Debugging Acceptance Tests Using Beaker

If you are writing acceptance tests for your SIMP module and using SIMP tooling, this guide will help you figure out what's going wrong.

Step-by-step guide

1. Run your acceptance tests.  You can use rake -D acceptance and rake -D beaker to see all the variable available for acceptance testing.:

   $ BEAKER_destroy=onpass rake acceptance # or whatever rake command you need

2. SSH into the created vagrant boxes and run the same manifests that beaker did:
   
   

   1. Change into the directory containing the generated Vagrantfiles

      $ cd .vagrant/beaker_vagrant_files/default.yml

   2. Run vagrant status to find the names of generated VMs

      $ vagrant status Current machine states: server running (virtualbox) client running (virtualbox) This environment represents multiple VMs. The VMs are all listed above with their current state. For more information about a specific VM, run `vagrant status NAME`.

   3. As vagrant user, SSH from the host machine into a VM listed in the output of the vagrant status command

      $ vagrant ssh server

   4. On the VM, become root

      $ sudo -s

   5. To examine the applied manifests, change to the /tmp directory

      # cd /tmp

   6. Find the manifests and apply them manually with puppet apply

      # ls apply_manifest.pp.yo1P5i # puppet apply apply_manifest.pp.yo1P5i

   7. When you are done debugging, exit out of your SSH session and destroy the VMs

      # exit $ exit $ vagrant destroy

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