NO-JIRA: Added iperf3

[jforce]

Adding the iperf3 to the image for testing/troubleshooting network performance

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  • Added iperf3 to the container environment, enabling network performance testing tools in deployments.

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Walkthrough

The Dockerfile’s base image package list now includes iperf3 in the packages installed through yum.

Changes

Base image packages

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add iperf3 package Dockerfile	Adds iperf3 to the INSTALL_PKGS package list used by yum.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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	Only Dockerfile changed; no Ginkgo tests or titles were added or modified, so the stable-name check is not applicable.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	Not applicable: this PR only adds iperf3 in Dockerfile; no Ginkgo test code or test structure changed.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PR only adds iperf3 to Dockerfile; no Ginkgo/e2e tests or OpenShift API usage were added, so MicroShift compatibility check is not applicable.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	Only Dockerfile changed; no new Ginkgo e2e tests or node-topology-sensitive code was added, so the SNO check is not applicable.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	Only the Dockerfile package list changed; no manifests, controllers, or scheduling constraints were introduced.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PR only updates Dockerfile to add iperf3; no process-level code or stdout writes were changed.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	Only Dockerfile changed to add iperf3; no Ginkgo/e2e tests were added or modified, so this IPv6/disconnected-network check is not applicable.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The PR only adds iperf3 to Dockerfile package installs; no weak ciphers, custom crypto, or secret comparisons are introduced.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	Diff only adds iperf3 to Dockerfile’s package list; no privileged, hostPID/Network/IPC, capabilities, or securityContext settings were introduced.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The PR only updates Dockerfile package installation to add iperf3; no logging code or sensitive-data output paths were changed.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly reflects the main change: adding iperf3 to the image.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
In `@Dockerfile`:
- Line 21: Update the INSTALL_PKGS package list by moving iperf3 above iproute,
preserving the existing alphabetized ordering.

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[qinqon]

At openshift virt we are quite interested on that to run our ovn-kubernetes e2e tests downstream using iperf3

[qinqon]

LGTM

[tssurya]

/lgtm

[tssurya]

two high level questions - any security implications in adding this tool? + what's the approx image size increase? - i hope its negligible

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[qinqon]

two high level questions - any security implications in adding this tool? + what's the approx image size increase? - i hope its negligible

Even I am not the autor I can add my "2 cents":

• size: with deps is 0.5 mb
• about security it's from RHEL past security advisors were fix there (CVE-2023-38403), also there is nothing that start iperf3 without admin knowing it, so security problem are super slow.

[qinqon]

@jforce @tssurya do we need to add it to the Dockerfile.fedora too ? not sure if the .fedora is part of origin or not.

[jforce]

+1 to @qinqon on the impact, IMHO extremely minimal

As for adding it to the Fedora Dockerfile I don't believe so, albeit this is my first contribution to this image, so unsure of any intricacies, but from my view just adding it to the core one was enough without looking into it.

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[qinqon]

I have run ovn-kubernetes upstream layer2 and localnet test OTE using this image instead of netshoot and they are passing allright.

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Adding the iperf3 to the image for testing/troubleshooting network performance

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• Added iperf3 to the container environment, enabling network performance testing tools in deployments.

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