[chef] Re: [chef-dev] An ask for Test Kitchen 1.4.0 and Kitchen::Vagrant 0.17.0 pre-releases

[Torben Knerr < >]

Awesome stuff!

My (quite basic) kitchen tests with kitchen-vagrant and the
vagrant-lxc provider are still running fine. Thanks for releasing this
with kitchen-vagrant 0.16.0 earlier this week!

“oooo, ahhhh” Windows?!

Indeed very useful (I might need to set up some windows boxes in the
near futur...)

So far I found the boxcutter/windows [0] boxes superb. Mischa Taylor
has done a great job with boxcutter. Not sure though whether they have
winrm enabled or not...

Btw: are there any real life test-kitchen / windows examples out there 
already?

Cheers,
Torben



[0] Github: https://github.com/boxcutter/windows




On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Fletcher Nichol 
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 >
 wrote:
> Howdy y’alls!
>
> —BEGIN tl;dr—
>
> Guess what? We have a couple of pre-release gems cut today for Test 
> Kitchen, specifically:
>
> * test-kitchen 1.4.0.beta.2 (beta.1 cut yesterday)
> * kitchen-vagrant 0.17.beta.2 (beta.1 cut yesterday)
>
> Here’s my ask for anyone with time/interest/ability in the next day or 2:
>
> Where ever you use Test Kitchen, give this pair of releases a try. If you 
> don’t care about the Vagrant Driver, then just use the Test Kitchen 
> pre-release. Use it exactly as you would any previous stable release, don’t 
> change anything.
>
> —END tl;dr—
>
>
> It’s extremely important that this release doesn’t break existing projects, 
> Drivers, and/or Provisioners in the wild. If you find issues, please let 
> myself or Tyler Ball know and file an issue if you can. Linking to a 
> reproducible project and `kitchen diagnose —all` output (scrubbed for 
> credentials first) is such a big help, you have no idea.
>
> ## Installing
>
> If you have a Ruby workflow with RubyGems and/or Bundler this won’t be too 
> much work:
>
> Gem install with:
>
> gem install test-kitchen —pre
> gem install kitchen-vagrant —pre
>
>
> Gemfile containing:
>
> gem “test-kitchen”, “~> 1.4.0.beta.2”
> gem “kitchen-vagrant”, “~> 0.17.0.beta.2”
>
>
> If you’re using ChefDK, you might want to give this a spin to update 
> test-kitchen (whipped up last night in a frenzy):
>
> https://github.com/fnichol/chefdk-update-app/
>
> To update the kitchen-vagrant gem, simply:
>
> chef gem install kitchen-vagrant --pre --minimal-deps
>
> ## Windows!
>
> Note that this release has the much-fabled “Windows guest support” (insert 
> “oooo, ahhhh” here). How do you get started? At the moment getting Vagrant 
> base box images of Windows is still a big pain, but if you have access to 
> one, here are the versions that should “just work”:
>
> - Windows Server 2012r2
> - Windows Server 2012r2 Core (you will need .NET 4.5 installed however)
> - Windows Server 2012 (your system/image must have the KB2842230 hotfix 
> applied (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2842230))
> - Windows Server 2008r2
> - Windows 8.1 Pro,Enterprise,etc.
> - Windows 8 Pro,Enterprise,etc. (your system/image must have the KB2842230 
> hotfix applied (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2842230))
> - Windows 7
>
> ### Windows with Kitchen::Vagrant
>
> Any Vagrant base box should have `vm.communicator = “winrm”` and `vm.guest 
> = “windows”` set by default, otherwise `vagrant up` will not be able to 
> correctly boot the VM. Note that there are some Windows base boxes out 
> there with `vm.communicator = “ssh”` set, so plan accordingly.
>
> Assuming you have a Vagrant base box called “windows-2012r2”, you can use a 
> .kitchen.yml similar to:
>
> —
> driver:
> name: vagrant
>
> platforms:
> - name: windows-2012r2
>
> suites:
> - name: default
>
> Note that with the updates in kitchen-vagrant you don’t need to 
> set/override a `:box`, `:box_url`, `:communicator`, `:guest`, `:port`, 
> `:username`, or `:password`. Sane defaults should apply.
>
> For anyone who has tried the windows-guest-support branch, you may have 
> seen extra transport configuration like this:
>
> —
> driver:
> name: vagrant
>
> platforms:
> - name: windows-2012r2
> transport:
> name: winrm
>
> suites:
> - name: default
>
>
> This is what Test Kitchen’s going to give you by default for any platform 
> name starting with /^win/ (case insensitive) so add it, or don’t, it should 
> work either way. If you don’t believe me, run `kitchen diagnose` against 
> both and note the difference :)
>
> Finally, if you use certain Vagrant providers or use private networks in 
> your setup, kitchen-vagrant is not currently able to determine your WinRM 
> port. I’m hoping to fix this with a Vagrant plugin which kitchen-vagrant 
> can use to return it’s WinRM and RDP hostname and port.
>
> ### Further Reading
>
> You can check out the CHANGELOG for more details/links regarding beta.1 and 
> beta.2:
>
> https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
>
>
> Happy testing!
>
> --
> Fletcher Nichol
> Engineering Lead - Test Driven Infrastructure
> CHEF | http://www.chef.io
> IRC, Twitter, GitHub: fnichol
>
>
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