Advice on testing cPanel plugins on various systems

[GhadaFye]

Hello,

I would like to know what's the best way of testing our in-development cPanel plugin. I saw on your installation guide that you have a list of officially supported OSs (mainly Linux-based), as well as a guide on testing said plugins. Currently, we don't have much time to test it on all of these OSs.

Do you have any suggestions on how we can test the plugin within as short a time as possible? Are there automation tools that we can use that don't require much effort to set up? Can we limit testing of the extension to certain OSs and still be able to support all of them?

One last question: Does cPanel support an OS other than Linux-based OSs? I found this support post, but I was curious if you support Windows Server as well.

Thanks in advance.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! cPanel only supports the Linux-based operating systems listed on that support guide you linked. We have no plans to provide Windows support at this time.

I did reach out to our developers and confirmed there isn't a more automated way to test plugins, other than trying it in as many environments as you have available.

 

[GhadaFye]

Hey, cPRex.

Thanks for getting back to me. If there isn't an automated way, do you have a shortlist of recommended OSs to test on?

 

[cPRex]

Sure - if your plugin executes the same code regardless of the OS distribution doesn't rely on many/any outside dependencies (OS packages, etc.), you could likely just do your testing on AlmaLinux and Ubuntu. RockyLinux and CloudLinux are based off AlmaLinux and CentOS, so if it works on one of those I'd expect it to work on all of them.