Infra: integration tests - common areas of work #8067
Description
This is a set of areas in the integration tests (nimbus) that bear further investigation.
- All the suites have a hard coded number of retries and wait times for testbed deployment failure. If this is a common deployment pattern then these values should be parameterized so it's simple to adjust as the backend infra (or our usage pattern) is improved. This is compounded by the fact that we have a retry cycle in Nimbus Testbed Deploy meaning we're trying 50x and have 340min of sleeping before failing for each suite.
- Failed testbed deployments do not appear to clean up before retrying - unclear if it's simply not needed or is missing.
- There are tests that define their own testbeddeploy keywords ([search])(https://github.com/vmware/vic/search?q=nimbus-testbeddeploy&unscoped_q=nimbus-testbeddeploy&type=Code) however there can be only one
- Nimbus Cleanup failure
No keyword with name 'Cleanup Nimbus PXE folder' found. Did you mean:
Nimbus-Util.Cleanup Nimbus Folders -
--vcfvtBuildPathoptions in VSAN tests reference non-existent /dbc/ path- possibly we can revert to using
vcqa-vsan-simple-pxeBoot-vcvawhich I found in Nightlies test fails while creating a VSAN Cluster. #4630. Need to track down why this was changed. Change was from [skip ci] Update vsan test bed to include DVS and DVPG #5842 - may try using the testbed supplied there.
- possibly we can revert to using