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 586 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.
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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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
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.
