Testing Ansible Playbooks In Your Kitchen

Speaker: Robby Callicotte

Room: CC 234

Time: Sat 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Format: Lecture (30 Min + Q&A)

Difficulty: Some experience required

Track: DevOps

Presenter Location: In-person

Experience: first time speaking

At: at lfnw

Description:

You’ve written some Ansible playbooks — but how do you *really* know they work before pushing them to production? This session explores how to safely and repeatably test your Ansible automation using Test Kitchen with lightweight virtualization tools such as Docker, Podman, Vagrant, or QEMU.

Attendees will learn how to:

Build reproducible local test environments for Ansible

Validate roles and tasks automatically before deployment

Write simple verification checks

Integrate tests into a CI pipeline

Catch errors early and increase confidence in automation

Whether you're new to Ansible or managing complex infrastructure, this talk shows how to “cook” reliable playbooks without burning down your servers.

Target Audience:

Anyone interested in automating their desktop or infrastructure