[chef] Re: Kitchen-ec2 0.10.0.rc.0 Released

[Tyler Ball < >]

I just released RC 1 with a minor change - I had a bad `require` that was still trying to use the AWS SDK V1 when we have updated to V2 and no longer include that old gem.

-T

On Jun 18, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Tyler Ball < " class=""> > wrote:

Hot on the heals of the Test Kitchen release, I have released the RC of kitchen-ec2 0.10.0.  The big feature in this release is support for Windows guests in AWS.  As a quickstart guide you can specify:

platforms:

  - name: windows-2012r2

  

This will create a Windows guest using the default AMI provided for Windows 2012R2.  To use `kitchen login` you need the password for the Administrator user, which we fetch from AWS and store in the `.kitchen/<platform>-<suite>.json` file.  Unfortunately we cannot automatically provide this password to RDP at this point.

You can, however, specify your own username and password with transport options:

transport:

  username: foo

  password: bar

Or

platforms:

  - name: windows-2012r2

  transport:

    username: foo

    password: bar

We specify a default user data which adds that user to the Administrator group, and you can then `kitchen login` with the known user and password.  See the CHANGELOG for more details.

If there are no issues reported with this RC I will officially release it next week.

Cheers!

-Tyler