PE502 - Test and Deliver 

Available for use with a subscription license or payment.

PE502 Test and Deliver will cover three key areas of testing:

Unit

Integration

Acceptance

You will learn how to write tests for your Puppet code that cover these critical areas, ensuring your code is robust, accurate and reliable. In this one-day, instructor-led course, we'll teach you the best practices gleaned from the journeys of our most successful customers.

In this course, you'll learn how to: 

• Test your Puppet code effectively using unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Write tests for your Puppet code that cover these critical areas, ensuring your code is robust, accurate, and reliable.
• Use the RSpec testing framework to write expressive and maintainable tests.
• Understand the internals of RSpec and rspec-puppet.
• Use the Puppet Development Kit (PDK) throughout the course.
• Understand just enough of the Ruby language to aid in the testing of Puppet code.
• Understand module dependency workflow, including .fixtures.yml and the Puppetfile.
• Set up an Rspec testing framework, test roles and profiles, and use Puppet’s Bolt and puppet apply to conduct acceptance testing.
• Participate in three fully interactive labs where you can practice writing tests for Puppet code in a sandbox environment.
• Examine a range of testing tools that can enhance your workflow, including Onceover, Litmus, Beaker, and Serverspec.
• Approach testing in a way that is flexible and adaptable to different tools and environments.
• Understand Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) principles, with a focus on using Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise to automate the testing and deployment of your Puppet code.
• Receive valuable developer tips for working with RSpec and testing Puppet code, based on real-world experience and best practices.

Concepts covered include: 

• Puppet Code Testing
• Rspec testing framework 
• Three levels of testing: Unit, Integration and Acceptance  
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver
  
  

Continue your journey on the path to Puppet certification

Completing PE 502: Test and Deliver takes you one step further along the path to acing the Puppet Certified Professional exam — a credential that proves to the job market you’ve got those highly sought-after skills in IT automation.

We also strongly recommend that you take the first three courses in this series: Puppet Enterprise 101: Deploy & Discover, Puppet Enterprise 201: Design & Manage, and Puppet Enterprise 301: Develop & Maintain.

Ask yourself: Am I ready for this?

This course is for you if you're familiar with the basics of Puppet software and are a site reliability engineer (SRE), sysadmin, or DevOps engineer who manages Windows or Linux. You should already know how to complete these tasks in Puppet Enterprise:

• Build, extend, and test modules that are self-contained and encapsulate the components of a given software application.
• Designate node groups so that you can deploy code to specific environments.
• Perform unit testing and syntax validation using Puppet Development Kit.

Be sure to check out the self-assessment checklist in the student prep guide so you’re prepared to get the most out of Puppet Enterprise 502: Test and Deliver. You can use the links that we provided to help you get up to speed where needed.