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 subcommand has the following syntax:
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
- Use to view colored output.
- --concurrency
- The number of allowed concurrent connections. Default: 10.
- -d,
--disable-editing
- Use to prevent the $EDITOR from being opened and to accept data
as-is.
- --defaults
- Use to have knife 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 Chef server.
- --print-after
- Use to show data 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
- Use to determine dependencies from objects located on the Chef server
instead of in 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 Chef server.
- --tree
- Use to show dependencies 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
Chef 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
- Use to respond to all confirmation prompts with "Yes". knife
will not ask for confirmation.
- -z,
--local-mode
- Use to run the chef-client in local mode. This allows all commands that
work against the Chef 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