Test Kitchen Chef Zero Use Sudo to create root_path

Question

I'm trying to match Chef zero with what's actually used on my Chef server by setting the root_path to /etc/chef from the default /tmp/kitchen. After Chef is installed I get the following error:

Setting up chef (12.22.1-1) ...
Thank you for installing Chef!
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/etc/chef’: Permission denied

I've added sudo: true to the platform and suite but I'm still getting this error. How do I let kitchen create /etc/chef with the Vagrant driver and Ubuntu 18.04.

Answer 1

maybe there is a confusion here...

chef-zero is in-memory chef server that can be useful for chef Client testing and chef-solo-like tasks that require a full chef server

thus, chef zero does not need all kinds of directories as chef server does.

if i understood your question in correctly (what are you trying to achieve and why would you like to do it), please update your question and i will update the answer.