The existing code relied on the Go build cache to avoid
needless work when obtaining the tailscale binaries.
For non-obvious reasons, the binaries were getting re-linked
every time, which added 600ms or so on my machine to every test.
Instead, build the binaries exactly once, on demand.
This reduces the time to run 'go test -count=5' from 34s to 10s
on my machine.
Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
The tests build fine on other Unix's, they just can't run there.
But there is already a t.Skip by default, so `go test` ends up
working fine elsewhere and checks the code compiles.
Signed-off-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@tailscale.com>
This moves the distribution definitions into a maintainable hujson file
instead of just existing as constants in `distros.go`. Comments are
maintained from the inline definitions.
This uses jennifer[1] for hygenic source tree creation. This allows us
to generate a unique top-level test for each VM run. This should
hopefully help make the output of `go test` easier to read.
This also separates each test out into its own top-level test so that we
can better track the time that each distro takes. I really wish there
was a way to have the `test_codegen.go` file _always_ run as a part of
the compile process instead of having to rely on people remembering to
run `go generate`, but I am limited by my tools.
This will let us remove the `-distro-regex` flag and use `go test -run`
to pick which distros are run.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
To avoid the generated nixos disk images from becoming immune from the
GC, I delete the symlink to the nix store at the end of tests.
`t.Cleanup` runs at the end of a test. I changed this part of the code
to have a separate timer for how long it takes to run NixOS builds, but
I did that by using a subtest. This means that it was creating the NixOS
image, deleting its symlink and then trying to use that symlink to find
the resulting disk image, making the whole thing ineffectual.
This was a mistake. I am reverting this change made in
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/2360 to remove this layer of
subtesting.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
This adapts the existing in-process logcatcher from tstest/integration
into a public type and uses it on the side of testcontrol. This also
fixes a bug in the Alpine Linux OpenRC unit that makes every value in
`/etc/default/tailscaled` exported into tailscaled's environment, a-la
systemd [Service].EnviromentFile.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
This puts nix build logs on the filesystem so that we can debug them
later. This also disables nixos unstable until
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/128783 is fixed.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
Okay, so, at a high level testing NixOS is a lot different than
other distros due to NixOS' determinism. Normally NixOS wants packages to
be defined in either an overlay, a custom packageOverrides or even
yolo-inline as a part of the system configuration. This is going to have
us take a different approach compared to other distributions. The overall
plan here is as following:
1. make the binaries as normal
2. template in their paths as raw strings to the nixos system module
3. run `nixos-generators -f qcow -o $CACHE_DIR/tailscale/nixos/version -c generated-config.nix`
4. pass that to the steps that make the virtual machine
It doesn't really make sense for us to use a premade virtual machine image
for this as that will make it harder to deterministically create the image.
Nix commands generate a lot of output, so their output is hidden behind the
`-verbose-nix-output` flag.
This unfortunately makes this test suite have a hard dependency on
Nix/NixOS, however the test suite has only ever been run on NixOS (and I
am not sure if it runs on other distros at all), so this probably isn't too
big of an issue.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
