Airgapped Testing - VMware Edition

Recently, I got a bug report for the kitchen-vcenter driver, which allows lifecycle management of testing VMs on VMware vCenter environments. Apparently, a customer tried to create a VM without any network interface. The problem was that this crashed in a very unintuitive way. But it made me wonder: Would it be possible to use non-networked machines for tests? It turns out: That’s absolutely possible!

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Testing Terraform with InSpec (Part 1)

While Infrastructure-as-Code slowly becomes omnipresent, many of the communicated advantages of the approach stay mostly unrealized. Sure, code style checks (linting) and even automated documentation get more common every month. But one of the cornerstone

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Testing Physical Machines with kitchen-static

Testing on Physical Machines with kitchen-static This article shows how to work with Test Kitchen on physical machines using the kitchen-static Driver. If you need to deliver a product (bundle of server and software) instead of just configuration, some ta

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CIT - Build CDK Infrastructure Testing - Part 1 - Terratest and the Integrated Integration

TL;DR You don`t need a DSL to do easy integration testing. With CDK available in go, infrastructure test can be programmed with GO packages easily.

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Copter Testing

2019.08.01 From time to time, we have to update the software of our copter and perform a testing fly.

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Datenrettung virtuelle Festplatten und Systeme: Ursachen für Datenverlust von vmWare, Hyper-V und Co.

Virtuelle Systeme lösen zunehmend klassische physikalische Server ab. Durch entsprechende Software wird quasi ein Computer im eigentlichen PC nachgebildet. Diese virtuelle Maschine funktioniert wie ein eigenständiger Rechner. Vor allem Unternehmen greifen

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