Avoiding the Chef install?

[cmarzullo]

Anyway we can avoid the omnibus installer? We haven't gotten to actually writing tests yet, but use kitchen for the development. Kind of annoying that we have to wait for chef when we don't use it. Plus it confuses the issue for newbros when they see chef getting installed.

[PatOShea]

This might work in the .kitchen.yml file:

driver_config:
  require_chef_omnibus: false

I found that here.

[cmarzullo]

yeah no luck. Well it does break the chef install. but probably not what we want.

[ssplatt]

i think the issue is outlined here: https://github.com/simonmcc/kitchen-salt/blob/master/provisioner_options.md

chef_bootstrap_url "https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh" the chef bootstrap installer, used to provide Ruby for the serverspec test runner on the guest OS

I'd think all that would be needed is ruby, gem, and then 'gem install serverspec' as a bootstrap step.

[ssplatt]

I quickly threw this together as a replacement for chef_bootstrap_url: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ssplatt/4df4942523dea4a9c5bb/raw/5eda0aa6ccb3a304b984b023d4292cd32e19e7ba/install.sh

all that is needed is ruby and gem to be linked or placed in /opt/chef dir:

  mkdir -p /opt/chef/embedded/bin/
  ln -s `which gem` /opt/chef/embedded/bin/
  ln -s `which ruby` /opt/chef/embedded/bin/

i haven't tested that modified install.sh on anything other than bento/debian-8.2. kitchen test works.

[ssplatt]

i made a PR to resolve this issue. https://github.com/simonmcc/kitchen-salt/pull/42

[neillturner]

I have added pull request make chef install for busser optionally #49 to address this in the same way as kitchen-puppet and kitchen-ansible