I had the case where I’m using a local cookbook (to debug it) and I wanted to check what is in the kitchen, but where are the files?
Let’s summarise the case: I’m developing a cookbook which dependends from the docker-ce cookbook. This last one seems to have an issue, therefore I’m adding it to the Berksfile of my current cookbook and run kitchen test <name> again.
Now I’d like to see what was transfered to the Kitchen (something expected is not happening, I’d like to check if the docker-ce cookbook source code in the Kitchen is correct).
But where are the files?
I read, on a blog post, that Berksfile is storing the cookbooks in ~/.berkshelf/cookbooks … but those folders doesn’t exists.
Using the top command, and pressing C shows the full command line, which shows me all the arguments, and by chance, one of them is the path to the kitchen files!
So now I know that Kitchen files, and therefore synced cookbooks are stored in /tmp/kitchen/, and cookbooks in /tmp/kitchen/coobkooks.
That’s it.
