ansible_repo

Ansible Repository for testing ansible using test kitchen and verfier-serverspec via ssh. It is assumed that the servers is already running (in AWS or somewhere) and accessible via ssh.

Verifier Serverspec run options

verifier-serverspec installs software on the server and runs serverspec on the server.

• Remotely directly on the server running serverspec in exec mode
• Locally on your workstation running serverspec in ssh mode
• Remotely directly on the server running serverspec in ssh mode It can also run on your workstation and test the server remotely, to do this set remote_exec: false in the kitchen.yml file.

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 64 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 (64bits 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 test-kitchen
• gem install kitchen-ansible
• gem install kitchen-vagrant
• gem install kitchen-verifier-serverspec

7. git clone the repository https://github.com/neillturner/ansible_vagrant_repo

kitchen list

This will return a list if everything is correctly installed.

Access the servers via ssh.

kitchen create ansible-centos-70 -l debug

Build the server.

kitchen converge ansible-centos-70 -l debug

Verify the server.

kitchen verify ansible-centos-70 -l debug

Destroy the server.

kitchen destroy ansible-centos-70 -l debug