DEV-IT NGA Status UpdateDavid Ko

2016/3/30

● New Automation execution platform, based on the concept of infrastructure as

code

○ Manageable, API-driven

○ Scalable

○ Distributed

○ Extensible

○ Auto-recovery

○ Portable

○ Easy deployable

Next Generation Automation - NGA

Current Automation● Automation team (DEV-IT/QA-Auto) is only source of test case automation

● Automation team is only knowledge owner of test case execution & environment

Customers(ex: EET, Branch owner, ….)Automation teams

Problem: too many communications, closed info & resource Issues

So… Latency & unexpected result

Current Automation, Cont.● This is an example for communication of automation execution request, needless

communication and operation… again and again

● Save time to focus on much meaningful stuff

● Everyone can write & run test case everywhere through different deployment ways

● Everyone can setup their own NGA platform or use DEV-IT hosting service to run test

cases

Future Automation

Architecture - Microservice

app-api app-master

app-test

app-frontend

app-resource

Post Commit SanityDeveloper

message queue message queue...

OpenStack

AP

vAP

Radius

AD/LDAP

vUE

Mac mini

SZ

app-test

service discovery

app-agent

app-report

Architecture - Microservice, Cont.● Each application/service is microservice built by Container

● Use service discovery to manager/load balance service usage

● Suitable to extend and scale out services

Where we are - Progress● Development flow is mature

○ Git, Jenkins/CI

○ SonarQube for test coverage

○ Container deployment for functional testing

● REST API is ready to run test cases

○ Post commit sanity will use API to integrate, no need to manual operation

● NGA services deployment

○ Deployment solutions for different use cases

● Test Case execution on NGA

○ Modify DEV-IT test case to run on NGA

○ Support end-to-end or config only testing

○ Run on all platforms, SCG200/SZ100/vSZ-H/vSZ-E

○ IPv4 support first, IPv6 depends on OpenStack function

Where we are - Progress, Cont.● GUI is under construction

○ Front-end application operates NGA through REST API

● vAP & vUE evaluation, but not suitable for NGA for now

○ Can not work well on OpenStack due to DHCP IP known issue

API REST API is able to do below tasks

● Create test project

● Select test case

● Create test job

● Run test job to trigger test build

● Get test build report

● Manage resource

● Check service status

● ....

API, Cont REST API is able to do below tasks

● Download test report

● Check test build status

● Check test build console

● ….

Deployment● Single host (all-in-one) - Done

○ For testing & personal use

○ One command to deploy

● Single master/agent + multiple tests - Verifying

○ For scalable test execution

● Single master, multiple agents + multiple agents - To Do

○ Besides scalable test execution, scalable different style test beds

Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker

1 2 3

Docker Swarm

Demo1. Automatically redeploy NGA Microservices

2. Check services available

3. Create test project

4. Select test cases and create test job

5. Run test job to create test build

6. Check test build status

7. Get test report

What is Next● Add more status check API for frontend application

● Implement GUI for better operation experience

● Setup NGA production platform for DEV-IT hosting service

● Migrate Post Commit sanity to NGA

● Share deployment solution to user to install single-host environment to run by

themselve

● ….

● Detailed schedule and plan will be delivered by Daniel & Eva

Thank You