KNIFE-SEARCH(1) knife search KNIFE-SEARCH(1)NAMEknife-search - The man page for the knife search subcommand.
Search indexes allow queries to be made for any type of data that is
indexed by the Chef server, including data bags (and data bag items),
environments, nodes, and roles. A defined query syntax is used to sup‐
port search patterns like exact, wildcard, range, and fuzzy. A search
is a full-text query that can be done from several locations, including
from within a recipe, by using the search subcommand in Knife, or by
using the /search or /search/INDEX endpoints in the Chef Server API.
The search engine is based on Apache Solr and is run from the Chef
server.
The knife search subcommand is used run a search query for information
that is indexed on a Chef server.
Syntax
This subcommand has the following syntax:
$ knife search INDEX SEARCH_QUERY
where INDEX is one of client, environment, node, role, or the name of a
data bag and SEARCH_QUERY is the search query syntax for the query that
will be executed.
INDEX is implied if omitted, and will default to node. For example:
$ knife search '*:*' -i
will return something similar to:
8 items found
centos-62-dev
opensuse-1203
ubuntu-1304-dev
ubuntu-1304-orgtest
ubuntu-1204-ohai-test
ubuntu-1304-ifcfg-test
ohai-test
win2k8-dev
and is the same search as:
$ knife search node '*:*" -i
If the SEARCH_QUERY does not contain a colon character (:), then the
default query pattern is tags:*#{@query}* OR roles:*#{@query}* OR
fqdn:*#{@query}* OR addresses:*#{@query}*, which means the following
two search queries are effectively the same:
$ knife search ubuntu
or:
$ knife search node "tags:*ubuntu* OR roles:*ubuntu* OR fqdn:*ubuntu* (etc.)"
Options
This sub-command has the following options:
-a ATTR, --attribute ATTR
The attribute (or attributes) to show.
-b ROW, --start ROW
The row at which return results will begin.
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config CONFIG_FILE
The configuration file to use.
--chef-zero-port PORT
The port on which chef-zero will listen.
--[no-]color
Use to view colored output.
-d, --disable-editing
Use to prevent the $EDITOR from being opened and to accept data
as-is.
--defaults
Use to have Knife use the default value instead of asking a user
to provide one.
-e EDITOR, --editor EDITOR
The $EDITOR that is used for all interactive commands.
-E ENVIRONMENT, --environment ENVIRONMENT
The name of the environment. When this option is added to a com‐
mand, the command will run only against the named environment.
-F FORMAT, --format FORMAT
The output format: summary (default), text, json, yaml, and pp.
-h, --help
Shows help for the command.
-i, --id-only
Use to show only matching object IDs.
INDEX The name of the index to be queried: client, environment, node,
role, or DATA_BAG_NAME. Default index: node.
-k KEY, --key KEY
The private key that Knife will use to sign requests made by the
API client to the Chef server.
-l, --long
Display long output when searching nodes while using the default
summary format.
-m, --medium
Display more, but not all, of a node's data when searching using
the default summary format.
-o SORT, --sort SORT
The order in which search results will be sorted.
--print-after
Use to show data after a destructive operation.
-q SEARCH_QUERY, --query SEARCH_QUERY
Use to protect search queries that start with a hyphen (-). A -q
query may be specified as an argument or an option, but not
both.
-r, --run-list
Use to show only the run-list.
-R INT, --rows INT
The number of rows to be returned.
-s URL, --server-url URL
The URL for the Chef server.
SEARCH_QUERY
The search query used to identify a a list of items on a Chef
server. This option uses the same syntax as the search sub-com‐
mand.
-u USER, --user USER
The user name used by Knife to sign requests made by the API
client to the Chef server. Authentication will fail if the user
name does not match the private key.
-v, --version
The version of the chef-client.
-V, --verbose
Set for more verbose outputs. Use -VV for maximum verbosity.
-y, --yes
Use to respond to all confirmation prompts with "Yes". Knife
will not ask for confirmation.
-z, --local-mode
Use to run the chef-client in local mode. This allows all com‐
mands that work against the Chef server to also work against the
local chef-repo.
Examples
To search for the IDs of all nodes running on the Amazon EC2 platform,
enter:
$ knife search node 'ec2:*' -i
to return something like:
4 items found
ip-0A7CA19F.ec2.internal
ip-0A58CF8E.ec2.internal
ip-0A58E134.ec2.internal
ip-0A7CFFD5.ec2.internal
To search for the instance type (flavor) of all nodes running on the
Amazon EC2 platform, enter:
$ knife search node 'ec2:*' -a ec2.instance_type
to return something like:
4 items found
ec2.instance_type: m1.large
id: ip-0A7CA19F.ec2.internal
ec2.instance_type: m1.large
id: ip-0A58CF8E.ec2.internal
ec2.instance_type: m1.large
id: ip-0A58E134.ec2.internal
ec2.instance_type: m1.large
id: ip-0A7CFFD5.ec2.internal
To search for all nodes running Ubuntu, enter:
$ knife search node 'platform:ubuntu'
To search for all nodes running CentOS in the production environment,
enter:
$ knife search node 'chef_environment:production AND platform:centos'
To find a nested attribute, use a pattern similar to the following:
$ knife search node <query_to_run> -a <main_attribute>.<nested_attribute>
To build a search query to use more than one attribute, use an under‐
score (_) to separate each attribute. For example, the following query
will search for all nodes running a specific version of Ruby:
$ knife search node "languages_ruby_version:1.9.3"
To build a search query that can find a nested attribute:
$ knife search node name:<node_name> -a kernel.machine
To test a search query that will be used in a knife ssh command:
$ knife search node "role:web NOT name:web03"
where the query in the previous example will search all servers that
have the web role, but not on the server named web03.
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