When you execute kitchen list and the driver in your .kitchen file is “ec2“, the following error message appears:
>>>> ——Exception——-
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ClientError
>>>>>> Message: Could not load the ‘ec2’ driver from the load path. Please ensure that your driver is installed as a gem or included in your Gemfile if using Bundler.
>>>>>> ———————-
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details
>>>>>> Also try running `kitchen diagnose –all` for configuration
If you have recently installed the Chef Development Kit, you need to install the Kitchen EC2 driver to be able to launch servers in AWS.
To install the Kitchen EC2 driver, execute
chef gem install kitchen-ec2