E2E Tests

The test directory contains E2E tests and test applications. The tests assume that Argo CD services are installed into argocd-e2e namespace or cluster in current context. A throw-away namespace argocd-e2e*** is created prior to the execution of the tests. The throw-away namespace is used as a target namespace for test applications.

The /test/e2e/testdata directory contains various Argo CD applications. Before test execution, the directory is copied into /tmp/argo-e2e*** temp directory (configurable by ARGOCD_E2E_DIR) and used in tests as a Git repository via file url: file:///tmp/argo-e2e***.

[!NOTE] You might get an error such as unable to ls-remote HEAD on repository: failed to list refs: repository not found when querying the local repository exposed through the e2e server running in a container. This is often caused by /tmp directoring sharing protection. You can configure a different directory with ARGOCD_E2E_DIR, or disable the directory sharing protection.

Rancher Desktop Volume Sharing

To do enable /tmp sharing, add the following to ~/Library/Application\ Support/rancher-desktop/lima/_config/override.yaml and restart Rancher Desktop:
yaml
mounts:
  - location: /private/tmp
    writable: true

Running Tests Locally

With virtualized chain

Start the e2e version make start-e2e
Run the tests: make test-e2e

With local chain

Start the e2e version make start-e2e-local
Run the tests: make test-e2e-local

Observing tests results

You can observe the tests by using the UI http://localhost:4000/applications with username "admin" and password "password".

Configuration of E2E Tests execution

The Makefile's start-e2e target starts instances of ArgoCD on your local machine, of which the most will require a network listener. If, for any reason, your machine already has network services listening on the same ports, then the e2e tests will not run. You can derive from the defaults by setting the following environment variables before you run make start-e2e:

ARGOCD_E2E_APISERVER_PORT: Listener port for argocd-server (default: 8080)
ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT: Listener port for argocd-reposerver (default: 8081)
ARGOCD_E2E_DEX_PORT: Listener port for dex (default: 5556)
ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT: Listener port for redis (default: 6379)
ARGOCD_E2E_YARN_CMD: Command to use for starting the UI via Yarn (default: yarn)
ARGOCD_E2E_DIR: Local path to the repository to use for ephemeral test data

If you have changed the port for argocd-server, be sure to also set ARGOCD_SERVER environment variable to point to that port, e.g. export ARGOCD_SERVER=localhost:8888 before running make test-e2e so that the test will communicate to the correct server component.

Test Isolation

Some effort has been made to balance test isolation with speed. Tests are isolated as follows as each test gets:

A random 5 character ID.
A unique Git repository containing the testdata in /tmp/argo-e2e/${id}.
A namespace argocd-e2e-ns-${id}.
A primary name for the app argocd-e2e-${id}.

Run only a subset of tests

Running all tests locally is a time-consuming process. To run only a subset of tests, you can set the TEST_MODULE environment variable. For example, to run only the OCI tests, you can set the variable as follows: make TEST_MODULE=./test/e2e/oci_test.go test-e2e-local

If you want to get a more fine-grained control over which tests to run, you can also try make TEST_FLAGS="-run <TEST_METHOD_NAME_REGEXP>" test-e2e-local For individual tests you can run them using the IDE run test feature

Troubleshooting

Tests fails to delete argocd-e2e-ns-* namespaces.

This maybe due to the metrics server, run this:

bash

kubectl api-resources

If it exits with status code 1, run:

bash

kubectl delete apiservice v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io

Remove /spec/finalizers from the namespace

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kubectl edit ns argocd-e2e-ns-*