AWS hat Chef als Technologiepartner. Da nicht nur AWS Chef in ihren Services wie OpsWorks oder OpsWorks Chef Automate nutzt, sondern auch wir, möchte ich eine kurze Einführung von Chef und Test-Kitchen geben. In diesem Teil werden wir feststellen, wie schnell es geht, ein Testsystem mit den richtigen Mitteln zu erstellen. Im nächsten Teil werden wir das Ganze noch weiter verfeinern. Chef Cookbooks und Kitchen Warum Chef und was hat das mit AWS zu tun?
The kitchen-ec2 Driver Within the Chef ecosystem, Test Kitchen is one of the most useful tools. It offers the possibility to quickly test cookbooks in different OS environments on machines with a limited lifetime. That way, you can check if your fancy rec
The kitchen-vcenter Driver While many companies already rely on some Cloud for all of their IT systems, bigger enterprise customers often have own data centers which consist of thousands of virtual machines. Under these circumstances, it is often not desi
The more complex your cookbooks, the bigger the need to supply some external information to your test machines. Passing specific attributes, values of databags or secrets for testing become necessary. We will go through these use cases and show how to moc
It is surprising how many resources on the Internet are carrying on outdated or deprecated information - the Chef ecosystem is no exception to this. While outdated style in Ruby files has been detected via cookstyle for a while, Test Kitchen files still h
Test-Kitchen is a tool to manage your test machine lifecycle, similar to HashiCorp Vagrant. While it has been developed with Chef in mind, it can be used with any development tool to test on new machines every time you change your code. As this tool conti