About Test Kitchen

Bento

For use with Test Kitchen, Bento is a Chef Software project that creates base testing VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware boxes for several operating systems. Test Kitchen by default uses the foundation pictures supplied by Bento, while users can alternatively create their own images using HashiCorp Packer.

Drivers

Thanks to a driver plugin design, test Kitchen can test instances on cloud providers like Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure. Additionally, you can test on several local hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V, or VirtualBox. The kitchen.yml file must contain driver-specific configuration settings for most drivers before Test Kitchen can use that platform for cookbook testing.

Validation with InSpec

Test Kitchen will set up a virtual machine (VM) or cloud instance, install the Chef Infra Client, and converge it with your local cookbook. After this is finished, you should automate validation against your developed infrastructure to ensure its configuration is correct. Test Kitchen enables you to easily validate your infrastructure locally by running InSpec tests against your converged cookbook.

Kitchen

Test Kitchen, an integration testing tool developed by Chef Software, has a command-line utility called kitchen. Test Kitchen uses a variety of test suites to perform tests on various combinations of platforms. However, each test is run against a distinct instance consisting of a single platform and a set of testing requirements. This makes it possible to run each test independently, guaranteeing that various behaviors within the same codebase may be extensively evaluated before those changes are committed to production.

Kitchen.yml

To specify the drivers, provisioners, platforms, test suites, and other components needed to operate Test Kitchen, use a kitchen.yml file.

Work with Proxies

Test Kitchen recognizes proxies using the environment variables HTTP proxy, HTTPS proxy, and FTP proxy. The client.rb file is read to find the proxy configuration settings. Depending on these (and related) parameters, Chef Infra Client will configure the ENV variable if HTTP proxy, HTTPS proxy, and FTP proxy are supplied in the client.rb file. For instance:

http_proxy 'http://proxy.example.org:8080'
http_proxy_user 'myself'
http_proxy_pass 'Password1'

will be set to:

ENV['http_proxy'] = 'http://myself:Password1@proxy.example.org:8080'

In the kitchen.yml file, Test Kitchen additionally supports HTTP proxy and HTTPS proxy. You can manually set them or have your local environment variables read them:

driver:
  name: vagrant

provisioner:
  name: chef_zero
  # Set proxy settings manually, or
  http_proxy: 'http://user:password@server:port'
  https_proxy: 'http://user:password@server:port'

  # Read from local environment variables
  http_proxy: <%= ENV['http_proxy'] %>
  https_proxy: <%= ENV['https_proxy'] %>

Other apps besides Chef will not have their proxy environment variables set by this. Applications running within the VM can have their proxy environment variables set using the Vagrant plugin vagrant-proxyconf.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Kitchen Converge mean?

The machine will continue to run after a converge, and the kitchen will automatically upload modifications after each converges to allow for quick configuration code iterations. The exit code for the kitchen has undergone extensive testing to ensure that it is always acceptable.

In which location is kitchen Yml?

The environment variables in Test Kitchen also allow you to establish a path to a kitchen. or $HOME/ or yml. kitchen/config.yml document

What does the chef's knife command mean?

The command-line tool for communicating with the Chef server is called Knife. It is used for managing other Chef features as well as uploading recipes. It connects the local machine's chef DK (Repo) and the Chef server.

Conclusion

In this article, we have extensively discussed the Test Kitchen. We have also explained the key concepts in the test kitchen, Bento, drivers, validation with InSpec, work with proxies, and other things in detail.

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