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Testing

Prerequisites

System Images Used

Licensing

Debian team has stopped creating official images due to licensing issues with hashicorp.

Image repositories

Alternatively a non-maintained Debian image may be created.

Molecule Setup

Standard molecule setup for vagrant with virtualbox VM.

molecule.yml (1)

  1. 0644 {USER}:{USER}

---
dependency:
  name: 'galaxy'
driver:
  name: 'vagrant'
  provider:
    name: 'virtualbox'
    enable_efi: true
    # provider_raw_config_args:
    #   - "customize [ 'modifyvm', :id, '--firmware', 'efi' ]"
    config_options:
      ssh.keep_alive: true
      ssh.remote_user: 'root'  # Vagrant login user (check VM image).
    options:
      append_platform_to_hostname: false
provisioner:
  name: 'ansible'
  config_options:
    defaults:
      interpreter_python: 'auto_silent'  # Suppress warnings.
      callback_whitelist: 'profile_tasks, timer, yaml'  # Display profiling.
  # inventory:  # Set all base testing configuration here.
  #   group_vars:
  #     all:
  #       setup_variables: true
  #   host_vars:
  #     {IMAGE}-{TEST}:
  #       setup_variables: true
platforms:
  - name: '{ROLE}-{IMAGE}-vm-{TEST}'
    box: 'inception-of-things/trixie'
    memory: 4096
    cpus: 2
    interfaces:
      - network_name: 'private_network'  # Required.
        auto_config: true
        type: 'dhcp'
        # type: static
        # ip: 192.168.56.10  # default is 192.168.56.0/21
    instance_raw_config_args:
      - 'vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8443, host: 8443'
      - 'vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8080, host: 8080'
      - 'vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8880, host: 8880'
      - 'vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8443, host: 8843'
verifier:
  name: 'ansible'
# Disable testing steps as needed with explicit reasons to minimize warnings.
scenario:
  test_sequence:
    - 'dependency'
    - 'cleanup'
    - 'destroy'
    - 'syntax'
    - 'create'
    - 'prepare'
    - 'converge'
    - 'idempotence'
    - 'side_effect'
    - 'verify'
    - 'cleanup'
    - 'destroy'
Reference:

converge.yml (1)

  1. 0644 {USER}:{USER}

- name: 'Molecule testing step'
  hosts: 'all'
  gather_facts: false
  # Always **become** ssh.remote_user when creating Molecule tests or setup an
  # ansible user after VM turnup to apply ansible tasks.
  become: true
Reference: