Running End-to-End Tests

cert-manager has an end-to-end test suite that verifies functionality against a real Kubernetes cluster.

This document explains how you can run the end-to-end tests yourself. This is useful when you have added or changed functionality in cert-manager and want to verify the software still works as expected.

Requirements

Currently, a number of tools must be installed on your machine in order to run the tests:

• bazel: As with all other development, Bazel is required to actually build the project as well as end-to-end test framework. Bazel will also retrieve appropriate versions of any other dependencies depending on what ‘target’ you choose to run.

• docker: We provision a whole Kubernetes cluster within Docker, and so an up to date version of Docker must be installed. The oldest Docker version we have tested is 17.09.

• kubectl: If you are running the tests on Linux, this step is technically not required. For non-Linux hosts (i.e. OSX), you will need to ensure you have a relatively new version of kubectl available on your PATH.

• An internet connection: tests require access to DNS, and optionally CloudFlare APIs (if a CloudFlare API token is provided).

Bazel, Docker and kubectl should be installed through your preferred means.

Run End-to-End Tests

You can run the end-to-end tests by executing the following:

$ ./hack/ci/run-e2e-kind.sh

The full suite may take up to 10 minutes to run. You can monitor output of this command to track progress.