[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Test Kitchen and Outside-in Acceptance Testing?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi Stephen,

yes, I'm looking for something to test my infrastructure from the outside, ideally reusing test-kitchen for bringing up and converging the VMs.

Leibniz looks exactly what I was looking for!

Btw: any news on the availability of the 2nd edition of your "Test Driven Infrastructure" book mentioned on the last slide? I couldn't find it on amazon yet :-)

Cheers,

Torben

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

On 18 June 2013 20:52, Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Thanks for the quick replies!

I just noticed that I'm actually looking for something suitable to test my infrastructure (e.g. represented by a couple of vagrant VMs interacting with each other) rather than individual cookbooks.

Right - so explicitly this is not what Test Kitchen is designed for.  But we can use the fact that it builds infrastructure and converges nodes.
 

@Stephen: looking forward to see more of it. My first thought on Leibniz was a bit different though given that we are working in a kitchen, aren't we?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Butterkeks.jpg

Hehe.  I named it after the dude who, alongside Newton, invevented integration.
 

@Mike: but this runs on the node, doesn't it?

Yes - absolutely.  This is what Test Kitchen *is* designed to do.

S.