• Online, Self-Paced
Course 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.

Learning Objectives

Test-driven Development

  • 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

Integration Testing

  • 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

Unit Testing

  • 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

Practice: Build a Multi-Platform Cookbook

  • use Test Kitchen to verify a simple Apache cookbook on Ubuntu and Centos

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas listed below. Click to view Specialty Area details within the interactive National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.