Jenkins Information

ICN project leverages Akriano Jenkins to run CI jobs. But we run the CD jobs in our private Jenkins cluster. We have the following Jenkins slave nodes joined Akriano Jenkins. ICN CI jobs are supposed to be scheduled to our slave nodes by label icn-dev.

To add more Jenkins slave nodes, please follow the akriano jenkins guide

To setup private jenkins, please refer to the README.md under icn/ci/

The private jenkins cluster is setup on pod14-node2. We can visit the jenkins with the node ip address: http://10.10.140.22:8080/

Test Architecture

We support the following  jobs

CI job for golang

• triggered by gerrit patch creation/update. 
• Run a make command, which builds golang pkg
• Post +1/-1 for gerrit patch if the build succeeds/fails

CI job for shell

• triggered by gerrit patch creation/update. 
• Run a make command, which runs bashate to check shell scripts
• Post +1/-1 for gerrit patch if the check passes/fails

CD job for test

• triggered daily automatically
• Run a make command, which creates VM(s) and deploys ICN components on the VM(s)
• Send daily report to mailing list

CI jobs detail

CD job detail

We have the following steps for CD job:

1. On our private Jenkins node, we provision a VM by vagrant. A Vagrantfile which defines the VMs properties is needed. We can define many VM properties in the Vagrantfile:
   
   • VM hostname
   • VM memory 64G, cpu 16, disk 300GB
2. Login to the VM and run 'make verifier' which installs the components in the VM
3. We destroy the VM as the last step of the job

CI Testing<WIP>:

Please explain, how you CI testing for your project, Not more than 3 points

Bashate:

bashate test is to check the shell scripts code style. i.e. Trailing Whitespace. We find all files with suffix '.sh' and run bashate against the files. './cmd/bpa-operator/vendor/' directory is excluded.

BPA Operator: Itohan Ukponmwan ramamani yeleswarapu

BPA Rest Agent: Enyinna Ochulor Tingjie Chen

CD Verifier<WIP>:

Please explain, how you verifiy your deployment, Not more than 3 points

Metal3: Kuralamudhan Ramakrishnan

BPA Operator: Itohan Ukponmwan 

BPA Operator - Virtlet VM Provisioning

• Virtlet VM provisioning is tested as part of the 'verify_nestedk8s' testcase. K8s is first launched with Virtlet using KuD scripts after the prerequisite packages are installed.
• Next, BPA operator and multicloud-k8s docker images are built and BPA operator scripts including the provisioning_crd are deployed. Then, the Virtlet VM E2E script is launched which does the following:
• It creates a new flannel network definition for assigning mac address to VMs, creates test Virtlet VM, creates a provisioning CR for the same mac address. BPA operator then provisions the Virtlet VM by initiating the KuD installer job which installs K8s in the Virtlet VM.

BPA Rest Agent: Enyinna Ochulor Tingjie Chen

Kubernetes Deployment (KuD):

KuD has test cases to verify if the add-ons are running correctly. All the test cases can be found in tests directory in the multicloud-k8s project. For each of these, we bring up the deployment that is specific to the addon, perform add-on specific actions on the pod related to the deployment

Multus:

• Multus CNI is a container network interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods. This is accomplished by Multus acting as a "meta-plugin", a CNI plugin that can call multiple other CNI plugins.
• A 'NetworkAttachmentDefinition' is used to set up the network attachment, i.e. secondary interface for the pod. 
• A pod is created with requesting specific network annotations with bridge CNI to create multiple interfaces. When the pod is up and running, we can attach to it to check the network interfaces on it by running ip a command

Virtlet:

• Virtlet is a Kubernetes runtime server which allows you to run VM workloads, based on QCOW2 images.
• We create a Virtlet VM pod-spec file adhering to the standards for virtlet to create a VM in a K8S env. 
• The pod spec file is applied to bring up Virtlet deployment and make sure it is running. We attach to the pod and test to make sure the VM is running fine by connecting to it and checking details. 

OVN4NFV: 

• We use the Multus CNI container to create multiple ovn interfaces using OVN.
• After the pod is up and running we will be able to attach to the pod and check for multiple interfaces created inside the container. 

Node feature Discovery

• Node feature discovery for Kubernetes detects hardware features available on each node in a Kubernetes cluster and advertises those features using node labels.
• Create a pod with specific label information in the case the pods are scheduled only on nodes whose Major Kernal version is 3 and above. Since the NFD Master and worker Daemonset is already running, the master has all the label information about the nodes which is collected by the worker.
• If the O.S version matches, the PoD will be scheduled and up. Otherwise, the Pod will be in a pending state in case there are no nodes with matching labels that are requested by the pod

SRIOV

• The SRIOV network device plugin is Kubernetes device plugin for discovering and advertising SRIOV network virtual functions (VFs) in a Kubernetes host. 
• We first determine which hosts are SRIOV capable and install the drivers on them and run the DaemonSet and register Network attachment definition
• On an SRIOV capable hosts, we can get the resources for the node before we run the pod. When we run the test case, there is a request for a VF from the pod, therefore the number of resources for the node is increased.

SDWAN controller:

• Create SDWAN CNF and a normal pod with additional interfaces created by OVN CNI plugin, and verify ping is workable between these 2 pods through the OVN interfaces
• Disable Allow-Ping rule of SDWAN CNF through Command Rest API call, then verify ping is not work between these 2 pods through the OVN interfaces
• Enable Allow-Ping rule of SDWAN CNF through Command Rest API call, then verify ping is workable again between these 2 pods through the OVN interfaces

CI logs: 

The gerrit comments contains the CI log url. All the CI logs are under this folder https://logs.akraino.org/production/vex-yul-akraino-jenkins-prod-1/

CD Logs:

https://logs.akraino.org/intel/ICN_CD_logs/

Patches for Test

bashate verify job:

• https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/c/ci-management/+/1794
• https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/c/icn/+/1795