I am writing InSpec tests for some new Chef recipes I am working on. I would like to utilise the data_bags used by the cookbooks to iterate through the data bag items. I can't figure out how to acc...

I am using Test Kitchen to test a cookbook. I would like to specify the version number of chef solo that will be installed. How can I specify a version number?

Every time I run kitchen test it downloads a new vm box. Is there a way to make it re-use a locally downloaded box? Here is my .kitchen.yml file. --- driver_plugin: vagrant driver_config: re...

I have a very boiler plate .kitchen.yml with the following: --- driver: name: vagrant platforms: - name: ubuntu-14.04 suites: - name: default run_list: - recipe[webserver::default] when I r...

When I run kitchen test or kitchen test --log-level info No logs that I have in my recipe under test ie. Chef::Log.info("How to make appear in kitchen output?") are displayed in kitchen...

In test-kitchen, is there a way to update the instance created instead of destroying and recreating the instance every time? Say if I change in kitchen.yml and want to see that change, running the ...

I ran a test-kitchen instance and all was fine, but at the end when I did try to destroy it kitchen with: roberto@pc:~$ kitchen destroy Virtualbox gave me this error. -----> Starting Kit...

I am trying develop a cookbook to make a flask app work with gunicorn and nginx. I have been successful to the point that the app is running very well with a local sqlite database, see my cookbook ...

I have my Chef cookbooks stored in chef/cookbooks/ folder. When running kitchen converge I am still getting notice Berksfile, Cheffile, cookbooks/, or metadata.rb not found so Chef will run with ...

Many cookbooks, such as the mysql cookbook have multiple .kitchen.yml files. For example, mysql has a .kitchen.yml and a .kitchen-cloud.yml. Looking at documentation and code for test-kitchen, I ca...

I'm new to Chef and have been using Test Kitchen to test the validity of my cookbooks, which works great. Now I'm trying to ensure that environment-specific attributes are correct on production nod...

I am investigating if ChefSpec report (with coverage) and Test Kitchen report can be generated as junit format so they can be parsed then by Jenkins to publish results. Or if there is some other fr...

I'm trying to override attributes in the java cookbook with test-kitchen. When I try run kitchen converge default-centos-64, a bad YAML error shows up. --- driver: name: vagrant customize: mem...