oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/propolis
PHD: support use of multiple guest OS artifacts in a single run
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 270
- Forks
- 42
- Avg merge
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Description
PHD expects a --default-guest-artifact option that specifies the default guest OS image to use for tests that don't choose a distinct disk image themselves. This means that if someone writes a change and wants to test it manually against a full suite of guest OSes, they'll have to run PHD multiple times (or script those executions, or what-have-you). It would be nice to have an option to fold together runs with multiple guest OSes.
The simplest way to do this is probably to accept multiple guest OSes on the command line and have the runner add all the replications when it converts the test inventory into a collection of tests to execute.
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Research direction
Start at PHD's handling of the --default-guest-artifact option and follow how the runner converts the test inventory into executable tests. Trace how one guest OS artifact becomes replications, then determine how multiple command-line artifacts should be represented and combined. Done means a single run can execute the inventory against multiple guest OSes without requiring separate PHD invocations.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100