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GoIardi Functional Test Suite

An RSpec based test suite to verify goiardi with standard knife commands.

This test suite uses unprivileged LXC for setting up goiardi server in a dedicated container, and testing bootstrapping and chef runs against the goiardi server from seperate containers.

Setup

  • We recommend setting up a ubuntu 14.04 instance for testing, which support unprivileged LXC out of the box.
  • Install LXC, build essential and other development libraries
apt-get install liblxc1 lxc lxc-dev lxc-templates python3-lxc cgmanager-utils build-essential
  • Install ruby and bundler either via apt or via rbenv/ruby-build, anything above ruby 1.8.7 should work fine.
  • Run bundle install sh bundle install --path
  • Invoke the test suite
bundle exec rake spec

A working example of setting up unprivileged LXC via chef can be found here, you can use [GoatOS Base][https://github.com/GoatOS/base] as well if you want a generic LXC based cookbook testing framework.

How the tests work

As part of the test suite following is done in chronological order:

  • goiardi is installed in a fresh ubuntu 14.04 container using chef
  • admin and validation keys are copied over from goiardi container to host system
  • a series of knife CRUD operations on chef domain objects (client, node, cookbooks, databags etc) is performed against the goiardi server
  • 3 more containers are created, bootstrapped using knife against the goiardi server
  • cookbooks involving search is applied against the new container/chef nodes, and assetions are made against search outcomes (files).