Use the knife deps
subcommand to identify dependencies for a node, role, or cookbook.
This subcommand has the following syntax:
$ knife deps (options)
Note
Review the list of common options available to this (and all) knife subcommands and plugins.
This subcommand has the following options:
--chef-repo-path PATH
chef_repo_path
in client.rb.--concurrency
10
.--[no-]recurse
--recurse
to list dependencies recursively. This option can only be used when --tree
is set to true
. Default: --no-recurse
.--remote
false
.--repo-mode MODE
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
.--tree
false
.Note
See knife.rb for more information about how to add certain knife options as settings in the knife.rb file.
The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:
Find dependencies for a node
$ knife deps nodes/node_name.json
Find dependencies for a role
$ knife deps roles/role_name.json
Find dependencies for a cookbook
$ knife deps cookbooks/cookbook_name.json
Find dependencies for an environment
$ knife deps environments/environment_name.json
Find dependencies for a combination of nodes, roles, and so on
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
Use a wildcard
A wildcard can be used to return all of the child nodes. For example, all of the environments:
$ knife deps environments/*.json
Return as tree
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
Pass knife deps output to knife upload
The output of knife deps
can be passed to knife upload
:
$ knife upload `knife deps nodes/*.json
Pass knife deps output to knife xargs
The output of knife deps
can be passed to knife xargs
:
$ knife deps nodes/*.json | xargs knife upload
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https://docs-archive.chef.io/release/12-13/knife_deps.html