knife-role-spaghetti

Knife plugin for Chef to draw dependency graphs for roles that have become spaghetti.

Ruby 1.9.3 and higher.

This plugin requires on Graphviz, and should be installed prior to installing the plugin.

Graphviz may be obtained through a variety of methods. On OSX an easy method is via Homebrew:

$ brew install graphviz

$ gem install knife-role-spaghetti

NOTE: Ensure that your knife.rb has the role_path setting configured.

Since this is a Knife plugin, execution should be performed in your Chef repository.

Execute:

$ knife role spaghetti

with no arguments should result in a new file named role-spaghetti.png in your repo root.

$ knife role spaghetti "/tmp/someotherfilename.png"

will place the file in the specified location.

Execute knife role spaghetti -h for more options.

From a sample role, courtesy of @jtimberman, along with one from the Opscode Wiki, plus one more cyclic role model, produces this image:

(full resolution here)

Running through the neato renderer (with the -N switch) produces this image:

(full resolution here)

Author:: Mike Fiedler (miketheman@gmail.com) Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Mike Fiedler License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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