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Use the knife upload subcommand to upload data to the Chef Infra Server from the current working directory in the chef-repo. The following types of data may be uploaded with this subcommand:

• Cookbooks
• Data bags
• Roles stored as JSON data
• Environments stored as JSON data

(Roles and environments stored as Ruby data will not be uploaded.) This subcommand is often used in conjunction with knife diff, which can be used to see exactly what changes will be uploaded, and then knife download, which does the opposite of knife upload.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

knife upload [PATTERN...] (options)

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

--chef-repo-path PATH

The path to the chef-repo. This setting will override the default path to the chef-repo. Default: same value as specified by chef_repo_path in client.rb.

--concurrency

The number of allowed concurrent connections. Default: 10.

--[no-]diff

Upload only new and modified files. Set to false to upload all files. Default: true.

--[no-]force

Use --force to upload roles, cookbooks, etc. even if the file in the directory is identical (by default, no POST or PUT is performed unless an actual change would be made). Default: --no-force.

--[no-]freeze

Require changes to a cookbook be included as a new version. Only the --force option can override this setting. Default: false.

-n, --dry-run

Take no action and only print out results. Default: false.

--[no-]purge

Use --purge to delete roles, cookbooks, etc. from the Chef Infra Server if their corresponding files do not exist in the chef-repo. By default, such objects are left alone and NOT purged. Default: --no-purge.

--[no-]recurse

Use --no-recurse to disable uploading a directory recursively. Default: --recurse.

--repo-mode MODE

The layout of the local chef-repo. Possible values: 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.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Upload the entire chef-repo

Browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

knife upload .

or from anywhere in the chef-repo, enter:

knife upload /

to upload all cookbooks and data bags, plus all roles and environments that are stored as JSON data. (Roles and environments stored as Ruby data will not be uploaded.)

Upload the /cookbooks directory

Browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

knife upload cookbooks

or from anywhere in the chef-repo, enter:

knife upload /cookbooks

Upload the /environments directory

Browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

knife upload environments

or from anywhere in the chef-repo, enter:

knife upload /environments

to upload all environments that are stored as JSON data. (Environments stored as Ruby data will not be uploaded.)

Upload a single environment

Browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

knife upload environments/production.json

or from the environments/ directory, enter:

knife upload production.json

Upload the /roles directory

Browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

knife upload roles

or from anywhere in the chef-repo, enter:

knife upload /roles

to upload all roles that are stored as JSON data. (Roles stored as Ruby data will not be uploaded.)

Upload cookbooks and roles

Browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

knife upload cookbooks/apache\* roles/webserver.json

Use output of knife deps to pass command to knife upload

knife upload `knife deps nodes/*.json`