CLI utility to interact with Chef server

https://chef-server-api-docs.chef.io/

Supports using profiles from standard locations for:

• Chef ~/.chef/knife.rb
• Cinc ~/.cinc/knife.rb

If you have a configuration file in a non-standard location you can use -c or --config flag to use the path to the file.

souschef -p cinc ...
souschef -p chef ...

souschef -c /some/path/knife.rb ... 
  

• search
• node list | show | ssh
• roles list | show
• environment list | show
• data bag list | show (encrypted data bag items not supported yet)
• ssh

For using SSH in node ssh NODE or ssh subcommand a valid ~/.ssh/config would be needed, as the process would spawn a SSH client, equivalent to the ssh NODE command.

If you want to specify a username, use -x as:

  souschef knife ssh NODE -x user
  souschef ssh 'search:query' 'command' -x user