download roles and cookbooks from ChefServer with knife

chef-infra, continuous-deployment

Solution

You can use the `knife environment list` and `knife environment show` commands to download environments and replace "environment" with "role" to do the same for roles.

mkdir environments
for env in `knife environment list`; do
  knife environment show $env --format=json > environments/$env.json
done

You can then check these JSON files into git and edit/upload with knife.

Problem

Given I started working with Chef using the Chef Server Management Console and I now want to start using a files and upload them via knife. Is there a way to retrive roles and environments that are stored on the ChefServer via knife, so I can them into git?

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