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how can we run the test in CI

just wanted to start a discussion on how we will run the tests in CI, because to me it is not clear how, when and where.

Here are some issues that we need to resolve:

  1. the tests depend on iapi-hack and there is no pinning of the iapi-hack version needed
  2. iapi-hack needs containers to be started
  3. the tests depend on the socket client from https://code.immerda.ch/immerda/ibox/puppet-modules/-/tree/master/ib_iapi/files, again no pinning

for 1 and 3, my solution would be to hard-code a commit hash in .gitlab-ci.yaml, I find that simpler and better for this usecase than submodules or such.

but 2 I am not sure how to deal with... I guess we could use the container config of iapi in iapi-hack as the base, then start a postgres container as service, then have a modified setup.rb which just fills in the db and creates the config for the iapi, then we can start iapi and run the tests. is there an easier/cleaner way which does not require yet another mode of setting up the environment?