Feature request: ssh mode

[hryamzik]

Let me request an ssh-mode model. Here're the goals:

• run playbooks from the original host as they may include calls to some local resources and environment variables
• test playbooks against a group of hosts that relay on each others facts
• test playbooks that rely on inventory and host/group vars from real hosts

As mixing real inventory with vagrant one may be tricky let me notice that it could be done with ansible-vagrant-inventory.

Based on #201

[neillturner]

ssh mode is already supported. you can see this in the section "Example usage to create Tomcat servers", im happy to take in pull requests or if folks can't code in ruby then i can make relatively straightforward enhancements. basically you jut need to know what ansible command you what to run and then we can add extra parameters in the kitchen yml file to support it. in the https://github.com/neillturner/kitchen-ansible/blob/master/provisioner_options.md use the parameter ansible_extra_flags to add any extra parameters you need or you can code your own complete ansible command with ansible_playbook_command and use the additional_copy_path to copy addition files

[hryamzik]

But can I avoid copying files and just run ansible with kitchen right in the project folder?

[neillturner]

well if you want to run ansible on your workstation try the ansiblepush plugin. my plugin always create another server installs ansible and copies the project. then you can have another set of servers that you use ssh on. the kitchen-verifier-serverspec plugin that i wrote allows you to run serverspec natively on your workstation so combining that with ansiblepush might do what you want.

[hryamzik]

Thanks, looks like ansiblepush does exactly what I'm looking for!