# Test kitchen - vagrant platform for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [April 11, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213 "2016-04-11T16:53:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtenenba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@dtenenba](https://discourse.chef.io/u/dtenenba)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213/1 "2016-04-11T16:53:28Z")

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Hello, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will be released on April 21, 2016 (10 days from now).  
My organization will immediately begin deploying infrastructure to nodes running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.  
I typically use test kitchen with a vagrant box running Ubuntu 14.04; there does not seem to be an equivalent one running 16.04; Can this be made available? I realize that it will be using a pre-release version, but that is better than not being able to test my recipes at all against 16.04.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![jjasghar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/jjasghar/32/1691_2.png) [@jjasghar](https://discourse.chef.io/u/jjasghar)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213/2 "2016-04-11T17:11:14Z")

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Yep! The boxes are pulled from the [bento project](https://github.com/chef/bento).

If you look here you’ll see that it [is in WIP](https://github.com/chef/bento/pull/545). It probably be released the day of or extremely close to the official release.

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**Author:** ![dtenenba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@dtenenba](https://discourse.chef.io/u/dtenenba)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213/3 "2016-04-11T17:41:26Z")

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Wonderful, thanks. Is there a way to tweak my .kitchen.yml to pull the box from WIP so I can start testing against 16.04, or do I just need to wait?

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Thomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Seth\_Thomas](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Seth_Thomas)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213/4 "2016-04-12T11:33:05Z")

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Hello there!

Maintainer of test-kitchen and bento here - as JJ mentioned there is a WIP (it’s my PR even) but it has not been updated for the final release. We (as in I) haven’t built pre-release boxes for mass consumption because so much usually changes and we don’t really have a specific namespace for pre-releases - we certainly could but that is more infra and builds that someone (namely I) would have to maintain.

tl;dr Just Wait 😉 (or build your own based off the existing definition and point .kitchen.yml at it)

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**Author:** ![dtenenba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@dtenenba](https://discourse.chef.io/u/dtenenba)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213/5 "2016-04-12T15:09:39Z")

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Thanks! I will wait.

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**Author:** ![dtenenba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@dtenenba](https://discourse.chef.io/u/dtenenba)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-vagrant-platform-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/8213/6 "2016-04-12T15:26:33Z")

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Sorry, one last question. When the new ubuntu 16.04 box is available, should I just change my .kitchen.yml as follows:

```auto
platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-16.04

```

??  
Thanks…