Puppet and Jenkins integration

Question

I have a requirement to run puppet-parser-validate, and puppet-lint on my existing puppet infrastructure. I have a Jenkins Job that is triggered on code push to the git repository. The project structure is as follows:

puppet
--certs
--environments
----beta0-10
----production
----staging
--json
--manifests
--modules
----builds
----master
----node
--scripts

Where should I include the testing files to run puppet-pareser-validate/puppet-lint against anything that ends with .pp ('*.pp') while utilising a jenkins server. Can somebody help me with this?

Answer 1

Rake is sophisticated test runner written in Ruby and is a standard way of running test. You can do it with help of systems such as Rake. 

You can see example of Rake files when you generate new Puppet module with puppet module generate companyname-modulename command. 

In root directory of your project you will find Rakefile where you will see default configuration. In default configuration you can see that validation task is already done and ready to use. Make sure that paths are set accurately.

To run validation task you need to make sure that gems mentioned in Gemfile are installed. You can do it with bundle install. To run validation task just run 

bundle exec rake validate