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TestLink

TestLink is a web-based test management system that facilitates software quality assurance. It is developed and maintained by Teamtest. The platform offers support for test cases, test suites, test plans, test projects and user management, as well as various reports and statistics.

TL;DR;

$ helm install testlink-x.x.x.tgz

Introduction

Bitnami charts for Helm are carefully engineered, actively maintained and are the quickest and easiest way to deploy containers on a Kubernetes cluster that are ready to handle production workloads.

This chart bootstraps a TestLink deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

It also packages the Bitnami MariaDB chart which is required for bootstrapping a MariaDB deployment for the database requirements of the TestLink application.

Get this chart

Download the latest release of the chart from the releases page.

Alternatively, clone the repo if you wish to use the development snapshot:

$ git clone https://github.com/bitnami/charts.git

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

$ helm install --name my-release testlink-x.x.x.tgz

Replace the x.x.x placeholder with the chart release version.

The command deploys TestLink on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The configuration section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip

: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Configuration

The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the TestLink chart and their default values.

Parameter Description Default
imageTag bitnami/testlink image tag TestLink image version
imagePullPolicy Image pull policy Always if imageTag is latest, else IfNotPresent
testlinkUsername Admin username user
testlinkPassword Admin user password bitnami
testlinkEmail Admin user email user@example.com
smtpEnable Enable SMTP false
smtpHost SMTP host nil
smtpPort SMTP port nil
smtpUser SMTP user nil
smtpPassword SMTP password nil
smtpConnectionMode SMTP connection mode [ssl, tls] nil
mariadb.mariadbRootPassword MariaDB admin password nil

The above parameters map to the env variables defined in bitnami/testlink. For more information please refer to the bitnami/testlink image documentation.

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

$ helm install --name my-release \
  --set testlinkUsername=admin,testlinkPassword=password,mariadb.mariadbRootPassword=secretpassword \
    testlink-x.x.x.tgz

The above command sets the TestLink administrator account username and password to admin and password respectively. Additionally it sets the MariaDB root user password to secretpassword.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the above parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

$ helm install --name my-release -f values.yaml testlink-x.x.x.tgz

Tip

: You can use the default values.yaml

Persistence

The Bitnami TestLink image stores the TestLink data and configurations at the /bitnami/testlink path of the container.

As a placeholder, the chart mounts an emptyDir volume at this location.

"An emptyDir volume is first created when a Pod is assigned to a Node, and exists as long as that Pod is running on that node. When a Pod is removed from a node for any reason, the data in the emptyDir is deleted forever."

For persistence of the data you should replace the emptyDir volume with a persistent storage volume, else the data will be lost if the Pod is shutdown.

Step 1: Create a persistent disk

You first need to create a persistent disk in the cloud platform your cluster is running. For example, on GCE you can use the gcloud tool to create a gcePersistentDisk:

$ gcloud compute disks create --size=500GB --zone=us-central1-a testlink-data-disk

Step 2: Update templates/deployment.yaml

Replace:

      volumes:
      - name: testlink-data
        emptyDir: {}

with

      volumes:
      - name: testlink-data
        gcePersistentDisk:
          pdName: testlink-data-disk
          fsType: ext4

Note

:

You should also use a persistent storage volume for the MariaDB deployment.

Install the chart after making these changes.