knife Command Examples

Interact with a Chef server from a local Chef repo. More information: https://docs.chef.io/knife.html.

• Bootstrap a new node:

knife bootstrap {{fqdn_or_ip}}

• List all registered nodes:

knife node list

• Show a node:

knife node show {{node_name}}

• Edit a node:

knife node edit {{node_name}}

• Edit a role:

knife role edit {{role_name}}

• View a data bag:

knife data bag show {{data_bag_name}} {{data_bag_item}}

• Upload a local cookbook to the Chef server:

knife cookbook upload {{cookbook_name}}