Test KitchenWhat is Test Kitchen?
Test Kitchen has a static, declarative configuration in a .kitchen.yml file at the root of your project. It is designed to execute isolated code run in pristine environments ensuring that no prior state exists. A plugin architecture gives you the freedom to run your code on any cloud, virtualization, or bare metal resources and allows you to write acceptance criteria in whatever framework you desire.
Test Kitchen is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
Test Kitchen Pros & Cons
Pros of Test Kitchen
- ✓Automated testing
- ✓Detect bugs in cook books
- ✓Can containerise tests in Docker
- ✓Integrates well with vagrant
- ✓Integrates well with puppet
Cons of Test Kitchen
No cons listed yet.
Test Kitchen Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Test Kitchen?
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
GitHub Actions
It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
Travis CI
Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.
