wubrg / chef-commons

A collection of chef recipe wrappers

chef-commons

A collection of Chef libraries, custom resources, (recipe) wrappers and other useful tools used to manage Chef cookbook lifecycle.

Chef libraries

EC2 Discovery

Custom Chef Resources

Logstash EC2 Discovery

Recipe wrappers

AWS Commandline client

Chef Zero

Databags to Files

EC2 Tagging

Cookbook lifecycle

Run release

Run tests

Run tests on AWS using kitchen-ec2 driver

• Install the AWS command line tools
• Run aws configure to place your AWS credentials on the drive at ~/.aws/credentials.
• Create your AWS SSH key. Below an e example using your name: aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name $USER | ruby -e "require 'json'; puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read)['KeyMaterial']" > ~/.ssh/$USER
• set the access permissions to 400 chmod 400 ~/.ssh/$USER
• Modify the following values in .kitchen.ec2.yml:

driver

`aws_ssh_key_id`: use the key id used to create the key at step 3

`region`: use the one you need

`availability_zone`: use the one you need

`require_chef_omnibus`: use the one you need

`subnet_id`: use the one you need

`instance_type`: use the one you need

`associate_public_ip`: use the one you need

`shared_credentials_profile`: use the one you need

`vpc_id`: use the one you need

transport

ssh_key: use the path of your key

username: username to access the instance

platforms driver

`image_id`: use the image id you need

`[tags] Name`: Name of the AWS instance

• Modify aws_access_key_id and aws_access_access_key in test/integration/data_bags/aws/test.json with the ones of the aws account in use
• export KITCHEN_YAML=./.kitchen.ec2.yml to use the ec2 kitchen yml instead of the default one (.kitchen.yml)
• kitchen create <suite_name> to create the aws instance
• kitchen verify <suite_name> to run the tests on the created one
• kitchen destroy <suite_name> to terminate the aws instance

More Info:

• https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-ec2

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