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How do I test cookbooks in test kitchen that depend on tags?

I have a cookbook that depends on a tag. It searches for nodes with a given tag and gets their names and IPs using search(:node, 'tag:MyTag'). How would I mock this up in test kitchen?

Is there mock node objects I can use? It doesn't have to communicate with other nodes I just want to test that search() is successfully pulling down the right info.

Solution

  • When using serverspec, chef-zero will use the directory test/integration/ as the default repo location. This is where you can place some node files to simulate other nodes connected to the same chef server.

    ├── Berksfile
├── chefignore
├── metadata.rb
├── README.md
├── recipes
│   └── default.rb
└── test
    └── integration
        ├── default
        │   └── serverspec
        │       └── default_spec.rb
        ├── helpers
        │   └── serverspec
        │       └── spec_helper.rb
        └── nodes
            ├── demo1.json
            └── demo2.json

    demo1.json

    {
  "name": "demo1",
  "normal": {
    "tags": [
      "DEMO=1"
    ]
  }
}

    demo2.json

    {
  "name": "demo2",
  "normal": {
    "tags": [
      "DEMO=1"
    ]
  }
}

    Update

    I have a cookbook that tests Jenkins master and slaves using this technique