I was reviewing a set of integration tests for a cookbook the other day and realized I had hard-coded a folder name in the test . Pester Integration Test The test was passing because the hard-coded folder and the folder used in the recipe matched. What happens if we change the folder in the future? …
Test Environment Data in Chef Integration tests with PowerShell/Pester Read More »
I’m an idiot! Now that that’s out of the way I wanted to share my bone-headed mistake with all of you so you don’t waste a couple hours like I did today. I created a new cookbook today (tests first of course!) and wanted to run kitchen to spin up a VM and run my …
kitchen-hyperv error–Failed to find default VM Switch Read More »
I’ve posted previously about deploying SQL database schema changes with MSDeploy but glossed over deploying custom SQL scripts. That post explained how to extend MSBuild for your deployments but its even easier now with the release of the MSDeployAllTheThings Nuget packages: Setup The basic steps to setup a SQL script deployment are as follows: 1 …
Over the next few months I will be speaking for several user groups virtually. I’ve never done remote presentations for user groups but am excited to try it out. Seems like a great way to meet new folks and reach the broader community. June 14th – MTUG Script Club (Norway): Configuration management with Chef, Kitchen, …
One of my main goals at BUILD this year was to get a better understanding of how Microsoft is recommending to build microservices with .NET. The term “microservices” was thrown around quite a bit during the keynotes and sessions but there was very little detail offered beyond these references. The context of these references was …
I finally found some time to upgrade and test ChefDK 1.3 from 1.2.22 this weekend. When I went to download the bits I found 1.4.3 is now the latest stable release. Chef moves fast! The install was quick and painless, as usual. Chef Development Kit Version: 1.4.3chef-client version: 12.19.36delivery version: master (41b94ffb5efd33723cf72a89bf4d273c8151c9dc)berks version: 5.6.4kitchen version: …
EBSCO sent me and 4 other developers to the BUILD conference again this year. (It is so great to work for a company that values training and community engagement but is also willing to pay for it.) The conference was held in Seattle this year at the Washington State Convention Center downtown. For those that …
Back in the day, we would spend weeks, sometimes months, manually testing applications for regressions after adding new or changing features. So, we started our Continuous Delivery journey with a new definition of done 4 years ago: All new feature development must also have automated feature tests. At the time we utilized CodedUI (Microsoft’s user …
In updating my Parameterization Preview extension this week I had a problem where debugging the extension didn’t work. Debugging would startup a new instance of Studio with the extension installed but the Initialize method in my Package was never called. After some searching I couldn’t find any options to fix it or others with the …
Visual Studio Extension Debug Issue – Initialize never called Read More »
A couple years ago I created an extension to Visual Studio for previewing config transformations similar to the old config transform preview feature. We have found this tools really helpful at work for converting from config transforms to parameterization and generally to preview config parameterizations. This week I upgraded the extension to include support for …
Parameterization Preview v1.3 Released with VS2017 Support! Read More »