NAME

       knife-upload - The man page for the knife upload subcommand.

       The  knife  upload  subcommand  is used to upload roles, cookbooks, environments, and data
       bags to the server from the current working directory in the chef-repo. 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.

       Common Options

       The following options can be run with all Knife sub-commands and plug-ins:

       -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
              The configuration file to use.

       --color
              Indicates that colored output will be used.

       -d, --disable-editing
              Indicates that $EDITOR will not be opened; data will be accepted as-is.

       --defaults
              Indicates that Knife will use the default  value,  instead  of  asking  a  user  to
              provide one.

       -e EDITOR, --editor EDITOR
              The $EDITOR that is used for all interactive commands.

       -E ENVIRONMENT, --environment ENVIRONMENT
              The  name  of  the environment. When this option is added to a command, the command
              will run only against the named environment.

       -f FILE_NAME, --file FILE_NAME
              Indicates that the private key will be saved to a specified file name.

       -F FORMAT, --format FORMAT
              The output format: summary (default), text, json, yaml, and pp.

       -h, --help
              Shows help for the command.

       -k KEY, --key KEY
              The private key that Knife will use to sign requests made by the API client to  the
              server.

       --no-color
              Indicates that color will not be used in the output.

       -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
              The user password.

       --print-after
              Indicates that data will be shown after a destructive operation.

       -s URL, --server-url URL
              The URL for the server.

       -u USER, --user USER
              The  user name used by Knife to sign requests made by the API client to the server.
              Authentication will fail if the user name does not match the private key.

       -v, --version
              The version of the chef-client.

       -V, --verbose
              Set for more verbose outputs. Use -VV for maximum verbosity.

       -y, --yes
              Indicates that the response to all confirmation prompts will  be  "Yes"  (and  that
              Knife will not ask for confirmation).

       Syntax

       This argument 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 as specified by chef_repo_path in config.rb.

       --concurrency
              The number of allowed concurrent connections. Default: 10.

       --[no-]diff
              Indicates that only new and modified files will be uploaded. 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
              Indicates  that a cookbook cannot be modified; any changes to this cookbook must be
              included as a new version. Only the  --force  option  can  override  this  setting.
              Default: false.

       -n, --dry-run
              Indicates  that  no action is taken and that results are only printed out. Default:
              false.

       --[no-]purge
              Use --purge to delete roles, cookbooks, etc. from the 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

       To upload the entire chef-repo to the server, 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 the cookbooks/ directory to the server, 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

       To  upload  the  environments/  directory  to  the  server, 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 an environment named "production" to the server, 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

       To upload the roles/ directory to the server, 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 cookbooks that start with "apache"  and  belong  to  the  "webserver"  role,
       browse to the top level of the chef-repo and enter:

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

       Use the output of knife deps to pass a command to knife upload. For example:

       $ knife upload `knife deps nodes/*.json`

AUTHOR

       Opscode

                                           Chef 11.8.0                            KNIFE-UPLOAD(1)