Hello, how do you test your automation scripts? We are writing inline programs to automate creating/deletion of out stacks but with growth of the scripts it's becoming hard to track all changes. I was thinking about integration test to actually create/delete stack to make sure that it's working. Would like to hear about your experience in testing automation scripts in Pulumi :)

If you just want to test stack manipulation this should be fairly simple, just use a transient local file state backend in your integration tests since you don't actually care about keeping that state. You can blow the state away after each run.

I'm actually looking for a way to create a real infrastructure. What I think of it for now: • use automation scripts to provision real infrastructure • write separate tests that will take stack outputs and will use Provider (AWS, Azure) API to check certain aspect of the infra (tags, network etc)

The way I planned on handling this previously: • create a local filestate pulumi backend that I don't care about keeping around after tests finish • provision real infrastructure into a sandbox AWS account • run tests / integration tests against real infrastructure • make best-effort to tear down real infrastructure when tests finish • blow away local pulumi filestate backend • have a separate scheduled task unrelated to this process that regularly nukes the sandbox AWS account to cleanup any orphaned infrastructure