End to End Testing in Kubernetes – Part II

By Samir Behara on June 26, 2018 • ( 4 )

In this blog post, I will show you how to write End to End Tests in Kubernetes to verify the various objects in a Kubernetes cluster like Pods, Services, Nodes, Namespaces etc.

I would highly recommend you to read my previous blog about End to End Testing in Kubernetes for context setting prior to looking at the below set of tests –

End to End Testing in Kubernetes

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If you want to interact with the Kubernetes API, there is no need to write your own library. You can leverage a number of available client libraries for this purpose. I am using the Python API Client for Kubernetes to interact with the cluster in Cloud.

Official Python client library for Kubernetes –
https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python

Documentation for Kubernetes API Endpoints –
https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/tree/master/kubernetes#documentation-for-api-endpoints

The below tests will verify the pod count and service count in the ‘default’ namespace —

	def test_to_verify_pod_count_in_default_namespace(k8s_client):
	podcount = len(k8s_client.list_namespaced_pod(namespace='default').items)

	print(podcount)
	assert(podcount > 0)


	def test_to_verify_service_count_in_default_namespace(k8s_client):
	svccount = len(k8s_client.list_namespaced_service(namespace='default').items)

	print(svccount)
	assert(svccount > 0)

view raw Test to verify Pod and Service Count.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The below test will iterate through all the namespaces in the K8s cluster and list it down –

	def test_to_list_all_namespaces(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_namespace()

	nscount = len(ret.items)
	print(nscount)
	assert(nscount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the namespaces in the K8s cluster and list it down
	for item in ret.items:
	print(item.metadata.name)

view raw Test to list all namespaces.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The below set of tests will iterate through all the endpoints, services, nodes and pods in the K8s cluster and list them down —

	def test_to_list_endpoints_for_all_namespaces(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_endpoints_for_all_namespaces()

	epcount = len(ret.items)
	print(epcount)
	assert(epcount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the endpoints in the K8s cluster and list it down
	for item in ret.items:
	print("%s\t%s\t" % (item.metadata.name, item.metadata.namespace))


	def test_to_list_services_for_all_namespaces(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_service_for_all_namespaces()

	print("\n")
	svccount = len(ret.items)
	print(svccount)
	assert(svccount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the services in the K8s cluster and list down all the services and respective namespace
	for item in ret.items:
	print("%s\t%s\t" % (item.metadata.name, item.metadata.namespace))


	def test_to_list_nodes_for_all_namespaces(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_node()

	nodecount = len(ret.items)
	print(nodecount)
	assert(nodecount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the nodes in the K8s cluster and list it down
	for item in ret.items:
	print("%s\t" % item.metadata.name)

	def test_to_list_pods_for_all_namespaces(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_pod_for_all_namespaces()

	podcount = len(ret.items)
	print(podcount)
	assert(podcount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the pods in the K8s cluster and list down the pod name and respective namespace
	for item in ret.items:
	print("%s\t%s\t" % (item.metadata.name, item.metadata.namespace))

view raw Test to list nodes services endpoints pods for namespaces.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The below tests lists pods and services for a specific namespace —

	def test_to_list_pods_for_specific_namespace(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_namespaced_pod("default")

	podcount = len(ret.items)
	print(podcount)
	assert(podcount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the pods in the default namespace and list down the pod name and respective namespace
	for item in ret.items:
	print("%s\t%s\t" % (item.metadata.name, item.metadata.namespace))


	def test_to_list_services_for_specific_namespace(k8s_client):
	ret = k8s_client.list_namespaced_service("default")

	svccount = len(ret.items)
	print(svccount)
	assert(svccount > 0)

	# Iterate through all the services in the default namespace and list down the service name and respective namespace
	for item in ret.items:
	print("%s\t%s\t" % (item.metadata.name, item.metadata.namespace))

view raw Test to list pods and services for specific namespace.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Using the Python API Client we saw how to interact with the K8s components in the cluster hosted in AWS or Azure. By running a set of End to End Tests we can easily determine the health of the cluster. We have just scratched the surface with these E2E Tests — you can improvise on top of these tests to interact with any K8s object in the cluster and verify functionalities.