Preflight

Preflight is a command line (CLI) tool to verify that partner-submitted containers meet minimum requirements for Red Hat Software Certification. These include:

• OpenShift Operator Bundles
• OpenShift containers
• OpenStack containers
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux application containers

This project is in active and rapid development! Many facets of this project are subject to change, and some features are not fully implemented.

Certification Workflow Guide

For the complete container and operator bundle certification workflow instructions, please reference our official certification documentation.

Requirements

For running the Preflight binary, the host or VM must have at least RHEL 8.5, CentOS 8.5 or Fedora 35 installed.

The Preflight binary currently requires that you have the following tools installed, functional, and in your path.

Name	Tool cli	Minimum version
OperatorSDK	operator-sdk	v1.33.0

See our Vagrantfile for more information on setting up a development environment. Some checks may also require access to an OpenShift cluster. which is not provided by the Vagrantfile

Usage

The preflight utility allows one to confirm that container and Operator projects comply with container and Operator certification policies.

A brief summary of the available sub-commands is as follows:

A utility that allows you to pre-test your bundles, operators, and container before submitting for Red Hat Certification.

Usage:
  preflight [command]

Available Commands:
  check          Run checks for an operator or container
  completion     Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help           Help about any command
  runtime-assets Returns information about assets used at runtime.
  support        Submits a support request

Flags:
  -h, --help      help for preflight
  -v, --version   version for preflight

Use "preflight [command] --help" for more information about a command.

To check a container, utilize the check container sub-command:

preflight check container quay.io/example-namespace/example-container:0.0.1 \
--pyxis-api-token=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456 \
--certification-project-id=1234567890a987654321bcde 

To check an Operator bundle, utilize the check Operator sub-command:

preflight check operator quay.io/example-namespace/example-operator:0.0.1

For more detailed usage examples, see Recipes.

For more information on how to configure the execution of preflight, see CONFIG

Authenticating to Registries

If a registry requires authentication, one must set the environment variable PFTL_DOCKERCONFIG or pass the --docker-config parameter on the command line. This should be the full path to a properly formatted Docker config.json.

Remote Checks

In some cases (e.g. DeployableByOLM), preflight will also pass credentials to the cluster used for testing (i.e. the cluster that is accessible through the current-context of the provided KUBECONFIG).

We anticipate that the credentials in ${DOCKER_CONFIG}/config.json or ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/containers/auth.json may contain more access than what is needed for preflight execution. It is recommended to generate a dockerconfigjson with only the credentials necessary to retrieve the image under test to avoid passing more credentials than needed into a cluster for those checks. preflight accepts a full path to a dockerconfigjson that would be passed through to a remote cluster via the PFLT_DOCKERCONFIG environment variable or the --docker-config command line parameter.

If this variable is unset, preflight will assume that the images in scope (e.g. PFLT_INDEXIMAGE value, and the test target itself) are located in a public registry and already accessible from the cluster used for testing.

Installation

Before installing preflight, ensure that the required dependencies have been installed on the local machine.

Install Prebuilt Release

One of the prebuilt release binaries for the supported architectures can be downloaded and installed to the local machine.

Install From Source

Once the repository has been cloned locally, the preflight binary can be built from source by using the provided target from within the root of the project directory.

make build

The preflight binary will be created in the root of the project directory. The binary can then be copied manually to a location in the local $PATH.

sudo mv preflight /usr/local/bin/

Verify that the preflight binary can run successfully.

preflight --version

The version information should be displayed.

preflight version 0.0.0 <commit: 2d3bb671bff8a95d385621382f31215234877d44>

Unit Tests

Execute the below command if you want to run all the unit tests in this repository.

Run all the unit tests:

make test

End-to-end Tests

Execute the below command if you want to run all the end-to-end tests in this repository. Note: Running these test requires a running OpenShift cluster.

Run all the unit tests:

make test-e2e

How to Contribute

Check out the contributor documentation.

Signed Images

This repository uses the Cosign project to sign release images stored in quay.io/opdev/preflight using Keyless Signatures. The verification workflow is documented in the verify-image Make target for those that want to confirm the images locally

RELEASE_TAG=1.5.4 make verify-image

License

Operator SDK is under Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.