diff --git a/.codespell.ignore.words b/.codespell.ignore.words
index 72004ab..a11fbc7 100644
--- a/.codespell.ignore.words
+++ b/.codespell.ignore.words
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ nd
 uptodate
 upto
 enque
+aas
diff --git a/.github/workflows/salt-shaptools-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/salt-shaptools-ci.yml
index 40e5e7e..39d08c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/salt-shaptools-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/salt-shaptools-ci.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 ---
 name: Package CI
 # - this workflow will
-# - pytest with python version [2.7, 3.6, 3.7]
-# - uploads coverage data to codeClimate and the results are linked as a badges in the README
+# - test on
+#   - SLE 12 SP5
+#     - python 2.7
+#   - SLE 15 SP5
+#     - python 3.6
 # - deliver the package content to the configured repository
 # - submit the new package content to the upstream repository
 on: [push, pull_request]  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
@@ -11,7 +14,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   tab:
     name: 'tabspace checking'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     # Use the Bash shell regardless whether the GitHub Actions runner is ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest
     defaults:
@@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
         run: make test-tab
   codespell:
     name: 'spell checking'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     # Use the Bash shell regardless whether the GitHub Actions runner is ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest
     defaults:
@@ -41,6 +44,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install linting tools
         run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install -y git python3 python3-pip
           python3 -m pip install codespell
 
@@ -49,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
 
   shellcheck:
     name: 'script syntax check'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     # Use the Bash shell regardless whether the GitHub Actions runner is ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest
     defaults:
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install linting tools
         run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install -y git python3 python3-pip shellcheck
 
       - name: shellcheck
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
 
   yamllint:
     name: 'yaml linting'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     # Use the Bash shell regardless whether the GitHub Actions runner is ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest
     defaults:
@@ -84,15 +89,16 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install linting tools
         run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install -y git python3 python3-pip
-          python3 -m pip install codespell
+          python3 -m pip install yamllint
 
       - name: yamllint
         run: make test-yamllint
 
   jsonlint:
     name: 'json linting'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     # Use the Bash shell regardless whether the GitHub Actions runner is ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest
     defaults:
@@ -106,6 +112,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install linting tools
         run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install -y git python3 python3-pip
           python3 -m pip install jsonlint
 
@@ -114,7 +121,7 @@ jobs:
 
   mlc:
     name: 'markup link checker'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     # Use the Bash shell regardless whether the GitHub Actions runner is ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest
     defaults:
@@ -137,53 +144,63 @@ jobs:
         run: make test-mlc
 
   python:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
+      # do not fail if other test fails
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-20.04]
-        python-version: [2.7, 3.6, 3.7]
+        container:
+          - registry.suse.com/suse/sles12sp5:latest  # python 2.7
+          - registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base:15.5      # python 3.6
+    container:
+      image: ${{ matrix.container }}
     steps:
+      - name: Auth to SCC and minimal dependencies
+        run: |
+            echo "username=${{ secrets.SCC_USERNAME }}" >/etc/zypp/credentials.d/SCCcredentials
+            echo "password=${{ secrets.SCC_PASSWORD }}" >>/etc/zypp/credentials.d/SCCcredentials
+            zypper ref -s
+            zypper -n in -y tar gzip git
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-        with:
-          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install pytest
-          pip install pyzmq PyYAML pycrypto msgpack-python jinja2 psutil futures tornado pytest-salt mock pytest-cov
-          # on old python version, install and clone ...
-          if test -d /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/2.7.*; then
-            pip install enum34
-            git clone --branch=openSUSE-3000.3 --depth=50 https://github.com/openSUSE/salt ../salt
+          zypper -n in -y make python
+          if test -f /usr/bin/python3; then
+            # minimal salt, python packages and compilers
+            zypper -n in -y salt python3-pip python3-devel gcc
+            # use current salt version shipped with SLE 15
+            git clone --branch=openSUSE/release/3006.0 --depth=50 https://github.com/openSUSE/salt ../salt
+            # python 3.6 - official requirements from salt (works with python >3.6)
+            pip install -r ../salt/requirements/pytest.txt
+            pip install -r tests/requirements.3.6.yaml # pinned pytest-cov
+            # install shaptools
+            zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/ha-clustering:/sap-deployments:/devel/SLE_15_SP5/network:ha-clustering:sap-deployments:devel.repo
+            zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
+            zypper -n in -y python3-shaptools
           else
-            git clone --branch=openSUSE-3002.2 --depth=50 https://github.com/openSUSE/salt ../salt
+            zypper -n in -y SUSEConnect
+            SUSEConnect -p sle-module-adv-systems-management/12/x86_64
+            # minimal salt, python packages and compilers
+            zypper -n in -y salt python-pip python-devel gcc gcc-c++
+            # python 2.7 - latest available versions for old python release
+            pip install --ignore-installed -r tests/requirements.2.7.yaml
+            # use current salt version shipped with SLE 12
+            git clone --branch=openSUSE/release/3000.3 --depth=50 https://github.com/openSUSE/salt ../salt
+            # install shaptools
+            zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/ha-clustering:/sap-deployments:/devel/SLE_12_SP5/network:ha-clustering:sap-deployments:devel.repo
+            zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
+            zypper -n in -y python-shaptools
           fi
           rm ../salt/tests/conftest.py
-          git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/SUSE/shaptools.git ../shaptools
-          pip install -e ../salt
-          pip install ../shaptools
       - name: execute test script
         run: make test-python
-      - name: change absolute path to relative path for successful upload to code climate
-        run: |
-          WORKSPACE=`dirname ${{ github.workspace }}`/salt/
-          sed -i "s#$WORKSPACE##g" coverage.xml
-      - name: Publish code coverage
-        uses: paambaati/codeclimate-action@v2.7.5
-        if: ${{ env.CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID != null && github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
-        env:
-          CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID: ${{ secrets.CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID }}
-        with:
-          coverageLocations: coverage.xml:coverage.py
 
 
   delivery:
     needs: [tab, codespell, shellcheck, yamllint, jsonlint, mlc, python]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
     container:
       image: shap/continuous_deliver
@@ -211,7 +228,7 @@ jobs:
 
   submit:
     needs: [tab, codespell, shellcheck, yamllint, jsonlint, mlc, python, delivery]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
     container:
       image: shap/continuous_deliver
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50e0c15..acdbfc0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 [![Package CI](https://github.com/SUSE/salt-shaptools/actions/workflows/salt-shaptools-ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/SUSE/salt-shaptools/actions/workflows/salt-shaptools-ci.yml)
-[![Test Coverage](https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/770395dbb4bb868502b3/test_coverage)](https://codeclimate.com/github/SUSE/salt-shaptools/test_coverage)
-[![Maintainability](https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/770395dbb4bb868502b3/maintainability)](https://codeclimate.com/github/SUSE/salt-shaptools/maintainability)
 
 # SAP Applications and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability salt modules and States
 
@@ -84,7 +82,14 @@ Your directory layout should looks like ( all the 3 dirs are in same three dir l
 ```bash
 virtualenv saltvirtenv
 source saltvirtenv/bin/activate
-pip install pyzmq PyYAML pycrypto msgpack-python jinja2 psutil futures tornado pytest-salt-factories mock pytest-cov
+
+# python 3.6 - official requirements from salt (works with python >3.6)
+pip install -r ../salt/requirements/pytest.txt
+pip install -r tests/requirements.3.6.yaml # pinned pytest-cov
+# or
+# python 2.7 - latest available versions for old python release
+pip install -r tests/requirements.2.7.yaml
+
 pip install -e ../salt
 pip install -e ../shaptools
 rm ../salt/tests/conftest.py # remove this file from the saltstack repo
diff --git a/salt/modules/drbdmod.py b/salt/modules/drbdmod.py
index 0d51a42..9d883b3 100644
--- a/salt/modules/drbdmod.py
+++ b/salt/modules/drbdmod.py
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def _is_no_backing_dev_request(res, output):
 
 def _get_json_output_save(command):
     '''
-    A warpper of get json command to acommandate json output issues
+    A wrapper of get json command to acommandate json output issues
     '''
 
     error_str = '"estimated-seconds-to-finish": nan,'
diff --git a/tests/requirements.2.7.yaml b/tests/requirements.2.7.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..feac97c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/requirements.2.7.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+setuptools==44.1.1
+wheel==0.37.1
+pytest-cov==2.3.1
+jinja2==2.6
+pyyaml==3.12
+markupsafe==0.23
+requests==2.27
+certifi==2020.4.5.1
+pyzmq==18.0.1
+mock==3.0.0
+funcsigs==1.0.2
diff --git a/tests/requirements.3.6.yaml b/tests/requirements.3.6.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f245eef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/requirements.3.6.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pytest-cov==4.0.0
diff --git a/tests/run.sh b/tests/run.sh
index fc41505..061b884 100755
--- a/tests/run.sh
+++ b/tests/run.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+PYTHON=python3
+test -f /usr/bin/python2 && PYTHON=python2
+
 cp salt/modules/*.py ../salt/salt/modules/
 cp salt/states/*.py ../salt/salt/states/
 cp tests/unit/modules/*.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/
 cp tests/unit/states/*.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/
-py.test -vv ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_hanamod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_hanamod.py  ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_crmshmod.py  ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_saptunemod.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_sapcarmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_crmshmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_drbdmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_drbdmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_saptunemod.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_netweavermod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_netweavermod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_sapcarmod.py --cov=salt.modules.hanamod --cov=salt.states.hanamod --cov=salt.modules.crmshmod --cov=salt.states.crmshmod --cov=salt.modules.drbdmod --cov=salt.modules.saptunemod --cov=salt.modules.sapcarmod --cov=salt.states.saptunemod --cov=salt.states.drbdmod --cov=salt.modules.netweavermod --cov=salt.states.netweavermod --cov=salt.states.sapcarmod --cov-config .coveragerc --cov-report term --cov-report xml --cov-report html
+cd ../salt && $PYTHON -m pytest -vv ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_hanamod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_hanamod.py  ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_crmshmod.py  ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_saptunemod.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_sapcarmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_crmshmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_drbdmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_drbdmod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_saptunemod.py ../salt/tests/unit/modules/test_netweavermod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_netweavermod.py ../salt/tests/unit/states/test_sapcarmod.py --cov=salt.modules.hanamod --cov=salt.states.hanamod --cov=salt.modules.crmshmod --cov=salt.states.crmshmod --cov=salt.modules.drbdmod --cov=salt.modules.saptunemod --cov=salt.modules.sapcarmod --cov=salt.states.saptunemod --cov=salt.states.drbdmod --cov=salt.modules.netweavermod --cov=salt.states.netweavermod --cov=salt.states.sapcarmod --cov-config .coveragerc --cov-report term --cov-report xml --cov-report html