Introduction

Some deployment parts of openstack are based on puppet and so openstack host a bunch of openstack puppet based projects.

These projects are an effort by the Openstack infrastructure team to provide continuous integration testing and code review for OpenStack and OpenStack community projects as part of the core software.

Each project is a thorough attempt to make Puppet capable of managing the entirety of specific parts, like, nova, oslo, neutron, etc.

Each time you contribute to these projects you need to ensure yourself that your features works and that your changes fit well.

Openstack puppet based projects’ tests are designed by using the rspec-puppet framework.

However,rspec-puppet need several dependencies on your environment or your laptop, so it can be difficult to setup a puppet environment for testing purpose, especially when you are not a regular contributor to these puppet projects.

In this blog post we will show how to test your changes in a merely manner by using the rspec-container.

The rspec-container project provide to you a preconfigured environment via a pre designed container who will avoid you to spend time to setup this and to be more focused on your tests and features.

Prerequisites

To run this recipe you need to install the following tools:

• docker
• docker-compose
• git

Setup your lab

Here we start by setup our rspec lab.

First, clone the rspec-container project:

$ git clone git@github.com/cjeanner/rspec-container

Note that rspec-container will mount some default path and dotfiles:

• ~/work
• ~/.vimrc
• ~/.gitconfig

These mounts are defined in the docker-compose file.

The work directory normally contains your repositories and projects.

If like me you doesn’t have the work directory on your laptop and you don’t want to edit the docker compose file at each run, you can create a symlink who narrow your own development directory.

By example in my case it looks like to:

$ ln -s ~/dev ~/work

Then now you can start your lab and enter on:

$ docker-compose up &
Creating rspec-container_rspec_1 ... done
Attaching to rspec-container_rspec_1
$ docker exec -it rspec-container_rspec_1 /bin/bash

Test your projects

As I’m an openstack oslo core developer, I will use the puppet-oslo project as an example here.

Consider that we are in connected to our lab, and consider that we have already cloned the puppet-oslo project under ~/work, so our environment look like:

$ ls -la ~/work
drwxrwxr-x. 12 herve herve 4096 Nov 25 10:36 puppet-oslo

Then go to your project directory (or clone your own if needed):

$ cd work/puppet-oslo
$ bundle install
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
Fetching version metadata from https://rubygems.org/...
Fetching dependency metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Fetching https://opendev.org/openstack/puppet-openstack_spec_helper
Installing rake 13.0.1
Installing CFPropertyList 2.3.6
Installing concurrent-ruby 1.1.5
Installing minitest 5.13.0
Installing thread_safe 0.3.6
...
Using puppet-openstack_spec_helper 16.0.0 from https://opendev.org/openstack/puppet-openstack_spec_helper (at master@d38ed71)
Bundle complete! 3 Gemfile dependencies, 139 gems now installed.
Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
$ # be sure to add binaries to your env
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
$ bundle exec rake spec # depend on your project but sometime `spec` will be named `rspec`
rm -rf openstack/puppet-openstack-integration
git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/puppet-openstack-integration openstack/puppet-openstack-integration
Cloning into 'openstack/puppet-openstack-integration'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7326, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (7326/7326), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3291/3291), done.
remote: Total 7326 (delta 5063), reused 6193 (delta 4005)
Receiving objects: 100% (7326/7326), 1.27 MiB | 415.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5063/5063), done.
env PUPPETFILE_DIR=/home/hberaud/work/redhat/upstream/openstack/puppet-oslo/spec/fixtures/modules ZUUL_BRANCH= bash openstack/puppet-openstack-integration/install_modules_unit.sh
...
Finished in 1 minute 51.47 seconds (files took 2 minutes 4.5 seconds to load)
1050 examples, 0 failures 

If everything work fine you will see a message who looks like to something like:

Finished in 1 minute 51.47 seconds (files took 2 minutes 4.5 seconds to load)
1050 examples, 0 failures

Now that your environment works and can spend time to develop your tests and do some back and forth with your patches.