DAdaenney·Mar 22, 2019Submission
Warning: Setuptools Is Too Old
1 points · Open discussionpytest-dev
pytest-testinfra
Python2015–2019
pytest-dev / pytest-testinfra
pytest-testinfra
Testinfra test your infrastructures
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What it is
Testinfra test your infrastructures
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI like to think to myself "If I had to verify this server manually what would I check?" and write automated tests for those. Usually, it's a few high level/important checks for critical services, ports, packages, and users. For configuration files I check for one setting and if it's there assume the rest are correct. Ultimately, it's mostly going by gut and balancing level of effort in maintaining a test vs increased level of confidence in the deployment from having said test.
Some tools out there:
* https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss - YAML, simple, self-contained binary, extremely fast.
* https://github.com/indusbox/goss-ansible - Ansible module for goss, never used this, but you might find it useful
* http://serverspec.org/ - Ruby, most popular infra testing tool
* https://github.com/chef/inspec - Ruby, looks like an improved serversp
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ec, almost same syntax, made by the chef guys
* https://github.com/philpep/testinfra - Python, don't know much about it, but mentioning it since Ansible is Python.
Spend a little bit of time experimenting with all of them, see which one you like.
Full disclosure: I'm the author of goss.
Testinfra test your infrastructure
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