API

Connection API

You can use testinfra outside of pytest. You can dynamically get a host instance and call functions or access members of the respective modules:

>>> import testinfra
>>> host = testinfra.get_host("paramiko://root@server:2222", sudo=True)
>>> host.file("/etc/shadow").mode == 0o640
True

For instance you could make a test to compare two files on two different servers:

import testinfra

def test_same_passwd():
    a = testinfra.get_host("ssh://a")
    b = testinfra.get_host("ssh://b")
    assert a.file("/etc/passwd").content == b.file("/etc/passwd").content