[slurm-users] Testing Lua job submit plugins

[Paul Edmon]

We go the route of having a test cluster and vetting our lua scripts 
there before putting them in the production environment.

-Paul Edmon-

On 5/6/2021 1:23 PM, Renfro, Michael wrote:
> I’ve used the structure at 
> https://gist.github.com/mikerenfro/92d70562f9bb3f721ad1b221a1356de5 
> <https://gist.github.com/mikerenfro/92d70562f9bb3f721ad1b221a1356de5> to 
> handle basic test/production branching. I can isolate the new behavior 
> down to just a specific set of UIDs that way.
>
> Factoring out code into separate functions helps, too.
>
> I’ve seen others go so far as to put the functions into separate 
> files, but I haven’t needed that yet.
>
>> On May 6, 2021, at 12:11 PM, Michael Robbert <mrobbert at mines.edu> wrote:
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>> I’m wondering if others in the Slurm community have any tips or best 
>> practices for the development and testing of Lua job submit plugins. 
>> Is there anything that can be done prior to deployment on a 
>> production cluster that will help to ensure the code is going to do 
>> what you think it does or at the very least not prevent any jobs from 
>> being submitted? I realize that any configuration change in 
>> slurm.conf could break everything, but I feel like adding Lua code 
>> adds enough complexity that I’m a little more hesitant to just throw 
>> it in. Any way to run some kind of linting or sanity tests on the Lua 
>> script? Additionally, does the script get read in one time at startup 
>> or reconfig or can it be changed on the fly just by editing the file?
>>
>> Maybe a separate issue, but does anybody have an recipes to build a 
>> local test cluster in Docker that could be used to test this? I was 
>> working on one, but broke my local Docker install and thought I’d 
>> send this note out while I was working on rebuilding it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Mike Robbert
>>
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