Chef plugin

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Configuration File

Path to the configuration file, such as root/.chef/knife.rb (the default value). (Required)

Server URL

URL of the Chef server.

Node Name

Name of the node to which recipes are added. (Required)

Run-List Items

Run-list items to add to the node run-list. You must enclose the items in quotes when roles are added, roles are combined with recipes, the fully qualified recipe format is used, or the cookbook recipe format is used. The run-list items are not validated against the Chef server.

Verbose

Displays the more-verbose output format when checked.

After Item

Item in the node run-list that determines where new items are added. The new items are added to the node run-list after the specified item, such as recipe[my_recipe].

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

FQDN or Node IP

Provide the IP address of the node to be bootstrapped. (Required)

SSH Agent Forwarding

If checked enables ssh agent forwarding.

Verify API Cert

Verify the SSL certificate on the Chef server. When true, the chef-client always verifies the SSL certificate. When false, the chef-client uses the value of ssl_verify_mode to determine if the SSL certificate requires verification. If this option is not specified, the setting for verify_api_cert in the configuration file is applied

Disable Host key verify

Use --no-host-key-verify to disable host key verification. Default setting: --host-key-verify.

Prerelease gems

Install pre-release gems.

Use sudo password

Perform a bootstrap operation with sudo; specify the password with the -P (or --ssh-password) option.

Sudo

Execute a bootstrap operation with sudo.

Bootstrap Curl options

Specify arbitrary options to be added to the bootstrap command when using Curl

Bootstrap install command

Execute a custom installation command sequence for the chef-client.

Bootstrap install sh

Fetch and execute an installation script at the specified URL

Bootstrap no proxy

The proxy server for the node that is the target of a bootstrap operation.

Bootstrap proxy

The proxy server for the node that is the target of a bootstrap operation.

Bootstrap vault file

The path to a JSON file that contains a list of vaults and items to be updated.

Bootstrap vault item

A single vault and item to update as vault item.

Bootstrap vault JSON

A JSON string that contains a list of vaults and items to be updated.

Bootstrap version

The version of the chef-client to install.

Bootstrap Wget options

Specify arbitrary options to be added to the bootstrap command when using GNU Wget. This option may not be used in the same command with --bootstrap-install-command.

Environment

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

SSH Gateway

The SSH tunnel or gateway that is used to run a bootstrap action on a machine that is not accessible from the workstation.

Hint

Ohai hints are used to tell Ohai something about the system that it is running on that it would not be able to discover itself

Identify File

The SSH identity file used for authentication. Key-based authentication is recommended.

JSON Attributes

A JSON string that is added to the first run of a chef-client

Node name

The name of the node.

SSH port

The SSH port.

Run list

A comma-separated list of roles and/or recipes to be applied.

Secret key within databag item

The encryption key that is used for values contained within a data bag item.

Secret key path

The path to the file that contains the encryption key.

Bootstrap template

The bootstrap template to use. This may be the name of a bootstrap template or it may be the full path to an Embedded Ruby (ERB) template that defines a custom bootstrap. Default value: chef-full, which installs the chef-client using the omnibus installer on all supported platforms

Debug log-level

Run the initial chef-client run at the debug log-level (e.g. chef-client -l debug).

SSH username

The SSH user name.

SSH password

The SSH password.

SSL verify mode

Set the verify mode for HTTPS requests.Use none to do no validation of SSL certificates.Use peer to do validation of all SSL certificates, including the Chef server connections, S3 connections, and any HTTPS remote_file resource URLs used in the chef-client run. This is the recommended setting.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Cookbook Path

Path of Cookbook. (Required)

Failure Tags

Use to trigger a build failure if any of the specified tags are matched.

Rules Path

Use to specify the path to a file that contains additional Foodcritic rules.

Grammer Path

Use to specify the path to a file that contains additional grammar used when validating search syntax

Checked Tags

Use to only the specified tags when checking against Foodcritic rules.

Show FoodCritic Version

Use to display the version of Foodcritic.

Show Context

Use to show lines matched against Foodcritic rules, rather than the default summary.

REPL

Use to drop into a REPL for interactive rule editing.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Spec Path

Provide the path to the Spec file or folder. (Required)

Server URL

Provide the URL of the Chef Server to use

Load Path

Specify PATH to add to $LOAD_PATH (may be used more than once).

Default Path

Set the default path where RSpec looks for examples (can be a path to a file or a directory)

Example

Run examples whose full nested names include STRING (may be used more than once).

Tag

Run examples with the specified tag, or exclude examples by adding ~ before the tag

Exclude Pattern

Load files except those matching pattern. Opposite effect of --pattern.

Pattern

Load files matching pattern .Default: "spec/**/*_spec.rb"

Profiling

Enable profiling of examples and list the slowest examples (default: 10)

Deprecation File Path

Write deprecation warnings to a file instead of $stderr.

Out File Path

Write output to a file instead of $stdout. This option applies to the previously specified --format, or the default format if no format is specified

Format

Choose a formatter. [p]rogress (default - dots) [d]ocumentation (group and example names) [h]tml [j]son custom formatter class name

Failure Exit Code

Override the exit code used when there are failing specs.

DRb Port

Port to connect to the DRb server.

Require Path

Require a file.

Options Path

Specify the path to a custom options file.

Order

Run examples by the specified order type. [defined] examples and groups are run in the order they are defined [rand] randomize the order of groups and examples [random] alias for rand [random:SEED] e.g. --order random:123

Seed

Equivalent of --order rand:SEED..

Next Failure

Apply --only-failures and abort after one failure.

Only Failures

Filter to just the examples that failed the last time they ran.

Backtrace

Enable full backtrace

Warnings

Enable ruby warnings.

Color

Enable color in the output

Bisect

Repeatedly runs the suite in order to isolate the failures to the smallest reproducible case.

Initialize with RSpec

Initialize your project with RSpec.

DRb

Run examples via DRb.

Abort On First Failure

Abort the run on first failure.

Dry Run

Print the formatter output of your suite without running any examples or hooks.

Additional options

Additional options if any

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. This process will generate an RSA key pair for the named API client. The public key will be stored on the Chef server and the private key will be displayed on STDOUT or written to a named file. (Required)

Admin

Create a client as an admin client. This is required for any user to access Open Source Chef as an administrator. This option only works when used with the open source Chef server and will have no effect when used with Enterprise Chef..

Save key to file

Save a private key to the specified file name.

Validator

Use to create the client as the chef-validator. Default value: true.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. This process will generate an RSA key pair for the named API client. The public key will be stored on the Chef server and the private key will be displayed on STDOUT or written to a named file.(Required)

Admin

Create a client as an admin client. This is required for any user to access Open Source Chef as an administrator. This option only works when used with the open source Chef server and will have no effect when used with Enterprise Chef..

Save key to file

Save a private key to the specified file name.

Validator

Use to create the client as the chef-validator. Default value: true.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Chef Path

Provide the path to the chef executable e.g /usr/bin/chef (This is the default value). (Required).

Cookbook Name

Name of the cookbook to be generated.(Required)

Copyright holder

The name of the copyright holder. This option places a copyright notice that contains the name of the copyright holder in each of the pre-created files. If this option is not specified, a copyright name of your_company_name is used instead; it can easily be modified later.

License

The type of license under which a cookbook is distributed: apachev2, gplv2, gplv3, mit, or none (default). This option places the appropriate license notice in the pre-created files.

Email

The email address for the individual who maintains the cookbook. This option places an email address in each of the pre-created files. If not specified, an email name of your_email is used instead; this can easily be modified later.

Cookbook-path

The directory in which cookbooks are created. This can be a colon-separated path.

Readme format

Deprecated.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Data Bag Name

Name of the Data Bag to be generated.(Required)

Data Bag Item

The name of a specific item within a data bag.

Secret Key

The encryption key that is used for values contained within a data bag item.

Secret Key File Path

The path to the file that contains the encryption key.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Node Name

Name of the Node to be created.(Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Role Name

Name of the Role to be created.(Required)

Description

If checked populates the description field for the role on the Chef server.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. This process will generate an RSA key pair for the named API client. The public key will be stored on the Chef server and the private key will be displayed on STDOUT or written to a named file.(Required)

Admin

Create a client as an admin client. This is required for any user to access Open Source Chef as an administrator. This option only works when used with the open source Chef server and will have no effect when used with Enterprise Chef.

Validator

Use to create the client as the chef-validator. Default value: true.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. This process will generate an RSA key pair for the named API client. The public key will be stored on the Chef server and the private key will be displayed on STDOUT or written to a named file.(Required)

Public Key Name

The name of the public key to be deleted.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Cookbook Name

Name of the cookbook to be deleted.(Required)

All

Delete all cookbooks (and cookbook versions).

Purge

Entirely remove a cookbook (or cookbook version) from the Chef server. Use this action carefully because only one copy of any single file is stored on the Chef server. Consequently, purging a cookbook disables any other cookbook that references one or more files from the cookbook that has been purged.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Databag Name

Name of the Databag to be deleted.(Required)

Databag Item

The name of a specific item within a data bag.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Node Name

Name of the node to be deleted.(Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Role Name

Name of the role to be deleted.(Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Configuration File

Path to the configuration file, such as /root/.chef/knife.rb (the default value). (Required)

Chef Server URL

URL of the Chef server.

Cookbook Name

Name of the cookbook to download. (Required)

Cookbook Version

Cookbook version to download. If this field is blank, the latest version is downloaded.

Force

Downloads a deprecated cookbook.

Verbose

Displays the more verbose output format.

File Name

Name of the file to which the cookbook is written. The file extension is tar.gz. If this field is blank, the name of the default cookbook is used.

Download To

Path to which the cookbook is downloaded. If this field is blank, the cookbook is downloaded to the current workspace.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. This process will generate an RSA key pair for the named API client. The public key will be stored on the Chef server and the private key will be displayed on STDOUT or written to a named file.(Required)

Key Name

Name of key to be edited.

New Public key name

The name of the public key.

Save key to file

Save a public key to the specified file name. If the --key-name and public-key options are not specified the Chef server will generate a private key.

Path to public key file

The path to a file that contains the public key. If this option is not specified, and only if --key-name is specified, the Chef server will generate a public/private key pair.

Expiration Date

The expiration date for the public key, specified as an ISO 8601 formatted string: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. If this option is not specified, the public key will not have an expiration date. For example: 2013-12-24T21:00:00Z.

Replace key

Generate a new public/private key pair and replace an existing public key with the newly-generated public key. To replace the public key with an existing public key, use --public-key instead.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Data Bag

Provide name of data bag. (Required)

Data Bag Item Content

Content of data bag item.

Secret Key

The encryption key that is used for values contained within a data bag item.

Secret Key File Path

The path to the file that contains the encryption key.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Node Name

Provide the name of the node to edit. (Required)

Node Data

Provide the data of the node. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Role Data

Provide the data of the role. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (the default value). (Required)

Configuration File

Path to the configuration file, such as /root/.chef/knife.rb (the default value). (Required)

Chef Server URL

URL of the Chef server.

Cookbook Name

Name of the cookbook to download. (Required)

Cookbook Version

Cookbook version to download. If this field is blank, the latest version is downloaded.

No Dependencies

Cookbook dependencies are not installed automatically when this checkbox is checked.

Verbose

Displays the more-verbose output format when checked.

Cookbooks Path

Path where the cookbook is installed. You should use the path where all the cookbooks are stored, such as /etc/chef/cookbooks (the default value).

Branch To Work With

Default branch with which to work. If the field is blank, the default branch is master.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Index

INDEX is one of client, environment, node, role, or the name of a data bag.

Search Query

SEARCH_QUERY is the search query syntax for the query that will be executed.

Attribute

The attribute (or attributes) to show.

Row

The row at which return results begin.

Filter

Use to return only attributes that match the specified FILTER. For example: \"ServerName=name, Kernel=kernel.version\.

Id-Only

Show only matching object IDs.

Long

Display all attributes in the output and show the output as JSON.

Medium

Display normal attributes in the output and to show the output as JSON.

RunList

Show only the runlist.

Sort

The order in which search results are to be sorted.

Row-Count

The number of rows to be returned.

Additional Search Query

Protect search queries that start with a hyphen (-). A -q query may be specified as an argument or an option, but not both.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

With URI

Show the corresponding URIs.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. This process will generate an RSA key pair for the named API client. The public key will be stored on the Chef server and the private key will be displayed on STDOUT or written to a named file. (Required)

Only Expired

Show a list of public keys that have expired.

Only Non-Expired

Show a list of public keys that have not expired.

With Details

Show a list of public keys, including URIs and expiration status.

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

With URI

Show the corresponding URIs.

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

All Available

Show the corresponding URIs.

With URI

Show the corresponding URIs.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

With URI

Show the corresponding URIs.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

With URI

Show the corresponding URIs.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Chef-client Path

Path to the chef-client (executable), such as /usr/bin/chef-client (the default value). (Required)

Configuration File

Path to the configuration file, such as /etc/chef/client.rb (the default value). (Required)

Chef Server URL

URL of the Chef server.

Node Name

Name of the node.

Replace Current Run-List

New run-list of items to place instead of those in the current run-list.

JSON Attributes Definition

The JSON file or URL from which to get the attributes.

Daemonize

Runs the executable as a daemon when checked.

Interval(seconds)

Frequency in seconds at which the chef-client runs.

Log Level

Log level that is stored in the log file: Debug, Information, Warning, Error, or Fatal.

Additional Commands

Additional commands to run the chef-client.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. (Required)

Attribute(s)

Name of the Attributes to be displayed

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Client Name

Mention the name of the client. (Required)

Key Name

Name of the key to be displayed

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Cookbook Name

Name of the cookbook. (Required)

Platform Version

The version of the platform

Part

The part of the cookbook to show: attributes, definitions, files, libraries, providers, recipes, resources, or templates. More than one part can be specified

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 is returned

FQDN

The FQDN of the host

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

File Name

The name of a file that is associated with a cookbook

Platform

The platform for which a cookbook is designed

With URI

Show the corresponding URIs

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Configuration File

Provide the path and name of the configuration file e.g /root/.chef/knife.rb (This is the default value). (Required)

Server URL

Provide the URL of the Chef Server to use

Data Bag

The name of a specific data bag.

Data Bag Item

The name of a specific item within a data bag.

Secret Key

The encryption key that is used for values contained within a data bag item

Secret Key File Path

The path to the file that contains the encryption key

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Verbose

If checked a more verbose output is showed

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Node Name

Provide the name of the node to show. (Required)

Attribute

The attribute (or attributes) to show

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Long

Display all attributes in the output and show the output as JSON

Medium

Display normal attributes in the output and to show the output as JSON

Runlist

Show only the runlist.

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Provide the path to the knife executable e.g /usr/bin/knife (This is the default value). (Required).

Role Name

Provide the name of the role to show. (Required)

Attribute

The attribute (or attributes) to show

Result Property

The property details in which result will be stored. Enter a valid property path[myJobStep, myJob, myProcedure, myProject]. (Required)

Additional options

Additional options if any.

Knife Path

Path to the knife executable, such as /usr/bin/knife (default value). (Required)

Configuration File

Path to the configuration file, such as /root/.chef/knife.rb (the default value). (Required)

Server URL

URL of the Chef server.

Cookbook Names

Names of one or more cookbooks to upload, separated by spaces. (Required)

Include All Cookbooks

Uploads all cookbooks when checked.

Cookbooks Paths

List of paths to one or more cookbooks, separated by colons, such as /etc/chef/cookbooks/:/etc/chef/more_cookbooks.

Include Dependencies

Loads cookbooks upon which a cookbook is dependent when checked.

Verbose

Displays more-verbose output when checked.

Additional Commands

Additional commands to upload cookbooks.