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Development Guide

If you would like to contribute to the KubeFed project, this guide will help you get started.

Prerequisites

Binaries

The KubeFed deployment depends on kubebuilder, etcd, kubectl, and kube-apiserver >= v1.13 being installed in the path. The kubebuilder (v1.0.8 as of this writing) release packages all of these dependencies together.

These binaries can be installed via the download-binaries.sh script, which downloads them to ./bin:

./scripts/download-binaries.sh
export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:${PATH}

kubernetes

The KubeFed deployment requires kubernetes version >= 1.13. To see a detailed list of binaries required, see the prerequisites section in the user guide

Prerequisites

docker

This repo requires docker >= 1.12 to do the docker build work.

Set up your Docker environment.

Adding a new API type

As per the docs for kubebuilder, bootstrapping a new KubeFed API type can be accomplished as follows:

# Bootstrap and commit a new type
$ kubebuilder create api --group <your-group> --version v1alpha1 --kind <your-kind>
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'Bootstrapped a new api resource <your-group>.kubefed.io./v1alpha1/<your-kind>'

# Modify and commit the bootstrapped type
vi pkg/apis/<your-group>/v1alpha1/<your-kind>_types.go
git commit -a -m 'Added fields to <your-kind>'

# Update the generated code and commit
make generate
git add .
git commit -m 'Updated generated code'

The generated code will need to be updated whenever the code for a type is modified. Care should be taken to separate generated from non-generated code in the commit history.

Running E2E Tests

The KubeFed E2E tests must be executed against a KubeFed control plane with one or more registered clusters. Optionally, the KubeFed controllers can be run in-memory to enable debugging.

Many of the tests validate CRUD operations for each of the federated types enabled by default:

  1. the objects are created in the target clusters.
  2. a label update is reflected in the objects stored in the target clusters.
  3. a placement update for the object is reflected in the target clusters.
  4. deleted resources are removed from the target clusters.

The read operation is implicit.

Setup Clusters and Deploy the KubeFed Control Plane

In order to run E2E tests, you first need to:

  1. Create clusters
  2. Deploy the KubeFed control plane

Once completed, return here for instructions on running the e2e tests.

Running Tests

Follow the below instructions to run E2E tests against a KubeFed control plane.

To run E2E tests for all types:

cd test/e2e
go test -args -kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig -test.v

To run E2E tests for a single type:

cd test/e2e
go test -args -kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig -test.v \
    --ginkgo.focus='Federated "secrets"'

It may be helpful to use the delve debugger to gain insight into the components involved in the test:

cd test/e2e
dlv test -- -kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig -test.v \
    --ginkgo.focus='Federated "secrets"'

Running Tests With In-Memory Controllers

Running the KubeFed controllers in-memory for a test run allows the controllers to be targeted by a debugger (e.g. delve) or the golang race detector. The prerequisite for this mode is scaling down the KubeFed controller manager:

  1. Reduce the kubefed-controller-manager deployment replicas to 0. This way we can launch the necessary KubeFed controllers ourselves via the test binary.

    kubectl scale deployments kubefed-controller-manager -n kube-federation-system --replicas=0

    Once you've reduced the replicas to 0, you should see the kubefed-controller-manager deployment update to show 0 pods running:

    kubectl -n kube-federation-system get deployment.apps kubefed-controller-manager
NAME                            DESIRED   CURRENT   AGE
kubefed-controller-manager   0         0         14s

  2. Run tests.

    cd test/e2e
go test -race -args -kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig -in-memory-controllers=true \
    --v=4 -test.v --ginkgo.focus='Federated "secrets"'

    Additionally, you can run delve to debug the test:

    cd test/e2e
dlv test -- -kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig -in-memory-controllers=true \
    -v=4 -test.v --ginkgo.focus='Federated "secrets"'

Simulating large numbers of clusters

The Simulated Scale e2e test supports exploring control plane behavior with an arbitrary number of registered clusters. Sync controller behavior is modified by the test to allow each simulated cluster to be represented as a namespace in the host cluster.

To run the test, deploy a namespace-scoped control plane, scale it down as per the section on running tests with in-memory controllers, and execute the following:

cd test/e2e
go test -args -kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig -ginkgo.focus=Scale -scale-test=true -scale-cluster-count=<number>

Cleanup

Follow the cleanup instructions in the user guide.

Embedding static files using go-bindata

This project is using go-bindata tool for embedding static files into its e2e test-suite to enable the creation of a self-contained e2e binary.

You can install this utility using the download-binaries.sh script.

Use make generate to regenerate the bindata.go file in case the bundled content changes. It's necessary to follow this step to ensure that e2e test-suite passes the CI build.

Please refer to this script for more information.

Test Your Changes

In order to test your changes on your kubernetes cluster, you'll need to build an image and a deployment config.

NOTE: When KubeFed CRDs are changed, you need to run:

make generate

This step ensures that the CRD resources in helm chart are synced. Ensure binaries from kubebuilder for etcd and kube-apiserver are in the path (see prerequisites).

Automated Deployment

If you just want to have this automated, then run the following command specifying your own image. This assumes you've used the steps documented above to set up two kind or minikube clusters (cluster1 and cluster2):

./scripts/deploy-kubefed.sh <containerregistry>/<username>/kubefed:test cluster2

NOTE: You can list multiple joining cluster names in the above command. Also, please make sure the joining cluster name(s) provided matches the joining cluster context from your kubeconfig. This will already be the case if you used the steps documented above to create your clusters.

As a convenience, when deploying the kubefed control plane on a kind cluster without pushing the Docker images, you can also run:

make deploy.kind

This command can be run multiple times to redeploy kubefed when any code changes have been made.

Test Latest Master Changes (canary)

In order to test the latest master changes (tagged as canary) on your kubernetes cluster, you'll need to generate a config that specifies the correct image and generated CRDs. To do that, run the following command:

make generate
./scripts/deploy-kubefed.sh <containerregistry>/<username>/kubefed:canary cluster2

Test Latest Stable Version (latest)

In order to test the latest stable released version (tagged as latest) on your kubernetes cluster, follow the Helm Chart Deployment instructions from the user guide.

Updating Document

If you are going to add some new sections for the document, make sure to update the table of contents. This can be done manually or with doctoc.