Testflinger

Testflinger is a system for orchestrating the time-sharing of access to a pool of target machines.

Each Testflinger system consists of:

  • a web service (called just Testflinger) that provides an API to request jobs by placing them on a queue

  • per machine agents that wait for jobs to placed on queues they can service and then process them

Jobs can be either fully automated scripts that can attempt to complete within the allocated time or interactive shell sessions.

The Testflinger system is particular useful for sharing finite machine resources between different consumers in a predictable fashion.

Typically this has been used for managing a test lab where CI/CD test runs and also exploratory testing by human operators is desired.

In this documentation

Tutorial

Start here: a hands-on introduction to Testflinger for new users

How-to guides

Step-by-step guides covering key operations and common tasks

Reference

Technical information - specifications, APIs, architecture

Explanation

Discussion and clarification of key topics

Project and community

Testflinger is a member of the Ubuntu family. It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.