Testing the LVM Snapshot Role
Prerequisites
- All the tests are in the form of ansible playbooks.
- All playbooks expect that the target machine will have a secondary storage device to be used for testing.
Variables
The variables may be passed as part of the inventory or using a separate file.
device: < device node without `/dev`. e.g. vdb >
Ansible Configuration
In order to run the tests from the repo without having to install them, the tests directory includes an ansible.cfg file. Make sure to point to it when running the test playbook
Running a test
Inventory file
In this example, the device parameter is passed in the inventory.yml file
all:
hosts:
<FQDN of test machine>:
device: vdb
Command line
Running the snapshot revert playbook test from the repo
ANSIBLE_CONFIG=./tests/ansible.cfg ansible-playbook -K -i inventory.yml tests/test-revert-playbook.yml