Drive e2e-Framework Tests using Dagger

[vladimirvivien]

What do you want to see?

I came across Dagger and thought it would be a great tool to integrate with e2e-Framework tests. Dagger provides programmatic constructs to describe and implement build/publishing for CI/CD pipelines. Think of Dagger as a fancy/modern Makefile (instead you write your steps in languages like Go, Python, and Typescript).

There are minor overlaps between Dagger and e2e-Framework step functions. Both e2e-Framework steps functions and Dagger functions can be used to handle environment setup and teardowns. However, Dagger goes much further as it is designed for handling these steps. Dagger can

• Setup containerized environment
• Run unit tests (would trigger e2e-framework tests)
• Build code into containers
• Publish containers to repository

Proposal

• Write an example documentation that shows how to use Dagger to drive e2e-framework test
• Possibly create a default Dagger module, under third_party/dagger/modules that:
  • Setup test environment
  • Initialize Kind cluster
  • Launch test e2e-framework tests
  • Clean up
• Investigate better integration with Dagger

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