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Quickly validate puppet manifests in a git repo.

 Mon 17 September 2012 by tvd

I have been bitten on more than one occasion with a forgotten curly brace or missing comma in a puppet manifest. So, I wrote a little git post-commit script that will validate all manifests in a repo. I have tested it on a repo with ~60 modules and ~400 manifests, and it only adds a little bit of latency to committing (less than 1s on my system with the email disabled).

I still like to use continuous integration via Travis or Jenkins to run smoke tests, spec tests, and lint. This post-commit commit script just provides some quick feedback for syntax errors.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Parse all manifests. Send notification if errors exist.

require 'puppet/face'

# Email sending config
SEND_MAIL=false
SMTP_HOST='localhost'
RECIPIENTS=''

busted_manifests = []
errors = []

# Iterate through all manifests, recording which ones fail.
Dir.glob('**/{manifests,tests}/**/*.pp').each do |manifest|
pparse = Puppet::Face['parser', :current]
begin
   pparse.validate(manifest)
rescue Puppet::Error => e
   busted_manifests << manifest
   errors << e.to_s
end
end

if not busted_manifests.empty?
   subject = "#{busted_manifests.length} busted manifests..."
   body = busted_manifests.join(', ') + "\n\n" + errors.join("\n\n")

   puts subject + "\n\n" + body + "\n"

   if SEND_MAIL
      # Send some email.
      require 'net/smtp'
      require 'socket'
      sender = "repo@#{Socket.gethostname}"
      message = <<EOM
From: #{sender}
To: #{RECIPIENTS}
Subject: #{subject}
#{body}
EOM

      Net::SMTP.start(SMTP_HOST) do |smtp|
         smtp.send_message message, sender, RECIPIENTS
      end
   end
end

Monitoring RabbitMQ Queues with Zabbix
Sun 09 October 2011 by tvd

Recently I setup some monitoring on a RabbitMQ server using Zabbix. This process is by no means difficult, but I thought it was worth sharing.

I was looking for a solution that did not require additional plugins or packages, but would perform well. Some useful tools for monitoring include: the …

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