How To Install test-kitchen on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
3 minutes • 455 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install test-kitchen on Ubuntu.
What is test-kitchen
test-kitchen is:
Test Kitchen is a test harness tool to execute your configured code on one or more platforms in isolation. A driver plugin architecture is used which lets you run your code on various cloud providers and virtualization technologies such as Amazon EC2, Blue Box, CloudStack, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, OpenStack, Vagrant, Docker, LXC containers, and more. Many testing frameworks are already supported out of the box including Bats, shUnit2, RSpec, Serverspec, with others being created weekly.
For Chef workflows, cookbook dependency resolver tools such as Berkshelf and Librarian-Chef are supported or you can simply have a cookbooks/ directory and Test Kitchen will know what to do. Support for Test Kitchen is already included in many Chef community cookbooks such as the MySQL, nginx, Chef Server, and runit cookbooks.
There are three methods to install test-kitchen on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install test-kitchen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install test-kitchen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install test-kitchen
Install test-kitchen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install test-kitchen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install test-kitchen
Install test-kitchen Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install test-kitchen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install test-kitchen
How To Uninstall test-kitchen on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the test-kitchen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove test-kitchen
Uninstall test-kitchen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall test-kitchen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove test-kitchen
Remove test-kitchen Configurations and Data
To remove test-kitchen configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge test-kitchen
Remove test-kitchen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove test-kitchen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge test-kitchen
Dependencies
test-kitchen have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install test-kitchen package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.