After that the guide should work as described, maybe with the exception of "Enable tracing for Istio" section.
If all good and testsuite passes successfully against the cluster discuss whether we want this to use in nightly pipelines or whether there are other options how to test this frequently. RHCL will use OSSM, not Istio so we need to have this covered somehow.
Summary
Use OSSM (Openshift Service Mesh) v2.6 instead of Istio as a GatewayAPI implementation in nightly pipelines.
Not actionable untit the support for it is implemented, tracked in https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CONNLINK-230
First step would be to basically follow https://github.com/Kuadrant/testsuite/wiki/Guide-to-prepare-Openshift-cluster-to-run-testsuite with the Istio/Sail related pieces replaced with OSSM specific stuff:
Install OSSM Operator via OLM:
Create SMCP CR:
Wait for OSSM to get ready:
After that the guide should work as described, maybe with the exception of "Enable tracing for Istio" section.
If all good and testsuite passes successfully against the cluster discuss whether we want this to use in nightly pipelines or whether there are other options how to test this frequently. RHCL will use OSSM, not Istio so we need to have this covered somehow.