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Testing test-kitchen contributions against windows test instances

Choose a windows based cookbook

The windows cookbook is a grand choice.

Edit the Gemfile

Ensure that the cookbook's root directory includes a Gemfile that includes your local test-kitchen repo on the branch you would like to test as well as required windows-only needed gems:

gem 'test-kitchen', git: 'https://github.com/mwrock/test-kitchen', branch: 'winrm-fs'
gem 'winrm', '~> 1.6'
gem 'winrm-fs', '~> 0.4.1'
gem 'winrm-elevated', '~> 0.4.0'

The above would target the winrm-fs branch in mwrock's test-kitchen repo.

Finding a windows image

Make sure you have a windows test image handy. You can use your favorite cloud or hypervisor. An easy vagrant option is mwrock/Windows2012R2 which is publicly available on atlas. To use that, edit your cookbook's .kitchen.yml to include:

platforms:
  - name: win2012r2-standard
    driver:
      box: mwrock/Windows2012R2

For other windows OS versions, you can spin up instances in your favorite cloud provider or create your own vagrant box. The windows packer templates found in the boxcutter repo provide a good place to start here.

bundle install

From the root of your cookbook directory run bundle install

Converge and test

Now run bundle exec kitchen verify.

If your cookbook has multiple suites (like the windows cookbook), you likely just want to run one:

bundle exec kitchen verify feature