Validation & Testing

Overview

CloudNexus Validation & Testing provides a unified framework to verify infrastructure integrity, application performance, and security posture before and during deployment. Designed for DevOps teams and SREs, it eliminates guesswork by automating validation across multi-cloud environments.

The suite runs stateless test agents directly within your VPC, ensuring data sovereignty while delivering real-time telemetry to the CloudNexus control plane.

Testing Modules

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Performance & Load

Distributed stress testing with geographic targeting. Simulates millions of concurrent requests with real-time latency, throughput, and error rate analysis.

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Security & Vulnerability

Automated CVE scanning, misconfiguration detection, secret leakage checks, and container image hardening validation.

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Infrastructure as Code

Validates Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane manifests against drift, cost anomalies, and architectural best practices.

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Compliance & Policy

Pre-built policy packs for SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS. Custom Rego/OPA policy support.

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Dependency & Supply Chain

SBOM generation, license compliance checking, and upstream dependency vulnerability tracking.

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Chaos & Resilience

Controlled fault injection across network, compute, and storage layers to validate auto-healing and failover mechanisms.

Workflow & Pipeline

Integrate validation directly into your CI/CD pipeline or run on-demand scans from the console. The standard workflow follows four stages:

Define Targets

Select clusters, VPCs, repositories, or IaC modules for scanning.

Execute Suite

Run selected test modules with configurable thresholds and timeouts.

Analyze Results

Review detailed reports, trend analytics, and automated remediation suggestions.

Gate & Deploy

Enforce policy gates. Fail builds on critical issues or auto-remediate safe fixes.

Configuration Example

Define test suites using YAML. Apply via CLI, Terraform provider, or GitOps sync.

YAML

apiVersion: validation.cloudnexus.io/v1
kind: TestSuite
metadata:
  name: prod-staging-validation
  namespace: devops
spec:
  target:
    type: Kubernetes
    clusterId: cnx-us-east-1-prod
  modules:
    - security.scan
    - performance.load
    - compliance.soc2
  thresholds:
    criticalErrorRate: 0.05
    p95Latency: "200ms"
  schedule:
    cron: "0 2 * * 1-5" # Daily 2AM Mon-Fri

Compliance Matrix

Pre-configured validation checks mapped to industry standards. Custom policies can be added via OPA/Rego.

Standard	Validation Scope	Checks	Status
SOC 2 Type II	Access Control, Encryption, Audit Logs	42	Enforced
ISO 27001	InfoSec Governance, Risk Management	38	Enforced
HIPAA	PII/PDII Encryption, Access Auditing	29	Optional
GDPR	Data Residency, Consent Logs, DSR	31	Enforced
PCI-DSS	Network Segmentation, TLS, Patch Mgmt	56	Optional

Integrations

Native connectors for major CI/CD platforms, IaC tools, and monitoring stacks.

⚙️ GitHub Actions

⚙️ GitLab CI

⚙️ Jenkins

⚙️ Terraform

⚙️ Pulumi

⚙️ ArgoCD

⚙️ Datadog

⚙️ PagerDuty

⚙️ Slack

⚙️ Microsoft Teams

API & Webhooks

Programmatic access to test results, suite management, and policy enforcement. RESTful API with OpenAPI 3.0 spec. Webhook payloads include structured JSON with test run IDs, severity breakdowns, and raw artifact links.

HTTP

POST /v1/test-suites/run
Authorization: Bearer cnx_sk_prod_****

Response (202 Accepted):
{
  "suiteRunId": "run_8f3a9c2d1b",
  "status": "queued",
  "estimatedDuration": "4m 12s",
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00/B00/xxxx"
}