NAME¶
knife-deps - The man page for the knife deps subcommand.
The
knife deps subcommand is used to identify dependencies for a node,
role, or cookbook.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife deps (options)
Options
This subcommand has the following options:
- -c CONFIG_FILE, --config CONFIG_FILE
- The configuration file to use.
- --chef-repo-path PATH
- The path to the chef-repo. This setting will override the default path to
the chef-repo. Default: same as specified by chef_repo_path in
config.rb.
- --chef-zero-port PORT
- The port on which chef-zero will listen.
- --[no-]color
- Indicates whether colored output will be used.
- --concurrency
- The number of allowed concurrent connections. Default: 10.
- -d, --disable-editing
- Indicates that $EDITOR will not be opened; data will be accepted
as-is.
- --defaults
- Indicates that Knife will use the default value, instead of asking a user
to provide one.
- -e EDITOR, --editor EDITOR
- The $EDITOR that is used for all interactive commands.
- -E ENVIRONMENT, --environment ENVIRONMENT
- The name of the environment. When this option is added to a command, the
command will run only against the named environment.
- -F FORMAT, --format FORMAT
- The output format: summary (default), text, json,
yaml, and pp.
- -h, --help
- Shows help for the command.
- -k KEY, --key KEY
- The private key that Knife will use to sign requests made by the API
client to the server.
- --print-after
- Indicates that data will be shown after a destructive operation.
- --[no-]recurse
- Use --recurse to list dependencies recursively. This option can
only be used when --tree is set to true. Default:
--no-recurse.
- --remote
- Indicates that dependencies will be determined from objects located on the
server instead of the local chef-repo. Default: false.
- --repo-mode MODE
- The layout of the local chef-repo. Possible values: static,
everything, or hosted_everything. Use static for just
roles, environments, cookbooks, and data bags. By default,
everything and hosted_everything are dynamically selected
depending on the server type. Default: everything /
hosted_everything.
- -s URL, --server-url URL
- The URL for the server.
- --tree
- Indicates that dependencies are shown in a visual tree structure
(including duplicates, if they exist). Default: false.
- -u USER, --user USER
- The user name used by Knife to sign requests made by the API client to the
server. Authentication will fail if the user name does not match the
private key.
- -v, --version
- The version of the chef-client.
- -V, --verbose
- Set for more verbose outputs. Use -VV for maximum verbosity.
- -y, --yes
- Indicates that the response to all confirmation prompts will be
"Yes" (and that Knife will not ask for confirmation).
- -z, --local-mode
- Indicates that the chef-client will be run in local mode, which allows all
commands that work against the server to also work against the local
chef-repo.
Examples
$ knife deps nodes/node_name.json
$ knife deps roles/role_name.json
$ knife deps cookbooks/cookbook_name.json
$ knife deps environments/environment_name.json
To find the dependencies for a combination of nodes, cookbooks, roles, and/or
environments:
$ knife deps cookbooks/git.json cookbooks/github.json roles/base.json environments/desert.json nodes/mynode.json
A wildcard can be used to return all of the child nodes. For example, all of the
environments:
$ knife deps environments/*.json
Use the
--tree option to view the results with structure:
$ knife deps roles/webserver.json
to return something like:
roles/webserver.json
roles/base.json
cookbooks/github
cookbooks/git
cookbooks/users
cookbooks/apache2
The output of
knife deps can be passed to
knife upload:
$ knife upload `knife deps nodes/*.json
The output of
knife deps can be passed to
knife xargs:
$ knife deps nodes/*.json | xargs knife upload
AUTHOR¶
Chef
