Serverspec demo

Steps

To connect to a remote host

1. Move example_roles.yaml to roles.yaml
2. Replace IP with IP or hostname in roles.yaml
3. bundle install
4. bundle exec rake acceptance

To use Vagrant

1. bundle install
2. cd vagrant
3. bundle exec rake

This will use the 'centos/7' box. If you already have a box and do not want to download another, you may use an existing box by replacing 'centos/7' in the Vagrantfile with a box name of your choice. To see what boxes you have available type vagrant box list.

spec/spec_helper.rb for windows

If connecting to a Windows system, replace the contents of spec/spec_helper.rb with the text below.

require 'serverspec'
require 'winrm'

set :backend, :winrm

user = ENV['SERVERSPEC_USER']
pass = ENV['SERVERSPEC_PASSWORD']
endpoint = "http://#{ENV['TARGET_HOST']}:5985/wsman"
puts "endpoint is #{endpoint}"

winrm = ::WinRM::WinRMWebService.new(endpoint, :ssl, :user => user,
:pass => pass, :basic_auth_only => true)
winrm.set_timeout 300 # 5 minutes max timeout for any operation
Specinfra.configuration.winrm = winrm