Test Kitchen

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About

Test Kitchen is ranked #10 of 27 in infrastructure testing tools on Inferse. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

Compared on infrastructure testing tools

Free plan: Yeskitchen.ci
IaC support: Chef Infra cookbooks, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, Puppet, Saltkitchen.ci
Config compliance: Yeskitchen.ci
Provisioning tests: Yeskitchen.ci
Deployed checks: Yeskitchen.ci
Execution model: localkitchen.ci
Cloud support: Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, DigitalOcean, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloudkitchen.ci

Facts

Purpose: Test Kitchen is a test harness for executing infrastructure code on one or more platforms in isolation.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Workflow: Its basic workflow uses create, converge, setup, verify, and destroy commands to provision platforms and test infrastructure code.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Drivers: Documented drivers target Amazon EC2, Apache CloudStack, DigitalOcean, Docker via Dokken, Google Cloud Platform, Hetzner Cloud, Vagrant, Azure, Hyper-V, OpenStack, VMware vCenter, and VMware vRealize Automation.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Driver availability: Driver availability depends on which driver gems are installed in the Ruby environment running Kitchen.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Provisioners: Documented provisioners configure instances using Chef Infra, Cinc Client, Habitat, PowerShell DSC, or shell scripts.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Verifier integrations: The home page lists Cinc Auditor, Chef InSpec, and Serverspec as supported testing frameworks.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Additional provisioners: The documentation lists community-maintained kitchen-ansible, kitchen-puppet, and kitchen-salt plugins.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Installation: Test Kitchen can be installed from RubyGems, system packages, or Cinc Workstation; the documented RubyGems command is gem install test-kitchen.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Workstation dependencies: Test Kitchen itself does not bundle Cinc or Chef tooling, and Workstation packages provide the drivers, provisioners, verifiers, and commands bundled in that package.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Prerequisites: The getting-started guide lists a 64-bit operating system and enabled CPU virtualization as prerequisites.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
License: The site identifies Test Kitchen as Apache License, Version 2.0.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Support: The documentation directs users to the #test-kitchen channel on Chef Community Slack for assistance from community members.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Limitations: The documentation says the kitchen-docker driver is currently without a maintainer and has known issues, and recommends kitchen-dokken instead.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026
Audience: The getting-started guide demonstrates using Test Kitchen to create and test a Chef Infra cookbook and describes a test-driven development workflow.kitchen.ci · 30 Sept 2026