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).