[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Testing and Determining Test Coverage in Cookbooks

[Peter Donald < >]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Torben Knerr 
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 wrote:
> Vagrant works well for me here, but the roundtrip times are naturally
> longer. I wanted to play with LXC containers instead of using VirtualBox
> (ideally Re-using my Vagrantfile), but haven't come to testing this yet.
>
> Anyone here on the list using LXC containers for testing Chef runs already?

I have yet to do so myself. But I saw the creator of Toft [1] give a
talk and demonstration of it and it looked really nice.

[1] https://github.com/exceedhl/toft

> For testing a complex setup like this I would go for a multivm Vagrantfile
> and test the real scenario with multiple VMs - otherwise you are testing
> something that dosen't reflect the real situation.

We do that ...

> Still it would be useful to have something like a special role for
> development in addition.

except we use a "chef_dev" environment instead of a role


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Cheers,

Peter Donald