A set of export plugins for Chef's knife.

Install

Just copy one or more of the files from the knife/ subdirectory of this repo to your knife plugin directory. That's either in your home or in your chef-repo:

cp knife/* ~/.chef/plugins/knife
cp knife/* <chef-repo>/.chef/plugins/knife

Usage

Running knife with no arguments should now show three new options:

knife data bag export all (options)
knife node export all (options)
knife role export all (options)

knife data bag export all

Exports all the data bags with their content in JSON format and writes them to the data_bags directory of your chef-repo.

To help keep the SCM diffs manageable, the JSON object is sorted in a reasonable, stable way. In particular:

• some well-known data bags are recognized, and their content is sorted in a way that makes sense for humans;
• all other hashes are sorted alphabetically;
• arrays and plain strings are passed through unmodified

knife node export all

Exports all the nodes in JSON format and writes them to the nodes directory of your chef-repo.

To help keep the SCM diffs manageable, the JSON object is sorted in a reasonable, stable way. In particular:

• only normal attributes are sorted (for now);
• the log attribute (used by nuclearrooster's update handler) is removed;
• all other hashes are sorted alphabetically;
• arrays and plain strings are passed through unmodified

knife role export all

Exports all the roles in JSON format and writes them to the nodes directory of your chef-repo.

To help keep the SCM diffs manageable, the JSON object is sorted in a reasonable, stable way. In particular:

• normal and override attributes are sorted;
• all other hashes are sorted alphabetically;
• arrays and plain strings are passed through unmodified

Author and License

You can do whatever you want with this code :)