[chef] Re: Using kitchen override/stub a cookbook

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Aug 6, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Bill Warner 
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 wrote:

> I am trying to setup testing with kitchen and docker,  some cookbooks like 
> the supermarket "hostname" cookbook are not compatible with docker but they 
> are used in my final deployments.  I'd like to stub these out just for when 
> kitchen docker is used to speed up early testing but not when vagrant or 
> doing a berks install.
> 
> I thought I'd use groups in my Berksfile, but that would still try to 
> upload/install the stub cookbook to my chef server while doing a berks 
> install unless i specify a -e docker_integration, and Berksfile doesn't 
> seem to be processed by erb.
> 
> I was unable to find anywhere in the .kitchen.yml file where I could 
> override a single cookbook, or a way to have it not process a cookbook.

Use a wrapper cookbook that only include_recipe-s the real one if you aren't 
on Docker.

--Noah

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