action #88195
Updated by okurz almost 4 years ago
## Motivation
Currently our salt states use this [jinja](https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/jinja/index.html) 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
* 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](https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/test-salt-locally-with-kitchen-salt/)
* - Modify [GitLab CI](https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml) accordingly