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+# Scullery
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+This is intended to be a replacement for [KitchenCI](https://test-kitchen.chef.io/) and [kitchen-salt](https://github.com/saltstack/kitchen-salt), focussing on testing SaltStack states using Vagrant and Pytest/Testinfra.
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