Knife::SavedSearch

Proof of concept Knife plugin for managing and executing saved searches against a Chef server. As a proof of concept, it uses a data bag to store saved searches.

Installation

Using ChefDK, run:

chef gem install knife-saved_search

Usage

By default a data bag named "saved-searches" is used to store searches. This can be set to something else by putting knife[:saved_search_data_bag] = "my-data-bag-name" in your .chef/config.rb.

This data bag will be created if it does not exist when a saved search is first created.

A saved search data bag item looks like:

{
  "id": "name-of-saved-search",
  "index": "node", // The search index used
  "description": "A description of the search",
  "query": "*:* " // The search query string used
}

knife saved search list

Lists names of all saved searches.

knife saved search show NAME

Shows an individual saved search.

knife saved search delete NAME

Deletes a saved search.

knife saved search create NAME INDEX QUERY [DESCRIPTION]

Creates a saved search.

knife saved search exec NAME

Executes a saved search and returns its results. Takes the same options as knife search.

knife saved search update NAME INDEX QUERY [DESCRIPTION]

Update the properties of an existing saved search.

Development

To use this plugin from the code in this repository:

ln -sf /path/to/knife-saved_search/lib/chef/knife/* ~/.chef/plugins/knife/

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/smith/knife-saved_search/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

Knife::SavedSearch - A Knife plugin for saved search on a Chef server

Author:	Nathan L Smith (smith@chef.io)
Copyright:	Copyright (c) 2015 Nathan L Smith
License:	Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.