[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Testing Cookbooks vs Testing Infrastructure

[Torben Knerr < >]

Oh, infratester is nice indeed!

kitchen-infratester anyone? ;-)

Am 23.04.2015 10:27 schrieb "Cassiano Leal" < "> >:

That’s true, but unless I’ve missed something, that won’t do any outside-in testing either.

Serverspec always tests local resources, either by SSHing in first, or by assuming it’s already running on the node it will test. In either case it’s testing from within the node under test.

Thanks for the link to Infrataster, I hadn’t heard about it. :)

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Cassiano Leal

On 23 April 2015 at 09:20:59, Zac Stevens ( " target="_blank"> ) wrote:

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

As for testing "from the outside", I'm probably just looking for tool
/ plugin that would integrate to test-kitchen, but that would NOT be
installed inside the VM via busser. Instead it should be testing the
VM from the outside. As far as I understood, this would exclude
serverspec, because serverspec is SSHing into the VM to run its tests,
right?

No, wrong - serverspec _can_ SSH into a remote host, and it can run tests locally (with `set :backend :exec`).

As you observe, busser installs serverspec on the VM, copies the test suite to the VM, and runs the suite locally.

In the same space, you might also want to look at http://infrataster.net

Zac