Jenkins and similar tools could integrate with Vagrant to built an environment and run some tests, which would probably be a valid way to do it; at least it could be another layer of testing.
But we already have service monitors on the infrastructure which, ostensibly, tells us if a host is doing what is it "programmed" to do. Using another suite of automated test scripts is a duplication of effort and ripe for problems. The monitor and Jenkins may not be testing the same things, leading to a situation where a configuration tests OK but breaks in production. On the other hand, a service monitor expects to be monitoring a system over a long period of time and none that I know of have the ability to "test host X for service Y right now and only once". On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected] > wrote: > Oh, also, you should be able to automate your testing environment using > something like Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/), which I've recently > found and fallen in love with. > > --Matt > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Matt Simmons < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you looked at Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins ( >> http://jenkins-ci.org/)? >> >> --Matt >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Atom Powers <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Building on the "infrastructure as code" idea I have been thinking >>> about how to write tests for the infrastructure. Service monitoring seems >>> like the obvious answer and I am imagining something like a test suite for >>> a "development" version of the configuration management system that would >>> be used in much the same way as a programmer uses a test suite to make sure >>> his program works. >>> >>> Has anybody done something like this? I imagine the biggest hurdle will >>> be setting up the development environment, complete with scratch hosts and >>> monitoring that can be reconfigured frequently for those hosts, depending >>> on what is being tested. >>> >>> -- >>> Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. >>> --Atom Powers-- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> http://lopsa.org/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? >> COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. >> > > > > -- > LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? > COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. > -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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