Running Integration Tests using Teuthology

Getting binaries

To run integration tests using teuthology, you need to have Ceph binaries built for your branch. Follow these steps to initiate the build process -

  1. Push the branch to ceph-ci repository. This triggers the process of building the binaries.

  2. To confirm that the build process has been initiated, spot the branch name at Shaman. Little after the build process has been initiated, the single entry with your branch name would multiply, each new entry for a different combination of distro and flavour.

  3. Wait until the packages are built and uploaded, and the repository offering them are created. This is marked by colouring the entries for the branch name green. Preferably, wait until each entry is coloured green. Usually, it takes around 2-3 hours depending on the availability of the machines.

Note

Branch to be pushed on ceph-ci can be any branch, it shouldn’t necessarily be a PR branch.

Note

In case you are pushing master or any other standard branch, check Shaman beforehand since it already might have builds ready for it.

Triggering Tests

After building is complete, proceed to trigger tests -

  1. Log in to the teuthology machine:

    ssh <username>@teuthology.front.sepia.ceph.com

    This would require Sepia lab access. To know how to request it, see: https://ceph.github.io/sepia/adding_users/

  2. Next, get teuthology installed. Run the first set of commands in Running Your First Test for that. After that, activate the virtual environment in which teuthology is installed.

  3. Run the teuthology-suite command:

    teuthology-suite -v -m smithi -c wip-devname-feature-x -s fs -p 110 --filter "cephfs-shell"
    Following are the options used in above command with their meanings -
    -v

    verbose

    -m

    machine name

    -c

    branch name, the branch that was pushed on ceph-ci

    -s

    test-suite name

    -p

    higher the number, lower the priority of the job

    --filter

    filter tests in given suite that needs to run, the arg to filter should be the test you want to run

Note

The priority number present in the command above is just a placeholder. It might be highly inappropriate for the jobs you may want to trigger. See Testing Priority section to pick a priority number.

Note

Don’t skip passing a priority number, the default value is 1000 which way too high; the job probably might never run.

  1. Wait for the tests to run. teuthology-suite prints a link to the Pulpito page created for the tests triggered.

Other frequently used/useful options are -d (or --distro), --distroversion, --filter-out, --timeout, flavor, -rerun, -l (for limiting number of jobs) , -n (for how many times job would run) and -e (for email notifications). Run teuthology-suite --help to read description of these and every other options available.

Testing QA changes (without re-building binaires)

While writing a PR you might need to test your PR repeatedly using teuthology. If you are making non-QA changes, you need to follow the standard process of triggering builds, waiting for it to finish and then triggering tests and wait for the result. But if changes you made are purely changes in qa/, you don’t need rebuild the binaries. Instead you can test binaries built for the ceph-ci branch and instruct teuthology-suite command to use a separate branch for running tests. The separate branch can be passed to the command by using --suite-repo and --suite-branch. Pass the link to the GitHub fork where your PR branch exists to the first option and pass the PR branch name to the second option.

For example, if you want to make changes in qa/ after testing branch-x (of which has ceph-ci branch is wip-username-branch-x) by running following command:

teuthology-suite -v -m smithi -c wip-username-branch-x -s fs -p 50 --filter cephfs-shell

You can make the modifications locally, update the PR branch and then trigger tests from your PR branch as follows:

teuthology-suite -v -m smithi -c wip-username-branch-x -s fs -p 50 --filter cephfs-shell --suite-repo https://github.com/username/ceph --suite-branch branch-x

You can verify if the tests were run using this branch by looking at values for the keys suite_branch, suite_repo and suite_sha1 in the job config printed at the very beginning of the teuthology job.

About Suites and Filters

See Suites Inventory for a list of suites of integration tests present right now. Alternatively, each directory under qa/suites in Ceph repository is an integration test suite, so looking within that directory to decide an appropriate argument for -s also works.

For picking an argument for --filter, look within qa/suites/<suite-name>/<subsuite-name>/tasks to get keywords for filtering tests. Each YAML file in there can trigger a bunch of tests; using the name of the file, without the extension part of the file name, as an argument to the --filter will trigger those tests. For example, the sample command above uses cephfs-shell since there’s a file named cephfs-shell.yaml in qa/suites/fs/basic_functional/tasks/. In case, the file name doesn’t hint what bunch of tests it would trigger, look at the contents of the file for modules attribute. For cephfs-shell.yaml the modules attribute is tasks.cephfs.test_cephfs_shell which means it’ll trigger all tests in qa/tasks/cephfs/test_cephfs_shell.py.

Killing Tests

Sometimes a teuthology job might not complete running for several minutes or even hours after tests that were trigged have completed running and other times wrong set of tests can be triggered is filter wasn’t chosen carefully. To save resource it’s better to termniate such a job. Following is the command to terminate a job:

teuthology-kill -r teuthology-2019-12-10_05:00:03-smoke-master-testing-basic-smithi

Let’s call the argument passed to -r as test ID. It can be found easily in the link to the Pulpito page for the tests you triggered. For example, for the above test ID, the link is - http://pulpito.front.sepia.ceph.com/teuthology-2019-12-10_05:00:03-smoke-master-testing-basic-smithi/

Re-running Tests

Pass --rerun option, with test ID as an argument to it, to teuthology-suite command:

teuthology-suite -v -m smithi -c wip-rishabh-fs-test_cephfs_shell-fix -p 50 --rerun teuthology-2019-12-10_05:00:03-smoke-master-testing-basic-smithi

The meaning of rest of the options is already covered in Triggering Tests section.

Teuthology Archives

Once the tests have finished running, the log for the job can be obtained by clicking on job ID at the Pulpito page for your tests. It’s more convenient to download the log and then view it rather than viewing it in an internet browser since these logs can easily be upto size of 1 GB. What’s much more easier is to log in to the teuthology machine again (teuthology.front.sepia.ceph.com), and access the following path:

/ceph/teuthology-archive/<test-id>/<job-id>/teuthology.log

For example, for above test ID path is:

/ceph/teuthology-archive/teuthology-2019-12-10_05:00:03-smoke-master-testing-basic-smithi/4588482/teuthology.log

This way the log remotely can be viewed remotely without having to wait too much.

Naming the ceph-ci branch

There are no hard conventions (except for the case of stable branch; see next paragraph) for how the branch pushed on ceph-ci is named. But, to make builds and tests easily identitifiable on Shaman and Pulpito respectively, prepend it with your name. For example branch feature-x can be named wip-yourname-feature-x while pushing on ceph-ci.

In case you are using one of the stable branches (e.g. nautilis, mimic, etc.), include the name of that stable branch in your ceph-ci branch name. For example, feature-x PR branch should be named as wip-feature-x-nautilus. This is not just a matter of convention but this, more essentially, builds your branch in the correct environment.

Delete the branch from ceph-ci, once it’s not required anymore. If you are logged in at GitHub, all your branches on ceph-ci can be easily found here - https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ci/branches.