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Install Test Kitchen Enterprise

To install the new Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise, first ensure you have the latest Chef Habitat installer.

Supported platforms

Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise RC1 is supported on Linux x86-64 systems.

Install Chef Habitat

Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise is installed as a Habitat package using Chef Habitat. Install and set up Chef Habitat if it’s not already installed on your system.

Note

For more information, see the Chef Habitat install documentation.
  1. Download and install Chef Habitat:

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/habitat-sh/habitat/main/components/hab/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -c stable
    
  2. Verify Chef Habitat is installed.

    hab --version
    

    Chef Habitat returns the installed version.

  3. Set up Chef Habitat:

    hab cli setup
    

    Follow the prompts in the Habitat CLI. We recommend the following settings for running Test Kitchen Enterprise:

    • Connect to an on-premises Builder instance? [yes/No/quit] No
    • Set up a default origin? [Yes/no/quit] No
    • Set up a default Builder personal access token? [yes/No/quit] No
    • Set up a default Habitat Supervisor control gateway secret? [yes/No/quit] No

Install Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise

  1. Use Chef Habitat to install the Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise package:

    sudo hab pkg install --binlink --force chef/chef-test-kitchen-enterprise --channel unstable
    

    Chef Habitat downloads and installs Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise, it’s components, and the chef-cli and kitchen CLI tools.

  2. Verify these tools are installed:

    chef-cli --version
    kitchen --version
    

    You can also verify that the Test Kitchen Enterprise package is installed in /hab/pkgs/chef/chef-test-kitchen-enterprise/1.0.5.

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