Getting started
Currently, we don't distribute binaries, so you will have to build from source.
$ git clone https://github.com/testground/testground.git$ cd testground# compile Testground and all related dependencies$ make install
In order to use Testground, you need to have a running Testground daemon.
# start the Testground daemon, listening by default on localhost:8042# it processes commands received from the Testground client$ testground daemon
$TESTGROUND_HOME is an important directory. If not explicitly set, Testground uses $HOME/testground as a default. The layout of $TESTGROUND_HOME is as follows:
$TESTGROUND_HOME||__ plans >>> [c] contains test plans, can be git checkouts, symlinks to local dirs, or the source itself| |__ suite-a >>> test plans can be grouped in suites (which in turn can be nested); this enables you to host many test plans in a single repo / directory.| | |__ plan-1 >>> source of a test plan identified by suite-a/plan-1 (relative to $TESTGROUND_HOME/plans)| | |__ plan-2| |__ plan-3 >>> source of a test plan identified by plan-3 (relative to $TESTGROUND_HOME/plans)||__ sdks >>> [c] hosts the test development SDKs that the client knows about, so they can be used with the --link-sdk option.| |__ sdk-go||__ data >>> [d] data directory|__ outputs|__ work[c] = used client-side // [d] = used mostly daemon-side.
The first test plan that we will run is the network test plan and the ping-pong test case.
The ping-pong test case starts 2 test plan instances: one that listens on a TCP socket and another that dials it. The test case exercises the sync service as well as the traffic shaping and IP allocation functionality.
Configure $TESTGROUND_HOME and copy the example network test plan into the $TESTGROUND_HOME/plans directory.
# assuming you already started your Testground daemon (as instructed above)# there should be a `testground` directory in your home folder, i.e. `~/testground`## from your testground/testground Git checkout, run:$ testground plan import --from ./plans/network...created symlink /Users/raul/testground/plans/network -> ./plans/networkimported plans:network ping-pong
Run the networktestplan and the ping-pong test case with the docker:go builder and the local:docker runner.
Make sure you have testground daemon running in another terminal window.
$ testground run single \--plan=network \--testcase=ping-pong \--builder=docker:go \--runner=local:docker \--instances=2
During the first run the Testground daemon sets up the builder and runner environments. Subsequent runs will be faster.
You should see a flurry of activity, including measurements, messages, and runtime events. When the execution concludes, you will see something like:
[...]INFO run finished successfully {"req_id": "d570c53a", "plan": "network", "case": "ping-pong", "runner": "local:docker", "instances": 2}>>> Result:INFO finished run with ID: 5222e5df793b
In the local runners, all test plan run outputs and logs are stored at $TESTGROUND_HOME/data. Collect them into a bundle with the following command (replacing 5222e5df793b with the corresponding run ID):
$ testground collect --runner=local:docker 5222e5df793b[...]>>> Result:INFO created file: 5222e5df793b.tgz
Open the bundle and you will find the outputs from the test in there:
.env.tomlis a configuration file read by the Testground daemon and the Testground client on startup.
Testground tries to load this file from $TESTGROUND_HOME/.env.toml, where $TESTGROUND_HOME defaults to $HOME/testground by default.
You can change the default bind addresses by configuring daemon.listen and client.endpoint:
.env.toml[daemon]listen = ":8080"[client]endpoint = "localhost:8080"
When using a remote runner such as cluster:k8s, you should configure the default region:
.env.toml["aws"]region = "aws region, such as eu-central-1"
The AWS configuration is also used if you push Docker images to AWS ECR from the docker:go builder using the --build-cfg push_registry=true and --build-cfg registry_type=aws flags.
If you want to push Docker images from the docker:go builder to a DockerHub registry, you can configure it.
.env.toml["dockerhub"]repo = "repo to be used for testground"username = "username"access_token = "docker hub access token"
