petardenev / puppet_repo

Puppet Repo with serverspec acceptance tests in beaker directory format

puppet_repo

puppet repo with serverspec acceptance tests in beaker directory format. The tests are stored in the repository rather than separately in /test/integration (as is the chef format)

This demonstrates using test-kitchen, puppet and kitchen-verifier-serverspec to build and verify a server.

Workstation Software Installation

The first thing you need to do is install the test-kitchen environment on your workstation. A useful link is: http://misheska.com/blog/2013/12/26/set-up-a-sane-ruby-cookbook-authoring-environment-for-chef/

The follow instructions are for Windows PC (it will be similar for Mac):

1. Download and install virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
2. Download and install Vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
3. Download and install the Windows RubyInstaller for 32 bit Ruby 2.1 from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
   • Check the option to add ruby to your path.
4. Download and install the Windows Ruby DevKit for use with Ruby 2.0 and above (32bits version only) from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
5. Configure the Ruby DevKit
   • In the devkit directory run “ruby dk.rb init”.
   • Check the config.yml generated has added the the path of the ruby install, if not add it manaully.
   • run “ruby dk.rb install” to bind it to the ruby installation.
6. Then install the following gems

• gem install librarian-puppet
• gem install test-kitchen
• gem install kitchen-puppet
• gem install kitchen-vagrant
• gem install kitchen-verifier-serverspec

7. git clone the repository https://github.com/neillturner/puppet_repo
8. Either Run verify locally or remotely

• Set environment variable KITCHEN_YAML to either .kitchen.localexec.yml or .kitchen.remote.yml
• To run serverspec verify either locally from workstation or remotely on the server that is configured
• Review the kitchen yaml file, specifying an IP address that is part of your workstation private address space or use DHCP to let the network dynamically allocte IP address.

Check everything installed

In a command window in the puppet_repo directory run command

kitchen list

This will return a list if everyting is correctly installed.

Create Servers in Virtual Box on your Workstation.

kitchen create base-nocm-centos-65 -l debug

Build the server.

kitchen converge base-nocm-centos-65 -l debug

Copy vagrant generated private key.

If using the .kitchen.localexec.yml so the verifier can access the server get the “private_key” file of the tomcat servers from directory puppet_repo/.kitchen/kitchen-vagrant/kitchen-puppet_repo-base-nocm-centos-65/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox and copy to puppet_repo/private_key.pem

Verify the server.

kitchen verify base-nocm-centos-65 -l debug

Shutdown the server.

kitchen destroy base-nocm-centos-65 -l debug