[chef] test-kitchen: extend configuration with json attributes?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Ohai Chefs,

would it make sense to add json attributes to the cookbook configuration?

e.g. if you want to override some node attributes, it could be done like so:

"""
chef_json = {
   :apache => {
      :'listen_ports => ["123"]
   }
}

cookbook "apache2" do
  configuration "apache_on_different_port", chef_json
end
"""

Within the Vagrantfile the passed json would then be merged into chef.json:
https://github.com/opscode/test-kitchen/blob/master/config/Vagrantfile#L100


Or would `node.set['apache']['listen_ports'] = ['123']` within the
"apache_on_different_port.rb" configuration recipe be the preferred
way to do this?

I could imagine that this might lead to different results depending on
the ordering of recipes, but I'm not sure. What do you guys think?

Cheers,
Torben