Tests Are What You Want, What You Really Really Want
Talkat CNCF Maintainer Summit Europe 2025 · on Monday, 2025-03-31· at 13:10· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16·
summary
Project runs >1,000 E2E tests with ~35 lanes per PR, using Ginkgo and Gomega, Prow and TestGrid plus a small custom heat‑map tool to rank flakiest tests. Flake detection experiments use feature vectors and a random‑forest classifier (implementation PR in progress). Scale tests run per‑100 VMI batches, scraping Prometheus; observed patch requests rise from ~200 to ~400 per 100 VMIs. Simulation uses Quark and kubemark/cluster‑loader to scale without real nodes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Testing goals discussion
- 3:54CI pipeline tooling
- 8:13Flaky tests detection
- 15:26Test failure reporting
- 20:28CRD scale testing
- 28:16Large-scale simulation
- 31:07Q&A








