kitchen-vagrant
The kitchen-vagrant driver for Kitchen generates a single Vagrantfile
for each instance of Kitchen in a sandboxed directory. The
kitchen-vagrant driver supports VirtualBox and VMware Fusion, requires
Vagrant 1.1.0 (or higher), and is the default driver for Test Kitchen.
The following attributes are used to configure kitchen-vagrant for
Chef:
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
box | Required. Use to specify the box on which Vagrant will run. Default value: computed from the platform name of the instance. |
box_check_update | Use to check for box updates. Default value: false. |
box_url | Use to specify the URL at which the configured box is located. Default value: computed from the platform name of the instance, but only when the Vagrant provider is VirtualBox- or VMware-based. |
communicator | Use to override the config.vm.communicator setting in Vagrant. For example, when a base box is a Windows operating system that does not have SSH installed and enabled, Vagrant will not be able to boot without a custom Vagrant file. Default value: nil (assumes SSH is available). |
customize | A hash of key-value pairs that define customizations that should be made to the Vagrant virtual machine. For example: customize: memory: 1024 cpuexecutioncap: 50. |
guest | Use to specify the config.vm.guest setting in the default Vagrantfile. |
gui | Use to enable the graphical user interface for the defined platform. This is passed to the config.vm.provider setting in Vagrant, but only when the Vagrant provider is VirtualBox- or VMware-based. |
network | Use to specify an array of network customizations to be applied to the virtual machine. Default value: []. For example: network: - ["forwarded_port", {guest: 80, host: 8080}] - ["private_network", {ip: "192.168.33.33"}]. |
pre_create_command | Use to run a command immediately before vagrant up --no-provisioner. |
provider | Use to specify the Vagrant provider. This value must match a provider name in Vagrant. |
provision | Use to provision Vagrant when the instance is created. This is useful if the operating system needs customization during provisioning. Default value: false. |
ssh_key | Use to specify the private key file used for SSH authentication. |
synced_folders | Use to specify a collection of synchronized folders on each Vagrant instance. Source paths are relative to the Kitchen root path. Default value: []. For example: synced_folders: - ["data/%{instance_name}", "/opt/instance_data"] - ["/host_path", "/vm_path", "create: true, type: :nfs"]. |
vagrantfile_erb | Use to specify an alternate Vagrant Embedded Ruby (ERB) template to be used by this driver. |
vagrantfiles | An array of paths to one (or more) Vagrant files to be merged with the default Vagrant file. The paths may be absolute or relative to the kitchen.yml file. |
vm_hostname | Use to specify the internal hostname for the instance. This is not required when connecting to a Vagrant virtual machine. Set this to false to prevent this value from being rendered in the default Vagrantfile. Default value: computed from the platform name of the instance. |
The kitchen-vagrant driver can predict the box name for Vagrant and
the download URL that have been published by Chef. For example:
platforms:
- name: ubuntu-18.04
- name: ubuntu-20.04
- name: centos-7
- name: centos-8
- name: debian-10
which will generate a configuration file similar to:
platforms:
- name: ubuntu-18.04
driver:
box: bento/ubuntu-18.04
- name: ubuntu-20.04
driver:
box: bento/ubuntu-20.04
# ...
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