kitchen-transport-sshtar

This transport is based on piping native ssh (usually OpenSSH) and tar commands, so that all files are transferred as a single ssh stream providing dramatic performance improvements. This transport will only work with TK 1.4 and Linux/Unix like systems with mentioned binaries available in the PATH.

Only passwordless (using ssh key pair) communication is supported at the moment.

Recommended .kitchen.yml snippet to activate SSH-Tar transport

transport:
  name: sshtar
  compression: zlib
  compression_level: 9
  ssh_key: ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  username: vagrant

Gemfile

gem 'kitchen-transport-sshtar'