chore: remove Dependabot auto-merge pilot workflows

[MitaliBhalla]

What type of PR is this?

cleanup

What this PR does / why we need it?

RPO already pulls MintMaker grouping and tide automerge from openshift/boilerplate via .github/renovate.json. The ROSA-745 Dependabot GitHub Actions pilot is leftover:

• .github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml — GHA auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
• .github/workflows/branch-protection-check.yml — weekly check that dependabot.yml exists

Dependabot was dropped when MintMaker took over gomod (dependabot.yml is gone). The weekly check therefore fails, and automerge now happens through boilerplate renovate labels (lgtm / approved) after Prow + Konflux.

Based on current openshift/rbac-permissions-operator master.

Which Jira/Github issue(s) this PR fixes?

Related: ROSA-745

Special notes for your reviewer:

Patch/minor gomod and tekton updates continue to automerge via boilerplate's shared renovate config. Majors stay manual.

Pre-checks (if applicable):

• No cluster testing needed (workflow deletion only)
• Included documentation changes with PR

Test plan

• Confirm .github/renovate.json still extends boilerplate
• Confirm no remaining Dependabot GHA workflows
• Next MintMaker run still opens grouped gomod/tekton PRs with tide labels

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Removed automated branch protection validation checks.
  • Removed automatic dependency update pull request handling, merging, and notifications.
  • Updated pipeline validation to skip the ACS security scan while retaining other checks.
  • Pinned pipeline templates to a verified revision for consistent validation.

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Walkthrough

The pull request removes the branch protection validation and Dependabot auto-merge workflows. It narrows the Tekton bypass to ACS scanning and pins the shared boilerplate pipeline to a specific commit.

Changes

CI configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GitHub Actions workflow removal .github/workflows/branch-protection-check.yml, .github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml	Removes branch protection validation and Dependabot auto-merge automation.
Tekton pipeline scan and revision configuration .tekton/rbac-permissions-operator-pko-pull-request.yaml, .tekton/rbac-permissions-operator-pko-push.yaml	Replaces skip-checks with skip-roxctl-scan for scratch-based images and pins the boilerplate pipeline revision to commit 9fe5a4235d443a9e50352252ef415ee1bfe00bb8.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0f82f

This PR removes obsolete Dependabot workflows and updates related pipeline configuration; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: xiaoyu74, diakovnec

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: removal of the Dependabot auto-merge pilot workflows.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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 PR changes only two GitHub workflow deletions and two Tekton YAML files. The diff from base 4bfa826 to 0f82fd0 contains no test files and no added or modified It, Describe, Context…
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two GitHub workflow files and two Tekton YAML files. The full diff from the merge base contains no Go test files and no Ginkgo constructs such as It, BeforeEach…
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS — The MicroShift Test Compatibility check is not applicable. The pull request changes only two Tekton YAML files and deletes two GitHub workflow files. The diff against origin/master adds or modi…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes only two Tekton YAML pipeline definitions and deletes two GitHub workflow files. The full range from the merge-base contains no test-like files and no added Ginkgo const…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only two GitHub workflow files and two Tekton PipelineRun CI definitions. It adds no operator code, controller logic, or deployment workload scheduling fields such as affinity, …
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two GitHub workflow files and two Tekton YAML files. It does not add or modify main(), init(), RunSpecs() setup, or other OTE process-level Go code. Existing …
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR adds no Ginkgo e2e tests or other test files. The diff only deletes two GitHub workflows and changes two Tekton YAML pipeline parameters. The added GitHub and registry URLs are pipeline c…
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request adds only Tekton scan parameters, comments, and a pinned Git revision. It adds no MD5, SHA-1 algorithm, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptography, or secret/token compa…
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR deletes two GitHub Actions workflows and changes only two Tekton PipelineRun parameter blocks. The added YAML contains only skip-roxctl-scan and a pinned boilerplate revision. The `task…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	No sensitive-data logging was introduced. The PR deletes both GitHub workflows that contained logging and API-response output, and the only added lines are Tekton parameters, a public boilerplate URL,…

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Full details: Stable And Deterministic Test Names

Explanation

PASS: The PR changes only two GitHub workflow deletions and two Tekton YAML files. The diff from base 4bfa826 to 0f82fd0 contains no test files and no added or modified It, Describe, Context, or When calls. Therefore, it introduces no unstable Ginkgo test names.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two GitHub workflow files and two Tekton YAML files. The full diff from the merge base contains no Go test files and no Ginkgo constructs such as It, BeforeEach, AfterEach, Eventually, or Consistently. Therefore, this Ginkgo test-quality check is not applicable.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS — The MicroShift Test Compatibility check is not applicable. The pull request changes only two Tekton YAML files and deletes two GitHub workflow files. The diff against origin/master adds or modifies no Go files, Ginkgo declarations, or e2e tests.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS. The pull request changes only two Tekton YAML pipeline definitions and deletes two GitHub workflow files. The full range from the merge-base contains no test-like files and no added Ginkgo constructs such as It(), Describe(), Context(), or When(). Therefore, the SNO compatibility check is not applicable.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

Explanation

PASS. The PR changes only two GitHub workflow files and two Tekton PipelineRun CI definitions. It adds no operator code, controller logic, or deployment workload scheduling fields such as affinity, topology spread, node selectors, tolerations, replica counts, or PDBs. The changed Tekton parameters only control ACS scanning, and the pipeline revision pin does not add topology constraints.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

Explanation

PASS: The pull request changes only two GitHub workflow files and two Tekton YAML files. It does not add or modify main(), init(), RunSpecs() setup, or other OTE process-level Go code. Existing stdout configuration in main.go and the FIPS init() print are unchanged from the merge base, so they are not introduced by this pull request.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

Explanation

PASS: The PR adds no Ginkgo e2e tests or other test files. The diff only deletes two GitHub workflows and changes two Tekton YAML pipeline parameters. The added GitHub and registry URLs are pipeline configuration or comments, not test connectivity. No IPv4 assumption or external-connectivity requirement was introduced in a test.

Full details: No-Weak-Crypto

Explanation

PASS: The pull request adds only Tekton scan parameters, comments, and a pinned Git revision. It adds no MD5, SHA-1 algorithm, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptography, or secret/token comparison. The 40-character value is used as a resolver: git revision pin, not as a cryptographic operation. The other changes delete workflows, so they cannot introduce weak-crypto usage.

Full details: Container-Privileges

Explanation

PASS. The PR deletes two GitHub Actions workflows and changes only two Tekton PipelineRun parameter blocks. The added YAML contains only skip-roxctl-scan and a pinned boilerplate revision. The taskRunTemplate.serviceAccountName is unchanged. No changed line introduces privileged: true, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation: true, or an explicit root configuration.

Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs

Explanation

No sensitive-data logging was introduced. The PR deletes both GitHub workflows that contained logging and API-response output, and the only added lines are Tekton parameters, a public boilerplate URL, a public commit pin, and explanatory comments. No added line logs or exposes passwords, tokens, API keys, PII, session IDs, hostnames, or customer data.

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The failing check is not from deleting the Dependabot workflows.

Konflux kflux-prd-rh03 / rbac-permissions-operator-pko-on-pull-request failed on roxctl-scan (ACS). The operator image pipeline on this PR passed the same task.

Cause: boilerplate docker-build-oci-ta swapped clair-scan → roxctl-scan on 2026-08-28. PKO images are FROM scratch (YAML only). ACS fails on those; Clair did not. Same failure is showing up on other operators (e.g. aws-account-operator PKO).

Pushed a follow-up that sets skip-checks: true on the PKO pipelines — same class of workaround as the existing skip-preflight-cert-check for this scratch image.

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In @.tekton/rbac-permissions-operator-pko-pull-request.yaml:
- Around line 37-38: Replace the broad skip-checks control in both
.tekton/rbac-permissions-operator-pko-pull-request.yaml lines 37-38 and
.tekton/rbac-permissions-operator-pko-push.yaml lines 37-38 with an ACS-specific
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[MitaliBhalla]

Addressed the remaining CI + CodeRabbit note:

• EC failure: skip-checks: true skipped clamav/SAST/RPM signature as well as ACS, so Enterprise Contract reported 8 failures even though the PKO build went green.
• CodeRabbit: switched to an ACS-only skip (skip-roxctl-scan) on the shared pipeline.

Boilerplate: openshift/boilerplate#866
This PR now uses that param and pins the PKO pipeline resolver to that commit until #866 is in master.

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