Have you considered bootstrapping a test suite like cucumber-puppet? https://github.com/nistude/cucumber-puppet
-Eric > Topic: Validating a puppet configuration > Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lar...@gmail.com> Jul 29 06:33AM -0700 ^ > > If anyone out there follows Serverfault, this is a duplicate of > http://goo.gl/CTS2u. I'm hoping there are some subject matter experts here > :). > > I am trying to place some sanity checks (currently as git pre-commit hooks) > in our configuration repository to avoid committing invalid Puppet > configurations. I'm having a surprising amount of trouble coming up with a > way to effectively validate the configuration. My obvious first choice was > "puppet parser validate ...", which does some gross syntax checks (unmatched > quotes and brackets and so forth) but doesn't throw errors on things like > this: > > file { 'somefile': > requires => Service['someservice'] > } > > (where 'requires' should be 'require'), nor does it notice problems like > this: > > sdlflsjlksdf { 'myname': } > > (where 'sdlflsjlksdf' isn't defined anywhere). > > Some folks have suggested "puppet master --compile ...", but this really, > reallly wants to fix permissions all over the place on directories that are > used by Puppet. I have also tried "puppet apply --noop", but this still > tries to stat() any files referenced in the manifests, which means it will > fail with permission errors if it tries to stat() a file or directory that > is not accessible to a non-root user. Does anyone here have suggestions for > effectively performing more aggressive syntax checks than those offered by > "puppet parser validate"? > > -- Lars > > > Greg Hellings <ghelli...@spokeo.com> Jul 29 09:49AM -0700 ^ > > Have you looked at using these? > projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Version_Control > > -- > Greg > > > > > Scott Smith <sc...@ohlol.net> Jul 29 10:19AM -0700 ^ > > Those hooks are the gross syntax checks to which he initially referred. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
