[chef] Re: Re: Accessing Test Kitchen YML Attributes

[Rudi < >]

Hi,

OK got it.

Thank you kindly.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Mar 5, 2015, at 8:15 PM, Rudi < "> > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ah OK .. that makes sense then, I was really getting frustrated.
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> What kind of use case is attributes used for then?
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> From here: https://docs.chef.io/kitchen.html
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> suites:
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> - name: suite_name
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> run_list:
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> - recipe[cookbook_name::recipe_name]
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> attributes: { foo: "bar"}
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> excludes:
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> - platform-version
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> Where would you actually use the 'foo' property?
> My assumption was inside the test suites.

For when a recipe can be configured via Chef attributes and you want to test how it behaves with non-default values. It is just slightly faster than making a test-only wrapper cookbook and setting them that way even if thats how you would do it in production.

--Noah