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)