Can cucumber-chef be used without AWS?

Atalanta / cucumber-chef

Framework for test-driven infrastructure development

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Closed mrjcleaver closed 10 years ago

mrjcleaver commented 11 years ago

(I was directed here from the #cucumber-chef irc channel)

What's AWS used for?

I have plenty of computing resources locally, no need or want to pay for an AWS account.

Thanks, M.

zpatten commented 11 years ago

AWS is available as a provider, along with Vagrant. They are mutually exclusive.

When doing integration testing through CI; it is often best to use AWS to avoid running Vagrant/VirtualBox on your Jenkins nodes for example.

As such companies I've worked with tend to use AWS backed testlabs for CI purposes and Vagrant/VirtualBox backed testlabs for development purposes.