Test Salt Formulas and States with ease

This is an example repo, showing how salt configuration can be (regression) tested with use of Testinfra.

Directory layout

salt - The Salt states and formula
pillar - Salt pillar data
test - The actual tests
vagrant - Contains Vagrant configuration for easy testing (our development machine, so to speak).

First make sure you have Vagrant (1.8.1+) installed. From a terminal, enter the vagrant folder and launch the Vagrant box:

$ vagrant up

This will prepare a test machine, Don't worry, you can still change your salt formulas and tests locally.

One the machine is booted, log in to the machine and go to the folder containing the tests. From there you can run the tests:

$ vagrant ssh
...
$ cd /srv/test
$ testinfra -v

This (demo) setup contains two setups: one for CentOS 7 and one for Ubuntu 15.

The Salt states are tested against both configurations.