Use KIND (Kubernetes in Docker) in CI/CD reliably

I’ve been working with OPA recently and using KIND to test things out. This works really nicely but when I started using the same approach in CI I saw some errors.

Digging into things you can see that the nodes of the KIND cluster aren’t “READY” when the CLI finishes up so you need a bit of extra bash foo to make the process wait on the READY status.

This monster line of bash does the trick:

JSONPATH='{range .items[*]}{@.metadata.name}:{range @.status.conditions[*]}{@.type}={@.status};{end}{end}'; until kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath="$JSONPATH" 2>&1 | grep -q "Ready=True"; do sleep 5; echo "--------> waiting for cluster node to be available"; done

In this example I’m also deploying a K8s operator this needs be to up and running before I can run the integration tests , a similar bit of bash ensures that’s true too:

JSONPATH='{range .items[*]}{@.metadata.name}:{range @.status.conditions[*]}{@.type}={@.status};{end}{end}'; until kubectl -n opa -lapp=opa get pods -o jsonpath="$JSONPATH" 2>&1 | grep -q "Ready=True"; do sleep 5;echo "--------> waiting for operator to be available"; kubectl get pods -n opa; done

If you put those all together I can have a nice make file which:

  1. Deploys a KIND clsuter
  2. Wait for it to work
  3. Deploys Open Policy Agent
  4. Waits for it to be running
  5. Runs my python integration tests

All by running make kind-integration :)

Full file:

https://gist.github.com/lawrencegripper/c7b2d6324afcdaf2ebe2f9a2be56be7a