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[gsoc] Investigate/implement container-based backend

Added by EDiGiacinto over 7 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Feature requests
Target version:
QA (public, currently private due to #173521) - future
Start date:
2017-07-04
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

As spoken briefly with Richard, i couldn't find an already open issue regarding containers support in the backend, so opening a new one.

User story

As a tester, i want to be able to test containers and validating images before going further down in the pipelines. (e.g. testing images before being used for deploying container-based services in multi-machine environments)

acceptance criteria

  • AC1: transparent implementation to support different types of containerization technologies ( docker, rkt, lxc .. )
  • AC2: do not have to increase tweakings or options to overwhelm the tester
  • AC3: try to provide maximum compatibility on features that we use already in VM-based backends
  • ...

tasks

  • Investigate required changes to the codebase and look into cpan if there are modules that we could use
  • Provide basic support to handle containers operations in the backend side
  • Add support for the docker backend (as we use it in some of our products)
  • ...

further details

Investigate if makes sense implement a backend for containers.
In case it is, we should discuss also what container-based backend(s) we would like to add support to.

A backend capable of directly testing containers could be useful since we provide container images, and might add business value as well ( as CaaSP is using docker ).


Related issues 2 (0 open2 closed)

Related to openQA Project (public) - action #30074: Use container as a product under testRejectedokurz2018-01-09

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Related to openQA Tests (public) - action #12804: [qe-core][functional][sles][opensuse][installation] Do more easy to debug tests by using chroot installations … or containers :)Rejected2016-07-21

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