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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Launches an nginx container and verifies it can be reached. Assumes that
-# we're being called by hack/e2e-test.sh (we use some env vars it sets up).
-
-# TODO: remove this once test/e2e/kubectl.go is green in jenkins
-
-set -o errexit
-set -o nounset
-set -o pipefail
-
-KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../..
-
-: ${KUBE_VERSION_ROOT:=${KUBE_ROOT}}
-: ${KUBECTL:="${KUBE_VERSION_ROOT}/cluster/kubectl.sh"}
-: ${KUBE_CONFIG_FILE:="config-test.sh"}
-
-export KUBECTL KUBE_CONFIG_FILE
-
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
-source "${KUBE_VERSION_ROOT}/cluster/${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}/util.sh"
-
-prepare-e2e
-
-CONTROLLER_NAME=update-demo
-
-function validate() {
-  local num_replicas=$1
-  local container_image_version=$2
-
-  # Container turn up on a clean cluster can take a while for the docker image pull.
-  local num_running=0
-  local i=0
-  while [[ ${num_running} -ne ${num_replicas} ]]; do
-    ((i++)) || true
-    if [[ ${i} -eq 20 ]]; then
-      echo "Timed out waiting for all containers in pod to come up.  (Reached ${num_running}/${num_replicas})"
-      exit -1
-    fi
-
-    echo "Waiting for all containers in pod to come up. Currently: ${num_running}/${num_replicas} @ attempt ${i}"
-    sleep 2
-
-    local pod_id_list
-    pod_id_list=($($KUBECTL get pods -o template --template='{{range.items}}{{.id}} {{end}}' -l name="${CONTROLLER_NAME}"))
-
-    echo "  ${#pod_id_list[@]} out of ${num_replicas} created"
-
-    local id
-    num_running=0
-    if [[ ${#pod_id_list[@]} -ne $num_replicas ]]; then
-      echo "Too few or too many replicas."
-      continue
-    fi
-    for id in "${pod_id_list[@]+${pod_id_list[@]}}"; do
-      local template_string current_status current_image host_ip
-
-      # NB: kubectl adds the "exists" function to the standard template functions.
-      # This lets us check to see if the "running" entry exists for each of the containers
-      # we care about. Exists will never return an error and it's safe to check a chain of
-      # things, any one of which may not exist. In the below template, all of info,
-      # containername, and running might be nil, so the normal index function isn't very
-      # helpful.
-      # This template is unit-tested in kubec{tl|fg}, so if you change it, update the unit test.
-      #
-      # You can read about the syntax here: http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/
-      template_string="{{and (exists . \"currentState\" \"info\" \"${CONTROLLER_NAME}\" \"state\" \"running\") (exists . \"currentState\" \"info\" \"POD\" \"state\" \"running\")}}"
-      current_status=$($KUBECTL get pods "$id" -o template --template="${template_string}") || {
-        if [[ $current_status =~ "pod \"${id}\" not found" ]]; then
-          echo "  $id no longer exists"
-          continue
-        else
-          echo "  kubectl failed with error:"
-          echo $current_status
-          exit -1
-        fi
-      }
-      if [[ "$current_status" == "false" ]]; then
-        echo "  $id is created but not running."
-        continue
-      fi
-
-      echo "  $id is created and both POD and update-demo containers are running: $current_status"
-
-      template_string="{{(index .currentState.info \"${CONTROLLER_NAME}\").image}}"
-      current_image=$($KUBECTL get pods "$id" -o template --template="${template_string}") || true
-      if [[ "$current_image" != "kubernetes/update-demo:${container_image_version}" ]]; then
-        echo "  ${id} is created but running wrong image"
-        continue
-      fi
-
-
-      host_ip=$($KUBECTL get pods "$id" -o template --template='{{.currentState.hostIP}}')
-      curl -s --max-time 5 --fail http://${host_ip}:8080/data.json \
-          | grep -q ${container_image_version} || {
-        echo "  ${id} is running the right image but curl to contents failed or returned wrong info"
-        continue
-
-      }
-
-      echo "  ${id} is verified up and running"
-
-      ((num_running++)) || true
-    done
-  done
-  return 0
-}
-
-function teardown() {
-  echo "Cleaning up test artifacts"
-  ${KUBECTL} stop rc update-demo-kitten || true
-  ${KUBECTL} stop rc update-demo-nautilus || true
-}
-
-trap "teardown" EXIT
-
-# Launch a container
-${KUBECTL} create -f "${KUBE_ROOT}/examples/update-demo/nautilus-rc.yaml"
-validate 2 nautilus
-
-${KUBECTL} resize rc update-demo-nautilus --replicas=1
-sleep 2
-validate 1 nautilus
-
-${KUBECTL} resize rc update-demo-nautilus --replicas=2
-sleep 2
-validate 2 nautilus
-
-${KUBECTL} rollingupdate update-demo-nautilus --update-period=1s -f "${KUBE_ROOT}/examples/update-demo/kitten-rc.yaml"
-sleep 2
-validate 2 kitten
-
-exit 0