This demonstrates using test-kitchen, ansible and busser-ansiblespec to build and verify a tomcat server.
Everything is done via ssh from the Ansible/Serverspec server so
Nothing is installed on the tomcat server apart from java and Tomcat.
In this demonstration both servers are Centos 7 running under vagrant and virtual box on your workstation, however the Tomcat server
could be anywhere like Amazon EC2, or a Docker Container.
You can take an image of the server after it is build and no configuration software is install on the Tomcat Server.
Workstation Software Installation
The first thing you need to do is install the test-kitchen environment on your workstation.
A useful link is:
http://misheska.com/blog/2013/12/26/set-up-a-sane-ruby-cookbook-authoring-environment-for-chef
The follow instructions are for Windows PC (it will be similar for Mac):
1. Download and install virtualbox from
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
2. Download and install Vagrant from
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
3. Download and install the Windows RubyInstaller for 32 bit Ruby 2.1 from
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
Check the option to add ruby to your path.
4. Download and install the Windows Ruby DevKit for use with Ruby 2.0 and above (32bits version only) from
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
5. Configure the Ruby DevKit
In the devkit directory run “ruby dk.rb init”.
Check the config.yml generated has added the the path of the ruby install, if not add it manually.
run “ruby dk.rb install” to bind it to the ruby installation.
6. Then install the following gems
gem install librarian-ansible
gem install test-kitchen
gem install kitchen-ansible
gem install kitchen-vagrant
gem install kitchen-verifier-serverspec
7. Install a git client on your workstation and then git clone the repository
https://github.com/neillturner/ansible_repo and in a command window in the ansible_repo directory run command
kitchen list
This will return a list if everything is correctly installed.
Create Servers in Virtual Box on your Workstation
1. Review the .kitchen.yml.ssh_vagrant file and rename as .kitchen.yml, specifying IP addresses that are part of your workstation private address space or
use DHCP to let the network dynamically allocte IP addresses.
2. To bring servers up using DHCP on your workstation run
kitchen create ansible-centos-70 -l debug
kitchen create tomcat-centos-70 -l debug
2. So ansible can access the server get the “private_key” file of the tomcat servers from directory
ansible_repo\.kitchen/kitchen-vagrant\kitchen-ansible_repo-tomcat-centos-70\.vagrant\machines\default\virtualbox\private_key
and copy to
ansible_repo\spec\tomcat_private_key.pem
3. Update the hosts file with the IP address of the tomcat server.
Build the Tomcat server
kitchen converge ansible-centos-70 -l debug
Verify the Tomcat server
kitchen verify ansible-centos-70 -l debug
