[chef] Re: test-kitchen: how to test data driven recipes with databags?

[Mike < >]

Vagrant supports Data Bags, like so:

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.data_bags_path = "data_bags"
  end
end

I suspect since a lot of Opscode testing is done against chef-client
(and therefore server), this might have been overlooked for chef-solo.

-Mike

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Torben Knerr 
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 wrote:
> Ohai again!
>
> is there currently a way to test recipes that are configured via databags?
>
> There's no `chef.data_bags_path` in the Vagrantfile:
> https://github.com/opscode/test-kitchen/blob/master/config/Vagrantfile#L97-102
>
> So I assume it's not supported so far, unless someone can prove me wrong.
>
> An easy solution would be to hava a databags dir alongside with the
> cookbooks dir in the test kitchen and reference that in the
> Vagrantfile, i.e.:
> <cookbook>/test/kitchen/cookbooks
> <cookbook>/test/kitchen/databags
>
> It would get more tricky if you want to "override" a databag for a
> specific configuration. Not sure how to handle this best, but
> something like prefixing the databag with the configuration name or
> having a subdirectory with configuration name come to my mind.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Torben
>
>
> P.S.: will create a JIRA ticket for this, but want to discuss it here first