Test Kitchen Setup with Azure

Setup Test Kitchen on Azure

• note: Refer here for Test Kitchen intro and setup in AWS

Azure Driver

• Prerequisites:
  • SSH Client: Git or Putty
  • IDE: Visual Studio Code with Chef Extension
  • ChefDk installed
  • Azure CLI installed
• Generate cookbook on the workstation

  chef generate cookbook nginx_cookbook
  cd nginx_cookbook
  

• Azure Preparation
  • Kitchen-azurerm driver is used. For more info refer here
  • The following details are to be fetched
    • Subscription ID: available from the Azure portal
    • Client ID: this will be the Application Id from the application in step 2.
    • Client Secret/Password: this will be the password you supplied in the command in step 2.
    • Tenant ID: use the command detailed in "Manually provide credentials through Azure CLI" step 1 to get the TenantId.
  • Execute the following command and note the subscription id and tenant id

  # login into azure
  az login
  az account show --query "{subscriptionId:id, tenantId:tenantId}"
  

  • Create the Service Principal for use

  az ad sp create-for-rbac --role="Contributor" --scopes="/subscriptions/${SUBSCRIPTION_ID}"
  

  • Your appId, password, sp_name, and tenant are returned. Make a note of the appId and password
  • appId is ClientID and password is client secret
  • Create a file @ ~/.azure/credentials with following info

  [12345678-YOUR-SUBSCRIPTION-ID-HERE-123456789abc]
  client_id = "ClientID"
  client_secret = "ClientSecret"
  tenant_id = "tenantid"
  

  • change your .kitchen.yml to

  ---
  driver:
      name: azurerm
      subscription_id: "yoursubscriptionid"
      location: "Central Us"
      machine_size: 'Standard_B1s'
  
  provisioner:
      name: chef_zero
      # You may wish to disable always updating cookbooks in CI or other testing environments.
      # For example:
      #   always_update_cookbooks: <%= !ENV['CI'] %>
      always_update_cookbooks: true
  
  verifier:
      name: inspec
  
  platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-14.04
    driver:
      image_urn: Canonical:UbuntuServer:14.04.4-LTS:latest
      vm_name: trusty-vm
      vm_tags:
          ostype: linux
          distro: ubuntu
  
  
  suites:
  - name: default
      run_list:
      - recipe[nginx_cookbook::default]
      verifier:
      inspec_tests:
          - test/integration/default
      attributes:
  

  • Execute the Command

  kitchen converge
  kitchen login
  

  • You can verify & once you finish the work destroy.
  • Note: The default user name is azure & password is P2ssw0rd