[chef] Re: Re: Meet test-kitchen

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai,

On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Akzhan Abdulin 
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 wrote:

> BTW, is it helps to test selfmade cookbooks too?

Totally! We consider our own cookbooks to be self-made, after all :).

> Interesting... Will try to convert my old vagrant/chef solutions to test my 
> code.

If you have existing baseboxes that you want to use instead of the ones 
provided by bento, or used by default in test-kitchen, put this in your 
test/kitchen/Kitchenfile:

platform :platform_to_test do
  version "its version" do
    box "name-of-existing-box"
    box_url "where it can be downloaded but not used if it exists"
  end
end

For example, I had an existing vagrant box:

% vagrant box list
precise64

So I have just this in my Kitchenfile:

platform :ubuntu do
  version "12.04" do
    box "precise64"
    box_url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/mybucket/precise64.box
  end
end

(the url is made up, I built it locally)

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