Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Test Kitchen, Serverspec and RSpec

Abstract:

The goal of Continuous Delivery is, briefly, to get features into your users' or customers' hands as quickly as possible. In order to succeed, Development and Operations teams need to align and come up with both working and deployable software in short, regular intervals. Chef, Puppet, Ansible & Co. enable teams to code up application runtime environments, but alone do not allow for building quality into their processes. In this talk I will show how you can apply the "Red, Green, Refactor Cycle" of Test-Driven Development and combine it with your configuration management or orchestration tool of choice in order to come up with better infrastructure that can automatically be tested using Test Kitchen, Docker, Serverspec and RSpec.

Speaker: Martin Etmajer