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Description

The functional suites were run with go test, which parallelizes across packages (suites) but runs the specs within a suite serially. That left the total wall time floored by the longest single suite (outputs/splunk, ~38m).

This switches the test-functional Makefile target (the exact command CI runs) to drive the run with the ginkgo v2 CLI (-p --procs=8) so specs execute in parallel within each suite, removing that floor.

Why no isolation changes are needed

The functional suites are already parallel-safe:

  • Every test runs in a unique crypto/rand namespace (test.UniqueNameForTest()).
  • All cluster-scoped RBAC is namespace-suffixed (e.g. fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", f.Test.NS.Name, f.Name)).
  • No Serial/Ordered decorators exist in test/functional/.
  • The one suite with a BeforeSuite (filters/apiaudit/vrl) scopes its fixed-name pod inside a unique client.NewTest() namespace — one per worker process, no collision.

Notes

  • --procs is tunable via a comment in the target. Functional specs are latency-bound (mostly waiting on the cluster), so oversubscribing the runner's cores is effective.
  • Expected impact: functional test step ~59m → ~30m, moving the functional-target job from ~115m toward ~86m (cluster-claim wait and artifact gather are unchanged).

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    • Functional test suites now run through the Ginkgo v2 CLI with parallel execution across eight processes, race detection, and keep-going behavior. The timeout is now 60 minutes.
    • Metrics test resources use names that avoid collisions between concurrent specs. Cluster-scoped permissions remain in place for metrics and token-review checks.

The functional suites were run with `go test`, which parallelizes across
packages (suites) but runs the specs within a suite serially. That left the
wall time floored by the longest single suite (~38m for outputs/splunk).

Drive the run with the ginkgo v2 CLI (`-p --procs=8`) so specs execute in
parallel within each suite, removing that floor. The suites are already
parallel-safe: every test runs in a unique crypto/rand namespace and all
cluster-scoped RBAC is namespace-suffixed, so no isolation changes are needed.
Functional specs are latency-bound (mostly waiting on the cluster), so
oversubscribing the runner's cores with --procs is effective.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The functional-test target now runs through the Ginkgo v2 CLI with race detection and eight processes. Metrics tests use the per-spec namespace in names for cluster-scoped RBAC resources.

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Functional test parallel execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Namespace-suffix metrics RBAC names
test/functional/metrics/*_test.go
Metrics tests use the per-spec namespace in ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding names. Comments describe the collision concern and the cluster-scoped permissions required for metrics access and TokenReviews.
Run functional tests with Ginkgo CLI
Makefile
The target uses the Ginkgo v2 CLI with race detection and eight processes. It sets GOFLAGS=-mod=mod, retains progress polling, and increases the timeout to 60 minutes. Comments describe parallel execution and test isolation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a43da

This change runs the functional tests in parallel and gives the metrics test RBAC resources unique names. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified, and the change does not affect production behavior.

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The metrics suite created cluster-scoped ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding
objects named from the constant framework.Name ("functional"), so under
`ginkgo -p` the suite's concurrent specs collided: the 2nd/3rd Create hit
AlreadyExists and a finishing spec's AfterEach deleted the shared-name
ClusterRole out from under a still-running spec, breaking its /metrics
auth. Suffix the names with the per-spec namespace so each spec owns its
own objects.

These must stay cluster-scoped: /metrics is a non-resource URL and
TokenReviews are cluster-scoped, neither of which a namespaced RoleBinding
can grant.

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--timeout is a single wall-clock budget across all functional suites, not
per-suite. The full run now completes in ~40m once the metrics RBAC
collisions are fixed, so the 40m budget was exceeded by a hair and ginkgo
guillotined the last suite (splunk) mid-run. Raise the budget to 60m to
give headroom for variance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Add ginkgo --keep-going so a failure in one functional suite does not
abort the remaining suites. CI then reports every suite's result in a
single run instead of stopping at the first failure, avoiding
fix-and-rerun cycles.

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/test functional-target

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