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This subcommand is most often used to run scripts that will only access Chef server one time (or otherwise very infrequently). Use this subcommand any time that an operation does not warrant full usage of the knife subcommand library.</p> -<div class="section" id="authenticated-api-requests"> -<h2>Authenticated API Requests<a class="headerlink" href="#authenticated-api-requests" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> -<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">knife</span> <span class="pre">exec</span></tt> subcommand can be used to make authenticated API requests to the Chef server using the following methods:</p> -<table border="1" class="docutils"> -<colgroup> -<col width="13%" /> -<col width="88%" /> -</colgroup> -<thead valign="bottom"> -<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Method</th> -<th class="head">Description</th> -</tr> -</thead> -<tbody valign="top"> -<tr class="row-even"><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.delete</span></tt></td> -<td>Use to delete an object from the Chef server.</td> -</tr> -<tr class="row-odd"><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.get</span></tt></td> -<td>Use to get the details of an object on the Chef server.</td> -</tr> -<tr class="row-even"><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.post</span></tt></td> -<td>Use to add an object to the Chef server.</td> -</tr> -<tr class="row-odd"><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.put</span></tt></td> -<td>Use to update an object on the Chef server.</td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table> -<p>These methods are used with the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-E</span></tt> option, which executes that string locally on the workstation using chef-shell. These methods have the following syntax:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -E <span class="s1">'api.method(/endpoint)'</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>where:</p> -<ul class="simple"> -<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.method</span></tt> is the corresponding authentication method — <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.delete</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.get</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.post</span></tt>, or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api.put</span></tt></li> -<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/endpoint</span></tt> is an endpoint in the Chef server API</li> -</ul> -<p>For example, to get the data for a node named “Example_Node”:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -E <span class="s1">'puts api.get("/nodes/Example_Node")'</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>and to ensure that the output is visible in the console, add the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">puts</span></tt> in front of the API authorization request:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -E <span class="s1">'puts api.get("/nodes/Example_Node")'</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>where <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">puts</span></tt> is the shorter version of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$stdout.puts</span></tt> predefined variable in Ruby.</p> -<p>The following example shows how to add a client named “IBM305RAMAC” and the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/clients</span></tt> endpoint, and then return the private key for that user in the console:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ client_desc</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">{</span> - <span class="s2">"name"</span> <span class="o">=</span>> <span class="s2">"IBM305RAMAC"</span>, - <span class="s2">"admin"</span> <span class="o">=</span>> <span class="nb">false</span> - <span class="o">}</span> - - <span class="nv">new_client</span> <span class="o">=</span> api.post<span class="o">(</span><span class="s2">"/clients"</span>, client_desc<span class="o">)</span> - puts new_client<span class="o">[</span><span class="s2">"private_key"</span><span class="o">]</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="section" id="ruby-scripts"> -<h2>Ruby Scripts<a class="headerlink" href="#ruby-scripts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> -<p>For Ruby scripts that will be run using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exec</span></tt> subcommand, note the following:</p> -<blockquote> -<div><ul class="simple"> -<li>The Ruby script must be located on the system from which knife is run (and not be located on any of the systems that knife will be managing).</li> -<li>Shell commands will be run from a management workstation. For example, something like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%x[ls</span> <span class="pre">-lash</span> <span class="pre">/opt/only-on-a-node]</span></tt> would give you the directory listing for the “opt/only-on-a-node” directory or a “No such file or directory” error if the file does not already exist locally.</li> -<li>When the chef-shell DSL is available, the chef-client DSL will not be (unless the management workstation is also a chef-client). Without the chef-client DSL, a bash block cannot be used to run bash commands.</li> -</ul> -</div></blockquote> -</div> -<div class="section" id="syntax"> -<h2>Syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#syntax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> -<p>This subcommand has the following syntax:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec </span>SCRIPT <span class="o">(</span>options<span class="o">)</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="section" id="options"> -<h2>Options<a class="headerlink" href="#options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> -<div class="admonition note"> -<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> -<p class="last">Review the list of <a class="reference internal" href="knife_common_options.html"><em>common options</em></a> available to this (and all) knife subcommands and plugins.</p> -</div> -<p>This subcommand has the following options:</p> -<dl class="docutils"> -<dt><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-E</span> <span class="pre">CODE</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--exec</span> <span class="pre">CODE</span></tt></dt> -<dd>A string of code that will be executed.</dd> -<dt><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-p</span> <span class="pre">PATH:PATH</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--script-path</span> <span class="pre">PATH:PATH</span></tt></dt> -<dd>A colon-separated path at which Ruby scripts are located. Use to override the default location for scripts. When this option is not specified, knife will look for scripts located in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">chef-repo/.chef/scripts</span></tt> directory.</dd> -</dl> -</div> -<div class="section" id="examples"> -<h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> -<p>The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:</p> -<p><strong>Run Ruby scripts</strong></p> -<p>There are three ways to use <strong>knife exec</strong> to run Ruby script files. For example:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> /path/to/script_file -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>or:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -E <span class="s1">'RUBY CODE'</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>or:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -RUBY CODE -^D -</pre></div> -</div> -<p><strong>Chef Knife status</strong></p> -<p>To check the status of knife using a Ruby script named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">status.rb</span></tt> (which looks like):</p> -<div class="highlight-ruby"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nb">printf</span> <span class="s2">"%-5s %-12s %-8s %s</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"Check In"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"Name"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"Ruby"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"Recipes"</span> -<span class="n">nodes</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">all</span> <span class="k">do</span> <span class="o">|</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">|</span> - <span class="n">checkin</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">Time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">at</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="s1">'ohai_time'</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"%F %R"</span><span class="p">)</span> - <span class="n">rubyver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="s1">'languages'</span><span class="o">][</span><span class="s1">'ruby'</span><span class="o">][</span><span class="s1">'version'</span><span class="o">]</span> - <span class="n">recipes</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">run_list</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">expand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">_default</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">recipes</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">", "</span><span class="p">)</span> - <span class="nb">printf</span> <span class="s2">"%-20s %-12s %-8s %s</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">checkin</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">rubyver</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">recipes</span> -<span class="k">end</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>and is located in a directory named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scripts/</span></tt>, enter:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec </span>scripts/status.rb -</pre></div> -</div> -<p><strong>List available free memory</strong></p> -<p>To show the available free memory for all nodes, enter:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -E <span class="s1">'nodes.all {|n| puts "#{n.name} has #{n.memory.total} free memory"}'</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p><strong>List available search indexes</strong></p> -<p>To list all of the available search indexes, enter:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>knife <span class="nb">exec</span> -E <span class="s1">'puts api.get("search").keys'</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p><strong>Query for multiple attributes</strong></p> -<p>To query a node for multiple attributes using a Ruby script named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">search_attributes.rb</span></tt> (which looks like):</p> -<div class="highlight-ruby"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="sx">% cat </span><span class="n">scripts</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">search_attributes</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rb</span> -<span class="n">query</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">ARGV</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">]</span> -<span class="n">attributes</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">ARGV</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">].</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">","</span><span class="p">)</span> -<span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="s2">"Your query: </span><span class="si">#{</span><span class="n">query</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">"</span> -<span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="s2">"Your attributes: </span><span class="si">#{</span><span class="n">attributes</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">" "</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">"</span> -<span class="n">results</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span> -<span class="n">search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="ss">:node</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">query</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">do</span> <span class="o">|</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">|</span> - <span class="n">results</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span> - <span class="n">attributes</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">each</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="o">|</span> <span class="n">results</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">][</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="p">}</span> -<span class="k">end</span> - -<span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="n">results</span> -<span class="nb">exit</span> <span class="mi">0</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>enter:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre>% knife <span class="nb">exec </span>scripts/search_attributes.rb <span class="s2">"hostname:test_system"</span> ipaddress,fqdn -</pre></div> -</div> -<p>to return something like:</p> -<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre>Your query: hostname:test_system -Your attributes: ipaddress fqdn -<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"test_system.example.com"</span><span class="o">=</span>><span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"ipaddress"</span><span class="o">=</span>><span class="s2">"10.1.1.200"</span>, <span class="s2">"fqdn"</span><span class="o">=</span>><span class="s2">"test_system.example.com"</span><span class="o">}}</span> -</pre></div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - 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