Project: Operator Framework (App Definition and Development / Application Definition & Image Build)
File: kuttl-tests.md

title: Writing Kuttl Scorecard Tests weight: 50 This guide outlines the steps which can be followed to implement scorecard tests using the project and specifically the scorecard kuttl test image. Scorecard users can include kuttl tests within their operator bundles as follows: ``` $ tree ./bundle ./bundle manifests cache.example.commemcachedscrd.yaml memcached-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml metadata annotations.yaml tests scorecard config.yaml kuttl kuttl-test.yaml list-pods 00-assert.yaml 00-pod.yaml list-other 00-assert.yaml 00-pod.yaml ``` `bundle/` - Contains bundle manifests and metadata under test. `bundle/tests/scorecard/config.yaml` - Configuration yaml to define and run scorecard tests. `bundle/tests/scorecard/kuttl` - Contains tests written for kuttl to execute `bundle/tests/scorecard/kuttl/kuttl-test.yaml` - Contains the kuttl configuration, it is here that you would add any kuttl specific configuration settings that you might require. `bundle/tests/scorecard/kuttl/list-pods` - Contains a kuttl test case `bundle/tests/scorecard/kuttl/list-pods/00-assert.yaml` - Contains a kuttl test case assert `bundle/tests/scorecard/kuttl/list-pods/00-pod.yaml` - Contains a kuttl test case step `bundle/tests/scorecard/kuttl/list-other` - Contains another kuttl test case When the scorecard kuttl binary is executed, it will process all the test cases under the scorecard/kuttl directory within the bundle contents. In the scorecard configuration file, you might have the following definition of what the selector `suite=kuttlsuite` will translate to: ```yaml stages: tests: image: quay.io/operator-framework/scorecard-test-kuttl:v2.0.0 labels: suite: kuttlsuite test: kuttltest1 ``` This test configuration will execute the scorecard-test-kuttl image which executes kuttl. The kuttl output is translated into scorecard compliant output which is displayed back to the end user along with any other test results. With the above kuttl test configuration, you can execute that kuttl test using scorecard as follows: ```bash operator-sdk scorecard <bundlediror_image> --selector=suite=kuttlsuite ``` The is documented within the kuttl project. An example of the kuttl configuration file is as follows: ```yaml apiVersion: kudo.dev/v1beta1 kind: TestSuite parallel: 4 timeout: 120 startControlPlane: false ``` The important fields to note here are: `startControlPlane` - Set to false since scorecard assumes it is running within a control plane already. Other kuttl configurations settings are available for more advanced kuttl use cases. See for more details on kuttl configuration. The kuttl test tool looks for tests to execute within the bundle following a naming convention as follows: ``` kuttl kuttl-test.yaml list-pods 00-assert.yaml

list-other 00-assert.yaml 00-pod.yaml ``` The important fields to note here are: `kuttl-test.yaml` - The name required for your kuttl configuration file. `list-pods, list-other` - The names given by you for these test cases. `00-assert.yaml` - The assert file is executed to test whether or not the test was successful, this assertion determines whether or not the test passed or failed. `00-pod.yaml` - The pod file is used to define what the test will create, in this case a pod will be created based on the manifest within 00-pod.yaml. The number in front of the assert and pod manifests is used to determine the order in which kuttl will execute the files. See for a detailed description of how kuttl tests are named and executed. The kuttl tests a user might write can vary widely in functionality and in particular require special Kubernetes RBAC privileges outside of what the default service account for a namespace might have. It is therefore very likely you will be required to run scorecard in a custom service account that holds the required RBAC permissions, like `config/rbac/service_account.yaml` in Go operator projects. You can specify a custom service account in scorecard as follows: ```console $ operator-sdk scorecard <bundlediror_image> --service-account=my-project-controller-manager ``` Also, you can specify a non-default namespace that scorecard will run in: ```console $ operator-sdk scorecard <bundlediror_image> --namespace=my-project-system ``` If you do not specify either of these flags, the default namespace and service account will be used by the scorecard to run test pods. It is worth noting that scorecard-test-kuttl specifies a namespace to the kubectl-kuttl command which causes kuttl to not create a namespace for each test. This might impact your kuttl tests in that you might need to perform resource cleanup in your tests instead of depending upon namespace deletion to perform that cleanup. Also of note is that in our example file, we add the `suppressLog: events` setting which means that kuttl will not log kubernetes events and thereby means you do not have to provide RBAC access for reading kubernetes events to the service account used to run kuttl tests.