There are 2 goals for the e2e tests:
- Verify that core components can be applied and become Ready
- Verify that core CRDs can be created and succeed
The e2e are installing everything by using the single-install command. This means that all of the core and common (Istio, Knativ, Cert Manager) are being installed and included in the tests.
The e2e tests are completely independent of the underlying K8s cluster, as well as the platform of the cluster. These tests should be able to run in real world clusters, as well as ephemeral ones like KinD.
The tests are also explicitly bypassing any authentication system of the installation. The goal of these tests are to ensure that a common use case that deploys all of Kubeflow's components can succeed. Thus we only want to test that the core CRDs can be successfully applied and complete.