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NAME

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

       The  knife serve subcommand is used to run a persistent chef-zero against the local chef-repo. (chef-zero
       is a lightweight Chef server that runs in-memory on the local machine.) This is the same as  running  the
       chef-client  executable with the --local-mode option. The chef_repo_path is located automatically and the
       Chef server will bind to the first available port between 8889 and 9999. knife serve will print  the  URL
       for the local Chef server, so that it may be added to the knife.rb file.

       Syntax

       This subcommand has the following syntax:

          $ knife serve (options)

       Options

       This subcommand has the following options:

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

       --chef-zero-port PORT
              The port on which chef-zero will listen.

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

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

       -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.

AUTHOR

       Chef

                                                    Chef 12.0                                     KNIFE-SERVE(1)