Reloader/test/e2e

Reloader E2E Tests

End-to-end tests verifying Reloader functionality in a real Kubernetes cluster.

Quick Start

make e2e-setup    # Create Kind cluster, install Argo/CSI/Vault
make e2e          # Build image, run tests
make e2e-cleanup  # Teardown

Prerequisites

• Go 1.26+
• Docker or Podman
• Kind 0.20+
• kubectl
• Helm 3.x

Running Tests

# Run all tests
make e2e

# Run specific suite
go tool ginkgo -v ./test/e2e/core/...

# Run by pattern
go tool ginkgo -v --focus="ConfigMap" ./test/e2e/...

# Run by label
go tool ginkgo -v --label-filter="csi" ./test/e2e/...
go tool ginkgo -v --label-filter="!argo && !openshift" ./test/e2e/...

# Test a specific image
SKIP_BUILD=true RELOADER_IMAGE=ghcr.io/stakater/reloader:v1.2.0 make e2e

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
RELOADER_IMAGE	ghcr.io/stakater/reloader:test	Image to test
SKIP_BUILD	false	Skip the container image build and Kind load steps; requires RELOADER_IMAGE to point to an already-loaded image
KIND_CLUSTER	reloader-e2e	Kind cluster name
E2E_TIMEOUT	45m	Test timeout
GINKGO_PROCS	4	Number of parallel Ginkgo worker processes

Test Structure

test/e2e/
├── core/           # Core reload functionality
├── annotations/    # Annotation behaviors (auto, exclude, search/match)
├── flags/          # CLI flag behaviors
├── advanced/       # Jobs, multi-container, regex patterns
├── csi/            # SecretProviderClass integration
├── argo/           # Argo Rollouts (requires CRDs)
└── utils/          # Shared test utilities and workload adapters

Labels

Label	Description
csi	Requires CSI driver and Vault
argo	Requires Argo Rollouts CRDs
openshift	Requires OpenShift cluster

Writing Tests

Use the workload adapter pattern for cross-workload tests:

DescribeTable("should reload when ConfigMap changes", func(workloadType utils.WorkloadType) {
    adapter := registry.Get(workloadType)
    if adapter == nil {
        Skip(fmt.Sprintf("%s not available", workloadType))
    }

    // Create resources
    _, err := utils.CreateConfigMap(ctx, kubeClient, ns, cmName, map[string]string{"key": "v1"}, nil)
    Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())

    err = adapter.Create(ctx, ns, name, utils.WorkloadConfig{
        ConfigMapName:       cmName,
        UseConfigMapEnvFrom: true,
        Annotations:         utils.BuildConfigMapReloadAnnotation(cmName),
    })
    Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
    DeferCleanup(func() { _ = adapter.Delete(ctx, ns, name) })

    // Wait ready
    Expect(adapter.WaitReady(ctx, ns, name, utils.WorkloadReadyTimeout)).To(Succeed())

    // Trigger reload
    Expect(utils.UpdateConfigMap(ctx, kubeClient, ns, cmName, map[string]string{"key": "v2"})).To(Succeed())

    // Verify
    reloaded, err := adapter.WaitReloaded(ctx, ns, name, utils.AnnotationLastReloadedFrom, utils.ReloadTimeout)
    Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
    Expect(reloaded).To(BeTrue())
},
    Entry("Deployment", utils.WorkloadDeployment),
    Entry("DaemonSet", utils.WorkloadDaemonSet),
    Entry("StatefulSet", utils.WorkloadStatefulSet),
    Entry("ArgoRollout", Label("argo"), utils.WorkloadArgoRollout),
)

Debugging

# Reloader logs
kubectl logs -n <namespace> -l app.kubernetes.io/name=reloader -f

# Test resources
kubectl get deploy,ds,sts,cm,secret -n <test-namespace>

# CSI resources
kubectl get secretproviderclass,secretproviderclasspodstatus -A