Chapter 3. Installing the OpenStack Integration Test Suite


This section contains information about installing the OpenStack Integration Test Suite either with the director or with a manual installation.

3.1. Using the Director

Edit the undercloud.conf file, located in the home directory of the stack user. Ensure that the enable_tempest parameter is set to true:

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enable_tempest = true

If your undercloud is already installed, you can edit the undercloud.conf file and then run the openstack undercloud install command to include the extra configuration in the undercloud:

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$ openstack undercloud upgrade

You are now ready to install the tempest packages and plugins, described in Section 3.3, “Installing the OpenStack Integration Test Suite Packages”.

3.2. Preparing a Manual Installation

To run the OpenStack Integration Test Suite, you must first install the necessary packages and create a configuration file that informs the Integration Test Suite where to find the various OpenStack services and other testing behaviour switches.

To install the OpenStack Integration Test Suite, the following networks must be available within your Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment:

  • An external network which can provide floating IP
  • A private network

These networks must be connected through a router.

Create the private network. Specify the following options according to your network deployment:

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$ openstack network create <network_name> --share
$ openstack subnet create <subnet_name> --subnet-range <address/prefix> \
  --network <network_name>
$ openstack router create <router_name>
$ openstack router add subnet <router_name> <subnet_name>

Create the public network. Specify the following options according to your network deployment:

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$ openstack network create <network_name> --external \
  --provider-network-type flat
$ openstack subnet create <subnet_name> --subnet-range <address/prefix> \
  --gateway <default_gateway> --no-dhcp --network <network_name>
$ openstack router set <router_name> --external-gateway <public_network_name>

You are now ready to install and configure the OpenStack Integration Test Suite within the tempest virtual machine. For more information, see Section 3.3, “Installing the OpenStack Integration Test Suite Packages”.

3.3. Installing the OpenStack Integration Test Suite Packages

  1. Install the packages related to the OpenStack Integration Test Suite:

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    $ sudo yum -y install openstack-tempest

    This command does not install any tempest plugins. You must install the plugins manually, depending on your OpenStack installation.

  2. Install the appropriate tempest plugin for each component in your environment. For example, run the following command to install the keystone, horizon, neutron, cinder, and telemetry plugins:

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    $ sudo yum install python-keystone-tests-tempest python-horizon-tests-tempest python-neutron-tests-tempest python-cinder-tests-tempest python-telemetry-tests-tempest

    See Section 3.3.1, “List of Tempest Plug-in Packages” for a list of the tempest plugins for each OpenStack component.

Note

You can also install the openstack-tempest-all package. This package contains all of the tempest plugins.

3.3.1. List of Tempest Plug-in Packages

Run the following command to retrieve a list of tempest test packages:

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$ sudo yum search $(openstack service list -c Name -f value) 2>/dev/null | grep test | awk '{print $1}'
ComponentPackage Name

barbican

python-barbican-tests-tempest

cinder

python-cinder-tests-tempest

designate

python-designate-tests-tempest

ec2-api

python-ec2api-tests-tempest

heat

python-heat-tests-tempest

horizon

python-horizon-tests-tempest

ironic

python-ironic-tests-tempest

keystone

python-keystone-tests-tempest

kuryr

python-kuryr-tests-tempest

manila

python-manila-tests-tempest

mistral

python-mistral-tests-tempest

networking-bgvpn

python-networking-bgpvpn-tests-tempest

networking-l2gw

python-networking-l2gw-tests-tempest

neutron

python-neutron-tests-tempest

nova-join

python-novajoin-tests-tempest

octavia

python-octavia-tests-tempest

patrole

python-patrole-tests-tempest

sahara

python-sahara-tests-tempest

telemetry

python-telemetry-tests-tempest

tripleo-common

python-tripleo-common-tests-tempest

zaqar

python-zaqar-tests-tempest

Tempest test packages are specific to a Python version. For example, if your system uses Python 2, you must replace python- with python2- when installing the Tempest test packages.

Note

The python-telemetry-tests-tempest package contains plugins for aodh, panko, gnocchi, and ceilometer tests. The python-ironic-tests-tempest package contains plugins for ironic and ironic-inspector.

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