Integration testing with Kitchen and ServerSpec

Now we are going to move to the cookbooks-as-artifacts model of testing. This is full integration testing, and we are going to look to the Test Kitchen framework as the tool for this type of test. Kitchen is another tool that is included as part of the installation of ChefDK, so there is no additional work to install it. Kitchen allows you to easily deploy a new system, install Chef, download the run-list cookbooks, and converge the node instance to fully test the functionality of our policies, roles, cookbooks, and so on.

To explore using Test Kitchen, let's imagine that we want to create a cookbook that will set up a web server to present our new application's website to users. The best way to approach this from a test-driven development aspect is to consider the desired results from the user's point of view. The user does not care that we have a web server installed and running; they only care about getting an appropriate response from our...