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Using Serverspec tests to verify images built using Packer
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Using Serverspec tests to verify images built using Packer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/garethr/packer-serverspec-example
• Owner: garethr
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-01-01T15:17:36.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-04-18T17:58:33.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-02T01:50:28.648Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 243 KB
• Stars: 97
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Packer Serverspec Example

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[Packer](http://www.packer.io/) provides a great way of describing the steps

for creating a virtual machine image. But it doesn't have a built-in way

of verifying those images.

[Serverspec](http://serverspec.org/) provides a nice framework for

writing tests against infrastructure, asserting the operation of

services or the installation of packages.

This repo demonstrates a simple integration between Packer and

Serverspec, using Serverspec tests to validate the instance provisioning

before the image is created.

 

## Installation

First you need to [install

Packer](http://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/setup.html).

Next download the Puppet modules described in the Puppetfile. For this

we're using [Bundler](http://bundler.io/) which you'll need installed.

    bundle install

    bundle exec librarian-puppet install

## Usage

Now you'll need to set a couple of Amazon environment variables:

    export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxxx

    export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxxx

And finally run Packer:

    packer build template.json

This will boot an AWS instance, install Puppet, use Puppet to install various

bits of software, then run the test suite. Only if all of that works

will it build the AMI.