Demo testing a Salt formula on Linode using Test Kitchen

by ssplatt 8 years ago

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This is a brief demo of how to use Linode to test your Salt formulas. Test Kitchen creates the Linodes, then it uses Salt to provision them with the specified formula, then Serverspec is used to verify that the states were applied correctly. When the tests pass, the Linodes are destroyed.

Salt formula: https://github.com/ssplatt/infratest-formula Salt execution module: https://github.com/ssplatt/saltstack-infratest-module Linode Test Kitchen driver: https://github.com/ssplatt/kitchen-linode

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