diff --git a/.github/workflows/python.yml b/.github/workflows/python.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..129917897
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+name: Python static analysis
+on: [push, pull_request]
+jobs:
+  ruff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: chartboost/ruff-action@v1
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 65389672a..db8b9db73 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ test-tmt:
 validate:
 	cargo fmt
 	cargo clippy
+	ruff check
 .PHONY: validate
 
 vendor:
diff --git a/hack/provision-derived.sh b/hack/provision-derived.sh
index 9bdc1b808..2ba8173c1 100755
--- a/hack/provision-derived.sh
+++ b/hack/provision-derived.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,26 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -xeu
-case "$1" in
+variant=$1
+# I'm a big fan of nushell for interactive use, and I want to support
+# using it in our test suite because it's better than bash. First,
+# enable EPEL to get it.
+. /usr/lib/os-release
+if echo $ID_LIKE $ID | grep -q centos; then
+  dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
+  dnf -y install epel-release epel-next-release
+fi
+# Ensure this is pre-created
+mkdir -p -m 0700 /var/roothome
+mkdir -p ~/.config/nushell
+echo '$env.config = { show_banner: false, }' > ~/.config/nushell/config.nu
+touch ~/.config/nushell/env.nu
+dnf -y install nu
+# And we also add pytest, to support running tests written in Python
+dnf -y install python3-pytest
+case "$variant" in
     tmt)
       # tmt wants rsync
-      dnf -y install cloud-init rsync && dnf clean all
+      dnf -y install cloud-init rsync
       ln -s ../cloud-init.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/default.target.wants
       # And tmt wants to write to /usr/local/bin
       rm /usr/local -rf && ln -sr /var/usrlocal /usr/local && mkdir -p /var/usrlocal/bin
@@ -14,3 +31,4 @@ case "$1" in
       echo "Unknown variant: $1" exit 1
       ;;
 esac
+dnf clean all && rm /var/log/* -rf
diff --git a/plans/integration-run.fmf b/plans/integration-run.fmf
index ce98bac56..1190fcd33 100644
--- a/plans/integration-run.fmf
+++ b/plans/integration-run.fmf
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
-# This tmt test just demonstrates local tmt usage.
-# We'll hopefully expand it to do more interesting things in the
-# future and unify with the other test plans.
+# Run this via `make test-tmt` which will build a container,
+# and a disk image from it.
 provision:
   how: virtual
-  # Generated by `cargo xtask `
+  # Generated by make test-tmt
   image: file://./target/testvm/disk.qcow2
   disk: 20
-summary: Basic smoke test
+summary: Execute booted tests
 execute:
   how: tmt
-  script: bootc status
+  # There's currently two dynamic test frameworks; python and nushell.
+  # python is well known and understood. nushell is less well known, but
+  # is quite nice for running subprocesses and the like while making
+  # it easy to parse JSON etc.
+  script: |
+    set -xeu
+    pytest tests/booted/*.py
+    ls tests/booted/*-test-*.nu |sort -n | while read t; do nu $t; done
diff --git a/tests/booted/.gitignore b/tests/booted/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bee8a64b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/booted/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__pycache__
diff --git a/tests/booted/001-test-status.nu b/tests/booted/001-test-status.nu
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49ce8c469
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/booted/001-test-status.nu
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+use std assert
+use tap.nu
+
+tap begin "verify bootc status --json looks sane"
+
+let st = bootc status --json | from json
+assert equal $st.apiVersion org.containers.bootc/v1alpha1
+tap ok
diff --git a/tests/booted/README.md b/tests/booted/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c138d27b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/booted/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Booted tests
+
+These are intended to run via tmt; use e.g.
+`make test-tmt`.
diff --git a/tests/booted/basic.py b/tests/booted/basic.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6253c13d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/booted/basic.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Tests which are read-only/nondestructive
+
+import json
+import subprocess
+
+def run(*args):
+    subprocess.check_call(*args)
+
+def test_bootc_status():
+    o = subprocess.check_output(["bootc", "status", "--json"])
+    st = json.loads(o)
+    assert st['apiVersion'] == 'org.containers.bootc/v1alpha1'
diff --git a/tests/booted/tap.nu b/tests/booted/tap.nu
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..096638fa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/booted/tap.nu
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# A simple nushell "library" for the
+# "Test anything protocol":
+# https://testanything.org/tap-version-14-specification.html
+export def begin [description] {
+  print "TAP version 14"
+  print $description
+}
+
+export def ok [] {
+  print "ok"
+}
+
+export def fail [] {
+  print "not ok"
+}