I have a similar requirement as Jon Forrest who opened this topic. I notice some time has passed since then, so I thought I'd just tap you guys up to see if anyone had any further solutions.
I'd like to use Jenkins to Unit Test come configs we use whenever someone commits them. The idea is that we'd take a particular config, "compile" the templates and copy them to test box and fire up the relevant apps. We can then shoot our Unit Tests at applications on the test box and report on how many tests passed or failed. In order to do this, I need to find a way to "compile" the .erb templates into their resulting config files. I'll then push them onto my test server and start up the apps. This would check the syntax of the configs, but mostly means I have an box running that is pretty much the same as what I'm going to deploy in the future. In Jon's case, this would mean he'd have a name server that not only has a valid syntax, but also could respond to queries (so could be unit tested). In my case, I can just fire some HTTP requests at the box and make sure it's what I thought it was going to be. Does anyone know if it's possible to do something like "compile" the templates? In an ideal world, I'd just run something like "puppet_generate_file /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf" and get the resulting file on STDOUT (possibly on the machine that would normally receive the file in question). Even better would be if I could do this on an entirely different machine and still get the same result (maybe something like "puppet_generate_file otherserver.example.com:/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf"). Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
