# Last month in scylla-cluster-tests.git master (issue #16; 2023-07-21)

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**Created:** [July 21, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-month-in-scylla-cluster-tests-git-master-issue-16-2023-07-21/718 "2023-07-21T19:31:38Z")\
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This short(ish) report brings to light some interesting commits to [scylla-cluster-tests.git master](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests) from the last ~month. Commits in the a1036e1b…9dfb2392 range are covered.

There were 116 non-merge commits from 15 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

As a first step in testing Audit functionality on larger scale [we added short longevity with audit enabled by default](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/c093d00a36dfac0f4e3104b055dff0e26c6b12b2).

[SCT was adapted to uuid\_sstable\_identifiers\_enabled](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/1e505bc3a1472c51720542ca319e70c0fe525023) where sstables are identified with timeuuid instead of an integer.

Check out docs: [How can I connect to test machines in AWS ?](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/fbfaa43f48d3135641593e0a6dab51ca36bb919d)

Since releng is moving to create the images on another account, we [have introduced](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/pull/6167) the changes to list the images regardless general or releng accounts but were missing some fixes and improvements like: [add account images tags](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/14682f89859cd0a72458a2f67373ea135b172f4e), [add image’s owner ID](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/561fea02e2bc722b4b20a6d53eb26dc1fc2bca0e), [and checking owner ID](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/65353855675e5819e696f567a180aeee06ac297d).

New [GH action](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/60584a23e015fb694fde1f7d3781b5c24bc459d9) was added to close stale issues after 2 years of inactivity and PR’s after 1 year, so we can enjoy fast and consistent pace of closing issues and PR’s.

[This change](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/ba0a885094ebe8a05f06878db8b9c11dad484634) adds a Global Secondary Index to a 3 hour large partition test and a materialized view to the 200k pks 4days test.

[This change](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/e11ba0df12af846cc773691de936055f1176e67b) adds a random chance to use a “USING TIMESTAMP” clause instead of normal 50% of the partition in `delete_by_range_using_timestamp` disruption.

[K8S 1.27 is now supported in SCT tests](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/a7b62569e49ccf617c0299078d468bfe6a314f34)

Because the old ‘static’ approach for PV provisioning on GKE doesn’t work on latest K8S version, [use dynamic local volume provisioner on GKE](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/02259b370dabc3a28c25a30fa259954f949a94f8). Later static local volume provisioner [was fixed](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/c34f91b1a83f9848be2ae1027d5cc64fe0b864fa) using solution recommended by Google.

Introduced [a new perf throughput non-shard aware i4i tests](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/4ab09a355f05bd2748efcd043bf17c5a58b8074c)

K8s tests [were swithed to use and test manager 3.1](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/dab46f539da5ca381ec137ef9344b8f7105d3f47)

[New event process is presented and new context manager](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/3d1881bf633d18acb8d0874a9e2f3429a2d228ef). Context manager allow to start/stop count events and collect some stats event process allow to filter collected events and save events to files in specified directory.

Nodetool cleanup nemesis was [refactored to run in parallel](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/55de197502487d5dd979f3125b9f5782dfa814e9) without specifying keyspace.

In order to catch more issues with installations and upgrades that are related to instance type sizes (e.g. perftune issues related to amount of cores) [we spreaded 5 common instances types in gce with higher amount of disks accordingly](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/3fdb9ded532c1e3c861bdd04daaaa967e6fbd0a3)

Now we are able to [set longevity test duration](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/a76ed862ad99c58012699546822eab08a94b2ea9) from job settings.

[Hinted handoff feature was disabled for all tests](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/c4e95e7ccf525aee623e3bd85330bbf0531f2f57) as probably is rarely used on the field, leaving one sanity test to make sure it still works.

See you in the next issue of last week in scylla-cluster-tests.git master!