Users/jack/ansible tests

[jackjia-ibm]

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Relevant issues

This is pre-req work required by:

• issue Create a Jenkins job to test launching multiple copies & update of zowe from the same runtime #517
• issue Have the ability to run tests against all supported node environments #955
• issue Create builds for zowe-install-test on TSS/ACF2 #712
• issue Enable pipeline to apply PTFs zowe-install-test#163

Changes proposed in this PR

• Using Ansible to drive Zowe installation,
• New test cases of installation, which allows extension in the future,
• Sanity tests are imported from zowe-install-test.
• zowe-install-test can be archived soon after this is merged.

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• No

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[jackjia-ibm]

Test run are successful with:

• testing convenient build installation: https://wash.zowe.org:8443/job/zowe-install-test-ansible/job/users%252Fjack%252Fansible-tests/29/
• testing SMPE FMID installation: https://wash.zowe.org:8443/job/zowe-install-test-ansible/job/users%252Fjack%252Fansible-tests/32/

[stevenhorsman]

@jackjia-ibm - did you mean to add us as reviewers rather than assign the PR to us? Is it ready now?

[jackjia-ibm]

@stevenhorsman yes it's ready for reviewing the first stage work, which is converting all functions we have on zowe-install-test.

The ongoing and future works will be:

• port the PTF install test to playbooks,
• add extended test scenarios (multiple instances of installation, multiple node.js version, acf2/ts)
• add plugin install and test.

(I just noticed I "assigned" PR instead asked for "review", has been fixed.)

[stevenhorsman]

I can't claim to understand all the ansible stuff, but I've tried to go through and have a couple of minor suggestions to clean up/clarify. I'll try and get my hands dirty with it soon to understand it better soon.

[jackjia-ibm]

Thanks a lot @stevenhorsman for the suggestions. I've resolved all of them and ran another 2 tests:

• convenience build: https://wash.zowe.org:8443/job/zowe-install-test-ansible/view/change-requests/job/PR-1193/2/
• fmid: https://wash.zowe.org:8443/job/zowe-install-test-ansible/view/change-requests/job/PR-1193/4/

which are both successful.