[chef] Re: Re: Kitchen Testing

[Douglas Garstang < >]

I've become aware of the Berkshelf group option. Eg: from the Berkshelf documentation:

group :solo do

  cookbook 'riot_base'

end

When running 'berks install', you can use the --without option to exclude a group. In my situation, that would then be:

group :test do

  cookbook 'bc-role-base'

end

However, I need to exclude this cookbook when running a 'vagrant up', and I don't see how to pass this information to vagrant so that it can be passed to berkshelf.

Doug.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Douglas Garstang < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Eric,

Yes, but doing so also means it's a requirement for this particular cookbook, which it is not.

Douglas.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Eric G. Wolfe < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

If you've put the base cookbook into the kitchen file, then you've made it a requirement for kitchen.

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On 03/24/2014 08:05 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:

I'm trying to correctly use test kitchen (sorry if there's a separate mailing list for that - couldn't find one).

Up until now, in order to unit test (or at least quickly and repeatedly confirm) a cookbook works, the Vagrantfile had just contained the recipe for the cookbook. We have a base role, but our cookbooks typically don't need the base role to function and are therefore are not a dependancy.

This also means the base role is not in the Berksfile. However, it seems that kitchen reads the Berksfile. When I run a 'kitchen test', kitchen fails because it can't find the base role that I have put into the kitchen.yml file.

I'm not sure what to do here. It makes no sense to me to put the base role into the Berksfile, because it is not a dependancy. However, kitchen seems to need it. Adding the base role to the Berksfile would greatly increase the time required to quickly test a cookbook works.

If I did add it, this would mean that a 'kitchen test' would be basically the same as a 'vagrant up' since both include the cookbook AND the base role. I'm left wondering what the point of kitchen is at that point?

Thanks,

Douglas

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