On 3/18/15 10:02 PM, Johan De Wit wrote: > Hi all, > > Looking for some best practice, guideline, documentation puppet testing > in all its aspect, sometimes I try to figure out the following : > > How does one tests roles and profiles ? > > Do we still write rspec-puppet for profiles ? Since we are using > modules that have there own unit (rspec) testing, at first sight, this > looks like overhead. > > what about the profiles we make using other profiles ? Do we unit-test > our 'base' profiles only ? > > Or does one only do integration testing (aka beaker ...) for the > roles/nodes level only, and doing no (unit ?) testing on the profiles ? > > > I hope to just trigger a discussion on this topic that will bring me one > step closer to my own Test Driven Infrastructure. > > Grts > > Johan >
Hi Johan, Good timing, I just gave a talk[1] about this subject last week at Cascadia IT Conference in Seattle. Slide 41 starts talking about this. Using tools like beaker and serverspec are great for testing individual modules. A role is composed of many classes. A quick look at a simple role I have for a yum repo server has 36 classes in 23 modules. Monitoring is how we all test if production is working. Before deploying new code, suggest creating a representative system for each role that you manage and using your monitoring to ensure that it is working correctly. Tools like serverspec generally test locally on the system with tests such as is a port listening? is the service running? We want to test a system from the point of view of the consumer. In the example of the yum repo, you would want to have a separate system attempt to install a package served from that host. This approach also creates a nice loop between deployments and monitoring so that your monitoring (aka testing) of the services will improve. [1] - http://www.slideshare.net/gh/functional-testing-for-configuration-management-20150314-cascadia-it-conference/41 Best regards, -g -- Garrett Honeycutt @learnpuppet Puppet Training with LearnPuppet.com Mobile: +1.206.414.8658 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/550A7BF6.2060800%40garretthoneycutt.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
