Multi tool use

Chef Kitchen CI Verify without converge. Existing Server test

I have a situation where I want to test AWS EC2 sever using the Kitchen test framework. We are using cloudformation for our infrastructure creation and not the Chef. I want to use Kitchen Verify functionality by writing the test cases, but can't use Chef recipes for infrastructure creation.

Is there any way, I can just use Kitchen Verify command against existing EC2 infrastructure created by CloudFormation? How do I specify address on existing server which is not created using Kitchen Converge command.

Appreciate your help!

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KitchenCI is only a tool (a powerful one, no doubt! :-)) which connect other tools/drivers (provisioners, verifiers, etc).

Since you do not use it for provisioning your test infrastructure it makes a little to no sense to use it for verification. Instead, I would suggest a research if your preferred verifier (you didn't mention which one you are using) can be used standalone. For example, you can run inspec without Kitchen (look for backend/host flags).

There is a drive plugin for Cloudformation, which includes its own pass through provisioner. But I’ve never used it and using standalone InSpec or Serverspec is probably easier :)

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