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Test Kitchen 2.2 Release Notes

This release adds the ability to accept the license for Chef Client 15 and later within Test Kitchen. This works in the following ways:

  • Set the CHEF_LICENSE environment variable
  • Set the 'chef_license' attribute in the kitchen.yml under the provisioner
  • If these are not set and the license has not been previously accepted an interactive prompt will occur asking the user to accept.

Test Kitchen 2.1 Release Notes

This support adds the gem ed25519 gem for native ed25519 SSH key support.

Test Kitchen 2.0 Release Notes

Test Kitchen 2.0 is primarily a code cleanup release, but as it does remove functionality that a limited number of users may have depended upon, we have chosen to release this as a new major version. We believe that nearly all users will experience no change with this new version, but this release allows us to remove a good amount of legacy logic that will make Test Kitchen a bit faster and certainly easier to maintain going forward.

Breaking Changes

  • Support for the Chef Librarian depsolver has been removed. Users should utilize either Berkshelf or Policyfiles instead.
  • The Chef Solo provisioner no longer supports Chef 10.
  • The Chef-Zero provisioner no longer supports Chef versions prior to 11.8.

Updated SSH Support

Test Kitchen has been updated to support net-ssh 5, which allows for new SSH key formats. Thanks @Val for this fix.

Other Improvements

  • Improvements to log messages better convey what Test Kitchen is actually doing and how to resolve problems
  • The kitchen init command now generates a kitchen.yml with an Ubuntu 18.04 system

Test Kitchen 1.24.0 Release Notes

Improved error messages

Test Kitchen now provides improved error messages when it cannot find a driver, provisioner, transport, or verifier. It will now output a message listing the plugins that it does know about, which may help users who have simply typed a name in a kitchen.yml file

Test Kitchen 1.23.0 Release Notes

Life Cycle Hooks

The life cycle hooks system allows running commands before or after any phase of Test Kitchen (create, converge, verify, or destroy). Commands can be run either locally on your workstation (the default) or remotely on the test instance.

These hooks are configured under a new lifecycle: section in kitchen.yml:

lifecycle:
  pre_create: echo before
  post_create:
  - echo after
  - local: echo also after
  - remote: echo after but in the instance

You can also configure hooks on a single platform or suite:

platforms:
- name: ubuntu-18.04
  lifecycle:
    pre_converge:
    - remote: apt update

suites:
- name: default
  lifecycle:
    post_verify:
    - my_coverage_formatter

Local commands automatically get some environment variables with information about which instance the hook is evaluating against:

  • KITCHEN_INSTANCE_NAME - The full name of the instance
  • KITCHEN_SUITE_NAME - The name of the suite of the instance
  • KITCHEN_PLATFORM_NAME - The name of the platform of the instance
  • KITCHEN_INSTANCE_HOSTNAME - The hostname of the instance as reported by the driver plugin

You can also pass additional configuration for local commands:

lifecycle:
  pre_converge:
  - local: ./setup.sh
    environment:
      API_KEY: asdf1234
    timeout: 60

Remote commands are normally not allowed during pre_create or post_destroy hooks as there is generally no instance running at that point, but with pre_destroy hooks you may want to use the skippable flag so as to not fail during kitchen test:

lifecycle:
  pre_destroy:
  - remote: myapp --unregister-license
    skippable: true

Test Kitchen 1.21.0 Release Notes

Configuration UX improvements

Having the kitchen configuration file be hidden has always been a bit odd and so we're moving to using kitchen.yml over .kitchen.yml. This also applies to kitchen.local.yml and we've made the change backwards compatible so you're not forced to move over right away. Additionally, we've added support for the environment variables KITCHEN_YML and KITCHEN_LOCAL_YML again preserving compatibility if you're using the *_YAML forms.

Test Kitchen 1.20.0 Release Notes

Multiple paths for data_bags

Allows a user to use data_bags from an array of directories

data_bags_path:
  - 'data_bags'
  - 'test/integrations/data_bags'

Deprecation Warnings for Configuration Keys

$ kitchen list default-centos-7
$$$$$$ Deprecated configuration detected:
require_chef_omnibus
Run 'kitchen doctor' for details.

$ kitchen doctor
$$$$$$ Deprecated configuration detected:
require_chef_omnibus
Run 'kitchen doctor' for details.

-----> The doctor is in
       **** require_chef_omnibus deprecated
The 'require_chef_omnibus' attribute with version values will change
to use the new 'product_version' attribute.

Note: 'product_name' must be set in order to use 'product_version'
until 'product_name' replaces 'require_chef_omnibus' as the default.

# New Usage #
provisioner:
  product_name: <chef or chefdk>
  product_version: 12.0.3

SSH via an HTTP Proxy

This allows configuring the SSH transport to utilize an HTTP Proxy. The following configuration keys have been added to transport:

ssh_http_proxy_user
ssh_http_proxy_password
ssh_http_proxy_port
ssh_http_proxy

Test Kitchen 1.20.0 Release Notes

Driver Commands Removed

The kitchen driver family of commands have been removed. It was not recommended to use them and it was judged to be more harm than good to leave them in. If you regularly create new drivers and relied on the skeleton generator, check out other code skeleton projects like chef generate, and Cookiecutter.

kitchen converge -D

When you want to get debug logging for your provisioner or verifier, you can now use the new -D (or --debug) command line option for kitchen converge, kitchen verify, and kitchen test. Support has been added to the Chef provisioners, avoiding the need to use the log_level: debug configuration option every time.

exec Driver

A new driver named exec is included with Test Kitchen which runs all the provisioning and verification commands locally, rather than on a VM. This can be used for testing on systems where you've already created the VM yourself and installed Test Kitchen on it. Note that this is related but different from the included proxy driver, which also connects to an existing server, but over SSH/WinRM rather than running commands locally.

shell Provisioner command

Previously the included shell provisioner allowed running a user-specified bootstrap script. This has been extended to allow specifying a command option with a string to run, rather than managing a script file.

Faster Busser

The busser verifier has been improved to be faster on the second (or beyond) verification, or in other cases where the required gems are already present.

kitchen doctor

A kitchen doctor command has been added, modeled on Homebrew's brew doctor. This currently doesn't do much, but if you are a Kitchen plugin author, consider adding more detailed debugging checks and troubleshooting help to your plugin via this system.