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Quick-Start and Minimal Cheat Sheet for Chef and Test Kitchen

Posted on November 16, 2015January 30, 2021 by rchapin

Following is a quick-start for getting a Chef and Test Kitchen environment set up to start writing and testing Chef cookbooks. This is an work in progress, so please if you find something that is incorrect or does not work as expected, send me an e-mail.

Development Environment Set-up:

Unless you are a Ruby developer and already have a complete environmenet set-up the easiest thing to do is to install the Chef Development Kit, https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/.

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Connecting To a Test Kitchen Instance Via SFTP, SSH, or SCP

Posted on June 23, 2015February 3, 2021 by rchapin

If you are using Chef and Test Kitchen to test your cookbooks you may have need to connect to the Test Kitchen VM in some other fashion other than $ kitchen login instance-name.

To do so:

Do a $ kitchen list to see the running vms

kitchen list
Instance                      Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action
default-centos-66             Vagrant  ChefSolo     Busser    Ssh        Converged

Then look in the .kitchen directory from where you ran your $ kitchen command and look for the corresponding → Continue reading “Connecting To a Test Kitchen Instance Via SFTP, SSH, or SCP”