chef-install

A Github Action to install Chef on a build agent

Note you will need to accept the Chef license, you can find more information at https://docs.chef.io/chef_license.html

There is support for Macos, Linux and Windows with this action

Usage

Use the default settings to install chef-workstation from the stable channel

name: delivery

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  delivery:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: install chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main

Install inspec from the current channel

jobs:
  delivery:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: install chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main
      with:
        channel: current
        project: inspec

Version pinning

By default, chef-workstation installs version 21.6.497 — the last release that ships test-kitchen 2.x. Versions 21.7.524 and later bundle test-kitchen 3.x which contains breaking changes.

To opt in to the latest release:

    - name: install chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main
      with:
        version: latest

To pin to a specific version:

    - name: install chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main
      with:
        version: 21.6.497

Parameters

We support the following parameters

name	default	description
channel	stable	Chef Channel to install, stable or current
project	chef-workstation	Which product to install, see https://docs.chef.io/install_omnibus.html for the list
version	21.6.497 (for chef-workstation)	Version to install. Set to latest for the newest release.
omnitruckUrl	omnitruck.chef.io	which Omnitruck to use, default is Chef Official

By Changing the omnitruck Url you can also install Cinc projects