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suites:
In the case of the Chef configuration management tool, specifies a configuration to be
run on each instance. Among other things, a suite contains a list of recipes to run on each
instance.
The platform names in your
.kitchen.yml
file are aliases that point to baseboxes managed by
Chef Software. When you see values such as:
---
platforms
:
-
name
:
ubuntu
-
12
.
04
-
name
:
centos
-
6
.
4
Test Kitchen expands the values to the following internally:
platforms
:
-
name
:
ubuntu
-
12
.
04
driver
:
box
:
opscode
-
ubuntu
-
12
.
04
box_url
:
https
:
//o
pscode
-
vm
-
bento
.
s3
.
amazonaws
.
com
/
vagrant
/
\
opscode_ubuntu
-
12
.
04
_provisionerless
.
box
-
name
:
centos
-
6
.
4
driver
:
box
:
opscode
-
centos
-
6
.
4
box_url
:
https
:
//o
pscode
-
vm
-
bento
.
s3
.
amazonaws
.
com
/
vagrant
/
\
opscode_centos
-
6
.
4
_provisionerless
.
box
Each platform item can have a
driver
key-value pair that specifies a
box
and a
box_url
, de-
noting the name of the box in the
vagrant box list
catalog and the URL from which the
basebox file can be downloaded, respectively. When they are not specified, the
kitchen-
vagrant
driver assumes you want to download baseboxes from the standard Chef Software
site on the Internet.
Summary
In this chapter, we introduced the following commands that Test Kitchen uses to manage
sandbox environments:
