rng-tools

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Install and configure an rng-tools server.

1. General notes

See the full SaltStack Formulas installation and usage instructions.

If you are interested in writing or contributing to formulas, please pay attention to the Writing Formula Section.

If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

See Formula Versioning Section for more details.

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

2. Contributing to this repo

2.1. Commit messages

Commit message formatting is significant!!

Please see How to contribute for more details.

3. Special notes

None.

4. Available states

4.1. rng-tools

Installs and configures the rng-tools package.

4.2. rng-tools.package

Installs the rng-tools package.

4.3. 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.

4.4. rng-tools.service

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

5. Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

5.1. 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.

5.2. bin/kitchen converge

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

5.3. bin/kitchen verify

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

5.4. bin/kitchen destroy

Removes the docker instance.

5.5. bin/kitchen test

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

5.6. bin/kitchen login

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.