How do i use chef test kitchen to test my cookbooks?

amurleopard

Chef test kitchen tests cookbooks before uploading them to the chef server. This is a very simplistic test to just show how test kitchen works.

Refer to this link for meanings of the different sections: https://docs.chef.io/config_yml_kitchen.html

driver_name - What will create your virtual machine?
provisioner_name - How will chef simulate chef-client?
verifier_name - Which application to use to test?
transport_name - How do i execute remote commands on my test?instance, windows - winrm, linux - ssh.
platform-version - What platform will I use to test? ubuntu-12.04 or centos-6.4, etc
platforms - What common chef server parameters will be used?
suites - What do i want to test in the cookbook?

In your ~/chef-repo/cookbooks/your_cookbook/, create a file called .kitchen.yml

---
driver:
  name: vagrant

provisioner:
  name: chef_zero

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-16.04

suites:
  - name: default
    run_list:
      - recipe[local_cookbook::default]

attributes:

Produces a lot of screen output as it creates the VM and tests it.

$ kitchen test

The kitchen test goes through various stages of during the test. Not Created, Created, Converged, Verified, and back to Not Created.

$ kitchen list
Instance             Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action    Last Error
default-ubuntu-1604  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>  <None>

$ kitchen list
Instance             Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action  Last Error
default-ubuntu-1604  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        Created      <None>

$ kitchen list
Instance             Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action  Last Error
default-ubuntu-1604  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        Converged      <None>

$ kitchen list
Instance             Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action  Last Error
default-ubuntu-1604  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        Verified      <None>

$ kitchen list
Instance             Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action    Last Error
default-ubuntu-1604  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>  <None>