acceptance tests

[josephholsten]

With most providers, the only really reliable tests are acc tests. We should at least get some basic tests up.

What's the easiest way to throw up an octopus server?

[josephholsten]

Looks like https://github.com/DimensionDataDevOps/cookbook-octopus is deprecated in favor of https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/OctopusDSC, anyone used that?

[josephholsten]

oh, if we wanted to use chef, there's always https://github.com/cvent/octopus-deploy-cookbook.

[tintoy]

Meh, tomayto-tomato. We can make it work with any of those. Costs money for a virtual server to run the acceptance tests. I'd be willing to stump up some cash for that but only if the CI that actually runs acceptance tests is throttled to a limited number of runs per day and the server is created / destroyed on each run (could get expensive otherwise).

[josephholsten]

@tintoy then it might make more sense to just build an image instead of configuring from scratch every time. So https://github.com/beaudryj/octo-box

Got any preference for hosting?

[tintoy]

Hmm - probably Azure; I'll look into whipping up TF configuration for it this weekend.

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[tintoy]

Ok, I'm going to build a config for acceptance tests this afternoon.

[tintoy]

Still working on this, BTW, but work is a little hectic for the next week or so. Will try to finish it off as soon as I get the time :)

[fenneh]

I'm not sure what the current status is of this project, if still alive and kicking then it may be worth considering the Octopus marketplace app: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/octopus.octopusdeploy

[josephholsten]

I’m not actively doing any work on the provider. @fenneh are you wanting anything improved? Do you need any help to be able to contribute?

[fenneh]

@josephholsten - Was toying with the idea of writing something from scratch and came across this. Will bang in a PR if I get the time to sit down and do something worthwhile.

[josephholsten]

@fenneh awesome! And honestly, if you think something from scratch would be better, have at it. Alive and usable is always better than dead and backwards-compatible.

[tintoy]

Hi - sorry, I've been flat-out on a bunch of other projects so I never got around to organising hosting for the acceptance tests to run. I'm wondering whether it's perhaps worth using something like Vagrant so whoever needs to run the tests can do so locally? Doing acceptance tests as part of CI is going to cost money unfortunately 😞

I'd love to see someone pick this up and run with it (other time commitments mean I just don't have time to give this the attention it deserves but I'd be happy to pitch in if anyone else is interested in driving it forwards).