What is catch / finally¶

Catch and Finally are additional fields to collect certain information about the outcome of a step should it fail (in the case of catch) or at the end of the step (in the case of finally). The ultimate goal of collectors is to gather information about the failure of a step and therefore help understand what caused it to fail.

A test step can have an arbitrary number of collectors.

Collection can occur from:

• Pod logs
• Namespace events
• Or the output of a custom command or script

Catch lifecycle¶

The catch operations are executed after the step failed, and before the step cleanup happens.

This is important that collectors run before cleanup so that they have a chance to collect logs from pods responsible for the step failure.

Configuration¶

Catch / Finally are a per step configuration and are registered under the catch / finally sections of a test step spec.

    try:
    # ...
    catch:
    - podLogs:
        name: my-pod
    finally:
    - podLogs:
        name: my-pod

    try:
    # ...
    catch:
    - events: {}
    finally:
    - events: {}

    try:
    # ...
    catch:
    - command:
        entrypoint: kubectl
        args:
        - get
        - pod
        - -n
        - $NAMESPACE
    finally:
    - command:
        entrypoint: kubectl
        args:
        - get
        - pod
        - -n
        - $NAMESPACE

    try:
    # ...
    catch:
    - script:
        content: |
          echo "an error has occured"
    finally:
    - script:
        content: |
          echo "goodbye"