rng-tools

Install and configure an rng-tools server.

General notes

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If you need (non-default) configuration, please pay attention to the pillar.example file and/or Special notes section.

Contributing to this repo

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Special notes

None.

Available states

rng-tools

Installs and configures the rng-tools package.

rng-tools.package

Installs the rng-tools package.

rng-tools.config

This state manages the file rng-tools under /etc/default (template found in "rng-tools/files"). The configuration is populated by values in "rng-tools/map.jinja" based on the package's default values (and RedHat, Debian, Suse and Arch family distribution specific values), which can then be overridden by values of the same name in pillar.

rng-tools.service

Manages the startup and running state of the rng-tools service.

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements

• Ruby
• Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

bin/kitchen converge

Creates the docker instance and runs the rng-tools main state, ready for testing.

bin/kitchen verify

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

bin/kitchen destroy

Removes the docker instance.

bin/kitchen test

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

bin/kitchen login

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.