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Setting up Beaker

Setting up Beaker - Puppet Tutorial

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Setting up Beaker

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- [Instructor] Beaker can be tricky to set up, so we'll run through how it works and how to set up a simple Vagrant based node for testing. We'll be using Beaker-Rspec, which extends Beaker with Rspec, so it's a bit closer to the testing syntax we've already covered in Puppet-Rspec. To begin, I'm going to install a gem called Bundler. This will let us use a local copy of gems the same way that Travis CI does. We don't have to mess with our system gems. Now that that's finished installing, we need to add the Beaker-Rspec gem to our gem file. Now I'm in the root of the elk module we created, and I'll edit the gem file. There's a lot going on in this file. This is the automatically generated one, so try not to be too overwhelmed. We actually want to scroll down here where it says group development. We're going to create a new section right here and we'll call it group acceptance, since we're doing acceptance tests. And I'll just close that block and all I need to say is gem Beaker-Rspec…

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