Kitchen Puppet Hierawriter

This functionality has now been integrated upstream into kitchen-puppet (https://github.com/neillturner/kitchen-puppet/commit/f858e0918a2c8c193b2e3697d7f25fa0507103b7). Please use it instead. The gem will be yanked from Rubygems soon.

Adds (hiera) YAML file generation to kitchen-puppet, the puppet test-kitchen provisioner.

Allows creation of arbitrary YAML files in the target instance's hieradata/ dir in test-kitchen configuration (eg kitchen.yml). Like setting chef attributes in kitchen.yml, except for Hiera YAML files.

Currently only the puppet_apply provider from kitchen-puppet is supported.

Add this line to your puppet repo or module's Gemfile:

gem 'kitchen-puppet-hierawriter'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install kitchen-puppet-hierawriter

See kitchen-puppet's documentation https://github.com/neillturner/kitchen-puppet

Once you have kitchen-puppet working, change the puppet_apply provisioner to puppet_hierawriter_apply and set hiera_writer_files in kitchen.yml

---
driver:
  name: vagrant

provisioner:
  #name: puppet_apply
  name: puppet_hierawriter_apply
  manifests_path: /repository/puppet_repo/manifests
  modules_path: /repository/puppet_repo/modules-mycompany
  hiera_data_path: /repository/puppet_repo/hieradata
  hiera_writer_files:
    - datacenter/vagrant.yaml:
      logstash_servers: []
      hosts:
        10.1.2.3:
        - puppet
        - puppetdb

platforms:
- name: nocm_ubuntu-12.04
  driver_plugin: vagrant
  driver_config:
    box: nocm_ubuntu-12.04
    box_url: http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu-server-12042-x64-vbox4210-nocm.box

suites:
 - name: default

The above configuration will result in the creation of a file on the guest named ${hieradata}/datacenter/vagrant.yaml containing:

---
logstash_servers: []
  hosts:
    10.1.2.3:
    - puppet
    - puppetdb

It will overwrite any existing Hiera YAML files with the same name (on the guest), not merge.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/benwtr/kitchen-puppet-hierawriter.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.