REST service health check on automatic deployment
<p>I'm using the AWS CodeDeploy platform for automatic deployment of my REST services. The deployment script got a lot of steps that copy/configure/do other staff. If any of the steps fails - the entire deployment fails for this server and I got a clear notification about it. So, the last step I need is a health check - a validation that  configuration was appropriate and all is up and running.
Of cause, I can make a couple curl POSTs, parse their results and use some extracted values within more curl POSTs to get some sanity coverage, but all this parsing sounds like a wheel invention.
Is there any convinient testing framework/tool that can be easily "packed" and invoked in scripts without installing a huge testing siutes on each of my production servers?</p>