Interested in how we can most effectively test Kubernetes. We're interested specifically in making it easier for the community to run tests and contribute test results, to ensure Kubernetes is stable across a variety of cluster configurations and cloud providers.
The charter defines the scope and governance of the Testing Special Interest Group.
Joining the mailing list for the group will typically add invites for the following meetings to your calendar.
- Hydrophone Office Hours: Tuesdays at 13:00 PT (Pacific Time) (bi-weekly starting Tuesday April 16, 2024). Convert to your timezone.
- SIG Testing Bi-Weekly Meeting: Tuesdays at 10:00 PT (Pacific Time) (bi-weekly starting Tuesday August 13, 2019). Convert to your timezone.
The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.
- Brady Pratt (@jbpratt), Red Hat
- Michelle Shepardson (@michelle192837), Google
- Brian McQueen (@xmcqueen), LinkedIn
The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.
- Benjamin Elder (@BenTheElder), Google
- Alvaro Aleman (@alvaroaleman), Red Hat
- Antonio Ojea (@aojea), Google
- Cole Wagner (@cjwagner), Google
- Patrick Ohly (@pohly), Intel
- Erick Fejta (@fejta)
- Aaron Crickenberger (@spiffxp)
- Steve Kuznetsov (@stevekuznetsov)
- Timothy St. Clair (@timothysc)
- Slack: #sig-testing
- Mailing list
- Open Community Issues/PRs
- GitHub Teams:
- @kubernetes/sig-testing - General Discussion
- @kubernetes/sig-testing-pr-reviews - PR Reviews
- Steering Committee Liaison: Paco Xu 徐俊杰 (@pacoxu)
The following working groups are sponsored by sig-testing:
The following subprojects are owned by sig-testing:
Cloud provider for KIND clusters
Boskos is a resource manager service that handles different kinds of resources and transitions between different states. We use it on the Kubernetes project to manage pools of GCP projects for CI/CD.
An experimental e2e testing framework for Kubernetes clusters.
- Owners:
Hydrophone is a lightweight Kubernetes conformance tests runner
- Owners:
Kubernetes IN Docker. Run Kubernetes test clusters on your local machine using Docker containers as nodes.
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #kind
Kubetest2 is the framework for launching and running end-to-end tests on kubernetes. It is the next significant iteration of kubetest. We will be deprecating kubetest going forward.
Prow is a CI/CD system based on Kubernetes. See prow.k8s.io to see it in action for the Kubernetes project
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #prow
Home for SIG Testing discussion and documents.
- Owners:
Miscellaneous tools and configuration to run the testing infrastructure for the Kubernetes project
- Owners:
Welcome to TestGrid, a highly-configurable, interactive dashboard for viewing your test results in a grid! This hosts Kubernetes-related projects for TestGrid (currently, the new frontend). See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/testgrid for the main repository (currently, backend components).
- Owners:
[best-effort] The testing-commons subproject focuses on matters of code structure, layout, and execution of kubernetes/kubernetes test code. It is currently staffed on a best-effort basis; please bring discussions to the sig-testing slack channel or meeting. For historical context, please see the former testing-commons meeting agenda and archived testing-commons slack channel
- Owners:
| Title | Slides | Video | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| KubeCon NA 2018 - SIG Testing Intro | Slides | Video | @spiffxp, @stevekuznetsov |
| KubeCon NA 2018 - SIG Testing Deep Dive | Slides | Video | @cjwagner, @Katharine |
| KubeCon NA 2018 - Behind Your PR: How Kubernetes Uses Kubernetes to Run Kubernetes CI | Slides | Video | @BenTheElder, @krzyzacy |
| KubeCon China 2018 - Intro: SIG Testing | Slides | Video | @krzyzacy, @jessiezcc |
| KubeCon EU 2019 - SIG Testing Intro | Slides | Video | @cjwagner, @AishSundar |
| KubeCon EU 2019 - SIG Testing Deep Dive | TBD | Video | @BenTheElder, @munnerz |
| KubeCon EU 2019 - Testing Your K8s Apps with Kind | TBD | Video | @BenTheElder, @munnerz |
| KubeCon NA 2019 - SIG Testing Intro | Slides | Video | @chases2, @fejta |
| KubeCon NA 2022 - SIG Testing: Intro And Updates | TBD | Video | @BenTheElder, @michelle192837, @chaodaiG, @aojea |