is

• A unit test framework for servers written in Ruby
• Based on the rspec testing framework for Ruby
• Agentless & OS independent

is NOT

• A configration management tool, although...
• An IDS, although...
• An monitoring system, although...

Installation

# gem install serverspec

will install Serverspec and all dependencies

Writing a test

require 'serverspec'

set :backend, :exec

context 'My first serverspec test' do
  describe file('/etc/passwd') do
    it { should exist }
    it { should be_file }
    it { should be_owned_by 'root' }
  end 
end

Running the test

$ rspec my_first_test_spec.rb 
...

Finished in 0.64969 seconds \
 (files took 4.04 seconds to load)
3 examples, 0 failures

...verbose

$ rspec -f d my_first_test_spec.rb 

My first serverspec test
  File "/etc/passwd"
    should exist
    should be file
    should be owned by "root"

Finished in 0.76407 seconds \
 (files took 3.53 seconds to load)
3 examples, 0 failures

...and for management

interactive html reports

Syntax

Specinfra Supported Operating Systems

• Linux
• Docker
• LXC
• Amazon AWS
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• Solaris
• AIX
• Windows

Specinfra Backends

• cmd
• dockerfile
• docker
• exec
• lxc
• powershell
• shell_script
• ssh
• telnet
• winrm

Combined with

• sudo