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

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi Mike,

yes, that's how it should look like.

Have created http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KITCHEN-22 for this.

Cheers,
Torben

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Mike 
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 wrote:
> 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