1. Tests

1.1. Debug

- debug:
    msg: "This always displays"

- debug:
    msg: "This only displays with ansible-playbook -vv+"
    verbosity: 2

1.2. Smoke Tests

  • You can use waitfor module

  • You can use logfile and regexp expressions

- name: check for proper response
  uri:
    url: http://localhost:8080/
    return_content: yes
  register: result
  until: '"Hello World" in result.content'
  retries: 10
  delay: 1

1.3. Playbook Syntax

  • yamllint

  • ansible-playbook --syntax-check

  • ansible-lint

1.4. Pre-deployment

  • molecule test (integration)

  • Run entire Playbook on fresh environment

  • Molecule become de-facto standard

  • It will be an official Ansible project

1.5. Dry Mode

  • ansible-playbook --check (against prod)

  • ansible-playbook -C

  • Run playbook, but do not make modifications

1.6. Deployment

  • Parallel infrastructure

  • Deploy at small subset of servers first

  • If deployment succeed, switchover

1.7. References