Need an Elegant Solution for Setting Alternative Firmware Path at Runtime with KMM

[chaitanya1731]

Summary:

While setting the alternative firmware path at runtime with KMM, we currently need to manually update the ConfigMap to set worker.setFirmwareClassPath to /var/lib/firmware. This is being done with the following oc command:

$ oc patch configmap kmm-operator-manager-config -n openshift-kmm --type='json' -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/data/controller_config.yaml", "value": "healthProbeBindAddress: :8081\nmetricsBindAddress: 127.0.0.1:8080\nleaderElection:\n  enabled: true\n  resourceID: kmm.sigs.x-k8s.io\nwebhook:\n  disableHTTP2: true\n  port: 9443\nworker:\n  runAsUser: 0\n  seLinuxType: spc_t\n  setFirmwareClassPath: /var/lib/firmware"}]'
$ oc get pods -n openshift-kmm | grep -i "kmm-operator-controller-" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs oc delete pod -n openshift-kmm

However, this command sets the path explicitly and then reboot the controller manager pod, we need a more elegant solution to update this firmware path.

Impact:

The current method breaks "one-click" provisioning solution, which stops the Ansible playbook without completing its execution.. As a workaround, users need to be already logged in to the cluster using oc command..

Desired Solution:

Need a solution that allows for a more integrated and seamless way to set the firmware path without manual intervention.