knife-serve - The man page for the knife serve subcommand.
The knife serve subcommand is used to run a persistent
chef-zero against the local chef-repo. (chef-zero is a lightweight Chef
server that runs in-memory on the local machine.) This is the same as
running the chef-client executable with the --local-mode option. The
chef_repo_path is located automatically and the Chef server will bind
to the first available port between 8889 and 9999. knife
serve will print the URL for the local Chef server, so that it may be
added to the knife.rb file.
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-zero-port
PORT
- The port on which chef-zero will listen.
- -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.
- --[no-]color
- Use to view colored output.
- --print-after
- Use to show data after a destructive operation.
- -s URL, --server-url
URL
- The URL for the Chef server.
- -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.