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Motivation¶

Currently our salt states use this jinja template a lot:

{%- if not grains.get('noservices', False) %}

The purpose of it is to allow sanity checks of salt states without spinning up a full system which has DBus services and potentially other components running. Currently other types of problems won't be caught. So the CI should be extended to have a more complete approach.

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: CI can test salt states without special conditions in definitions

Suggestions¶

• Try out if we can just use systemd in our test containers, e.g. following https://feldspaten.org/2021/03/23/openSUSE-Leap-Ansible-Container/

• Research if https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/validation-saltstacks-saltcheck-christian-mchugh/ can do the job for us, see

  • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/validation-saltstacks-saltcheck-christian-mchugh/
  • https://salt.tips/whats-new-in-salt-neon/
  • https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.saltcheck.html

• Look into Kitchen Salt

• Modify GitLab CI accordingly