[Puppet Users] Re: Testing manifests before you check in?

Julian Simpson
2009-06-14T20:47:21Z

Thanks for sharing, David.  Maybe there''s the rub.  The big systems
can''t be reduced down to such a simple approach, and the little
systems don''t require such rigour?  I don''t run many nodes but
I do
have this obsessing with testing infrastructure.

J.

> One of my problems with this approach is my heavy usage of
> export/collect. A significant portion of my problems only surface after
> more than one node has exported resources AND another one has collected
> them. For me that means that a serious setup will have to have a live
> testing environment that has instances of all live services and
> integrates all recent changes from the developers. Changes that have
> survived a few days without killing the testing environment then can be
> rolled out into production.
>
>
> For my personal systems I just develop in the "development"
environment
> and manually test on the live servers with "puppetd --test
> --environment=development --noop" until I''m satisfied. Which,
I have to
> admit is not very rigorous. But then, I''m a one-man, few-nodes
outfit
> and can cut corners, others can''t cut.
>
>
>
> Regards, DavidS
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