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sandfox on Jan 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Support for Test-Driven Devops

Writing code/recipes/etc for chef/ansible/puppet is no different to writing code for an application. Just because you think you have dictated (in code) that things should be a certain way does not mean that what will be executed or run.

falcolas on Jan 18, 2014 [–]

The exact same caveats could be applied to unit testing an environment. Common sense and practical tests rule any form of automation.

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