[🚀 Feature]: Support custom node types besides chrome/firefox/edge in helm chart

[andrii-rymar]

Feature and motivation

Currently Selenium Grid deployed with helm chart only supports 3 main web browsers to run the tests against. It would be great to have a custom node besides chromeNode/firefoxNode/edgeNode to run mobile tests or the tests against another browser supported by Selenium.

Usage example

Let's say I want to run the mobile tests against Android emulator and I have an image with the node (with relay configured), appium and the emulator itself. It would be nice to have a separate customNode where I can specify this image and something like browserName: android to spin off these nodes when this type is requested by the tests.

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[amardeep2006]

hi @andrii-rymar do you have a Docker Image ready that has selenium node + relay + appium + android emulator built in? Want to check before someone attempts to build the image.

[andrii-rymar]

Sorry @amardeep2006 I cannot share it because of NDA. I guess any image with Selenium Server in Node mode will work for this ticket.

[amardeep2006]

@andrii-rymar I asked as wanted to avoid duplicate work in case you have image ready and source code is public. Do you have everything bundled up in single image or separate image for relay node and appium server? i feel for kubernetes we may have to bundle up relay node and appium in single image . It may be a fun side project something like https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android

[andrii-rymar]

@amardeep2006 I've combined everything into a single image: selenium node, appium server and android emulator. The only thing that didn't work out was the video in selenium grid UI as selenium server doesn't seem to support it in relay mode.