[openstack-dev] [qa] Tempest pre-provisioned credentials in the gate

Ken'ichi Ohmichi ken1ohmichi at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 19:25:22 UTC 2016


2016-06-14 17:00 GMT-07:00 Andrea Frittoli <andrea.frittoli at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> TL;DR: I'd like to propose to start running some of the existing dsvm
> check/gate jobs using Tempest pre-provisioned credentials.
>
> Full Text:
> Tempest provides tests with two mechanisms to acquire test credentials [0]:
> dynamic credentials and pre-provisioned ones.
>
> The current check and gate jobs only use the dynamic credentials provider.
>
> The pre-provisioned credentials provider has been introduced to support
> running test in parallel without the need of having access to admin
> credentials in tempest configuration file - which is a valid use case
> especially when testing public clouds or in general a deployment that is not
> own by who runs the test.
>
> As a small extra, since pre-provisioned credentials are re-used to run many
> tests during a CI test run, they give an opportunity to discover issues
> related to cleanup of test resources.

This is a significant merit for Tempest development.
So +1 for enabling the credential on the gate.

> Pre-provisioned credentials is currently used in periodic jobs [1][2] - as
> well as an experimental job defined for tempest changes. This means that
> even if we are careful, there is a good chance for it to be inadvertently
> broken by a change.
>
> Until recently the periodic job suffered a racy failure on object-storage
> tests. A recent refactor [3] of the tool that pre-proprovisioned the
> accounts has fixed the issue: the past 8 runs of the periodic jobs have not
> encountered that race anymore [4][5].
>
> Specifically I'd like to propose changing to start changing of the neutron
> jobs [6].

I am not sure why don't we add another simple job(non neutron job)
which just enables this.
But maybe it is better to discuss which job is nice for enabling
pre-provisioned cred on the review.

Thanks
Ken Ohmichi

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> [0]
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/configuration.html#credential-provider-mechanisms
> [1]
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/jenkins/jobs/devstack-gate.yaml#n220
> [2]
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/jenkins/jobs/devstack-gate.yaml#n253
> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317105/
> [4]
> http://status.openstack.org/openstack-health/#/job/periodic-tempest-dsvm-full-test-accounts-master
> [5]
> http://status.openstack.org/openstack-health/#/job/periodic-tempest-dsvm-neutron-full-test-accounts-master
> [6] https://review.openstack.org/329723
>
>
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