Linux Cloud Test Project (LCTP)

Linux cloud test project (lctp) is to run Linux application or kernel test on all kinds of public and private cloud platform.

LCTP will provide you an easy way to setup Linux guest/instance/VM and build and maintain Linux image for you. All you need to care about is your test. Let LCTP finish the rest of things.

LCTP Roles

LCTP includes some roles to have different jobs done. You can group them together into ansible playbook to finish your work.

guest     Create guest/instance/VM in different cloud platform
image     Build image for different cloud platform
kernel    Download kernel, install kernel(rebooting included)
test      Run your test here
umb       Send UMB message

How to group rules into ansible playbook?

In cki case, I'd like to run LTP test on different kernels on different cloud platforms.

1. downloading kernel files: include kernel role with download action
2. create a guest/instance: include guest role with deploy action
3. update kernel on target guest/instance: include kernel role with install action
4. run LTP test: include test role with running LTP
5. report result: include umb role with action send
6. remove guest/instance after test: include guest role with remove action

Pretty easy!

LCTP Image

LCTP will build/update images for different cloud platforms weekly.

Images LCTP build and maintain

Cloud Platform / Linux Distro	Image Info
VMWare ESXi 6.7 / RHEL 8.3	vSphere template template-rhel-8-3-bios and template-rhel-8-3-efi
AWS EC2 AMI / RHEL 8.3	Region US East (N. Virginia) AMI ID is stored in Amazon Simple Systems Manager parameter with parameter name lctp_imagebuild_rhel-8-3

Image building kickstart files are for LTP test running. If you need more packages according to your test, feel free to send PR to kickstart files.

Image Building

Build ESXi image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e esxi_firmware=<bios or efi> -e cloud_platform=esxi build.yml

Build AWS EC2 AMI image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e cloud_platform=aws build.yml

LCTP configuration

You can set these environment variables to configure to run LCTP

TEST_OS         The OS to run the tests in.  Currently supported values:
                    "rhel-8-3"

VSPHERE_SERVER  The vSphere server hostname or IP address


VSPHERE_USERNAME  Username to login vSphere server

VSPHERE_PASSWORD  Password to login vSphere server

ESXI_HOST         ESXi host name or IP address

ESXI_DATACENTER   Datacenter name

ESXI_DATASTORE    Datastore name

AWS_ACCESS_KEY    AWS access key for AWS API authentication

AWS_SECRET_KEY    AWS secret key for AWS API authentication