ch1aki / ansible-test-kitchen-exmaple

Explaining how to use test kitchen with ansible roles

Ansible Test Kitchen Example

We can use test-kitchen with inspec to run some basic tests for our ansible roles.

Test kitchen allows us to do the following

1. spin up docker container
2. provision container using ansible role
3. test that our ansible role did everything we wanted it to

The files contained in this repo should be enough to get you easily started with testing ansible roles using serverspec.

0. requirements.yml

This are the dependencies listed in meta/main of your ansible role. If there are no dependecies, remove requirements_path: from .kitchen.yml

1. .travis.yml

Describes how to run everything on travis-ci. If you are not using travis-ci, you can omit this file.

2. .kitchen.yml

Describes what to run our serverspec tests on (docker, vagrant, ec2), and how to provision our hosts.

3. /test/integration/default/default.yml

This is the ansible playbook we run to provision our hosts. The most basic function is just installing our ansible role on the host machine.

4. /test/integration/default/default_spec.rb

This is the inspec file that contains the tests to run against our hosts. For resource types see the documentation.