The device_plugin_tests have not run successfully in a very long time,
initially being marked flaky and then eventually becoming stale.
The gpu_device_plugin_tests have been used to test the same behaviour,
but are incredibly high maintenance due to external changes in behaviour
from GCP/Nvidia that we have no control over.
This commit takes the existing device plugin tests, makes them look more
like the GPU tests, and removes the cases that have been unsupported for
a long time (namely restarting containers while the plugin is
unavailable).
It also removes the GPU plugin tests, as we do not get more signal by
using real devices here.
Each e2e test knows it wants to restart a running kubelet or a
non-running kubelet. The vast majority of times, we want to
restart a running kubelet (e.g. to change config or to check
some properties hold across kubelet crashes/restarts), but sometimes
we stop the kubelet, do some actions and only then restart.
To accomodate both use cases, we just expose the `running` boolean
flag to the e2e tests.
Having the `restartKubelet` explicitly restarting a running kubelet
helps us to trobuleshoot e2e failures on which the kubelet
was supposed to be running, while it was not; attempting a restart
in such cases only murkied the waters further, making the
troubleshooting and the eventual fix harder.
In the happy path, no expected change in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com>
This drops testfiles.ReadOrDie and updated testfiles.Exists to return an
error, forcing the caller to decide whether to call framework.Fail or do
something else.
It makes for a slightly less friendly API, but also means the package is
decoupled from framework again, as per the comments at the top of the
file
Most of these could have been refactored automatically but it wouldn't
have been uglier. The unsophisticated tooling left lots of unnecessary
struct -> pointer -> struct transitions.
