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Mayank Joshi
Mayank Joshi
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Mayank Joshi

Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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Test-driven development with Chef


As we are trying to specify our infrastructure as code, it would be prudent of us to take some good stuff from devs practices and incorporate them into our coding practices. The following figure illustrates a few such ideas:

Ops:

  • TDD: Test-Driven Development

  • CI: Continuous Integration

  • CD: Continuous Delivery/Deployment

Development without TDD

The usual practice followed by operations people can be understood from this flow chart:

Development with TDD

With TDD practices in use, the following is how the development cycle looks:

With TDD, the tests are an integral part of the development phase and either tests are written even before the code is written, or they are written alongside the code. So, whether you are building a new feature or fixing a bug, you'll always be writing test cases and running them continuously to ensure that things are behaving as intended. This is a habit that needs to be cultivated, and the following are the steps you need to take to follow...

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Mayank Joshi

Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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