How are people testing opsworks cookbooks?

Question

I have a fairly complex deployment of dynamically configured instances of a rail apps on nginx using passenger that I currently use Capistrano for. I am trying to automate the e

Answer 1

Opsworks cookbooks build upon their custom boxes, so getting a local VM set up where you can run their cookbooks alongside yours is a challenge,

Fortunately their Ubuntu box has been recreated by this project. https://github.com/wwestenbrink/vagrant-opsworks

Building on top of this, I've set up a local vagrant environment that runs the opsworks cookbooks and one of my own. https://github.com/erupenkman/opsworks-example

With this you can actually test in an almost identical local environment before deployment.