test-kitchen

A Github Action to run Test Kitchen on your cookbooks

Note you will need to accept the Chef license, you can find more information at https://docs.chef.io/chef_license.html

Usage

This example shows how to use dokken with this action to test linux servers

name: kitchen

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  dokken:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os:
          - centos-7
          - centos-8
        suite: ['default']
      fail-fast: false
    steps:
    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@main
    - name: Install Chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main
    - name: Test-Kitchen
      uses: actionshub/test-kitchen@main
      with:
        suite: ${{ matrix.suite }}
        os: ${{ matrix.os }}
      env:
        CHEF_LICENSE: accept-no-persist
        KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML: kitchen.dokken.yml

This example shows you how to use Macos with this action This example uses seperate converge and verify actions

name: kitchen
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  macos:
    needs: [mdl, yamllint, delivery]
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check out code
        uses: actions/checkout@main
      - name: Install Chef
        uses: actionshub/chef-install@main
      - name: Kitchen Converge
        uses: actionshub/test-kitchen@main
        env:
          CHEF_LICENSE: accept-no-persist
          KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML: kitchen.macos.yml
          TERM: xterm-256color
        with:
          suite: adoptopenjdk-14
          os: macos
          action: converge
      - name: Source Profile for JAVA_HOME
        run: |
          source /etc/profile
          echo "sourced profile for JAVA_HOME"
          echo "New JAVA home after Chef run is: ${JAVA_HOME}"
      - name: Kitchen Verify
        uses: actionshub/test-kitchen@master
        env:
          CHEF_LICENSE: accept-no-persist
          KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML: kitchen.macos.yml
          TERM: xterm-256color
        with:
          suite: adoptopenjdk-14
          os: macos
          action: verify

Input

We support the following Input Variables

name	default	description
suite		the name of the suite to run
os		Which os to run on

Environment Variables

We recommend the following environment variables

name	default	description
CHEF_LICENSE		Set to accept-no-persist to accept the chef licensing rules
KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML		Can be used to megre in another yaml file for test-kitchen, eg kitchen.dokken.yml