GHA for Kurtosis

[macfarla]

Simple GHA workflow to spin up a kurtosis network from a simple config

• test besu against all CLs,
• use assertoor to assert block production
  Can copy from Test kurtosis assertoor Consensys/teku#8306

maybe nightly?
maybe need large runners?

[lucassaldanha]

GHA reference: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/kurtosis-assertoor-github-action

[macfarla]

https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis-github-action/blob/main/action.yaml

[cdivitotawela]

I had a look of both GitHub actions. Looks like this https://github.com/marketplace/actions/kurtosis-assertoor-github-action wait for the assertoo tests to complete. I will investigate this action see how we can adopt it.

[cdivitotawela]

Executed Kurtosis with Assertoor in GitHub actions for different combinations. Tests were executed in a private repo with 16-core(64GB memory) GitHub runner.

• Basic test run_lifecycle_test takes about 30min
• Running all Assertoor tests takes over 6hrs
• Running multiple client combinations besu+teku, geth+teku, nethermind+teku is possible and these runs simultaneously. However including all possible supported options failed the GitHub action. It could be a resource issue
• In the PoC latest Teku image has been used. It is possible to specify any image using the Kurtosis argument file

Next steps

• Discuss where Kurtosis can add value in the CI. Given running all tests take longer time, it may best to select specific tests to run in CI
• May be running all tests could be helpful before a release

[macfarla]

TODO

• add to readme how to run the workflow
• allow choosing a different repo - so we can test PR branches
• see if we can run the pectra tests

[cdivitotawela]

GHA created in the private repository https://github.com/Consensys/protocols-devnets This supports running Kurtosis with Ethereum package on Besu for specific tag/branch/sha. Currently supports Assertoor stability checks only. Could add more Assertoor tests as required.

Adding Pectra tests will be handled in a separate issue