A Salt module using the testinfra python module for compliance testing and auditing. This allows you to take advantage of the many features of Salt, like the yaml merging for configuration and the database of servers to test.

Testinfra is a python module created to test your infrastructure. For more info:

• http://testinfra.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• https://github.com/philpep/testinfra

This module must be installed on each system you wish to test. To install:

# pip install testinfra

There is a simple Salt formula available at https://github.com/ssplatt/infratest-formula.

To manually install the module, place infratest.py in the salt modules directory. By default this is /srv/salt/_modules. Then, run salt \* saltutil.sync_modules to copy the module to all nodes.

This module loads configuration data from pillar so you can maintain it as you would any other server definition. For simple usage, create a pillar/infratest directory and place the default.sls inside it. Then, in your pillar/top.sls file, configure a section to use infratest.default. You can create other sls configuration files so you can overwrite and merge configurations for other servers. For example:

# pillar/top.sls

base:
  '*':
    - infratest.default

  'web*':
    - infratest.web

# pillar/infratest/default.sls

infratest:
  file:
    '/etc/passwd':
      exists: true

# pillar/infratest/web.sls

infratest:
  file:
    '/etc/httpd':
      exists: true

The yaml should merge so that all servers will check for /etc/passwd to exist and servers beginning with web will also check for /etc/httpd to exist. To confirm that your pillar data is merging the way you expect it, run salt \* pillar.get infratest on your salt-master. salt \* saltutil.refresh_pillar may be needed to refresh the pillar on all devices after changes have been made.

Default is abbreviated output

# salt \* infratest.run_all

salt-master.mycorp.com:
    ----------
    Fail:
        1
    Pass:
        6

# salt \* infratest.run_all details=True

salt-master.mycorp.com:
    ----------
    Failed:
        - sshd is enabled: True
    Passed:
        - /etc/passwd exists: True
        - /etc/passwd is: file
        - /etc/passwd is owned by user: root
        - /etc/passwd is owned by group: root
        - /etc/passwd has mode: 0644
        - /etc/passwd contains: root
    Totals:
        ----------
        Fail:
            1
        Pass:
            6

# salt \* infratest.file_mode /etc/passwd 0644

salt-master.mycorp.com:
    ----------
    Failed:
    Passed:
        - /etc/passwd has mode: 0644

1. Process tests
2. LocalCommand tests
3. Socket clients tests
4. Socket get_listening_sockets tests