Serverspec, Guard and Test Kitchen: Testing Servers Like a Boss Jan 10, 2014 Up until now, we have been automating testing and linting of our cookbook code without actually converging on a node. Test Kitchen has been dutifully converging a virtual machine for us as we’ve written our cookbook code, but we haven’t been validating the end product. ...
Continuous ChefSpec Validation with Guard Jan 5, 2014 Now that we are doing some basic linting of our cookbook code, we need to move onto some actual testing. But before all that, let’s make sure we are all on the same page when we mention the “T” word. ...
Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self with Foodcritic & Guard Dec 28, 2013 In my last post, Automating Cookbook Testing with Test-Kitchen, Berkshelf, Vagrant and Guard, we successfully got our local development environment up and running in a simple automated fashion. However, we aren’t actually doing anything interesting yet. ...
Automating Cookbook Testing with Test-Kitchen, Berkshelf, Vagrant and Guard Dec 25, 2013 One of the most challenging aspects of Chef cookbook testing for newbies is setting up a rapid local testing & development environment. There are a plethora of options depending on your situation, but most frequently it boils down to “internal” vs. ...