kitchen-google

The kitchen-google driver provisions instances on Google Compute Engine (GCE). This driver ships with Chef Workstation. Authenticate with the Google Cloud SDK application default credentials, then set the project and zone in the driver configuration. The driver name in kitchen.yml is gce.

Example kitchen.yml

The following example sets gce as the driver in a kitchen.yml file:

driver:
  name: gce
  project: <gcp-project-id>
  zone: us-central1-a

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-2204
    driver:
      image_project: ubuntu-os-cloud
      image_family: ubuntu-2204-lts

Configuration

The kitchen-google driver provides configuration options that you set in the driver section of your kitchen.yml file, either globally or for an individual platform. For the complete and current list of settings, see the kitchen-google repository.