kitchen-vsphere: A Test-Kitchen Driver for VMWare vSphere

##Consider using the chef-provisioning-vsphere driver instead of this gem for your vsphere test-kitchen runs.

I no longer actively develop this gem but am regularly commiting to chef-provisioning-vsphere which includes a test-kitchen driver. This driver has the following advantages over this kitchen-vsphere driver:

• Very actively used and developed
• Removes fog dependencies and leverages rbvmomi directly
• Better support for networking and storage options
• Better support for windows

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This driver uses the fog gem to provision and destroy VMWare vSphere instances. Use your own vSphere host for your infrastructure testing!

Shamelessly copied from Fletcher Nichol's awesome work on an EC2 driver.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'kitchen-vsphere'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install kitchen-vsphere

Usage

Provide, at a minimum, the required driver options in your .kitchen.yml file:

driver_plugin: vsphere
driver_config:
  username: [ssh user name of provisioned guest (default is root)]
  password: [ssh password of provisioned guest]
  authentication:
    vsphere_username: [your vsphere server user name]
    vsphere_password: [your vsphere server password]
    vsphere_server: [your vsphere server host name]
    vsphere_expected_pubkey_hash: [hash of your hosts public ssl key]
  server_create:
    datacenter: [vsphere datacenter name where template is located]
    network_label: [vsphere network name to use]
    network_adapter_device_key: [network key]
    template_path: [path to the template of vm to clone]

The template-path option can be specified as a template name or vm name. The path should include the folder path relative to the datacenter.

By default, a unique server name will be generated and the current user's RSA SSH key will be used.

Finding the required expected hash

If you need the expected hash for your vsphere instance you can use the fog gem directly

#install the fog gem
gem install fog

then launch the interactive ruby console and fire off the following:

require 'fog'
Fog::Compute.new(:provider => "vsphere", :vsphere_username => "VSPHERE_USERNAME", :vsphere_password=> "PASSWORD", :vsphere_server => "HOSTNAME")

which will respond with the following message containing your server public key hash:

Fog::Vsphere::Errors::SecurityError: The remote system presented a public key with hash 74e6f3f9a9d50be352aa0fabcdc1df9977016af38da538cf76b3ba56a6363d11 but we're expecting a hash of <unset>...

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Run style checks and RSpec tests (bundle exec rake)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request