ci-infra

This repository contains configuration files for the testing and automation needs of the Gardener project.

CI Job Management

Gardener uses a prow instance at prow.gardener.cloud to handle CI and automation for parts of the project. Everyone can participate in a self-service PR-based workflow, where changes are automatically deployed after they have been reviewed and merged. All job configs are located in config/jobs.

TestGrid

The results of prow jobs can be visualized in TestGrid in dashboards at testgrid.k8s.io/gardener. We don't run our own TestGrid installation, but include our dashboards into the TestGrid installation of Kubernetes.

We configured dashboards for each of our repositories where we run tests with prow. You find them at config/testgrids/config.yaml.

When the desired dashboard is defined, you can add your prow job to a dashboard annotating them like in the example below.

annotations:
  testgrid-dashboards: dashboard-name      # [Required] A dashboard already defined in gardener-testgrid.yaml.
  testgrid-tab-name: some-short-name       # [Optional] A shorter name for the tab. If omitted, just uses the job name.
  testgrid-alert-email: me@me.com          # [Optional] An alert email that will be applied to the tab created in the first dashboard specified in testgrid-dashboards.
  description: Words about your job.       # [Optional] A description of your job. If omitted, only the job name is used.
  testgrid-num-columns-recent: "10"        # [Optional] The number of runs in a row that can be omitted before the run is considered stale. The default value is 10.
  testgrid-num-failures-to-alert: "3"      # [Optional] The number of continuous failures before sending an email. The default value is 3.
  testgrid-days-of-results: "15"           # [Optional] The number of days for which the results are visible. The default value is 15.
  testgrid-alert-stale-results-hours: "12" # [Optional] The number of hours that pass with no results after which the email is sent. The default value is 12.

For postsubmit and periodic prow jobs there will be a test-group created automatically. If you don't want to add them to TestGrid please use this annotation to disable creation of a test-group. For presubmit prow jobs no test-group will be created unless you annotate them as in the previous example.

annotations:
  testgrid-create-test-group: "false"

You can test your TestGrid configuration locally with the ./hack/check-testgrid-config.sh. Please open a PR for ci-infra repository for your new configuration. When it is merged the new configuration will be pushed to gs://gardener-prow/testgrid/config automatically and your jobs will become visible at testgrid.k8s.io/gardener soon.

Combined kubeconfig for prow clusters and Gardener project

The scripts from this repository rely on a combined kubeconfig. It contains two contexts for the prow clusters gardener-prow-trusted, gardener-prow-build and one for the Gardener project the clusters are created in. Please setup your local kubeconfig file by using the hack/setup-prow-kubeconfig.sh script. Afterwards, you find it here:

export KUBECONFIG=~/.gardener-prow/kubeconfig/kubeconfig--gardener--prow-combined.yaml

The kubeconfig contains absolute paths. Thus, it won't work anymore, if you move it to a different location.

How to setup

The following commands assume you are using the combined kubeconfig generated in the previous section. When you create new clusters the configuration of gardener-prow-trusted, gardener-prow-build contexts will be incomplete in the beginning. They are completed in step 2 when the clusters have been created.

1. Create the prow cluster and prow workload cluster.

   Please copy cluster spec from prow config GCS bucket to your /tmp folder and run these commands.

   kubectl config use-context garden-cluster
   kubectl apply -f /tmp/clusters/prow-trusted.yaml
   kubectl apply -f /tmp/clusters/prow-build.yaml

2. Complete your combined kubeconfig with the data of the clusters created in the previous step

3. Create the prow namespace in the prow cluster:

   kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-trusted
   kubectl apply --server-side=true -f config/prow/cluster/prow_namespace.yaml

4. Create the test-pods namespace in the workload/build cluster:

   kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-build
   kubectl apply --server-side=true -f config/prow/cluster/base/test-pods_namespace.yaml

5. Create the required secrets (mainly in the prow cluster):

   • the secrets for GCP service accounts can be created by our credentials rotation script ./hack/rotate-secrets.sh. Please see Rotate credentials section for more details.
   • github-app (according to test-infra guide)
   • github-token (Personal Access Token for @gardener-ci-robot with scopes public_repo, read:org, repo:status, needs to be present in the prow and test-pods namespace of the prow cluster)
   • github (Personal Access Token for @gardener-ci-robot with repo scope, needs to be present in renovate namespace of the prow cluster)
   • github-oauth-config (according to test-infra guide)
   • hmac-token

     kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-trusted
     kubectl -n prow create secret generic hmac-token --from-literal=hmac=$(openssl rand -hex 20)

   • oauth-cookie-secret

     kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-trusted
     kubectl -n prow create secret generic oauth-cookie-secret --from-literal=secret=$(openssl rand -base64 32)

   • oauth2-proxy

     kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-trusted
     kubectl -n oauth2-proxy create secret generic oauth2-proxy \
     --from-literal=cookie-secret=$(openssl rand -base64 32) \
     --from-literal=client-id=<Github OAuth2 Proxy App client-id> \
     --from-literal=client-secret=<Github OAuth2 Proxy App client-secret>

   • kubeconfig (ref test-infra guide, needs to be present in the prow and test-pods namespace of the prow-trusted cluster)
     • add two contexts: the prow cluster as gardener-prow-trusted and the build/workload cluster as gardener-prow-build
     • gardener-prow-trusted context should use the in-cluster ServiceAccount token and CA file, so that all Prow components are bound to their respective RBAC roles
     • gardener-prow-build needs to be bound to the cluster-admin role. The gencred utility can be used to easily create a ServiceAccount and ClusterRoleBinding and retrieve the ServiceAccount token.
     • Template:

       apiVersion: v1
       kind: Config
       current-context: gardener-prow-build # default cluster
       contexts:
       - name: gardener-prow-trusted
         context:
           cluster: gardener-prow-trusted
           user: gardener-prow-trusted-token
       - name: gardener-prow-build
         context:
           cluster: gardener-prow-build
           user: gardener-prow-build-token
       clusters:
       - name: gardener-prow-trusted
         cluster: # in-cluster config
           server: 'https://kubernetes.default.svc'
           certificate-authority: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
       - name: gardener-prow-build
         cluster:
           server: <<workload-cluster-api-server-address>>
           certificate-authority-data: <<base64-encoded-CA-bundle>>
       users:
       - name: gardener-prow-trusted-token
         user:
           tokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token # use in-cluster config
       - name: gardener-prow-build-token
         user:
           token: <<service-account-token-with-cluster-admin-permissions>> # generated via gencred

   • slack-token for the Gardener Prow Slack App in the Gardener Project workspace
     • follow the test-infra guide for setting up the Slack App
     • this is used by crier to report job status changes (e.g., test failures) to dedicated Slack channels
     • generally, failures/errors of periodic, postsubmit and batch jobs are reported to #test-failures
     • job status changes concerning the prow infrastructure itself (e.g., deploy and autobump jobs) are reported to #prow-alerts
     • this token is also used by hook (slack plugin) to post merge warnings to #prow-alerts
   • alertmanager-slack: URLs for incoming webhooks for the #gardener-prow-alerts channel in the SAP Slack workspace
     • alertmanager instances in both clusters use an incoming webhook to post monitoring alerts to Slack
     • different webhooks are used for the two instances
     • for both clusters (prow-trusted and prow-build) do the following:
       • follow https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks and set up a webhook for posting to #gardener-prow-alerts
       • create a secret in the monitoring namespace of the respective cluster with the Webhook URL under key api_url
   • grafana-admin (admin user password)

     kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-trusted
     kubectl -n monitoring create secret generic grafana-admin --from-literal=admin_password=$(openssl rand -base64 32)
     kubectl config use-context gardener-prow-build
     kubectl -n monitoring create secret generic grafana-admin --from-literal=admin_password=$(openssl rand -base64 32)

6. Deploy Prow components. The initial deployment has to be done manually, later on changes to the components will be automatically deployed once merged into master.

   ./config/prow/deploy.sh

7. Bootstrap Prow configuration/jobs. This initial configuration has to be done manually, later on changes to configuration and jobs will be automatically applied by the updateconfig plugin once merged into master. The bootstrap tool does not work with the kubectl OIDC auth plugin. Thus, for the initial bootstrapping run, you will need a kubeconfig with a token for the trusted cluster.

   ./hack/boostrap-config.sh

The getting started guide in kubernetes/test-infra is a good starting point for further investigations.

Monitoring

A monitoring stack based on kube-prometheus plus test-infra monitoring capabilities is installed in the prow clusters:

• prometheus-operator
• alertmanager (cluster with 3 replicas for HA)
• prometheus (2 replicas for HA)
• blackbox-exporter
• kube-state-metrics
• grafana

Alertmanager will send Slack alerts in #gardener-prow-alerts in the SAP Slack workspace.

Grafana is available publicly at https://monitoring.prow.gardener.cloud (trusted cluster) and https://monitoring-build.prow.gardener.cloud (build cluster).

Renovate

Renovate 🤖 is working in repositories which are enabled in prow.

You can enable it by creating a renovate.json5 file in the respective repository. Please check the renovate docs for the configuration options.

Changing Renovate Configuration

Renovate can be difficult and tiresome to configure correctly. Follow these two tips to validate your configuration changes before opening/merging PRs!

Both require a local installation of renovate, e.g.:

brew install renovate

Config Validation

Use the config validator to ensure you have no syntax or schema issues in your configuration file:

$ renovate-config-validator
 INFO: Validating .github/renovate.json5
 INFO: Config validated successfully

config/jobs/ci-infra/ci-infra-presubmits.yaml has a reusable prow job definition that runs renovate-config-validator as a presubmit job.

Local Dry-Run

You can perform a dry-run of renovate by using the local platform. It will output a lot of logs which indicate what dependencies were detected, what updates are available, etc. without actually opening/updating PRs:

$ LOG_LEVEL=debug GITHUB_API_GITHUB_COM_TOKEN=$(cat ~/path/to/my-personal-access-token) renovate --detect-host-rules-from-env --platform=local

Renovate requires a token for repository lookups on GitHub. You can use any personal access token on your account.