Knife To Ruby
A Chef Knife plugin to print Chef objects (Role/Environment) in ruby code,
$ knife role toruby role_name
name "role_name"
description "my description"
default_attributes({
"a" => "b"
})
override_attributes({
"a" => "b"
})
run_list("recipe[cookbook_a]", "recipe[cookbook_b]")
Should be equivalent to knife show role -Fj but for ruby.
Check the change log to see what has changed.
Installation
/opt/chef/embedded/gem install knife-toruby
How to Use
knife role toruby [ROLE]
knife environment toruby [ENVIRONMENT]
Chef Objects Supported
- Role
- Environment
Transform .json file to .rb locally
If you want to transform your .json role/environment files locally without uploading them to the chef-server you can do that using this script,
require 'chef/ruby_compat'
require 'chef/knife'
require 'chef/knife/core/object_loader'
require 'json'
loader = ::Chef::Knife::Core::ObjectLoader.new(Chef::Role, nil)
role = loader.load_from("roles", 'MY_ROLE.json')
puts Chef::RubyCompat.to_ruby(role)
Update this script with your file name and if you are using an environment instead of a role. Save this file as something like transform.rb, make sure to have knife-toruby installed in knife and then run the command,
knife exec transform.rb