This gem provides a knife plugin to display the specified Chef::Config options, or optionally display all Chef::Config options. It can use the configuration loaded automatically by knife, or a specified config file.

Basic usage, specify a single configuration option from Chef::Config. The plugin will load the default knife configuration file it automatically detects.

% cd ~/chef-repo
% knife config chef_server_url
chef_server_url:  https://api.opscode.com/organizations/MY_ORG

Specify multiple configuration options from Chef::Config.

% cd ~/chef-repo
% knife config chef_server_url node_name validation_client_name
chef_server_url:  https://api.opscode.com/organizations/MY_ORG
node_name:        jtimberman
validation_client_name:  housepub-validator

Show all the Chef::Config options available with the --all option. This will display default values for anything not otherwise specified in the configuration.

% cd ~/chef-repo
% knife config --all
amqp_consumer_id:               default
amqp_host:                      0.0.0.0
amqp_pass:                      testing
amqp_port:                      5672
amqp_user:                      chef
amqp_vhost:                     /chef
authorized_openid_identifiers:  
authorized_openid_providers:    
cache_options:                 
  path:  /Users/jtimberman/.chef/checksums
cache_type:                     BasicFile
checksum_path:                  /var/chef/checksums
chef_server_url:                https://api.opscode.com/organizations/housepub
client_key:                     /Users/jtimberman/.chef/jtimberman.pem
client_registration_retries:    5
client_url:                     http://localhost:4042
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Show configuration values from an alternative configuration file using the -c option.

% knife config node_name -c /etc/chef/client.rb
node_name:  macbook-air.int.example.com

• Display differences between the default Chef::Config and the specified configuration file.

Author:: Joshua Timberman opensource@housepub.org

Copyright:: 2012, Joshua Timberman

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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