Elastic Agent Standalone Configuration Validation

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is a way with the Elastic Agent in standalone mode to validate a configuration?

Looking at the output of the Elastic Agent process:

elastic-agent help  
Usage:
  elastic-agent [subcommand] [flags]
  elastic-agent [command]

Available Commands:
  diagnostics Gather diagnostics information from the elastic-agent and running processes.
  enroll      Enroll the Agent into Fleet
  help        Help about any command
  inspect     Shows configuration of the agent
  install     Install Elastic Agent permanently on this system
  restart     Restart the currently running Elastic Agent daemon
  run         Start the elastic-agent.
  status      Status returns the current status of the running Elastic Agent daemon.
  uninstall   Uninstall permanent Elastic Agent from this system
  upgrade     Upgrade the currently running Elastic Agent to the specified version
  version     Display the version of the elastic-agent.
  watch       Watch watches Elastic Agent for failures and initiates rollback.

Flags:
  -c, --c string                     Configuration file, relative to path.config (default "elastic-agent.yml")
  -d, --d string                     Enable certain debug selectors
  -e, --e                            Log to stderr and disable syslog/file output
      --environment environmentVar   set environment being ran in (default default)
  -h, --help                         help for elastic-agent
      --path.config string           Config path is the directory Agent looks for its config file (default "/usr/share/elastic-agent")
      --path.downloads string        Downloads path contains binaries Agent downloads
      --path.home string             Agent root path (default "/usr/share/elastic-agent")
      --path.install string          Install path contains binaries Agent extracts
      --path.logs string             Logs path contains Agent log output (default "/usr/share/elastic-agent")
  -v, --v                            Log at INFO level

Use "elastic-agent [command] --help" for more information about a command.

There doesn't appear to be an option for validating a configuration that is being passed to it.

I'm attempting to setup some automation for CI/CD and want to add a test to validate that a config is valid, but can't seem to find a good solution for this.

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