1. Testing Ansible Infrastructure
with Serverspec
Docker, Serverspec, Ansible, Travis-ci and Test Kitchen.
Ben Visser

2. Why do we care
about infra
testing?
we have ~50 ansible roles

3. The 3 Tools
Test Kitchen
This is what we use to spin
up a consistent virtual
environment to run our tests
on.
Serverspec
This is like rspec for
servers. We use it to test
that our infrastructure
does what we want it to.
describe file('/etc/passwd') do
it { should be_file }
end
Travis-ci
This is a hosted CI tool
that we use to spin up a
virtual env with test
kitchen and run tests
with serverspec.

4. Test Kitchen Components

5. 1.Drivers
Test Kitchen
Drivers allow you to run your tests on cloud
providers or locally with virtualization.
e.g docker, vagrant, azure, aws, and more.

6. 2. Platforms
Test Kitchen
Platform is the operating system you are
running your tests on.
e.g mint, ubuntu, windows

7. 3.Provisioners
Test Kitchen
A provisioner is the configuration
management tool used to provision the
environment.
e.g ansible, salt, chef, puppet

8. 4. Test Suites
Test Kitchen
A test suite is the tests you would like to verify
against the environment.
eg. Bats, Cucumber, Rspec, Serverspec

9. Our Testing Experiences

10. First try... we only useed .travis.yml
.travis.yml

11. Second try...
.travis.yml

12. Second try...
.kitchen.yml

13. Second try...
serverspec tests

14. https://github.com/telusdigital/ansible-nginx
Example repo

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