Creating a Cookbook

In order to keep our example as simple as possible let’s create a Chef Infra cookbook to automate the installation and management of the Git distributed version control tool. It’s true that there is already a very capable Git cookbook available on the Chef Supermarket but this simple example will us to show all the features of Test Kitchen in a workflow.

First of all, let’s generate a cookbook skeleton.

$ chef generate cookbook git_cookbook
Generating cookbook git_cookbook
- Ensuring correct cookbook content
- Committing cookbook files to git

Your cookbook is ready. Type `cd git_cookbook` to enter it.

There are several commands you can run to get started locally developing and testing your cookbook.
Type `delivery local --help` to see a full list of local testing commands.

Why not start by writing an InSpec test? Tests for the default recipe are stored at:

test/integration/default/default_test.rb

If you'd prefer to dive right in, the default recipe can be found at:

recipes/default.rb

Congratulations. You’ve authored a Chef Infra cookbook.

Make sure you’ve changed into the new cookbook directory via cd git_cookbook. Next we’ll talk about what just happened and how Test Kitchen configuration works.