Puppet users - Mar 2012 - Developing new modules using Puppet Sandbox

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share a simple project I created called Puppet
Sandbox [1]. It''s a multi-VM Vagrant-based Puppet development
environment used for creating and testing new modules outside of your
production environment. I also made a screencast that provides a brief
overview of the project [2]. There''s still a bit of work to be done,
but the basics are all in place. Let me know what you think!

[1] https://github.com/elasticdog/puppet-sandbox
[2] http://vimeo.com/elasticdog/puppet-sandbox-demo

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Screen cast looks cool, can''t wait to dig into the code.

I''m at the beginning (3rd day?) of a similar project using cucumber to
drive module tests on virtual boxes using vagrant.  I''ve been focusing
on puppet "apply"ing single tasks (a module and its dependencies) to a
variety of operating systems and verifying it works.

I definitely am for the end to end testing the VM gets you.
Cucumber-puppet and Rspec-puppet both seem to just look at the
generated manifest which can be valid but still do the worng thing
(try installing "chromium" instead of "chromium-browser" on
a Debian
system fo ran example :) )

Setting up a whole client server virtual environment seems like it may
be over kill, but if your environment uses exported resources it may
be necessary.

-Jon

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On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:11:52 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Proulx
wrote:
>
> Screen cast looks cool, can''t wait to dig into the code.
>
> I''m at the beginning (3rd day?) of a similar project using
cucumber to
> drive module tests on virtual boxes using vagrant.  I''ve been
focusing
> on puppet "apply"ing single tasks (a module and its dependencies)
to a
> variety of operating systems and verifying it works.
>
Very cool! It would be awesome to have an automated way to test manifests 
cross-platform.

Puppet Sandbox isn''t too complex at this point, it just takes the
headache
out of configuring this type of environment and allows you to stay away 
from your production setup. It still needs tweaking to work on multiple 
platforms, and I''d love for some of the templates it creates to be more
dynamic so they could pick up changes based on info in the Vagrantfile, but 
it works as expected with the default configuration.

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on a related note. I am a little over a week into starting to write a tool
to streamline my module development efforts.

It is intended to model multi-node deployments and to support running
integration tests.

It is all ec2 based (I had to abandon my vagrant + rake workflow b/c it
just did not scale for large complicated app deployments)

I am not quite ready to share, it doesn''t have any docs yet, its just a
bunch of code. I am happy to share the source if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/bodepd/stack_builder


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, elasticdog <aaronschaefer@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:11:52 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Proulx wrote:
>>
>> Screen cast looks cool, can''t wait to dig into the code.
>>
>> I''m at the beginning (3rd day?) of a similar project using
cucumber to
>> drive module tests on virtual boxes using vagrant.  I''ve been
focusing
>> on puppet "apply"ing single tasks (a module and its
dependencies) to a
>> variety of operating systems and verifying it works.
>>
>
> Very cool! It would be awesome to have an automated way to test manifests
> cross-platform.
>
> Puppet Sandbox isn''t too complex at this point, it just takes the
headache
> out of configuring this type of environment and allows you to stay away
> from your production setup. It still needs tweaking to work on multiple
> platforms, and I''d love for some of the templates it creates to be
more
> dynamic so they could pick up changes based on info in the Vagrantfile, but
> it works as expected with the default configuration.
>
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> Aaron Bull Schaefer
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