How to set up your testing infrastructure using Docker, Ansible and Jenkins to run multiple tests from different environments and optimize for speed. A good example of what Continuous Integration means and how to integrate a complete test suite with Github. Jumpstart your tests by using Docker images and automate with Ansible playbooks.

1. Testing with Jenkins, Docker and Ansible

2. Move fast, but don’t break things
● Agile development
● Continuous Integration
● But don’t break production
● Testing, testing, testing

3. Goals
● Test everything after committing to master
● Test on different platforms
● Reduce testing time
● Automate and re-use

4. But why so many tests?
● Test the deployment of the app in a clean
environment, a fresh build.
● Test the deployment in a staging
environment and ensure backwards
compatibility
● Test the interface against multiple browsers

5. Jenkins
● Mature and widely used
● Very flexible
● Easily extendable via plugins
● Github integration

6. Docker
● Fast and lightweight containers
● Docker images can jumpstart the process
● Dockerfiles for automation
● Docker repositories let us reuse images

7. Ansible
● Deployment automation
● Flexible configuration through playbooks
● Orchestration

8. The Process
● Jenkins responds to Github commits
● Calls Ansible to spawn our test servers
● Servers use Docker images to optimize test
speed

9. Dockerfile example
FROM ubuntu:latest
MAINTAINER mist.io
RUN echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main universe" > /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN apt-get update
RUN mkdir MIST
RUN cd MIST && git clone https://github.com/mistio/mist.io
WORKDIR MIST/mist.io
RUN git pull
RUN virtualenv . && ./bin/pip install --upgrade setuptools
RUN ./bin/python bootstrap.py && ./bin/buildout -N
ADD ./test_config.py src/mist/io/tests/features/
ADD ./init.sh /
ENTRYPOINT ./init.sh

10. Dockerfile example
● FROM Chooses the base image (ubuntu/latest)
● RUN Runs the following commands.
● ADD Adds files from our host machine to the docker
image.
● ENTRYPOINT This tells docker to start with ./init.sh
script every time we run the image

11. Ansible hosts file
Group your servers in an ansible_hosts file:
[testservers]
testserver1 ansible_ssh_host=178.127.33.109
testserver2 ansible_ssh_host=178.253.121.93
testserver3 ansible_ssh_host=114.252.27.128[testservers:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=mister
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/testkey

12. Define docker in playbook
- name: Add Docker repository key
sudo: True
apt_key: url="https://get.docker.io/gpg"- name: Add Docker repository
sudo: True
apt_repository:
repo: 'deb http://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main'
update_cache: yes- name: Install Docker
sudo: True
apt: pkg=lxc-docker state=present
notify: "Start Docker"

13. Define docker in playbook
- name: Make dir for io docker files
command: mkdir -p docker/iotest- name: Copy io Dockerfiles
template:
src=templates/iotest/Dockerfile.j2 dest=docker/iotest/Dockerfile- name: Copy io init scripts
copy:
src=templates/iotest/init.sh dest=docker/iotest/init.sh- name: Build docker images for io
sudo: True
command: docker build -t mist/iotest docker/iotest

14. Thank you!
● Jenkins-Github integration: https://wiki.jenkins-
ci.org/display/JENKINS/GitHub+Plugin
● Complete code and examples: http://blog.mist.io/post/82383668190/move-
fast-and-dont-break-things-testing-with
● A more advanced Ansible setup:
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/move-fast-and-dont-break-things-
testing-with-jenkins-ansible-and-docker/