AnsibleSpec

This is a Ruby gem that implements an Ansible Config Parser for Serverspec. It creates a Rake task that can run tests, using Ansible inventory files and playbooks. You can test multiple roles and multiple hosts.

Features

• Supports Serverspec v2
• Supports special host variables
  • ansible_ssh_port
  • ansible_ssh_user
  • ansible_ssh_host
  • ansible_ssh_private_key_file
• Supports host patterns/ranges -- e.g.: www[01:50].example.com
• Supports Ansible dynamic inventory sources

Installation

$ gem install ansible_spec

Usage

Create Rakefile & spec/spec_helper.rb

$ ansiblespec-init
    create  spec
    create  spec/spec_helper.rb
    create  Rakefile
    create  .ansiblespec

[Optional] .ansiblespec

By default, site.yml will be used as the playbook and hosts as the inventory file. You can either follow these conventions or you can customize the playbook and inventory using an .ansiblespec file.

---
-
  playbook: site.yml
  inventory: hosts
  hash_behaviour: merge

[Optional] Environment variables

You can use environment variables with the rake command. They are listed below.

• PLAYBOOK -- playbook name (e.g. site.yml)
• INVENTORY -- inventory file name (e.g. hosts)
• HASH_BEHAVIOUR -- hash behaviour when duplicate hash variables (e.g. merge)

Environment variables take precedence over the .ansiblespec file.

Example:

$ PLAYBOOK=site.yml INVENTORY=hosts rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD
or
$ PLAYBOOK=site.yml rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD
or
$ INVENTORY=hosts rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD
or
$ HASH_BEHAVIOUR=merge rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD

HASH_BEHAVIOUR is same as Ansible's hash behaviour parameter. By default, 'replace'. See http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_configuration.html#hash-behaviour.

Inventory

Inventory files can:

• use standard ansible parameters
  • ansible_ssh_port
  • ansible_ssh_user
  • ansible_ssh_private_key
  • ansible_ssh_host
• define hosts as expressions. host-[1:3] would expand into host-1,host-2,host-3
• Group Children
• Use dynamic inventory sources

Sample

[server]
# skip line(comment)
# normal
192.168.0.1
# use port 5309
192.168.0.3:5309
# use port 22
192.168.0.2 ansible_ssh_port=22
# use Private-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa
192.168.0.4 ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsa
# use user `git`
192.168.0.5 ansible_ssh_user=git
# use port 5555 & host 192.168.1.50
jumper ansible_ssh_port=5555 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.50

[web]
# www1.example.com to www99.example.com
www[1:99].example.com
# www01.example.com to www99.example.com
www[01:99].example.com

[databases]
# db-a.example.com to db-z.example.com
db-[a:z].example.com
# db-A.example.com to db-Z.example.com
db-[A:Z].example.com

# Multi Group. use server & databases
[parent:children]
server
databases

Dynamic Inventory Sources

(Note: These files need to have execute permission)

#!/bin/bash
echo '{"databases": {"hosts": ["host1.example.com", "host2.example.com"],"vars":{"a": true}}}'

Variables

Ansible variables supported by following condition.

• Playbook's variables are supported. If same variable is defined in different places, priority follows Ansible order.
• Variables defined main.yml in role's tasks are not supported.
• Inventry variables are not supported.
• Facts are not supported.

Sample

Support variables are in site.yml, group_vars, host_vars, roles.

├── site.yml
├── group_vars
│   ├── all.yml
│   ├── dbserver.yml
│   └── webserver.yml
├── host_vars
│   ├── 192.168.1.1.yml
│   └── 192.168.1.2.yml
└── roles
    ├── apaches
    │   └── vars
    │       └── main.yml
    └── mariadb
        └── vars
            └── main.yml

Define variable(site.yml)

- name: Ansible-Variable-Sample
  hosts: webserver.yml
  user: root
  vars:
    - www_port: 8080
  roles:
    - nginx

Spec file(roles/nginx/spec/nginx_spec.rb)

describe port(property['www_port']) do
  it { should be_listening }
end

Sample

Directory

sample is here

.
├── .ansiblespec                 # Create file (use Serverspec). read above section.
├── README.md
├── hosts                        # use Ansible and Serverspec if .ansiblespec is not exist.
├── site.yml                     # use Ansible and Serverspec if .ansiblespec is not exist.
├── nginx.yml                    # (comment-out) incluted by site.yml
├── roles
│   └── nginx
│       ├── handlers
│       │   └── main.yml
│       ├── spec                 # use Serverspec
│       │   └── nginx_spec.rb
│       ├── tasks
│       │   └── main.yml
│       ├── templates
│       │   └── nginx.repo
│       └── vars
│           └── main.yml
├── Rakefile                     # Create file (use Serverspec)
└── spec                         # Create file (use Serverspec)
    └── spec_helper.rb

Playbook

playbook can use include

- name: Ansible-Sample-TDD
  hosts: server
  user: root
  roles:
    - nginx
- name: Ansible-Sample-TDD2
  hosts: parent
  user: root
  roles:
    - nginx

Run Test

$ rake -T
rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD   # Run serverspec for Ansible-Sample-TDD
rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD2  # Run serverspec for Ansible-Sample-TDD2

$ rake serverspec:Ansible-Sample-TDD
Run serverspec for Ansible-Sample-TDD to 192.168.0.103
/Users/Adr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby -S rspec roles/mariadb/spec/mariadb_spec.rb roles/nginx/spec/nginx_spec.rb
...........

Finished in 0.34306 seconds
11 examples, 0 failures

Contributing

To set up a development environment:

$ bundle install

To run the tests:

$ bundle exec rspec

To contribute your change, create a GitHub pull request as follows:

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request at https://github.com/volanja/ansible_spec