knife-cookbook - upload and manage chef cookbooks
knife cookbook sub-command (options)
knife cookbook supports the following sub commands:
knife cookbook list (options)
-a, --all-w, --with-uriLists the cookbooks available on the Chef server.
knife cookbook show cookbook [version] [part] [filename] (options)
-f, --fqdn fqdn -p, --platform platform -v, --platform-version version-w, --with-urishow a particular part of a cookbook for the specified version. part can be one of:
knife cookbook upload [cookbooks...] (options)
-a, --all-o, --cookbook-path path:path-d, --upload-dependencies-E, --environment ENVIRONMENT--freeze--forceUploads one or more cookbooks from your local cookbook repository(ies) to the Chef Server. Only files that don't yet exist on the server will be uploaded.
As the command parses the name args as 1..n cookbook names:
knife cookbook upload COOKBOOK COOKBOOK ...
works for one to many cookbooks.
knife cookbook download cookbook [version] (options)
-d, --dir download_directory-f, --force-n, --latestdownload a cookbook from the chef server. if no version is specified and only one version exists on the server, that version will be downloaded. if no version is specified and multiple versions are available on the server, you will be prompted for a version to download.
knife cookbook delete cookbook [version] (options)
-a, --all-p, --purgedelete the specified version of the named cookbook. if no version is specified, and only one version exists on the server, that version will be deleted. if multiple versions are available on the server, you will be prompted for a version to delete.
knife cookbook bulk delete regex (options)
-p, --purgedelete cookbooks on the chef server based on a regular expression. the regular expression (regex) should be in quotes, not in //'s.
knife cookbook create cookbook (options)
-o, --cookbook-path path-r, --readme-format format-c, --copyright copyright-i, --license license-e, --email emailthis is a helper command that creates a new cookbook directory in the
cookbook_path. the following directories and files are created for the
named cookbook.
supported readme formats are 'md' (default), 'mkd', 'txt', 'rdoc'. the readme file will be written with the specified extension and a set of helpful starting headers.
specify -c or --copyright with the name of the copyright holder as
your name or your company/organization name in a quoted string. if this
value is not specified an all-caps string your_company_name is used
which can be easily changed with find/replace.
specify -i or --license with the license that the cookbook is
distributed under for sharing with other people or posting to the
opscode cookbooks site. be aware of the licenses of files you put inside
the cookbook and follow any restrictions they describe. when using
none (default) or apachev2, comment header text and metadata file
are pre-filled. the none license will be treated as
non-redistributable.
specify -e or --email with the email address of the cookbook's
maintainer. if this value is not specified, an all-caps string
your_email is used which can easily be changed with find/replace.
the cookbook copyright, license, email and readme_format settings can be filled in the
knife.rb, for example with default values:
cookbook_copyright "your_company_name"
cookbook_license "none"
cookbook_email "your_email"
readme_format "md"
knife cookbook metadata cookbook (options)
-a, --all-o, --cookbook-path path:pathgenerate cookbook metadata for the named cookbook. the path used here specifies where the cookbooks directory is located and corresponds to the cookbook_path configuration option.
knife cookbook metadata from file (options)
load the cookbook metadata from a specified file.
knife cookbook test [cookbooks...] (options)
-a, --all-o, --cookbook-path path:pathtest the specified cookbooks for syntax errors. this uses the built-in
ruby syntax checking option for files in the cookbook ending in .rb,
and the erb syntax check for files ending in .erb (templates).
knife recipe list [PATTERN]
List available recipes from the server. Specify PATTERN as a regular expression to limit the results.
Cookbooks are the fundamental unit of distribution in Chef. They encapsulate all recipes of resources and assets used to configure a particular aspect of the infrastructure. The following sub-commands can be used to manipulate the cookbooks stored on the Chef Server.
On disk, cookbooks are directories with a defined structure. The following directories may appear within a cookbook:
SPECIFICITY is a feature of files and templates that allow you
to specify alternate files to be used on a specific OS platform or host.
The default specificity setting is default, that is files in
COOKBOOK/files/default will be used when a more specific copy is not
available. Further documentation for this feature is available on the
Chef wiki: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/File+Distribution#FileDistribution-FileSpecificity
Cookbooks also contain a metadata file that defines various properties of the cookbook. The most important of these are the version and the dependencies. The version is used in combination with environments to select which copy of a given cookbook is distributed to a node. The dependencies are used by the server to determine which additional cookbooks must be distributed to a given host when it requires a cookbook.
knife-environment(1) knife-cookbook-site(1) http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Cookbooks http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Metadata
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