OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition

Testing requirements

In Chapter 4, Building the Deployment Pipeline, we wrote some basic tests for our OpenStack deployment using shell tools. In this section, we'll combine the code examples discussed earlier in the chapter with the Python unit test library to generate a set of automated tests that can be run from Jenkins to verify our deployment. The following example, which uses the Python unittest and requests libraries, is very simple, but can be used as a starting point:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
 
import unittest 
import requests #http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest 
import json 
 
KEYSTONE_URL = 'http://controller01:5000/v2.0/' 
TENANT       = 'demo' 
USERNAME     = 'demo' 
PASSWORD     = 'secret' 

Once we've imported the necessary libraries and set the ...