With ansible-builder you can configure and build portable, consistent, customized Ansible control nodes that are packaged as containers by Podman or Docker. These containers are known as execution environments. You can use them on AWX or Ansible Controller, with Ansible Navigator, for local playbook development and testing, in your CI pipelines, and anywhere else you run automation.
You can design and distribute specialized execution environments for your Ansible content, choosing the versions of Python and ansible-core you want, and installing only the Python packages, system packages, and Ansible collections you need for your tasks.
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small, readable tests, and can scale to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries.
pytest requires: Python 3.8+ or PyPy3.
PyPI package name: pytest
pip install pytest
Bats: Bash Automated Testing System
Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.
A Bats test file is a Bash script with special syntax for defining test cases. Under the hood, each test case is just a function with a description.
Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.
A Bats test file is a Bash script with special syntax for defining test cases. Under the hood, each test case is just a function with a description.
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small, readable tests, and can scale to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries.
pytest requires: Python 3.7+ or PyPy3.
This article describes one approach to setting up a GitLab CI/CD pipeline for testing and deploying Ansible content.
Automate Software Testing and Delivery
Drone is a self-service Continuous Delivery platform for busy development teams.
SSLyze is a Python tool that can analyze the SSL configuration of a server by connecting to it. It is designed to be fast and comprehensive, and should help organizations and testers identify misconfigurations affecting their SSL servers.
Key features include:
- Multi-processed and multi-threaded scanning (it's fast)
- SSL 2.0/3.0 and TLS 1.0/1.1/1.2 compatibility
- Performance testing: session resumption and TLS tickets support
- Security testing: weak cipher suites, insecure renegotiation, CRIME, Heartbleed and more
- Server certificate validation and revocation checking through OCSP stapling
- Support for StartTLS handshakes on SMTP, XMPP, LDAP, POP, IMAP, RDP and FTP
- Support for client certificates when scanning servers that perform mutual authentication
- XML output to further process the scan results
- And much more !
You run tests more than once
It makes sense to automate anything you repeat 10+ times.
Taurus improves experience of JMeter, Selenium and others.
I use Ansible to automate the deployments of my websites (LinuxJobs.fr, Journal du hacker) and my applications (Feed2toot, Feed2tweet). I’ll describe in this blog post my setup in order to test my Ansible Playbooks locally on my laptop.
CalDAVTester is a test and performance application designed to work with CalDAV and / or CardDAV servers and tests various aspects of their protocol handling as well as performance.
CalDAVTester basically executes HTTP requests against a server and verifies the responses returned by the server. Suites of tests are defined in xml configuration files, and an additional xml configuration file is used to define variables used whilst running (e.g., server address, user accounts to use etc).
A test suite configuration file comprises the following items:
A start section where resources needed for the tests can be created
A set of test suites, comprising:
A set of tests, each of which can have:
A set of HTTP request/response/verify tests.
An end section to do clean-up after the tests are all done.The source code to CalDAVTester is available via GIT.
InSpec is compliance as code – a human-readable language for automating the continuous testing and compliance auditing of your entire infrastructure. You can also use it to verify if your servers and applications are configured correctly.