There’s lots of content already out there about puppet CI testing; this is what I initially came up with using GitLab CI, and with various other improvements such blogged about previously in posts tagged gitlab-runner such as:

• Separate rake files. A lot of examples I found had very long complicated rake files to define different ‘subroutines’ that could then be called. For the beginner, a three line rake file that does one job is easier to understand and maintain.
• Less litter in root of the git repo.

Running under a shell executor initially, this is my CI setup.

# ci/definition.yml before_script: - /bin/bundle install --gemfile=ci/Gemfile stages: - syntax - lint - git lint: stage: lint script: - BUNDLE_GEMFILE=ci/Gemfile /bin/bundle exec rake --rakefile ci/rakefile_lint lint syntax-manifests: stage: syntax script: - BUNDLE_GEMFILE=ci/Gemfile /bin/bundle exec rake --rakefile ci/rakefile_syntax syntax:manifests syntax-templates: stage: syntax script: - BUNDLE_GEMFILE=ci/Gemfile /bin/bundle exec rake --rakefile ci/rakefile_syntax syntax:templates syntax-hiera: stage:…