Kitchen::Bluebox: A Test Kitchen Driver for Blue Box Blocks

A Test Kitchen Driver for Blue Box Blocks.

This driver uses the fog gem to provision and destroy blocks instances. Use Blue Box's cloud for your infrastructure testing!

There are no external system requirements for this driver. However you will need access to a Blue Box account.

Please read the Driver usage page for more details.

Required The Blue Blue customer id to use.

The default is unset, or nil.

Required The Blue Blue api key to use.

The default is unset, or nil.

The blocks product type (also known as size) to use.

The default is "94fd37a7-2606-47f7-84d5-9000deda52ae".

The blocks template id to use.

The default is "573b8e80-823f-4100-bc2c-51b7c60f633c".

The blocks location to use.

The default is "37c2bd9a-3e81-46c9-b6e2-db44a25cc675".

The SSH port number to be used when communicating with the instance.

The default is 22.

Path to the private SSH key used to connect to the instance.

The default is unset, or nil.

The SSH username that will be used to communicate with the instance.

The default is "kitchen".

The following could be used in a .kitchen.yml or in a .kitchen.local.yml to override default configuration.

---
driver:
  name: bluebox
  bluebox_customer_id: 123...
  bluebox_api_key: abc...
  location_id: def789...
  ssh_public_key: /path/to/id_dsa.pub
  ssh_key: /path/to/id_dsa

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-12.04
    driver:
      image_id: b137c423-bade-4b01-9d13-271eea552563
  - name: scientific-6.3
    driver:
      image_id: caaaca6b-fbe0-4e27-af2b-d100e46767bd

suites:
  - name: default

Both .kitchen.yml and .kitchen.local.yml files are pre-processed through ERB which can help to factor out secrets and credentials. For example:

---
driver:
  name: bluebox
  bluebox_customer_id: <%= ENV['BLUEBOX_CUSTOMER_ID'] %>
  bluebox_api_key: <%= ENV['BLUEBOX_API_KEY'] %>
  ssh_public_key: <%= File.expand_path('~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub') %>
  ssh_key: <%= File.expand_path('~/.ssh/id_dsa') %>

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-12.04
    driver:
      image_id: b137c423-bade-4b01-9d13-271eea552563
  - name: scientific-6.3
    driver:
      image_id: caaaca6b-fbe0-4e27-af2b-d100e46767bd

suites:
  - name: default

• Source hosted at GitHub
• Report issues/questions/feature requests on GitHub Issues

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Ideally create a topic branch for every separate change you make. For example:

1. Fork the repo
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Created by Fletcher Nichol (fnichol@nichol.ca) and maintained by Blue Box Group

Apache 2.0 (see LICENSE)