How to install the test harness on your workstation:

Pre-requisites: Ruby 1.8.7+

Automagically:

git clone https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-acceptance.git
bundle install

Manumatically:

git clone https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-acceptance.git
gem install rubygems net-ssh net-scp systemu

Running Systest requires at least one 'System Under Test' (SUT) upon which to run tests.

System Under Test

• SUT may be physical, virtual; local or remote.
• The SUT will need a properly configured network and DNS or hosts file.
• On the SUT, you must configure pass through ssh auth for the root user.
• The SUT must have the "ntpdate" binary installed
• The SUT must have the "curl" binary installed
• On Windows, Cygwin must be installed (with curl, sshd, bash) and the necessary windows gems (sys-admin, win32-dir, etc).
• FOSS install: you must have git, ruby, rdoc installed on your SUT.
• PE install: PE will install git, ruby, rdoc.

• The test harness is configuration driven
• The config file is yaml formatted
• The type of insallation and configuration is dictated by the config file, especialy for PE

Here we have the host 'ubuntu-1004-64', a 64 bit Ubuntu box, serving as Puppet Master, Dashboard, and Agent; the host "ubuntu-1004-32", a 32-bit Ubunutu node, will be a Puppet Agent only. The Dashboard will be configured to run HTTPS on port 443.

HOSTS:
  ubuntu-1004-64:
    roles:
      - master
      - agent
      - dashboard
    platform: ubuntu-10.04-amd64
  ubuntu-1004-32:
    roles:
      - agent
    platform: ubuntu-10.04-i386
CONFIG:
  consoleport: 443

You can setup a very different test scenario by simply re-arranging the "roles":

HOSTS:
  ubuntu-1004-64:
    roles:
      - dashboard
      - agent
    platform: ubuntu-10.04-amd64
  ubuntu-1004-32:
    roles:
      - master
      - agent
    platform: ubuntu-10.04-i386
CONFIG:
  consoleport: 443

In this case, the host 'ubuntu-1004-32' is now the Puppet Master, while 'ubuntu-1004-64' is the Puppet Dashboard host, resulting in a split Master/Dashboard install. Systest will automagically prepare an appropriate answers file for use with the PE Installer.

Systest has built in capabilites for managing VMs and provisioning SUTs:

VMWare vSphere VMWare Fusion EC2 via blimpy

Pre-requisite: Fission gem installed and configured, including a ~/.fissionrc that points to the vmrun executable and where VMs can be found. Example .fissionrc file (it's YAML): --- vm_dir: "/Directory/containing/my/.VMX/files" vmrun_bin: "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun"

You can then use the following arguments to Systest:

• --vmrun fusion tells us to enable this feature. This is required.
• --snapshot <name>, where is the snapshot name to revert to. This applies across all VMs, so it only makes sense if you want to use the same snapshot name for all VMs. This is optional.

We'll try and match up the hostname (from your configuration file) with a VM of the same name. Note that the VM is expected to be pre-configured for running acceptance tests; it should have all the right prerequisite libraries, password-less SSH access for root, etc.

There are a few additional options available in your configuration file. Each host section can now use:

• vmname: This is useful if the hostname of the VM doesn't match the name of the .VMX file on disk. The alias should be something fission can load.

• fission: A new subsection for fission-specific options, currently limited to:

  • snapshot: This is useful if you'd like to use different snapshots for each host. The value should be a valid snapshot name for the VM.

Example:

HOSTS:
  pe-debian6:
    roles:
      - master
      - agent
    platform: debian-6-i386
    vmname: super-awesome-vm-name
    fission:
      snapshot: acceptance-testing-5

Diagnostics:

When using --vmrun fusion, we'll log all the available VM names and for each host we'll log all the available snapshot names.

Pre-requisite: Blimpy gem installed and .fog file correctly configured with your credentials.

--vmrun blimpy

Currently, there is limited support EC2 nodes; we are adding support for new platforms shortly.

AMIs are built for PE based installs on:

• Enterprize Linux 6, 64 and 32 bit
• Enterprize Linux 5, 32 bit
• Ubuntu 10.04, 32 bit

Systest will automagically provision EC2 nodes, provided the 'platform:' section of your config file lists a supported platform type: ubuntu-10.04-i386, el-6-x86_64, el-6-i386, el-5-i386.

Used with --vmrun solaris, the harness can connect to a Solaris host via SSH and revert zone snapshots.

Example .fog file:

:default:
  :solaris_hypervisor_server: solaris.example.com
  :solaris_hypervisor_username: harness
  :solaris_hypervisor_keyfile: /home/jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa-harness
  :solaris_hypervisor_vmpath: rpool/zoneds
  :solaris_hypervisor_snappaths:
    - rpool/ROOT/solaris

The harness can use vms and snapshots that live within vSphere as well. To do this create a ~/.fog file with your vSphere credentials:

Example:

:default:
  :vsphere_server: 'vsphere.example.com'
  :vsphere_username: 'joe'
  :vsphere_password: 'MyP@$$w0rd'

These follow the conventions used by Cloud Provisioner and Fog.

You can now call the harness with the --vmrun vsphere option to select the VM named in your config.yml file.

Puppet FOSS Acceptance tests are stored in their respective Puppet repository, so you must check out the tests first, then the harness, as such:

git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet.git
cd puppet

git clone git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-acceptance.git
cd puppet-acceptance
ln -s ../acceptance acceptance-tests

./systest.rb --vmrun fusion -c ci/ci-${platform}.cfg --type git -p origin/2.7rc -f 1.5.8 -t acceptance-tests/tests --no-color --xml --debug

When performing a PE install, Systest expects to find PE tarballs and a LATEST file in /opt/enterprise/dists; the LATEST file indicates the version string of the most recent tarball.

$ [topo@gigio ]$ cat /opt/enterprise/dists/LATEST 
2.5.3

$ [topo@gigio ]$ ls -1 /opt/enterprise/dists
LATEST
puppet-enterprise-2.5.3-debian-6-amd64.tar.gz
<snip>
puppet-enterprise-2.5.3-ubuntu-12.04-i386.tar.gz

git clone [email protected]:your/test_repo.git
cd test_repo

git clone [email protected]:puppetlabs/puppet-acceptance.git
cd puppet-acceptance

./systest.rb -c your_config.cfg --type pe -t test_repo/tests --debug

./systest.rb -c your_cfg.cfg --debug --type git -p 2.7.x -f 1.5.8 -t path-to-your-tests 

path-to-test:
If you are testing on FOSS, the test for each branch can be found in the puppet repo under acceptance/tests

Special topic branch checkout with a targeted test: ./systest.rb -c your_cfg --type git -p https://github.com/SomeDude/puppet/tree/ticket/2.6.next/6856-dangling-symlinks -f 1.5.8 / -t tests/acceptance/ticket_6856_manage_not_work_with_symlinks.rb