Use testinfra to test your infrastructure deployed with SaltStack

Philippe Pepiot

With Testinfra you can write unit tests in Python to test actual state of your servers configured by management tools like Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef and so on.

After introducing the base concepts behind testinfra, Philippe Pepiot will take a look at various ways you can use testinfra with SaltStack to implement a test driven infrastructure.

• how to achieve unit testing of your salt states with testinfra
• use of testinfra tests for monitoring and deploy them with saltstack
• orchestrated tests running accros multiple host connected with salt

Links

• https://testinfra.readthedocs.io/
• testinfra salt backends
• testinfra salt modules

Slides

http://slides.logilab.fr/2018/testinfra_cfgmgmtcamp_2018.pdf

About the Speaker

Philippe Pepiot is the author of the testinfra framework and has been working for Logilab for the past 2 years.