kitchen-provisioner-ice-temp

⚠️ This is a temporary stopgap gem. It provides Chef ICE (Chef Infra Client 19+) support for Test Kitchen until a future Chef Workstation release ships with native chef-ice provisioning built in. Once you upgrade to that version of Chef Workstation, uninstall this gem and switch your kitchen.yml back to the built-in provisioner.

A Test Kitchen provisioner for Chef ICE (Chef Infra Client 19+).

This is a thin layer on top of the existing ChefInfra provisioner from kitchen-omnibus-chef. It overrides only the install path to use the Chef commercial downloads API (or a direct URL). Everything else — cookbook upload, data bags, roles, config files, chef-client --local-mode execution — is inherited.

gem install kitchen-provisioner-ice-temp

Or in your cookbook's Gemfile:

gem "kitchen-provisioner-ice-temp"

provisioner:
  name: chef_ice
  product_version: 19.2.12      # or "latest"
  channel: stable
  chef_license_key: "your-key"  # or set CHEF_LICENSE_KEY env var
  chef_license: accept

provisioner:
  name: chef_ice
  download_url: https://my-mirror.example.com/chef-ice-19.2.12-1_amd64.deb
  checksum: abc123...            # optional SHA-256
  chef_license: accept

provisioner:
  name: chef_ice
  install_strategy: skip
  chef_license: accept

All settings from the standard chef_infra / chef_zero provisioner are supported. Additional settings:

When a future Chef Workstation ships with native chef-ice support:

1. Uninstall the gem:

   chef exec gem uninstall kitchen-provisioner-ice-temp
   

2. Update kitchen.yml — the provisioner name chef_ice won't change, but check the Chef Workstation release notes in case the built-in provisioner uses a different name.

3. Remove from Gemfile (if listed):

   # DELETE this line:
   gem "kitchen-provisioner-ice-temp"

That's it — all other configuration (product_version, channel, chef_license_key, etc.) should carry over to the built-in provisioner unchanged.

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