Testing Ansible code with Drone.

1. Drone your
Ansible
Dennis Rowe
@shr3kst3r
wpengine.com

2. Drone
•https://github.com/drone/drone
•“Drone is a Continuous Integration
platform built on Docker, written in
Go”
•Buzzword score: 4

3. Show Time
•Deploy Droid
•Hook it up to Github
•Test some Ansible code
•Poke around the Drone UI

4. Update Kernel
•apt-get update
•apt-get install linux-image-
generic-lts-raring linux-headers-
generic-lts-raring
•reboot

5. Install Docker
• apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://
keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys
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21E9
• sh -c "echo deb https://get.docker.io/ubuntu
docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
docker.list"
• apt-get update
• apt-get install lxc-docker

6. Install Drone
•wget http://downloads.drone.io/
latest/drone.deb
•dpkg -i drone.deb
•start drone

7. http://IP/install

8. Register Drone with
Github

9. Important Numbers

10. Add to Drone

11. New Repository

12. Authorize

13. Add Repository

14. Notes
•First run can take a looooong time
because it needs to download the
Docker image.

15. Completed Run

16. Poking at Docker

17. Now the
Configuration

18. Pull
•GitHub
•BitBucket

19. Deployment
•Cloud Foundry
•Engine Yard
•Git Push
•Bash
•Heroku
•Modulus
•Nodejitsu
•Tsuru

20. Publish
•S3
•Swift
•PyPI
•NPM
•Docker

21. Services
•cassandra
•couchdb
•elasticsearch
•neo4j
•mongodb
•mysql
•postgres
•rabbitmq
•redis
•riak
•zookeeper

22. Notifications
•E-Mail
•Webhook
•Hipchat

23. Other Stuff
•Can launch custom Docker
containers
•Can persist directories between
builds
•Parameter injection in to
the .drone.yml

24. .drone.yml
image: python2.7
env:
script:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install ansible
- sudo pip install https://github.com/willthames/ansible-lint/archive/master.zip
- sudo apt-get install rubygems
- sudo gem install serverspec
- sudo gem install rake
- sudo ./drone_it
notify:
email:
recipients:
- dennis@wpengine.com

25. drone_it
•Lints the Ansible code
•Deploys the Ansible code
•Runs server-spec to verify
•https://github.com/shr3kst3r/
ansible-drone-example/blob/
master/drone_it

26. Thoughts
•Would like to be able to test
multiple docker images (https://
github.com/drone/drone/issues/6).
•Hard to create complex setups.
•Can’t edit /etc/hosts because it is a
bind mount.

27. Odds and Ends
•https://github.com/shr3kst3r/
ansible-drone-example
•You can reach me at
dennis@wpengine.com or
@shr3kst3r on the twitters