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    • SSH
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About Transports

A Test Kitchen transport is how Test Kitchen connects to the instance created via drivers so that the provisioners can run.

The two most common transports are ssh and winrm. On Windows systems, winrm is used by default, and ssh is used by default on all other systems.

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