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Test Kitchen

Integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms
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What 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 is an open source tool with 1.9K GitHub stars and 580 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Test Kitchen's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Test Kitchen?

Companies
7 companies reportedly use Test Kitchen in their tech stacks, including 500px, stackstorm, and Vagas.com.

Developers
31 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Test Kitchen.
Pros of Test Kitchen
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Automated testing
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Detect bugs in cook books
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Integrates well with vagrant
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Can containerise tests in Docker
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Integrates well with puppet

Test Kitchen Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Test Kitchen?
InSpec
It is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy requirements.
Serverspec
With Serverspec, you can write RSpec tests for checking your servers are configured correctly. Serverspec tests your servers’ actual state by executing command locally, via SSH, via WinRM, via Docker API and so on.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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Test Kitchen's Followers
45 developers follow Test Kitchen to keep up with related blogs and decisions.