Test Kitchen comparisons
Test Kitchen is compared head-to-head with Checkov, Terratest and Chef InSpec and more: 7 head-to-heads in Infrastructure Testing Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Test Kitchen head-to-head
- Test Kitchen vs Checkov
- Test Kitchen vs Terratest
- Test Kitchen vs Chef InSpec
- Test Kitchen vs KICS
- Test Kitchen vs AWS CloudFormation
- Test Kitchen vs TaskCat
- Test Kitchen vs Cloud-Radar
Test Kitchen vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | IaC support | Provisioning tests | Deployed checks | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Test Kitchen | Yes | Free | Chef Infra cookbooks, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, Puppet, Salt | Yes | Yes | 9.0 |
| 1 | Checkov | Yes | Free | 9.4 | |||
| 2 | Terratest | Free | Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Packer, Helm | Yes | Yes | 9.2 | |
| 4 | Chef InSpec | Yes | $59/device/yr | 8.9 | |||
| 5 | KICS | Yes | Free | 8.8 | |||
| 6 | AWS CloudFormation | Yes | 8.7 | ||||
| 7 | TaskCat | Free | AWS CloudFormation | Yes | Yes | 8.6 | |
| 8 | Cloud-Radar | Free | AWS CloudFormation | Yes | Yes | 8.5 |
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