Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
As I mentioned in my presentation at PuppetCamp, one of the goals of our Puppet code testing was to run Puppet Faces-style compile tests on all of our modules. Since this requires a somewhat realistic deployment environment, a clean system, and our modules to be installed as packages (since that's how we are distributing our own modules) it makes sense to run this stage in a throwaway virtual…