pytest-mh is a pytest plugin that, in its basics, allows you to run shell commands and scripts over SSH on remote Linux or Windows hosts. You want to use it to execute system or application tests for your project on remote host or hosts (or containers) while running pytest locally and thus keeping your local machine intact.

The plugin also provides building blocks that can be used to setup and teardown your tests, perform automatic clean up of all changes done on the remote host and build a flexible and unified high-level API to manipulate the hosts from your tests.

See the full documentation here: https://pytest-mh.readthedocs.io.

The following snippet was taken from the SSSD project.

    @pytest.mark.topology(KnownTopology.AD)
    @pytest.mark.topology(KnownTopology.LDAP)
    @pytest.mark.topology(KnownTopology.IPA)
    @pytest.mark.topology(KnownTopology.Samba)
    def test__id(client: Client, provider: GenericProvider):
        u = provider.user("tuser").add()
        provider.group("tgroup_1").add().add_member(u)
        provider.group("tgroup_2").add().add_member(u)

        client.sssd.start()
        result = client.tools.id("tuser")

        assert result is not None
        assert result.user.name == "tuser"
        assert result.memberof(["tgroup_1", "tgroup_2"])