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################################## Testinfra test your infrastructure ##################################
Latest documentation: https://testinfra.readthedocs.io/en/latest
.. important::
Maintenance Notice
This project is currently not actively maintained, and responses to issues or pull requests may be delayed for several months. Please consider this when using the project and feel free to contribute via pull requests, which will be reviewed as time permits. Thank you for your understanding!
About
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.
Testinfra aims to be a Serverspec_ equivalent in python and is written as a plugin to the powerful Pytest_ test engine
License
Apache License 2.0 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-testinfra/blob/main/LICENSE>_
The logo is licensed under the Creative Commons NoDerivatives 4.0 License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/>_
If you have some other use in mind, contact us.
Quick start
Install testinfra using pip::
$ pip install pytest-testinfra
# or install the devel version
$ pip install 'git+https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-testinfra@main#egg=pytest-testinfra'
Write your first tests file to test_myinfra.py:
.. code-block:: python
def test_passwd_file(host):
passwd = host.file("/etc/passwd")
assert passwd.contains("root")
assert passwd.user == "root"
assert passwd.group == "root"
assert passwd.mode == 0o644
def test_nginx_is_installed(host):
nginx = host.package("nginx")
assert nginx.is_installed
assert nginx.version.startswith("1.2")
def test_nginx_running_and_enabled(host):
nginx = host.service("nginx")
assert nginx.is_running
assert nginx.is_enabled
And run it::
$ pytest -v test_myinfra.py
====================== test session starts ======================
platform linux -- Python 2.7.3 -- py-1.4.26 -- pytest-2.6.4
plugins: testinfra
collected 3 items
test_myinfra.py::test_passwd_file[local] PASSED
test_myinfra.py::test_nginx_is_installed[local] PASSED
test_myinfra.py::test_nginx_running_and_enabled[local] PASSED
=================== 3 passed in 0.66 seconds ====================
.. _Salt: https://saltstack.com/ .. _Ansible: https://www.ansible.com/ .. _Puppet: https://puppetlabs.com/ .. _Chef: https://www.chef.io/ .. _Serverspec: https://serverspec.org/ .. _Pytest: https://pytest.org/