kitchen-vcenter

This is the official Test Kitchen plugin for VMware vCenter via the vCenter REST API. This plugin allows Test Kitchen the ability to create, bootstrap, and test VMs in VMware infrastructures.

• Documentation: https://github.com/chef/kitchen-vcenter/blob/master/README.md
• Source: https://github.com/chef/kitchen-vcenter/tree/master
• Issues: https://github.com/chef/kitchen-vcenter/issues
• Mailing list: https://discourse.chef.io/

Please refer to the CHANGELOG for version history and known issues.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.6 or higher
• VMware vCenter/vSphere 5.5 or higher
• VMs or templates to clone, with open-vm-tools installed
• DHCP server to assign IPs to kitchen instances

Installation

The kitchen-vcenter driver ships as part of Chef Workstation. The easiest way to use this driver is to Download Chef Workstation.

If you want to install the driver directly into a Ruby installation:

gem install kitchen-vcenter

If you’re using Bundler, simply add it to your Gemfile:

gem "kitchen-vcenter"

… and then run bundle install.

Configuration

See the kitchen.ci vCenter Driver Page for documentation on configuring this driver.

Contributing

For information on contributing to this project see https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Development

• 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. Run the tests and chefstyle, bundle exec rake spec and bundle exec rake style
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

License

• Author:: Russell Seymour (rseymour@chef.io)
• Author:: JJ Asghar (jj@chef.io)
• Author:: Thomas Heinen (theinen@tecracer.de)
• Author:: Michael Kennedy (michael_l_kennedy@me.com)

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2017-2022 Chef Software, Inc.

License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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