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cozystack/hack/e2e-chainsaw/README.md
Aleksei Sviridkin d35493a64d test(e2e): cover the computeplane module end to end
The module had render tests only. Nothing checked that turning it on
in a tenant yields a working cluster: the Kamaji control plane, a
worker pool shaped by the module's allowlist, an admin kubeconfig the
tenant can neither list nor read, the pinned cert-manager and
ingress-nginx addons running inside the cluster, and a teardown that
removes the in-cluster addons before the control plane and leaves
nothing behind.

The suite runs the module in its own child tenant so the shared
tenant-test is never toggled. It supplies its own pool because the
default md0 asks for the replicated StorageClass, which the container
lane does not have. On failure it prints the worker image source,
since the pool allowlist drops talos and a ComputePlane worker cannot
use the in-sandbox image cache.

The computeplane source depends on the kubernetes application and
runs its own ingress-nginx, so an ingress-nginx change now selects
this suite too. It also owns apps/kubernetes-nodes, which used to
reach no suite and run everything; kubernetes-nodes-application now
maps to both kubernetes suites and computeplane, so a pool chart
change keeps the suites that create KubernetesNodes natively.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM
2026-10-06 00:05:42 +03:00

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Chainsaw E2E tests

The Cozystack E2E app suite, written for Kyverno Chainsaw — a declarative, Kubernetes-native E2E test framework (CNCF, part of the Kyverno project; successor to KUTTL).

This directory replaces the per-app BATS suite that used to live in hack/e2e-apps/*.bats. The CI e2e job runs every suite under hack/e2e-chainsaw/ through hack/e2e-chainsaw-run.sh after make install-cozystack; cluster bootstrap (hack/e2e-prepare-cluster.bats, hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats) and the OpenAPI checks (hack/e2e-test-openapi.bats) remain BATS.

Layout

hack/e2e-chainsaw/
├── .chainsaw.yaml          # global Configuration (namespace, timeouts, JUnit report)
├── _lib/                   # shell reused by the script-heavy suites
│   ├── run-kubernetes.sh   #   tenant Kubernetes bringup + LB/NFS/ouroboros checks
│   └── remediation-guard.sh
├── <app>/
│   ├── chainsaw-test.yaml  # one or more Test definitions
│   └── <app>.yaml          # the manifests the test applies
└── ...

Suites: postgres, bucket, mariadb, mongodb, redis, valkey, qdrant, clickhouse, kafka, kafka-metadata, rabbitmq, etcd, openbao, harbor, foundationdb, external-dns, kuberture, vminstance, gateway, opensearch, monitoring, kubernetes-latest, kubernetes-previous, securitygroup, seaweedfs, computeplane.

What Chainsaw buys over the BATS suite

  • Readable tests — a list of resources and expected states, not shell control flow. The timeout N sh -ec "until kubectl get ..." + kubectl wait pair that appeared ~100 times collapses into a single assert that polls existence and state together.
  • Distinguishable failure modes — "object never created", "created but never ready", and "wrong status" all surface as a structured diff instead of an opaque shell timeout.
  • Automatic diagnostics — catch blocks dump events, describe, and pod logs on any failure (the BATS suite only did this in harbor.bats, by hand).
  • Automatic cleanup — resources Chainsaw applied are deleted (and waited on) in reverse order; finally covers operator-created leftovers.
  • CI-ready output — a JUnit chainsaw-report.xml is emitted for the test summary.

Test anatomy

Each suite is a directory with a chainsaw-test.yaml (one or more Test docs) plus the manifests it applies. A step has try (operations: apply, assert, error, script, delete, …), optional catch (diagnostics on failure), and optional finally (teardown regardless of outcome).

Declarative suites assert on status.conditions and concrete fields. Inherently imperative suites keep their logic in script steps:

  • openbao — bao operator init/unseal via kubectl exec.
  • kuberture — jq on Service annotations + external-dns split-horizon log assertions.
  • vminstance — a server-side dry-run eviction of the VM's launcher pod, checked against the VMI's LiveMigratable condition.
  • gateway — admission-rejection cases that need kubectl --as impersonation or error-message greps; the tenant apex is read from the namespace namespace.cozystack.io/host label at runtime so they pass on any host.
  • kubernetes-latest/previous — wrap _lib/run-kubernetes.sh (Kamaji bringup, port-forward, LB/NFS/ouroboros). The script cds to the repo root (the test dir is hack/e2e-chainsaw/<suite>, so repo root is ../../..).

Conventions / gotchas (Chainsaw v0.2.15)

  • Condition asserts use the filter-as-list form, not the documented [0] index:
    status:
      (conditions[?type == 'Ready']):
      - status: "True"
    
    The (conditions[?type == 'Ready'])[0]: {status: "True"} idiom fails with "field not found in the input object".
  • A reading of a failure diff: the "actual" side is a projection onto the expected fields — status: {} means the JMESPath expression failed, not that status is empty. Read the error line above the diff first.
  • error with a bare resource ref (name only) asserts the resource does not exist (used for "PVC reclaimed", "no backup schedule", "child has no Gateway HR").
  • script runs in the test directory with $NAMESPACE set to the config namespace (tenant-test).

Running locally

Requires a cluster with Cozystack installed and a tenant-test namespace (the environment hack/e2e-install-cozystack.bats produces). bucket and seaweedfs additionally need mc, nc, and jq on the host; kuberture/openbao/foundationdb/securitygroup/computeplane/kubernetes-latest/kubernetes-previous/vminstance need jq.

# install chainsaw
go install github.com/kyverno/chainsaw@latest   # or: brew install kyverno/chainsaw/chainsaw

# run all suites (config picked up from .chainsaw.yaml)
cd hack/e2e-chainsaw
chainsaw test

# run a single suite
chainsaw test postgres/

kubernetes-latest/kubernetes-previous each bring up a full tenant Kubernetes cluster (~25 min, real worker nodes) and vminstance boots a nested VM — expect a long run for the full set.

CI integration

The e2e job in .github/workflows/pull-requests.yaml runs make -C packages/core/testing test-chainsaw (which execs hack/e2e-chainsaw-run.sh inside the e2e sandbox) and uploads chainsaw-report.xml. The runner calls chainsaw test once per suite directory, fails a suite whose pods outlive its cleanup by more than the default timeouts.cleanup (LEAKED-PODS suite=<dir> in the log; see docs/agents/e2e-testing.md §8 and _lib/leak-allowlist.txt for known, filed leaks), and merges the per-suite reports into that one file. A local chainsaw test as shown above runs the same tests without the leak check. The sandbox image (packages/core/testing/images/e2e-sandbox/Dockerfile) ships the chainsaw binary alongside kubectl/helm/mc/jq/nc.