Testing

Running the test suite for dask-kubernetes doesn’t require an existing Kubernetes cluster but does require Docker, kubectl and helm.

You will also need to install the test dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements-test.txt

Tests are run using pytest:

$ pytest
============================================== test session starts ==============================================
platform darwin -- Python 3.8.8, pytest-6.2.2, py-1.10.0, pluggy-0.13.1 --
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: /Users/jtomlinson/Projects/dask/dask-kubernetes, configfile: setup.cfg
plugins: anyio-2.2.0, asyncio-0.14.0, kind-21.1.3
collected 64 items

...
================= 56 passed, 1 skipped, 6 xfailed, 1 xpassed, 53 warnings in 404.19s (0:06:44) ==================

Kind

To test dask-kubernetes against a real Kubernetes cluster we use the pytest-kind plugin.

Kind stands for Kubernetes in Docker and will create a full Kubernetes cluster within a single Docker container on your system. Kubernetes will then make use of the lower level containerd runtime to start additional containers, so your Kubernetes pods will not appear in your docker ps output.

By default we set the --keep-cluster flag in setup.cfg which means the Kubernetes container will persist between pytest runs to avoid creation/teardown time. Therefore you may want to manually remove the container when you are done working on dask-kubernetes:

$ docker rm pytest-kind-control-plane

When you run the tests for the first time a config file will be created called .pytest-kind/pytest-kind/kubeconfig which is used for authenticating with the Kubernetes cluster running in the container. If you wish to inspect the cluster yourself for debugging purposes you can set the environment variable KUBECONFIG to point to that file, then use kubectl or helm as normal:

$ export KUBECONFIG=.pytest-kind/pytest-kind/kubeconfig
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME                        STATUS   ROLES                  AGE   VERSION
pytest-kind-control-plane   Ready    control-plane,master   10m   v1.20.2
$ helm list
NAME    NAMESPACE       REVISION        UPDATED STATUS  CHART   APP VERSION

Docker image

Within the test suite there is a fixture which creates a Docker image called dask-kubernetes:dev from this Dockerfile. This image will be imported into the kind cluster and then be used in all Dask clusters created. This is the official Dask Docker image but with the very latest trunks of dask and distrubuted installed. It is recommended that you also have the latest development install of those projects in your local development environment too.

This image may go stale over time so you might want to periodically delete it to ensure it gets recreated with the latest code changes:

$ docker rmi dask-kubernetes:dev

Linting and formatting

To accept Pull Requests to dask-kubernetes we require that they pass black formatting and flake8 linting.

To save developer time we support using pre-commit which runs black and flake8 every time you attempt to locally commit code:

$ pip install pre-commit
$ pre-commit install