diff --git a/mantle/kola/registry/registry.go b/mantle/kola/registry/registry.go
index afc0cb9557acadb5ad81be0e8fe2cca10184d7cf..c1742e41300bf1c4491c3676d1f86705c765033a 100644
--- a/mantle/kola/registry/registry.go
+++ b/mantle/kola/registry/registry.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/misc"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/ostree"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/podman"
+	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/isula"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/rhcos"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/rpmostree"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/upgrade"
diff --git a/mantle/kola/tests/isula/isula.go b/mantle/kola/tests/isula/isula.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6849859d4930f4ff678be7a2c9b40e5c7425e7c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mantle/kola/tests/isula/isula.go
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+package isula
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/register"
+	"github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/cluster"
+	"github.com/coreos/mantle/platform"
+	tutil "github.com/coreos/mantle/kola/tests/util"
+)
+
+func init(){
+	register.RegisterTest(&register.Test{
+		Run:         isulaBaseTest,
+		ClusterSize: 1,
+		Name:        `isula.base`,
+	})
+}
+
+func isulaBaseTest(c cluster.TestCluster) {
+	c.Run("info", isulaInfo)
+	c.Run("resources", isulaResources)
+}
+
+// Test: Verify basic isula info information
+func isulaInfo(c cluster.TestCluster) {
+	m := c.Machines()[0]
+	_, err := c.SSH(m, `sudo systemctl start isulad.service`)
+	if err != nil {
+		c.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	err = getIsulaInfo(c, m)
+	if err != nil {
+		c.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Returns the result of isula info as a simplifiedIsulaInfo
+func getIsulaInfo(c cluster.TestCluster, m platform.Machine) (error) {
+
+	result, err := c.SSH(m, `sudo isula info`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Could not get info: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(result), "\n") {
+		if strings.Contains(line, "Storage Driver") {
+			if strings.Contains(line, "overlay") {
+				continue
+			} else{
+				c.Errorf("Unexpected Storage Driver")
+			}
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(line, "Operating System") {
+			if strings.Contains(line, "NestOS") {
+				continue
+			} else{
+				c.Errorf("Unexpected Operating System")
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Test: Run isula with various options
+func isulaResources(c cluster.TestCluster) {
+	m := c.Machines()[0]
+
+	_, err := c.SSH(m, `sudo systemctl start isula-build.service`)
+	if err != nil {
+		c.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	tutil.GenIsulaScratchContainer(c, m, "echo", []string{"echo"})
+
+	isulaFmt := "sudo isula run --net=none --rm %s echo1 echo 1"
+
+	pCmd := func(arg string) string {
+		return fmt.Sprintf(isulaFmt, arg)
+	}
+
+	for _, isulaCmd := range []string{
+		// must set memory when setting memory-swap
+		// See https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/1980 for
+		// why we use 128m for memory
+		pCmd("--memory=128m --memory-swap=128m"),
+		pCmd("--memory-reservation=10m"),
+		pCmd("--cpu-shares=100"),
+		pCmd("--cpu-period=1000"),
+		pCmd("--cpuset-cpus=0"),
+		pCmd("--cpuset-mems=0"),
+		pCmd("--cpu-quota=1000"),
+		pCmd("--memory=128m"),
+		pCmd("--shm-size=1m"),
+	} {
+		cmd := isulaCmd
+		output, err := c.SSH(m, cmd)
+		if err != nil {
+			c.Fatalf("Failed to run %q: output: %q status: %q", cmd, output, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/mantle/kola/tests/util/containers.go b/mantle/kola/tests/util/containers.go
index 70e3e77044d98079866dc2e8530a5a8081b7c9eb..29142dacedcdb43eacc90a3734e510e3c810c6af 100644
--- a/mantle/kola/tests/util/containers.go
+++ b/mantle/kola/tests/util/containers.go
@@ -29,3 +29,12 @@ func GenPodmanScratchContainer(c cluster.TestCluster, m platform.Machine, name s
 			sudo podman build --network host --layers=false -t localhost/%s .`
 	c.RunCmdSyncf(m, cmd, strings.Join(binnames, " "), name)
 }
+
+// GenIsulaScratchContainer creates a podman scratch container out of binaries from the host
+func GenIsulaScratchContainer(c cluster.TestCluster, m platform.Machine, name string, binnames []string) {
+	cmd := `tmpdir=$(mktemp -d); cd $tmpdir; echo -e "FROM scratch\nCOPY . /" > Dockerfile;
+	        b=$(which %s); libs=$(sudo ldd $b | grep -o /lib'[^ ]*' | sort -u);
+			sudo rsync -av --relative --copy-links $b $libs ./;
+			sudo isula-build ctr-img build -f Dockerfile -o isulad:echo1:latest .`
+	c.RunCmdSyncf(m, cmd, strings.Join(binnames, " "))
+}
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