pre-GA 1.6.0: image pull errros in the operator status

[mtamboli]

I am seeing the following errors for the WLO application. While talking to @kabicin, this is happening as the operator is trying to verify that Liberty image supports this new feature of custom AES keys. I have global pull-secret defined and which is used correctly to pull application images. WLO is also installed at cluster level. So WLO/OLO should be able to use global pull-secret. Looks like, I am missing Liberty version verification.

 conditions:
   - lastTransitionTime: '2026-03-18T19:05:17Z'
     message: Resources are not ready.
     reason: ResourcesNotReady
     status: 'False'
     type: Ready
   - lastTransitionTime: '2026-03-18T17:58:15Z'
     status: 'True'
     type: Reconciled
   - lastTransitionTime: '2026-03-18T19:05:17Z'
     message: 'StatefulSet replicas ready: 0 < minReplicas: 1'
     reason: MinimumReplicasUnavailable
     status: 'False'
     type: ResourcesReady
   - lastTransitionTime: '2026-03-18T19:05:17Z'
     message: Failed to pull container image metadata; unauthorized or the image does not exist
     status: 'True'
     type: Warning

[leochr]

@mtamboli Thank you for reporting this. I confirmed with @kabicin that the warning regarding the pull failure to determine Liberty version doesn't impact the actual deployment of the application. Adding a pull secret explicitly in CR would be a workaround. Given those, we decided that this is not a stop-ship issue for 1.6.0. We'll target to address this in an upcoming release after 1.6.0.