milvus/DEVELOPMENT.md

Development

This document will help to set up your Milvus development environment and to run tests. Please file an issue if there's a problem.

Table of contents

• Building Milvus with Docker
• Building Milvus on a local OS/shell environment
  • Hardware Requirements
  • Software Requirements
    • Dependencies
    • CMake
    • Go
    • Docker & Docker Compose
  • Building Milvus
• A Quick Start for Testing Milvus
  • Pre-submission Verification
  • Unit Tests
  • Code coverage
  • E2E Tests
  • Test on local branch
    • With Linux and MacOS
    • With docker
• GitHub Flow

Building Milvus with Docker

Our official Milvus versions are releases as Docker images. To build Milvus Docker on your own, please follow these instructions.

Building Milvus on a local OS/shell environment

The details below outline the hardware and software requirements for building on Linux and MacOS.

Hardware Requirements

The following specification (either physical or virtual machine resources) is recommended for Milvus to build and run from source code.

- 8GB of RAM
- 50GB of free disk space

Software Requirements

All Linux distributions are available for Milvus development. However a majority of our contributor worked with Ubuntu or CentOS systems, with a small portion of Mac (both x86_64 and Apple Silicon) contributors. If you would like Milvus to build and run on other distributions, you are more than welcome to file an issue and contribute!

Here's a list of verified OS types where Milvus can successfully build and run:

• Debian/Ubuntu
• CentOS
• MacOS (x86_64)
• MacOS (Apple Silicon)

Prerequisites

Linux systems (Recommend Ubuntu 18.04 or later):

go: >= 1.15
cmake: >= 3.18
gcc: 7.5

MacOS systems with x86_64 (Big Sur 11.5 or later recommended):

go: >= 1.15
cmake: >= 3.18
llvm: >= 12

MacOS systems with Apple Silicon (Monterey 12.0.1 or later recommended):

go: >= 1.17 (Arch=ARM64)
cmake: >= 3.18
llvm: >= 13

Installing Dependencies

In the Milvus repository root, simply run:

$ ./scripts/install_deps.sh

Caveats

• Google Test is automatically cloned from GitHub, which in some case could conflict with your local google test library.

Once you have finished, confirm that gcc and make are installed:

$ gcc --version
$ make --version

CMake

The algorithm library of Milvus, Knowhere is written in c++. CMake is required in the Milvus compilation. If you don't have it, please follow the instructions in the Installing CMake.

Confirm that cmake is available:

$ cmake --version

Note: 3.18 or higher cmake version is required to build Milvus.

Go

Milvus is written in Go. If you don't have a Go development environment, please follow the instructions in the Go Getting Started guide.

Confirm that your GOPATH and GOBIN environment variables are correctly set as detailed in How to Write Go Code before proceeding.

$ go version

Note: go >= 1.15 is required to build Milvus.

Docker & Docker Compose

Milvus depends on etcd, Pulsar and MinIO. Using Docker Compose to manage these is an easy way in local development. To install Docker and Docker Compose in your development environment, follow the instructions from the Docker website below:

• Docker: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
• Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Building Milvus

To build the Milvus project, run the following command:

$ make all

If this command succeed, you will now have an executable at bin/milvus off of your Milvus project directory.

If you want to update proto file before make, we can use the following command:

$ make generated-proto-go

If you want to know more, you can read Makefile.

A Quick Start for Testing Milvus

Pre-submission Verification

Pre-submission verification provides a battery of checks and tests to give your pull request the best chance of being accepted. Developers need to run as many verification tests as possible locally.

To run all pre-submission verification tests, use this command:

$ make verifiers

Unit Tests

It is required that all pull request candidates should pass all Milvus unit tests.

Beforce running unit tests, you need to first bring up the Milvus deployment environment. You may set up a local docker environment with our docker compose yaml file to start unit testing. For Apple Silicon users (Apple M1):

$ cd deployments/docker/dev
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-apple-silicon.yml up -d
$ cd ../../../
$ make unittest

For others:

$ cd deployments/docker/dev
$ docker-compose up -d
$ cd ../../../
$ make unittest

To run only cpp test:

$ make test-cpp

To run only go test:

$ make test-go

To run a single test case (TestSearchTask in /internal/proxy directory, for example):

$ go test -v ./internal/proxy/ -test.run TestSearchTask

Code coverage

Before submitting your pull request, make sure your code change is covered by unit test. Use the following commands to check code coverage rate:

Run unit test and generate code coverage report:

$ make codecov

This command will generate html report for Golang and C++ respectively. For Golang report, open the go_coverage.html under milvus project path. For C++ report, open the cpp_coverage/index.html under milvus project path.

You also can generate Golang coverage report by:

$ make codecov-go

Or C++ coverage report by:

$ make codecov-cpp

E2E Tests

Milvus uses Python SDK to write test cases to verify the correctness of Milvus functions. Before running E2E tests, you need a running Milvus:

# Running Milvus cluster
$ cd deployments/docker/dev
$ docker-compose up -d
$ cd ../../../
$ ./scripts/start_cluster.sh

# Or running Milvus standalone
$ cd deployments/docker/standalone
$ docker-compose up -d
$ cd ../../../
$ ./scripts/start_standalone.sh

To run E2E tests, use these commands:

$ cd tests/python_client
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pytest --tags=L0 -n auto

Test on local branch

With Linux and MacOS

After preparing deployment environment, we can start the cluster on your host machine

$ ./scripts/start_cluster.sh

With docker

start the cluster on your host machine

$ ./build/builder.sh make install // build milvus
$ ./build/build_image.sh // build milvus lastest docker image
$ docker images // check if milvus latest image is ready
REPOSITORY                 TAG                                 IMAGE ID       CREATED          SIZE
milvusdb/milvus            latest                              63c62ff7c1b7   52 minutes ago   570MB
$ install with docker compose

GitHub Flow

To check out code to work on, please refer to the GitHub Flow.

FAQs

Q: The go building phase fails on Apple Silicon (Mac M1) machines.

A: Please double-check that you have right Go version installed, i.e. with OS=macOS and Arch=ARM64.

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Q: "make" fails with "ld: library not found for -lSystem" on MacOS.

A: There are a couple of things you could try:

1. Use Software Update (from About this Mac -> Overview) to install updates.
2. Try the following commands:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
sudo xcode-select --install

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Q: Rocksdb fails to compile with "ld: warning: object file was built for newer macOS version (11.6) than being linked (11.0)." on MacOS.

A: Use Software Update (from About this Mac -> Overview) to install updates.

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Q: Some Go unit tests failed.

A: We are aware that some tests can be flaky occasionally. If there's something you believe is abnormal (i.e. tests that fail every single time). You are more than welcome to file an issue!