Run Tests

Running tests through a central server

When client configuration exists, Jumpstarter will use the specified endpoint and token to authenticate with that server

Configuration

By default the libraries and CLI will look for a ~/.config/jumpstarter/client.yaml file, which contains the endpoint and token to authenticate with the Jumpstarter service.

Alternatively the client can receive the endpoint and token as environment variables:

export JUMPSTARTER_ENDPOINT=grpcs://jumpstarter.my-lab.com:1443
export JUMPSTARTER_TOKEN=dGhpc2lzYXRva2VuLTEyMzQxMjM0MTIzNEyMzQtc2Rxd3Jxd2VycXdlcnF3ZXJxd2VyLTEyMzQxMjM0MTIz

This is useful for CI/CD systems that inject the environment variables into the pipeline.

A custom location to the client configuration can also be passed using the following environment variable. This is useful in situations where there are multiple client configurations or in an environment when the config is mounted as a file.

export JUMPSTARTER_CONFIG=/etc/jumpstarter/my-client.yaml

Running tests locally (without a server)

When no client configuration or environment variables are set, the client will run in local mode and create an exporter instance to interact with the hardware.

Communication between the local client and exporter take place over a local socket: /var/run/jumpstarter.sock.

A local instance of the exporter can also be started using the following command:

systemctl start jumpstarter-exporter