openQA Project (public)

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 ).