knife Cookbook

This cookbook aims to provide knife functionality in cookbook form. This is particularly useful for multi-node configuration.

Requirements

None

Providers

knife_bootstrap

knife_bootstrap 'mycomputer.mydomain.com' do
   node_name  'server1'                     # :kind_of => String
   username   'administrator'               # :kind_of => String
   password   'p@ssw0rd'                    # :kind_of => String
   run_list   ['recipe[apache]']            # :kind_of => Array
   protocol   :ssh                          # :kind_of => Symbol, :equal_to => [:ssh, :winrm], :default => :ssh
   sudo       true                          # :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass], :default => false
   cwd        '/my/knife/directory/.chef'   # :kind_of => String  --> your knife directory (to load your knife settings)
   environment '_default'                   # :kind_of => String
   returns     [0]                          # :kind_of => Array, :default => [0]
   action :run
end

knife_ssh

knife_ssh 'run chef client on server1' do
    search_query 'name:server1 AND chef_environment:_default'   # :kind_of => String
    username 'user'                                             # :kind_of => String
    password 'p@ssw0rd'                                         # :kind_of => String
    command 'sudo chef-client'                                  # :kind_of => String
    protocol :ssh                                               # :kind_of => Symbol, :equal_to => [:ssh, :winrm], :default => :ssh
    attribute 'ipaddress'                                       # :kind_of => String
                                                                # --> equivalent to -a option
    cwd  '/my/knife/directory/.chef'                            # :kind_of => String
    returns [0]                                                 # :kind_of => Array, :default => [0]
    transport_options nil                                       # :kind_of => Hash
                                                                # --> to allow delegation of credentials with winrm use { :allow_delegate => true }. This is only supported on windows
    action :run
end

knife_chef_run

knife_chef_run 'run apache recipe on server1' do
    search_query 'name:server1'                     # :kind_of => String
    username 'user'                                 # :kind_of => String
    password 'p@ssw0rd'                             # :kind_of => String
    run_list ['role[webserver]', 'recipe[apache]']  # :kind_of => Array
    environment '_default'                          # :kind_of => String
    sudo true                                       # :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass], :default => false
    attribute 'ipaddress'                           # :kind_of => String
                                                    # --> equivalent to -a option
    cwd '/my/knife/directory/.chef'                 # :kind_of => String
    returns [0]                                     # :kind_of => Array, :default => [0]
    protocol :ssh                                   # :kind_of => Symbol, :equal_to => [:ssh, :winrm], :default => :ssh
    transport_options nil                           # :kind_of => Hash
                                                    # --> to allow delegation of credentials with winrm use { :allow_delegate => true }. This is only supported on windows
end