Ansible-superset

An Ansible role to install superset on an Ubuntu distribution.

It was developed in TDD with idempotency checks using the Molecule framework, and with Travis-CI.

Dependencies for development

• Some dependencies are needed to run molecule, as stated on the ! doc.

    $apt-get update
    $apt-get install gcc python-pip python-vagrant libssl-dev libffi-dev

• Create a Python environment dedicated for this project, with Conda env for instance.

    $conda create --name ansible_molecule python=2.7 ansible docker molecule
    $source activate ansible_molecule

• You can then run molecule and test that the build is passing correctly. sudo rights may be necessary.

    $cd superset
    $molecule test || OR || $sudo molecule test.

Ansible role details

The role was built according to the superset installation guildelines from the Apache repository.

• System dependencies for Superset are installed
• Pip package dependencies for Superset are installed
  • Some of them are updated through pip.
• Superset and its database are initialized through the fabmanager.
• The superset server can be launched.

TODO

• Test idempotency of the fabmanager custom module.
• Create a superset module.
• Check idempotency for this superset module.
• Check health of the superset server after it has been launched.

Missing tests with test-infra

• Check that the superset database exists after using the fabmanager.
• Check that it contains a superset user as defined.
• Check its rights.
• Check the table it contains according the superset load-examples command.
• Check health of the superset server after it has been launched.