EC2 and Vagrant with Test Kitchen

I’m trying to put together a .kitchen.yml file that combines the use of
both vagrant and ec2. Is that possible? Can’t find any concrete examples
and the documentation.

Doug

Doug-

This is definitely possible. The driver section at the top of your .kitchen.yml is basically a global driver section, but each platform item can have its own driver configuration.

Here is an abbreviated example:

platforms:
  - name: centos-7.1-vagrant
    driver:
      name: vagrant
      box: opscode-centos-7.1
  - name: centos-7.1-ec2
    driver:
      name: ec2
      image_id: ami-12345678

When you run kitchen list, you can see that different drivers are chosen for each instance:

Instance                   Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action
default-centos-71-vagrant  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>
default-centos-71-ec2      Ec2      ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>

Hope that helps.

~Adam

Thanks Adam.

How are the Instance names populated from the kitchen.yml file? I have
something like the following. Note I put a ‘x’ at the front of the suite
name, thinking it was used to construct the instance names. However, a
kitchen list shows ‘default-default-ec2’ and ‘default-default-vagrant’.

I don’t see a specific example in your post, but instance names are a concatenation of <suite_name>-<platform_name>.

This .kitchen.yml:

platforms:
  - name: alpha
    driver:
      name: vagrant
      box: opscode-centos-7.1
  - name: bravo
    driver:
      name: ec2
      image_id: ami-12345678

suites:
  - name: one
    run_list:
      - recipe[test::one]
  - name: two
    run_list:
      - recipe[test::two]

… produces this kitchen list output:

Instance   Driver   Provisioner  Verifier  Transport  Last Action
one-alpha  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>
one-bravo  Ec2      ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>
two-alpha  Vagrant  ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>
two-bravo  Ec2      ChefZero     Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>

~Adam

Adam,

That’s weird. My code was stripped out. Anyway, I’m also trying to set the
roles and environments paths, and also to set the chef environment. It
seems like there’s no good docs on this. One place says one thing, and
another source says something else. I don’t trust the chef docs on test
kitchen or the github page. It’s all quite frustrating really. It’s a shame
there’s no definitive source.

Doug.