About Drivers

A Test Kitchen driver is what supports configuring the compute instance that is used for isolated testing. This is typically a local hypervisor (Hyper-V), hypervisor abstraction layer (Vagrant), or cloud service (AWS EC2).

Chef Workstation includes Test Kitchen along with the following drivers:

• Amazon EC2 (AWS) via the kitchen-ec2 project
• DigitalOcean via the kitchen-digitalocean project
• Dokken (Chef Infra specific Docker driver) via the kitchen-dokken project
• Google Cloud Platform via the kitchen-google project
• HashiCorp Vagrant via the kitchen-vagrant project
• Microsoft Azure via the kitchen-azurerm project
• Microsoft Hyper-V via the kitchen-hyperv project
• Openstack via the kitchen-openstack project
• VMware vCenter via the kitchen-vcenter project
• VMware vRealize Automation via the kitchen-vra project

The Test Kitchen community also maintains several additional plugins not bundled directly in Chef Workstation:

• kitchen-docker
• kitchen-rackspace
• kitchen-vcair
• kitchen-vro

There are other drivers that have existed over the life of Test Kitchen that we do not list here, either because they are un-maintained or have been supplanted by other drivers.