We currently use scp to copy the Hiera data. This can be very slow when there are many many files. We should make the method configureable and also offer rsync. This is supposed to be faster, but requires the rsync binary in the SUT. At the end we're calling https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker/blob/dbd0f4346a853932985439dbabe0246836f82d54/lib/beaker/dsl/helpers/host_helpers.rb#L161-L171 and we already have a helper for rsync: https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker/blob/dbd0f4346a853932985439dbabe0246836f82d54/lib/beaker/dsl/helpers/host_helpers.rb#L183-L191
We currently use scp to copy the Hiera data. This can be very slow when there are many many files. We should make the method configureable and also offer rsync. This is supposed to be faster, but requires the rsync binary in the SUT. At the end we're calling https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker/blob/dbd0f4346a853932985439dbabe0246836f82d54/lib/beaker/dsl/helpers/host_helpers.rb#L161-L171 and we already have a helper for rsync: https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker/blob/dbd0f4346a853932985439dbabe0246836f82d54/lib/beaker/dsl/helpers/host_helpers.rb#L183-L191