Join our panelists as we discuss Test Kitchen!

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Panel

• Fletcher Nichol twitter, github
• JJ Asghar github, twitter, blog, irc: j²
• Jonathan Hartman github, twitter, irc: roboticcheese - Jon was able to join us almost long enough to introduce himself ;(
• Joshua Timberman github, twitter, blog
• Mike Fiedler github, twitter, blog
• Salim Afiune github, twitter
• Scott Pustay github, twitter, blog
• Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

Outline

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Show Notes

Here’s a brief outline of some of the things we’d like to discuss. Add your ideas to the show notes.

• kitchen.ci
  • What is Test Kitchen?
  • Why Test Kitchen?
  • Walk us through a .kitchen.yml file
  • How does one get started with Test Kitchen?
  • How does one extend Test Kitchen?
  • Terms
    • driver
    • provisioner
    • platforms
    • suites
    • bussers; and the magic behind them
• How are the Chef Development Kit and Test Kitchen related?
• Interesting use cases for test-kitchen. Leveraging drivers to do development in the cloud when local machine restrictions won’t allow for vagrant/vmware.
• Does TK have any support for evaluating idempotence and/or run performance?
  • Testing Idempotence for Infrastructure as Code
• Test Kitchen & Windows Guest? Uhmmm is that possible?
• How do bussers work? Are they run from the host machine or on the machine under test?
• Chef Cookbook Development Workflow RFC

Picks

Fletcher

• ChefSpec
• The Goal, especially the audio book version
• Walking (the exercise, you know, get up from your desk)

JJ

• Sean O’Meara: Cookbook Unit and Acceptance Testing
• The Game of Thrones board game
• Cold Brew Coffee

Jonathan

• The Wirecutter
• CircleCI
• Tom Duffield’s Chef-Container Talk

Joshua

• RFC - Homebrew As OS X Default Package Provider
• Chef Issue - Homebrew As OS X Default Package Provider
• Homebrew Cask
• The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
• Chef reporting API and the knife-reporting gem

Salim

• Moonwalking with Einstein

Scott

• Little sumpin’ from Lagunitas

Mike

• Blue Apron

Nathen

• Chef Developers’ IRC Meetings
• Taking a proper vacation: leave your phone and computer at home.
• Not being an asshole on social media or anywhere else, for that matter.

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