Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms
Test Kitchen
| Website | https://kitchen.ci/ |
| Source Code | https://kitchen.ci/docs/getting-started/introduction/ |
| Slack | #test-kitchen channel on Chef Community Slack |
Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms.
Getting Started Guide
To learn how to install and setup Test Kitchen for developing infrastructure
code, check out the Getting Started Guide.
If you want to get going super fast, then try the Quick Start next…
Quick Start
Test Kitchen is a RubyGem and can be installed with:
gem install test-kitchen
If you use Bundler, you can add gem "test-kitchen" to your Gemfile and make
sure to run bundle install.
Next add support to your library, Chef cookbook, or empty project with kitchen init:
kitchen init
A kitchen.yml file will be created in your project base directory. This file
describes your testing configuration; what you want to test and on which target
platforms. Each of these suite and platform combinations are called instances.
By default your instances will be converged with Chef Solo and run in Vagrant
virtual machines.
Get a listing of your instances with:
kitchen list
Run Chef Infra Client on an instance, in this case default-ubuntu-2004, with:
kitchen converge default-ubuntu-2004
Destroy all instances with:
kitchen destroy
You can clone a Chef Infra cookbook project that contains Test Kitchen support and
run through all the instances in serial by running:
kitchen test
Usage
There is help included with the kitchen help subcommand which will list all
subcommands and their usage:
kitchen help test
More verbose logging for test-kitchen can be specified when running test-kitchen from the command line using:
kitchen test -l debug
For the provisioner (e.g. chef-solo or chef-infra) add a log_level item to the provisioner section of the .kitchen.yml
For more information on setting log_level see the configuration documentation.
Documentation
Documentation is being added on the Test Kitchen website. Please
read and contribute to improve them!
Versioning
Test Kitchen aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
Community and Ecosystem
If you would like to see a few of the plugins or ecosystem helpers, please look at ECOSYSTEM.md.
Development
- Source hosted at GitHub
- Report issues/questions/feature requests on GitHub Issues
Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested.
Ideally create a topic branch for every separate change you make. For
example:
- Fork the repo
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Added some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request
Authors
Created by Fletcher Nichol ([email protected]).
Maintained by Chef Software and a growing community of contributors.
License
Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE)