If you want to incorporate the concepts of configuration management, Infrastructure as Code, or immutable deployments into the software architecture of your application, you should also consider testing the infrastructure itself. There are several tools you can use to do this, including Serverspec, Testinfra, Goss, and Terratest, which are among some of the more popular ones.
These tools slightly differ in scope, as stated here:
- Serverspec and Testinfra focus more on testing the actual state of the servers that are configured via configuration management, such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. They're written in Ruby and Python, respectively, and they plug into the languages' testing engines. This means RSPec for Serverspec and Pytest for Testinfra.
- Goss is a bit different both in terms of scope and form. Besides testing the servers, you can also use Goss to test the containers you use in your project with the dgoss wrapper. As for its...
