Ansible Repository for testing ansible using test kitchen with Exec Driver.

The exec driver allows ansible to be driven from your workstation, (This provides similar functionality to to the kitchen-ansiblepush driver)

This demonstrates using test-kitchen, ansible to build a server with ansible automatically installed and run from your workstation.

The first thing you need to do is install the test-kitchen environment on your workstation. A useful link is: https://misheska.com/blog/2013/12/26/set-up-a-sane-ruby-cookbook-authoring-environment-for-chef/

The follow instructions are for Windows PC (it will be similar for Mac):

1. Download and install the Windows RubyInstaller for 64 bit Ruby 2.4 from https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
   • Check the option to add ruby to your path.
2. Download and install the Windows Ruby DevKit for use with Ruby 2.4 and above (64bits version only) from https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
3. Then install the following gems

• gem install test-kitchen
• gem install kitchen-ansible

4. git clone the repository https://github.com/neillturner/ansible_exec_repo

kitchen list

This will return a list if everything is correctly installed.

kitchen create ansible-centos-72 -l debug

kitchen converge ansible-centos-72 -l debug

kitchen destroy ansible-centos-72 -l debug