Has anyone here done any work with using Pants to manage infrastructure related projects? In particular I'm working on a repository that's got a bunch of PyInfra (pyinfra.com) code, and I want to be able to use Pants to manage it. This includes using Packer as the build tool to launch a host, configure it with the associated pyinfra package, and then execute a suite of testinfra tests against it. I'm also thinking of looking at collecting the test results from the build/test runs for managing longitudinal reporting.

there is a bit of information on this topic in this recent thread: https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C01CQHVDMMW/p1611765054008300

i've moved recently to a fedora-heavy shop doing a lot of infra software, so i'm very eager to get the ball rolling on doing this too, but yeah the nature of

@rule

vs

@goal_rule

is going to make this all pretty interesting, since with infra stuff, much of your most important tests are very much side-effective

yea. a fair number of dockery things should be idempotent (image creation), so those can be pushed deeper as `@rule`s. it’s just the deployment that might not