[Beaker-devel] Upcoming feature: Running Test harness in a Docker Container

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at redhat.com
Fri Oct 3 07:43:55 UTC 2014


On 10/03/2014 04:22 PM, Amit Saha wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We recently merged a new feature into the "develop" branch which allows
> running the test harness in a Beaker container [1]. 
> 
> During the testing, I used the "restraint" [2] test harness instead of Beaker's
> default test harness, "beah". "restraint" is not available from Fedora's repos
> so the repository has to be added in the Job XML.

Very cool!

Perhaps it's also time to consider providing restraint in the Beaker
harness repos by default?

Bill also recently got it to the point of supporting multihost testing
(by way of integrating it with the relevant parts of STAF), so it's
becoming a viable replacement for beah for many more cases that don't
require beah's backwards compatibility with the legacy RHTS features.

Making restraint more readily accessible will also make things easier
for folks that want to test tasks directly from git, as well as write
their tests using autotest.

Cheers,
Nick.

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