Martin Ahrer

Thinking outside the box

TDD for infrastructure with ignite + firecracker

2020-10-01 4 min read martin
This is the last post in the series of posts about TDD for infrastructure. If you wanted to follow along I recommend first reading TDD for infrastructure with Vagrant and then TDD for infrastructure with footloose. In the previous post TDD for infrastructure with footloose I explored weaveworks' footloose to start containers that look like virtual machines. Continue reading

TDD for infrastructure with footloose

2020-09-01 6 min read martin
In the previous post TDD for infrastructure with Vagrant I explored Vagrant, VirtualBox and Chef Inspec for implementing a simple workflow for test driven development of infrastructure code. I showed that using virtual machines as target machines for testing is just not fast enough and probably hard to run in a build environment. Continue reading