Knife Push

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The knife push plugin is used by the Chef workstation to interact with the Push API to start jobs, view job status, view job lists, and view node status.

• Chef 15.0 higher
• Ruby 2.5 or higher

This plugin ships built into Chef Workstation. Install Chef Workstation to use the plugin.

If push server is running on the same host as the Chef Server, then no reconfiguration is required on the Chef workstation.

This plugin provides the following Knife subcommands. Specific command options can be found by invoking the subcommand with a --help flag.

The job list subcommand is used to view a list of Push jobs.

The job start subcommand is used to start a Push job.

knife job start (options) COMMAND [NODE, NODE, ...]

This argument has the following options:

--timeout TIMEOUT

The maximum amount of time (in seconds) by which a job must complete, before it will be stopped.

-q QUORUM --quorum QUORUM

The minimum number of nodes that match the search criteria, are available, and acknowledge the job request. This can be expressed as a percentage (e.g. 50%) or as an absolute number of nodes (e.g. 145). Default value: 100%

-b --nowait

Exit immediately after starting a job instead of waiting for it to complete.

--with-env ENVIRONMENT

Accept a json blob of environment variables and use those to set the variables for the client. For example '{"test": "foo"}' will set the push client environment variable "test" to "foo". (Push 2.0 and later)

--in-dir DIR

Execute the remote command in the directory DIR. (Push 2.0 and later)

--file DATAFILE

Send the file to the client. (Push 2.0 and later)

--capture

Capture stdin and stdout for this job. (Push 2.0 and later)

For example, to search for nodes assigned the role "webapp", and where 90% of those nodes must be available, enter:

knife job start -quorum 90% 'chef-client' --search 'role:webapp'

To search for a specific set of nodes (named chico, harpo, groucho, gummo, zeppo), and where 90% of those nodes must be available, enter:

knife job start --quorum 90% 'chef-client' chico harpo groucho gummo zeppo

Use the knife job start subcommand to run a job with the following syntax:

knife job start job_name node_name

For example, to run a job named add-glasses against a node named "ricardosalazar", enter the following:

knife job start add-glasses 'ricardosalazar'

The job output command is used to view the output of Push jobs. (Push 2.0 and later). The output capture flag must have been set on job start; see the --capture option.

knife job output JOBID

knife job output 26e98ba162fa7ba6fb2793125553c7ae test --channel stdout

--channel [stderr|stdout]

The output channel to capture.

The job status command is used to view the status of Push jobs.

knife job status JOBID

For example, to view the status of a job that has the identifier of "235", enter:

knife job status 235

The node status argument is used to identify nodes that Push may interact with.

knife node status

For information on contributing to this project see https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Author: John Keiser(jkeiser@chef.io)

Copyright: Copyright Chef Software, Inc.

License: Apache License, Version 2.0

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