Chef, Puppet, and other tools that implement “infrastructure as code” are great for configuration management and automated deployments, but it is difficult to test these infrastructure scripts before putting them into production. Since infrastructure as code is a relatively new technology, methodologies for its testing are not yet standardized. Glen Buckholz shares a way to solve the two major problems with testing Chef scripts—[1] capturing a start state similar to your...
Glenn Buckholz
Coveros, Inc.
With fifteen years of industry experience, Glenn Buckholz leads continuous integration and deployment automation efforts at Coveros. His career began as a consultant implementing automated test frameworks and introducing the concept of change management to many, many projects. Glenn then decided to become a part of honest society and settled down at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as their full-time enterprise change manager. Several years later, he joined Coveros, where he specializes in implementing agile practices and CI, and engineering configuration management instead of simply documenting it.