chef knife command cheat sheet

• knife block use <org name> (set the chef org for the chef work-station)

      ** The list of orgs placed inside ~/.chef directory

• knife block list  (list out the available orgs for the work-station)

• knife bootstrap  <ip> -x user_name -p password --sudo -N name (boot straps a new host)

• knife node list (list out the nodes for the org)

• berks install  (Install the necessary package for the cookbook / recipe )

• berks update  (update the necessary package for the cookbook / recipe )

• berks upload (upload the cookbook to org)

• export SSL_CERT_FILE=<if any>

• knife bootstrap <IP> -x username -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa --sudo 

• knife bootstrap <IP> -x cloud-user -i xyzz.pem --sudo -N name (boot strap with key)

• knife org list

• knife vault list

• knife vault show <vault name>

• knife environment list

• knife environment from file XXX.json (create an environment for the org from the json file)

• chef-client -o cookbook::reciepe (Execute the added run list on server)