Avocado Azure is an avocado plugin that lets you run avocado tests on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine instances. v1.1: for WALinuxAgent-2.0.16-1

Must tools on host: python2.6+ avocado avocado-vt azure-xplat-cli v1.10.0 brewkoji-1.13.1 nodejs0.10+ wget virtualization packages(python-virtinst libvirt bridge-utils virt-manager qemu-kvm-tools virt-viewer virt-v2v virt-install qemu-img) tcping rpm-build

Must tools on guest: nmap tcpdump fio iperf3

1. Install git, wget, nmap, tcpdump, tcping

   1). vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel7.repo

    [rhel7]
    name=rhel7
    baseurl=[RHEL-7 repo]
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
   

   2). yum -y install git wget nmap tcpdump

   3). Install tcping:

    i). wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/tcping-1.3.5-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
   
    ii). xz -d tcping-1.3.5-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
   
    iii). tar -xvf tcping-1.3.5-4-x86_64.pkg.tar
   
    iv). mv usr/bin/tcping /usr/bin/
   

2. Install virtualization packages:

   yum -y install kvm python-virtinst libvirt bridge-utils virt-manager qemu-kvm-tools virt-viewer virt-v2v virt-install qemu-img

   systemctl start libvirtd

   systemctl enable libvirtd

3. Install brew:

   1). vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhpkg.repo

    [rhpkg]
    name=rhpkg for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever
    baseurl=[brewkoji repo]
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
   

   2). yum -y install brewkoji

4. Install azure-cli:

   1). install nodejs, nmap: (Install nodejs 0.10. Current version: nodejs-0.10.46-1nodesource.el7.centos.x86_64)

    i). curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
   
    ii). yum -y install nodejs
   

   2). install azure-cli:

    npm install -g azure-cli
   

   • If want to install spefic azure-cli version:

     i). Uninstall previously version:

       npm uninstall azure-cli –g
     

     ii). Download specific version souce code:

       wget https://github.com/Azure/azure-xplat-cli/archive/<branch-name>.zip
     
       (e.g.) wget https://github.com/Azure/azure-xplat-cli/archive/v0.10.0-May2016.zip
     

     iii). unzip v0.10.0-May2016.zip

     iv). npm install -g

5. Install Avocado:

   1). pre-install packages:

    yum install -y git gcc python-devel python-pip libvirt-devel libyaml-devel redhat-rpm-config xz-devel
   
    * For RHEL7 there's no python-pip and libyaml-devel packages in repo:
   
    wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
   
    python get-pip.py        
   

   2). Download souce code from github

    avocado: git clone git://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado.git
   
    avocado-vt: git clone git://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt.git
   

   3). Install avocado and avocado-vt:

    cd avocado
   
    pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade  
   
    python setup.py develop
   
    cd avocado-vt
   
    pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade  
   
    python setup.py develop
   
    * For RHEL-7: 
   
        i). pip install pexpect
   
        ii). wget ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/epel/7/x86_64/p/p7zip-15.09-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
   
            rpm -ivh p7zip-15.09-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
   

   4). Check:

    avocado vt-bootstrap --vt-type qemu
   
    If miss some packages, we need to install them ourselves. 
   

   5). Configuration:

    i). mv <avocado path>/etc/avocado /etc/
   
    ii). vi /etc/avocado/avocado.conf
   

6. Disable firewall and selinux:

   1). disable firewall:

    systemctl stop firewalld
   
    systemctl disable firewalld
   

   2). close selinux:

    setenforce 0
   

1. Fill in comfig.yaml with your accounts.

2. Edit the cases list in cfg/cases.yaml.

3. Run "python run_for_ci.py"

4. "new_rhel_detect.py" is used to detect the latest RHEL build and run avocado-azure automatically. You can add this script into crontab.