The kadet-hub examples repository deploys six recipes

to a new kind cluster on every pull request and checks them with

Chainsaw 0.2.15. A bash

script creates the cluster and installs the operators; a Chainsaw test per

recipe asserts the status of the deployed resources and then uses the

software. Two things had to be added around Chainsaw: a pod watcher that

stops a broken run within seconds instead of at a timeout, and a retry of

every apply until the admission webhooks accept it. This post shows both,

the CI failures that shaped them, and what the timeouts are based on.

A recipe is a Kapitan class that

replaces a Bitnami chart with kadet-hub generators ,

for example PostgreSQL on CloudNativePG or Keycloak with the Keycloak

Operator.…