tempest(1)

💖 tempest(1) — the general commands manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for tempest, and honestly? it's giving "trust me, i know what your cloud is doing behind your back." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

tempest — functional testing of an OpenStack cloud 🌩️

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tempest functional-test-suite [functional-test-suite]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so tempest is a whole set of integration tests that you run against a live OpenStack cluster, and the entire point is making sure every single component is doing what it's supposed to do. no cap. 👑

and the way it checks? it literally starts and stops a virtual machine to confirm your cloud is working as expected. like, it's out here booting and killing VMs just to vibe check your infrastructure. main character energy fr fr 💅

🦋 Additional configuration files 🦋

before you run any test, you must configure /etc/tempest/tempest.conf — not optional, not a suggestion, this is the rule 🙈

⭐ PARAMETERS ⭐

🌈 Parameters and options 🌈

• this lists all the integration tests that are gonna be run. the (non-exhaustive) lineup is: identity, image, compute, network, volume, object_storage, telemetry, orchestration, dashboard. that's a whole squad 🎀
• you can also just hand it the full python path of the test. example:

tempest.api.compute.images.test_image_metadata.ImagesMetadataTestXML

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

tempest identity image

this one runs both the Keystone and Glance functional testing. two for one, we love a bundle deal ✨

and that's the whole page bestie — go forth and test your cloud, you've got this. 🧚💜

tempest(1) 💖