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Using Assert to Create a Test Suite
Within software development circles, there’s an idea called “Test Driven Development” and since the basic idea behind Ansible is to treat “infrastructure as code” – why wouldn’t you want to do some testing to verify the changes you intended to make are in fact made? This is where the Assert statement in Ansible comes in, […]
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Ansible and Templated Commands
I was working to automate some checks for the CIS Docker CE benchmark and was having trouble passing commands that resemble the following: Trying to pass that to either a shell or a command statement in ansible results in a templating error. So what’s the problem? Basically, you’re passing a command that has its own […]