About V2

Serverspec/Specinfra v2 has been just released. See the document about v2.

About

With Serverspec, you can write RSpec tests for checking your servers are configured correctly.

Serverspec tests your servers’ actual state by executing command locally, via SSH, via WinRM, via Docker API and so on. So you don’t need to install any agent softwares on your servers and can use any configuration management tools, Puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Itamae and so on.

But the true aim of Serverspec is to help refactoring infrastructure code.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'serverspec'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install serverspec

Getting Started

$ serverspec-init Select OS type: 1) UN*X 2) Windows Select number: 1 Select a backend type: 1) SSH 2) Exec (local) Select number: 1 Vagrant instance y/n: n Input target host name: www.example.jp + spec/ + spec/www.example.jp/ + spec/www.example.jp/sample_spec.rb + spec/spec_helper.rb + Rakefile + .rspec

spec/www.example.jp/sample_spec.rb is a sample spec file and its content is like this.

require 'spec_helper' describe package ( 'httpd' ), :if => os [ :family ] == 'redhat' do it { should be_installed } end describe package ( 'apache2' ), :if => os [ :family ] == 'ubuntu' do it { should be_installed } end describe service ( 'httpd' ), :if => os [ :family ] == 'redhat' do it { should be_enabled } it { should be_running } end describe service ( 'apache2' ), :if => os [ :family ] == 'ubuntu' do it { should be_enabled } it { should be_running } end describe service ( 'org.apache.httpd' ), :if => os [ :family ] == 'darwin' do it { should be_enabled } it { should be_running } end describe port ( 80 ) do it { should be_listening } end

You can write spec for testing servers like this.

Serverspec with SSH backend logs in to target servers as a user configured in ~/.ssh/config or a current user. If you’d like to change the user, please edit the below line in spec/spec_helper.rb .

options [ :user ] ||= Etc . getlogin

Run tests.

$ rake spec /usr/bin/ruby -S rspec spec/www.example.jp/sample_spec.rb Package "httpd" should be installed Service "httpd" should be enabled should be running Port "80" should be listening Finished in 0.21091 seconds (files took 6.37 seconds to load) 4 examples, 0 failures

Remark

serverspec test suites are meant to be run against a single machine (or docker container).