[chef] Re: Re: Re: the vagrant berkshelf plugin

[Greg Barker < >]

Lamont -

I like test-kitchen but it doesn't seem to fit well with the use case of a VM that should stick around for awhile.

I do all my development work in VMs, so we have a cookbook that will spin up a full dev environment (install a desktop manager, install intellij, etc). With this VM I use `vagrant up` and `vagrant provision` and `vagrant halt` all the time and it seems to fit well with this use case.

It seems like test-kitchen wasn't meant to be used for VMs that stick around, everything is geared towards the VM being destroyed at the end of a run. Sure you can run the vagrant commands on the generated vagrantfile but it feels kinda janky.

Maybe my perception needs some adjustment but I thought I should share it anyways.

Greg

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Lamont Granquist < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Generally test-kitchen is a better approach than using vagrant-berkshelf and vagrant-omnibus.  The latter two are somewhat deprecated and are mostly falling behind test-kitchen's features.

On 05/02/2015 06:23 PM, Christopher Hahn wrote:

Pardon the chaff….I am pretty sure that feeding the —debug flag to vagrant, thru

my build.gradle exec block, will tell me what I need to know.

Take care,

Christopher

On May 2, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Christopher Hahn < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hello,

I managed to take from the small README that this plugin has on github that it helps

vagrant sync a berkshelf on the Node so that it can then launch chef-solo to provision it.

I would love to find a bit more documentation was to just *what it is doing during vagrant actions*

i.e. what precisely happens between: and the:

17:54:27.468 [INFO] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Starting process 'command '/usr/bin/vagrant''. Working directory: /Users/chahn/Projects/vistacore/cdsdashboard/infrastructure/vagrant/virtualbox/cdsdashboard Command: /usr/bin/vagrant provision cdsdashboard

and the:

Running chef-solo…

I am certain that I am needing to be directed elsewhere…this is just where I know to start.

Thank you,

Christopher

P.S. I did add a comment/question on the hub as well.