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<!-- Please use this template while reporting a bug and provide as much info as possible. Not doing so may result in your bug not being addressed in a timely manner. Thanks! If the matter is security related, please disclose it privately via --What happened: On running kubetest with external storage driver option with driver name "", encountered error of flag redefinition. The issue happens because: As part of this patch , a flag is defined for number of inline volumes. The driver name is used to construct the flag name. Thus, when running tests on an externally provided driver (in this instance the Persistent Disk CSI driver) with driver name "", a redefinition error happens since the ephemeral test suite code path is executed once for and once for External PD CSI driver. [example run command: kubetest --test --check-version-skew=false --testargs="-- --storage.testdriver=/path/to/gcp-compute-persistent-disk-csi-driver/test/k8s-integration/config/test-" Test config looks something like this: { StorageClass: FromFile: ... SnapshotClass: FromFile: ... DriverInfo: Name: ... } ] What you expected to happen: Test should run and succeed. How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): Use an test-, with driver name as "", and run kubetest with focus as "External.Storage" kubetest --test --check-version-skew=false --testargs="-- --storage.testdriver=/path/to/gcp-compute-persistent-disk-csi-driver/test/k8s-integration/config/test-" Anything else we need to know?: Possible fixes options: , (), when using a FromFile or FromExistingClassName option to pass in SnapshotClass information, pickup the provisioner name from the class definition's "driver" field. the flag which has a dependency on driver names. (need to understand the impact of removing the command line flag) Environment: Kubernetes version (use ): latest master Cloud provider or hardware configuration: OS (e.g: ): Kernel (e.g. ): Install tools: Network plugin and version (if this is a network-related bug): Others:
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/assign Do you know why this parameter is set as a flag and not a part of the ?
To me, is something that defines what the driver can do. This flag is about what the test does and not related to driver capabilities. Making it depend on the driver name was probably unnecessary. A single flag for all incarnations of that test probably would have been sufficient and thus better ("keep it simple, stupid!" - the stupid being me here...). It also shouldn't have used the global flag set. In other words:
/reopen I don't really want to get into the habit of defining per test case flags in There are thousands of test cases and it would be unwieldy to discover all the flags available and understand how to use them. What factors would influence how many volumes you want the test to create? Can we just hardcode a value in the test case?
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The defaults must be usable so that users do not need to understand them. The flags can be discovered with - not ideal, but at least they show up. That's effectively what the default value for the flag does. This is a way to to run a custom stress test: the default is so low, it just tests that the feature works. By increasing it as high as the underlying CSI driver and storage system supports, one can run this (and potentially other tests) as part of stress testing. Not sure whether it's worth supporting this. It seemed worthwhile at the time, and better than hard-coding just one value.
The bigger issue is: how do users of the test suite actually learn what tests they run and what those tests do? I suspect the answer to that is simply "read the source", in which case they'll also find the knobs that can be used to tweak testing.
Since increasing the parameter depends on the csi driver/storage system, then I would recommending splitting this up into 2 test cases: 1) test basic functionality 2) test stress scenario, and add the parameter to the driver test config similarly to other stress tests:
At least for the storage tests, because we are intending that they be run externally, having all the tunables in one place I think makes it easier to discover.
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I saw that the flag was removed in , I think we can close this one if doesn't apply anymore
/close The flag was removed in #diff-20517805986874f69e3254bed93d59996d5a6fd571a70ab8120736ded5aafa24
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text: parameters[k] = v.(string) } } <ins> if snapshotProvider, ok := snapshotClass.Object["driver"]; ok { snapshotter = snapshotProvider.(string) } </ins> } return testsuites.GetSnapshotClass(snapshotter, parameters, ns, suffix)