Examples

This folder contains examples of how to use Conftest.

How to test a manifest against a specific policy in the examples folder

There are various policies with the manifests in the examples folder. They can be tested in a following way:

Run the following command to build the local binary:

make build

Then, run the following command to test the specific manifest against a specific policy:

./conftest test -p examples/exceptions/policy/ examples/exceptions/deployments.yaml

In the above command, we are testing the manifest examples/exceptions/deployments.yaml against the policy examples/exceptions/policy/.

The ./conftest test command supports various flags as well for different output formats and configurations. The list of supported flags can be displayed with the following command:

./conftest test --help

Running all example tests

All acceptance tests written for examples/ can be run via make test-examples The tests with the expected results demonstrate how Conftest evaluates the examples/