diff --git a/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/apt.rb b/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/apt.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c783e2fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/apt.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+# author: Christoph Hartmann
+# author: Dominik Richter
+
+# add nginx apt repository
+case node['platform']
+when 'ubuntu'
+  include_recipe('apt')
+  apt_repository 'nginx' do
+    uri 'ppa:nginx/stable'
+    distribution node['lsb']['codename']
+  end
+when 'debian'
+  include_recipe('apt')
+  apt_repository 'nginx' do
+    uri 'http://nginx.org/packages/debian'
+    distribution node['lsb']['codename']
+    components ['nginx']
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/default.rb b/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/default.rb
index 316e79549..c524f389e 100644
--- a/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/default.rb
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 # prepare all operating systems with the required configuration
 
 include_recipe('os_prepare::package')
+include_recipe('os_prepare::apt')
diff --git a/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/package.rb b/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/package.rb
index 8d8c03ce7..766034bcf 100644
--- a/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/package.rb
+++ b/test/integration/cookbooks/os_prepare/recipes/package.rb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ when 'rhel', 'centos', 'fedora'
   # TODO: support DNF natively
   # Special care for fedora 22, since dnf is not officially supported yet
   # https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3201
-  if node['platform_version'] == 22
+  if node['platform_version'] == '22'
     execute 'dnf install -y yum'
   end