knife — Interact with a Chef server from a local Chef repo. More information: <https://docs.chef.io/workstat

How to use the knife command: Interact with a Chef server from a local Chef repo. More information: <https://docs.chef.io/workstation/knife/>.

knife — Interact with a Chef server from a local Chef repo. More information: <https://docs.chef.io/workstation/knife/>.

Bootstrap a new node:

knife bootstrap {{fqdn_or_ip}}

List all registered nodes:

knife node list

Show a node:

knife node show {{node_name}}

Edit a node:

knife node edit {{node_name}}

Edit a role:

knife role edit {{role_name}}

View a data bag:

knife data bag show {{data_bag_name}} {{data_bag_item}}

Upload a local cookbook to the Chef server:

knife cookbook upload {{cookbook_name}}

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