Using Microcks from Tekton

Microcks Tekton

The Tekton Pipelines project provides Kubernetes-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Microcks makes use of its CLI undercover and provides some Tasks and exemple Pipelines with the /tekton folder of this repository. It also makes usage of Microcks Service Account so it’s defintely worth the read ;-)

Tekton Task

The microcks-test-task.yaml resource holds a sample of a Tekton Task for testing with Microcks. You may remove default values for parameters or put your own here.

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: microcks-test
spec:
  params:
    - name: apiNameAndVersion
      type: string
      description: "<apiName:apiVersion>: Service to test reference. Exemple: 'Beer Catalog API:0.9'"
      default: "Beer Catalog API:0.9"
    - name: testEndpoint
      type: string
      description: "URL where is deployed implementation to test"
    - name: runner
      type: string
      description: "Test strategy (one of: HTTP, SOAP, SOAP_UI, POSTMAN, OPEN_API_SCHEMA, ASYNC_API_SCHEMA)"
      default: HTTP
    - name: microcksURL
      type: string
      description: "Microcks instance API endpoint"
    - name: keycloakClientId
      type: string
      description: "Keycloak Realm Service Account ClientId"
      default: microcks-serviceaccount
    - name: keycloakClientSecret
      type: string
      description: "Keycloak Realm Service Account ClientSecret"
      default: 7deb71e8-8c80-4376-95ad-00a399ee3ca1
    - name: waitFor
      type: string
      description: "Time to wait for test to finish (int + one of: milli, sec, min)"
      default: 5sec
    - name: operationsHeaders
      type: string
      description: "JSON that override some operations headers for the tests to launch"
      default: ""
  steps:
    - name: microcks-test
      image: microcks/microcks-cli:latest
      command:
        - /usr/bin/bash
      args:
        - '-c'
        - >-
          microcks-cli test '$(params.apiNameAndVersion)' $(params.testEndpoint) $(params.runner) \
            --microcksURL=$(params.microcksURL) --waitFor=$(params.waitFor) \
            --keycloakClientId=$(params.keycloakClientId) --keycloakClientSecret=$(params.keycloakClientSecret) \
            --insecure --operationsHeaders='$(params.operationsHeaders)'

You can just create this task within your namespace with:

$ kubectl apply -f microcks-test-task.yaml -n microcks-tekton

In case you have your Microcks installation between behind a TLS Ingress with custom certificate authority, you may have a look at the microcks-test-customcerts-task.yaml that refer to an existing secret for retrieving this certificate.

You should have previously created your secret using something like this:

$ kubectl create secret generic microcks-test-customcerts-secret --from-file=ca.crt=ca.crt

You may want to consider putting your keycloakClientId, keycloakClientSecret and optional customCaCerts into some Kubernetes Secrets. Consider the microcks-test-with-secret sample for that.

Executing a Task

Running a task can be done either by creating a TaskRun resource of through the tkn CLI tool. Both methods should provide the values for parameters of the microcks-testtask. Here below an example on running such a task:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  name: microcks-test-taskrun-beer-catalog
spec:
  taskRef:
    name: microcks-test
  params:
    - name: apiNameAndVersion
      value: "Beer Catalog API:0.9"
    - name: testEndpoint
      value: http://beer-catalog-impl-beer-catalog-dev.apps.144.76.24.92.nip.io/api/
    - name: runner
      value: POSTMAN
    - name: microcksURL
      value: http://microcks.apps.144.76.24.92.nip.io/api/
    - name: waitFor
      value: 12sec
    - name: keycloakClientId
      value: microcks-serviceaccount
    - name: keycloakClientSecret
      value: 34a49089-7566-45a0-88a6-112b297fd803
    - name: operationsHeaders
      value: |-
        {
          "globals": [
            {"name": "x-api-key", "values": "my-values"}
          ],
          "GET /beer": [
            {"name": "x-trace-id", "values": "xcvbnsdfghjklm"}
          ]
        }

Once you have adapted the parameter values to your own environment, you can just create the resource into your namespace:

$ kubectl apply -f microcks-test-taskrun.yaml -n microcks-tekton

The tkn CLI tool is very convenient for getting the logs of a Task run:

$ tkn taskrun logs  microcks-test-taskrun-beer-catalog
[microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd11fc9b625c0001b0e185" - success: false, inProgress: true 
[microcks-test] MicrocksTester waiting for 2 seconds before checking again or exiting.
[microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd11fc9b625c0001b0e185" - success: false, inProgress: true 
[microcks-test] MicrocksTester waiting for 2 seconds before checking again or exiting.
[microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd11fc9b625c0001b0e185" - success: true, inProgress: false

Tekton Pipeline

A Pipeline defines a list of Tasks to execute in order. The same variable substitution you used in TaskRun is also available here and you may create a specific pipeline like this:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name: microcks-pipeline-beer-catalog
spec:
  tasks:
    - name: microcks-test-beer-catalog
      taskRef:
        name: microcks-test
      params:
        - name: apiNameAndVersion
          value: "Beer Catalog API:0.9"
        - name: testEndpoint
          value: http://beer-catalog-impl-beer-catalog-dev.apps.144.76.24.92.nip.io/api/
        - name: runner
          value: POSTMAN
        - name: microcksURL
          value: http://microcks.apps.144.76.24.92.nip.io/api/
        - name: waitFor
          value: 12sec
        - name: keycloakClientId
          value: microcks-serviceaccount
        - name: keycloakClientSecret
          value: 34a49089-7566-45a0-88a6-112b297fd803
        - name: operationsHeaders
          value: |-
            {
              "globals": [
                {"name": "x-api-key", "values": "my-values"}
              ],
              "GET /beer": [
                {"name": "x-trace-id", "values": "xcvbnsdfghjklm"}
              ]
            }            
    - name: echo-hello-world
      taskRef:
        name: echo-hello-world
      runAfter:
        - microcks-test-beer-catalog

Once you have adapted the parameter values to your own environment, you can just create the resource into your namespace:

$ kubectl apply -f microcks-test-pipeline-beer-catalog.yaml -n microcks-tekton

Executing a Pipeline

Pipeline can be executed through a new PipelineRun resource creation or using the tkn CLI tool. This time we’re using the CLI tool to start a new pipeline:

$ tkn pipeline start microcks-pipeline-beer-catalog
Pipelinerun started: microcks-pipeline-beer-catalog-run-9b9lk
Showing logs...
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd3ee91466840001b5aa0b" - success: false, inProgress: true 
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksTester waiting for 2 seconds before checking again or exiting.
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd3ee91466840001b5aa0b" - success: false, inProgress: true 
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksTester waiting for 2 seconds before checking again or exiting.
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd3ee91466840001b5aa0b" - success: true, inProgress: false 

[echo-hello-world : echo] hello world

tkn can also be used later to retrieve the logs for the pipeline execution:

$ tkn pipeline logs microcks-pipeline-beer-catalog
? Select pipelinerun : microcks-pipeline-beer-catalog-run-9b9lk started 17 hours ago
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd3ee91466840001b5aa0b" - success: false, inProgress: true 
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksTester waiting for 2 seconds before checking again or exiting.
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd3ee91466840001b5aa0b" - success: false, inProgress: true 
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksTester waiting for 2 seconds before checking again or exiting.
[microcks-test-beer-catalog : microcks-test] MicrocksClient got status for test "5dcd3ee91466840001b5aa0b" - success: true, inProgress: false 

[echo-hello-world : echo] hello world

Using the OpenShift Pipelines implementation of Tekton, you may easily get all this information at hands within the Developer Console of your OpenShift cluster. Here’s belo a capture of our pipeline execution:

tekton-pipeline-run

With the view to access the logs of this execution:

tekton-pipeline-logs

“Using Microcks from Tekton” was last updated: June 30, 2021
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