Re: Using Ansible inventory scripts for Test Subjects

[Stef Walter]

I've merged the proposed change below, and worked further on the pull
request implementing the standard inventory scripts:

https://pagure.io/standard-test-roles/pull-request/9#

Next, I'll look into Ansible inventory_plugins as a way to provide these
scripts as a default for tests that do not provide their own
tests/inventory directory.



Cheers,

Stef

On 23.06.2017 13:47, Stef Walter wrote:
>  On 23.06.2017 13:17, Stef Walter wrote:
> > On 23.06.2017 08:42, Frederic Lepied wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Stef Walter <stefw(a)redhat.com
> >> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Summary: I'd like to use Ansible "inventory" [0] to describe
> test
> >>     subjects to be tested:
> >>
> >>     http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html
> >>     <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html>
>  
>  <snip>
>  
>  I have made a proposed change to the spec to enable use of inventory
>  instead of test subject specific playbooks.
>  
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Changes%2FInvokingTestsAnsibl...
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InvokingTestsAnsibleTwo
>  
>  Your feedback is welcome.
>  
>  The use of an inventory script is a better way to convert a test subject
>  into a target that an ansible playbook can be launched against.
>  
>  Many tests will use default inventory scripts included in
>  standard-test-roles [0]. While at the same time leaving this firmly
>  under control of tests that need to be more complex.
>  
>  I will work on examples next, and split out the documentation from that
>  page. Sorry for the slow progress here.
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Stef
>  
>  [0] https://pagure.io/standard-test-roles/pull-request/9
>