- Document the --backend-addr flag: it is the stub upstream service Traefik proxies allowed requests to (the traefik/whoami equivalent), not AppSec. - Move the .cache/ ignore rule from the per-suite .gitignore to the repo root .gitignore, and make the wording accurate: the cache persists across local runs but is recreated on every (fresh-runner) CI run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
End-to-end test suite
There are two suites:
scenarios/(this one) — real Traefik + Crowdsec Docker containers. High fidelity, kept for local debugging. Run withmake e2e.mock/— Traefik binary + a mock LAPI, no Docker. This is what CI runs (make e2e_mock). It validates the plugin's own behaviour; Crowdsec / AppSec correctness is out of scope there (that is the upstream maintainer's responsibility).
The rest of this document covers the Docker suite.
These tests spin up real Traefik + Crowdsec containers and exercise the plugin in the same conditions Traefik uses in production: loaded from a local path, no module download, no mocking.
Each scenario lives in its own directory under scenarios/ and owns:
docker-compose.yml— the stack to spin uprun.sh— orchestration + assertions- optional fixtures (
acquis.yaml,ban.html, ...)
Running locally
Prerequisites: docker, docker compose, curl, bash.
Run a single scenario:
./tests/e2e/scenarios/stream-mode/run.sh
# or
make e2e_stream-mode
Run everything:
make e2e
Scenarios run sequentially on a single host: they share the canonical
crowdsec container name (so cscli commands work uniformly) and the same
8000:80 port. Each scenario uses its own Docker Compose project
(-p e2e-<scenario>) and tears its stack down on exit, so the next one
starts clean. make e2e runs them one after another; Docker reuses the
images pulled by the first scenario, so the Traefik / Crowdsec / whoami
images are downloaded only once for the whole suite.
Writing a new scenario
- Copy
scenarios/stream-mode/as a template. - Rename
container_names (keepcrowdsecfor the LAPI container). - Edit
run.shto express the behavior under test. - Add the scenario name to
E2E_SCENARIOSin theMakefile.
CI
This Docker suite is not run in CI — it is meant for local debugging.
.github/workflows/e2e.yml runs the mock/ suite
(make -k e2e_mock) instead, which needs neither Docker nor a real Crowdsec.
Run this suite locally with make e2e (or make e2e_<scenario>).