Recommended best practices to test multiple services

[jerometremblay]

What are the recommended best practices to test multiple services?

When I deploy i have one pipeline for each service, and they are all deployed in parallel. But how should I test everything? Should I use a single pipeline? A pipeline dedicated to e2e tests with a wait stage that checks all dependencies and wait that they are all deployed to the latest version?

[KollaAdithya]

Hello @jerometremblay !

For your use case which is to deploy all the services in parallel and once all the services are deployed run e2e tests, you can definitely use a single pipeline.

You can use stages.deployments and (stages.test_commands or stages.post_deployments)to deploy all the services to a particular environment and finally run e2e tests.

Here is how the pipeline manifest can look like:

stages:
  - name: test
    deployments:  # deploys api and frontend services to test environment in parallel.
      api:
      frontend:
    test_commands:
      - make e2e-test # runs e2e tests after deployment is successful.