Automated Ansible Testing with Molecule

Infrastructure testing provides some challenges just because of the mere fact you are building machines and not just compiling code. To test Ansible, I used to run Ansible with --syntax-check and --list-tasks. For roles I would run local tests with Vagrant using the tests/ directory in the role. The tests had Ansible test itself with the uri module or other checks. This is ok for simple checks but can be cumbersome and time consuming as it doesn’t catch everything....

September 30, 2017 · 2 min · 339 words · John Hooks