Oh, also, you should be able to automate your testing environment using
something like Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/), which I've recently
found and fallen in love with.

--Matt


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Matt Simmons <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you looked at Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins (
> http://jenkins-ci.org/)?
>
> --Matt
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Atom Powers <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Building on the "infrastructure as code" idea I have been thinking about
>> how to write tests for the infrastructure. Service monitoring seems like
>> the obvious answer and I am imagining something like a test suite for a
>> "development" version of the configuration management system that would be
>> used in much the same way as a programmer uses a test suite to make sure
>> his program works.
>>
>> Has anybody done something like this? I imagine the biggest hurdle will
>> be setting up the development environment, complete with scratch hosts and
>> monitoring that can be reconfigured frequently for those hosts, depending
>> on what is being tested.
>>
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