Latest documentation: https://testinfra.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

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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:

deftest_passwd_file(host): passwd=host.file("/etc/passwd") assertpasswd.contains("root") assertpasswd.user=="root"assertpasswd.group=="root"assertpasswd.mode==0o644deftest_nginx_is_installed(host): nginx=host.package("nginx") assertnginx.is_installedassertnginx.version.startswith("1.2") deftest_nginx_running_and_enabled(host): nginx=host.service("nginx") assertnginx.is_runningassertnginx.is_enabled

And run it:

$ py.test -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 ====================