Puppet users - Oct 2011 - Recommendation for module-level and full integration testing puppet configuration.

All,

I''ve been using puppet in production for some time now, using a
staging environment duplicate to my production setup for developing
and testing puppet modules. Not, however, in an automated fashion: I
write, I run ''puppet agent --test'' and I repeat until
satisfied.
Sometimes, owing to partial application of a faulty configuration,
I''ll sneak bad puppet modules into production but not often. (If
puppet could grow transaction support, even up to a point, that would
be a very useful feature.)

While this setup works I hate it. It''s tedious, not automated and
error prone. I wonder, what are the puppet configuration testing
experiences of other on this list? What have you gotten cobbled
together, what works and what does not? I''m especially interested in
experiences using Jenkins/Hudson, as we''re already using that for our
internal projects.

-- 
Brian L. Troutwine

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* Brian Troutwine [2011-10-27]:
> While this setup works I hate it. It''s tedious, not automated and
> error prone. I wonder, what are the puppet configuration testing
> experiences of other on this list? What have you gotten cobbled
> together, what works and what does not? I''m especially interested
in
> experiences using Jenkins/Hudson, as we''re already using that for
our
> internal projects.
I have a description of the setup I used at my former job at

http://blog.nistu.de/2010/01/18/continuous-integration-for-puppet/

Since then I wrote cucumber-puppet and integrated it into the mix. This
doesn''t address the issue of spinning up VMs and actually applying
catalogs, but still helped find bugs before manifests went into
production.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding the setup.

cheers,

Nikolay

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Wally

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