On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Alex Harvey <alexharv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am investigating whether or not I can use Beaker to do acceptance > testing on roles and profiles. > > I've had a look at Liam Bennett's excellent blog posts - > > http://tech.opentable.co.uk/blog/2014/09/01/testing-puppet-with-beaker-pt-dot-3-testing-roles/ > http://www.slideshare.net/liamjbennett/cfgmgmt2015-testing-with-beaker > > I need to handle a situation in my tests where, say, a role that I am > testing will apply a base class which will cause the node, for instance, to > join a FreeIPA domain. But I don't want Beaker to actually build a FreeIPA > box. And I don't want my short-lived node to join a real FreeIPA domain. > > I would hope that Beaker could either build Mock Services > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object > > Or better still, tell Beaker to expect the base class to try to apply the > FreeIPA class, and just pretend it succeeds. Just as you can stub out > methods in rspec etc. > > Has anyone done anything like this before? > Have you looked into rspec-puppet (http://rspec-puppet.com/)? It should let you do things like apply a class to a node (the role class) and then inspect the catalog generated to see if it includes the base class in question, without having to spin up a new machine (as long as you correctly stub your facts) or worry about a machine actually connecting to a FreeIPA domain. After you have a strong base of rspec-puppet tests I would use Beaker to ensure that the roles can *actually* spin up a FreeIPA box and join a similarly spun up domain, in a way that can *relatively* quickly smoke test small changes at a time before pushing them to a staging environment. HTH, Justin > Kind regards, > Alex Harvey > > -- > 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/5493914c-ecc9-42e4-ad90-4151e0e75fbc%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/5493914c-ecc9-42e4-ad90-4151e0e75fbc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CA%2B%3DBEqVP49Az08FLYJoFo2SSgs4esXa2TQvAmaYPjwBUO8Kb6A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
