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J0991
J0991

Reputation: 987

Chef Inspec test suites to verify Jenkins build node configurations

I currently have a build farm setup using Jenkins 2.46.3 LTS. I have a Jenkins Master installed on a physical server with 4 - 5 virtual machine build nodes running on VirtualBox.

I am thinking about managing the configuration of the virtual machines using Chef, however much of the software I need installed on these build nodes does not have a corresponding Chef Supermarket Cookbook. I do not feel confident enough with Chef to create my own cookbooks for managing these nodes.

I do have some experience writing Inspec tests in order to test a few wrapper cookbooks I have for some Chef Supermarket cookbooks. My question is; even if I do not have cookbooks that run to install this software initially on the nodes, is there a way to run a suite of inspec tests against the actual nodes (as oppose to using them to test a cookbook in a sandbox environment)?

My goal is to automate all the manual checks we would do to verify the build nodes are setup correctly. Ohai seems like it may be good for this as it diffs the configuration Chef has and what's on the managed node anyways.

If there is a better approach to completing this goal I would be happy to consider it as a solution.

Thanks to anybody with any experience with this! Any help or advice is welcome :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 587

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54181

I think you might be confusing InSpec with kitchen-inspec. The two are related, but independent (well, kitchen-inspec uses InSpec but you know what I mean). The Test Kitchen verifier runs some kind of test code against the test instances (usually VMs), but InSpec itself runs test code against whatever (real) servers you point it at.

Upvotes: 0

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