
-            else # workflow_dispatch
-                ref="refs/pull/${{ github.event.inputs.pr }}/merge"
-            fi
-            echo "reference for PR: " ${ref} "event:" ${{ github.event_name }}
-            echo "pr-ref=${ref}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ steps.get-PR-ref.outputs.pr-ref }}
-
-      - name: Build ${{ matrix.asset }}
-        run: |
-          make "${KATA_ASSET}-tarball"
-          build_dir=$(readlink -f build)
-          # store-artifact does not work with symlink
-          sudo cp -r "${build_dir}" "kata-build"
-        env:
-          KATA_ASSET: ${{ matrix.asset }}
-          TAR_OUTPUT: ${{ matrix.asset }}.tar.gz
-
-      - name: store-artifact ${{ matrix.asset }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-build/kata-static-${{ matrix.asset }}.tar.xz
-          if-no-files-found: error
-
-  create-kata-tarball:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: build-asset
-    steps:
-      - name: get-PR-ref
-        id: get-PR-ref
-        run: |
-            if [ ${{ github.event_name }} == 'issue_comment' ]; then
-                ref=$(cat $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH | jq -r '.issue.pull_request.url' | sed  's#^.*\/pulls#refs\/pull#' | sed 's#$#\/merge#')
-            else # workflow_dispatch
-                ref="refs/pull/${{ github.event.inputs.pr }}/merge"
-            fi
-            echo "reference for PR: " ${ref} "event:" ${{ github.event_name }}
-            echo "pr-ref=${ref}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ steps.get-PR-ref.outputs.pr-ref }}
-      - name: get-artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-artifacts
-      - name: merge-artifacts
-        run: |
-          ./tools/packaging/kata-deploy/local-build/kata-deploy-merge-builds.sh kata-artifacts
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          name: kata-static-tarball
-          path: kata-static.tar.xz
-
-  kata-deploy:
-    needs: create-kata-tarball
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: get-PR-ref
-        id: get-PR-ref
-        run: |
-            if [ ${{ github.event_name }} == 'issue_comment' ]; then
-                ref=$(cat $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH | jq -r '.issue.pull_request.url' | sed  's#^.*\/pulls#refs\/pull#' | sed 's#$#\/merge#')
-            else # workflow_dispatch
-                ref="refs/pull/${{ github.event.inputs.pr }}/merge"
-            fi
-            echo "reference for PR: " ${ref} "event:" ${{ github.event_name }}
-            echo "pr-ref=${ref}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ steps.get-PR-ref.outputs.pr-ref }}
-      - name: get-kata-tarball
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          name: kata-static-tarball
-      - name: build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci
-        id: build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci
-        run: |
-          PR_SHA=$(git log --format=format:%H -n1)
-          mv kata-static.tar.xz $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/kata-static.tar.xz
-          docker build --build-arg KATA_ARTIFACTS=kata-static.tar.xz -t quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy-ci:$PR_SHA $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/tools/packaging/kata-deploy
-          docker login -u ${{ secrets.QUAY_DEPLOYER_USERNAME }} -p ${{ secrets.QUAY_DEPLOYER_PASSWORD }} quay.io
-          docker push quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy-ci:$PR_SHA
-          mkdir -p packaging/kata-deploy
-          ln -s $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/action packaging/kata-deploy/action
-          echo "PKG_SHA=${PR_SHA}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-      - name: test-kata-deploy-ci-in-aks
-        uses: ./packaging/kata-deploy/action
-        with:
-          packaging-sha: ${{steps.build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci.outputs.PKG_SHA}}
-        env:
-          PKG_SHA: ${{steps.build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci.outputs.PKG_SHA}}
-          AZ_APPID: ${{ secrets.AZ_APPID }}
-          AZ_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.AZ_PASSWORD }}
-          AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
-          AZ_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_TENANT_ID }}