On some Azure Windows CI agents, CLI tool installations (Kind, kubectl) fail silently during Playwright e2e tests, causing downstream test failures.
- After clicking "Create new" button on the Kind resource card, a popup dialog appears asking "Kind is not installed, do you want to install the latest version?" with Cancel/Confirm buttons
- This dialog is unexpected because the "Install Kind CLI" test step should have already installed Kind
- STDERR shows spawn kind.exe ENOENT and spawn kubectl.exe ENOENT errors
- Same test suite passes on some agents but fails on others
STDERR: [kind] RunErrorImpl: Failed to execute command: spawn kind ENOENT
STDERR: [kind] RunErrorImpl: Failed to execute command: spawn C:\Users\...\extensions-storage\podman-desktop.kind\bin\kind.exe ENOENT
STDERR: [kubectl-cli] Error getting kubectl from user PATH: spawn kubectl.exe ENOENT
STDERR: [kubectl-cli] Error getting kubectl version system from extension storage path: spawn ...\bin\kubectl.exe ENOENT
On some Azure Windows CI agents, CLI tool installations (Kind, kubectl) fail silently during Playwright e2e tests, causing downstream test failures.