Test Kitchen

• Test Kitchen is a tool developed to test the chef-cookbooks on multiple platforms. For official docs refer here

• For this test kitchen has a component which is called as driver, which enables kitchen to test in various platforms such as

  • Vagrant
  • Virtual Box
  • VM Ware
  • Hyper V
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker

• In this series we will be using AWS and Azure

Test Kitchen with AWS

• Kitchen with AWS Driver is what we would like to use.
• Generate a cookbook for test kitchen demo with AWS

chef generate cookbook -b kitchenawsdemo

• Lets write a very simple resource to create a file in ‘/tmp/test.txt’. I will be using file as mentioned in the documentation in the Default.rb

#
# Cookbook:: kitchenawsdemo
# Recipe:: default
#
# Copyright:: 2020, The Authors, All Rights Reserved.
file '/tmp/test.txt' do
    content 'hello im testing'
    action :create
end

• Now i want to test this cookbook on a Linux Machine in AWS Cloud, for this we have to look at two things
  • Use Kitchen.yml file generated along with cookbook to configure the environment (AWS) to test
  • Connecting to AWS: Refer to AWS Preparation Section in here
  • We will be using a driver called as ec2 refer here
  • Install AWS CLI from here
  • Make a note of
    • region
    • az
    • VPC-id
    • subnet-id
    • security group
    • Image id:
  • My list looks like

  "SubnetId": "subnet-89fb32ee",
  "VpcId": "vpc-4366ce24"
  region: us-west-2
  az: "us-west-2b"
  image-id:  ami-0d1cd67c26f5fca19
  username: "ubuntu"
  keypair: chef.pem
  security group: sg-0fde1a94ae5592488 (chefclient)
  

  • Kitchen.yml file looks as shown below

  ---
  driver:
  name: ec2
  aws_ssh_key_id: chef
  region: us-west-2
  availability_zone: us-west-2b
  subnet_id: subnet-89fb32ee
  instance_type: t2.micro
  image_id: 'ami-0d1cd67c26f5fca19'
  security_group_ids: ["sg-0fde1a94ae5592488"]
  
  ## The forwarded_port port feature lets you connect to ports on the VM guest via
  ## localhost on the host.
  ## see also: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/networking/forwarded_ports.html
  
  #  network:
  #    - ["forwarded_port", {guest: 80, host: 8080}]
  
  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
  
  ## product_name and product_version specifies a specific Chef product and version to install.
  ## see the Chef documentation for more details: https://docs.chef.io/config_yml_kitchen.html
  #  product_name: chef
  #  product_version: 15
  transport:
  ssh_key: "./chef.pem"
  connection_timeout: 10
  connection_retries: 3
  username: ubuntu
  
  verifier:
  name: inspec
  
  platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-18.04
  # - name: centos-7
  
  suites:
  - name: default
      run_list:
      - recipe[kitchenawsdemo::default]
      verifier:
      inspec_tests:
          - test/integration/default
      attributes:
  
  

  • Now cd into the cookbook folder from terminal and execute the following commands

  kitchen list
  kitchen create
  kitchen list
  
  

  • Make changes in the recipe and execute the kitchen converge
  • Once you are confident with your changes, then delete the environment using kitchen destroy

Note:

• We need to learn to work with multiple platforms if required.