Server testing

Goss

• GitHub
• Maintenance mode, last release 2024-09
• Docs
  • Quick start
  • Platform feature-parity
    • "goss works well on Linux, but support on Windows & macOS is alpha"
• Tutorial: Work with Serverspec alternative tool Goss

Install:

pamac install goss-bin

Create test:

goss add addr google.com:443
cat goss.yaml
goss validate

Templates

• Docs: templates
  • Template examples

Issues:

• .Env.variable doesn't work in a range
• Validate gossfiles with templates

Modules

Issues:

• http response header not matching

Testinfra

• GitHub
• Docs
• Last release 2025-03
• Not fully compatible with OSX
  • Testinfra uses system calls to tool like nc or getent, which work differently on Linux an Mac i.e.

Other

• Chef InSpec
  • Ruby

Unmaintained

• Serverspec (Ruby)