Cross-platform Infrastructure testing with Microsoft Azure, Test Kitchen and InSpec
Stuart Preston
Testing/CI - Monday, February 1 14:40 - B.CON
One of the great misconceptions about the Azure platform is that it can only run Windows compute VMs, but did you know over 25% of all compute resource running in Azure is actually running Linux? Now that most popular distributions are supported in Azure, this makes it an ideal place to inexpensively perform cross-platform verification testing and this session will show you how. We will take an in-depth look at how we can verify our ‘Infrastructure as Code’ across multiple platforms by using Chef, Test Kitchen and Chef’s new testing framework, InSpec.
About Stuart Preston
Stuart Preston is the Technical Director and co-founder of Pendrica, a technology consultancy based in the United Kingdom focusing on automation with Chef and the Microsoft Azure platform. Over the last 2 decades he has specialised in delivering Infrastructure, Platform Architecture and Application Lifecycle Management consultancy at scale for various large organizations. Stuart did the work to integrate Test Kitchen with Azure Resource Manager via his driver, kitchen-azurerm and is a keen supporter of Chef and Azure via his other open-source contributions. He is also writing a book "Using Chef with Microsoft Azure" which will be available in the first half of 2016.