Testing Farm release 2023-10.1
Testing Farm release 2023-10.1 is deployed 🎉.
Highlights
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The initial version of the multihost testing is now available. The testing is opt-in and has some limitations. See our documentation for details. Our results viewer has been updated to properly display the test environments and results. Happy experimenting! (TFT-2165)
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Request cancellation in Testing Farm is now possible. Use the
DELETE
method on a request or thetesting-farm cancel
CLI command to cancel a request easily. (TFT-1696) -
The Staging API is now accessible via api.stage.testing-farm.io, offering a preview of our API reimplementation using the FastAPI framework. (TFT-2237)
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The order of artifact installation can now be altered, addressing some corner cases when installing various builds simultaneously. (TFT-2172)
Bugfixes
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A bug that prevented the cleanup of resources during pipeline timeouts has been fixed. This was a RHIVOS blocker. (TFT-2312)
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Repositories on Beaker boxes have been unified with standard testing images, such as rhel-CRB, etc. (TFT-2228)
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An appropriate error message is now returned if a user tries to install a
repository
artifact that is too large. (TFT-2169) -
The stability of Beaker provisioning for ppc64 has been improved. (TFT-2235)
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Documented reserved directories used by Testing Farm in the test environment. (TFT-1473)
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Non-printable characters are now properly XML-encoded in jUnit XML output. (TFT-2046)
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The transition to sentry-python for error reporting on the Sentry platform from our workers is complete. (TFT-2227)
Packages
List of important packages bundled in the worker image.
❯ podman run --entrypoint rpm quay.io/testing-farm/worker:2023-10.1 -q tmt standard-test-roles ansible-core podman beakerlib | sort | uniq
ansible-core-2.14.11-1.fc38.noarch
beakerlib-1.29.3-2.fc38.noarch
podman-4.7.2-1.fc38.x86_64
standard-test-roles-4.11-2.fc38.noarch
tmt-1.28.2-1.fc38.noarch
Statistics
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Testing Farm has passed 700k requests per year \o/
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Average queue time 30.4s on Public ranch, 53.5s on Red Hat ranch from the start of October.