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Goss - Quick and Easy server validation
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<!-- markdownlint-enable line-length no-inline-html -->Note: For testing containers see the dgoss wrapper. Also, user submitted wrapper scripts for Kubernetes kgoss and Docker Compose dcgoss.
Note: For some Docker/Kubernetes healthcheck, health endpoint, and container ordering examples, see my blog post here.
Introduction
What is Goss?
Goss is a YAML based serverspec alternative tool for validating a server's configuration. It eases the process of writing tests by allowing the user to generate tests from the current system state. Once the test suite is written they can be executed, waited-on, or served as a health endpoint.
Why use Goss?
- Goss is EASY! - Goss in 45 seconds
- Goss is FAST! - small-medium test suites are near instantaneous, see benchmarks
- Goss is SMALL! - <10MB single self-contained binary
Installation
Note: For macOS and Windows, see: platform-feature-parity.
This will install goss and dgoss.
Note: Using curl | sh
is not recommended for production systems, use manual installation below.
# Install latest version to /usr/local/bin
curl -fsSL https://goss.rocks/install | sh
# Install v0.4.8 version to ~/bin
curl -fsSL https://goss.rocks/install | GOSS_VER=v0.4.8 GOSS_DST=~/bin sh
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Manual installation
Latest
curl -L https://github.com/goss-org/goss/releases/latest/download/goss-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/goss
chmod +rx /usr/local/bin/goss
curl -L https://github.com/goss-org/goss/releases/latest/download/dgoss -o /usr/local/bin/dgoss
# Alternatively, using the latest master
# curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/goss-org/goss/master/extras/dgoss/dgoss -o /usr/local/bin/dgoss
chmod +rx /usr/local/bin/dgoss
Specific Version
# See https://github.com/goss-org/goss/releases for release versions
VERSION=v0.4.8
curl -L "https://github.com/goss-org/goss/releases/download/${VERSION}/goss-linux-amd64" -o /usr/local/bin/goss
chmod +rx /usr/local/bin/goss
# (optional) dgoss docker wrapper (use 'master' for latest version)
VERSION=v0.4.8
curl -L "https://github.com/goss-org/goss/releases/download/${VERSION}/dgoss" -o /usr/local/bin/dgoss
chmod +rx /usr/local/bin/dgoss
Build it yourself
make build
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Full Documentation
Using the container image
Using the Goss container image
Quick start
<!-- --8<-- [start:quickstart] -->Writing a simple sshd test
An initial set of tests can be derived from the system state by using the add or autoadd commands.
Let's write a simple sshd test using autoadd.
# Running it as root will allow it to also detect ports
$ sudo goss autoadd sshd
Generated goss.yaml
:
port:
tcp:22:
listening: true
ip:
- 0.0.0.0
tcp6:22:
listening: true
ip:
- '::'
service:
sshd:
enabled: true
running: true
user:
sshd:
exists: true
uid: 74
gid: 74
groups:
- sshd
home: /var/empty/sshd
shell: /sbin/nologin
group:
sshd:
exists: true
gid: 74
process:
sshd:
running: true
Now that we have a test suite, we can:
- Run it once
$ goss validate
...............
Total Duration: 0.021s # <- yeah, it's that fast..
Count: 15, Failed: 0
- Edit it to use templates, and run with a vars file
goss --vars vars.yaml validate
- keep running it until the system enters a valid state or we timeout
goss validate --retry-timeout 30s --sleep 1s
- serve the tests as a health endpoint
$ goss serve &
$ curl localhost:8080/healthz
# JSON endpoint
$ goss serve --format json &
$ curl localhost:8080/healthz
# rspecish response via content negotiation
$ goss serve --format json &
$ curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.goss-rspecish" localhost:8080/healthz
Manually editing Goss files
Goss files can be manually edited to improve readability and expressiveness of tests.
A Json draft 7 schema available at https://goss.rocks/schema.yaml makes it easier to edit simple goss.yaml files in IDEs, providing usual coding assistance such as inline documentation, completion and static analysis. See #793 for screenshots.
For example, to configure the Json schema in JetBrains intellij IDEA, follow documented instructions, with arguments such as:
schema url=https://goss.rocks/schema.yaml
schema version=Json schema version 7
file path pattern=*/goss.yaml
In addition, Goss files can also be further manually edited (without yet full json support) to use:
- Patterns
- Advanced Matchers
- Templates
title
andmeta
(arbitrary data) attributes are persisted when adding other resources withgoss add
Some examples:
user:
sshd:
title: UID must be between 50-100, GID doesn't matter. home is flexible
meta:
desc: Ensure sshd is enabled and running since it's needed for system management
sev: 5
exists: true
uid:
# Validate that UID is between 50 and 100
and:
gt: 50
lt: 100
home:
# Home can be any of the following
or:
- /var/empty/sshd
- /var/run/sshd
package:
kernel:
installed: true
versions:
# Must have 3 kernels and none of them can be 4.4.0
and:
- have-len: 3
- not:
contain-element: 4.4.0
# Loaded from --vars YAML/JSON file
{{.Vars.package}}:
installed: true
{{if eq .Env.OS "centos"}}
# This test is only when $OS environment variable is set to "centos"
libselinux:
installed: true
{{end}}
Goss.yaml files with templates can still be validated through the Json schema after being rendered
using the goss render
command. See example below
$ cd docs
$ goss --vars ./vars.yaml render > rendered_goss.yaml
# proceed with json schema validation of rendered_goss.yaml in your favorite IDE
# or in one of the Json schema validator listed in https://json-schema.org/implementations.html
# The following example is for a Linux AMD64 host
$ curl -LO https://github.com/neilpa/yajsv/releases/download/v1.4.1/yajsv.linux.amd64
$ chmod a+x yajsv.linux.amd64
$ sudo mv yajsv.linux.amd64 /usr/sbin/yajsv
$ yajsv -s goss-json-schema.yaml rendered_goss.yaml
rendered_goss.yaml: fail: process.chrome: skip is required
rendered_goss.yaml: fail: service.sshd: skip is required
1 of 1 failed validation
rendered_goss.yaml: fail: process.chrome: skip is required
rendered_goss.yaml: fail: service.sshd: skip is required
Full list of available Json schema validators can be found in https://json-schema.org/implementations.html#validator-command%20line
<!-- --8<-- [end:quickstart] --> <!-- --8<-- [start:about] -->Supported resources
- package - add new package
- file - add new file
- addr - add new remote address:port - ex: google.com:80
- port - add new listening [protocol]:port - ex: 80 or udp:123
- service - add new service
- user - add new user
- group - add new group
- command - add new command
- dns - add new dns
- process - add new process name
- kernel-param - add new kernel-param
- mount - add new mount
- interface - add new network interface
- http - add new network http url with proxy support
- goss - add new goss file, it will be imported from this one
- matching - test for matches in supplied content
Supported output formats
- rspecish - (default) Similar to rspec output
- documentation - Verbose test results
- json - JSON, detailed test result
- tap - TAP style
- junit - JUnit style
- nagios - Nagios/Sensu compatible output /w exit code 2 for failures.
- prometheus - Prometheus compatible output.
- silent - No output. Avoids exposing system information (e.g. when serving tests as a healthcheck endpoint).
Community Contributions
<!-- markdownlint-disable line-length -->- goss-ansible - Ansible module for Goss.
- degoss - Ansible role for installing, running, and removing Goss in a single go.
- ansible-goss-install - Ansible role for installing Goss (option for install as user or root)
- kitchen-goss - A test-kitchen verifier plugin for Goss.
- goss-fpm-files - Might be useful for building goss system packages.
- packer-provisioner-goss - A packer plugin to run Goss as a provision step.
- gossboss - Collect and view aggregated Goss test results from multiple remote Goss servers.
Limitations
goss
works well on Linux, but support on Windows & macOS is alpha. See platform-feature-parity.
The following tests have limitations.
Package:
- rpm
- deb
- Alpine apk
- pacman
Service:
- systemd
- sysV init
- OpenRC init
- Upstart