DevOps Classroom Series – 19/Jan/2021

This is used to automatically test cookbooks across any platformas and test suites
Test kitchen has drivers which determine where the test executions can happen
All of this is configured in kitchen.yaml file in cookbook
Now lets understand kitchen.yaml syntax Refer Here
Lets create a cookbook called as kitchendemo
Lets launch visual studio code and navigate to kitchen.yaml
Refer Here for the changeset
Provisioner is which is used to execute the cookbook and behave like a chef server.
The default provisioner is ChefZero. This is a simple inmemory ChefServer. The other provisioner option which you can used to run cookbooks is Chef Solo.
Both Chef Solo and Chef Zero can work on one machine (chefserver and chef node is on same machine)
Chef Zero is lightweight suitable for testing
Chef Solo is opensource version of chef-client that allows using cookbooks with nodes without requiring access to chef server
In chef cookbook we can write unit test cases and inspec is a test harness tool
For official documentation of test kitchen Refer Here
Refer Here for getting started guide of test kitchen
Refer Here for the ec2 configuration used