Argus - the omniscient CI

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Argus is a Python scenario-based CI framework that spins real VMs across providers, runs custom recipes, queries live instances for data via introspection mojo and produces unittest-like reports. It integrates with cloud-init/cloudbase-init and OpenStack, supports plugins to configure services inside the instance, compares actual state against inspection plans, and logs detailed, machine-readable results. It is already used successfully with cloudbase-init on OpenStack and scales to different infrastructures.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:28Contents
3. 1:05Clouds
4. 4:59Testing Cloudbase-Init
5. 7:43Argus components
6. 8:25Scenarios
7. 8:53Recipes
8. 9:04Tests
9. 9:44Argus config file
10. 11:21Advanced concepts
11. 12:33Mock metadata
12. 14:07Using Argus
13. 17:03Develop a test

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