knife serve¶
Use the knife serve
subcommand to run a persistent chef-zero against the local chef-repo. (chef-zero is a lightweight Chef server that runs in-memory on the local machine.) This is the same as running the chef-client executable with the --local-mode
option. The chef_repo_path
is located automatically and the Chef server will bind to the first available port between 8889
and 9999
. knife serve
will print the URL for the local Chef server, so that it may be added to the config.rb file.
Options¶
Note
Review the list of common options available to this (and all) knife subcommands and plugins.
This subcommand has the following options:
--chef-repo-path PATH
- The path to the chef-repo. Default value: same as
chef_repo_path
in the client.rb file. --chef-zero-host IP
- Override the host on which chef-zero listens. Default value:
127.0.0.1
. --chef-zero-port PORT
- The port on which chef-zero listens. The default behavior will bind to the first available port between
8889
and9999
. --repo-mode MODE
- Use to specify the local chef-repo layout. Possible values:
static
(for environments, roles, data bags, and cookbooks),everything
(same as static, plus nodes, clients, and users),hosted_everything
(for ACLs, groups). Default value:everything/hosted_everything
.
Examples¶
None.