Test-driven Cookbooks Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
The most important role of a Cookbook developer is to test a code before it enters production. This course will focus on testing Chef cookbooks consistently and effectively.
Target Audience
DevOps practitioners and systems administrators interested in learning how to automate configuration tasks with Chef
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.4
Lesson Objectives Test-driven Cookbooks
start the course
use Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) in the context of Chef cookbook development
identify the Chef Development Kit tools used for unit and integration testing
generate unit and integration tests inside of a cookbook
list the components of the .kitchen.yml file
configure a Test Kitchen driver to support deploying to physical, virtual, or cloud machines
execute the chef-client on a virtual machine generated by Test Kitchen
define an integration test and verify the results with kitchen login
use the InSpec compliance language to write simple integration tests
refactor a recipe and run kitchen verify with a test-driven approach
execute the RSpec utility to test Chef recipes in memory
utilize a simple formula to write ChefSpec tests
configure the Pry Ruby gem to insert a breakpoint into a recipe
use ChefSpec to check case statement evaluation of node attributes
use Test Kitchen to verify a simple Apache cookbook on Ubuntu and Centos
Course Number: os_doch_a04_it_enus
Expertise Level
Intermediate