[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Tips for running a script before kitchen converge?

["Brian O'Connell" < >]

I am struggling with a similar scenario.  As part of our chefdk bootstrap, we package up a set of cookbooks using berks package.  We have a a curl bash that end users execute to install/update the dev environment.

 

We have been testing using test kitchen w/ the chef provisioner but because the testing doesn't fully simulate our real environment (chef may or may not be installed, bash script to start the process not run) we have had a couple of defects escape testing.

 

The pre_create_command doesn't work because we want these set of commands to be run before every converge, not just the first create.

I have considered using the vagrantfiles directive with a custom vagrant file, but its not clear to me that would help since that only seems to get executed on create as well.

 

I could create a script that does this, but that i somewhat unsatisfying because it fights against the muscle memory for all of our other cookbooks. 

 

Has anyone come across a good solution to resolve this in test kitchen?  It feels like a pre_converge_command would be optimal for this sort of scenario.

 

Thanks, 

Brian

 

 

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From: Robert Freiberger < >
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Tips for running a script before kitchen converge?
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 5:46 PM
 

Hello, 

 

Thanks Brandon and Steve for your recommendations. Apologies as I was away but I'm testing these features now. My original goal was to edit a Vagrant box and make some changes (just add a Ruby script to execute during start up) but after reading, might be easier to keep this separate. 

 

Thanks again,

Robert

 

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM Steve Murawski < " target="_blank" > > wrote:

You can tell vagrant to use it's shell provisioner, but you'd likely need to provide a custom vagrantfile.erb (there's a parameter for that in the kitchen-vagrant driver).

 

The pre_create_command happens before the vagrant up, so that'd be something more for prepping your host environment (maybe staging sync'd folders or something).

 

Steve

 

 

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Brandon Raabe < " target="_blank" > > wrote:

Hey Robert,

 

I'm not sure what's in the script, but the `pre_create_command` option may be what you're looking for. I'm assuming you're using kitchen-vagrant.

 

https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-vagrant#-pre_create_command

 

 

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Robert Freiberger < " target="_blank" > > wrote:

Hello, 

 

I'm working on a simple Vagrant box with Test Kitchen and pretty sure this is a simple request. Is it possible to execute a script before kitchen converge? Maybe I'm not seeing this, but I checked the options from Test Kitchen. 

 

I really would like to stay away from customizing the box file if possible. 

 

Thanks,

Robert

 

 

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