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In order to test Chef-Client run, we need to have Chef-Client configured to use the hosted Chef or own hosted server. Running Chef-Client in Debug Mode vipin@server:~$ sudo chef-client -l…

Knife preflight shows details about all the nodes which uses a certain cookbook before uploading it to Chef server. Getting Started In order to get started, we need to have knife-preflight…

Test kitchen is Chef’s integration testing framework. It enables writing tests, which run after VM is instantiated and converged using the cookbook. The tests run on VM and can verify…

Test Driven Development (TDD) is a way to write unit test before writing any actual recipe code. The test should be real and should validate what a recipe does. It should…

Writing good cookbooks without any issue is quite a difficult task. But there are ways which can help in identifying the pitfalls. Flagging in Chef Cookbook is possible. Foodcritic is…

In case the cookbook is directly deployed and run on the production server, there are high chances that the cookbook can break up in production. The best way to prevent…

Writing Chef cookbooks is always hard. It makes it even harder because of long feedback cycle of uploading them to the Chef server, provisioning a vagrant VM, checking how they…