Testing web app with infrataster and kitchenci

In some cases it's not sufficient to test if a nginx process is running or port 80 is open. There are some cases that before promote a change to production environment we need run some acceptance test.

I have been searching in google how to run some acceptance tests with Chef + Kitchen, and I found infrastaster, a Infraestucture Behavior Testing Framework. And on a project issue I has found a solution to run infrastaster with serverspec.

Next I show how I have implemented my own tests with infrastaster

The serverspec tests there are inside integration/default/serverspec/ directory in the chef-repo.

Create a file integration/default/serverspec/Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'infrataster'

Create a file integration/default/serverspec/spec_helper

require 'serverspec'
require 'infrataster/rspec'

set :backend, :exec

Infrataster::Server.define(:app, '127.0.0.1')

Create tests

require 'spec_helper'

describe port(80) do
  it { should be_listening.on('0.0.0.0').with('tcp') }
end

describe server(:app) do
  describe http('http://testing.shopswey.com') do
    it "responds content including 'Shopswey'" do
      expect(response.body).to include('Shopswey')
    end
  end
end

This test check if port 80 is open, and connect to http://testing.shopswey.com url to check if the response contains the string Shopswey

After create the test, you can run a kitchen verify to run the test. When you run the kitchen verify, Kitchen install infrastaster on the node.