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NAME
knife-cookbook-site - The man page for the knife cookbook site subcommand.
The Cookbooks Site API is used to provide access to the cookbooks community hosted at
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks. All of the cookbooks in the community are accessible through a
RESTful API located at https://supermarket.getchef.com/api/v1/cookbooks by using any of the supported
endpoints. In most cases, using knife and the knife cookbook site sub-command (and any of its arguments)
is the recommended method of interacting with these cookbooks, but in some cases, using the Cookbooks
Site API directly may make sense.
The knife cookbook site subcommand is used to interact with cookbooks that are located at
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks. A user account is required for any community actions that
write data to this site. The following arguments do not require a user account: download, search,
install, and list.
COMMON OPTIONS
The following options may be used with any of the arguments available to the knife cookbook site
subcommand:
--chef-zero-port PORT
The port on which chef-zero will listen.
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config CONFIG_FILE
The configuration file to use.
-d, --disable-editing
Use to prevent the $EDITOR from being opened and to accept data as-is.
--defaults
Use to have knife 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 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 Chef server.
--[no-]color
Use to view colored output.
--print-after
Use to show data after a destructive operation.
-s URL, --server-url URL
The URL for the Chef server.
-u USER, --user USER
The user name used by knife to sign requests made by the API client to the Chef server.
Authentication will fail if the user name does not match the private key.
-V, --verbose
Set for more verbose outputs. Use -VV for maximum verbosity.
-v, --version
The version of the chef-client.
-y, --yes
Use to respond to all confirmation prompts with "Yes". knife will not ask for confirmation.
-z, --local-mode
Use to run the chef-client in local mode. This allows all commands that work against the Chef
server to also work against the local chef-repo.
DOWNLOAD
The download argument is used to download a cookbook from the community website. A cookbook will be
downloaded as a tar.gz archive and placed in the current working directory. If a cookbook (or cookbook
version) has been deprecated and the --force option is not used, knife will alert the user that the
cookbook is deprecated and then will provide the name of the most recent non-deprecated version of that
cookbook.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site download COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)
Options
This argument has the following options:
COOKBOOK_VERSION
The version of a cookbook to be downloaded. If a cookbook has only one version, this option does
not need to be specified. If a cookbook has more than one version and this option is not
specified, the most recent version of the cookbook will be downloaded.
-f FILE, --file FILE
The file to which a cookbook download is written.
--force
Use to overwrite an existing directory.
Examples
To download the cookbook getting-started, enter:
$ knife cookbook site download getting-started
to return something like:
Downloading getting-started from the cookbooks site at version 0.3.0 to
/Users/sdanna/opscodesupport/getting-started-0.3.0.tar.gz
Cookbook saved: /Users/sdanna/opscodesupport/getting-started-0.3.0.tar.gz
INSTALL
The install argument is used to install a cookbook that has been downloaded from the community site to a
local git repository . This action uses the git version control system in conjunction with the
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks site to install community-contributed cookbooks to the local
chef-repo. Using this argument does the following:
1. A new "pristine copy" branch is created in git for tracking the upstream.
2. All existing versions of a cookbook are removed from the branch.
3. The cookbook is downloaded from https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks in the tar.gz format.
4. The downloaded cookbook is untarred and its contents are committed to git and a tag is created.
5. The "pristine copy" branch is merged into the master branch.
This process allows the upstream cookbook in the master branch to be modified while letting git maintain
changes as a separate patch. When an updated upstream version becomes available, those changes can be
merged while maintaining any local modifications.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site install COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)
Options
This argument has the following options:
-b, --use-current-branch
Use to ensure that the current branch is used.
-B BRANCH, --branch BRANCH
The name of the default branch. This will default to the master branch.
COOKBOOK_VERSION
The version of the cookbook to be installed. If a version is not specified, the most recent
version of the cookbook will be installed.
-D, --skip-dependencies
Use to ensure that all cookbooks to which the installed cookbook has a dependency will not be
installed.
-o PATH:PATH, --cookbook-path PATH:PATH
The directory in which cookbooks are created. This can be a colon-separated path.
Examples
To install the cookbook getting-started, enter:
$ knife cookbook site install getting-started
to return something like:
Installing getting-started to /Users/sdanna/opscodesupport/.chef/../cookbooks
Checking out the master branch.
Creating pristine copy branch chef-vendor-getting-started
Downloading getting-started from the cookbooks site at version 0.3.0 to
/Users/sdanna/opscodesupport/.chef/../cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz
Cookbook saved: /Users/sdanna/opscodesupport/.chef/../cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz
Removing pre-existing version.
Uncompressing getting-started version /Users/sdanna/opscodesupport/.chef/../cookbooks.
removing downloaded tarball
1 files updated, committing changes
Creating tag cookbook-site-imported-getting-started-0.3.0
Checking out the master branch.
Updating 4d44b5b..b4c32f2
Fast-forward
cookbooks/getting-started/README.rdoc | 4 +++
cookbooks/getting-started/attributes/default.rb | 1 +
cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.json | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++
cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.rb | 6 ++++
cookbooks/getting-started/recipes/default.rb | 23 +++++++++++++++
.../templates/default/chef-getting-started.txt.erb | 5 +++
6 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/README.rdoc
create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/attributes/default.rb
create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.json
create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.rb
create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/recipes/default.rb
create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/templates/default/chef-getting-started.txt.erb
Cookbook getting-started version 0.3.0 successfully installed
LIST
The list argument is used to view a list of cookbooks that are currently available at
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site list
Options
This argument has the following options:
-w, --with-uri
Use to show the corresponding URIs.
Examples
To view a list of cookbooks at https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks server, enter:
$ knife cookbook site list
to return:
1password homesick rabbitmq
7-zip hostname rabbitmq-management
AmazonEC2Tag hosts rabbitmq_chef
R hosts-awareness rackspaceknife
accounts htop radiant
ack-grep hudson rails
activemq icinga rails_enterprise
ad id3lib redis-package
ad-likewise iftop redis2
ant iis redmine
[...truncated...]
SEARCH
The search argument is used to search for a cookbook at https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks. A
search query is used to return a list of cookbooks at https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks and uses
the same syntax as the knife search sub-command.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site search SEARCH_QUERY (options)
Options
This command does not have any specific options.
Examples
To search for all of the cookbooks that can be used with Apache, enter:
$ knife cookbook site search apache*
to return something like:
apache2:
cookbook: http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/apache2
cookbook_description: Installs and configures apache2 using Debian symlinks with helper definitions
cookbook_maintainer: opscode
cookbook_name: apache2
instiki:
cookbook: http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/instiki
cookbook_description: Installs instiki, a Ruby on Rails wiki server under passenger+Apache2.
cookbook_maintainer: jtimberman
cookbook_name: instiki
kickstart:
cookbook: http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/kickstart
cookbook_description: Creates apache2 vhost and serves a kickstart file.
cookbook_maintainer: opscode
cookbook_name: kickstart
[...truncated...]
SHARE
The share argument is used to add a cookbook to https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks. This action
will require a user account and a certificate for https://supermarket.getchef.com. By default, knife will
use the user name and API key that is identified in the configuration file used during the upload;
otherwise these values must be specified on the command line or in an alternate configuration file. If a
cookbook already exists on https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks, then only an owner or maintainer of
that cookbook can make updates.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site share COOKBOOK_NAME CATEGORY (options)
Options
This argument has the following options:
CATEGORY
The cookbook category: "Databases", "Web Servers", "Process Management", "Monitoring & Trending",
"Programming Languages", "Package Management", "Applications", "Networking", "Operating Systems &
Virtualization", "Utilities", or "Other".
-n, --dry-run
Use to take no action and only print out results. Default: false.
-o PATH:PATH, --cookbook-path PATH:PATH
The directory in which cookbooks are created. This can be a colon-separated path.
Examples
To share a cookbook named apache2:
$ knife cookbook site share "apache2" "Web Servers"
SHOW
The show argument is used to view information about a cookbook on
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site show COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION]
Options
This argument has the following options:
COOKBOOK_VERSION
The version of a cookbook to be shown. If a cookbook has only one version, this option does not
need to be specified. If a cookbook has more than one version and this option is not specified, a
list of cookbook versions will be returned.
Examples
To show the details for a cookbook named haproxy:
$ knife cookbook site show haproxy
to return something like:
average_rating:
category: Networking
created_at: 2009-10-25T23:51:07Z
description: Installs and configures haproxy
external_url:
latest_version: http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/1_0_3
maintainer: opscode
name: haproxy
updated_at: 2011-06-30T21:53:25Z
versions:
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/1_0_3
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/1_0_2
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/1_0_1
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/1_0_0
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/0_8_1
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/0_8_0
http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/haproxy/versions/0_7_0
To view information in JSON format, use the -F common option as part of the command like this:
$ knife role show devops -F json
Other formats available include text, yaml, and pp.
UNSHARE
The unshare argument is used to stop the sharing of a cookbook at
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks. Only the maintainer of a cookbook may perform this action.
Syntax
This argument has the following syntax:
$ knife cookbook site unshare COOKBOOK_NAME
Options
This command does not have any specific options.
Examples
To unshare a cookbook named getting-started, enter:
$ knife cookbook site unshare getting-started
AUTHOR
Chef
Chef 12.0 KNIFE-COOKBOOK-SITE(1)