I have a recipe that updates the Splunk /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/system/local/inputs.conf file with single entry for meta data that needs to be added to the events that are being forwarded to the indexers.
This meta data entry is a nine character text entry in a configuration file of another piece of software that has already been installed on the host.
I have the code to read the data from this file but when it comes to running test-kitchen I don't know how to declare where the test file that has this information is located in my .kitchen.yml file.
I've tried creating a directory at the root of my repo with this file in it thinking it would be copied over like the roles, environments, cookbook directories are so my .kitchen.yml contained an entry:
attributes:
splunk:
sliceconf_path: test/slice.conf
However I would get an error like
Errno::ENOENT
-------------
No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - test/slice.conf
I've tried many other locations but I still can't get it to find this file. It will get copied over if I put it in "files/test/slice.conf" but then it still can't find it if I declare the path either
sliceconf_path: files/test/slice.conf
or (based on examining the directory structure of the Docker image I'm using for Test-Kitchen)
cookbooks/cookbook-dh_rainbow_forwarders/files/test/slice.conf
I'm stumped as to how to get Chef/Test-Kitchen to find the file.
----------------EDIT-------------------
Here's the code I'm using just to clarify:
Recipe
slice_name = ''
ruby_block 'read_slice_conf' do
block do
slice_name = File.read("#{node['sliceconf_path']}").chomp
end
end
# Update local input conf file with meta-data about slice.
template '/opt/splunkforwarder/etc/system/local/inputs.conf' do
source 'system_local_inputs.erb'
owner 'nobody'
group 'nobody'
mode 0o600
mode '0600'
action :create
variables(
slice_decorators: slice_name
)
end
Template
[default]
host = <%= node['fqdn'] %>
_meta = slice::#{slice_name}
Where I've set the node attribute (node['sliceconf_path']) in my .kitchen.yml
