MatthieuSarter/kata-containers-tests

Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics

Kata Containers tests

• Kata Containers tests
  • Getting the code
  • Test Content
  • CI Content
    • Centralised scripts
    • CI setup
    • Controlling the CI
    • Detecting a CI system
    • Breaking Compatibility
  • CLI tools
  • Developer Mode
  • Write a new Unit Test
  • Run the Kata Containers tests
    • Requirements to run Kata Containers tests
    • Prepare an environment
    • Run the tests
    • Running subsets of tests
  • Metrics tests
  • Kata Admission controller webhook

This repository contains various types of tests and utilities (called "content" from now on) for testing the Kata Containers code repositories.

Getting the code

$ go get -d github.com/kata-containers/tests

Test Content

We provide several tests to ensure Kata-Containers run on different scenarios and with different container managers.

1. Integration tests to ensure compatibility with:
   • Kubernetes
   • Containerd
2. Stability tests
3. Metrics
4. VFIO

CI Content

This repository contains a number of scripts that run from under a "CI" (Continuous Integration) system.

Centralised scripts

The CI scripts in this repository are used to test changes to the content of this repository. These scripts are also used by the other Kata Containers code repositories.

The advantages of this approach are:

• Functionality is defined once.

  • Easy to make changes affecting all code repositories centrally.

• Assurance that all the code repositories are tested in this same way.

CI scripts also provide a convenient way for other Kata repositories to install software. The preferred way to use these scripts is to invoke make with the corresponding install- target. For example, to install CRI-O you would use:

$ make -C <path-to-this-repo> install-crio

Use make list-install-targets to retrieve all the available install targets.

CI setup

WARNING:

The CI scripts perform a lot of setup before running content under a CI. Some of this setup runs as the root user and could break your developer's system. See Developer Mode.

Controlling the CI

GitHub Actions

Kata Containers uses GitHub Actions in the Kata Containers repos. All those actions, apart from the one to test kata-deploy, are automatically triggered when a pull request is submitted. The trigger phrase for testing kata-deploy is /test_kata_deploy.

Jenkins

The Jenkins configuration and most documentation is kept in the CI repository. Jenkins is setup to trigger a CI run on all the slaves/nodes when a /test comment is added to a pull request. However, there are some specific comments that are defined for specific CI slaves/nodes which are defined in the Jenkins config.xml files in the <triggerPhase> XML element in the CI repository.

Specific Jenkins job triggers

Some jobs like a particular distro, feature or architecture can be triggered individually, the specific job triggers information can be found in the Community repository.

Detecting a CI system

The strategy to check if the tests are running under a CI system is to see if the CI variable is set to the value true. For example, in shell syntax:

if [ "$CI" = true ]; then
    : # Assumed to be running in a CI environment
else
    : # Assumed to NOT be running in a CI environment
fi

Breaking Compatibility

In case the patch you submit breaks the CI because it needs to be tested together with a patch from another kata-containers repository, you have to specify which repository and which pull request it depends on.

Using a simple tag Depends-on: in your commit message will allow the CI to run properly. Notice that this tag is parsed from the latest commit of the pull request.

For example:

	Subsystem: Change summary

	Detailed explanation of your changes.

	Fixes: #nnn

	Depends-on:github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers#999

	Signed-off-by: <contributor@foo.com>

In this example, we tell the CI to fetch the pull request 999 from the kata-containers repository and use that rather than the master branch when testing the changes contained in this pull request.

CLI tools

This repository contains a number of command line tools. They are used by the CI tests but may be useful for user to run stand alone.

Developer Mode

Developers need a way to run as much test content as possible locally, but as explained in CI Setup, running all the content in this repository could be dangerous.

The recommended approach to resolve this issue is to set the following variable to any non-blank value before using any content from this repository:

export KATA_DEV_MODE=true

Setting this variable has the following effects:

• Disables content that might not be safe for developers to run locally.
• Ignores the effect of the CI variable being set (for extra safety).

You should be aware that setting this variable provides a safe subset of functionality; it is still possible that PRs raised for code repositories will still fail under the automated CI systems since those systems are running all possible tests.

Write a new Unit Test

See the unit test advice documentation.

Run the Kata Containers tests

Requirements to run Kata Containers tests

You need to install the following to run Kata Containers tests:

• golang

  To view the versions of go known to work, see the golang entry in the versions database.

• make.

Prepare an environment

The recommended method to set up Kata Containers is to use the official and latest stable release. You can find the official documentation to do this in the Kata Containers installation user guides.

To try the latest commits of Kata use the CI scripts, which build and install from the kata-containers repositories, with the following steps:

Warning: This may replace/delete packages and configuration that you already have. Please use these steps only on a testing environment.

Add the $GOPATH/bin directory to the PATH:

$ export PATH=${GOPATH}/bin:${PATH}

Clone the kata-container/tests repository:

$ go get -d github.com/kata-containers/tests

Go to the tests repo directory:

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kata-containers/tests

Execute the setup script:

$ .ci/setup.sh

Limitation: If the script fails for a reason and it is re-executed, it will execute all steps from the beginning and not from the failed step.

Run the tests

If you have already installed the Kata Containers packages and a container manager (i.e. Kubernetes), and you want to execute the content for all the tests, run the following:

$ export RUNTIME=kata-runtime
$ export KATA_DEV_MODE=true
$ sudo -E PATH=$PATH make test

You can also execute a single test suite. For example, if you want to execute the Kubernetes integration tests, run the following:

$ sudo -E PATH=$PATH make kubernetes

A list of available test suite make targets can be found by running the following:

$ make help

Running subsets of tests

Individual tests or subsets of tests can be selected to be run. The method of test selection depends on which type of test framework the test is written with. Most of the Kata Containers test suites are written using Bats files.

Running Bats based tests

The Bats based tests are shell scripts, starting with the line:

#!/usr/bin/env bats

This allows the Bats files to be executed directly. Before executing the file, ensure you have Bats installed. The Bats files should be executed from the root directory of the tests repository to ensure they can locate all other necessary components. An example of how a Bats test is run from the Makefile looks like:

kubernetes:
        bash -f .ci/install_bats.sh
        bash -f integration/kubernetes/run_kubernetes_tests.sh

Metrics tests

See the metrics documentation.

Kata Admission controller webhook

See the webhook documentation.