$ export GOPATH=$HOME/work
Git
A recent Go distribution (>=1.8)
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You should be able to develop Minishift on Linux, macOS or Windows. The Windows operating system might require additional steps or have some limitations. |
We highly recommend to setup a default Go workspace. Even though it might require an adjustment in your work processes, the goal is to have a single workspace for all Go development.
Create the following directories in the base directory you want to use, such as $HOME/work:
Contains executable commands
Contains package objects
Contains Go source files
Add the path of the root workspace directory to the GOPATH environment variable.
For example:
$ export GOPATH=$HOME/work
Add the workspace bin directory to the PATH environment variable:
$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
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On Windows operating systems, you use the UI or a shell-specific approach to set environment variables. For PowerShell, see About Environment Variables. |
Get the Minishift sources from GitHub:
$ cd $GOPATH/src $ git clone https://github.com/minishift/minishift.git github.com/minishift/minishift
You can use any editor you want. However, most of the core maintainers of Minishift use IntelliJ IDEA with the latest Go plug-in. This IDE indexes your whole workspace and allows for easy navigation of the sources, and also integrates with the Go debugger Delve.
For instructions on setting up IDEA, see Setting up Go on IntelliJ.
Minishift uses Dep for dependency management.
Before you can use Dep you need to download and install it from GitHub:
$ go get github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
This will install the dep binary into $GOPATH/bin.
Make sure to use Dep version 0.3.2 or later.
After a clean checkout or after a make clean, there won’t be a vendor directory containing the needed Minishift dependencies.
To install the dependencies, you can run the following command:
$ make vendor
This command calls and runs Dep. Alternatively, you can run the Dep command directly.
$ dep ensure -v
If your work requires a change to the dependencies, you need to update the Dep configuration.
Edit Gopkg.toml to change the dependencies as needed.
Delete Gopkg.lock and re-create the vendor directory by running make vendor.
Dep will recognize that there is no lock file and recalculate the required dependencies.
Check-in the updated Gopkg.toml and Gopkg.lock files.
Test that everything still compiles with the new lock file in place by running make clean && make.
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The Dep cache located under $GOPATH/pkg/dep.
If you see any Dep errors during |
Run the following command to create a platform-specific binary and copy it to $GOPATH/bin.
$ make
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Start the OpenShift cluster with your built minishift binary:
$ minishift start
This command will run Minishift from $GOPATH/bin/minishift, if you set up your Go workspace as described in the Creating the Go workspace section.
You can also execute the binaries directly from the out directory of the checkout. Depending on your operating system, the binary is in one of the following directories:
out/darwin-amd64
out/linux-amd64
out/windows-amd64
For more Minishift commands and flags, see the Minishift command reference documentation.
Unit tests run on Travis before the code is merged. To run tests during the development cycle:
$ make test
To run specific tests, use one of the following methods:
Run all tests on a single package.
# Eg: go test -v ./cmd/minikube/cmd $ go test -v <relative path of package>
Run a single test on a single package.
$ go test -v <relative path of package> -run <Testcase Name>
Run tests that match a pattern.
$go test -v <relative path of package> -run "Test<Regex pattern to match tests>"
For more information about test options, run the go test --help command and review the documentation.
Integration tests utilize Godog, which uses Gherkin (Cucumber) to define sets of test cases. These test cases are known as features in Gherkin terminology. Features are located in the test/integration/features directory. Features for Minishift follow these basic concepts:
Features which follow a happy path of user. For example, basic.feature or coolstore.feature.
Features which focuses on specific fields of Minishift functionality or individual commands. For example, proxy.feature or cmd-version.feature.
By default, tests are run against the binary created by make build ($GOPATH/bin/minishift).
To run the basic test, use the following command:
$ make integration
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To run all of the tests, use the following command:
$ make integration_all
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There is also a |
The default targets integration and integration_all can be further customized using several parameters to provide more flexibility.
The MINISHIFT_BINARY parameter can be used to run integration tests against a minishift binary located in a different directory:
$ make integration MINISHIFT_BINARY=<path-to-custom-binary>
The TIMEOUT parameter can be used to override the default timeout of 3600s.
To run all the tests with a timeout of 7200s, use the following command:
$ make integration_all TIMEOUT=7200s
The RUN_BEFORE_FEATURE parameter specifies Minishift commands to be run before each feature.
This provides the ability to run integration tests against a Minishift instance which is not in its default state.
When multiple commands are specified, they must be delimited by a semicolon.
For example, tests can be run against a stopped Minishift instance with the image caching option turned on by running the following:
$ make integration_all RUN_BEFORE_FEATURE="start; stop; config set image-caching true"
To test Minishift with a non-default oc binary you can use the COPY_OC_FROM parameter.
This parameter specifies the path to the oc binary which will be copied into the $MINISHIFT_HOME folder before each feature run.
Note that the oc binary must be contained in the same directory structure which Minishift uses for the storage of oc binaries, for example: <version>/<platform>/oc(.exe).
For example, to test Minishift with locally stored oc v3.7.23 run:
$ make integration COPY_OC_FROM=<path-to-oc-directory>/v3.7.23/<linux or windows or darwin>/oc RUN_BEFORE_FEATURE="config set openshift-version v3.7.23"
The majority of Minishift integration tests pass command line arguments directly to the minishift or oc binaries via Go’s os/exec package.
However, some integration tests first start persistent instance of the shell to pass commands into later, for example: When user starts shell instance on host machine.
Due to persistency of the shell instance all changes done in it will be present until its closure, for example, changed environmental variables.
This allows testing of commands which are dependent on the shell they are being executed in.
The steps using this approach have the shell keyword in their definition, for example: When executing "minishift oc-env" in host shell succeeds.
TEST_WITH_SPECIFIED_SHELL is an optional parameter.
If nothing is passed with TEST_WITH_SPECIFIED_SHELL, then the shell type is automatically determined.
By default, the shell will be PowerShell on Windows, Bash on macOS and Linux.
The TEST_WITH_SPECIFIED_SHELL parameter can be used to run the tests with different shells.
To run the tests using the Windows Command Prompt, for example, run make integration_all TEST_WITH_SPECIFIED_SHELL=cmd.
The TEST_WITH_SPECIFIED_SHELL parameter supports the powershell, cmd, bash, tcsh and zsh options.
The GODOG_OPTS parameter specifies additional arguments for the Godog runner.
The following options are available:
Use tags to ensure that scenarios and features containing at least one of the selected tags are executed.
Use paths to define paths to different feature files or folders containing feature files.
This can be used to run feature files outside of the test/integration/features folder.
Use format to change the format of Godog’s output.
For example, you can set the format to progress instead of the default pretty.
Set stop-on-failure to true to stop integration tests on failure.
Set no-colors to true to disable ANSI colorization of Godog’s output.
Set definitions to true to print all available step definitions.
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Passing any value via |
For example, to run integration tests on two specific feature files using only @basic and @openshift tags and without ANSI colors, the following command can be used:
$ make integration GODOG_OPTS="-paths ~/tests/custom.feature,~/my.feature -tags basic,openshift -no-colors true"
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Multiple values for a |
The integration test logs its progress directly into a console. This information is often enough to find and debug the reason for a failure.
However, for cases which require further investigation, the integration test also logs more detailed progress into a log file. This file is located at $GOPATH/github.com/minishift/minishift/out/test-results/integration_YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS.log.
Integration tests can be also used as a package outside of the Minishift repository.
You can import it as github.com/minishift/minishift/test/integration/testsuite.
As a starting point for your project you can copy and use the test/integration/integration_test.go file.
Its key parts are commented to help you to begin with the implementation.
Minishift adheres to the Go formatting guidelines. Code with incorrect formatting will fail the CI builds. You can check whether any of your files violate the guidelines with the following command:
$ make fmtcheck
You can correct the formatting errors yourself or instruct the violations to be corrected automatically with the following command:
$ make fmt
You can also check for common coding mistakes by using:
$ make vet
Similar to make fmtcheck, failures in make vet will fail the CI builds.
Each commit message must meet two requirements:
the commit subject is strictly less than 90 characters (GitHub ellipsis length).
the commit subject matches the format Issue #[0-9]+ .*, meaning each commit must reference an issue.
The Makefile contains a validate_commits target which can be used to verify these requirements:
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Currently, only Circle CI validates the commit message as part of the CI build. |
$ make validate_commits
When developing Minishift, it is encouraged to use Godoc to document the source code. You can find guidelines on how to use Godoc in this blog post. You can browse the Minishift Godoc documentation under https://godoc.org/github.com/minishift/minishift.