Need to run e2e tests on different platforms, e.g., Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

[maximilien]

Feature request

Currently the e2e tests are automated in CI and run only on Linux containers. This is great but does not reflect the different platforms we intend kn users to utilize. As a user client tool, we should expect more users to actually use Windows and Mac OS X as their execution platform.

In addition, some issues have already surfaced that are specific to the user’s platform. In particular when it comes to kn plugins. See issues #738 #733 and #417.

Use case

• running plugins on the Windows platform
• running kn from the downloaded binary

In all of these cases, and solutions to issues above, we ideally would need to have e2e tests specific to the platform and running these tests in CI.

/kind bug

[rhuss]

@chaodaiG @chizhg Does our Prow CI infrastructure support running on other platforms than Unix ?

[coryrc]

@chaodaiG @chizhg Does our Prow CI infrastructure support running on other platforms than Unix ?

Well, it doesn't even support Unix! It only supports Kubernetes.

But if someone was able to provide a kubernetes cluster running Windows and created the image performing desired e2e test (along with downloading repository and uploading files to GCS) I think we actually could do this.

[coryrc]

There might also be a non-Prow way of doing things that interacts with Github and could be a blocking presubmit, though there wouldn't be any periodic job.

[navidshaikh]

/close

feel free to re-open if you've further comments.

[knative-prow-robot]

@navidshaikh: Closing this issue.

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