This is a SaltConf18 breakout session by Ethan Moore, Rockwell Collins system administrator.
Learn how CI/CD methodologies around automated testing can be applied in a SaltStack environment to improve quality of states and reduce errors and issues (from catching simple syntax issues to execution module/state module changes between major Salt versions).
This talk covers:
Practical examples using pytest and kitchen-salt (test-kitchen) for automated testing.
If you are new to SaltStack and would like to intelligently automate the management and security of your infrastructure, here are a couple ways to get started:
SaltStack hosted tutorials - https://www.saltstack.com/ss-get-access/
Download Salt Open - https://www.saltstack.com/download-saltstack-automation-engine/