7 Infrastructure testing
In the last chapter we built a multi-environment architecture and workflow for Terraform. This helps us manage change in our infrastructure. One of the steps in our workflow was testing. If you’re an application developer or software engineer, you are probably familiar with tests and testing.
Software tests validate that your software does what it is supposed to do. Loosely, they’re a combination of quality measures and correctness measures. We’re going to apply some of the principles of software testing to our infrastructure. Wait, what? Yep. A software unit test, at its heart, confirms that an isolated unit of code performs as required. Inputs to the unit of code are applied, the code is run, and the outputs are confirmed ...
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