Can't authenticate via Kitchen, fine via InSpec

[williamayerst]

Describe the problem

I have set up a ~/.azure/credentials file as directed, and written a simple test to see if an RG exists. I run inspec exec azure -t azure://, the my tests pass or fail successfully as appropriate.

However, if I run this within the context of a kitchen test run, my provisioning (via Terraform) succeeds, but when InSpec is run as verifier, I get errors. It seems to be related to the fact I can't supply a target to InSpec when it's called from .kitchen.yml in the way that I can from the command line (see above).

My inspec.yml looks like the below:

driver:
  name: terraform

provisioner:
  name: terraform

verifier:
  name: inspec
  # host: <subscription ID> 
  # host: azure://<subscription ID> 
  # host: azure://
  # backend: azure

platforms:
  - name: azure

suites:
  - name: default
    verifier:
        name: "inspec"
        patterns:
        - "azure/controls/test_rg.rb"

The error is:

>>>>>> ------Exception-------
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed.
>>>>>>     Failed to complete #verify action: [Client error, can't connect to 'ssh' backend: You must provide a value for "host".] on default-azure
>>>>>> ----------------------
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details
>>>>>> Also try running `kitchen diagnose --all` for configuration

In the kitchen.log this is as:

I, [2019-11-18T15:25:11.639240 #25774]  INFO -- Kitchen: Your version of Terraform is out of date! The latest version
I, [2019-11-18T15:25:11.639273 #25774]  INFO -- Kitchen: is 0.12.15. You can update by downloading from www.terraform.io/downloads.html
I, [2019-11-18T15:25:24.157146 #25774]  INFO -- Kitchen: -----> Setting up <default-azure>...
I, [2019-11-18T15:25:24.160630 #25774]  INFO -- Kitchen: -----> Verifying <default-azure>...
E, [2019-11-18T15:25:24.181632 #25774] ERROR -- Kitchen: ------Exception-------
E, [2019-11-18T15:25:24.181686 #25774] ERROR -- Kitchen: Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
E, [2019-11-18T15:25:24.181712 #25774] ERROR -- Kitchen: Message: 1 actions failed.
>>>>>>     Failed to complete #verify action: [Client error, can't connect to 'ssh' backend: You must provide a value for "host".] on default-azure

Possible Solution

No ideas? I can't seem to find any documentation about providing a target to InSpec via Kitchen :(

[clintoncwolfe]

As I think you've discovered, this is dependent on inspec/kitchen-inspec#193

[williamayerst]

Thanks for the quick reply :) 😢