Looking for a tool that shows the output of puppet-lint and rspec-puppet on a screen like jenkins

[030]

Is it possible to check the Puppet code using Jenkins or something? Would it be possible to indicate that the build fails by interpreting the outcome of puppet-lint and rspec-puppet?

The aim is to run a kind of build once changes have been made to the Puppet code. Puppet-lint and rspec-puppet are helpfull, but is it possible to visualize it on a screen like Jenkins does?

If false would it be an idea to create a new project or extend the rspec-puppet and puppet-lint with this?

[jantman]

I'm sort of confused by what you mean by "visualize it on a screen". Jenkins can run ANY command, and interprets failures by whether the command failed. It's also very common to do this with TravisCI, and in fact most puppet modules include a .travis.yml file by default. The same configuration, more or less, will work for Jenkins.

I know there were a couple of presentations at PuppetConf this year about CI for puppet; those might prove helpful ( http://info.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf-2014-videos-and-presentations.html ), and I'm sure that googling "puppet jenkins ci" would get you some information on how to do what you want.

There's no need to indicate that a build fails by interpreting output. Both commands (rspec and puppet-lint) will exit non-0 if there was an error, or 0 on success. In addition, there are a number of libraries out there with Rake tasks to handle common testing. For example, the current_module branch of my puppet-reviewboard module ( https://github.com/jantman/puppet-reviewboard/tree/current_module ) is tested by an internal Jenkins instance; Jenkins simply runs bundle install --path vendor and then bundle exec rake test; this runs puppet-lint, syntax (parser validate) and rspec tests, and exits non-zero if any of them fail; any command that exits non-zero in a shell builder in Jenkins will cause the build to be failed.

In addition, I have RSpec generating a results.xml JUnit file (for an example see https://github.com/jantman/puppet-reviewboard/blob/current_module/.rspec) which is parsed by Jenkins and displayed graphically.

[rnelson0]

This request is a bit out of scope for puppet-lint, closing.