Run Chef recipes on test kitchen

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Run Chef recipes on test kitchen

• Installing Chef Client with Test Kitchen

• Node is a test kitchen

• Create kitchen

• Use the kitchen login command to connect to your node and install chef-client on the node

kitchen login default-ubuntu1404

curl -Lk https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

• check Chef Client is installed on the node

chef-client --version

• Setup kitchen.

run from your workstation:

kitchen setup default-ubuntu1404

Run from inside the node

• create simple script on the node

# login to kitchen
kitchen login ..

# hello.rb
log "nothing special"

• run script on the node

# login to kitchen
kitchen login ..

# from node
chef-client -z hello.rb

Notes about test kitchen and chef-solo:

• The kitchen setup command is used to run a provisioner.
• By default, Test Kitchen is configured to use the ChefSolo provisioner, which installs Chef Client without configuring the tools to use a Chef Server.
• kitchen setup will automatically install chef-client for you

Run using kitchen converge

• kitchen converge performs a Chef run on your test node from your host.

kitchen converge default-ubuntu1404