Walkthrough different types of tests that can be written, run against puppet codebase, focusing on integration tests.

1. Testing Puppet
@EslamElHusseiny

2. Agenda
• Motivation
• Why to test ?
• Different types of tests
• Tools
• Demo

3. Motivation

4. Why to test ?

5. Different types of tests

6. Puppet tests
•Puppet Lint “Validate Puppet style guidelines”
•Validate Syntax
•puppet parser validate
•r10k puppetfile check
•erb -x -T '-' template/example.erb| ruby -c
•Unit tests “rspec-puppet”
•Integration tests!

7. Tools

8. KitchenCI
•http://kitchen.ci
•Your infrastructure deserves tests too
•multiple drivers
•multiple platforms
•many testing frameworks

9. KitchenCI
•Install
gem install test-kitchen
•Initialisation
kitchen init
•Destroy, Create, Converge, Setup, Verify, and
Destroy
kitchen test

10. ServerSpec
•http://serverspec.org
•RSpec tests for your servers configured by
CFEngine, Puppet, Ansible, or anything else.
•Tests your servers’ actual state by executing
command locally, via SSH, Docker API, etc…

11. ServerSpec snippet

12. Demo!

14. Thanks!
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