WildFly Cloud Tests
by Kabir Khan
Hi,
These tests need some modernisation, and there are two things in my opinion
that need addressing.
*1 Space issues*
Recently we were running out of space when running these tests. James fixed
this by deleting the built WildFly, but when trying to resurrect an old PR
I had forgotten all about, we ran out of space again.
I believe the issue is that the way the tests work at the moment, which is
to:
* Start minikube with the registry
* Build all the test images
* Run all the tests
Essentially we end up building all the server images (different layers)
before running the tests, which takes space, and then each test installs
the image into minikube's registry. Also, some tests also install other
images (e.g postgres, strimzi) into the minikube instance.
My initial thought was that it would be good to build the server images
more on demand, rather than before the tests, and to be able to call
'docker system prune' now and again.
However, this does not take into account the minikube registry, which will
also accumulate a lot of images. It will at least become populated with the
test images, I am unsure if it also becomes populated with the images
pulled from elsewhere (i.e. postgres, strimzi etc)?
If `minikube addons disable registry` followed by a 'minikube addons enable
registry' deletes the registry contents from the disk, having a hook to do
that between each test could be something easy to look into. Does anyone
know if this is the case?
An alternative could be to have one job building wildfly, and uploading the
maven repository as an artifact, and then have separate jobs to run each
test (or perhaps set of tests requiring the same WildFly server image).
However, as this test is quite fiddly since it runs remotely, I'm not sure
how the reporting would look.
*2 Pull request trigger*
PRs in wildfly/wildfly execute a remote dispatch which results in the job
getting run in the wildfly-extras/wildfly-cloud-tests repository.
There is no reporting back from the wildfly-extras/wildfly-cloud-tests
repository about the run id of the resulting run.
What I did when I implemented this was to have the calling wildfly/wildfly
job wait and poll a branch in wildfly-extras/wildfly-cloud-tests for the
results of the job (IIRC I have a file with the triggering PR number). The
job on the other side would then write to this branch once the job is done.
Which is all quite ugly!
However, playing in other repositories, I found
https://www.kenmuse.com/blog/creating-github-checks/. Basically this would
result in
* the WIldFly pull request trigger completing immediately once it has done
the remote dispatch
* When the wildfly-cloud-tests job starts it will do a remote dispatch to
wildfly, which will get picked up by a workflow which can add a status
check on the PR conversation page saying remote testing in
wildfly-cloud-tests is in progres
* Once the wildfly-cloud-tests job is done, it will do another remote
dispatch to wildfly, which will update the status check with success/failure
So we'd have two checks in the section rather than the current one.
*Other ideas*
While writing the above, the following occurred to me.
The reason for the split is that the cloud test framework is quite
involved, and IMO does not belong in WildFly. So the remote dispatch
approach was used.
However, I wonder now if a saner approach would be to update the
wildfly-cloud-tests workflow to be reusable so they can be used from
WildFly?
That would allow the tests, test framework etc., and the workflow to
continue to live in wildfly-cloud-tests, while running in wildfly itself.
That should get rid of the remote dispatch issues, and make that side of
things simpler.
It does not address the space issue, but I think if this approach works, it
will be easier to deal with the space issue.
Any thoughts/insights are welcome.
Thanks,
Kabir
5 days
WildFly 34 Schedule
by Brian Stansberry
We're aiming to have WildFly 34.0.0.Final available on wildfly.org on
Thursday, October 10. The beta should be available on September 26.
Following are the key dates:
Wed Sep 18 -- Feature Freeze
Mon Sep 23 -- WF Core Beta release
Wed Sep 25 -- Tag/deploy 34 Beta
Thu Sep 26 -- Announce release
Wed Oct 2 -- Final PRs due
Mon Oct 7 -- WF Core Final release
Wed Oct 9 -- Tag/deploy 34 Final
Thu Oct 10 -- Release available on wildfly.org
Fri Oct 11 -- Post release deliverables
Best regards,
--
Brian Stansberry
Principal Architect, Red Hat JBoss EAP
WildFly Project Lead
He/Him/His
3 weeks, 2 days
WF 34 as the final release with SE 11 support?
by Brian Stansberry
WDYT?
We've been considering doing this for a long time, and I think it's only a
matter of time before important libraries needed for standard WF are only
compiled to SE 17.
I think WF 35 would be the absolute end of the line for SE 11 support in
std WF; after that Jakarta EE and probably our MP impls from smallrye will
force a move.
But I suspect something could easily happen during the WF 35 dev cycle that
forces a move, and I think we'd be better off announcing a plan to move on
around the team of WF 34 Beta, and then announcing WF 34 is the end for SE
11 when we release the Final.
Best regards,
--
Brian Stansberry
Principal Architect, Red Hat JBoss EAP
WildFly Project Lead
He/Him/His
3 weeks, 4 days
[ANNOUNCE] Rename jboss-dockerfiles/wildfly "master" branch to "main"
by Jeff Mesnil
Hi,
While preparing the WIldFly Dockerfile project for Hacktoberfest, I realized that it
was still using "master" for its default branch while all other WildFly projects have moved to using "main ».
I just applied the change today and if you have a fork of the repository https://github.com/jboss-dockerfiles/wildfly,
you will have to update your local repository to be able to pull from the new default branch:
—8<—
git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main
git remote set-head origin -a
—8<—
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Jeff
--
Jeff Mesnil
Engineer @ Red Hat
http://jmesnil.net/
1 month, 1 week
WildFly participation in Hacktoberfest 2024
by Ranabir Chakraborty
Hello everyone,
Exciting news! The WildFly community is ready for Hacktoberfest 2024!
Just like last year, we’re not just focusing on WildFly but also expanding
to other projects like Ansible Middleware, Elytron, WildFly Core, Undertow,
Narayana, Intersmash, PatternFly Java, WildFly GitHub bot, WildFly docker
images, and Berg. Hacktoberfest is the perfect opportunity to contribute to
Open Source, whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started.
Please go through the article[1] we have published on wildfly.org to get
more ideas. It also features an exciting variety of projects under the
WildFly umbrella. Whether your expertise lies in Java, Docker, Ansible or
TypeScript, there's a project for everyone to dive into.
Join us on this exciting journey of coding, learning, and giving back to
the community. Let's make October a month of growth and sharing in the
world of WildFly! [1]
https://www.wildfly.org/news/2024/09/23/Hacktoberfest-2024/
~
*Ranabir Chakraborty*
Senior Software Engineer (JBoss SET)
<https://red.ht/sig>
1 month, 1 week
