[chef] Re: Multi-Machine Testing

[Sean Escriva < >]

Hey,

Curtis Stewart 
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 writes:

> Hi,
>
> We’ve been using Chefspec for unit testing, and Serverspec for 
> “integration” testing (and test-kitchen to run our serverspec tests).
>
> I’m wondering if there are any good tools for multi-machine testing.
> For example, the nagios cookbook relies heavily on discovering other
> nodes within an environment.
>
> Outside of bootstrapping multiple nodes in a test environment, I’m not
> sure the best practice for this testing.  Is this something that can
> be done via test-kitchen?  Or even a good workflow with vagrant?

Multi-node or cluster testing is one of the things Vagabond was designed
for[0]. Chris did an intro to Vagabond at DevOpsDays PDX a few months
back[1]. Hope that helps.


  [0] https://github.com/chrisroberts/vagabond/tree/develop
  [1] http://vimeo.com/79388549

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-sean