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