Flocker includes client installation tests and a tool for running them in Docker containers.
The client tests are called like this:
admin/run-client-tests <options>
The admin/run-client-tests script has several options:
--distribution <distribution>¶Specifies the distribution on which to run the installation test.
--branch <branch>¶Specifies the branch repository from which to install packages. If this is not specified, packages will be installed from the release repository.
--flocker-version <version>¶Specifies the version of Flocker to install from the selected repository. If this is not specified, the most recent version available in the repository will be installed.
Note
The build server merges forward before building packages, except on release branches. If you want to run the client tests against a branch in development, you probably only want to specify the branch.
--build-server <buildserver>¶Specifies the base URL of the build server to install from. This is probably only useful when testing changes to the build server.
--pipUse pip to install the client, rather than using packages.
The wheel files, used for pip installations, are only generated for releases.
Hence, for pip installations, the --branch value is ignored, and any non-release --flocker-version value is modified to the previous release.
To see the supported values for each option, run:
admin/run-client-tests --help
Sometimes it is useful to manually test CLIs and their installation instructions on various platforms.
In order to test on OS X you must find someone who has a Mac computer and ask them to spin up an OS X Virtual Machine to manually test CLIs and their installation.
To test on various Linux distributions, it is possible to create a Docker container.
For example, choose a Docker image from the Docker Hub, and run either of the following commands to start it:
docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash
or:
docker run -i -t fedora:20 /bin/bash
This will likely allow you to test commands as a root user.
If you want to test as a non-root user, create a new user which has the ability to use sudo.