Foreman 5.0 OCI Images branching process

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Konflux OCI Image Branching

Run after RPM branching is complete and packages appear in the versioned repo.
Use either the orchestrator script or follow the manual runbook linked below.

Documentation:

• OCI branching runbook
• Release settings

Prerequisites:

• Tools installed: uv, git, gh, glab, yq, jq, kustomize, oc

• GitHub forks: foreman-oci-images, pulp-oci-images, candlepin-oci-images

• GitLab fork: tenants-config

• Env vars: FOREMAN_VERSION=5.0, GITHUB_USER, GITLAB_USER

Steps:

• Dry-run first: uv run hack/branch-release/branch_konflux --version=5.0 --dry-run
• Execute: uv run hack/branch-release/branch_konflux --version=5.0
  Creates branch foreman-5.0 and opens draft PRs/MR in:
  • foreman-oci-images
  • pulp-oci-images
  • candlepin-oci-images
  • tenants-config
• Review and merge the 3 OCI repo PRs
• Wait for RPMs: https://yum.theforeman.org/releases/5.0/el9/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
• Merge tenants-config MR (registers foreman-5.0 components in Konflux)
• Verify first 5.0 build succeeds in Konflux UI

Published images (after all steps complete):

• quay.io/foreman/foreman:5.0, quay.io/foreman/foreman-proxy:5.0
• quay.io/foreman/foreman:5.0.0-rc1, quay.io/foreman/foreman-proxy:5.0.0-rc1
• quay.io/foreman/pulp:3.105, quay.io/foreman/pulp:foreman-5.0
• quay.io/foreman/candlepin:4.8, quay.io/foreman/candlepin:4.8.4, quay.io/foreman/candlepin:foreman-5.0