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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon kubernetes

simulating node problems for Image testing

Open sanjayk0508 opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

I am planning to perform manual Kubernetes testing on the node-problem-detector image (installed via Helm) to simulate node issues, similar to problem-maker. However, if I understand correctly, problem-maker cannot be used for image-based testing.

I wanted to check if there is an alternative approach to manually test the node-problem-detector image and validate its functionality.

For a comprehensive test, we aim to cover:

  1. Simulating Node Problems – Ensuring NPD detects and reports issues such as OOM kills, Docker daemon hangs, etc.
  2. Prometheus Metrics Testing – Verifying that NPD correctly exports metrics related to node problems for monitoring systems.

This is similar to e2e testing, but I haven’t found any clear workarounds specifically for testing the node-problem-detector image. Are there any recommended methods or existing approaches that I'm missing out? Sorry if similar issue has been raised before.
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

sanjayk0508 avatar Feb 18 '25 21:02 sanjayk0508