Want to hack on Machine? Awesome! Here are instructions to get you started.
Machine is a part of the Docker project, and follows the same rules and principles. If you're already familiar with the way Docker does things, you'll feel right at home.
Otherwise, go read Docker's contributions guidelines.
The requirements to build Machine are:
- A running instance of Docker
- The
bash
shell
To build, run:
$ script/build
From the Machine repository's root. Machine will run the build inside of a Docker container and the compiled binaries will appear in the project directory on the host.
By default, Machine will run a build which cross-compiles binaries for a variety of architectures and operating systems. If you know that you are only compiling for a particular architecture and/or operating system, you can speed up compilation by overriding the default argument that the build script passes to gox. This is very useful if you want to iterate quickly on a new feature, bug fix, etc.
For instance, if you only want to compile for use on OSX with the x86_64 arch, run:
$ script/build -osarch="darwin/amd64"
If you have any questions we're in #docker-machine on Freenode.
To run the unit tests for the whole project, using the following script:
$ script/test
This will run the unit tests inside of a container, so you don't have to worry about configuring your environment properly before doing so.
To run the unit tests for only a specific subdirectory of the project, you can pass an argument to that script to specify which directory, e.g.:
$ script/test ./drivers/amazonec2
If you make a pull request, it is highly encouraged that you submit tests for the code that you have added or modified in the same pull request.
Machine includes a script to check for missing *_test.go
files and to generate
an HTML-based repesentation of which code is covered by tests.
To run the code coverage script, execute:
$ ./script/coverage serve
You will see the results of the code coverage check as they come in.
This will also generate the code coverage website and serve it from a container
on port 8000. By default, /
will show you the source files from the base
directory, and you can navigate to the coverage for any particular subdirectory
of the Docker Machine repo's root by going to that path. For instance, to see
the coverage for the VirtualBox driver's package, browse to /drivers/virtualbox
.
You can hit CTRL+C
to stop the server.
We utilize BATS for integration testing.
This runs tests against the generated binary. To use, make sure to install
BATS (use that link). Then run ./script/build
to generate the binary. Once
you have the binary, you can run test against a specified driver:
$ bats test/integration/driver-virtualbox.bats
✓ virtualbox: machine should not exist
✓ virtualbox: VM should not exist
✓ virtualbox: create
✓ virtualbox: active
✓ virtualbox: ls
✓ virtualbox: run busybox container
✓ virtualbox: url
✓ virtualbox: ip
✓ virtualbox: ssh
✓ virtualbox: stop
✓ virtualbox: machine should show stopped
✓ virtualbox: start
✓ virtualbox: machine should show running after start
✓ virtualbox: restart
✓ virtualbox: machine should show running after restart
✓ virtualbox: remove
✓ virtualbox: machine should not exist
✓ virtualbox: VM should not exist
15 tests, 0 failures
You can also run the general cli
tests:
$ bats test/integration/cli.bats
✓ cli: show info
✓ cli: show active help
✓ cli: show config help
✓ cli: show inspect help
✓ cli: show ip help
✓ cli: show kill help
✓ cli: show ls help
✓ cli: show restart help
✓ cli: show rm help
✓ cli: show env help
✓ cli: show ssh help
✓ cli: show start help
✓ cli: show stop help
✓ cli: show upgrade help
✓ cli: show url help
✓ flag: show version
✓ flag: show help
17 tests, 0 failures
Docker Machine has several included drivers that supports provisioning hosts in various providers. If you wish to contribute a driver, we ask the following to ensure we keep the driver in a consistent and stable state:
- Address issues filed against this driver in a timely manner
- Review PRs for the driver
- Be responsible for maintaining the infrastructure to run unit tests and integration tests on the new supported environment
- Participate in a weekly driver maintainer meeting
If you can commit to those, the next step is to make sure the driver adheres to the spec.
Once you have created and tested the driver, you can open a PR.
Note: even if those are met does not guarantee a driver will be accepted. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on IRC.