State Testing¶

Executing a Salt state run can potentially change many aspects of a system and it may be desirable to first see what a state run is going to change before applying the run.

Salt has a test interface to report on exactly what will be changed, this interface can be invoked on any of the major state run functions:

salt '*' state.apply test=True
salt '*' state.apply mysls test=True
salt '*' state.single test=True

The test run is mandated by adding the test=True option to the states. The return information will show states that will be applied in yellow and the result is reported as None.

salt '*' state.apply test=False
salt '*' state.apply mysls test=False
salt '*' state.single test=False